Cheesecake has a sturdier weapon now, and an appetite for other robots! Cheesecake is my 1lb "antweight" combat robot, a smaller version of the robots on the TV show "BattleBots".

And yes, the more I review the footage, the more I think I should have called my own battery out even though the referee did not.

Basic rules of combat robotics:
- Each fight is 2 to 3 minutes long.
- The goal is to disable your opponent so they can no longer move, 10 second count out.
- You can only pin your opponent for 10 seconds maximum.
- You can tap out at any time.
- If both robots are still mobile at the end of the fight, then a panel of three judges declares a winner by scoring each robot in terms of damage (done to the opponent), aggression (how much they each initiate the engagements) and control (how well they are each able to drive and move around).
- The weight limit for "ants" is 1lb, or 454 grams.
- Certain weapon types are banned, including chemical weapons, radio jammers, and often flamethrowers in these smaller weight classes.

Full ruleset:
http://sparc.tools/wordpress/wp-conte...

Thumbnail photo by KimLikesFlowers
https://www.flickr.com/people/kimlike...

Antweight practice target:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1466981540

Tournaments near you:
https://www.robotcombatevents.com/

Buy robot parts:
https://itgresa.com/
https://palmbeachbots.com/
https://www.fingertechrobotics.com/

Event: https://www.robotcombatevents.com/eve...
Bracket: https://challonge.com/zt0t3is
GSCRL: http://gscrl.org/

0:00 - Upgrades
0:56 - Tournament
1:20 - Lowbot
1:43 - Cheesecake vs Lowbot
3:23 - Post-fight #1
3:42 - Tournament seeding
3:51 - Cheesecake vs Lowbot #2
5:41 - Post-fight #2
6:06 - Under Construction
6:27 - Cheesecake vs Under Construction
9:14 - Post-fight #3
10:13 - Nomad
10:35 - Cheesecake vs Nomad
10:53 - Post-fight #4
11:26 - Finals setup
11:36 - Finals
12:20 - Post-fight #5
12:50 - Post-tournament analysis