Spawn of Scutter

Spawn of Scutter was Team Scutterbots' second entry into Robot Wars, and exclusively competed in the Fourth Wars. It reached the Semi-Finals in the main series, as well as finishing second in the Pinball Warrior Tournament and tenth in the Sumo Basho side competition. Spawn of Scutter also took part in the Southern Annihilator, but was eliminated in the second round.

Team Scutterbots also reached the Semi-Finals of Series 3 with Scutter's Revenge, and took part in Series 5-7 and both series of Robot Wars Extreme with Spawn Again.

Design
"Has a pneumatic flipping, piercing spike. Can run upside down on its four wheels from a sack barrow; and two start motors from a saloon car, should ensure, Scutter, doesn't splutter!"

- Jonathan Pearce introduces Spawn of Scutter

Spawn of Scutter was a completely new design compared to its predecessor, taking the form of a blue invertible box-shaped robot with four wheels sourced from a sack barrow, front and rear wedges and a pneumatic spike concealed within the front wedge. The spike would fire at 120mph with half a ton of pressure, and was designed and positioned in such a way that it was capable of flipping other robots over if they were positioned carefully on the wedge. Spawn of Scutter was powered by two starter motors from a V6 saloon car, and its chassis was made out of anodised 25mm aluminum box section, which gave it a distinctive gold colour.

Series 4
Spawn of Scutter was seeded number 10 for the Fourth Wars due to its predecessor Scutter's Revenge reaching the Semi-Finals in Series 3. In its first round melee, Spawn of Scutter was drawn up against Banshee and newcomers Knightmare. Spawn of Scutter drove into Banshee, which rotated to use its weapon. Spawn of Scutter then got under Banshee using its wedge shape, and used its pneumatic spike to fling Banshee across the arena floor and eventually to halt, on its side. Banshee had no self-righting mechanism, so it was declared immobilised. House robot Shunt soon came in and decapitated Banshee, the other house robots then placed Banshee on the arena floor flipper, where it was flipped. Cease was eventually called and seeded Spawn of Scutter went through to the next round along with Knightmare. In the second round, Spawn of Scutter went up against Vercingetorix.The seeded machine had much more traction on the arena floor, meaning that it was able to push Vercingetorix around the arena with relative ease. Spawn of Scutter was able to ram Vercingetorix into the arena side wall several times, this forced Vercingetorix to lose drive on one track. Before Vercingetorix could get away, the house robots closed in on it and finished off what was still working on board Vercingetorix. This put Spawn of Scutter through to the heat final, here, it went up against Knightmare for the second time in this heat. This battle was over quite quickly, as Spawn of Scutter used its wedge shape to push Knightmare into Shunt's CPZ. When they reached the house robot, Spawn of Scutter fired its spike, launching Knightmare into the arena side wall. However, after this onslaught, Knightmare stopped moving all together. It was declared immobilised, damaged by the house robots and thrown by the arena floor flipper as a result. This put Spawn of Scutter through to the Semi-Finals. However, Spawn of Scutter's solid run ended when it fought Series 2 champions and fourth seeds Panic Attack in the first round. Spawn of Scutter drove over Panic Attack, which then lifted Spawn of Scutter with its forks, Panic Attack then pushed Spawn of Scutter into Shunt's CPZ. Spawn of Scutter got away and tried to use its spike, but Panic Attack lifted it once again, made a run and wedged it on the arena side wall, leaving it unable to move, instead of putting Spawn of Scutter back onto its wheels, the Refbot did nothing, declaring the Essex machine immobilised. This left the house robots to cause damage to and eventually pit Spawn of Scutter, eliminating Team Scutterbots from the competition. Spawn of Scutter also took part in many of the side events taking place during the Fourth Wars. It finished a close second in the Pinball Warrior Tournament with a score of 245 points, and lead the standings for many heats until the clusterbot Gemini finished ten points ahead. Spawn of Scutter was also one of the participants for the Sumo Basho tournament that took place during the Fourth Wars, it was the first robot to start it off & finished 10th overall on the leaderboard after being pushed off the platform after just 8.03 seconds. Spawn of Scutter also competed in the Southern Annihilator, which took place during the Christmas season of the Fourth Wars. It was originally up against Behemoth, Razer, Vercingetorix, Attila the Drum and Onslaught. Spawn of Scutter was viewed as one of the favourites for this annihilator. In the first round, Spawn of Scutter didn't do much to begin with until in flipped Onslaught over with its spike, only for Onslaught to self-right. Spawn of Scutter then spent the remainder of the round joining in with Behemoth in aggravating the immobilised Vercingetorix. Cease was eventually called and Spawn of Scutter went through to the next round as Vercingetorix was eliminated. In the second round, Spawn of Scutter played a similar role, but was grabbed by Razer early on, and flipped onto its side by Behemoth and Onslaught, Razer then let Spawn of Scutter go as they tried to self-right, Spawn of Scutter then tried ramming its nearby opposition, before then helping Behemoth in trying to keep Razer off its wheels, until Spawn of Scutter accidently used its wedge to right Razer. While Razer then attacked Behemoth, slowly grinding it to a near halt, Spawn of Scutter tried to get underneath Razer. Spawn of Scutter then sat motionless on the arena floor, before Razer then turned its attention towards Team Scutterbots' machine, as Behemoth was almost immobilised. Razer pierced through Spawn of Scutter's shell, before then running away again to fight Behemoth again. Spawn of Scutter was declared immobilised, costing it dear in the judges' decision that soon followed. The judges eliminated Spawn of Scutter from the Southern Annihilator. Team Scutterbots revealed in the Pits afterwards that Razer was not responsible for Spawn of Scutter's elimination, as they had lost either power or reception from the receiver which caused the entire machine to lose power before Razer came in to attack.

Results

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Wins/Losses

 * Wins: 4
 * Losses: 2

Series Record

 * Series 1-2: Did not enter
 * Series 3: Entered with Scutter's Revenge
 * Series 4: Semi-Finals, Round 1
 * Series 5-7: Entered with Spawn Again
 * 2016 Series: Did not enter

Trivia

 * Spawn of Scutter is one of only seven robots to break 200 points in a Pinball tournament. Others to have achieved this are Gemini, Killerhurtz, Roadblock, Panic Attack, King B3 and Razer.
 * Spawn of Scutter was the only Semi-Finalist in Series 4 to compete in the UK Championship, the Series 4 Pinball Warrior Tournament, the Series 4 Sumo Basho and one of the two Series 4 Annihilators.
 * The original Robot Wars Magazine incorrectly stated that Spawn of Scutter had defeated Gravedigger on its way to the Semi-Finals, despite the picture in the magazine clearly showing them fighting Vercingetorix. In fact, Team Scutterbots and Gravedigger never fought each other on Robot Wars, although both teams were in the same heat in the following Series.