NHRL Finals Recap with 3lb World Champion Alex Wang!

About this episode

Alex Wang discusses his journey with the robot Pinevictus and its success at the NHRL World Finals.

Alex has been steadily honing Pinevictus all year. Though Pinevictus has been around since November 2021 during his days at UMD as a Leatherback, 2025 is the year where the robot has been on a meteoric rise. It started the year strong by reaching the Semifinals at February NHRL with a Judges Decision loss to Silent Spring followed by solid runs at Motorama and Hive Hysteria. After designing and debuting a new version only two weeks out from Finals, it was a gamble that paid off to win the distinguished Golden Brett at the NHRL World Finals! Let us know what questions you have for Alex! To watch the podcast live check out https://www.youtube.com/@jakemaximizer/streams on every other Thursday at 7pm EST! Otherwise, it should be available on all the podcast places later in the week! Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/behindthebotsRate and review us on Apple PodcastsTell a friend about the show; we really appreciate your support!

People in this episode

Host: Behind the Bots

Guest: Alex Wang

Topics covered

• robotics
• NHRL Finals
• robot competitions
• Pinevictus
• championship recap

Keywords

• NHRL
• robotics
• Pinevictus
• Alex Wang
• robot competitions
• Golden Brett
• championship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UMD

Products: Pinevictus

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