Willem Jacob "WJ" Dijkstra was a prominent roboteer in Robot Wars and Dutch Robot Wars. He is best known for Gravity, a series of robots with flippers, the third of which reached the top eight in Series 7. They were sequentially numbered 1-5, although during their TV appearances, they were known simply as Gravity. Despite Gravity having been sold on to Team Tie-Rip, Gravity's current owner invited WJ Dijkstra and Alexander Russchen to rejoin the Gravity team for the Series 8 of Robot Wars, with Dijkstra driving the robot. However, their application was unsuccessful.
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| - Willem Jacob "WJ" Dijkstra was a prominent roboteer in Robot Wars and Dutch Robot Wars. He is best known for Gravity, a series of robots with flippers, the third of which reached the top eight in Series 7. They were sequentially numbered 1-5, although during their TV appearances, they were known simply as Gravity. Despite Gravity having been sold on to Team Tie-Rip, Gravity's current owner invited WJ Dijkstra and Alexander Russchen to rejoin the Gravity team for the Series 8 of Robot Wars, with Dijkstra driving the robot. However, their application was unsuccessful.
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| - WJ and Gravity 3 @ Genk live event
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| - Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
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| - Jeroen van Lieverloo
- Mark Nievelstein
- Alexander Russchen
- Greg Cathalina
- Mario "Maddox" de Jongh
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| - Record for the quickest Battle in the UK Robot Wars
- Winner of the House Robot Rebellion
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| - Willem Jacob "WJ" Dijkstra was a prominent roboteer in Robot Wars and Dutch Robot Wars. He is best known for Gravity, a series of robots with flippers, the third of which reached the top eight in Series 7. They were sequentially numbered 1-5, although during their TV appearances, they were known simply as Gravity. WJ was the captain of Team Mad Science (also known as Mad Science Robotics or Team Madmen) and worked with fellow Dutch roboteer Greg Cathalina and Flemish roboteers Mario "Maddox" de Jongh and Babeth van Son to build and enter Project One in Dutch Series 1 (although Babeth did not appear on TV with Team Madmen because of the three team members limit, Team Flextreme accepted her as the third member, a practice not uncommon with the Dutch/Belgian roboteers). Because it proved difficult for team members based in the Netherlands and Belgium to come together to work on building robots, the two parts of the team decided to work on separate projects for Dutch Series 2 (although the two parts of the team still came together to provide components for each other's new robots), so WJ temporarily split from the other team members and built the rest of his robots mostly on his own, including all versions of Gravity and Elevation, one third of the clusterbot √3. However, WJ did invite the other two members of the √3 team, Jeroen van Lieverloo from Impact and Alexander Russchen from ODT-Zero, along to UK Series 7 as his teammates as they did not have their own robots ready in time. He also sold a spot on his team for Dutch Series 2 on a public forum, which was won by Mark Nievelstein. Despite Gravity having been sold on to Team Tie-Rip, Gravity's current owner invited WJ Dijkstra and Alexander Russchen to rejoin the Gravity team for the Series 8 of Robot Wars, with Dijkstra driving the robot. However, their application was unsuccessful.
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