How Our Teammate Daniel Won The Robot Combat World Championship

[00:00:08]Good morning, Scorpio Builder Blog. We are here for the first day of official fighting in the Robot Combat League Nationals.

[00:00:16]The Robot Combat Event Nationals is a an event where all the best in the country come to compete in. It looks like they have four arenas set up. There's the 30 lb arena. This will also be at the open sauce competition that Scorpios will be displaying at. This is a three-pound arena, a one pound arena, and then at the very end here, we have a 150 g arena. They're getting it all set up. So exciting.

[00:00:47]>> And then these are the pits.

[00:00:50]Kind of empty today, but tomorrow this place will be popping. There's David Laauo of Team Malice fame with his banana smash.

[00:01:00]Let's go see. Let's go follow him to safety.

[00:01:05]And there's Pong and Art Ninja doing the amazing streaming. All right, so David is putting his banana smash into the arena. Scorpius builder blog, are you ready for an amazing safety with the trench? The amazing trench from Mad Cat fame.

[00:01:23]This is him safetying. This is him showing that he is able to move forward.

[00:01:28]And when he turns off his controller, the robot stops. So that is a successful passing of safety. Well done.

[00:01:36]>> That's pretty much it.

[00:01:37]>> Congratulations on passing safety.

[00:01:41]Now he's going to drive around looking like fun. So fun fact, that is a fork off of Malice that we painted yellow.

[00:01:51]That fork that we painted yellow is directly off Malice. We literally grabbed it right off and stuck it on Banana Smash. So forks are great in all.

[00:02:02]Now that our David has successfully passed safety, we're going to go back to the pits, get everything set up, and wait for the awesome streaming from Pong and Art Ninja.

[00:02:15]This is Rob. He runs all of Robot Combat Events, the best Robot Combat event. uh >> website on the country that that shows all the websites, all the competitions across the country.

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[00:04:04]One minute to go.

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[00:04:11]>> So exciting. There's David Small of Banshee fame. There's Coleman, a Mad Cater fame.

[00:04:19]So, Scorpio's builder blog. You'll see that a lot of the heavyweight builders do come to compete in the local smaller events. There's Sean, the next big build bot builder that'll be super successful with his Thagmizer. Have you Have you seen >> Are you ready? Are you ready to make that a 250lb robot?

[00:04:38]>> Oh, he's not yet.

[00:04:40]>> Not yet.

[00:04:40]>> A bit more money.

[00:04:42]>> Sometime though. Sometime.

[00:04:44]>> And there's Nate, our amazing Nate with his beautifully printed TPU. Look at how nice it is.

[00:04:51]>> I love this color. This one's my favorite.

[00:04:53]>> That's not my bot. The guy who's normally runs it is backpacking in Italy, I believe.

[00:04:57]>> Oh my god. Oh my god. Tell me all about it. He's backpacking in Italy.

[00:05:01]>> Bumblebee. It's a competes in like New Jersey and whoops everyone's butt.

[00:05:07]>> Well done. Well done.

[00:05:08]>> Normally runs magnets with like wood floors, >> right? Yeah, wood floors. You can't run magnets with wood floors. And tell me all about yours.

[00:05:14]>> Uh this is the darkest timeline. It's uh copy uh or inspired by Peter's uh agitation.

[00:05:22]>> Oh, he's fabulous.

[00:05:23]>> Yeah, it's done pretty well. Uh I'm probably going to like >> modified a bit after this, but I'm excited to see how it's done.

[00:05:29]>> Oh, I'm so excited. And so are you excited to be here at the Robot Combat Event National?

[00:05:33]>> Absolutely.

[00:05:33]>> Oh my goodness.

[00:05:34]>> You've been to Salt Lake City before, so >> Oh, how fun. This is only my second time here, too. So, >> okay.

[00:05:39]>> And by the way, that's Nate Franklin, the amazing builder. He's been in this sport just as long as me, I think. And so, I was just, you know, and she has Bricklet. Let me see Bricklet. Oh my god. And who else do you have?

[00:05:50]>> I've got Harley Quinn. I'm running for the Bot Barons out in uh Massachusetts.

[00:05:56]Ooh. All the way from Massachusetts.

[00:05:58]>> The the newest members of the Blood Sport team, Jillian and Lyndon.

[00:06:02]>> Love them. Love them. Fabulous.

[00:06:04]>> They have entrusted me with their robot.

[00:06:07]>> So exciting.

[00:06:07]>> Because, you know, I already drive something that kind of looks like it.

[00:06:10]So, I'm, you know, >> being part of the community, helping other builders. So exciting.

[00:06:15]>> Yeah. Help other builders.

[00:06:17]>> Yeah. If you'll notice, uh, Sean has some free arms that I cut for him from Malice stuff. Yeah. So, you got to help the other builders. We got to do all the stuff. So, all right. Well, have fun.

[00:06:28]Good luck. We have some 30s. Look at that beautiful drum. Little There's the copperhead guys. So exciting.

[00:06:38]>> What's up?

[00:06:38]>> What's going on? Say hi to Scorpio's Builder Blog and tell them how you're ready to rock this weekend.

[00:06:44]>> Yeah, you are. Good job, Kyle.

[00:07:00]You're good. You're good.

[00:07:19]Oh, you're good. You're totally fine.

[00:07:20]Don't worry about it at all. I got you.

[00:07:22]I'm the one filming, not you. Thank you, though. I appreciate. Very considerate.

[00:07:27]>> Yes.

[00:08:01]Come down here.

[00:08:07]Yeah, I know.

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[00:08:39]>> So, introduce yourself.

[00:08:41]>> Howdy. I'm Max. I'm with the Robo-Dome and Maximum Robots.

[00:08:44]>> Maximum Robots at Robo-Dome. So exciting.

[00:08:47]>> This is Zip Zop.

[00:08:48]>> Zip Zop. And look at his little hat. Oh my god. I can't even with this hat. Tell me all about Zip Zop.

[00:08:54]>> So, Zip Zop is a reconfigurable fairy weight robot. So, it's 150 g and it's got lots of different configurations on forks, on the arms, and it allows me to fight against all different kinds of robots. So, it's got lots of different configurations that allow me to target horizontals or verticals. And so, it's >> delightful.

[00:09:14]>> Try to try to make sure to configure as much as you can for your opponent and give myself the best chance.

[00:09:20]>> Oh my god. about his little hat is bringing me so much joy. So I I appreciate the joy >> that Zip Zot brings to this commit competition.

[00:09:29]>> Well, enjoy and good luck today at this fight.

[00:09:31]>> Are we ready?

[00:09:32]>> Here we go. 3 2 1 zoom.

[00:09:54]David went one and one with his sportsman 30, so he has one win and one loss. Um, he's doing great, though. He got the robot back up and functional.

[00:10:04]So, we'll be able to sweep the losers bracket tomorrow and go all the way to the championship. And we're so excited to have you come along with that journey with us.

[00:10:13]>> Awesome, David. So, you lost your first fight. Tell me what changes you made.

[00:10:17]The drive shafts were were slightly bent >> or shifted. So, I had to realign them.

[00:10:25]>> You can tell he realigned them by cutting this side of the robot.

[00:10:29]>> Yeah, >> he cut that side of the robot to make sure that they were all lined up again.

[00:10:35]This is what you get for trying new things right before a big event.

[00:10:39]>> I wanted to make this change, so I knew. So, what are you going to do after this event to make this look prettier?

[00:10:48]>> Is your beautiful wife going to CNC some new side plates?

[00:10:52]>> Yes.

[00:10:53]>> Yay.

[00:10:54]>> Okay, drivers. Here we go. 3 2 1 resume.

[00:11:12]Heat. Heat.

[00:11:36]All right, Rosie.

[00:11:39]>> Oh, it's just on there.

[00:11:41]>> Uh, unstick.

[00:11:42]>> You want an unstick? All right.

[00:11:43]>> 3 2 1 resume.

[00:11:48]>> Terrible.

[00:12:00]Minute 30 remaining.

[00:12:12]Those guys, one minute remaining.

[00:12:37]All right, Ros control movement. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Wow!

[00:13:12]Oh, they're coming.

[00:13:46]Well, day two of the Robot Combat League Nationals is finishing up. I've been able to see all four arenas with a private viewing screen from my Malice merch table. I sold out of some stuff which I didn't even know was a real thing that could happen. So, that's exciting.

[00:14:01]>> Well, you got reconnected stuff. Yeah.

[00:14:05]>> And then but were you talking about the NHL open slash track?

[00:14:10]>> That was pass.

[00:14:15]>> Pass the safety.

[00:14:17]>> Good job, Sean.

[00:14:19]>> Are you ready?

[00:14:20]>> Here we go. Three, two, one, zoom.

[00:14:41]Look at David play talking with his competition.

[00:14:46]Lilith, are you ready to fight David >> again?

[00:14:50]>> Yeah, I know, right? Hi, Frank.

[00:14:53]>> Hi. How's it going?

[00:14:56]Heat.

[00:15:13]Heat.

[00:15:29]7 9 4 3 2 1 >> David is currently pacing the uh pacing the competition, enjoying all the fun little things. But hey, good morning.

[00:15:48]He's just enjoying It's good to see you.

[00:15:50]He's just enjoying his domain.

[00:15:57]>> His morning walk. Yeah. Yeah. He's just trying to intimidate people. Don't let him lie to you.

[00:16:10]Yeah.

[00:16:18]Heat.

[00:16:39]Heat.

[00:16:45]Heat.

[00:17:12]Hi, Scorpio splitter blog. This is day three of the robot combat event national. Oh my gosh, the fighting has already started. I did a mug motor giveaway. You know, based on Zach's famous video, I made mug motors and so I gave one away today. Thanks, Zach.

[00:17:44]>> The morning of you got to get the batteries in. Get it all buttoned up.

[00:17:49]You can tell he's missing a battery. I'm not sing I tap that Heat.

[00:18:22]Heat.

[00:18:44]Heat.

[00:18:52]Heat.

[00:19:02]I can't find 3 2 1 Shoot. A heat.

[00:20:19]Heat.

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[00:20:55]I tap that. Tappy tappy tappy tappy tap.

[00:20:58]They're taps of doom.

[00:21:08]>> So David, you just lost to Scorpios's Daniel with a robot designed after your own robot. Unknown Avenger who literally took your three-pound robot, turned it into a 30, and then beat you with your own game. How do you feel?

[00:21:22]>> All right, here we go.

[00:21:24]>> Second place in the whole country.

[00:21:27]Second place to Daniel from Scorpios.

[00:21:30]Look. Yeah. Yeah. We're so proud of Daniel. It's so exciting. We love Daniel. I can go show you his robot. One second. Hello.

[00:21:39]>> I'm running. I'm running.

[00:21:42]>> Hello. Sorry.

[00:21:45]Daniel, you just won first place. HOW DO YOU FEEL? ARE YOU GOING TO DISNEYLAND?

[00:21:50]>> A fight Derek.

[00:21:53]>> Yeah, you're gonna go fight Derek. Yeah.

[00:21:55]See this beautiful robot? Well, this is for the Scorpios builder blog. So, I just had to, you know, come and say hi to Scorpios.

[00:22:05]>> Yeah. Wearing a Scorpio shirt. All right. Well, congratulations. Have fun.

[00:22:08]We're very proud of you.

[00:22:10]>> All right. And so, that was that.

[00:22:21]3 2 1 fight.

[00:22:46]Hi tap of doom.

[00:23:07]Hello Scorpio vlog. It's me again. We just finished up with the robot combat event championship. How exciting. Daniel from Scorpios just got first and David got second. He's packing up the robot now so we can head home. But thanks for having hanging out with us. Have a good day.

[00:23:25]Even at robot events. There's Pokémon.

[00:23:28]See, look at David playing Pokemon over there. We're going to go get some sunny honey tea to end our first successful safety.