| Team Worst Swordsman | |
|---|---|
| Participation Information | |
| Series | R.E.D.D.I.T Reckoning: Revival ROBOT2 ICECrown RoBattle (withdrew) |
| Team Information | |
| Team Members | Rocket |
| Home Town | Thanet, Kent, United Kingdom |
Team Worst Swordsman is a fictional UK combat robotics team and one of vanishingly few to be headed up by a woman. Establishing itself comparatively recently in early 2018, the team prides itself on trying to be innovative rather than sensible or even slightly competent. Despite this, the team RPs are forever delving deeper into tryhard territory and occasionally spew up the odd upset victory. That everyone refers to those upsets as, er, "victories" tells you exactly what you're dealing with.
Competitors
Featherweights
Tree Surgeon
A tracked chainsaw bot that saw a massive overhaul after being chewed up and spat out by anything even vaguely decent in ROBOT2. Now a 2WD bot with a big triangle dustpan wedge that is in no way inspired by the works of one Mr. Go. Interestingly, the bot now sports two chainsaws, because why only have one for the writers to laugh at?
Debut: ROBOT2
Tournaments: ROBOT2 (2-5), Thunder Underground (as Tree Surgeon 2) (0-0)
Lifetime Record: 2-5
Lightweights
GPODAWUND
You don't get many robots themed after the Cleveland Browns, but this is one of them. An eggbeater spinner which uses it more as a flipper than anything else, this 2WD bot has shades of Black Dog about it. It's also invertible, which is rare for a Worst Swordsman tournament entry
Debut: Thunder Underground
Tournaments: Thunder Underground (0-0)
Lifetime Record: 0-0
Hobart
Another seminal bad ideas machine, Hobart is a tracked robot that sacrified armour almost entirely for drive power and the ability to smash things. Uniquely in ARC history, it used its vertical spinning flails as a kind of high-speed axe - when it wasn't sporting a much more conventional bar. The flails do have a 100% record though... so far.
Debut: ROBOT2
Tournaments: ROBOT2 (3-4)
Lifetime Record: 3-4
The Revenge of Psychosprout
One of the worst CADs in human history, this was an attempt at a sit'n'spin thwackbot with a difference - a mono-wheel setup and convoluted array of magnets allowed it to basically be a big ball with a flail setup. Sadly, it never got to fight, as the team withdrew from RoBattle. Perhaps it'll see combat one day.
Debut: RoBattle
Tournaments: RoBattle (X)
Lifetime Record: 0-0
Middleweights
Dragonfist
Debuting as Riptide in Reckoning: Revival, Dragonfist was the team's earliest attempt to make the otherwise-unworkable flail weapon into a terrifying prospect. A shell spinner in a meta that made them deeply underpowered, Dragonfist nevertheless became the first Worst Swordsman robot to make the playoffs of a major tournament. It left immediately thereafter having drawn an enormous wedge. Whoops.
Debut: Reckoning: Revival
Tournaments: Reckoning: Revival (as Riptide, 1-2), ROBOT2 (4-4), Thunder Underground (0-0)
Finals: ROBOT2 (Quarter-Finalist)
Lifetime Record: 5-6
Heavyweights
Helepolis
Helepolis was a good idea executed incredibly poorly. Essentially a Gabriel-style bigwheeler with a lifting arm on a rotating body powered by an electric motor, it was stymied by the crap CAD work and the fact that the team had to withdraw completely from its only tournament to date. Sad, really. Maybe a Helepolis 2 will show up some day.
Debut: RoBattle
Tournaments: RoBattle (X)
Lifetime Record: 0-0
Tabor
The first robot ever made by the team, Tabor was one of the worst and strangest robots in the competition. Like so many robots from the team's stable, it was a promising idea (esentially Breaker Box on a turret) that had a hilariously bad level of execution. With a turret larger than its main body and hilariously vast plough, the Mark 1 variant was given a complete pasting in its debut tournament and spawned several uncomplimentary memes involving Life Alert. The second iteration, however, did quite a lot better, securing actual wins and - more importantly - not falling on its face all the damn time. Experienced roboteers often find that this is a helpful characteristic to have. Who knows, the third, equally-improved iteration may see a playoff appearance! We can but hope.
Debut: R.E.D.D.I.T
Tournaments: R.E.D.D.I.T (1-4), ROBOT2 (as Tabor Mk II: Omni-Directional Assault Boogaloo, 3-4), Thunder Underground (as Tabor Mk. III: Operation WYFLAND, 0-0)
Lifetime Record: 4-8
Superheavyweights
Labrys
ARC's first openly lesbian robot, Labrys is a combination axe and vertical spinner with a hell of a clutch and a petrol engine. Unlike most of the team's robots, it has at least serviceable CAD work, and it is (at time of writing) the only robot in the stable with a winning record, having won its only fight to date against a worryingly hardy brick. Whether this was a fluke or the start of a great tournament run, only time will it's a fluke. It's definitely a fluke. The fact that it's since had no wins at all rather proves that.
Debut: ICECrown
Tournaments: ICECrown (2-3), Thunder Underground (0-0)
Lifetime Record: 2-3
Overall Team Record
Wins: 16
Losses: 26
Average: 0.381 (3 s.f.)