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===Robot Facts=== |
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[[File:Actual Size.png|thumb|Actual Size |
[[File:Actual Size.png|thumb|Actual Size in June 2025]] |
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===Overview=== |
===Overview=== |
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Actual Size is a bigwheel vertical spinner robot built by [[Max Morningstar]]. Coming off of an educational but competitively lackluster 2024 season with his bigwheel horizontal spinner [[Jot]], Morningstar sought to take some of the experience gained from Jot and translate those hard-won design lessons into a more traditional (and far more competitively viable) bigwheel design. |
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Actual Size's name and angry eyes are both references to [https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/HUGE HUGE], the robot that pioneered the modern bigwheel vertical spinner design. The name itself comes from the song She's Actual Size by alt rock group They Might Be Giants. Morningstar prefers the live version of the song that he grew up listening to on CD with his family, which can be found on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d5vLcgyiWA here]. |
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==Fight History== |
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===MIT CRC House Battle - December 2024=== |
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Actual Size debuted at the inaugural MIT CRC House Battle, an event hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Combat Robotics Club. Fresh off of competing with [[Jot]] at the October 2024 NHRL event, builder and driver [[Max Morningstar]] had only a few weeks to turn around a design for a then-unnamed 3lb bigwheel robot with a vertically spinning weapon. In addition to the time constraints he faced, Morningstar |
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The bigwheels that Actual Size used at the MIT event were actually the exact wheels that [[Jot]] had fought with in the January 2024 NHRL event, albeit with refurbished cleats and being driven by gears instead of axle-mounted on the drive motors. |
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====Actual Size vs [[Flycut]]==== |
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====Actual Size vs [[Basics]]==== |
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====Actual Size vs [[Power Outlet]]==== |
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====Actual Size vs [[Hat Trick]]==== |
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The loss to Hat Trick pushed Actual Size out of the loser's bracket and ended its first event, with Actual Size leaving having achieved an even record of 2-2. |
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===NHRL June 2025=== |
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Revision as of 18:12, 16 September 2025
Robot Facts
| Builder/Driver | Max Morningstar |
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| Team | TRC |
| Weight Class | 3lb |
| Body Material | TPU Chassis |
| Weapon | Vertical Spinner (AR500) |
| Weapon Drive | TBD |
| Drive | Repeat Drive Max from Repeat Robotics |
| Power | 3S Lipo |
| NHRL record | 1-2 |
| Lifetime record | 3-4 |
Overview
Actual Size is a bigwheel vertical spinner robot built by Max Morningstar. Coming off of an educational but competitively lackluster 2024 season with his bigwheel horizontal spinner Jot, Morningstar sought to take some of the experience gained from Jot and translate those hard-won design lessons into a more traditional (and far more competitively viable) bigwheel design.
Actual Size's name and angry eyes are both references to HUGE, the robot that pioneered the modern bigwheel vertical spinner design. The name itself comes from the song She's Actual Size by alt rock group They Might Be Giants. Morningstar prefers the live version of the song that he grew up listening to on CD with his family, which can be found on YouTube here.
Fight History
MIT CRC House Battle - December 2024
Actual Size debuted at the inaugural MIT CRC House Battle, an event hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Combat Robotics Club. Fresh off of competing with Jot at the October 2024 NHRL event, builder and driver Max Morningstar had only a few weeks to turn around a design for a then-unnamed 3lb bigwheel robot with a vertically spinning weapon. In addition to the time constraints he faced, Morningstar
The bigwheels that Actual Size used at the MIT event were actually the exact wheels that Jot had fought with in the January 2024 NHRL event, albeit with refurbished cleats and being driven by gears instead of axle-mounted on the drive motors.
Actual Size vs Flycut
Actual Size vs Basics
Actual Size vs Power Outlet
Actual Size vs Hat Trick
The loss to Hat Trick pushed Actual Size out of the loser's bracket and ended its first event, with Actual Size leaving having achieved an even record of 2-2.
NHRL June 2025
It made its debut at the 2024 MIT CRC House Battle and will debut at NHRL in 2025.
Statistics
Info
- Rank: #76 in 3lb.
- Last 5 fights: WWWWL
- Current streak: L1 (0 KOs/KO'd)
- Longest winning streak: 4 (2 KOs)
- Longest losing streak: 2 (2 KO'd)
- Avg fight time (seconds): 106.0
Record
| Year | Events | Fights | W | L | % | KOs | KO'd |
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| 2025 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0.625 | 3 | 2 |
| All-Time | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0.625 | 3 | 0 |
Events
| Date | Fought as | Reached | Place | Fights | W | L | KOs | KO'd |
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| June 7, 2025 | Actual Size | Prelims Rd. 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| November 1, 2025 | Actual Size | Quarterfinals | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Opponents
| Opponent | Fights | W | L | KOs | KO'd | Last Meeting |
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| Jet Lag | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | November 1, 2025 |
| Drumder Child | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | November 1, 2025 |
| Reflex | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | June 7, 2025 |
| Chaos Upright | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | November 1, 2025 |
| Dimachaerus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | November 1, 2025 |
| Pipeline Punch | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | June 7, 2025 |
| TurboFIEND | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | June 7, 2025 |
| Project LiftOff | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | November 1, 2025 |
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Full Fight History
* 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.
For more information on how points are calculated for rankings, click here.
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