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Just putting gashes in the armor and turning it red from the heat it causes. If sawblaze ever actually goes through and cuts a wire or a battery, then I will accept it's a real weapon. As it is, everything Sawblaze does is put on a show for the judges while being a high quality wedge bot.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Just putting gashes in the armor and turning it red from the heat it causes. If sawblaze ever actually goes through and cuts a wire or a battery, then I will accept it's a real weapon. As it is, everything Sawblaze does is put on a show for the judges while being a high quality wedge bot. That being said, it is a pretty awesome wedge. That being said, wedges still suck and are boring.
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the saw is totally useless because it needs time to cut through something important, but it doesn't have it because rules it also can't cut at the same place over and over again for obvious reasons, so it's basically putting a dozen papercuts all over the chassis. The only time it will work would be if the armor was pathetically thin in the first place
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Jun 25, 2018 17:26
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Counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIABF0sNnp0 Different saw bot, but I'd think Sawblaze is at least as strong
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:Counterpoint: I honestly can't tell if the saw even got through the armor or if the bot just started burning on its own.
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MiddleOne posted:I honestly can't tell if the saw even got through the armor or if the bot just started burning on its own. It cut through a battery. Aftermath shot:  This is what I meant when I said that saws don't look impressive, you can't really see what they're doing. Red Devil seemed like it barely touched Witch Doctor, but then delivered one of the most impressive KOs I've ever seen. E: Not an isolated incident either Jump King fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jun 25, 2018 |
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Lipos really don't like being damaged.
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lol Sawblaze is going to win the entire tournament. Wedge bots are proven to be the best bots and there will always be builders that find a way around the ruleset so that they can have a wedge bot.
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https://www.facebook.com/BattleBotsHuge/posts/224390691500145 Interesting read. Huge was approved by Battlebots based on an incomplete model. Then as the deadline approached, they shipped half of Huge that they managed to finish in time to California, while working on the rest. Then they did final assembly at the venue in a few days. And apparently Overhaul was sent in half built as well.
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Overhaul has always been half build though.
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In my relentless strive to do anything that will get my mind off work I checked out 2015. Couldn't stop laughing at the guy who hid a net in a present package to kill a spinner.
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MiddleOne posted:In my relentless strive to do anything that will get my mind off work I checked out 2015. Couldn't stop laughing at the guy who hid a net in a present package to kill a spinner. Want to laugh harder? He's a goon, and judging this year.
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MiddleOne posted:In my relentless strive to do anything that will get my mind off work I checked out 2015. Couldn't stop laughing at the guy who hid a net in a present package to kill a spinner. Still my favorite match ever. It was total bullshit and 100% worth it.
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ConfusedUs posted:Still my favorite match ever. It was total bullshit and 100% worth it. My favorite is still the bot with the stage pistols that coincidentally "hit" at the same time as its spinner opponent blew itself up.
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It's cripple fighting time!
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Burger bot is still bad What is Duck's powered weapon? A movable wedge doesn't really count. The Blacksmith-Witch Doctor ending,  Were Lockjaw and Bronco on the same radio frequency? Neither bot really worked right
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Well that was an incredibly lame episode.
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God drat those burgerbot doofuses for getting my hopes up that they might actually do something.  Congratz to Witch Doctor though, which is a sentence I didn't think I'd be saying any time soon. 
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The Ringer did a top ten fights of the ABC years, as well as generally sang the praises of fighting robots.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:God drat those burgerbot doofuses for getting my hopes up that they might actually do something. Yeah, this. I wanted to see that bacon spin-up but no, a piece of poo poo again. 
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I do love the clip where they basically flat out admitted they made lovely engineering choices just to make it look like a burger.
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BurntCornMuffin posted:I do love the clip where they basically flat out admitted they made lovely engineering choices just to make it look like a burger. I feel like they don't exactly expect their bot to dominate and are there to have fun
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BurntCornMuffin posted:I do love the clip where they basically flat out admitted they made lovely engineering choices just to make it look like a burger. https://battlebots.com/robot/battle-royale-with-cheese-s3/
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Gromit posted:Yeah, this. I wanted to see that bacon spin-up but no, a piece of poo poo again. Speaking of pieces of poo poo I appreciate the effort they put into its ai but has Chomp ever actually accomplished anything? Even the MIT bot dunked on it. e: lmao Duck! rules RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Jul 1, 2018 |
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The Glumslinger posted:I feel like they don't exactly expect their bot to dominate and are there to have fun
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The Glumslinger posted:I feel like they don't exactly expect their bot to dominate and are there to have fun Fun for whom. Their bot doesn't even run and for the audience it's just a complete waste of time since the match is decided before it even starts.
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beepsandboops posted:Lot of effort and money to have fun Rich nerds need hobbies How do you think this thing ever started?
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MiddleOne posted:Fun for whom. People who want to watch a stupid hamburger bot get torn apart? I mean, it's like pitting Mike Tyson against Ben Carson: you don't go to see if Tyson wins, you go to see how bad he could gently caress up Carson.
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If that's your plan, stick some sacrificial propane in there or something so that sucker gets lit up. Robot Wars had a bot in every year that was "okay", but the best thing was the fur they stuck on it that always got set on fire.
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Burger bot is a barely moving target. If it worked that would be something at least. Blacksmith is a bit of a gimmick bot but it's tough and sometimes works. Huge is a total gimmick but is hilarious because it defeats wedges and doesn't explode the instant it's hit. It's all about execution.
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The burgerbot team posted a postmortem to imgur https://imgur.com/gallery/9XZFHeE quote:Things went south... immediately. quote:The Electronic Speed Controller on the brushless weapon drive absolutely poo poo the bed. We have running theories on why the ESC cooked to death, from a current backflow to damage from a Hypershock hit. We were pretty devastated.
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Yeah, I checked out their youtube channel and I guess they tested it out in the testing box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JflaLY_Vvdk Maybe next year?
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congratulations to chomp on not being the biggest piece of poo poo robot in the tournament
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Kind of sad, the first time they meet in many years and Bronco and Lock-Jaw were both unable to operate in the way they intended.
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I understand why they couldn’t / didn’t, but I wish they would have stopped the match as soon as it was apparent that there was some sort of controller / frequency issue for both bots and let them fix things to have a proper match
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It wouldn't have helped much. One side of lockjaws drive died almost immediately. Bronco was the only one having interference issues. The team posted that they never found the cause but that it also didn't resurface so maybe it's next fight will be more impressive.
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I was wondering about the arena weapons. Do we know how much power the box hammers hit with? And what are the screws supposed to do, anyway? E: I hadn't finished watching the episode when I posted this so uh I guess that's what the screws are supposed to do. I think that's the first time I've ever seen them be a factor though. Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Jul 2, 2018 |
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Most of the arena hazards might be effective with the lower weight class bots, but they really don't do too much to these heavy weight bots. Maybe the kill saws if they got on a tire. But the screws do kind of pull a bot outside the arena, there were a few fights in the last seasons where bots were KO due to the screws. Don't think they are supposed to jam up on a bot like they tried to do with witch doctor though...
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They reverse when something jams them to prevent the motor from exploding.
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