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Not to be confused with Texas Robot Combat, a combat robotics organization with the same acronym.

Overview

TRC is a team of students and alumni from the Tufts Robotics Club at Tufts University, and is based out of Medford, Massachusetts. TRC has competed in five NHRL competitions to date, with the first unofficial appearance being the April 2022 competition, the first official appearance occurring at the January 2023 competition, and the latest being in August of 2023.

The name TRC was chosen because the club has never officially been granted official authorization to use the Tufts brand outside of the university. As a result, the team likes to joke that TRC is an acronym that stands for anything you can think of that is not Tufts Robotics Club. Asking different team members will yield different answers as to what they consider TRC to mean; team member Tom Jaeger has said that TRC stands for Total Robot Chaos, while team member Max Morningstar claims it stands for Team Roboctopi: Combat Division, in reference to his FRC team of the same name.

TRC has the dubious honor of having two robots on the list of NHRL Fastest KOs-3lb: TRC robots Deep Cut and Stress Concentration were each knocked out in just 8 seconds (by Abomination and Loopy, respectively) meaning both robots are tied for being on the losing end of the 5th fastest knockout of all time in NHRL's 3lb division.

Team wins: 8
Team losses: 27

Captains

Robots

Inactive Robots

Robot	Captain	Weight Class	Competitions	Weapon Type	Wins/Losses
†Azrael	Teo Patrosio	Beetleweight	April 2022	Dual Arc Lighter	0-0
‡Shoestring	Tom Jaeger	Beetleweight	April 2022	Drum Spinner	0-2
⸸Utilitarian Hoar	Douglas Lilly	Beetleweight	April 2022	Vertical Spinner	0-2
UH... foot	Douglas Lilly	Beetleweight	January, March 2023	Vertical Spinner	1-4
Cakester	Olivia Morningstar	Beetleweight	August 2023	Full Body Spinner	0-2

†Originally entered under Team Azrael, did not compete due to technical issues

‡Originally competed under Team Fingers Crossed

⸸Originally competed under Team UH huh

Active Robots

Robot	Captain	Weight Class	Competitions	Weapon Type	Wins/Losses
Stress Concentration	Tom Jaeger	Beetleweight	January, March, May, September 2023	Vertical Spinner	1-5
Deep Cut	*Max Morningstar	Beetleweight	January, March, May, August 2023	Horizontal Spinner	1-7
UH... help!!	Daniel	Beetleweight	August, September 2023	Vertical Drum Spinner	1-2
UH... oh	Douglas Lilly	Beetleweight	August, September 2023	Vertical Drum Spinner	0-0
Indubitably	Tom Jaeger	Beetleweight	January 2024	Lifter/Grabber	1-2
Jot	Max Morningstar	Beetleweight	January 2024	Bigwheel Horizontal Thwacking Spinner	3-1

*Captained by Ryan McFarlane for March 2023

Future Robots

Robot	Image	Captain	Weight Class	Debut Competition	Weapon Type

Gallery

YouTube Short featuring the match between TRC robot Stress Concentration against Loopy, the experimental version of Tommy Wong's Golden Brett-winning robot Droopy, at the September 2023 NHRL event. Stress Concentration instantly melted its 3d printed weapon pulley (the plume of smoke you see in the video) and TRC driver Tom Jaeger tapped out immediately, fearing an electronics fire. Since this took place before Stress Concentration was hit by Loopy, commentators chalked up the loss to Stress Concentration getting "KO'd by booty."

Top 10 Most destructive robot fights of NHRL, with number 8 featuring TRC robot UH... foot getting demolished by David Small's Púca in January of 2023. In his post-event breakdown video, David said he was "waiting for [TRC driver Douglas Lilly] to tap out but he didn't seem to want to, so I came in and kept on hitting him." Púca would go on to win the 3lb division at the event.

Video showcasing proto-TRC robot Shoestring and its minibot, made from a Pringles can, facing off against Anthony D'Ambrosio's Blackbird at the April 2022 NHRL event. Before the fight, the Shoestring drive team asked Anthony to spare the Pringles can chassis, since they didn't have any replacements. He responded that if it got damaged beyond reuse he would UberEats them a new one.

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+''Not to be confused with [https://texasrobotcombat.com/ Texas Robot Combat], a combat robotics organization with the same acronym.''
 == Overview ==
 TRC is a team of students and alumni from the Tufts Robotics Club at Tufts University, and is based out of Medford, Massachusetts. TRC has competed in five NHRL competitions to date, with the first unofficial appearance being the April 2022 competition, the first official appearance occurring at the January 2023 competition, and the latest being in August of 2023.
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 The name TRC was chosen because the club has never officially been granted official authorization to use the Tufts brand outside of the university. As a result, the team likes to joke that TRC is an acronym that stands for anything you can think of that is not Tufts Robotics Club. Asking different team members will yield different answers as to what they consider TRC to mean; team member [[Tom Jaeger]] has said that TRC stands for Total Robot Chaos, while team member [[Max Morningstar]] claims it stands for Team Roboctopi: Combat Division, in reference to his [https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/4918 FRC team] of the same name.
+TRC has the dubious honor of having two robots on the list of [https://wiki.nhrl.io/wiki/index.php/NHRL:Stats:Fastest_KOs-3lb NHRL Fastest KOs-3lb]: TRC robots [[Deep Cut]] and [[Stress Concentration]] were each knocked out in just 8 seconds (by [[Abomination]] and [[Loopy]], respectively) meaning both robots are tied for being on the losing end of the 5th fastest knockout of all time in NHRL's 3lb division.
-Team wins: 4
-Team losses: 23
+* Team wins: 8
+* Team losses: 27
 == Captains ==
-*Teo Patrosio
+*[[Teo Patrosio]]
 *[[Tom Jaeger]]
-*Douglas Lilly
+*[[Douglas Lilly]]
 *[[Max Morningstar]]
 *[[Ryan McFarlane]]
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+!Image
 !Captain
 !Weight Class
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 |-
 |†[[Azrael]]
+|[[File:NHRLScanLines.png|frameless]]
-|Teo Patrosio
+|[[Teo Patrosio]]
 |Beetleweight
 |April 2022
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 |-
 |‡[[Shoestring]]
+|[[File:Shoestring-removebg.png|frameless]]
 |[[Tom Jaeger]]
 |Beetleweight
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 |-
 |⸸[[Utilitarian Hoar]]
+|[[File:Utilitarianhoar-removebg.png|frameless]]
-|Douglas Lilly
+|[[Douglas Lilly]]
 |Beetleweight
 |April 2022
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 |-
 |[[UH... foot]]
+|[[File:Uhfoot-removebg.png|frameless]]
-|Douglas Lilly
+|[[Douglas Lilly]]
 |Beetleweight
 |January, March 2023
 |Vertical Spinner
-|1-3
+|1-4
+|-
+|[[Cakester]]
+|[[File:Cakester.webp|frameless]]
+|[[Olivia Morningstar]]
+|Beetleweight
+|August 2023
+|Full Body Spinner
+|0-2
+|-
 |}
-†Originally entered under Team Azrael, did not compete due to technical issues
+†Originally entered under [[Team Azrael]], did not compete due to technical issues
-‡Originally competed under team Fingers Crossed
+‡Originally competed under [[Team Fingers Crossed]]
-⸸Originally competed under team UH huh
+⸸Originally competed under [[Team UH huh]]
 ===Active Robots===
 {| class="wikitable"
 !Robot
+!Image
 !Captain
 !Weight Class
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 |-
 |[[Stress Concentration]]
+|[[File:Stressconcentration-removebg.png|frameless]]
 |[[Tom Jaeger]]
 |Beetleweight
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 |-
 |[[Deep Cut]]
+|[[File:Deep Cut August 2023 Edited.jpg|frameless]]
 |*[[Max Morningstar]]
 |Beetleweight
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 |-
 |[[UH... help!!]]
+|[[File:UH... help!! September 2023.jpg|frameless]]
 |Daniel
 |Beetleweight
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 |-
 |[[UH... oh]]
+|[[File:NHRLScanLines.png|frameless]]
-|Douglas Lilly
+|[[Douglas Lilly]]
 |Beetleweight
 |August, September 2023
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 |0-0
 |-
-|[[Cakester]]
+|[[Indubitably]]
+|[[File:Indubitably January 2024.jpg|frameless]]
-|[[Olivia Morningstar]]
+|[[Tom Jaeger]]
 |Beetleweight
+|January 2024
-|August 2023
+|Lifter/Grabber
-|Full Body Spinner
-|0-2
+|1-2
+|-
+|[[Jot]]
+|[[File:Jot January 2024.jpg|frameless]]
+|[[Max Morningstar]]
+|Beetleweight
+|January 2024
+|Bigwheel Horizontal Thwacking Spinner
+|3-1
 |-
 |}
 <nowiki>*</nowiki>Captained by [[Ryan McFarlane]] for March 2023
+===Future Robots===
+{| class="wikitable"
+!Robot
+!Image
+!Captain
+!Weight Class
+!Debut Competition
+!Weapon Type
+|-
+|}
 ==Gallery==
+{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkhDSfEyGsQ}}
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+YouTube Short featuring the match between TRC robot [[Stress Concentration]] against [[Loopy]], the experimental version of Tommy Wong's Golden Brett-winning robot [[Droopy]], at the September 2023 NHRL event. Stress Concentration instantly melted its 3d printed weapon pulley (the plume of smoke you see in the video) and TRC driver [[Tom Jaeger]] tapped out immediately, fearing an electronics fire. Since this took place before Stress Concentration was hit by Loopy, commentators chalked up the loss to Stress Concentration getting "KO'd by booty."
 {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95kDT8spzaY|||||start=62}}
-Top 10 Most destructive robot fights of NHRL, with number 8 featuring TRC robot [[UH... foot]] getting demolished by [[Púca]].
+Top 10 Most destructive robot fights of NHRL, with number 8 featuring TRC robot [[UH... foot]] getting demolished by [[David Small]]'s [[Púca]] in January of 2023. In his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2aVlhm-GEI post-event breakdown video], David said he was "waiting for <nowiki>[TRC driver Douglas Lilly]</nowiki> to tap out but he didn't seem to want to, so I came in and kept on hitting him." Púca would go on to win the 3lb division at the event.
 {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAG_UM5FTXA}}
-Video showcasing proto-TRC robot [[Shoestring]] and its minibot, made from a Pringles can.
+Video showcasing proto-TRC robot [[Shoestring]] and its minibot, made from a Pringles can, facing off against Anthony D'Ambrosio's [[Blackbird]] at the April 2022 NHRL event. Before the fight, the Shoestring drive team asked Anthony to spare the Pringles can chassis, since they didn't have any replacements. He responded that if it got damaged beyond reuse he would UberEats them a new one.
 [[Category:Teams & Roboteers]]
 [[Category:NHRL 2022]]
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