Robot Ruckus at MegaCon 2024 1/n: Xolotl

Team Firewolf represented very well at MegaCon! We had Antlash and Xolotl competing. Robert was carrying on the Antlash name, while I was competing under the name Xolotl, even if Xolotl is really Antlash with an upgraded weapon. 

Xolotl is a Fingertech Viper Kit robot with a horizontal spinner. I didn't do so well and won one of my three fights. My cameraman's camera decided to take a deuce on my win against Tripple D, but he got my fights against Tyrone, a vicious horizontal spinner kit from Repeat Robotics, and Crazed Madman, a Fingertech wedge. My proudest moment was doing some damage on Tyrone despite tapping out once I got inverted. I knew I was most likely going to get destroyed if I kept moving. The damage was nowhere as bad as my absolute first fight against Nibbler at the Orlando Maker Faire, but it did involve a chassis transfer and getting a new front wedge. Team Junkyard Dogs is a pretty solid team, and even lasting as long as I did against them was quite the achievement for me!

My cameraman didn't get my second fight, which was against Tripple D, who beat Antlash earlier before getting disemboweled by the likes of Insomnia. Tripple D was a Fingertech Viper vertical spinner until he got destroyed earlier. They came in as a wedge, and I couldn't quite bring myself to destroy a little kid who had just gotten his robot blasted to bits at his very first competition. That being said, I still let Xolotl loose on him at maybe 30-40% power and tried to knock him out as cleanly as possible because I knew he could still take control and aggression points if he inverted me. I did get the knockout victory after a few well-placed hits.

And then there was my fight against Crazed Madman, who was one heck of a wedge driver. Suffice to say, going against a very experienced control bot driver was rather exciting, but I learned that I can indeed drive inverted. I still presented a bit of a hazard to him as an undercutter, even if I had iffy mobility at best. I still did some damage to him, but that AR-500 wedge was a bit of a nightmare!

After our fight, the driver of Crazed Madman and I got a picture together. 

And here's some other fun, random pictures I got, including the judging panel and various Avatar: The Last Airbender bits...

Hopefully tomorrow or sometime this week, I'll have a bit of a write-up for Antlash. I am very proud of R for his deep run in his very first ever competition with a robot he just barely finished at the competition!