Typhoon Cadet was a featherweight robot that entered the Featherweight Championship in the seventh series of Robot Wars. It was the featherweight entry from Team Typhoon, who also had success in the lightweight, middleweight and main UK heavyweight championships with Typhoon Thunder, Typhoon and Typhoon 2 respectively, and was created by the female air cadets from the Air Training Corps. However, it did not emulate the successes of its larger counterparts, being eliminated in its heat after being flipped over early on by DTK.
Design
Typhoon Cadet in the pits during the filming of Series 7
Like DTK, Kitty, Rip and Staglet, Typhoon Cadet was a scaled-down version of Team Typhoon's lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight robots. Its primary weapon was a conical spinning body armed with a pair of cutting blades along the lower rim, which was painted red, white and blue to resemble the Royal Air Force roundel. However, like the other Typhoon machines, Typhoon Cadet lacked a self-righting mechanism, which cost it in its only battle.
Robot History
Series 7
In its first-round featherweight melee, Typhoon Cadet faced six other featherweight robots in the same bout - Alienator, Bernard, Cutlet, DTK, Mammoth, and Staglet.
Typhoon Cadet hangs in and around the Flame Pit
Typhoon Cadet is flipped over by DTK
Typhoon Cadet, like all the other Typhoon machines, employed the tactic of keeping away from the other robots initially to build up spinning speed and avoid being flipped. However, Typhoon Cadet displayed very little mobility throughout this period, not succeeding in launching attacks of its own, and after spending a period near Sir Killalot's CPZ, DTK came in and threw Typhoon Cadet onto its top. Refbot counted out the full-body spinner, as it could not self-right, and Typhoon Cadet was placed on the Floor Flipper. This use of the arena hazard almost threw Typhoon Cadet over the right-hand arena wall, but it narrowly remained within the arena to be pitted by Sir Killalot. As a result, the Featherweight division was the only active weight class that Team Typhoon could not win since they entered Robot Wars.
Results
| TYPHOON CADET - RESULTS | ||
| Series 7 | ||
| Featherweight Championship Round 1 | ||
| Round 1 | vs. Alienator, Bernard, Cutlet, DTK, Mammoth, Staglet | Eliminated |
Wins/Losses
- Wins: 0
- Losses: 1
Series Record
Typhoon Cadet's team (far right)
| Main Series | Typhoon Cadet Series Record |
|---|---|
| The First Wars | Did not enter |
| The Second Wars | Did not enter |
| The Third Wars | Did not enter |
| The Fourth Wars | Did not enter |
| The Fifth Wars | Did not enter |
| The Sixth Wars | Failed to qualify with Typhoon 2 |
| The Seventh Wars | Featherweight Championship, Round 1 Entered with Typhoon 2 |
| Series 8 | Did not enter |
| Series 9 | Did not enter |
| Series 10 | Did not enter |
| Robot Wars Extreme | Appearances |
| Series 1 | Entered with Typhoon |
| Series 2 | Entered with Typhoon, Typhoon Twins, Typhoon Thunder and Typhoon 2 |
Although Team Typhoon did not enter Series 8-10, driver Gary Cairns participated in Series 8-9 with his own team, PP3D Robotics and their robot, PP3D.
Outside Robot Wars
After Robot Wars went on hiatus, Typhoon Cadet competed in several other robot combat events with varying degrees of success. Most notably, it appeared in the featherweight tournament of the 2005 RoboGames competition in San Francisco, California, where it reached the third round of the main bracket by defeating Knuckle Buster and Irate Baggage Handler, before losing to VD3.3HF and falling in a rematch with Knuckle Buster[1].
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