Ello Ello, With Rapture comming up, i feel i should probably introduce the bot thats comming, Wishbone!
Wishbone was made first in Scrap Mechanic, where it usually did well. but later it became more famous for its Garry’s mod counterpart which competed in Bashbots! (you can see a fight of it here!)
back when i did Scrapwars
The most recent good looking gmod one, i miss it
1. Designing and building this man
I was looking at the fingertech egg beater kit, and was like. you know, maybe wishbone can use one of these. and instead of going for the usual design of them, i wanted to go a little more unique. for drive i slapped in some Ranglebox MARS brushless motors, since they worked well in Bert (bert mentioned). the rest is my usual stuff. tpu sandwich design. 4mm HPDE on the bottom and some fancy Ti like 1.6mm on top gifted by the ever wonderful Maddox.
The main design key i kept from the game one was the chonky twin wedges at the front. these could take an hs or feed robots nicely into the weapon for the chonky hit. also made some small fork setup to really get all the weapon into the opponent.
Deja vu, ive seen this pic before!
2. Its (Hann)over for you!
Fight 1: Wishbone VS It Is WEDGEDAY my DUDES
Wedgeday is a box with an alu wedge. its a brick, but also a nice first gentle fight for Wishbone to bite into
Nibble
Match starts, i go in, i do a lil nom, then a way bigger nom, sadly didnt hit the roof 
, but was a small oh damn moment. then i got a nice bite and flipped it over. did ask if he wanted to keep going, but he has 0 top armour basically so was scared for the lipo to go poof.
Hes ment to be a frog, not a turtle smh
after the fight, i discovered the screws in the support started to back out, which isnt what you want haha.
This fight was just grinding, i couldnt get a bite at all, and in the end the battery nearly ran out (note to self, 650 3 minutes at 100% isnt a good idea). still won tho!
This but 3 minutes
Fight 3: Wishbone VS VectorClassic
Well, this is how i like my fights. over and done.
Hello there
Box rush, into another hit, and then the oota. art, fucking art
“Simply Lovely”
After getting bodied by ernie, it was still running, but without any weaponry. so again a nice box to kick, only issue being, this one wouldnt die!! and after a little while, the teeth started to back out, since i hadnt tightend them after each fight.
Damn wouldve loved to have discovered Loctite sooner
then it became a pushing match, which ofcourse, 2x Mars’ will do well (not sponsored (but wouldnt mind it wink wink))
Who knew ernie and wishbone could do the same pushing
In the end, i won the judges, but it was concerning.
Fight 5: Wishbone VS Schruppdiwupp
The Hockeypuck of death is back, well, it didnt at all wanna work for Hannover, but either way, its a scary bot when it works. at least this time i could hit it, instead of not getting under. which i did, and i kicked the puck till it didnt do anything anymore, and won.
Hello There!
Fight 6: Wishbone VS VectorFun
Well, its another hs from the same team, should go the same right? WRONG.
10/10 for the funky design
The middle seam became more of a pain throughout the day, and in this fight it showed. when i got stuck on it, he got a free hit on the back, which dissconnected my battery connector…
Pictures taken moments before disaster
with that, i was 4-1, there was 1 more bot left on 5-0 ,ofcourse it had to be my rival mr Ryu Kitchen Thyrus >:(. so i had to pray he lost.
at least the hit looked nice
Fight 7: Wishbone VS Knackwurst
Knackwurst was hans first ever fight, and now wishbones last for hannover. this one was a lil scuffle, but in the end, i got him out.
I Believe I can flyyyyy
now i just had to hope Thyrus didnt win, but in the end, he did, so i got a respectable 2nd for its first outing. not bad. but there were issues. mainly ground clearance. but that wouldnt be an future issue riiiiiight?!?! (foreshadowing)
Boo this man
3. The Eindhoven Experience
Ofcourse, i again brought too much for eindhoven, so i had much to work on and with.
Fight 1: Wishbone VS Knackwurst
not much to this fight. the floor was super slippery, so i had 0 grip. i just couldnt get under to even get a hit in, super sad (well small nibbles)
Look, we touched!
Fight 2: Wishbone VS Kaen no Mai
Oh hey i got to face Lars, and basically exillarathor 1 (i butchered the name, sorry).
this fight was a propper slobberknocker. back and forth, tho with some breaks in between because both of us couldnt drive really hahah.
already better than vs knackwurst
And back at ya!
In the end, i won with more good hits. but wishbone had some good damage on the wedges and beater. but it was still good to go… (spoiler, it was not)
Fight 3: Wishbone VS Kwalitatief Iets Beter
This Fight, this fucking fight…
well i had to fight my dads bot, which is a sturdy 4wd pusher with some forks on it. generally a brick.
The Hope
very quickly, grip became an issue again, and i couldnt really get a good hit onto the forks. add to that that near the end, my weapon stopped working and the mounting bolts were backing out, so i became a crabwalking weaponless eggbeater… i wasnt very amused with wishbone after this fight, nearly everything that could go wrong, went wrong. at least it didnt blow up!!
I was the mad
After this fight, i put it aside, since i didnt wanna look at it. and the next day we got there nice and early, and i totally rebuild wishbone again from the ground up, tightend everything, new beater, new rubber wheels to help with grip. and just a whole lookover.
Fight 4: Wishbone VS Doesn’t work
this poor man got day 1 destroyed by ernie, and now had to fight Wishbone. he did get the chance to cast some new wheels, sadly, i had a big wheel remover on the front and took one of them. then he flipped over and was dead.
WHEEEEEELS!!!
sometimes you just have a fight that captures the essence of your bot, what you want it to do. and this is one of em. simple rush, wheels, hitting, big knocks. i love it. this, this is wishbone to the core.
Kaboom!
We had a rumble, my dad said he would be going for me, and he did. i got his link tho mhuhahaha! and then battery ran out, oops.
In the end, wishbone got 3rd behind my dads bot which didnt lose at all in the weekend and Ernie, doing ernie things (see its own blog).
Here at Migraine Robotics, we reuse pics
4. That MITE not be the best idea
Wishbone did MITE, and holy damn, it had a tough time. also to do with me driving with my brain off. ill not go into all the detail, but you can watch the event here
In short, 1st fight it did pretty ok, quick KO. 2nd fight vs bulbaroar, it got its shit kicked in. and 3rd fight was a rumble with bby shrekt and a lifterbot (sorry forgot the name). I wanted to fight Shrekt but my idea of face first went very wrong. main issue was the motorpulley that kept comming off, and i basically had it with wishbone after MITE and it went onto the shelf to reflect.
5. The Bochem Return
As some may know, i cant retire bots for the life of me. so out came wishbone again for Bochem. now featuring some magnets for the ultimate grip. ill quickly go trough some highlight matches of Wishbone, the rest you can find here
Fight 2: Wishbone VS Golden Nugget
Again, a good display fight for Wishbone. 2 minutes went very well. then it started to fall apart, 1 minute in, the weapon supports became loose, this created extra friction, and the battery drained. so i had to tap out. so sad
Up
In the end, i got another podium to its resume, a 2nd place. and i even defeated Ryu Kitchen twice!!
I win, haha!
6. Dortmund: ive run out of jokes
I finally decided to loctite litterally nearly every bolt so it wouldnt back out anymore. which, as it turns out, helps allot 
all fights can be found here and here, but heres the highlight fight for me
Fight 4: Wishbone VS Trouble Double
again, this is what its meant to do, attack, attack, attack. be all over the opponent and pop it up. he had a very exposed link on top, which after a bit i sniped.
Blur moment
Over here we LOVE sparks!!!
Other fights went also good, except fight 1 and fight 5. fight 1 my magnets were touching the floor, so it went boom… and fight 5, the only non loctite bolt came out, which held in the weapon motor, but still won the jd!
Wishbone didnt place on the podium but went 5-1, very solid!
7. Rapture Roboteer Chat
So for rapture, first i wanted to send Sweet and Psycho, sadly, that thing didnt do what i wanted at Burgh, so i was like, lets make a new bot! and then budget. so i looked what i had around, and wishbone is the only bot that wasnt super broken, so it was slapped into rapture with a few small upgrades and updates
- New Bottom Panel (thanks martin for ruining the old)
- Loctite on the motormount
- New Front Setup with wheeguards
Look at this boi
Now, it is time to pack up and head to my dad. when i return and if ive seen the footage again, ill slap together another report