#built bots

Hello Shitty Battlebots Fans! I know many of you are enjoying filling in your brackets for the main event, but to pass the time how about 5 rounds of celebrating all the robots that didn’t make it to the championship this year. Ordered from worst to best, it’s a race to the bottom in this battle to determine the absolute worst competitor of the year.

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Unsurprisingly, I love a lot of bots! Rusty is also one of my favorites, but I’ll highlight 10 of mine in no particular order.

Uppercut- A beautifully simple bot despite the difficulties the team has been through.

Smeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - What can I say that’s new about this fantastically ridiculous bot. I really want a team shirt.

SHATTER! - I’m usually against hammer bots, but SHATTER!’s unique armor and aesthetic really won be over. It’s a shame how often judges rule against it for taking lots of “damage” despite the “armor” being easily destroyed being the whole point! Also, I don’t have room for it here but the team leader’s hair is absolutely fabulous when he lets it down.

Ribbot - Adorable. Effective. Plays to my amphibian weakness.

Mammoth and HUGE - Please see this ask.

Kraken - Ridiculous and surprisingly effective for it’s bot type.

Malice - A strong bot with an awesome leader. Bunny deserves all the best. The team does need to diversify their clothing textures - their currently a bit too shiny for my taste.

Madcatter - With an inspiring backstory and a ridiculous team leader, what’s not to love about this crazy kitty?



As mentioned previously with BEAR PUNCH the pneumatic spear was a very popular early battlebots design- and wedges were a very popular part of their strategy (as you picked up on in this ask)

La Machine was a (if not the) pioneer of the wedge- with her speed she could easily scoop other bots upside down or out of the battle box

And in her latter appearances she added a pneumatic spike to the top of her ramp- ensuring that bots didn’t fly all the way over her and where at the very least flipped over.

Other bots that followed suit with the wedge/spike combo include Jabberwock and Yoshikillerbot.

Now, we have a couple of bots which don’t quite fit the description, but close enough I feel like spotlighting them:

Village Idiot was a wildly successful bot in the original run of battlebots, with only one loss under it’s belt. Unfortunately, it lost on entry to the 4th season to Complete Control. Because of how low to the ground a wedge bot must be, it couldn’t retract its duel spinners and lacked any arms.

Tantrum brings back the arms (though they where only built as self-righting mechanism, they could presumably “catch” another bot driving overtop) and has a moving spinner! A drum spinner, but again, close enough.

And finally, the much hated by me: Grabot! This stupid little bot has a wedge, “grabbing” arms, and can switch those arms out for duel spinning blades. If only it’s arms actually worked and it could use both features at once! It wouldn’t be standing at 0/3 record (god I hope I remembered how to order that) with the only positive thing I can say about it being that it has a pretty bangin’ logo.

See! This is what we are looking for!

Edit: As it turns out, a bot fitting that description has competed. Behold: SPIKEDPUNCH

Glad to hear it! Tantrum is certainly a fun bot with a very interesting evolution. Never a boring bot (even when it’s design was)!