Tyrant

**Tyrant** (also entitled as **TyrAnt** or **TyrANT**) was an antweight competitor that debuted in AWS 1 and made frequent appearances in other Antweight World Series competitions. The robot was extremely successful coming Runners Up in AWS 1 and Third Place in AWS 4 and winning multiple side events. The team also entered Ache and Osiris.

## Robot History

### AWS 1

   Tyrant's first match was against Odyssey. As the two met in the centre, Odyssey attempted to use its flipping scoop to overturn Tyrant, but the wedge robot failed to turn over, instead falling back down and wedging itself under Odyssey. Tyrant attempted to push Odyssey out of the arena but it managed to drive away just in time. They turned to face each other once again, this time Odyssey attempted to lift Tyrant over once again but failed to do so at first. A second flip managed to over turn Tyrant where it was unable to self right.

Next Tyrant fought Cannon Fodder. The two machines met in the middle as usual, but seemed to be pushing heavily against each other. Cannon Fodder's blade scrapped across the scoop of Tyrant as it tried to turn around. Upon turning, Tyrant gained the upper hand and pushed Cannon Fodder off the arena.

The next fight was against Dozer. Using the Obstacle arena now, both machine navigated to meet one another. The two wedge machine struggled to gain purchase pushing against each other. Soon Dozer turned, which allowed Tyrant to attack from behind, pinning Dozer against a block. As Dozer fought back, it managed to spear the side of Tyrant getting embedded in behind the scoop. Dozer slammed Tyrant into the corner side wall trapping it temporarily. Dozer attempted to steer Tyrant to the edge of the arena to push it off, but Tyrant freed itself from the spike and proceeded to get behind Dozer once more and simply pushed it off the edge.

Tyrant then fought Pants. Pants of the quicker start, charging in and attempting to hammer Tyrant but was quickly turned on its back by the wedgebot who proceeded to shove it towards the corner. Pants became stuck on the corner and unable to self right as Tyrant continued to pressure it. Pants was unable to self right or escape as Tyrant pushed it away from the corner and out of the arena.

Tyrant's final battle in the Main Championship was against Type-0. Type-0 was working more effectively this time but it was quickly out pushed by Tyrant. Type-0 was struggling to get away as Tyrant came in for another attack and promptly pushed it off the arena.

Tyrant then fought in a series of side events. It's first was the Grumble against Dozer, Cannon Fodder, Pants and Odyssey where it lost to Dozer.

It fought in a second grumble, partnered with Odyssey against team Pants and Cannon Fodder, needless to say both Tyrant and Odyssey won.

The third Grumble saw Tyrant teamed up with Cannon Fodder and Pants against Champions Odyssey.The fight was over before it began as Odyssey mistimed a flip and was toppled carefully on its back by the other three robots. Unable to self right, the trio swarmed Odyssey and slowly pushed it further towards the edge. Pants axed away at Odyssey and one of the tracks came off by an attack from Cannon Fodder. Slowly, Odyssey was pushed off the edge.

Tyrant fought in a series of Mad Melees. It fought in every Mad Melee and won every single one (with Mad Melee 3,4 and 7 being a draw).

Tyrant also fought in the Football against Odyssey, Pants and Cannon Fodder where it drew with all the others.

### AWS 3

Returning after a break, TyrAnt first fought Combat Ant and Get Out Of The Way where both Combat Ant and TyrAnt survived to the next round.

In round 2 it faced Close Shave. Close Shave won and TyrAnt was eliminated but was given a chance to fight in the Round 2 Loser's Melee.

In the Loser's Melee it faced Grassbox, Little Nipper and Ache where it won alongside Grassbox.

### AWS 4

In the first round, TyrAnt faced Dozer and DominANT where it qualified alongside DominANT to the next round.

In the second round TyrAnt faced Close Shave and Ickle Xno. Both TyrAnt and Close Shave won and moved onto the next round.

In the Third round TyrAnt it faced DominANT again where it won and moved onto Round 4.

In the fourth round it faced A.P.C. and won. For reasons unknown, it never fought another battle but because of this win it finished third overall.

## Wins/Losses

* Wins: 16
* Losses: 4
* Draws: 3

## Trivia

* Tyrant made a cameo appearance in Robot Wars The Third Wars in Heat M where, during the course of the episode, a radio transmitter was confiscated by the crew as they thought it was being used for cheating purposes. It was discovered to be Tyrant (although unnamed) which had been brought in by one of the audience members.
	+ The Third Wars was meant to have had an Antweight competition but it was cancelled because of a Behind the Scenes incident, with many antweights unable to compete, it possible Tyrant was one of them.

## External Links

* Team's Webpage
* Robot Wars Wiki article