It was a large, four-wheel drive robot armed with a long horizontalbar spinner powered by an Etek motor. Sat at twelve inches in height, Final Destiny's chassis was protected by six hinged skirts held down by mild spring steel, all of which guided opponents into its primary weapon. The team expressed high confidence in their robot, claiming it could defeat former Giant Nut winners Toro and Diesector. However, racking up four wins and reaching the Top 32, the team ultimately failed on their claim as Diesector defeated it in spectacular fashion, jamming the blade with Final Destiny's own skirts.
Team Infinity and Final Destiny during Season 5.0.
Team Infinity was comprised of three students from ITT Technical Institute, and they built a 1lb antweight version of their superheavyweight called Bitter End.
Bitter End, the Antweight version of Final Destiny.
Robot History[]
Season 5.0[]
Final Destiny vs. Cry Havoc
Final Destiny's first preliminary fight was against Cry Havoc. Final Destiny was able to destroy its opponent within seconds, racking up its first win by knockout.
Final Destiny vs. Patton
Final Destiny hits Patton, knocking both robots into the air.
Final Destiny shears off the polycarbonate armor on Patton.
In the second preliminary round, Final Destiny battled Patton. Final Destiny's blade was just high enough to hit the top of Patton, and it sheared fiberglass and the metal frame alike. Patton survived to the end of the 3 minutes, but Final Destiny won a 37-8 judges' decision.
Final Destiny vs. The Swarm
Final Destiny hits Locust.
This win put Final Destiny in the final preliminary match against multibot The Swarm. One of the robots, Mosquito, was armed with a small scoop so it could get underneath Final Destiny's skirts. Mosquito tried to get underneath but failed, and on a third try it drove up one of Final Destiny's skirts and was hit hard, flying six feet into the air and bouncing off the walls of the BattleBox. However, Mosquito continued to fight. The other two robots tried to hit Final Destiny during this time, but the robot's bar spun up too fast and they were tossed aside as well. Locust was hit again and the disk warped, the frame was bent, and Locust stopped moving. The other two robots kept attacking, and eventually Final Destiny's blade stopped spinning. Final Destiny won on a 27-18 decision.
Final Destiny vs. Gray Matter
Final Destiny fighting Gray Matter.
Final Destiny was now in the TV rounds against a rebuilt Gray Matter. Both Final Destiny and Gray Matter went straight at each other and one hit sent Final Destiny flying. Final Destiny then came back and started ripping shards of metal off the top of Gray Matter. This continued until Gray Matter stopped moving and was counted out. Final Destiny won by knockout and moved on.
Final Destiny vs. Diesector
Diesector lifts a skirt into the path of Final Destiny's weapon.
Now in the Round of 32, Final Destiny was pitted against Donald Hutson and Diesector. Diesector, minus its hammers but fitted with an extension to its jaws, kept getting underneath Final Destiny's hinged skirts. These impacts also ripped the skirts off of Final Destiny and Diesector pushed Final Destiny on the killsaws, which loosened another skirt which promptly got torn off. Diesector wisely backed away as Final Destiny got its blade back up to speed and then forcefully rammed Final Destiny towards the hazards, taking off yet another skirt. At this point, a bit of sparring occurred between the two robots until inevitably, Diesector sends Final Destiny flying into the air and breaking into a "Mauler Dance", flipping it upside down and thus eliminating it from the competition, as well as failing to prove its reputation on Diesector.[1]
"Many people know we had battery problems throughout the entire competition. For both of our TV matches GrayMatter and the Diesector match we had reconfigured how the power was divided up. When we began we had 1- 24v 3000mAH NiMh pack for each of our 4 drive motors and 1- 48v 3600mAH NiCad pack powering the Etek. No real thought had been put into current limits of the packs and after testing the weapon to see what kind of run time we would get with this configuration it went over 6 minutes powering it up and down repeatedly. We finished building about 3 hours before we shipped out. There were many problems with our battery configuration so I am only going to explain the main points. For those of you who were at the competition and saw our prelim matches you saw a very pushy bot. The weapon only lasted about 1 minute and 30 seconds until the battery had actually heated up so much that the insulation on the cells melted and the cells shorted out and burnt up. Fortunately the short time that the weapon worked was enough to destroy the other robot and after the weapon stopped we had tons of pushing power especially with our wedge design. After the Swarm match we decided that we could not afford to blow anymore packs up because we had run out and had to buy more packs from Inertia Labs (whom we are very thankful to). Keep in mind that FD weighed 339lbs and that we had no weight to work with so we could only rewire the batteries we had already been using. The new configuration was 1- 24v 3000mAH NiMh pack for every 2 drive motors and 1- 48v 3000mAH NiCad pack in parallel with 1- 48v 3000mAH NiMh pack. After this we never blew up another pack, but we greatly reduced the output current to the drive motors and gave ourselves just enough power to drive FD. You can see this in both matches, but if you watch the GrayMatter match you will see that the only time GM came up our panels is when he drove up himself. As soon as our bots came in contact with GM, FD no longer had the power to move, if we did we would have pushed in more and the blade would have been able to cause a lot more damage. So when you see the Diesector match we had the same configuration. We had no power to try to out maneuver or push Diesector because we had left the battery set up as it was for GrayMatter not knowing Donald Hudson would reconfigure his entire bot for our match. Aside from this there is no question about it, Donald Hudson is one of the best drivers ever and although we lost I’m glad we can say it was to Donald."
— Matt Poole's explanation behind the problems that Final Destiny was dealing with throughout the tournament, including the fight against Diesector
