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Get Shrekt is a British featherweight robot which competed in the 2018 King of Bots UK International Championships. Built by Sam Price, it initially had a dominant run in the qualification rounds, winning all three of its opening melees via knockout and scoring the maximum amount of points available to finish joint-first on the leaderboard. In the Knockout round, Get Shrekt achieved another victory over Straddle 2, only to be defeated by fellow vertical spinner Binky in the Round of 12. It redeemed itself by winning a Losers’ Melee against Little Devil and Orpheus, securing a place in the Quarter-Finals. Get Shrekt was subsequently eliminated at that stage after being thrown out of the arena by Rocket, finishing the 2018 UK International Championships in the top eight.

In addition to the main competition, Get Shrekt also took part in a single Tag Team battle, partnered with Saber-X, which both robots won via knockout.

The robot’s name is a play on the internet slang ‘get rekt’ (‘get wrecked’), as well as the titular character of the Shrek animated film series.

Design

Get Shrekt 2019 — Get Shrekt in May 2019

Get Shrekt is a green and black, two-wheel drive robot armed with a set of interchangeable vertical spinners. The spinners include a large single-toothed flywheel and an asymmetrical bar spinner, both of which are capable of throwing and causing significant damage to other competitors. In addition to this armament, Get Shrekt also has a set of optional front wedge configurations, including an anti-horizontal wedge and two HARDOX forks, as well as a set of googly eyes attached on either side of the weapon mount.^[4] The robot's construction utilized a wide variety of materials, including RG1000^[1]^[5] and HDPE plastics of varying thicknesses^[2]^[6] and a smaller 3.2mm HARDOX front wedge mounted immediately underneath its vertical spinners.^[3]

Results

GET SHREKT - RESULTS
King of Bots UK 2018 (Insomnia 63)
Main Championship Quarter-Finals
Rumble	vs. Sabre20, Beauty 2	Won via knockout (4 points)
Rumble	vs. Conker 3, Luna-Tic	Won via knockout (4 points)
Rumble	vs. Crabsolutely Clawful, Utopia	Won via knockout (4 points)
Knockout	vs. Straddle 2	Won
Round of 12	vs. Binky	Lost
Losers’ Melee	vs. Little Devil, Orpheus	Won
Quarter-Final	vs. Rocket	Lost
Tag Team Partnered with Saber-X
Tag Team	vs. Aegis & Aegis Mk II, Straddle 2 & Vega	Won

Wins/Losses

Wins: 6
Losses: 2

Outside King of Bots

After debuting in Extreme Robots live events, where Get Shrekt would take part in melees full of other featherweight robots, its first competitive appearance was at the 2018 King of Bots UK championship. There, Get Shrekt won all three of its qualification battles by knockout, and advanced to the Top 12 by quickly defeating Straddle 2. At this stage, Get Shrekt was defeated in a battle of vertical spinners, against Binky, but it won its losers' melee against Orpheus and Little Devil to reach the Top 8. Get Shrekt was eliminated at this stage, after getting thrown out of the arena by Rocket.

Most recently, Get Shrekt competed at the Robodojo January 2019 featherweight event. Although it collected a knockout victory in its first battle, Get Shrekt took significant damage from the horizontal spinner of Telekinesis, and was unable to compete in its two remaining competitive fights. Nevertheless, Get Shrekt was repaired in time for a whiteboard battle at the end of the event, destroying a robot built from a classic Henry hoover, whose builder had requested the whiteboard fight in order to retire his robot by force.

Sam Price also competed in the web-series Bugglebots with a new beetleweight, Maximum Ogredrive, armed with a circular saw on an overhead arm, inspired by SawBlaze. It won its first battle against Rev 2 when both wheels fell off its opponent, and then defeated clusterbot Weewoo on a close Judges' decision. In the Heat Final, Maximum Ogredrive once again faced Rev 2, but on this occasion, Maximum Ogredrive lost a wheel after a strong impact, and was rendered immobile, relegating it to the five-way rumble. There, it immobilised Saw Loser by cutting through its speed controllers, but after being pitted by Claws 2, Maximum Ogredrive was eliminated from the competition outright.

Sam Price also builds beetleweight and featherweight robots under commission, with more information available on the Team OgreKill Facebook page. The third of his commission builds was Dino, a two-wheel driven wedge built for Kev Baxter, which debuted at the Robodojo event in March 2019. Sam Price also has plans to create beetleweight kits, first creating a blue two-wheel driven wedge under commission.

References

External Links

Team OgreKill Facebook page

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+==Outside King of Bots==
+After debuting in ''Extreme Robots'' live events, where Get Shrekt would take part in melees full of other featherweight robots, its first competitive appearance was at the 2018 ''King of Bots'' UK championship. There, Get Shrekt won all three of its qualification battles by knockout, and advanced to the Top 12 by quickly defeating [[Straddle 2]]. At this stage, Get Shrekt was defeated in a battle of vertical spinners, against [[Binky]], but it won its losers' melee against [[Orpheus]] and [[Little Devil]] to reach the Top 8. Get Shrekt was eliminated at this stage, after getting thrown out of the arena by [[Rocket]].
+Most recently, Get Shrekt competed at the ''Robodojo'' January 2019 featherweight event. Although it collected a knockout victory in its first battle, Get Shrekt took significant damage from the horizontal spinner of [[Telekinesis]], and was unable to compete in its two remaining competitive fights. Nevertheless, Get Shrekt was repaired in time for a whiteboard battle at the end of the event, destroying a robot built from a classic Henry hoover, whose builder had requested the whiteboard fight in order to retire his robot by force.
+Sam Price also competed in the web-series ''Bugglebots'' with a new beetleweight, '''Maximum Ogredrive''', armed with a circular saw on an overhead arm, inspired by [http://battlebots.wikia.com/wiki/SawBlaze SawBlaze]. It won its first battle against Rev 2 when both wheels fell off its opponent, and then defeated clusterbot Weewoo on a close Judges' decision. In the Heat Final, Maximum Ogredrive once again faced Rev 2, but on this occasion, Maximum Ogredrive lost a wheel after a strong impact, and was rendered immobile, relegating it to the five-way rumble. There, it immobilised Saw Loser by cutting through its speed controllers, but after being pitted by Claws 2, Maximum Ogredrive was eliminated from the competition outright.
+Sam Price also builds beetleweight and featherweight robots under commission, with more information available on the [https://www.facebook.com/Team-OgreKill-561297914265658/ Team OgreKill Facebook page]. The third of his commission builds was '''Dino''', a two-wheel driven wedge built for Kev Baxter, which debuted at the ''Robodojo'' event in March 2019. Sam Price also has plans to create beetleweight kits, first creating a blue two-wheel driven wedge under commission.
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