Blue

Blue
Blue
Participation Information
Dutch Series	1
Team Information
Team	Team Blue
Team Members	Chris Coates Martin Jackson Karl Jones
Other Entries	Bluemax (Dutch Series 2)
Robot Statistics
Weight	100kg
Dimensions	1.22m x 0.92m x 0.46m
Power	2 x 450W Electric Motors
Weapons	Horizontal Disc
Statistics correct as of its most recent show/competition appearance, or if not applicable, qualification attempt.

"The aim was to attend and take the pish out of the people who do it seriously by building the most ridiculous looking machine imaginable and dressing up in the most surreal fashion. Team Blue mission statement: Winning is not part of the agenda!"

— Karl Jones

Blue was a robot that competed in the first series of Dutch Robot Wars. It was an invertible box-shaped robot with an octagonal spinning disc, painted entirely blue, as one would expect a robot of such a name to be. Blue was largely a joke entry; the robot's armour was made of chicken wire, covered in Tigger masks and cavity foam, and adorned with blue smoke bombs. The team provided levity by dressing up like blue-skinned aliens who could not speak. In interviews, the team members, all three of which were referred to as 'Blue', communicated only by handing notes to pit reporter Bridget Maasland, or through a Dutch-speaking crew member named Django, who acted as their mouthpiece. All joking aside, Blue caused one of the most unexpected upsets in Dutch Robot Wars when it knocked out Project One, the robot that many people thought would go all the way.

"Team Blue; Blue, Blue and Blue, and their robot Blue."

— Django, introducing Team Blue

Team captain Chris Coates was originally from England, but entered Dutch Robot Wars as he was living and working in the Netherlands.

Blue did not appear in the second series, but the captain, Chris Coates, worked with Frank Van Dorschot of Maximill to create a new robot called Bluemax.

Robot History

Dutch Series 1

Blue's first match was against Project One. Both robots were sluggish and hard to control, but eventually they met, and Project One tore some chunks off of Blue with its axe/lifter combination. Project One then got under Blue, and in the process of lifting it, tore one of Blue's side panels off. Blue then caught on fire, but was still mobile. Project One however, had broken down. Blue advanced to the heat semifinal, where it met Enderbot. Enderbot used its axe to knock off Blue's top panel, leaving its electronics exposed. Enderbot continued to smash Blue with its axe, and Blue lost an entire side panel again. Shunt came in and hammered the panel with its axe, but the panel became stuck onto its axe and couldn't be shaken off. Blue meanwhile had shed its entire outer shell, and was being counted out by Refbot. After it was officially deemed immobile, Shunt, still bearing the chunk of Blue's armour (not dissimmilar to an attack on Banshee in Series 4 of the British wars), pushed Blue into the pit.

Results

Wins/Losses

• Wins: 1
• Losses: 1

Series Record

• Series 1: Heat, Round 2
• Series 2: Entered with Bluemax