Basenji was a competitor from New York which competed in Season 2 of Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors and Nickelodeon Robot Wars. It reached the second round of both the Season 2 US Championship and the Nickelodeon Annihilator before being eliminated. Team Chippermonkey also competed in Nickelodeon Robot Wars with loanerbots Rigby and Squirmin Vermin. Basenji was named after the breed of African hunting dog; in the team's first round intro John Carioti noted the dogs were the breed favoured by Egyptian Pharaohs.