Category: Event Reports
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NHRL March 2025
At the end of the month-long, three-event stretch for the 30lbers is the March NHRL qualifier! This event was what the entire strategy was based around: all of the learnings from February NHRL and Motorama were geared toward two goals: qualifying both bots and defeating the historical top dog of…
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NERC Robot Conflict Motorama 2025
Though the NHRL February event came before Motorama this year, Motorama always holds a special place in the annual robot calendar. Long before NHRL, Motorama was the premium eastern U.S. robot event and for a time was the largest event in North America, potentially the world. It was where I…
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NHRL February 2025
The NHRL February event begins a very busy stretch and one that was more impulsive than planned. Due to Vorion not receiving much direct damage from the World Championships and instead suffering from mainly electronic issues, it was still largely together. The intention instead was to run Motorama and March…
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NHRL Grand Finals 2024
This is it, the grand finals. All the year-long strategy comes down to this event with all of the highest stakes. The prize pool is certainly one high stake as NHRL’s finals boast the largest prize pool of any event with a whopping $15,000 for the 30lb champion with $6,000…
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Robot Ruckus 2024
And now for a little trip! About two weeks after a run at NHRL it was time to turn around and take the 3lb robots south to Florida. Normally I have a rhythm of having bots done early and tested beforehand so the expectation is that when I arrive I…
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NHRL October 2024
Background The October NHRL was an off-rotation event. Most people recognize that whenever Phenomenon or Vorion attend an event I’m generally doing better than when they’re not there and that is accurate. Those two machines are where the vast majority of my focus and efforts are put into (besides future…
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Battle in the Burg 2024
Background Phenomena This competition began as a direct response to Phenomenon’s recent success. Because the 30lbers have recently shown good promise, I don’t want to drain funds too fast by fighting them again, but I do need to figure out ways to avoid the few consistent blind spots on the…
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NHRL June Qualifier 2024
Phenomenon rides again to do some testing! This primarily focuses on the event, but more detail will be added to the Phenomenon page under 2024 later on for an even deeper dive into the methodology. Watch the fight compilation video here! After the June Teams event, it was clear Vorion…
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GSCRL June Jumble 2024
Alongside the NHRL Teams event on Saturday, June 1 it turns out GSCRL was hosting a 2-day event where all beetleweight robots would compete on Sunday, June 2! Since 1) the NHRL Teams event was a one-day event and 2) New Jersey is on the way home from Connecticut to…
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NHRL June TEAMS 2024
It’s all about Family Pre-Teams Prep Post-Emulsifier Cleanup After Vorion’s dance with Emulsifier back in March, the robot was largely left untouched as work shifted to Mind Flayer. More in-depth descriptions of the restoration for this will be shared in the Vorion page in the coming 2024 section, but these…
Bone Dead Robotics 