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Anything

Anything was a Featherweight robot built by **Team Late Night Racing** for RoboGames 2005. It was an invertible two-wheel drive robot armed with a vertical disc. Anything did very poorly its only competition, losing both of its fights, and was promptly retired following the event. Team Late Night Racing would have more success in the Heavyweight, and Lightweight divisions with their robots **Original Sin**, and **The Big B**.

## RoboGames History

### RoboGames 2005

Anythings first fight was against **Team Think Tank'**s vertical spinner **VD3.3HF (hellfire)**. Anything lost this fight, and was put in the losers bracket against **My Girl Robot**. Anything lost this fight as well, and was eliminated from the tournament.

## Combat Record

**Wins:** 0

**Losses:** 2

My Girl Robot

## See Also

**The Big B**

**Original Sin**
;-) - "Evil Grin"

**>;-) - "Evil Grin"** was a  Lightweight robot built by Team JaGGeD that registered for ROBOLympics 2004. It was a four wheeled, box shaped robot armed with a spinning blade. It was likely not finished in time for the competition however as it never showed up. >;-) - "Evil Grin" was a completely redesigned version of the teams BattleBots competitor **100% Y.A.W.N.** which performed decently, reaching the round of 128 in Season 4.0.
Rolling Blackout

**Rolling Blackout** was a Lightweight robot built by Overload Robotics that competed in ROBOLympics 2004. It was a gray, and black, four-wheeled, box  wedge shaped robot armed with a lifting arm. Blackout was a rather imposing machine on paper, with two custom four HP brushless DC motors powering the drive system and one custom 2 HP brushless motor operating the lifting arm. With a closed loop servo system borrowed from a missile development program and 2 hand built 48 Volt NiCad battery packs, making it one of the fastest robots to compete at RoboGames.

Unfortunatly, despite all this power Rolling Blackout suffered from reliability issues, and lost both of its matches, and was retired afterwards.

## Robot History

### ROBOLympics 2004

Rolling Blackout's first match was against **Speed Bump**. It lost this fight, and was sent to the loser's bracket where it faced **Son of Wacky Compass**. It lost this match as well, and was eliminated from the competition.

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 0
* **Losses:** 2

Son of Wacky Compass

## Outside of RoboGames/ComBots

Rolling Blackout also competed in the final two seasons of *BattleBots*, where it performed decently, reaching the round of 64 in Season 4.0. After BattleBots ended Rolling Blackout competed in the first Robot Combat Club and Grille event, where it went 1-2.
Ravager

**Ravager** was a Middleweight robot that competed in ROBOLympics 2004. It was a silver, step-plate robot armed with a lifting arm that was interchangeable with a spiked axe, despite the arm, it could not self-right. It performed poorly in competition, losing all but one of its fights. Ravager also competed in BattleBots, where it performed decently, reaching the round of 64 in Season 3.0.

## Robot History

### ROBOLympics 2004

Ravager's first fight was against **Mr. D**. It won, and advanced to the next round where it faced **Stahl**. It lost this fight, and was sent to the loser's bracket where it faced **Bad Attitude**. The only known thing that happened in this fight was that Bad Attitude rammed Ravager hard into the wall at one point. Ravager ended up losing this fight, and was eliminated from the tournament.

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 1
* **Losses:** 2

Bad Attitude
Megalodon

**Megalodon** is a Heavyweight robot built by Canadian team, Shark Tank Robotics that has been competing since RoboGames 2015. It is a white, four-wheeled, invertable, box-shaped robot with a front mounted wedge but no active weapons.

Unfortunately Megalodon suffers from occasional reliability issues, sometimes breaking down mid-fight. As a result of this it hasn't really done that well in competition with a 5-6 Win/Loss ratio. Despite this it has never failed to make at least the quarterfinals, and only failed to make the semifinals on one occasion in 2017.

## Robot History

### RoboGames 2017

Megalodon's first match in RG17 was supposed to be against **Foxic 3**. However DHL messed up Foxic 3's shipping, and it didn't arrive at the event, and was forced to forfeit this match putting Megalodon through to the next round where it faced **Swamp Thing**. This match started with Megalodon climbing on top of its own wedge after hitting a floor seam, It then got under Swamp Thing but stalled, and Swamp Thing got away and got to the sides of Megalodon.

Now in underneath Megalodon, Swamp Thing used its flamethrower, and lit the tires of Megalodon on fire, and Megalodon stopped moving. However it then started moving again as the countdown was starting, and Swamp Thing slammed into it again. At this point it became clear that Megalodon's electrical gremlins were back, as it stopped moving for the second time in the match, and Swamp Thing lit its tires on fire once more.

Swamp Thing then started doing a victory dance, however as this happened Megalodon stareted moving once again, and drove away from Swamp Thing, but Swamp Thing did not even need to give chase as Megalodon promptly stopped moving afterwards. Swamp Thing took advantage of this, and started burning it again, this time setting fire to all four wheels.

Once Megalodon started moving again it became clear that the fire had damaged the wheels which were now out of allignment. Megalodon then got under Swamp Thing, and slammed it into the wall, however Megalodon stopped moving completely after this hit, and was counted out with Swamp Thing still stuck on top of it.

This loss sent Megalodon to the loser's bracket where it faced crowd favorite, **Mega Melvin**.

### Wins/Losses

 RoboGames 2016
 RoboGames 2017
Mega Melvin
Prometheus
 RoboGames 2018
King B20
Sewer Snake

* **Wins:** 7
* **Losses:** 8

## Rivalries

### Last Rites

Megalodon has a minor rivalry with Last Rites that is currently 0-2.

### Foxic

Recently, fans have pointed out a potential rivalry between Foxic and Megalodon.

The rivalry started with Robogames 2017 when Foxic sadly forfeited it's match against Megalodon, following Robogames 2018 we saw Megalodon and Foxic fight once again, this time Megalodon defeated Foxic legitimately. Leaving the 2 potential rivals at 2-0
B-Basher

**B-Basher** was a Hobbyweight robot built by **Team Lunch Money** that competed in ROBOLympics 2004. It was a clear, two-wheeled invertible wedge-shaped robot with no active weapons. B-Basher did poorly in competition, losing both of its matches.

Team Lunch Money would have much more success with their Middleweight **Stewie**. Greg Gibson, the team leader would later enter Season 2 of the ABC BattleBots reboot with **Yeti**, which reached the semifinals before losing to **Tombstone**.

## Robot History

### ROBOLympics 2004

B-Basher's first match was against **Lil Shocker**. It lost this match and was sent to the loser's bracket, where it faced **Tricerabot**. It lost this match as well, and it was eliminated from the competition.

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 0
* **Losses:** 2

Tricerabot
Iron Strike

**Iron Strike** is a British Middleweight robot built by **Team ACE** that is registered to compete in RoboGames 2018. It is a silver, two-wheeled, likely invertible, pyramid-shaped robot armed with a large vertical flywheel.

Once Team Tilly's **F7** which was originally slated to compete in RG18 is completed Iron Strike will be one of three British Middleweights alongside **Sweeny Todd**.
Micro Drive

**Micro Drive** was a Fairyweight robot built by **Team Misfit** that competed at RoboGames 2006, 2007, and 2008. It was a clear, two-wheeled invertible robot with blue flame decals, and a lifting arm. Micro Drive did extremely well during the time it competed at RoboGames, winning a medal in all three events competed in.

## Combat Record

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 10
* **Losses:** 3

VD
Change of Heart
Skeet Skeet
Dark Bullit (2x)
 RoboGames 2008
Atom Bomb
Crisp

### RoboGames Record

RoboGames 2006 - Gold Medalist

RoboGames 2007 - Gold Medalist

RoboGames 2008 - Silver Medalist

## Outside RoboGames

Micro Drive entered the third Smackdown in Sactown event where it placed second, losing only to **Crisp**.

Following the 2008 RoboGames event MicroDrive did not make an appearance at any event for 7 years until it came out of retirement, and won the 2014 Sonoma Ant Wars event.

## Trivia

Despite not having a single fight since 2014 Micro Drive is still the #1 ranked Fairyweight in the US.
Bling Bling

**Bling Bling** was a Hobbyweight robot built by the Cole family of Las Vegas, Nevada It was a two wheeled, invertible, silver, triangular robot armored in Titanium. For weaponry Bling Bling was armed with a vertical flywheel, Bling Bling did poorly in competition, losing both of its matches, and never entering another RoboGames/ComBots event.

## Robot History

### ROBOLympics 2004

Bling Bling's first match was against **Mr. Shadow**. It lost this match, and was sent to the loser's bracket where it faced **Spatula**. It lost this match as well, and was eliminated from the competition.

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 0
* **Losses:** 2

Spatula

## Trivia

* The Cole Family owned DC Waterjet (one of the major metal cutting companies in the sports history), this is perhaps the reason why Bling Bling was so thoroughly covered in ornamental panels.
Botstop

**Botstop** was a 3kg R/C Sumo competitor built by Team RoboMaster that competed in ROBOlympics 2004. It was a two-wheeled, box-shaped robot with a white hump on the top, and instead of a wedge it possessed a plow.

It is unknown how well BotStop did in competition, and it did not return the following year. However the team would later go on to reform as **Team Scotbots**, and build the highly successful Middleweight, and Heavyweight Combat Robots **Ragin Scotsman** , and **Who's Your Daddy Now?**.
Psychotron

**Psychotron** was a Middleweight built by **Kelly Smith** that competed in RoboGames 2016. It was a Silver, invertible, two-wheeled weaponless robot with a skull decal on the front. Despite being built roughly sixteen years old prior to its RoboGames debut, Psychotron showed just how well designed it was by hardly showing its age in battle, as it not only went 2-2 in the main competition, but it also won the Heavyweight/Middleweight rumble. However despite this massive success the robot went back into retirement immediately afterwards.

## Robot History

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 2
* **Losses:** 2

T-800
 T-800
Foxic
Oreo
Polar Vortex
 Polar Vortex | Grudge Match

## Outside RoboGames

Psychotron is most notable for reaching the TV Rounds of BattleBots Season 4.0 where it lost to Complete Control. Psychotron also competed in Steel Conflict 1-2, and 4 where it did quite well.

## Trivia

* RoboGames 2016 was likely Psychotron's last hurrah as the robot was immediately retired after it despite being in retirement for 12 years prior to its RoboGames appearance. Throw in the fact that it was put in a rumble with two Heavyweights the team was likely trying to have the bot go out with a bang.
Percussive Maintenance

**Percussive Maintenance** is a term used when a robot frees up a broken drive or weapon of either itself or its opponent while in a match. This usually happens by ripping off a part that was hindering the drive or weapon or delivering a hit hard enough to knock something back into place.

Although not counted against a robot in judging this can obviously have the potential to turn the tides of a match if the robot entered broken and suddenly is now fully functional it could very well have better reach or drive allowing it to dominate the rest of the fight.
Speed Bump

**Speed Bump** was a Lightweight robot built by Team X-Bots that competed at ROBOLympics 2004. It was a robot with a curved body that was armed with a pneumatic sideways-facing lifting arm. It didn't do too well in competition, managing to win only one battle, but losing two. Team X-Bots would continue competing at RoboGames, and ComBots events for multiple more years, however Speed Bump never made another appearance.

## Robot History

### ROBOLympics 2004

Speed Bump's first match was against **Rolling Blackout** It won this match, and advanced to the next round where it faced **Wedge of Doom** It lost this match, and was now in the loser's bracket where it faced **Wobblygoblin**. It lost this match as well, and was eliminated from the competition.

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 1
* **Losses:** 2

Wobblygoblin

## Outside Of RoboGames/ComBots

* A redesigned Speed Bump after ROBOLympics at the NPC Charity Open
* Speed Bump as it appeared for BattleBots Season 5.0
* Speed Bump as it appeared for BattleBots Season 4.0
* Speed Bump as it appeared for BattleBots Season 3.0
1/4Speed Bump was originally built for *BattleBots* where it did poorly, managing to win only 4 out of its nine fights throughout three seasons, and a charity event. After its ROBOLympics appearance it competed in the first War Bots Xtreme competition, where it did even worse.
Jaws of Death

**Jaws of Death** was a SuperHeavyweight built by **Operation Boilermaker** that competed at RoboGames 2008. It was a Black, and Silver gas powered robot, armed with Blue hydraulic crushing jaws. Due to its age, and lack of a self righting mechanism, Jaws of Death did not do well in RoboGames losing all three of its battles, despite this it was the default Superheavyweight champion of ComBots Cup III, as it was the only robot in that class which registered for the event. Prior to RoboGames Jaws of Death competed at BattleBots Season 3.0-5.0, and Steel Conflict 3, where it did reasonably well. The team behind Jaws of Death would find much more success in the Heavyweight division with **Counter Revolution**.

## Robot History

### RoboGames 2008

Jaws of Death's first match was against **Gerald**. Jaws of Death lost this match, and was next up against the Canadian pneumatic launcher, and defending Gold Medalist **Ziggy**. Jaws of Death lost this fight, most likely by a quick knockout, and was then up against newcomers **The Kodiak**, it lost this as well and was eliminated from RoboGames 2008.

## Combat Record

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 0
* **Losses:** 3

Ziggy
The Kodiak
Icewave

**Icewave** was a Middleweight robot built by Team UI that competed at ComBots Cup l. Due to lack of entries it reached the quarterfinals by default despite doing poorly, ultimately going 1-2.

When BattleBots went back on air, Icewave was rebuilt into a Heavyweight, and is currently registered for RoboGames 2023 as such.

## Design History

### Middleweight

As a Middleweight, Icewave was a four wheeled box-shaped robot with an unpainted main chassis. Attached to this was a black, hinged wedge with the robot's name painted on it. For a weapon the robot had a overhead horizontal bar spinner, this was powered by an internal combustion engine housed in a white and blue casing with a black flame graphic painted onto it.

### Heavyweight

This version of Icewave kept the same basic design, however it was completely rebuilt from the ground up. For starters Icewave now has an orange horizontal bar spinner powered by a custom internal combustion engine. The weapon is painted bright orange with grey tips to try and make the bar seem shorter than it is at full speed.

## Robot History

### Combots Cup I

   Icewave's first match was against the pneumatic flipper of **Pirinah 2**, it lost this fight sending it to the loser's bracket where it faced lightly armored wedge **High Impact**. Icewave beat High Impact, likely by knockout which put it up against the sideways flipper of **Speed Bump XL**.

Icewave lost this match, meaning it was eliminated from the tournament. Icewave wasn't done however as it participated in a grudge match against 2005 RFL Nationals bracket entrant **Total Anarchy 2.5**. Icewave would win this fight, ending the twin event on a high note for the team.

## Outside RoboGames

Icewave competed as mentioned, Icewave competed at BattleBots as a Heavyweight 2015, and 2016 to much more success before being thoroughly trounced at BattleBots 2020 and 2021.

## Wins/Losses

Total Anarchy 2.5 (Grudge Match)
Speed Bump XL

* Wins: 2

* Losses: 2

1. ↑ Although grudge matches typically don't count towards a robot's record this one is listed on Botrank making this an exception to the rules of the wiki.
Late Night Racing

Late Night Racing is a team from San Leandro, California. Although known mostly for their bots **Original Sin**, and **The Big B**. Late Night Racing did enter bots in the Middleweight, and Featherweight categories, however they did not have as much success in those categories. Out of their four bots only one remains active, and only two competed in more than one event.

 Anything | Featherweight
 Original Sin | Heavyweight
 The Big B | Lightweight

**Wins:** 118

**Losses:** 45
Haka Ka Mate

**Haka Ka Mate** was a Heavyweight robot from Mexico that took part in RoboGames 2013. It was a four wheeled, boxed-shaped robot armed with a vertical bar spinner. However it had a slow drive and lost both of it's matches despite doing majar damage to the top of Vlad The Impaler II.

**Robot History**

**Robogames 2013**

Haka Ka Mate first faced Vlad The Impaler II. Haka Ka Mate lost this match by judge decision and was now in the loser's bracket where it faced Son of Ziggy.

This match started with Haka Ka Mate getting a pop or 2 on Son of Ziggys' armer. Son of Ziggy then fired it's flipper arm and nearly flipped Haka Ka Mate but Haka Ka Mate was able to stay on it's wheels. However the second flip flipped Haka Ka Mate on it's back and stopped it's blade. With no way to self right Haka Ka Mate was counted out and elimanated from the tournment.

2013
Son of Ziggy

### Wins/Losses:

* Wins: 0
* Losses: 2
Joker

**Joker** is a Heavyweight robot from India built by Team EXOR that was registered for RoboGames 2018. It is a black, invertible, two-wheeled, box-shaped robot armed with a powerful red vertical flywheel. However it ultimately dropped out of the competition, and was replaced by Russian entry **Gagarin**.
Gompei

**Gompei** is a Middleweight robot from the US that competed in RoboGames 2018. It was a two-wheeled, box-wedge shaped robot armed with a vertical spinning bar. Gompei did poorly in competition, catching fire during the twitch tests for its first match, irreparably burning down, and becoming one of the handful of robots to be eliminated on day 1 of the competition.

Gompei was built by students from the from the Worchester Polytechnic Institute, a college which had also produced Robogames 2008, and 2009 Gold Medalist, and Robot Combat Hall of Fame inductee **Professor Chaos**.

## Robot History

### Robogames 2018

Gompei's first ever match was slated to be against returning crowd favorites **Clean Sweeper**. However as soon as the robots were turned on to begin their twitch test Gompei immeidately started smoking before suddenly bursting into flames. The match was promptly called in favor of Clean Sweeper, and Gompei was taken outside of the building underneath a fire blanket with fire extinguishers on standby.

This meant that Gompei was now in the loser's bracket where it was supposed to face **Wolverine**, however Gompei had suffered so much damage from the fire that it was unable to be repaired in time, and thus was forced to forfeit the match. This meant that Gompei was eliminated from the competition without ever fighting a single match.

### Wins/Losses

 Wolverine | Lost (forfeit)

* **Wins:** 0
* **Losses:** 2
Scissorhands

**Scissorhands** was an Australian robot built by Team OverKill that competed in RoboGames 2008. It was a two-wheel drive robot, armed with a powerful undercutter bar. Scissorhands did very well in the competition, winning Silver in its debut appearance. Despite this success it did not return to RoboGames, and was ultimately retired around 2012 after doing well on the Australian circuit for years.

## Combat Record

**Wins:** 4

**Losses:** 2

Proteus
Kluge
Plasma

## Trivia

* Scissorhands, along with Vendetta Jr. is one of the only two Australian robots to win a Silver medal at RoboGames.
* The team that built Scissorhands also built Mr Mangle. A bot that would go on to have huge success in the UK, and its native Australia.
Cobalt

**Cobalt** is a British/American Heavyweight robot built by Team Carbide, and operated by The Robotic Death Company currently waitlisted for RoboGames 2023. It is a green and black four wheeled tall box wedge shaped robot with the union jack and American flag on the top plate. Cobalt is armed with a extremely destructive spinning flywheel with feeder teeth leading into a single tooth to increase damage.

## Outside RoboGames

Cobalt is best known for its appearances on the show **BattleBots** where in 2020 it reached the top 16. It also competed in King of Bots as **Tungsten** where it won Season 2 of the Chinese show.
Kamonaiwannaflayya

Kamonaiwannaflayya was a Hobbyweight robot built by Chaos Engineering that attempted to compete at ROBOLympics 2004. It was a round, four wheel drive shell spinner, essentially a smaller version of the teams Heavyweight, Shiva. However, Kamonaiwannaflayya wound up not competing, and never attempted to compete again.
Polar Vortex

**Polar Vortex** is a Heavyweight robot built by **Team Toad** that competed at RoboGames 2015, 2016, and 2017. Originally a two-wheeled, orange, invertible, wedge-shaped robot armed with a unique full-body lifter, it was revised for RoboGames 2017 to be a orange, two-wheeled, inveritble, box-shaped robot with a powerful single toothed vertical flywheel.

Polar Vortex did well in competition, reaching the semifinals in RoboGames 2015, but performing progressively worse the following RoboGames, and failing to make even the quarterfinals by 2017.

## Robot History

### RoboGames 2017

   For RoboGames 2017 an all new version of Polar Vortex was built. This version of Polar Vortex's first ever fight was against tournament favorites **Mega Melvin**. This match started with Mega Melvin strafing around the arena before delivering an axe blow to Polar Vortex's tire.

However after a few more axe blows, Polar Vortex managed to get around to the side of Mega Melvin, and flip it with its spinning flywheel. This blow completely busted Mega Melvin up, and left its axe mechanism disabled, and it was counted out. This gave Polar Vortex the win by KO putting it through to the second round of the winner's bracket where it faced **Megabyte**.

This match started with Megabyte spinning up to full speed, and slamming into Polar Vortex. This ripped the flywheel of Polar Vortex partially off the front of the robot, mounts and all. Polar Vortex then drove away but soon stranded itself on the weapon mount, caught fire, and tapped out.

This put it in the loser's bracket where it had a grudge match from 2014 and 2015 ROBlympics against **Touro Maximus**. However, Polar Vortex lost this match, and therefore, was eliminate.

### Wins/Losses

Pump
Whoops!
The Great Pumpkin
 RoboGames 2016
Vlad The Impaler II
 RoboGames 2017
 RoboGames 2018
Swamp Thing

* **Wins:** 5

* **Losses:** 8

## Outside of Robogames.

Michael Mauldin made a bot called **Hypothermia** for the 2018 season of *Battlebots.* It performed poorly, losing against Whiplash, a grudge match with **Minotaur** (who built Touro Maximus), **Valkyrie**, and in the end, won a match against **The Four Horsemen** (in which Hypothermia resembled 2014 Polar Vortex). Michael has made a robot called **Texas Twister** to replace **Hypothermia** for 2019.

He also built **Cathadth** for *Robot Wars: World Special*, where it had a similarity to Last Rites. It performed poorly, losing to **Concussion** and **Thor** in a Tag Team Battle paired with **Terror Turtle**. Then it would lose the captain’s battle to **Eruption**, losing the episode to the UK.
Malice Aforethought

**Malice Aforethought** was a Lightweight robot which competed in ROBOLympics 2004. It was a black, invertible, six-wheel drive robot armed with a wedge and two spikes. It didn't perform well in competition, losing both of its battles, and retiring promptly afterwards. Malice Aforethougt also competed in Season 5.0 of *BattleBots*, where it performed just as poorly.

## Robot History

### ROBOLympics 2004

After recieving a bye in the first round Malice Aforethought's first opponent was **Little Trouble**. It lost this match, and was now in the loser's bracket where it faced **Wobblygoblin**. It lost this match as well, and was eliminated from the competition.

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 0
* **Losses:** 2

Wobblygoblin
ShapeShifter

**ShapeShifter** was a Antweight robot built by SmakPak that competed in ROBOLympics 2004. It was a silver, two-wheeled robot armed with a powerful vertical flywheel capable of launching robots OOtA. However despite this potent weapon ShapeShifter merely did decently in competition going 2-2, and reaching the round of 16 in its first, and only RoboGames appearance.

## Robot History

### ROBOLympics 2004

ShapeShifter'sfirst match was against **Disc Addiction** in the round of 32. It lost this match by KO, and was sent to the loser's bracket where it faced **Kick In The Bot**. It won this match sending it to the round of 24 where it faced **BladeRunner**, it won this match by yet another KO, and advanced to the round of 16 where it faced **Overdrive**. It lost this match by KO, this meant that ShapeShifter was eliminated from its first (and only) RoboGames competition.

### Wins/Losses

BladeRunner
Overdrive

* **Wins:** 2
* **Losses:** 2
Spatula

**Spatula** was a Hobbyweight robot built by Team Wazio that competed in ROBOLympics 2004, as well as RoboGames 2005, and the 2004, and 2005 RFL Nationals. It was a silver, invertible, four wheeled box shaped robot with a hinged wedge but no active weapons. It performed poorly in competition, losing most of its fights, it did however manage to reach the quarterfinals in RoboGames 2005, and the 2005 RFL Nationals.

## Robot History

### ROBOLympics 2004

    Spatula's first match was against **Xenophobia**. This fight started with Xenophobia spinning up to speed, and immediatly delivering a blow to the side of Spatula. Xenophobia then spun back up, and delivered a second blow which sent sparks flying.

Spatula then attempted to get under Xenophobia, however Xenophobia outdrove Spatula, and delivered a hit to its side, sending it spinning away. Spatula then got ahold of Xenophobia, and attempted to drive it into the wall. However Xenophobia backed off at the last second, and Spatula drove into the wall where it got stuck, and the match was paused to free Spatula despite attempts by Xenophobia to free it in fight.

   After the match resumed it became clear that the earlier attempts to free Spatula by Xenophobia had done some damage to Spatula, as it was now only mobile on the right, hand side. Xenophobia then spun up, and slammed into it again, after this Spatula drove over to the wall where it seemingly died. Spatula then spun up to full speed, and slammed its opponent against the wall, and after a few more attacks, Spatula was counted out.

This put Spatula in the loser's bracket where it faced **Bling Bling**, it won this match, and advanced to the next round where it faced **Xenophobia** yet again. This fight started with Spatula almost immediatly stopping Xenophobia's spinner, and slamming it into the wall, from that point on the match turned into a shoving match with neither robot gaining the upper hand, Xenophobia won on a close judges decision, meaning that Spatula was eliminated from the competition.

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 4
* **Losses:** 8

 2004 RFL Nationals (as Super Spatula)
 RoboGames 2005
Mr. Shadow
Wedge of Deception
 2005 RFL Nationals
Target Practice

## Outside RoboGames/ComBots

Spatula competed in the 2004 BattleBots hosted NPC Charity Open where it reached the semifinals before losing to the eventual champion, and in 2005 it competed in the SWARC Robot Rebellion 5.1 where it went undefeated.
Asterion

**Asterion** is a Lightweight robot built by students from Brazil (Trincabotz) that fought at RoboGames 2017 & 2018. It is a two-wheeled, red, and white, invertible robot armed with a powerful vertical flywheel.

Asterion performed decently in competition, going 2-2 in both events.

## Robot History

### RoboGames 2017

Asterion's first match was against **masSACre Lite**. This match was over quickly, as after one hit Asterion ripped all the wheels off of masSACre Lite's left side, and it tapped out. Asterion's next match was against **Carolina Campos morena zoios de jabuticaba linda e sensual**.

   This match began with Carolina Campos swarming Asterion as it spun up. Asterion then tore a chunk off of one half of Carolina Campos's wheels before sending it flying.

However Carolina Campos recovered, and tag teamed Asterion in a pincer movement before slamming it into the wall. This caused Asterion's weapon belt to snap. Carolina Campos then took Asterion into the wall again before flipping itself.

Carolina Campos then performed another pincer attack, and once again rammed Asterion into the wall. Campos then slammed into Carolina, as it was trying to wedge Asterion. However this did not matter as one half of Carolina Campos slammed Asterion against the wall.
Asterion then shoved one half of Carolina Campos around. However Carolina Campos then took Asterion into the wall again as the final seconds ticked down.

The judges gave the decision to Carolina Campos, meaning that Asterion was now in the loser's bracket where it faced **Herr Gepoünden**.

### Wins/Losses

Herr Gepoünden
 RoboGames 2018
Wurst Nightmare
Hammer and Anvil

* **Wins:** 4
* **Losses:** 4
Little Blue Engine

**Little Blue Engine** was a Superheavyweight built by **Team Circuit Breaker** that competed in the 2004 RFL Nationals, and RoboGames 2007. It was a Blue, four wheeled, invertible robot that with an interchangeable, plow, wedge, lifter, and horizontal spinning flywheel. Little Blue engine performed decently placing third in the 2004 RFL Nationals as well as going 2-2 in RoboGames 2007. Little Blue Engine was retired after this event, and as the SuperHeavyweights are no longer ran by any event it will most likely stay retired.

## Combat Record

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 4
* **Losses:** 4

Super Megabyte
 RoboGames 2007
The Red Baron
 The Red Baron
Mulch

## Outside Of RoboGames

Little Blue Engine also competed in BattleBots Seasons 3.0-5.0, with its best results being in Season 4.0 where it reached the semifinals. After BattleBots ended it Competed in Steel Conflicts 3-SDC where it placed third in SC3, and SDC, as well as second in SC4.
Scanman

**Scanman** was a Static Artbot that competed at RoboGames 2018. It was a green, and white static sculpture constructed out of circuit boards, and springs. Scanman did well in its only appearance, winning the Bronze Medal.

## Robot History

### RoboGames 2008

Scanman along with a plethora of Liz's other creations was entered into RoboGames 2008. Scanman caught the eye of the judges, and ultimately won the Bronze Medal.
Dark Ripper

"*30 Pound weapon? We have a 100 pound shell on Doomba, get on my level Russ.*"
— Adam Wrigley of Bots FC playfully taunting Russ Barrow on their robots similar weapon to weight mass.
 **Dark Ripper** is a Lightweight robot built by Team Dark Forces for Robogames 2018. It was a scaled-up version of Russ's two time Antweight Silver Medalist **Dark Pounder**. As a result, it was a two-wheeled, silver, wedge-shaped robot, and it was armed with a powerful 25lb vertical flywheel.

Unfortunately despite being considered as a strong contender for the Gold in 2018, Dark Ripper suffered severe mechanical issues in its first fight, and was unable to be repaired in time afterwards.

## Robot History

### Robogames 2018

   Dark Ripper's first match was against **Mrs. Plow**, this match started with Mrs. Plow charging out of the red square as Dark Ripper struggled to get up to speed. Mrs. Plow then slammed into the blade of Dark Ripper, which was barely moving, and pinning it against the wall. Dark Ripper got free, and attempted to spin up, barely getting to a good speed but then the flywheel stopped, and it started emitting smoke.

"*Yeah looks like Dark Ripper is having trouble with its drive it looks like. He can drive without spinning the weapon, but once it tries to spin up the weapon its not moving anywhere.*"
— Scott Robinson

It became clear at this point that Dark Ripper was having issues driving, and spinning at the same time so Russ either turned the weapon off, to try to outwedge Mrs. Plow. However Mrs. Plow got behind Dark Ripper, and slammed it into the wall where it got stuck, and was counted out, and sent to the loser's bracket where it was supposed to face **Wurst Nightmare**. However the mechanical problems proved too large, and Dark Ripper was forced to forfeit the match, eliminating it from the competition.

### Wins/Losses

 bye
 Wurst Nightmare | Lost (forfeit)

* Wins: 0
* Losses: 2
* Byes: 1

## Gallery

* Dark Ripper during testing.
* Dark Ripper's vertical flywheel.
* The original Dark Ripper which last competed in 2005.
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Whiz!

**Whiz!** was a Middleweight robot built by Team Peril that competed in RoboGames 2005, and 2006. It was a two wheeled, red, invertible triangualr robot with no active weapons. Whiz! did not do well in competition, managing to win only two fights in RoboGames 2005, but losing four fights in total. Whiz also registered for ROBOLympics 2004, however it did not show up, and Whiz competed in the Steel Conflict hosted 2004 Southwest Division Championships instead where it fared just as poorly.

The team that built Whiz! also built Lightweight, Whack! which did just as poorly.

## Robot History

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 2
* **Losses:** 4

CRAP
 RoboGames 2006
Pipe Wench
Pele

**Pele** was an Antweight built by **Inertia Labs** that competed in ROBOLympics 2004. It was a four wheeled Silver robot armed with a powerful pneumatic flipper, like many of the teams robots Pele was themed after a bull, and had horns on the front of its flipper. Despite this very potent weaponry Pele did poorly in RoboGames, as it lost both of its battles. Pele would continue to compete until Team Inertia Labs retired from the sport in January 2005. Inertia Labs would later reappear out of nowhere, and build **Bronco**, a Heavyweight flipper that competed in ABC's BattleBots Reboot to great success. The team also built **Toro**, **T-Minus**, **Rhino**, **The Butcher**, and **The Matador** for the original Comedy Central run of the show to varying success.

## Robot History

### ROBOLympics 2004

Pele's first fight was against **Team Nightmare**'s 360 degree lifter **Shazbot**. It lost this fight and was sent to the loser's bracket where it faced **Poundcake**. It lost this fight as well, and was eliminated from ROBOLympics 2004

## Combat Record

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 0
* **Losses:** 2

Poundcake

## Outside RoboGames

Pele also competed at Steel Conflict 2 where it went 1-2, losing to Jimmy Crack Corn, and Saturday Night Cleaver. After ROBOLympics 2004 Pele competed in Marin Ant Wars 1, and 3 winning third place in Marin Ant Wars 3. It retired after that event ending an otherwise lackluster career on a high note.
RobyGo

**RobyGo** was a FIRA MiroSot 5.5 competitor built by Team Ljubljana Dragons from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia that competed at ROBOlympics 2004. It consisted of 7 identical robots, RobyGo did well in competition, winning the Gold medal. Despite this it would not return in 2007 when the MiroSot 5.5 class was brought back to RoboGames after only one robot showed up in 2005.

## Robot History

### ROBOlympics 2004

RobyGo's first game was against Koreas **KingGo**. It won the game, and advanced to the final where it faced Germany's **Dortmund Droids**. It won this as well, and next faced a rematch against Dortmund Droids which had just beaten KingGo. It won this as well, and became the 2004 MiroSot 5.5 Gold Medalist.

### Wins/Losses

 Dortmund Droids | Winners Final
 Dortmund Droids | Final

* **Wins:** 3
* **Losses:** 0
K-Torze

**K-Torze** is a lightweight robot built by Team ThunderRatz that has competed since RoboGames 2015. It is a four-wheeled, box-shaped, invertible robot with a feeder wedge, and armed with a powerful single toothed vertical flywheel. K-Torze did really well in competition, never once failing to make the quarter-finals.

## Robot History

### RoboGames 2017

   K-Torze's first match in RoboGames 2017 was supposed to be against **Troublemaker**, however Troublemaker never made it to the competition, and was forced to forfeit its fight. This put K-Torze up against **K2** once again, this match started with K-Torze spinning up,and sending K2 flying. This hit caused K2's wedge to get stuck in its blade stopping it cold, K-Torze then moved in for the kill, flipping K2, which then tapped out.

This win put K-Torze in the quarterfinals where it faced **Wanna Go?**, this match started with both bots spinning up. Wanna Go? struck first popping K-Torze which drove away as Wanna Go? gave chase, and popped it again, this time flipping K-Torze thrice, ripping parts off, and sending it flying into the air on the third hit. Now back on its wheels, K-Torze flipped Wanna Go? ripping off its entire front-right armor panel.

   K-Torze followed this up by delivering a huge hit that sent Wanna Go? flying halfway across the arena, however it recovered, and delivered a hit that sent K-Torze flying against the rails. Wanna Go? then followed this up by fipping K-Torze on its back, Wanna Go?, still on the agressive attempted another attack on the now inverted K-Torze. However this resulted in K-Torze catching the side of Wanna Go?, and ripping its tire off leaving both robots debilitated.

Now with K-Torze upside down unable to bring its weapon to bear against Wanna Go? which was now moving in circles the fight transformed into both robots gyrodancing around, and failing to connect each time until time ran out. This match was so close that it took longer than normal to decide the results, which ultimately was decided as a split decision in favor of Wanna Go?.

This meant that K-Torze was now in the loser's bracket where it faced **Asterion**,

### Wins/Losses

Come to Mama
 RoboGames 2016
Retribution
Tastes Like Burning
 RoboGames 2017
K2
Asterion
Son of Spam
Carolina Campos morena zoios de jabuticaba linda e sensual

* **Wins:** 9
* **Losses:** 6
Spartacus

**Spartacus** is a Middleweight robot from Ecuador that registered to compete in RoboGames 2017. It is a black, two-wheeled, wedge-shaped robot armed with a rear hinged pneumatic flipper. However for unknown reasons Spartacus dropped out of the competition.

## Outside RoboGames

Spartacus competed at the Ecuadorian event, Loja 2016 where it reached the semifinals before losing to a bot called **Thanos**.

## Trivia

* Had Spartacus competed it would have been one of the few wedge-flippers to ever compete in the US as the design is more seen in the UK.
* It also would have been the first Ecuadorian robot to compete as well.]]
K2

**K2** is a Lightweight robot built by Team Velocity that has competed since RoboGames 2007. It is a Four-wheeled, silver, box-shaped robot armed with a powerful single toothed vertical flywheel. K2 did very well in competition, winning multiple medals, and ususally finising its competition with a good Win/Loss ratio.

Team Velocity applied an upscale version of K2 to BattleBots dubbed Maximum Velocity, but the robot was rejected overall.

## Robot History

### RoboGames 2017

After recieving a bye in the first round, K2's first opponent was **K-Torze**. This match started with both bots spinning up. K-Torze then dlivered a massive hit that jammed K2'swedge into its spinning flywheel before delivering another hit that flipped K2 onto its back where it was counted out.

This put K2 in the loser's bracket where it recieved yet another bye before facing **V for Victory**. This match started with V for Victory attempting to spin up, K2 then delivered multiple hits to it, stopping its weapon. V for Victory then backed away to the wall to attempt to spin up, but K2 gave chase, delivering another blow, flipping V for Victory over where it was counted out.

*"One Kev, Two Kevs, Three Kevs Four, how many V for Victory's are on my floor?"* — Mark Elam after K2 flips V for Victory.

This put K2 in the Round of 16 where it faced **Bugalele** .

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 39
* **Losses:** 14
Chiyung Jinlun

**Chiyung Jinlun** (Pronounced Shi-yewn zhen-loon) (AKA Knight, Shaku, or Golden Sun Wheel) is a Heavyweight robot from China built by Team Xiake currently waitlisted for RoboGames 2018. It is a red, black, and silver, four-wheeled, invertible, box-shaped robot armed with a spinning drum.

However Chiyung Jinlun's real secret is its drive power, Chiyung Jinlun possesses a pair of low, modular wedges which sit flush to the floor basically giving the robot a zero ground clearance. The robot can also have its sides modified with custom built anti-spinner armor as well.

The robot is also extremely well driven, sturdy, and capable of still moving even when it has a full blown LiPo fire. As a result of this it has taken out robots such as **Megabyte** (twice) when it competed at King of Bots where it ultimately placed second.

## Trivia

* Aside from beating them twice, Chiyung Jinlun is also one of the few robots to actually have cracked Megabyte's shell.
Railgun S

**Railgun S** (Simplified Chinese: 超电磁炮S) is a Middleweight robot built by **Team Atom** that competed at Robogames 2018. It is a two-wheeled, silver and white, invertible, box-shaped robot armed with a vertical flywheel which could reach speeds up to 12,000 RPM, and equipped with a feeder wedge. Railgun S did well, placing fourth overall, and becoming a crowd favorite due to its powerful weapon, and upbeat driver. Team Atom would compete in Battlebots 2019 with Railgun MAX, going 3-3.

## Robot History

### RoboGames 2018

Hyper Railgun S, along with Menlo Robotics Club's **Wukong** is currently registered to compete at RoboGames 2018 using one of the two guaranteed 120lb slots for Chinese FMB competitors.

### Wins/Losses

 NIGHTHAWK | Round of 12
 MANDiii | Semi-Finals
 Uppercut | Loser's Final

* Wins: 2
* Losses: 2

## Outside RoboGames

Aside from prior versions consistently competing in FMB (Fighting My Bots) events in China where it is currently the reigning Middleweight champion, A clusterbot consisting of two Railgun S's also attempted to enter Season 3 of the Battlebots reboot as **Diamond Tears**. However they were rejected due to all the entry slots being full. Finally, they got accepted for Season 4 with a robot called Railgun MAX.

## Gallery

* The Original Hyper Railgun
* The most recent version of Hyper Railgun S.
* The CAD for the version of Hyper Railgun S which appeared at RoboGames 2018.
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Phoenix II

**Phoenix** was a Middleweight robot from Tehran, Iran that competed in RoboGames in 2005 and 2007. It was a silver, four-wheeled, invertible, parralellogram-shaped robot armed with a ramming spike. Phoenix II did not do well in competition, losing all five of its matches.

## Robot History

### RoboGames 2005

Phoenix did not compete in the main competition, instead it competed in the Junior Middleweight division, where it placed fourth after losing all three of its fights to The Mortician, Voodoo Child, and Dolor.

### RoboGames 2007

Phoenix's first match was against Carnivorous Bunny. It lost this match, and was sent to the loser's bracket where it faced Maxo. It lost this match as well, and was eliminated from the competition.

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 0
* **Losses:** 5
Ground Zero

**Ground Zero** was a Lightweight built by **Team O-Town** that competed in the 2004 RFL Nationals. It was a Silver, conical, full body spinner robot with Red teeth and a directional self righting flag on top. Ground Zero did well in its only competition, winning second place at the 2004 RFL Nationals, and proving itself to be quite destructive. The team that built Ground Zero also built Middleweight **Killjoy** that competed at the same event to far less success.

## Robot History

The match was then paused to separate the two robots, as soon as they were separated and the match restarted it became clear that that last hit had knocked one of Wiped Out's wheels into its wheelguard leaving it to drive in circles. Ground Zero then drove in and delivered another hit, sending Wiped Out flying in a shower of sparks. This hit crippled Wiped Out's mobility even more, Ground Zero then moved in and took a chunk out of Wiped Out.

## Combat Record

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 6
* **Losses:** 2

The Droogosh
The Coyote
AGSMA
New Attitude
Wipe Out #2

## Outside RoboGames

Ground Zero originally competed in BattleBots Season 5.0 as **Major Divot** where it went 1-1. After BattleBots ended it competed at Battle Beach 1-4 where it became the lightweight champion in 3 and 4. Ground Zero also competed in the Steel Conflict hosted Triangle Series Nationals going 2-2 there.

## Trivia

* Both Ground Zero's first and last matches resulted in the robots needing to be separated at one point.
* Ground Zero was the first article to be redone in the new RoboGames Wiki format.

## See Also

**Killjoy**

**Major Divot (BattleBots)**
Little Kahuna

**Little Kahuna** was a lightweight robot that competed at Robogames 2012 and ComBots Cup VII. It was a 2 wheeled, invertible, silver, box-shaped robot armed with a spinning bar. This robot was the first version of **The Coroner** that was built by team **Hardcore Robotics**. However they made a new version of the robot and gave this robot to Team Tiki who made some upgrades to the robot. However it still performed poorly, winning only 2 out of its 6 fights .
Caustic Creations

**Caustic Creations** is a team from Highland Village, Texas that currently is based in Colorado. The team is perhaps best known for its compact drum spinners such as UnMakerBot, and *BattleBots* competitor **Poison Arrow**. The team first made their RoboGames debut in 2004, although did not return to compete again until 2015 with the debut of UnMakerBot.

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 13
* **Losses:** 9
Bot-6:00

**Bot-6:00** was a Featherweight robot built by Team Cerebral Machines that competed in RoboGames 2005, and 2006. It was a clear, invertible, six wheeled robot armed with a steep segemented wedge on the front, and back. It performed decently, winning the Bronze Medal in 2006. Bot-6:00 also attempted to enter ROBOLympics 2004 as **6:00** however it did not wind up competing.

## Robot History

### RoboGames 2005

After receiving a bye in the first round Bot-6:00's first opponent was **Intrusive Interloper 1.5**. It lost this match, and was sent to the loser's bracket where it faced **Rover**. It won this match, and advanced to the next round where it faced **Knuckle Buster**. It lost this match, and was eliminated from the competition.

### RoboGames 2006

   After receiving a bye in the first round, Bot-6:00's first opponent was **Proteus**. It won this match, and advanced to the quarterfinals where it faced **Gnome Portal**. It won this match, and still in the quarterfinals faced **Killabyte** next. This match started with Killabyte spinning up to speed, Bot-6:00 box rushed it, but got sent spinning away by Killabyte for its troubles.

Bot-6:00 then slammed into Killabyte sending it flying into the rails, however Killabyte recovered, and Bot-6:00 repeated the attack. Like last time Killabyte was sent flying into the rails, unlike last time however the attack did serious damage to Bot-6:00, which tapped out.

This loss put Bot-6:00 in the loser's bracket final where it faced **Gnome Portal** again. It lost, and was eliminated from the competition, and took home the Bronze Medal. RoboGames 2006 would prove to be Bot-6:00's last event, as it was retired afterwards.

### Wins/Losses

* **Wins:** 3
* **Losses:** 4

Rover
 RoboGames 2006
Proteus
Gnome Portal
Gnome Portal
Armatus

**Armatus** was a Lightweight robot built by Team Tarkus that registered to compete for ROBOLympics 2004. Not much is known about Armatus other than that it would have been a two wheeled, box shaped robot armed with a spinning drum, and possibly a pneumatic flipping arm. However Armatus was never completed in time for the competition, and the team promptly retired from the sport shortly afterwards. The Team behind Armatus, also built BattleBots Competitor **Tarkus**.