Black and Blue

Black and Blue
Black and Blue
Participation Information
UK Series	7
Team Information
Team	Team Mousetrap
Team Members	Stan Launchbury Jason Launchbury
Robot Statistics
Weight	99kg
Dimensions	0.13m x 0.47m x 0.65m
Power	2 x 1KW electric motors
Weapons	Spinning drums
Statistics correct as of its most recent show/competition appearance, or if not applicable, qualification attempt.

"A new robot and a clusterbot too, that means double trouble!"

— Jonathan Pearce introduces Black and Blue

Black and Blue was Team Mousetrap's entry for Series 7 of Robot Wars. It was a clusterbot - each machine a small invertible box with a 20 kg 6000RPM spinning drum. Their name came from the expression "beaten black and blue". As the name suggests, one robot was black, and the other robot was blue. However, they were rather small for what their weight suggested, and were very easy to push around as Firestorm 5 found out during their only battle.

Robot History

Series 7

Firestorm 5 flips Blue and Bamm Bamm together

In the final Heat of the Seventh Wars, Black and Blue were placed up against newcomers Daisy-Cutter, former Dutch Grand Finalists Bamm Bamm and the number 2 seeds Firestorm 5 in the first round melee. The battle started very quickly with Firestorm 5 immediately flipping Black. Firestorm 5 then attacked Blue whilst Bamm Bamm used its axe against Blue. Both Blue and Bamm Bamm were flipped over, but being invertible, this didn't affect Blue. Black was then flipped up again by Firestorm 5, then Black was flipped into its twin. Daisy-Cutter then hit Black, which appeared to stop moving, whilst Blue looked to be stuck on the arena wall. Firestorm 5 meanwhile had pitted Bamm Bamm.

Daisy-Cutter nudged Blue towards the pit of oblvion, and Firestorm 5 pushed it in. As Blue was out of the running, this meant that Black was as well, because if one half of a clusterbot is immobilised, both halves are eliminated from the competition. Black, however, had already been immobilised by Daisy-Cutter, so Blue's pitting was only the conclusion as cease was then immediately called, signalling the elimination of Black and Blue.

Results

Wins/Losses

• Wins: 0
• Losses: 1

Series Record

• Series 1-2: Did not enter
• Series 3: Entered with Triterobot
• Series 4-5: Entered with Mousetrap
• Series 6: Failed to qualify with Mutant Mousetrap
• Series 7: Heat, Round 1
• 2016 Series: Did not enter

Trivia

• Black and Blue was the only clusterbot in either of the final two main competitions of Robot Wars, and was also one of only three heavyweight clusterbots to appear on the televised show, the others being Gemini and √3.
• Black and Blue is one of only two clusterbots to never win a battle, the other being the Antweight Legion.
  • Black and Blue is the only clusterbot not to at least survive to a judges' decision.