Hello all,
I’ve finnaly decided to show the build for my 2nd bot, no big dill ( get it? Like no big deal!? )
Anyway this was the original concept just a few shapes thrown together (by the way this whole robot was made using Tinkercad just because I find it so simple and easy!)
It’s based off the Battlebot Big Dill:
So yeah! Unfortunately not thinking I would be doing a build diary like this the isn’t really much build pictures… or text I kinda forgot and will make sure to give frequent updates after this post… sry. So when I started the bot I set a target to get it ready in time to go to October GRoCS So I wasted no time getting started. At the start I just printed and printed every time somehow managing to find a design floor every time. Very frustrating….. luckily I had my own printer! I managed to get it ready for GRoCS just in time with some very late nights rushing to get it ready before! And we were off to Gloucester!
It went better than expected as I went 5-5 a pretty good score for a new bot I would say considering most of my losses were me driving into the pit… whoops!
So unfortunately No big dill couldn’t make it to the semi finals but… PLOT TWIST!!!
turns out the top three in the plants made it through and the last spot would be decided by a last chance rumble! Thanks to a great turnout the rumble was absolute chaos. My strategy was to just basically sit in the corner and shoo off any one who dared come near me and it sorta worked! After what I thought was literally forever (8 minutes) it was me vs a bot called parallelogram a bot that was literally a parallelogram so flipping it was completely pointless. I managed to capitalise of a driving error and shove him in the pits! So I was through to the semi finals ( I also won the last GRoCS rumble with my first bot, The dot bot, a bot so heavy I couldn’t actually put a dot sticker on it because it would’ve been overweight)
Anyway through to the semifinals I was but unfortunately my draw was against burning tiger who had a great history of winning GRoCS a few times…
I managed to put up a good fight though, for about 30 seconds until I fell into the pit partially because of my driving inexperience and partly because of Samuel’s very good driving.
The 3rd place play off didn’t really go to plan either as once again I started well but hurcules the bot I fought a grab and lift bot caught my in its grasps and I couldn’t quite wiggle free before he drove me into the pit.
But I did manage to walk away with a best new bot award!
Me hanging out with jungle man with our awards!
Anyway I’ll post tomorrow maybe about what happened after (redesign, rock and robots, future plans)
Anyway thanks for reading sry it wasn’t very detailed see ya later ! Ooh also I think I’ll be going to CAT4 as well on the 22nd so if anyone else is going, see ya there!
) and the 3v3 didn’t go well either, going out in the first round. I think the main thing is that I just need to get as much driving experience as I can before I can be a bit more competitive and start getting top threes (annoyingly I’ve finished 4th in both GRoCS that I’ve been to ….) Oh also I came 6th or was it 5th:thinking: in what was probably the most chaotic rumble I’ve been in. Credit to Eli for getting such good turnouts at his events! Anyway I think your up to date now with no big dill, current status on CAT4 is undecided (I don’t know if my dad will drive my there)