Angry Goat Robotics

Angry Goat robotics
Participation Information
Series	Hammerfall Ruination: The Contagion Mech Mash FRR: Backlash Bot-O-Rama 2016 Ruination Lite: the SwitcherTWO
Team Information
Team Members	Gabe Hopp, Many goats, a few sheep, and one cat
Home Town	Maple Valley/Bellingham, WA

Angry Goat Robotics is a fantasy robotics team lead by Gabe Hopp. That's right, I spend my free time pretending I have the money and ability to build combat robots. It came into being in early September, and has been not overly terrible ever since. The team's creator enjoys naming his robots after various mythological goat-esque creatures. everyone needs a theme, right?

Currently a relatively short history:

Gabe was drawn into fantasy combat robotics by the /r/Hammerfall Robotics Competition, in which his first robot, Chimera was entered. It was... okay... overall, making up for its design flaws with good strategy. Excited by moderate early-on success, he decided to enter in Ruination: the Contagion. as it turns out, some of the team's designs weren't exactly terrible, with Cuddle Time! making the Lightweight Finals.

Angry Goat Robotics is currently entered in FRR: Backlash with Venice Queen, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, Chimera V2, and Khnum. Other than Chimera bringing the whole team down (at 7-4 :v ), all robots held the same 9-2 record going into the knockout rounds.

Robots!

Overall record (Reddit tournaments included): 80-41

Hobbyweight:

Buzzkill: (5-1) - Bot-O-Rama 2016

Featherweight:

Oh geeze I'm terribly sorry I didnt mean to flip your robot over: (5-1) - Bot-O-Rama 2016

Xerxes: (0-0) - Cherry Bomb Classic

Ghuleh: (0-0) - Alternate

Sportsman:

Wyvern: (2-2) - Bot-O-Rama 2016

Lightweights:

Cuddle Time!: (11-5) - Ruination: The Contagion - Ruination: The Upheaval

Venice Queen: (9-2) - FRR: Backlash

Captain Trips: (0-0) - Ruination Lite: The SwitcherTWO

Endless Clowns: (0-0) - Cherry Bomb Classic

Middleweights:

Glass Cannon: (7-6) - Ruination: The Contagion - Ruination Lite: The SwitcherTWO

Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr: (9-2) - FRR: Backlash

Heidrun: (0-0) - Ruination: The Upheaval

Visual Assault: (0-0) - Cherry Bomb Classic

Ritual: (0-0) - ARC Showbots

Heavyweights:

Chimera: (15-12) - Hammerfall - Ruination: The Contagion - FRR: Backlash

MC Hammer: (0-0) - Mech Mash - Ruination Lite: The SwitcherTWO

Flammenwerfer: (0-0) - Mech Mash - Ruination: The Upheaval

Hazardous Waste Removal: (2-2) - Pressure Drop

36: (0-0) - Cherry Bomb Classic

Superheavyweights

Angry Goat: (6-7) - Ruination: The Contagion - Ruination Lite: The SwitcherTWO - Ruination: The Upheaval

Khnum: (9-2) - FRR: Backlash

Big Spoon!: (0-0) - Alternate

Obsidian Cannon: (0-0) - Cherry Bomb Classic

Accolades:

Ruination: The Contagion:

Copperhead award (most aggressive bot): Angry Goat (In a 5-way tie)

Finalist (Lightweight): Cuddle Time!

Ruination Lite: the SwitcherTWO

Champion (Heavyweight): Chino (from Team 57)

Bot-o-Rama 2016

Champion (Hobbyweight): Buzzkill

Third Place (Featherweight): Oh Geeze I'm Terribly Sorry I Didn't Mean To Flip Your Robot Over

Rumble Winner (Hobbyweight, Sportsmanweight): Oh Geeze I'm Terribly Sorry I Didn't Mean To Flip Your Robot Over, Wyvern

Trivia/fun facts:

-Gabe only recently became a fan of combat robotics due to the new battlebots TV series.

-Angry Goat Robotics is goat themed because goats are fantastic animals, far superior to other farm herd animals, such as the llama or the sheep

-Both Cuddle Time! and Buzzkill have been extremely lucky robots, winning many close decisions, as well as beating many powerful horizontal spinners despite their low body armor. as they were both made within the same render, Gabe now considers that render to be excessively lucky. Or perhaps it has to do with the lineage? I suppose that will be seen when Big Spoon! competes.