The ultimate podcast for all things combat robotics.
From underground grudge matches to world-stage championships, The Havoc Rundown covers the full spectrum of competitive robot combat. Hosted by seasoned event staffers and builders, we break down fights, preview major events, and dig deep into the engineering, chaos, and creativity that fuel the sport.
We interview builders, organizers, innovators, and legends from every corner of the combat robotics world. Whether you're a veteran of the pits or just discovered bots hit harder than your favorite sports team—this is your front-row seat to
In this exciting episode of The Havoc Rundown, We welcome Brandon Young, a renowned combat robotics builder and Golden Dumpster winner. Our pit control crew then dive into Brandon’s journey from earl…
In this exciting episode, we are joined by international superstar Tony Clifton for a lively discussion blending music and the world of robot combat. We dive into Tony's musical journey, including hi…
In this episode, we're thrilled to welcome special guest J Lee from The Kinekitsu Combat Group, a talented bot builder and fellow content creator. J and Thomas face off in an exciting new game devise…
In this exciting episode, we sit down with Kevin Biagini and Ariel Smith, the brilliant minds behind Team Pandamonium, one of the most formidable combat robotics teams competing at the NHRL. Join us …
We’re back with a highly anticipated episode featuring a special guest: Kelly Biderman, the CEO of NHRL! Join us for an exclusive interview where we dive into Kelly's journey before NHRL, explore the…
We are back and this time we are talking to mad cat themed robot building genius himself Tom Farkas!! We get to know this fan favorite builder a little better and find out some of his favorite moment…
We are back again with a follow up of our special teams event that happened on June 1st. This was an invite only event where teams of three bots, a 3lb a 12lb and a 30lb, all competed together. In or…
We find ourselves in between events so the only reasonable thing to do is site down and get to know one of our favorite people at NHRL...Rob Sarakin!! If you have ever been to NHRL or participated in…
Hey everyone we are here with your NHRL April 20th Pre event show! This is going to be an action packed event so in order to get us ready we brought on a very good friend of the show, mastermind behi…
Hey Everyone we are back with a new episode this time with our first returning guest Jimmy Gibson!! Jimmy is with us to help us break down the RIT event and answering a bunch of behind the scenes que…
This episode we delve into the March 2nd event with fan turned builder Michael Cross, builder of Stag Beetle Bot. We pick Michael's brain a bit finding out what got him into robotics, who his biggest…
This episode we highlight some of the bots we are excited to see at our March 2nd NHRL event. We wanted to bring in someone huge to help us talk about our first event of the year that will feature so…
This episode we sit down with famed Youtuber, NHRL competitor and businessman Seth Schaffer. We talk to him about his experience in the combat robotics world and what it was like starting his own bus…
We are back with our January 2024 New Bots event post show. This was such a huge and amazing event we couldn't possibly contain it to one podcast so we brought on some help. Joining us is Chris DeCic…
With the new bot event around the corner we are diving into the fight card looking at the brand new bots that are going to be competing for the first time at NHRL. We have gotten a look at the fight …
We have arrived in a new year of robot combat and we are looking forward into what the year 2024 has to offer. To help us do that we have one of the masterminds behind every NHRL event Jimmy Gibson! …
Well we are on the other side of the Havoc All-Stars invitational event and wow what an event that was. One builder who had an amazing time is our good friend Corey Nason builder of Synthesis and Syn…
Have you ever wondered what exactly a henchman does? What was it like building a jet engine robot? Who the hell is Maple Syrup man? What about what went into putting together Open Sauce? We ask these…
Welcome back to another exciting episode, this episode we wanted to get to know the people behind the podcast and see what makes them tick. Each Pit Crew member was asked to come up with an interesti…
This is our inaugural episode where we are breaking down the first round matchups for all 36 bots in our championship event. We will talk about the matchup and how each bot did this year as well as w…