Copperhead's drum spinner is operated by Chad New, president of Nature's Box Pet Emporium, Colorado's largest pet shop and an original sponsor of the robot. as well as England, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Canada have been competing this year the Copperhead team is the only one from Colorado and has members from along the Front Range.Īlthough the sport seems suited to engineers, the robot builders 'come from all walks of life,' says Quintal, who works as a computer server administrator by day.

More people showed up at the pizza joint to watch this show than they did to watch the Nuggets go two games up on the Lakers.īattleBots, which used to be on Comedy Central from 2000 to 2002, is airing its season finale on Thursday, May 25, and Copperhead is poised to win the Giant Nut, which is equivalent to the Lombardi Trophy or the Stanley Cup for combat robots.

On May 18, the Fat Sully's South Broadway location hosted a watch party for Quintal, his parents, some friends and a few Copperhead fans and teammates, as the robot battled through round sixteen in the penultimate match of the season. 'So we never had a ton of publicity on the show, but this past season we actually had the best season we ever had.' We always thought we had a pretty good robot, but for one reason or another, things would break or go wrong,' says Quintal, who became a fan of the sport when he was twelve and is the team's third captain, but only the first to take Copperhead into a BattleBots championship. 'We've always had a pretty mediocre season, for the most part.

Gone With the Witch by Heather Blake