Team Whyachi

Team Whyachi of Dorchester, Wisconsin, consists of builder and driver Jake Ewert and Terry Ewert, together with Richard ‘Dick’ Stuplich, Rachel Stuplich-Trantow and Trevor Trantow. The team has 23 years in robot combat, and its earlier robot Son of Whyachi was BattleBots champion in 2001.

Since 2019 it has competed with the hydraulic flipper Hydra, the only robot in league history to throw an opponent onto the arena ceiling; Hydra holds a 20-7 record with 12 knockouts and an 83 per cent win rate across the 2019 and 2020 seasons, and appeared in the 2024 ‘Vegas All Stars’ special. The official profile lists no titles for Hydra.