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Dystopia is a heavyweight robot.

Dystopia was originally built by John Findlay as a new version of Ripper, which won the 2011 UK Championship as well as several other smaller championships including the Winter Tour. The robot gained its current name and appearance when it was sold to Gareth Anstee of Team. Ablaze in 2013. Aside from team captain Gareth Anstee, Team. Ablaze also includes Laurie Calvert, builder of Lightning, Mike Onslow of the International Wreck Crew, and Chris Smith. Gareth Anstee would later join The Greenwich Greats to enter Robot Wars Series 9 with Trolley Rage, and did not apply for Series 10 due to clashes with exams.

Design[]

Dystopia is a wedge-shaped robot armed with a full-pressure pneumatic flipper. The flipper features a distinctively wide front plate to increase its surface area, with three smaller sections intended to help Dystopia get underneath opponents easier. This allows Dystopia to flip other robots over and out of the arena during live events.

The robot is painted black, red, blue and white, and is themed around a futuristic police vehicle, with red and blue LEDs and black police badge motifs painted on its flipper and back panel.

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