Number 10 - Lock Jaw

Lock Jaw has very low ground clearance, a devastating vertical spinner, perfect invertibility, and its driver has fine driving skills. When it uses its rear wedge, it is pretty much unbreakable, and team captain Donald Hutson is a master strategist. However, it does have some issues with reliability, which is by far its biggest weakness. Lock Jaw has competed in each of the five modern seasons of Battlebots, making its debut against Overhaul in 2015. Sporting its clamping jaws, Lock Jaw won the fight, but controversy ensued, and since Overhaul fought well, they rematched in the round of 16 in the 6 vs. 11 matchup. Overhaul won this time, eliminating Lock Jaw from the competition. In season 2, Lock Jaw came equipped with a flipper configuration and a clamping configuration, and lost its opening fight to Yeti in a very close judges' decision. It still made the round of 32 as a wildcard, and was seeded 17th. Its opponent was 16th seed Brutus. The battle was very boring until the end, when Lok Jaw mounted an attack. The judges gave the fight to Brutus, probably for aggression and some sparks it caused on Lock Jaw's wedge, but the ruling was wrong and many persons disagreed with the decision. After the tournament, Lock Jaw fought two really tough opponents in Stinger and Ghost Raptor in an exhibition rumble. The fight went really well for Lock Jaw, as it tore three wheels off of Stinger and used its launcher to perfection, giving it an easy win. In season 3, Lock Jaw changed its design again, this time armed with a vertical spinner and two lifting arms. Its first opponent, season 2 runner up Bombshell, was expected to win. Instead, Lock Jaw completely dominated it for its first ever knockout. Lock Jaw lost its next fight to End Game and its third fight in a close judges' decision to Bronco, putting it in a tight situation. In season 3, Battlebots introduced the Desperado Tournament, designed to let one robot into the top 16 automatically if it won three fights in a row. The object is to honor a robot that can stand the wear and tear of three fights with little repair time. Lock Jaw entered the tournament and won it, winning all three of its fights by knockout, including one over Valkyrie, which may have been its most impressive importance of its career. In the top 16, Lock Jaw was seeded ninth, and won its first matchup over Son of Whyachi. In the quarterfinals, it faced Bombshell again. Bombshell was the 16th seed, having just knocked out Tombstone, so the fight was a highly anticipated rematch. Lock Jaw simply scoffed and knocked it out in a single hit. Lock Jaw was finally stopped by Minotaur in the final four. In season 4, Lock Jaw started off on the wrong foot, losing its first fight to Tombstone, but it won its next four fights against four really ferocious opponents (Quantum, DUCK!, Bombshell again, and Skorpios) to make the top 16 once more as the 9th seed. Lock Jaw took down Black Dragon that round but fell to eventual champion Bite Force in the quarterfinals. Lock Jaw also entered a ten team tournament in Las Vegas that year, and went 0-2. It started off against Whiplash, and dominated the entire fight until it simply gave out. The same thing happened in its second fight against Skorpios, except this time it made it the full three minutes. The judges awarded Skorpios the victory, which was not a good judgement of the fight at all, in my opinion. In season 5, Battlebots reintroduced the bracket of 32, played after a qualifying round in which each robot fought three fights. Lock Jaw went 2-1 in the opening rounds, losing only to JackPot, and was seeded 14th in the round of 32. Its opponent, Shatter!, pulled off a remarkable upset and knocked Lock Jaw out, knocking it out of the tournament. Lock Jaw's record is 15-12 (.556) with nine knockouts. For being one of the best robots in every competition in which it entered and for taking down some undisputed Battlebots legends, Lock Jaw is the first robot in my top 10 Battlebots of all time.