Despite the valiant late effort by Dragonfly and Mosquito, the judges ruled in Final Destiny's favor, 27-18. The other two robots kept attacking, and eventually Final Destiny's blade stopped spinning, so the remaining two multibots got under the skirts and pushed Final Destiny around until the time ran out. Locust was hit again and the disc warped, the frame was bent, and Locust stopped moving. The other two robots tried to hit Final Destiny during this time, but the robot's bar spun up too fast and they were tossed aside as well. The audience was stunned when Mosquito continued fighting. Mosquito tried to get underneath but failed, and on a third try it drove up one of Final Destiny's skirts and was hit hard, flying 6 feet into the air and bouncing off the walls of the BattleBox. Mosquito was armed with a small scoop so it could get underneath Final Destiny's skirts. In their second match they fought newcomers Final Destiny. Little Pink Butterfly was having drive troubles and couldn't hit any of The Swarm, but The Swarm got in lots of hits and won the match 37-8. In their first match with the new Locust, The Swarm fought Little Pink Butterfly of Doom. Two of the robots survived to the end, and despite Mosquito's best efforts The Swarm lost a 25-20 decision.ĭragonFly rams into Swirlee's spinning disc Season 5.0 Mosquito pushed Swirlee the entire match, even pushing Swirlee into the spike strips once. After more rams Dragonfly broke a drive chain and could only move in circles. One of Locust's rams disabled it by breaking its power switch. Mosquito, however, managed to get underneath and push Swirlee around. However, the weight difference meant that every time they hit Swirlee, they went flying. Dragonfly and Locust tried to ram into Swirlee's disc to stop it. The Swarm fought Swirlee in their only Season 4.0 fight. The Swarm team made a mistake and were disqualified after their fight as they started side-by side instead of being connected, but did deal slight damage to Dawn of Destruction. At this time, multibots were still a new concept to BattleBots, and the rules were not completely clear on multibots and how they should be run. The Swarm fought Dawn of Destruction in their only fight. The robot had lots of pushing power and weighed 116 pounds. Built by Paul Mathus, Dragonfly was another 2-wheel drive box, similar to the original Locust, but instead of spikes it was armed with a front wedge made out of titanium. Mosquito remains with Stephen Felk, though not in the condition it was in for robotic combat.ĭragonfly. Mosquito was the lightest of the three, weighing a slight 97 pounds. Mosquito was very well-armored and was able to withstand great impacts while still fighting. Built by Stephen Felk, Mosquito was a very flat H-shaped robot also equipped with 2 wheels and a front wedge which was slightly wider than the wheelbase. The original Locust (re-named Grasshopper) came out of retirement to compete at the BattleBots 2011 Nationals, placing third. This new version of Locust weighed 124 pounds. The weapon system of the new Locust was actually Nightmare's old Season 4.0 weapon system, giving Locust serious damaging capabilities. After Season 4.0, Locust was rebuilt to be more of a Backlash-esque design, an invertible vertical spinner robot. The upgraded Locust for Season 5.0.Built by Jim Smentowski, Locust was originally an invertible 2-wheel drive box with rear caster wheels and two front spikes. This meant two of the robots had to be immobilized for the whole robot to be declared immobile. The robot consisted of three smaller robots that all weighed within the middleweight range with the exception of Locust, which during Season 5.0 weighed slightly over the limit. However, the robots never made it past the preliminary rounds and thus never appeared on television. The Swarm fought in the final three seasons and was built and driven by three experienced competitors: Jim Smentowski of Team Nightmare, Stephen Felk, builder of Voltronic and Paul Mathus of Das Bot fame. The Swarm was a multibot that competed in the superheavyweight division in BattleBots. Not to be confused with the UK Robot Wars clusterbot of the same name. Please note that all battle write-ups should be in the past tense. You can help the BattleBots Wiki by rewriting/expanding it.
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