Choppy Boi

Choppy Boi is a beetleweight robot made by Jack of Team Salterbot that competed at the July 28th, 2021 Robodojo competition and the 2021 Robonerd as both a beetleweight competitor and as a member of the "BEV" featherweight Triceratops. Despite Choppy Boi's fan favorite status among certain members of the robot combat community, it performed abysmally, losing all 3 of its round robin fights at Robodojo and hardly doing better at Robonerd.

## Overview

Choppy Boi is a simple 2WD wedge with a titanium wedge plate and armor of 20mm thick HDPE, in lieu of the chopping boards it was named after, befitted with googly eyes and pipe cleaners attached to the wedge wielding wooden kitchen utensils which vary in sizes and shapes, along with a sticker depicting Choppy Boi's logo defacing the top plate. Choppy Boi was originally 4WD and built on the base of a real chopping board, before the builder began to revise the design into what it became today. For Robodojo, Choppy Boi's wedge was also defaced with a portion of a grey pool noodle, although this seems to have been abandoned for the fights. Choppy Boi was completed in early 2020, but due to COVID-19, it was not able to fight or even be put into a box until late July 2021.

## Robot History

### 7-28-21 Robonerd

#### Vs Dragon

Choppy Boi's first opponent in the round robin format was Dragon, a grabber/lifter with a lifter arm design similar to Slammo!. As the fight began, Dragon swiftly got to the side of Choppy Boi and lifted the robot up, although it was unable to topple Choppy Boi. After Choppy Boi's wheels were back onto the ground, it quickly ran from Dragons grasp only to be captured by the lifting arms once more. After some more less than ideal driving, Choppy Boi was lifted and gently grabbed a few more times before it became high centered on Dragon's wedge, and had to be unstuck. After the unstick, Choppy Boi attempted to use its pipe cleaners and utensils as flails to no avail, as it continued to be lifted by Dragon, constantly coming inches away from toppling Choppy Boi. Finally, the match ended, and Dragon was declared the winner via a judges decision.

### Vs Lilith

Up next for Choppy Boi was Lilith, a swift and agile front hinged flipper built by Dave Weston of Crackers N’ Smash fame. As the match began, Lilith immediately breached Choppy Boi's ground clearance, slamming the robot into the wall multiple times. Choppy Boi once again attempted to use its utensils as flails, but this time something unprecedented happened; Lilith drove into and directly onto Choppy Boi's front wedge. For the first time in its robotic career, Choppy Boi had the upper hand upon a combatant. Unfortunately, Lilith was able to easily get off the wedge of Choppy Boi, and continued to shove Choppy Boi into the walls. However, Lilith then drove onto the wedge and subsequently directly onto the top of Choppy Boi, which caused a tremendous degree of strain upon the motors of the Choppy Boi, preventing either robot from being able to initiate movement and requiring yet another intermission for the two robots to be manually relocated. Following the relocation, Lilith continued to easily control Choppy Boi, nearly inverting it on multiple occasions until the match time was exhausted and Lilith was decreed the victor.

### Vs Seventh Circle

    The third and final match up for Choppy Boi was against Seventh Circle, a devastating vertical spinner built by Dave Weston. Following the beginning of the skirmish, Seventh Circle wasted no time with Choppy Boi, immediately warping and ejecting one of Choppy Boi's utensils and throwing the entire robot over in only seven seconds, quickly immobilizing Choppy Boi.

### Vs Oubley

The fourth and final skirmish Choppy Boi engaged in was against Oubley, a devastating eggbeater spinner which would go on to achieve victory at Bristol Bot Builders Summer Showdown. Unfortunately for Choppy Boi, one of the strikes from Seventh Circle’s disc in the prior match had dislocated a motor mount from Choppy Boi, which the builder hastily repaired with superglue prior to the match, as they could not access the four mounting screws. The misfortune for Choppy Boi continued as Oubley only needed a single hit to dislodge the remounted motor and capitulate Choppy Boi. With this defeat, Choppy Boi concluded the Robodojo round robin with a dismal 0-4.

### Results

Wins: 0
Losses: 4
Lilith
Seventh Circle
Oubley

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The builders (and teammates) own words on the Out of The Arena Discord server.