Dee

Dee is a robot which competed in the Robot Wars: Battle of the Stars, as part of the 2017 series. It was designed by rapper Jordan Stephens, one half of the pop duo Rizzle Kicks, who was mentored by Team Hurtz’s John Reid throughout the competition process.

Design
Dee is a thwackbot, with blades on each side of a polearm for sit-and-spin tactics, and an axehead on top for vertical swings. It runs on a large invertible two-wheel drive, and is coloured in glittery pink. However, the robot was comparatively lightweight, and lacked an active weapon, a necessity to qualify for the main series in 2017. The controls also proved to be the most challenging for a Robot Wars newcomer such as Stephens, as the driver needed to reverse their inputs each time the robot turned over.

Team
Jordan Stephens’ career began as one half of the London-based pop duo Rizzle Kicks, alongside bandmate Harley Alexander-Sule. Stephens was the rapper of the duo, and together, they created several Top 10 hits, including “Down with the Trumpets” and “Mama do the Hump”. In 2014, Stephens launched an acting career, and in 2016, revealed his intentions to release a solo EP.

John Reid is the captain of Team Hurtz. He had competed in every series of Robot Wars sine The Second Wars, first competing with Killerhurtz, before entering with the more successful Terrorhurtz, which reached a Grand Final in the Sixth Wars. For Reid’s experience, as well as a heat, third place finish in the 2016 series, he was chosen as a mentor to guide Stephens to success with his build.

Battle of the Stars
The D competed in Episode 2.

Results

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Wins/Losses

 * Wins: 1
 * Losses: 2

Series Record
NOTE: This series record reflects the performance of mentor John Reid

Trivia

 * Dee was the first Battle of the Stars entry to be publicly revealed, with Angela Scanlon posting a picture of the robot with its team onto her Instagram on December 2nd, 2016.
 * Dee was the last robot to compete on Robot Wars without an active weapon. If the unconfirmed case of Chimera is overlooked, it took this title from T-Wrecks and Micro-Mute.