MidnightCrow

MidnightCrow is a robot that competed in the 2020 Virtual Sumo Competition and the March 2021 Virtual Sumo Competition on Roboton.io. Its strategy is to charge at the opponent and make slightly wide turns. It has mixed results, making it to the Semi Finals in the 2020 event, but losing it's first fight in the March 2021 event. The creator of MidnightCrow has also created ThunderDrive.

## **Virtual Sumo Competition 2020**

**Round 1**- MidnightCrow did not compete in round one since it got a bye.

**Round 2**- In the second round MidnightCrow fought The Bomb. In the 1st game of the match, MidnightCrow charged straight at The Bomb and pushed them out of the arena, making the score 1-0. The 2nd game of the match, was the same as the 1st round, making the score 2-0. In the 3rd round, The Bomb moved away from their position, but MidnightCrow tracked them, followed them to the edge, and then pushed them out of bounds, making the score 3-0, meaning MidnightCrow moves onto the Top 16. In the 4th game of the match, MidnightCrow charged straight at The Bomb. The Bomb landed on top of MidnightCrow, but was still pushed out of bounds, making the score 4-0. In the 5th game of the match, The Bomb moved around the arena and off of two edges, while MidnightCrow chased. At the end, MidnightCrow pushed The Bomb out of bounds, making the final score, 5-0.

**Top 16**- In the Round of 16, MidnightCrow fought Sgravato. In the 1st game of the match, they both charged at each other. MidnightCrow got under Sgravato, and pushed them out of bounds, making the score 1-0. The 2nd game of the match, played out like the 1st, making the score 2-0. The 3rd game of the match, played out like the 1st, making the score 3-0, meaning the MidnightCrow advances to the Quarter Finals. The 4th and 5th game of the match, played out like the others, making the score 5-0.

**Quarter Finals**- In the Quarter Finals, MidnightCrow fought Ferreira. In the 1st game of the match, Ferreira moved around the edge of the arena. MidnightCrow followed, and pushed Ferreira. Ferreira got off balanced, and MidnightCrow pushed them out, making the score 1-0. In the 2nd match of the game, MidnightCrow charged at Ferreira and pushed them out of bounce, making the score 2-0. In the 3rd game of the match, they both charged at each other. Ferreira got under Midnight Crow, and pushed them out of bounds, making the score 2-1. In the 4th game of the match, MidnightCrow charges at Ferreira. A tire from Ferreira pushes MidnightCrow's wedge up. This caused MidnightCrow to circle around. Ferreira charged at MidnightCrow and fliped MidnightCrow upsidedown. Ferreira then pushed MidnightCrow out of bounds, making the score 2-2. In the 5th game of the match, MidnightCrow charged at Ferreira and pushed them out, making the final score 3-2, and MidnightCrow advances to the Semi Finals.

**Semi Finals**- In the Semi Finals, MidnightCrow fought Xbotr. In the 1st game of the match, they both charge at each other. Xbotr had the tighter turning and gets under MidnightCrow and pushes them out of bounds, making the score 0-1. In the 2nd game of the match, MidnightCrow charges at Xbotr while they are spinning. Xbotr spins out of the way and pushes MidnightCrow. MidnightCrow gets off balance and lands on one wheel. They get back on two wheels near the edge where Xbotr pushes them out, making the score 0-2. In the 3rd game of the match, the same thing happend except MidnightCrow landed upsidedown and was pushed out by Xbotr, making the score 0-3, meaning that MidnightCrow loses and will not advance to the next round. In the 4th game of the match, they both charge at each other. MidnightCrow gets under Xbotr and pushes them out, making the score 1-3. In the 5th game of the match, MidnightCrow, charges at Xbotr. They spin around each other, and MidnightCrow almost flips over, but doesn't. They spin around some more, until MidnightCrow, flips over and is pushed out, making the final score, 1-4.

 Round 2
 Top 16
 Quarter Finals
 Semi Finals

## **Virtual Sumo Competition March 2021**

**Round 1**- In Round 1, MidnightCrow received a bye, so they advanced to the next round.

**Round 2-** In Round 2, MidnightCrow fought R2D2. In the 1st game of the match, they both track each other, with MidnightCrow getting underneath and pushing R2D2 out, making the score 1-0. The same thing happened in the next round, making the score 2-0. In the 3rd game of the match, they both track each other, but R2D2 gets underneath and pushes MidnightCrow out, making the score 2-1. The same thing happened in the next two rounds, making the score 2-3, meaning that MidnightCrow is eliminated from the tournament and won't advance to the Round of 16.

 Round 2