Mad Rush

**Mad Rush** was a competitor of AWS 61.

## Overview

Mad Rush is a 4-wheel drive, brown striped, green flipper. It has wheel guards with a steel wedge attachment readily available. It has a steady and moderate drive.

## Robot history

### AWS 61

Mad Rush's first known opponent was Anticyclone. Mad Rush tried to box rush, but wasn't fast enough and Anticyclone swats it aside, straight to one of the corner pits. Mad Rush fell in and Anticyclone won in quick time.

Mad Rush then had to fight AWG Crimpet. Mad Rush charges in, but gets clamped and transported all around the arena. It eventually gets free and AWG Crimpet unwittingly presented its back at the flipper, who took advantage and flips, but fails to turn AWG Crimpet over. AWG Crimpet then pulls Mad Rush onto its front, but it self-rights and it successfully flips AWG Crimpet with a charge and scoop. AWG Crimpet self-rights but Mad Rush flips it over more, at one point driving up its opponent and flipping itself, but both self-right. AWG Crimpet however latches on once more and pushes Mad Rush into a pit, falling in with the flipper, but it's clear Mad Rush lost.

Mad Rush then competed in the Wooden Spoon Tournament, fighting Pyramid Scheme, Meg, The Beatle...Waits, Villanelle and Team Phyte's Big Syte. Mad Rush was first scooped up by Team Phyte's Big Syte, but escaped and later flipped over the black spinner and already it outlives the purple wedge (who drove into a pit). It then grabs hold of Team Phyte's Big Syte but let's go, instead attacking from behind while Team Phyte's Big Syte attacked the pyramid robot and flips Team Phyte's Big Syte, then the pyramid robot. By this point Mad Rush and Team Phyte's Big Syte were the only robots still alive as the pyramid and vertical spinner bots couldn't self-right, while the multibot was out of commission with one in a pit and the other not working. The two last standing robots focused solely on each other, with Team Phyte's Big Syte shoving Mad Rush right into the spinner, which not only helped that one back in the game, but it damaged Mad Rush as well. Mad Rush sat still for a moment before getting back in the fight with Team Phyte's Big Syte and the spinner, who were more focused on each other, but the latter managed to flip Mad Rush over. Mad Rush self-rights and Team Phyte's Big Syte forces the spinner into a pit, which left Team Phyte's Big Syte and Mad Rush as the winners.

Both robots now had to fight in the Wooden Spoon Final against 3 Wheels on My Wagon, Epic Flail, Grandma vs Here's Johnny, Mimas and No Don't Do That. Mad Rush first engaged the wedge-bot who shoves it into the car-themed lifter, at the same time Mad Rush almost flipped Team Phyte's Big Syte. Already it outlives the vertical spinner, the overcutter and invertible wedge, and nearly flips the flail robot, while Mad Rush itself gets flipped by the red flipper and then shoved into the wall with the lifter car robot helping, then gets threatened to be removed from the arena by the overhead flail bot but survives, unfortunately it was positioned facing forward to the wall so it became stuck there after self-righting, but eventually gets down. By now, only it and the car-themed lifter were left as the overhead flails were now in a pit and the red flipper bot in another pit. Mad Rush flips the lifter bot who self-rights, then flips it onto its flank in a corner, and finally pushes it into a pit. Mad Rush becomes the Wooden Spoon champion.

## Outside AWS

Mad Rush also competed in Antweight Anarchy, starting in the second tinsel tournament against Mantis and Rusty. It was quite dominant, flipping both opponents frequently, and even ganged on one with the other. After Mantis fell in the pit, Mad Rush triumphed by flipping Rusty onto its left-flank. It then found itself fighting Rusty all over again in the Vengeance: Mist of Mayhem. This time the fight was more even until Mad Rush got too close to the pit, and while both robots got caught over it, Mad Rush fell in while Rusty escaped and obviously won.

It also competed in volume 2's Heat E, first fighting Deadbot and a mini P1, and lost to the latter. In the redemption round it fought Slap Happy and a mini Free Shipping and won. Then had a rematch with Deadbot and P1 in Death or Glory, but also had to fight Kraken in this fight, and emerged victorious. In the Heat Final, it faced Nexus and lost.