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Hydra
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Hydra was a hand-powered flipper, named after Team Whyachi's real BattleBot Hydra.

Stats
Length: 9.25 inches
Weight: 460 (formerly 344) grams
Class: Superheavyweight (formerly heavyweight)
Fighting average: 0.688 (11-5)
Weapons: Hand-powered flipper
Weapon KE: ~1.0 J (could launch 100 grams 3 feet up, and 200 grams almost 2 feet up)
Minibots: None
Titles: 2 Patterson-Seibert Tournaments (24, 25)
Status: Retired and scrapped

History
Hydra vs Stingray
Hydra was given the #4 seed and put up against the rookie Stingray, armed with a windup horizontal spinning bar and two front forks.
     While Hydra didn't lose the ground game, its flipper was rammed off. Eventually the fight went to JD and Ethan ruled in favor of Stingray.

Hydra vs Tombstone
Tombstone's spinner system had been badly damaged in its first fight, so it was converted to a hand-powered spinner. Hydra was able to break off Tombstone's weapon support and got under the other bot, landing flip after flip before getting it stuck on its back. Hydra won by KO and advanced to the next round to fight the former champion Skeleton.
     While Ethan (who had driven Tombstone) wasn't trying too hard and there were a few times he did nothing when he could have backed up for another hit, Hydra had set the new record for the most flips in one match—estimated at seven—and the highest flip—estimated at 1'.

Hydra vs Skeleton
Dutch sharpened Hydra's forks extensively in preparation for this match against Skeleton. Hydra won by KO in one hit as it got under Skeleton and flipped it without even firing.

Hydra vs Chopper
Hydra took massive damage from Chopper but survived to a judge's decision which it lost, eliminating it.

Hydra vs Venom (pre-elimination round)
First up for Hydra was the new bot Venom, built by Nathaniel and armed with a rubber-band-powered spiked ram. Hydra won by KO with several flips and advanced to the first round.

Hydra vs Rocky
Hydra charged as Trent's robot fired its hammer. Rocky was flipped by Hydra's wedge in the first exchange. Dutch chose to flip Rocky back over to continue the match. This proved to be a fatal mistake and Hydra tapped out after losing several exchanges.

Hydra vs Floppy
Hydra was seeded against rival flipper Floppy. After a long and brutal ramming match where Hydra proved to have the superior ground game, both bots were KO'd. The judges determined that Hydra was the winner. Hydra advanced to the second round to face Skeleton again.

Hydra vs Skeleton
Hydra beat Skeleton the same way this time, only in about three hits instead of one.

Hydra vs Chopper
Hydra lost its flipper and took damage to its armor, but ended up winning by KO when Chopper broke itself apart.

Hydra vs Floppy (finals)
Hydra again proved to be the lower bot, but lost one of its four wheels. Dutch had to drive carefully to avoid losing another, and then he flipped one of Floppy's wheel pods. Floppy was unable to self-right and was counted out, giving Hydra the championship.

Hydra vs Spinner
Hydra easily controlled the fight until Spinner's contact point was knocked off after a few hits. Hydra flipped the dead spinner twice as it won by knockout, putting it up against the rookie eggbeater Scrambler.

Hydra vs Scrambler
Hydra lost the entire top half of its chassis to ramming attacks early on. However, Dutch realized that he might be able to flip Scrambler with the forks, and it would be unable to self-right with a broken weapon. Late in the game Hydra managed just this, putting David's bot upside down. Scrambler was counted out and Hydra won a very close KO and advanced to fight the winner of the elimination bracket, which turned out to be Skeleton.

Hydra vs Skeleton (finals)
Hydra took the championship for the second time.

Hydra vs A Bone to Pick
Hydra won and advanced to the next round to face Skeleton for the fourth time.

Hydra vs Skeleton
Hydra was rammed apart and joined the elimination bracket.

Hydra vs Scrambler
Hydra lost and was eliminated from the tournament for the final time.

Mini

Mini was a rubber-band-hammer-armed bot built and driven by David which competed in Patterson-Seibert Tournament 20.0.

Stats
Length: N/A
Weight: N/A
Class: Likely middleweight
Weapons (present): Rubber band powered hammer, wedge
Minibots: None
Fighting average: 0.000 (0-2)
Status: Retired and scrapped

History
Mini was put up against fellow rookie middleweight Death Rattle.

Mini vs Death Rattle
For the first hit, Mini jumped entirely over Death Rattle. The fight continued in a similar fashion, with neither bot able to land a solid hit. Mini was probably flipped at one point and self-righted, before being flipped again and counted out.

Mini vs Haymaker
Next up for Mini was hand-powered flipper Haymaker. Mini was eventually flipped and unable to self-right, and tapped out, giving the win to Haymaker.

Mini vs Skeleton (exhibition match)
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Mini later participated in an exhibition match against the champion, Skeleton.
     The first hit was a direct head-on weapon-to-weapon hit, and Mini was thrown about a foot into the air and did a flip, landing upright. The fight continued with a few more big hits, and Skeleton eventually stopped using its spinner. The fight went to JD. Dutch asked the drivers to fire their weapons again to help him guess their damage levels, and both did. While Mini's hammer axle area was damaged, it was able to fire multiple times without failure. Skeleton's spinner was also working and Dutch awarded the victory to Skeleton.

UpperCut

Hello's vertical disc and hammer configurations resembled these.

Hello was a Swiss Army bot built and driven by Dutch, but belonging to his sister Heidi. It configurations were a vertical disc spinner, a vertical bar spinner, a hand-powered flipper, and a rubber-band-powered hammer.
     Hello competed in Patterson-Seibert Tournament 12.0, but did not do well.

Stats
Length: N/A
Weight: N/A
Class: N/A
Fighting average: N/A
Weapons: Hand-cranked vertical spinner (bar or disc), hand-powered flipper, rubber-band hammer, rigid wedgelets
Max weapon tip speed: N/A
Max weapon rpms: ~400
Max weapon KE: Probably around 0.25 J with flipper; about 2.5 J with disc; about 2 J with bar
Max weapon bite: 63.9 mm with disc, 31.9 mm with bar
Minibots: None
Titles: None
Status: Destroyed and retired

History
Since the bracket history for this tournament is lost, all that is known of Hello's performance is that it was set to fight Left Hook Jr, but that the latter had to forfeit due to weight.

Skeleton
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Skeleton before Patterson-Seibert Tournament 30.

Skeleton was a vertical bar spinner built by Ethan, with a design similar to that of Left Hook. It won Patterson-Seibert Tournament 20.0 after doing poorly in 19.0 and then being upgraded heavily, gaining a heavier bar (which split one opponent in half) and a lot of armor.
     For Patterson-Seibert Tournament 21.0, Skeleton's wedge was replaced by forks, to increase weapon engagement. It split two more opponents, but overall it failed to replicate its previous success.
     For Patterson-Seibert Tournament 22, Skeleton kept the forks. Shockingly, it went winless, including a close loss by KO to the rookie lifter Whiplash.
     In #23, Skeleton went back to the wedge and went 2-2, with strong wins over Tombstone and Stingray, a close loss to eventual runner-up Tank, and a one-hit loss to rookie Hydra.
     Skeleton kept the same design for 24, but again failed to achieve its early successes, beating rookie full-body spinner Sweeper, losing again to Hydra, and finishing up with a surprising loss by JD to horizontal spinner MicroWave.
     Skeleton won #26 by forfeit and was crowned champion for the second time.
     In #27, Skeleton got the to the finals against Floppy again, but lost.
     Skeleton won the championship in #28, losing in the first round but fighting its way through the losers' bracket to defeat Chopper in the finals.
     Skeleton reached the finals of championship 29 before forfeiting to Foppy. It also managed to split an opponent in half for the fourth time.
     For tournament #30, Skeleton gained a new bar and won its first-round fight against fellow vert Undertaker before losing a JD to Chopper and then being eliminated by Undertaker in a revenge KO.
     In tournament #31 Skeleton gained a new wedge and a shorter weapon, starting off the season with the #3 seed and a win over RadioWave, but losing another JD to Chopper before being eliminated again by MicroWave.

Stats
Length: N/A
Weight: ~410 grams
Class: Superheavyweight
Fighting average: 0.560 (28-22)                     0.609 (28-18) without forfeits
Weapons: Rubber-band-powered vertical bar spinner, front wedge/forks
Max weapon tip speed: 6-8 mph
Max weapon rpms: ~350-400
Max weapon KE: ~5.4 J (assuming 350 rpms)
Max weapon bite: About 31.9 mm (assuming 400 rpms)
Minibots: None
Titles: 3 Patterson-Seibert Tournaments (20.0, 26.0, and 28.0)
Status: Retired and scrapped

History
Skeleton vs Chopper
Skeleton lost to Chopper by KO and joined the losers' bracket to fight Dutch's powerful horizontal spinner Fallen Windmill.

Skeleton vs Fallen Windmill
The two charged and met in the middle of the box, and the ensuring weapon-to-weapon hit blasted off half of Skeleton's spinner, but flipped Windmill onto its back, KO'ing it. Windmill was eliminated from the tournament, and Skeleton was next put up against fellow vertical spinner Thick.

Skeleton vs Thick
Skeleton lost by KO and was eliminated.

Skeleton vs Haymaker
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Skeleton smashed Haymaker's wedge and flipper in the first two hits. Haymaker then drove right into Skeleton's spinner, and the bar caught the axle, ripping off a wheel pod. Haymaker had been split in half and was counted out, and Skeleton had had a good start to its season.

Skeleton vs Tearnado III
Skeleton won a judge's decision and advanced to the semifinals for a rematch against Dutch and Fallen Windmill.

Skeleton vs Fallen Windmill
The first hit was a big weapon-on-weapon one. Skeleton was knocked sideways and FW's bar was slightly lifted on its axle. Later Skeleton flipped over its opponent with a ram and the countdown started. FW's weapon was out of commission and it resorted to spinning it on its head to try to flip back. Then suddenly its weapon started working again and it was able to self-right with only about two seconds left on the count. Skeleton flipped it again and won by KO.

Skeleton vs Chopper
Skeleton lost its weapon early on, but ended up defeating Chopper and taking the title.

Skeleton vs Mini (exhibition match)
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The first collision was a massive weapon-on-weapon hit, and Mini was sent a full foot into the air, doing a full flip and landing on its contact points. Skeleton landed a few more hits before its weapon was damaged and Ethan stopped using it. The fight went to a decision and Skeleton won.

Skeleton vs Fallen Windmill (exhibition match)
Dutch had updated FW's bar and added anti-flip prongs on the sides and back. The two spinners went weapon-to-weapon, but Skeleton lost its spinner. By the eighth hit, FW had lost its own weapon. The fight went to a decision which Skeleton won.

Skeleton vs Death Rattle
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First up for Skeleton was Death Rattle]Death Rattle[/url], returning with a high-speed eggbeater.
     Skeleton fired up its weapon and Death Rattle attacked with its rear wedge. The hit was inconclusive and Dutch decided to go weapon-on-weapon. Skeleton hit the side of Death Rattle's weapon mounting, ripping the smaller bot in half. DR was counted out and Skeleton won by KO in an impressive though not surprising victory.

Skeleton vs Haymaker
In the first collision, the combination of Skeleton's forks and its spinner broke Haymaker in half and shot part of the flipper's wedge back over Ethan's head. Skeleton won another match by KO.

Skeleton vs Chopper
Skeleton's spinner was unable to reach Chopper, and its forks did not deflect the hits. Skeleton took some damage in the first nine hits, and then on the tenth hit a massive impact flipped it over for a last-moment KO by Chopper. Skeleton fell to 2-1 and joined the losers' bracket.

Skeleton vs Floppy
Up next for Skeleton was Ethan's rookie flipper Floppy, which had just defeated fellow rookie Tank.
     Ethan drove Skeleton and Dutch drove Floppy. Ethan deliberately tried to lose, as he wanted Floppy to get to the finals. On the tenth hit, Floppy got under Skeleton and flipped it over. When Ethan tried to wind up Skeleton's weapon to self-right, the rubber band pulled loose, and Floppy won by KO.

Skeleton vs Whiplash
Skeleton broke in half and was counted out after a long and brutal ramming match, but Whiplash's left back wheel was barely attached by the end of the fight.

Skeleton vs Haymaker
Skeleton was set up for a rematch with Haymaker, but it had to forfeit due to all the damage it had sustained in its previous fight.

Skeleton vs Tombstone
Skeleton won by tapout.

Skeleton vs Tank
Skeleton's rubber band came off and it lost by JD.

Skeleton vs Stingray
In the first exchange Skeleton knocked Stingray's bar off. The fight went to JD and Skeleton won.

Skeleton vs Hydra
Skeleton was overturned by Hydra's wedge and forks and counted out, eliminating it from the tournament.

Skeleton vs Sweeper
Sweeper broke one of its teeth and tapped out, giving Skeleton the win by technical KO and another matchup against Hydra.

Skeleton vs Hydra
Skeleton's weapon was damaged and it was again overturned, losing by KO.

Skeleton vs MicroWave
Next Skeleton took on the rookie horizontal spinner MicroWave. Skeleton's bar was split in half (the weapon mounting was knocked loose as well) and MicroWave's was damaged. The latter flipped itself several times, but righted itself each time. MicroWave won a close judge's decision and Skeleton was eliminated.

Skeleton vs A Bone To Pick
Skeleton was seeded #5 and fought A Bone To Pick, Ethan's new horizontal bar spinner. Skeleton lost its weapon and a JD, and joined the elimination bracket.

Skeleton vs Spinner
Skeleton won easily and advanced to fight eggbeater Thumper.

Skeleton vs Thumper
Skeleton won by KO and went on to face Chopper again.

Skeleton vs Chopper
Skeleton won again, eliminating Chopper.

Skeleton vs MicroWave
Skeleton's weapon mount was bent up quickly, so Ethan stopped spinning the bar. However, MicroWave's own bar broke from the impacts, and eventually the middleweight lost its whole weapon housing. Skeleton flipped it over and won by KO.

Skeleton vs Scrambler (elimination bracket semifinal)
Skeleton beat the rookie and went on to the finals to face Hydra for a third time.

Skeleton vs Hydra (finals)
Skeleton used specialized forks to attempt to get under Hydra, but it still lost the ground game and was flipped over. Skeleton was counted out and Hydra won its second LegoBots title.

Skeleton vs Millibyte 2
Skeleton won and advanced to the second round to face Hydra for the fourth time.

Skeleton vs Hydra
Skeleton KO'd Hydra by ramming and advanced to the winner's bracket semifinal.

Skeleton vs MicroWave (undefeated bracket semifinal)
Skeleton tore MicroWave's Cutout bar apart and won by overturning the other bot.

Skeleton vs Floppy (finals)
Skeleton lost a JD.

Skeleton vs Floppy (finals)
Floppy forfeited because Ethan didn't want the same fight again. Skeleton was crowned champion.

Skeleton vs A Bone To Pick
Skeleton won and advanced to the second round to fight Scrambler.

Skeleton vs Scrambler (winners' bracket final)
Skeleton won and advanced to the finals against Floppy again.

Skeleton vs Floppy (finals)
Skeleton lost and the final went to sudden-death rematch.

Skeleton vs Floppy (finals)
Skeleton lost and Floppy was crowned champion.

Skeleton vs MicroWave
Skeleton lost the use of its weapon to MicroWave's powerful Disc, and lost a judge's decision.

Skeleton vs Retroactive
Skeleton defeated the rookie by tapout and moved on for a rematch with MicroWave.

Skeleton vs MicroWave (losers' bracket final)
Skeleton got the worse of several exchanges, though MicroWave went flying a couple times due to its own weapon's recoil. Finally a massive hit from MicroWave cut Skeleton's bar in half and ripped a contact point off itself. MicroWave's back two contact points could not touch the floor with its new handle attachment, leaving Skeleton the victor as MicroWave was counted out.

Skeleton vs Chopper (first final)
Skeleton took damage to its weapon bar, but managed to win by KO when Chopper broke apart.

Skeleton vs Chopper (grand final)
Chopper blew itself apart in the first hit. Skeleton won the title for the third time.

For this competition, Skeleton's bar was an asymmetrical design for greater bite.

Skeleton vs Beatbox
Skeleton ripped the rookie eggbeater in half after disabling its weapon, in the same way it had destroyed Death Rattle eight tournaments before, and won by tapout.

Skeleton vs Chopper
Skeleton took some solid hits, but won by tapout after Chopper again broke itself apart.

Skeleton vs MicroWave
Skeleton's entire bar was knocked loose in its mountings by MicroWave, but it won by tapout when MicroWave lost its own weapon mounting.

Skeleton vs Floppy (twice)
Skeleton forfeited and Ethan's other bot took the championship for the third time.

Skeleton returned sporting a new thicker bar with an octagonal hub. It was seeded #1.

Skeleton vs Undertaker
First up for Skeleton was the winless but massively powerful vert Undertaker. Skeleton won by tapout after Undertaker's weapon malfunctioned due to an axle being dislodged and advanced to the second round to fight Chopper once again.

Skeleton vs Chopper
The fight began with a complete miss, and another followed after the first actual hit. Skeleton's rubber band snapped, leaving it without an active weapon, and it began to take heavy damage to its frame. The fight went the distance and Skeleton lost a JD, joining the elimination bracket.

Skeleton vs Undertaker
Skeleton was put up against Undertaker again. The first weapon-on-weapon hit split a large plate off Skeleton's bar and bent its weapon mount somehow. Further hits continued to not be in Skeleton's favor, with one sending it sideways, snapping its own left-side anti-flip prong (which was a brown plate). The final hit from Undertaker ripped a chunk off Skeleton's wedge and sent the entire bot into the air, landing on its back. Skeleton was KO'd and the upset victory went to the newer vert.
     This KO loss to Undertaker was the first time since its second loss to Hydra that Skeleton had suffered a KO, ending Skeleton's 18-match streak of not being KO'd, the longest in Legobots history. During this streak it had survived going ten hits with Chopper (also beaten it twice), and taken hits from MicroWave's massive Quadbar. Skeleton would only suffer one more loss by KO in its career after this.

Ethan moved Skeleton's spinner further back and shortened the bar, but improved engagement by switching to a long, low wedge made of many independent forks.

Skeleton vs RadioWave
First up for Skeleton was the MicroWave clone RadioWave. Skeleton took a couple big hits from RadioWave's disk, but then the latter's entire weapon shaft popped out, leaving it weaponless. After a few more impacts, RadioWave lost a wheel and was counted out. Skeleton began its season with an impressive KO against a powerful spinner.

Skeleton vs Chopper
Skeleton's weapon proved effective, sending Chopper off-kilter in each hit, even tossing the top high in the air once or twice. However, several massive shots from Chopper knocked the weapon mount backward, clinging to the rear of the bot. Skeleton continued to make massive damage, losing a wedge side and top plate and narrowly avoiding losing its other wedge. The fight went the distance and Skeleton lost again, leaving Ethan to conduct extensive repairs for a rematch with MicroWave in the elimination bracket.

Skeleton vs MicroWave
MicroWave had a new weapon bar specifically for this fight. The first hit was directly weapon-on-weapon, with Skeleton's bar splitting at one end and MicroWave being launched into the air and landing upside down. Dutch managed to self-right and the bots lined up for another hit. This one was again weapon-on-weapon, with Skeleton taking minor damage. Then Skeleton took a huge shot from MicroWave that blew plates off its spinner and sent MicroWave flying. Skeleton continued to take damage, eventually losing its entire weapon mounting. On the tenth hit, Skeleton's chassis was ripped in half, and it was counted out and eliminated from the tournament.


Trivia

• Between being flipped by Hydra in #25, and being battered and overturned by Undertaker in #30, Skeleton racked up a record 18 fights without being KO'd. It was only KO'd on 10 confirmed occasions, 3 of which were by Hydra.
• Skeleton split multiple opponents in half, one of them twice. Ironically, in its last match ever, Skeleton itself was split in half by MicroWave.
• After Chopper, Skeleton fought the most matches of any Lego Battlebot ever, with 60 official matches (this includes forfeits—without them, Skeleton actually fought 56 times).

UpperCut

UpperCut was named and designed after the real BattleBot Uppercut.

UpperCut was a vertical bar spinner built by Dutch that competed in Patterson-Seibert Tournament 15.0. It had the highest rpm level of any spinner ever, and was the only one able to self-right just by hitting the floor.

Stats
Length: N/A
Weight: N/A
Class: Heavyweight
Fighting average: 0.000 (0-2)
Weapons: Vertical bar spinner, rigid wedgelets
Max weapon tip speed: Over 14 mph
Max weapon rpms: Over 1000
Max weapon KE: ~11 J
Max weapon bite: 12.8 mm (assuming 1000 rpms)
Minibots: None
Titles: None
Status: Destroyed and retired

History
UpperCut vs Buddy
UpperCut's bar was unable to hit the wedgebot, and it lost by KO, joining the losers' bracket.

UpperCut vs Son of Razor
Up next for UpperCut was Son of Razor, but it had been destroyed too badly by Buddy and had to forfeit. UpperCut was thus eliminated.