In the red corner, hometown hero, you know them, you love them, it’s “Fearless” Bhuge! And hoping to end their season before it even begins, in the blue corner, The Technical Gremlin! It’s the match of the century, only at BBB Beetle Brawl 2026 Saturday 28th February at St Michael's Centre, Bristol.

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Happy new year! 🇪🇺🤖⚔️📅 bbb.gd/events Jan '26 in European Robot Combat! 3rd Capital Punishment beetles in London 🇬🇧 8th QRFL Tournament ants in London 🇬🇧 11th Rock & Robots sportsman ants in London 🇬🇧 17th Robodojo 12lbs & sportsman feathers in York 🇬🇧

Just before the year is out: It's gearmotor time for antweights: We've restocked on all N10s and now offer them in 1500rpm too! We also restocked high power N20s in 1500rpm & 1000rpm at a new lower price and also in 100rpm for a crazy torquey weapon option! Check them out: bbb.gd/ashop

Merry Christmas from BBB! Thank you to everyone involved in our events in 2025 & we'll see you in the new year. Sign ups for our first event of 2026: BBB Beetle Brawl 2026 are 7-8pm Weds 7th Jan!

We return to St Michael's Centre February 28th for BBB Beetle Brawl 2026 & Inter-Uni Competition! 🎟️Spectator tickets are available now: bbb.gd/tickets 🎓Student sign ups are open now until 6th Jan: bbb.gd/uni Lottery Sign ups will be 7-8pm Wednesday 7th January. 📷Stuart Camp

🇪🇺🤖⚔️📅 bbb.gd/events - December in European Robot Combat, wrapping up 2025! 🎁 4th LRFS ants in Loughborough 🇬🇧 4th Sheffield Roboteers ants in Sheffield 🇬🇧 4th QRFL Workshop ants in London 🇬🇧 6th Hacker Battlebots 450g in Belfast 🇬🇧 6th GROCS ants in Gloucester 🇬🇧

Students: BBB Beetle Brawl 2026 next February is your opportunity to represent your college or university on the national stage at robot combat! If you are interested or know anyone who may be, check out bbb.gd/uni or contact us for more info :)

2026 rule updates are released! (beetle, feather, competition) Changelog for each is both on the forum post: bbb.gd/rules and each rule page on our website.

New product! FingerTech Mini Spark High Power N20s in 1000 & 1500rpm! - A whopping ~2.5A of stall current on 2S makes these over 2x more powerful than our N10s and over 3x more powerful than our standard N20s! Get all that pushing power at bbb.gd/minispark

Forum shoutout time! Here's a few great builds shared on our forum in the past month or so. bbb.gd/forum If you've done a build, or have bot related questions post on there? 🙂

There's a lovely tradition in the hobby of sharing team stickers around - we've tried our best to put all the ones we've been given on our (very well used) ant arena floor on the wall of the workshop! Some absolute gems in there!

Restock of all things Repeat - we now stock 6mm shaft upgrades for Repeat Compacts - check them out at bbb.gd/compact

🇪🇺🤖⚔️📅 bbb.gd/events - November in European Robot Combat is even busier than October! 1st Antweight World Series in Silverstone 🇬🇧 1st Omega Verksted 2kg in Trondheim 🇳🇴 1-2nd Hack & Make in Nuremberg 🇩🇪 5th Hacker Battles 450g in Belfast 🇬🇧 6th QRFL ants in London 🇬🇧 8th Robolahing 30 & 50kg in Tartu 🇪🇪

New product! Mike now makes DuraHubs antweight wheels in 35mm, but over double width if you want that super grippy monster truck vibe! Check them out bbb.gd/dura

Save the date! 28th February 2026: BBB Beetle Brawl 2026 fb.com/events/1574135170238696 🎫 Spectator tickets available now: bbb.gd/tickets 🎓 University students can apply now: bbb.gd/uni 📝 National sign ups 7-8pm Wed 7th Jan at bbb.gd/brawl 📷 Stuart Camp

Big up the BBC for covering Champs! Article: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly4g0pe4wro Video: bbb.gd/tv Radio: bbb.gd/radio

You can now watch back just the fights from Champs here: bbb.gd/champs or the whole stream is available at bbb.gd/stream 🙂 📷Stuart Camp

We'd like to thank everyone who came to Champs at the weekend! From the incredible crowd, the really strong showing of roboteers but most importantly our amazing volunteer crew, we had the best time! Fight video will be out very soon.

We're going live around 11am BST tune in here: BBB.gd/stream

New product: Repeat Robotics Gold Clamp Hub - bbb.gd/clamp Same dimensions as screw hubs but with extra clamping force using a T10 screw. With that we've also reduced prices of screw hubs, which will continue to be available at bbb.gd/screw

Less than 48 hours until we kick off BBB Beetle Champs 2025 🏆 We will be livestreaming from 11am BST at bbb.gd/stream

Just had a great interview with Bristol Bot Builder @craigcroucher.bsky.social ahead of their big bot battle this weekend! @bristolbotbuilders.com

We're only a few days away now! Champs will be livestreamed, Saturday 11am BST hit the notification bell 🔔 here: bbb.gd/stream

This is some of the fantastic robots coming to compete at BBB Beetle Champs 2025 on Saturday! We will be livestreaming at bbb.gd/stream

BBB Beetle Champs 2025 has fully sold out! Thank you so much to everyone who's bought a ticket, we'll see you on Saturday. If you can no longer make it you can use resale on headfirst to sell on your ticket to somebody on the waiting list.

We now stock aluminium servo horns that are compatible with both our antweight servos! Grab them here: bbb.gd/horn

We're now less than two weeks from BBB Beetle Champs 2025 - the competitors are locked in, less than half the tickets remain, grab yours now: bbb.gd/tickets

Check out the trophies for BBB Beetle Champs 2025!🏆 🎟️ Spectators: tickets are available at bbb.gd/tickets 🎮 Competitors: mobility due by end of Sunday to bbb.gd/pom

Champs 25 will be our 5th time hosting a champs at St Michael's - we can't wait to return! We go all for the day - projections with live replays, live commentary, an interview booth and more. The venue runs a great cafe for the day too! Grab your tickets now: bbb.gd/tickets 📷Stuart Camp

We're excited to announce our tiny tiny tiny beetle brushed dual ESCs v2! At half the size of v1s, we think this is one of the smallest dual ESCs on the market and has some awesome features such as 8S voltage support, configurable current limiting, gyro stabilisation & more! bbb.gd/dualv2

🇪🇺🤖⚔️📅 bbb.gd/events - October in European Robot Combat is mega busy month all over Europe!

Less than a month before we return for BBB Beetle Champs 2025, our biggest event of the year! 🎟️Spectators: tickets are available at bbb.gd/tickets 🎮Competitors: mobility is due by 5th Oct to bbb.gd/pom

We're doing a final discounted run of our v1 BBB beetle dual brushed ESCs! bbb.gd/dual Grab yours at a reduced price while we prep the brand new v2s 👀

Thanks for everyone who came yesterday! You can watch back the fights here: youtu.be/_IGYN8NIKJo

Final calls for sign ups for BBB September 2025 Ant Social next Saturday 20th! We're closing the form tonight: bbb.gd/signup

We now stock replacement motors for our 22mm gearmotors and replacement gears for repeat compacts! Both available on their respective store pages: bbb.gd/22mm & bbb.gd/compact It's also repeat restock day: all things am32, hubs & motors!

New product! Lynx Anti-Spark switches: legal for UK beetles these are an M2.5 power switch with a built in pre-charge circuit to stop sparking at higher voltages! check them out here: bbb.gd/lynx These are currently ran in Grab Crab & Frenzy as well as many american bots including Lynx itself!

2️⃣5️⃣ TONIGHT. LOTTERY SIGN UPS 7-8pm BBB.GD/CHAMPS

BBB Beetle Champs 2025 18th Oct, St Michaels Center, Bristol. 🎮Competitors: Lottery sign ups tomorrow (Weds 3rd Sep) 7-8pm at bbb.gd/champs 🎟️Spectators: audience tickets are available now at bbb.gd/tickets

🇪🇺🤖⚔️📅 bbb.gd/events - September in European Robot Combat: 3rd Hacker Battlebots 450g in Belfast 🇬🇧 6th CAT 3 sportsman ants in Leighton Buzzard 🇬🇧 6-7th Robots Live sportsman feathers & heavies in Crawley 🇬🇧 13th Robodojo 12lb & sportsman feathers in York 🇬🇧 13-14th Extreme Robots heavies in Colchester 🇬🇧

Next up from us is September 20th Ant Social, we return to microbrewery Zerodegrees (Bristol)! Event page: fb.com/events/1144797004334791 There's only a few slots left, sign up to compete here: bbb.gd/signup, Free to spectate.

PRESS RELEASE REGARDING BBB BEETLE CHAMPS - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bristol Bot Builders are excited to share that the BBB Beetle Champs 2025 is scheduled to take place on Saturday 18th October at St Michaels Centre in Stoke Gifford, Bristol. Please find attached promotional material for the event.

All the fights from Saturday: youtu.be/kX0ElGeAiF8 Enjoy :)

Thanks everyone for an incredible turn out on Saturday! It was such a lovely conclusion to the summer series - great bots & fights, a great crowd and some mega food and drink. A huge thanks to our volunteer crew. Fight video tomorrow :)

Some of the bots you can expect to see on Saturday at BBB x LHG: Big Bot Bash! Fights kick off 1pm, free to spectate!

It's nearly time! This Saturday from 1pm, LHG Taproom: BBB x LHG: Big Bot Bash - fb.me/e/5HNmDzbsB you don't want to miss it. Free to spectate, our collab Short Circuit Radler on sale as well as many other incredible beers and tasty Indian street food from Crazy Jalfrezi!

New product day! We're excited to stock our absolutely favourite lipo charger the SkyRC B6neo - it's tiny lil charger that will do up to 6S lipos off a USB C connector! and with that some lipo bags :) bbb.gd/charger & bbb.gd/bag

We now stock repeat max mounts made from carbon fibre with black screws too for a super sleek look! Check them out: bbb.gd/maxmounts

September Ant Social Event Page: fb.me/e/4MoXn0eWe 🎮Competitors - sign ups are now open, first come first serve at bbb.gd/signup 👀Spectators - free to spectate, fights from 1.30pm on 20th Sep at ZeroDegrees Bristol!