Oh God, why?
This project has been a long time coming. It has been stop-start since around 2021, over which time I’ve accumulated a lot of parts and spent too much money to back out now.
To many roboteers, heavyweights are the impossible dream of the sport, as it is what we saw growing up on TV on Battlebots or Robot Wars. Despite being so much more expensive, awkward to work on and transport, basically more difficult in everything compared to the smaller weight classes, we do it anyway. All to chase the nostalgia, crowd reaction and the childhood dream.
I bought this partial frame from another roboteer in 2021. It was intended for Series 11 of Robot Wars that never happened. I quickly discovered the difficulty in continuing someone else’s design language that doesn’t match your own, so shelved it and it has lived in a binbag down the side of my Mum’s house ever since.
Fast forward a few years to present day. Based on the data we had acquired from Dojo Sportsman over the last few years, Extreme Robots agreed to a trial of allowing commercial cutting saws in their “non-spinner” category, to boost build variety and sparks for the crowd. It is a big step for a nationwide live scene that has become less about damage and more about keeping machines running across several shows a weekend, resulting in the “meta” builds becoming pretty stagnant in design.
Out comes the project again. Time to put my money where my mouth is.
All of the metal is ordered, so I’ll be documenting the process of putting it all together!
I hope you enjoy! 
