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Son of Spam

Son of Spam is a Lightweight robot that competed in RoboGames 2011, & 2017 as well as ComBots Cup V & VI. It is a silver, four-wheeled, invertible, box-shaped robot with two hinged wedge forks at the front but no active weapons.

Son of Spam did well in competition, reaching the semi-finals of RoboGames 2011, and the quarter-finals of RoboGames 2017, as well as placing third in the Lightweight division in ComBots Cup VI.

Surprisingly for a weaponless robot Son of Spam managed to become a crowd favorite amongst the spectator crowd in the 2017 event when it was broadcasted on Twitch becoming one of the rare weaponless robots to achieve this.

Robot History[]

ComBots Cup V[]

RoboGames 2011[]

ComBots Cup VI[]

RoboGames 2017[]

Son of Spam's first match was against newcomers Bugalele. Son of Spam spent this match aggressively slamming Bugalele around until its weapon broke, and then repeatedly slamming it against the arena walls to win the judges decision. So of Spam then advanced to the next round where it faced UnMakerBot.

Son of Spam gets under Tremor

Son of Spam gets underneath Tremor.

This match started with UnMakerBot spinning up, and hitting Son of Spam once, at which point Son of Spam stopped moving, and was counted out. This sent Son of Spam to the loser's bracket where it faced Tremor.

This match started with Son of Spam and Tremor positioning. However a driving error put Son of Spam onto Tremor's wedge prongs, but Tremor was unable to take advantage of this as Son of Spam quickly escaped.

Son of Spam then drove onto Tremors wedge again, this time from the front, and started using its superior torque to shove Tremor around before backing off, and getting under Tremor. Whilst trying to escape Son of Spam, Tremor then spun away, into the arena wall.

Son of Spam then lined up for a shot on Tremor but missed, and hit the wall, but recovered, got under Tremor once more, and slammed it against the wall. Both robots then locked wedges for a while before Son of Spam repeatedly slammed Tremor into the wall yet again. The robots then slammed into each other as the time ran out, with the Twitch.tv chat posting Spam in the chat.

Unsurprisingly not only did Son of Spam win the resulting judges decision, but it also became a newly minted crowd favorite, becoming one of the few pure wedges to do so. This put it in the next round where it faced Brazillian robot, Aquilies.

Wins/Losses[]

Competition Wins Losses
ComBots Cup V Texas Heat Come to Mama
RoboGames 2011

K-Bhot

Vitamin D

Triple-X

Herr Gepoünden

Texas Heat

Hot Stuff

Biolho

ComBots Cup VI

Spectre

The Big B

Touro Light

The Big B

RoboGames 2017

Bugalele

Tremor

Aquilies

Tastes Like Burning

UnMakerBot

K-Torze

  • Wins - 12
  • Losses - 7
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