Little Kit

* Little Kit V
* Little Kit IV
* Little Kit 3.0
* Little Kit 2.0

**Little Kit** is a series of fox-themed flipper robots made by Team Foxfire. Each was armed with a flipper, but in a variety of styles: Little Kit 2.0 had a front-hinged flipper; Little Kit 3.0 had a rear-hinged flipper, similar in design to the robots of Inertia Labs, and switched to an 'arctic fox' aesthetic; and Little Kit IV had a more conventional wedge flipper, and reverted to its red colour scheme.

Little Kit 2.0 and 3.0 competed at AWS 58, while Little Kit IV competed at AWS 60, AWS 61, and AWS 62. Contrary to its name, Little Kit is not a 'kit robot'; instead, being fox-themed, its name comes from baby foxes being called 'kits'.

## Robot History

### AWS 58

#### Little Kit 2.0

Little Kit 2.0's first fight was against Up the Antie. Up the Antie Nearly drives off the edge of the arena with no contact before giving Little Kit 2.0 a small flip on its back side. Little Kit 2.0 struggles to re-orient itself which leads to Up the Antie easily tossing it over. Due to weak servo in Little Kit 2.0's flipper, it was unable to self right and easily pushed out.

#### Little Kit 3.0

Little Kit 3.0's first fight was against the drum spinner Baphomet. Baphomet starts the fight with the first hit by knocking Little Kit 3.0 up and onto its rear, which it easily self rights from. Baphomet quickly comes around for another attack, getting under Little Kit 3.0 and sending it up into the air. Little Kit 3.0 tries to keep its flipper facing Baphomet's drum to successfully tank some hits before getting knocked up again and having on of its motors come loose, restricting its turning. Baphomet comes in for yet another attack, which results in it getting stick into the wall, while Little Kit 3.0 has limited mobility. Baphomet is ultimately counted out, as Little Kit 3.0 was still showing semi controlled movement at the end of the fight.

### AWS 60

vs PAnts

vs Team Phyte's Little Sytes

### AWS 61

In round 1, Little Kit IV faced Dozer, a robot armed with a wedge. The two initially manoeuvred for position with neither gaining much of an advantage. Little Kit IV missed a flip, but Dozer drove into the wall and reversed onto Little Kit IV's wedge in front of the pit. Lifting its wheels off the ground, Little Kit IV inched Dozer towards the pit, but lost purchase, dropping Dozer. In lowering the flipper onto the reversing Dozer, Little Kit IV was turned over and pushed next to the opposite pit. A count was started, and Dozer spun in victory in the middle of the arena as Little Kit IV's flipper fired repeatedly in an attempt to self-right. Dozer attempted to pit Little Kit IV as the flipper fired more frantically, but with three seconds remaining Little Kit IV successfully righted itself. Dozer reversed across the arena, pushing Little Kit IV, but Little Kit IV managed to flip it up slightly and clamp down on its opponent, manoeuvring Dozer towards the pit. Releasing it, Little Kit IV lifted Dozer's front up and pushed it towards the pit, nearly tipping it over, but Dozer escaped again. In attempting to outmanoeuvre its opponent, Dozer miscalculated and drove into the pit, putting Little Kit IV through after a scare.

Gooshie, another flipper, awaited in round 2. After dancing around each other at first, the two met head-on. Little Kit IV had the lower wedge and levered Gooshie onto its back, pushing it towards the pit. However, in closing its flipper, Little Kit IV ended up on top of Gooshie, and as its opponent self-righted Little Kit IV was itself overturned. Self-righting, Little Kit IV landed on Gooshie as it came in again and was carried to the edge of the pit. Gooshie spun in place, dumping Little Kit IV in and narrowly avoided overbalancing into the pit itself.

In the losers' bracket, Little Kit IV faced an undercutter spinner, Annie wuz robbed. From the start, Little Kit IV charged across the arena and underneath Annie wuz robbed, losing an eye in the process and stopping momentarily, but moving away as Annie wuz robbed went for the wheels. The second eye followed as Little Kit IV forced Annie wuz robbed back, but struggled to wedge underneath the low spinner. Eventually, Little Kit IV managed to do so, forcing Annie wuz robbed into the wall, but missed a flip. Little Kit IV got under its opponent again, but was jolted as Annie wuz robbed escaped and stopped briefly again. Running away as Annie wuz robbed closed in, Little Kit IV danced around as Annie wuz robbed struggled for traction. Little Kit IV swept underneath but lost part of its tail in the process, much to the dismay of the crowd. The sacrificed tail was not in vain, however, as Little Kit IV drove Annie wuz robbed into the wall, back across the arena and nearly pitting it, but Annie wuz robbed escaped. Again, Little Kit IV got underneath, and this time managed to pit Annie wuz robbed.

A patched up Little Kit IV, with restored (extra large) googly eyes, was through to fight Anticyclone, a flail spinner. As in the previous fight, Little Kit IV made a fast start, forcing Anticyclone into the wall before it had a chance to spin up and nearly turned it into the pit, but sportingly sat off as Anticyclone looked to be having control issues. After a couple of seconds, Anticyclone began moving again, but Little Kit IV gave chase, wedging underneath as Anticyclone started to spin up, just failing to flip it. Little Kit IV kept charging into Anticyclone as the spinner repeatedly tried to get up to speed, with the wedge seemingly withstanding the impacts well. One hit nearly pitted Little Kit IV, but it again plowed into Anticyclone, a combined impact with the wedge and the wall this time overturning Anticyclone. The higher angle of the now seemingly less stable spinner allowed it to rip off one of Little Kit IV's eyes as the flipper came in again, but Little Kit IV was now also able to get underneath Anticyclone much easier, and carried it across the arena and into the pit.

An eyeless Little Kit IV was next drawn against Don't Worry Sweetie I'll Krump With You, a four-wheeled wedge. Little Kit IV quickly got underneath Don't Worry Sweetie I'll Krump With You and lifted it, but was unable to complete the flip. The two robots jostled for position, each attempting to wedge underneath the other, before Little Kit IV clamped down on Don't Worry Sweetie I'll Krump With You and pushed it into the wall. Don't Worry Sweetie I'll Krump With You went straight over the top of Little Kit IV, and the flipper gave chase, eventually managing to overturn its opponent with a combination of the flipper and the wall. Now with the clear ground clearance advantage, Little Kit IV clamped down and attempted to steer Don't Worry Sweetie I'll Krump With You towards the pit, but to no avail, and eventually righted Don't Worry Sweetie I'll Krump With You, restoring the wedge.

The machines circled each other, neither gaining much of an advantage, before Don't Worry Sweetie I'll Krump With You got underneath, forcing Little Kit IV towards the pit, but it escaped. Don't Worry Sweetie I'll Krump With You got to the side of Little Kit IV and pinned it in place against the wall next to the pit. With Little Kit IV unable to escape, Don't Worry Sweetie I'll Krump With You unable to push it in, and the two robots stuck together, the judges ordered Don't Worry Sweetie I'll Krump With You to back off, and both became free. With the battle restarted, Little Kit IV, with the flipper seemingly locked open, got underneath the rear of Don't Worry Sweetie I'll Krump With You and forced the wedge into the gap at the base of the wall, where it became stuck. Unable to free itself, Don't Worry Sweetie I'll Krump With You was counted out and Little Kit IV moved on.

Little Kit IV then faced Esper, another lifter. Esper was quickly able to get to the side of Little Kit IV, wedging underneath briefly, before getting underneath the other side and carrying it into the wall. Little Kit IV was able to escape, but Esper pursued it, forcing it towards the pit. Little Kit IV retaliated, slipping underneath Esper and flipping, but Esper fell harmlessly off the rear of Little Kit IV. At this point, the flipper seemed to lock open again, much to the audible frustration of the driver, and Esper wedged underneath and carried Little Kit IV around. Esper raised its own flipper, and forced Little Kit IV side-on around the arena and into the wall next to the pit, nearly pushing it in. In a reversal, Little Kit IV pushed back, forcing Esper into the wall itself and nearly causing it to topple onto its front, before slipping its baseplate underneath Esper and inching it backwards into the pit.

For a place in the top 16, Little Kit IV fought another four-wheeled pusher in Push Comes to Shove. However, Little Kit IV's flipper servo had failed completely during the previous fight, and, with no time to swap to a spare, it was decided to tape down the flipper and operate entirely as a wedge. The loss of weaponry was of little consequence, however, as Little Kit IV immediately got underneath the front of Push Comes to Shove, forcing it into the wall. Push Comes to Shove then exposed its high rear ground clearance to Little Kit IV, allowing it to wedge underneath, turn, and carry it into the pit.

Little Kit IV was through to the finals; however, it was then drawn against another Team Foxfire machine in Nightwish. With Little Kit IV's weapon still out of action, it was decided that it would bow out of the competition at this stage and Nightwish would continue onwards. This meant that Little Kit IV finished joint 13th overall in AWS 61.

### AWS 62

Little Kit IV vs Termite Cluster

Little Kit IV vs Wensleydale

Little Kit IV vs Variant

Little Kit IV vs Error.Exe

## Wins/Losses

### Little Kit 2.0

* Wins: 0
* Losses: 2

### Little Kit 3.0

* Wins: 2
* Losses: 2

### Little Kit IV

* Wins: 12
* Losses: 7

### Little Kit V

* Wins: 5
* Losses: 2

* *Round 1 of the Final Stage Losers’ Bracket of AWS 61, where Little Kit VI forfeited, is omitted from the Loss tally.*

## Outside AWS

    The first Little Kit robot debuted at Ant Freeze 6 in 2019 and was Team Foxfire's first ever robot. A servo driven, servo powered flipper robot, it wasn't very successful, and this was its only event. It did however inspire features which the entire line of robots share, including the foam ears and tail, googly eyes, the flipper based weaponry and polycarbonate armour.

    Little Kit 2.0 was present for Bugglebots series 2 filming, but did not compete in any form. A picture of Little Kit 2.0 in the Bugglebots arena did appear on social media, however, and sparked rumours about it being a hitherto unknown competitor, but these were quickly debunked.

Little Kit IV was first ran at RoboNerd 2019 in Wolverhampton in the antweight arena. A lot of this 'testing' contributed to slight improvements before its first competitive showing.

## Trivia

* Little Kit 1 now serves as Team Foxfire's trophy holder containing things such as a burnt out ESC from AWS59 winners Yeetus and Retreatus and a section of the metal wedge of This Is Not My Beautiful Wife?!.
* Little Kit 2.0 is considered the 'cutest' of the 4 variations by the general public.
* Little Kit IV is the most successful, longest running, and has the highest fight participation of all the Kits.
* Little Kit IV is the owner's favourite, while Little Kit 3.0 is her.