Ransom Everglades Robotics

Ransom Everglades Robotics
Participation Information
Other Events	BattleBots IQ 2005 BattleBots IQ 2006 BotsIQ 2007 BotsIQ 2008 BotsIQ 2009 BotsIQ 2010 BotsIQ 2011
Team Information
Team Members	Robert Dubard Will Bales Alex Mattaway Tyler Bond Zeke Andreassen Greg Bales Tom Bales Win Halelamien Gustavo Palacios Gideon Shaked Mihir Pabby Logan Smith Max Vallone Luis Felipe Matthew Dughi Gabriel Nones-Newman Alan Schimmel Sean Rubin Sean Groeninger
From	Miami, FL
Other Names	RE Robotics

Ransom Everglades Robotics, also known as RE Robotics, were a BattleBots team based in Miami, Florida, which competed in numerous BotsIQ tournaments from 2005 until 2011.

Mentored by Robert DuBard, they were best known for their entries Fluffy and El Cholo, which featured as part of the Bots High documentary covering the 2010 BotsIQ event. Ransom Everglades Robotics were one of three teams highlighted in the documentary, as well as My Mechanical Romance and Mechanical Misfits.

The team picked up numerous sportsmanship awards, with their entries Fluffy, El Cholo, Fluffy DeLarge and X-Contamination all picking up the award between 2006 until 2011. They also earned a Best Engineered Award during BotsIQ 2011.

Alumni of Ransom Everglades Will Bales would later captain Shenanigans & Co., captaining HyperShock from 2015 and World Championship I until the present day. Other mutual team members include Kyle Awner, Greg and Tom Bales, Alex Mattaway and Tyler Bond.

Outside BattleBots

Ransom Everglades Robotics is the robotics team for Miami's Ransom Everglades college-preparatory day school. In 1974, it formed as a result of the Everglades School for Girls and the Ransom School for Boys merging. The school fields teams in many other sports, including but not limited to baseball, football, soccer and baseball.

The Ransom Everglades Robotics team behind BotsIQ competitors also fought at various Mayhem in Miami events, with BotsIQ entries and other builds, such as ROFL and Mad Cow. Ransom Everglades Robotics have continued to compete at various events since the formation of Team HyperShock, notably fighting at Robot Ruckus in 2021, 2023 and 2024. Mayhem in Miami events have also continued as recently as 2017, co-hosted by Team HyperShock and fellow Miami natives Team Witch Doctor.

Robots

Robots	Weight Class	Competition
Coriolis	Mini Class	BattleBots IQ 2006
X-Revolution	Mini Class
Fluffy	Mini Class	BotsIQ 2009 BotsIQ 2010 BotsIQ 2011
El Cholo	Large Class	BotsIQ 2010 BotsIQ 2011
Fluffy DeLarge	Large Class	BotsIQ 2011
ThaiTanium	Mini Class
Schadenfreude	Mini Class
The Woodynator	Mini Class	BotsIQ 2007 BotsIQ 2010
SpiderPig	Large Class	BotsIQ 2009
Timothy Higgins	Mini Class
Brute Force	Mini Class
CuddleBunny	Mini Class
Über Schnitzel	Mini Class	BotsIQ 2008
X-Assassination	Mini Class
X-Revolution	Mini Class
X-Termination	Mini Class
X-Evolution	Mini Class
X-Mutilation	Mini Class
X-Fortification	Mini Class
Dughi-amazing-o-Bot!	Mini Class	BotsIQ 2010
A.T.P.	Mini Class
T.E.A.C.U.P.	Mini Class
X-Contamination	Mini Class	BattleBots IQ 2005 BotsIQ 2007 Rumble at the Rock 1 BotsIQ 2008

El Cholo (120lb) during BotsIQ 2011.

El Cholo during BotsIQ 2010.

Fluffy DeLarge (120lb)

Fluffy (15lb)

SpiderPig (120lb)

Woodynator II (15lb) during BotsIQ 2010.

X-Contamination (15lb)

X-Assassination (15lb)

Über Schnitzel (15lb)

Dughi-amazing-o-Bot! (15lb)

A partially-built Timothy Higgins (15lb)

Inside Cuddlebunny (15lb)

Schadenfreude (15lb)

ROFL (15lb)

See Also

• Ransom Everglades Robotics on YouTube
• Ransom Everglades Robotics on BuildersDB

Trivia

• During one year of BotsIQ, the Ransom Everglades Robotics team's entries all began with the prefix "X-".