November NHRL Recap and Finals Preview with Golden Dumpster Winner Liam King!

About this episode

Liam King discusses his recent successes in robot combat and previews the upcoming finals.

Liam has been on a tear this year with Buzzzz-kill recently capturing the 12lb crown at November NHRL! Now the overall 2nd seed behind only Slam Plan, Liam looks poised for a deep run at Finals. Outside of 12lbs, Liam and the rest of Leatherbacks have been racking up wins in the insectweights at events like Water's Edge, MACRO and had a close fight with top bots like Mako at November NHRL with his 3lb Zenith. 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!

People in this episode

Host: Jake Maximizer

Guest: Liam King

Topics covered

• robot combat
• NHRL recap
• insectweights
• robotics competition
• interview

Keywords

• robot combat
• NHRL
• Buzzzz-kill
• insectweights
• Liam King
• robotics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Leatherbacks

Products: Buzzzz-kill, Slam Plan, Zenith

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