Servo - February 2017

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Minnesota team; Mechanical Resonance, a horizontal midcutter built in a week by veteran competitor, Will Evans; and Revenge of the Klukz, a sleek welded steel tank fitted with a KitBots’ eggbeater.

The opening match of the Beetleweight double-elimination brackets featured Mechanical Resonance winning a judge’s decision over STEVE, whose weapon was nonfunctional but managed to survive thanks to its opponent’s 15 year old BattleBots™toy gearmotors failing.

In the following matches, Flippy and Wedgee won decisive push-out victories over the horizontal spinner ZOU Keeper and Revenge of the Klukz, respectively.

Mechanical Resonance was pitted against fellow midcutter Ghost in the next round, but quickly tapped out after one of its wheels rolled off just one second into the match.

Wedgee beat teammate Flippy in the following match, and then won an easy push-out victory against Ghost in the winner’s bracket finals.

With only one Team Wedgee robot, the Beetle loser’s brackets were more contested. ZOU Keeper fought its way past both Revenge of the Klukz and Mechanical Resonance before meeting defeat by the eggbeater of Flippy, who then went on to defeat Ghost in the loser’s bracket finals.

For the second time, builder Tom Spaulding guest drove Flippy while Team Wedgee’s usual driver, Ben Hanson piloted Wedgee.

Ben handily won via push-out, giving Wedgee another in its long line of first place finishes, and further validating the decade-old design.

Two action-packed rumbles capped off the event, serving the final round of damage that local builders hoped to have repaired in time for Robot Battles 62 at Chattacon in January 2017. SV