Our Interview with New Tantrum Co-Captains Ginger Schmidt and Alex Grant!

Behind the Bots

This week on the podcast, we’re catching up with Tantrum’s two newest co-captains, Ginger Schmidt and Alex Grant! Ginger and Alex have both built really interesting robots earlier in their careers, through FIRST Robotics, and then later, in competitions like NASA’s Robotic Mining Competition. They’ve been competing with Tantrum since the 2018 season, and are taking over as co-captains this season, as Aren Hill moves on to captain the new flipper bot Blip.

This week’s combat robotics news:

• Nuclear Blast returns as Blacksmith’s title sponsor: https://www.facebook.com/Teamhfa/posts/333486438324744
• Blade’s newest weapons test: https://www.facebook.com/TeamORBY/posts/809490279718787
• Captain Shrederator t-shirts on sale: https://www.facebook.com/spinwinning/posts/4188894404542767
• Duck selling S3 and S4 top plates to pay some bills: https://www.facebook.com/BlackandBlueRobotics/posts/229144039225865
• Gary Gin’s 39-degree slushies: https://www.facebook.com/freeshippingbot/posts/203377245118483
• Hydra after day 1: https://www.facebook.com/Whyachi/posts/4670831022929676
• HiJinx back patches for sale for $52: https://www.facebook.com/HiJinx.BattleBot/posts/431758841709160
• 2021 HUGE reveal: https://www.facebook.com/BattleBotsHuge/posts/893545631251311
• Norwalk Havoc picks up SendCutSend as a sponsor: https://www.facebook.com/NorwalkHavoc/posts/398978141583601
• Lucky drive test: https://www.facebook.com/tkorobotics/posts/248359583960753
• P1 and hamfish: https://www.facebook.com/AberrantRobotics/posts/1040794716752882
• Riptide’s blurry insides: https://www.facebook.com/riptidebattlebot/posts/125727346475894
• SawBlaze’s fly-over: https://www.facebook.com/SawBlazeBattlebots/posts/237345518398870
• Shatter’s 2021 kit reveal: https://www.facebook.com/BotsFC/posts/252172276911588
• Skorpios is selling poker chips: https://www.facebook.com/SkorpiosBattleBot/posts/239018178234145
• Uppercut 2021 reveal: https://www.facebook.com/UppercutBattlebot/posts/355363642590996
• Witch Doctor design reveal: https://www.facebook.com/witchdrshaman/posts/3945365232234948

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