Shameless Self Promotion

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Shameless Self Promotion

Shameless Self Promotion (a.k.a. SSP) is a Beetleweight control bot designed by Seth Schaffer of Team 'Just 'Cuz Robotics, and the test platform for the SSP Combat Robot Kit. SSP competed in January and March 20223 NHRL events with a V0.9 and V0.95 design of the SSP kit. The only differences between SSP and the kits are that Shameless Self Promotion uses older beta Motherboard revisions and a slightly different chassis that's a bit worse than what the kits use, and SSP uses undyed wheels while the kits ship with black wheels and no lid decal. Functionally they are almost identical.

January 2023 NHRL - New Bot Event

In January NHRL, SSP had a few teething issues but still performed very well with wins over lifter bot Slamson 2Chicken 2Huffin, Peter Bar vertical spinner kit Basado, and in a grudge match Fingertech Beater Sadiq, and losing only a JD split decision against the undercutter Off Beat, despite having disabled Off Beat's spinner and a drive side. The main issue SSP faced was lifter durability in January, but nothing on the whole robot broke except a few bent or damaged screws and the aluminum servo horn.

March 2023 NHRL

With the official announcement of the kit in January and preorders flooding in, SSP needed to get a few upgrades to make the kit even more reliable by March. So a steel replacement servo horn was fitted and a few other minor improvements were implemented. Although 25 kit chassis were already on hand SSP ran with the same exact battle damaged billet UHMW chassis as in January to test the longevity of that component. To help counter beater bars, we turned to RECR.us who waterjet a set of AR600 claw forks to use against beater bars for about $30. A third V0.9 chassis and collection of kit parts with orange TPU was sent to Matthew Lantry to compete at this event as SSP (Shameless Self Advertising). SSA was running the V1.0 motherboard instead of the beta versions but was otherwise the same as SSP. Unfortunately Seth forgot to bring any spare DartBox Dragon drive motors so we had to pray we didn't break any (spoiler - we didn't).

Shameless Self Promotion in a photo box with a white background and arm raised

The March event was a ton of fun and SSP went super deep, winning fights against many brutal spinners. SSP continued its breaking undercutter streak, disabling the weapons of Plot Twist and CatTastrophe 2. It managed to outlast Saber for a KO victory and despite a malfunctioning lifter, bullied Blackbird all around the arena for a split JD win. It even got to prove its lifter was overengineered by lifting and shoving 5.4 pound Pawsitively Hissterical around the arena, and accidentally ripping out its battery just before the 3 minute mark. However some gremlins and electrical issues ultimately led to its demise against Apex in the top 16, for an overall 9th place finish among the massive 164 bot field.

Statistics

Info

• Rank: #38 in 3lb.
• Last 5 fights: WWWWL
• Current streak: L1 (0 KOs/KO'd)
• Longest winning streak: 5 (2 KOs)
• Longest losing streak: 2 (1 KO'd)
• Avg fight time (seconds): 176.1

Record

Year	Events	Fights	W	L	%	KOs	KO'd
2018-19
2020
2021
2022
2023	3	15	11	4	0.733	3	1
2024
All-Time	3	15	11	4	0.733	3	1

Events

Date	Fought as	Reached	Place	Fights	W	L	KOs	KO'd
January 28, 2023	Shameless Self Promotion	Round 3		3	2	1	0	0
March 18, 2023	SSP	Round 5		6	5	1	2	1
August 12, 2023	Shameless Self Promotion	Quarterfinals		6	4	2	1	0

Opponents

Opponent	Fights	W	L	KOs	KO'd	Last Meeting
Saber	1	1	0	1	0	March 18, 2023
Blackbird	1	1	0	1	0	March 18, 2023
Pawsitively Hissterical	1	1	0	1	0	March 18, 2023
Plot Twist	1	1	0	1	0	March 18, 2023
CAT-tastrophe 2	1	1	0	1	0	March 18, 2023
Slamson 2chicken2huffin	1	1	0	1	0	January 28, 2023
BASADO	1	1	0	1	0	January 28, 2023
Nitro Hornet	1	1	0	1	0	August 12, 2023
Radix	1	1	0	1	0	August 12, 2023
Crashfest	1	1	0	1	0	August 12, 2023
Half-life	1	1	0	1	0	August 12, 2023
Apex	1	0	1	0	1	March 18, 2023
Off Beat	1	0	1	0	0	January 28, 2023
Fallout	1	0	1	0	0	August 12, 2023
Ratfish	1	0	1	0	0	August 12, 2023

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Full Fight History

Date	Opponent	Round	Result	By	Points	Fight Length (s)	Video
January 28, 2023	Slamson 2chicken2huffin	Preliminary Fight	Win	Judges Decision	1.00	180	https://youtu.be/NB5QtU-uyeM?t=4787
January 28, 2023	BASADO	Round 2	Win	Judges Decision	1.09	180	https://www.youtube.com/live/NB5QtU-uyeM?feature=share&t=17614
January 28, 2023	Off Beat	Round 3	Loss	Judges Decision	-1.00	180	https://www.youtube.com/live/NB5QtU-uyeM?feature=share&t=23096
March 18, 2023	Blackbird	Boss	Win	Judges Decision	1.18	180	https://www.youtube.com/live/xQTbCkwBmD4?feature=share&t=6894
March 18, 2023	Saber	Challenger	Win	KO	1.00	177	https://youtu.be/TtzdrRvbtbk
March 18, 2023	Pawsitively Hissterical	Round 2	Win	KO	1.00	180	https://www.youtube.com/live/xQTbCkwBmD4?feature=share&t=27508
March 18, 2023	Plot Twist	Round 3	Win	Judges Decision	1.00	180	https://youtu.be/gy6VojOQUZI
March 18, 2023	CAT-tastrophe 2	Round 4	Win	Judges Decision	1.00	180	https://youtu.be/H5LZa2a-09U
March 18, 2023	Apex	Round 5	Loss	KO	-1.36	127	https://youtu.be/yfYPBOGt2To?t=21022
August 12, 2023	Fallout	Qualifier Round 2	Loss	Judges Decision	-1.33	180	https://youtu.be/4OYtS0Qtngw?t=8409
August 12, 2023	Nitro Hornet	Bracket Round 1	Win	KO	1.00	177	https://youtu.be/IMD6ArOMrPY?t=18662
August 12, 2023	Radix	Bracket Round 2	Win	Judges Decision	1.00	180	https://youtu.be/Y9twilXzDpA?t=22787
August 12, 2023	Crashfest	Bracket Round 3	Win	Judges Decision	1.08	180	https://www.youtube.com/live/nAXvrZdnceQ?feature=share&t=27987
August 12, 2023	Half-life	Bracket Round 4	Win	Judges Decision	1.00	180	https://youtu.be/4OYtS0Qtngw?t=30857
August 12, 2023	Ratfish	Quarterfinals	Loss	Judges Decision	-1.31	180	https://www.youtube.com/live/nAXvrZdnceQ?feature=share&t=35618

* Forfeits before the 2024 season are not counted in a bot's W-L record. Forfeits from 2024 and on are counted in a bot's W-L record.

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