PGF

PGF 3.0 Pre-NHRL May 2021

Robot Facts

Driver	Theo Hummel (main bot) William Sonia (Mini bot)
Weight Class	3lb
Body Material	Nylon 12 (V1), A whole bunch of 3D printed wishwash and some metal seasoning (V2) Nylon front with UHMW side and back armor
Weapon	Overhead spinner and super effective flash paper shooter (SUPER SECRET DO NOT SHARE)
Drive	Fingertech Silver Spark motors
Battery	650 Mah 4s Lipo battery, two 4s 450 Mah lipo's (planned)
Miscellaneous	The name changes every iteration (PGF 1 = Probably Gonna Fail, PGF 2 = Potentially Gonna Fail, PGF 3 = Possibly Gonna Fail, etc.)

Tournament Results

2020

NHRL November	0 Wins-2 losses

Death of PGF 1 (Roomba)

On the twentieth of November 2020, not a soul was stirring in the house of PGF. Until their maker ran a second weapon test and promptly shorted out his entire system. No longer did he have any chance to get new parts before the event, and would have to head in blind. He had the empty shell of an awkwardly tall Roomba disaster in his car, as well as a great viper kit legend known as Buddybot that actually worked. The builder got there and was saved by the event organizer. Said organizer most likely regretted wasting 30 minutes of his time. As PGF had drawn an actual good bot, in the overhead saw Chopsicle. With it's trusty minibot by it's side it went into battle. It started before the other robot because the stream had started countdown before everybody was ready. The match was then reset, and Chopsicle caught the Roomba and impressively made pretty quick work of the 5mm thick nylon top. They had to release PGF though, and now came it's chance. It had once shot to rip the uprights clean off of Chopsicle. The minibot layed down the diversion as it spun up. And then it ran straight into the minibot. PGF most likely got tangled or immobilized on Chopsicle, who dilevered the kill shot to the already borrowed electronics. Then PGF was dead so they had to forfeit to Drum Go Dum.

2021

NHRL March 2021	0 Wins-2 losses

The much improved and still kinda living currently PGF 2

After the great disaster of February, the robot was "ready" to compete for real this time. it then promptly drew one of the best robots on the east coast named Scrappy for the first fight. It lost, it was bad, the weapon came out.

After being demoted to the losers bracket, and repairing the robot to make sure it could function. The builders faced a bot from team WPI named Taurine. It was a Undercutter with thick 3D printed armor. Needless to say, it was a tough match up for the Roomba's son. The fight was pretty good early on for PGF, as they did some damge to the left side armor of Taurine. And also threw their mobility out of balance by chopping off part of a wheel. However taurine could still move pretty good and tore off PGF's sketchily mounted wedgelets. After a few more exchanges between the two, The pulley sitting atop the weapon motor on PGF shattered, rendering the weapon system useless. The dumb driver kept the weapon on. Which probably burned way more current than the battery could supply. So after getting a side of armor (which was damaged from Scrappy) completely torn off by Taurine, PGF decided to take a nap. at the end of the day all the electronics still worked and the robot was fully functional with a new battery and a pulley. The driver considered this a win, the writer agrees.

NHRL May 2021	1 Wins - 2 losses

PGF 3.0 Takes on Luma's Weed Wacker 3 in it's first fight at NHRL May

The writer is proud to report that PGF has won a FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!. After going full deep dish style and becoming a sqaure bot, PGF III, Possibly Going to Fail was able to be actually competitive!!!. Despite it's builder making a dumb mistake in it's first and third fights all is well in PGFville. The Improvements In durability provided by the new UHMW armor was felt against Luma's Weed Whacker. Despite it's weapon not working due to belt tension issues, PGF was able to actually tank some hits with it's titanium wedge, SHOCKING!!!!. Even though it was moments away from draining the Weed Whacker's battery completely, a side of drive was lost. And unfortunately PGF extended it's losing streak to 5.

Next was the crippled wedge bot shake. It couldn't move very well, PGF was able to move it's weapon. The drive was a little funky though. Despite This, PGF was able to shift walk over to Shake and rip into it. And the weapon did some actual damage against the unfortunate Shake. Shake no longer could move after a gearbox had stripped and was stuck in the corner. PGF did a little more damage at the very end. And then Shake tapped out which sent the builders (and Lumakid of Luma's Weed Whacker 3) into a frenzy.

Of course the driver put in a defective battery against Uch Funt. And set the record for tap out time. So it goes.

Combat History

Super Secret Weapon Assembly with VSCO Girl Metal Straw (SSSSSHHHH SECRET)

As mentioned above, the first PGF (Probably Going To Fail) was bad. So the builder redesigned it because he hated it. It was now known as Potentially Going To Fail, was smaller, allowed for forks on the front, and has actual spots for armor. It is set to compete and the first NHRL meet of 2021. The builder says if it goes two fights this time it's a win. The writer agrees.

After two months of building and failed prototypes the second PGF was primed to fight the next day on Feb 5th. It then had a tragic incident. In part to dumb errors and also a tragic sabotage effort by Captain Kirk, PGF 2 lost both of it's motors, the captain was not happy. He may or may not have had several coping ice cream drum sticks the next day. The robot is now set to compete in the march meet, and if it doesn't, watch out First Officer Spock. Those are the drivers words not mine dear reader.

The robot has Evolved and is now competent. It is now a sqaure with a sexy titanium wedge up front. With a carbon fiber top and newly improved armor, it can only go up from here from the team after their first win in the May tournament.

PGF will return in September....