Team Supernova

Team Trinity is a team from London that competed in Series 2 to 7 of Robot Wars. The majority of the team members' roots were in Sri Lanka, the nation that the team represented during The Third World Championship. The team entered two robots; Oblivion, which competed in Series 2-4, although only in the pinball during Series 3, and Supernova, which competed in Series 5-7.

The name Team Trinity came from the school the Balendran family attended, Trinity School in Croydon, which gave them help with building Oblivion and sponsored it.

"I feel that I would not have been able to enter my first two robots (oblivion1/2) without the help from TRINITY SCHOOL Croydon and more importantly the teachers in the DT department. Thank you for all your help guys!"

- Suren Balendran on the Team Supernova website

From Series 5 onwards the team was also known as Team Supernova, which is the name of their official website. The team enjoyed mixed fortunes during their time on Robot Wars, reaching two Heat Finals and the World Championship final, but also crashing out in the first round on three occasions. They now have a heavyweight flipper called Flick.

Wins/Losses

 * Wins: 6
 * Losses: 6

Series Record

 * Series 1: Did not enter
 * Series 2: Heat Final with Oblivion
 * Series 3: Pinball Competition with Oblivion 2
 * Series 4: Heat, Round 1 with Oblivion 2
 * Series 5: Heat, Round 1 with Supernova
 * Series 6: Heat Final with Supernova
 * Series 7: Heat, Round 1 with Supernova

Trivia

 * Team Trinity are the only Sri Lankan team to enter Robot Wars and the only Asian team as well.
 * Despite competing in all the UK Championships around them (4 to 7), Team Trinity did not compete in either series of Robot Wars Extreme
 * All of Team Trinity's losses in the main competition were against seeded machines, or in melees involving seeded machines. (Mortis in Series 2, Aggrobot in its Series 4 melee, Behemoth in Series 5, Spawn Again in Series 6 and Storm 2 in its Series 7 melee.)

Website
Team Supernova website (Archived)