Servo - May 2012

FIGURE 10. Registration Coordinator Jim Iocca.

FIGURE 13. Antweight bot Kobalos.

FIGURE 14. Antweight bot Motor City Massacre.

FIGURE 15. Team Radicus couple Tony Fowlie and Lauren Greenwood.

FIGURE 16. Antweight bot Poor Punctuation.

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FIGURE 11. Antweight bot See You Next Wednesday.

(Figure 9) provide the audio equipment and John emcees. Jim Iocca (Figure 10) is the event Registration Coordinator, and he and his wife Julie (unavailable for a photo) tag-team drive their Antweight spinner bot See You Next Wednesday (Figure 11).

Team Near Chaos Robotics couple Mike Jefferies and Julie Simancek (Figure 12) compete with Antweight bots Kobalos (Figure 13) and Motor City Massacre (Figure 14), and team Radicus couple Tony Fowlie and Lauren Greenwood (Figure 15) bring a fleet of bots and compete in the Antweight class with bots Poor Punctuation 2.0 (Figure 16) and Malicious Mule (Figure 17).

Twenty Antweight bots answered the Motorama challenge and engaged in an entertaining and destructive competition. In second round action, my spinning drum bot Snaggletooth (Figure 18) drew undercutter Odahviing (Figure 19), and I thought I’d have a short day. Fortunately for me, driver Branden Youssef of team Y2K Robotics

FIGURE 17. Antweight bot Malicious Mule.

FIGURE 12. Team Near Chaos Robotics couple Mike Jeffries and Julie Simancek.

couldn’t get Odahviing’s weapon to spin up, so I had a pretty easy time pushing Odahviing around the ring. Snaggletooth managed to stand Odahviing on its nose (Figure 20) with about 10 seconds left in the match. Odahviing ended up having the short day, losing its consolation match to Malicious Mule.

Snaggletooth went on to send Joey Maffei and team Green Machines to the loser’s bracket after flipping Swamp Woman (Figure 21) and earning the judge’s decision. Snaggletooth’s day ended in the next match when Warren Purvin of team Pretzel Robotics and his bot Vile Ant (Figure 22) put a vicious hit on him that racked his chassis (Figure 23) and sent him to the pits for the day. Note the hardened steel teeth on Vile Ant that were added by team Pretzel Robotics specifically for Motorama.

In other upper bracket action, Brandon Young of team Bone Dead Robotics made it to the quarterfinal match by sending Malicious Mule and Amatol to the lower bracket. His opponent in that quarterfinal