Swirlee

Swirlee
Participation Information
Comedy Central Seasons	Season 4.0 Season 5.0
Team Information
Team	Team Pain USA
Team Members	Kevin McEnery John Alvarez Brad Winter Stephan Vosloo David Shea Derek Moser Eric Petschelt John Petschelt
From	Fox Lake, IL
Other Entries	Incisor
Robot Statistics
Drive	9.6hp motors
Weapons	Ring spinner
Statistics correct as of its most recent appearance on the show, or if not applicable, qualification attempt.

"Swirlee's disk, The Wheel of Selective Severance, behaves like any shell-type spinner with the ability to hit from any direction, but what stands out is the ability for this machine to drive fully inverted with no loss of offensive capability. The Drive boasts 9.6hp, two stage reduction, and 16 drive wheels for incredible pushing power as well."

— Team Pain USA on Swirlee.

Swirlee was a superheavyweight robot created by Team Pain USA which fought in the final two seasons of Comedy Central BattleBots.

It was an invertible, sixteen-wheeled robot with a spinning disk named The Wheel of Selective Severance by the team, powered by the friction of two sets of wheels that were mounted on the top and bottom of the robot. According to the team, Swirlee was built in 12 weeks.

Swirlee reached the quarter-finals of Season 4.0, but lost early on in Season 5.0.

Team Pain USA also fought in the heavyweight division with Incisor.

Robot History

Season 4.0
Swirlee vs. Pro-AM Swirlee rips apart Pro-AM. Swirlee's first opponent in Season 4.0 was Pro-AM. In this fight, Swirlee managed to tear apart Pro-AM's wheels, even ripping out an entire motor, but Pro-AM kept coming to attack Swirlee, despite taking more damage every time. Pro-AM was still moving at the end of the fight, but Swirlee still won on a close 23-22 judges' decision.
Swirlee vs. The Swarm Swirlee fighting The Swarm. Swirlee being pushed by Mosquito. This put Swirlee into the second preliminary round of the tournament where it fought The Swarm. In this fight, Swirlee was dominant at the beginning, using it's disk to knock Locust and Dragonfly away as they tried to stop its spinning disc. Eventually, Locust stopped moving, leaving two of the multibots to fight on. Dragonfly also lost half of its drive near the end of the match. Swirlee was pushed around by the low Mosquito, but still won the fight on a 25-20 judges' decision.
Swirlee vs. Eradicator Swirlee slams into Eradicator. This win put Swirlee to the TV rounds, where it faced Eradicator. The fight began with Eradicator charging across the arena and pushing Swirlee into the arena screws. Swirlee then got rammed again by Eradicator, but escaped and brought its spinning blades up to speed. Eradicator then hit Swirlee again, but this hit managed to completely destroy Eradicator's right drive train, despite not doing much visual damage. With Eradicator in a vulnerable position, Swirlee struck Eradicator on the left side and caused more damage. Swirlee continued taking pieces out of Eradicator but then got itself caught on the killsaws. Swirlee managed to free itself however, and ripped the rear part of Eradicator's top panel. Eradicator was then pushed into the killsaws, where many bright sparks were emitted. This hit clearly ruptured a battery or a tank on Eradicator, as smoke began to emanate out of the robot. Smoke continued to build up until eventually flames were visible coming through the side of Eradicator. The match was eventually ended as on-site fire crews were brought in to extinguish the burning Eradicator. Swirlee had won by a KO in 2:30.
Swirlee vs. Son of Whyachi Son of Whyachi immediately unbalances. Swirlee's next draw was up against the reigning heavyweight champion, Son of Whyachi. This fight was quick however, as Team Whyachi was testing out a new hammer setup for Season 4.0. This evidently didn't work as Son of Whyachi spun up and unbalanced itself, jumping across the arena quite violently before bouncing into the screw casing and ripping it clean off the arena wall. Son of Whyachi came to a stop near the pulverizer, where Swirlee pushed it into the hammer. Son of Whyachi took several shots from the pulverizer before Swirlee was deemed the winner by KO in 39 seconds.
Swirlee vs. Gammacide This win put Swirlee to the Round of 16, where it faced Gammacide. Swirlee won by KO at 1:58 and advanced to the quarter-finals.
Swirlee vs. New Cruelty Swirlee, trapped in the corner. Now in the quarter-finals, Swirlee faced New Cruelty. In this bout, Swirlee tried to drive away from New Cruelty's box rush, but New Cruelty caught Swirlee and drove it into the corner of the BattleBox. New Cruelty maneuvered Swirlee toward the entrance ramp, but got caught under the spikestrip. However, Swirlee was not moving and eventually was counted out at 1:02. It turned out that the drive train on Swirlee had failed.
Superheavyweight Royal Rumble Swirlee gets flipped by Toro. Swirlee also entered the Superheavyweight Royal Rumble, but lost overall to The Judge.
Season 5.0
Swirlee vs. Hammertime Hammertime gets its hammer into Swirlee. Swirlee's damaged top panel. Due to its past performance, Swirlee was able to skip the preliminary rounds. Its first opponent was Hammertime. However, it lost by knockout after taking numerous blows from Hammertime's hammer and was eliminated from the tournament.

Team Pain USA with Swirlee at Season 4.0

Wins/Losses

• Wins: 5
• Losses: 2

Competition	Wins	Losses
Season 4.0	Pro-AM The Swarm Eradicator Son of Whyachi Gammacide	New Cruelty
Season 5.0	None	Hammertime

Mark Beiro Introductions

"Ready to treat his foe like a pitbull on the casting couch, here is SWIRLEE!"

"Remember in Junior High when you had your buttocks taped together by the JP football team? That's nothing compared to what you'll get from SWIRLEE!"