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Rondette posted:And Yeah, Faruq is great, does he write those ...things..himself? I'm sure they have writers writing all the intros, but his delivery on them is pretty flawless and fun. They might get some help on them from the teams too of course.
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We'll be fine as long as we stay inside the arena. Bronco: 
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Grand Fromage posted:We'll be fine as long as we stay inside the arena. I've always loved Inertia Labs bots since the original series No one else makes flippers that are anywhere near as fun to watch The Glumslinger fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Jul 18, 2018 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's glorious, I love it so much I can just picture the team being like "okay, it flipped upside down, but it's fine, we can just recover it afterwaaaaaaaoooohhh MY GOD!"
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Hopefully the drones they use are really cheap so no-one cares. I think it was Robot Wars years ago where a team got angry as they threw in the towel after their bot died but their opponent kept going and destroyed some really expensive parts unnecessarily. I think this season or last we had a bot get disemboweled and you can see the guys poo poo a brick and scream they gave up when their opponent headed in to keep going.
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Gromit posted:I think this season or last we had a bot get disemboweled and you can see the guys poo poo a brick and scream they gave up when their opponent headed in to keep going. Yeah I think that was against Tombstone and the driver was chuckling and telling them to stop moving so they'd be counted out. If you keep trying to get away then the fight is still going so .... 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah I think that was against Tombstone and the driver was chuckling and telling them to stop moving so they'd be counted out. If you keep trying to get away then the fight is still going so .... It's hard to tell if Ray was being merciful, or just trying to avoid damaging himself. (Tombstone's frame was compromised prior to that fight, as I recall, and he didn't have a spare)
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I think he was being nice, he seems like generally a nice guy when he isn't doing his bad guy act. it would also be a huge dick move since they can't replace it if he broke it also the barebone bot underneath would probably fold like tinfoil against tombstone's weapon so idk if it would've been harmful to itself
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Gromit posted:Hopefully the drones they use are really cheap so no-one cares. There are a lot more shots this year of teams throwing in the towel to keep their opponents from annihilating them before they get counted out. I dunno if that's happening more often because of the more-rigorous tournament schedule or it was always happening and it's just an editing choice.
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Our local goon expert said that they had ridiculously quick turnarounds and essentially last minute matchup assignments. So I'd guess it's the format. So I'd also expect it to calm down a bit as we get back into brackets in a couple weeks. Gotta say though, it's really cool to see how they patch up the bots and retool them for their next enemy bots. I don't think we got quite as much of that in previous years. I'd also postulate that since the format lets more teams compete, the competitive moxie in the workshop is stronger than it used to be.
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I just saw the match between Warhead (in T-Rex configuration) vs Sharkoprion. That was a really one-sided match, but it was entertaining, and the Sharkbot dude was hilarious in the post-match meetup between teams.
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PostNouveau posted:There are a lot more shots this year of teams throwing in the towel to keep their opponents from annihilating them.. . There is no throwing in the towel. You can stop moving and wait for the 10 count but there is no rule against contact during the count.
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wormil posted:There is no throwing in the towel. You can stop moving and wait for the 10 count but there is no rule against contact during the count. Yeah, but you can yell over to the other team "hey we're done don't hit us anymore" and hope they don't hit you anymore.
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ConfusedUs posted:I just saw the match between Warhead (in T-Rex configuration) vs Sharkoprion. Yeah that bot has a fantastic design. 
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Tunicate posted:Yeah that bot has a fantastic design. Yeah I am certain they put that fight on to have a shark fighting a dinosaur, and it was 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCoCy-RDE48 Some "botopys" of losers
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And the episode 9 bonus fight, for those without science channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIko0ccmgQM  thats some power in that cannon.
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Xelkelvos posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCoCy-RDE48 Wow Bite Force really hosed Hypershock up good
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Great Beer posted:... for those without science channel. I don't, so thanks. I love the name, mecharampage. I don't know why.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYV9Iu0CqA Early "botopsy" report from Minotaur and other bots. "We always knew it was going to be an expensive fight."
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Team Vanquish takes a lesson from Mike Tyson: "Everybody has a plan until they get hit." Edit: Or the more classical Moltke: "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."
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The hit I was thinking of was from Icewave at 3:20 in that botopsy video. Guts on the field!
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Their immediate LOL NOPE reaction at the end of the battle was pretty priceless.
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Well here's some of the Hypothermia vs. Valkyrie fight. Looks like a different spinner than the Lock-Jaw fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJKzZKGtdfc
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logikv9 posted:i need to see the full gigabyte fight. also loving laffo Valkyrie RIP Spirit of Boston
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That tournament was a cool idea. It seems like it wasn't really the last chance for losers they promoted it as because some of them weren't even doing that badly overall. One of them was even undefeated. I was expecting it to be the contestants with no wins. Lockjaw seemed to win through pure driving skill and having a second robot to swap in when one gets too damaged. It certainly looks like those lifting arms work against it and keep the opponent away from the spinner. It doesn't actually connect with the spinner very often.
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Yeah that was a pretty satisfying mini tournament with some actual stakes for the winner. Some real nice carnage as well. 
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PostNouveau posted:That tournament was a cool idea. It seems like it wasn't really the last chance for losers they promoted it as because some of them weren't even doing that badly overall. One of them was even undefeated. I was expecting it to be the contestants with no wins. Lockjaw's current design is derivative in a bad way and that's been the problem plaguing it ever since the re-design. It's just Endgame but worse in almost every way.
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PostNouveau posted:That tournament was a cool idea. It seems like it wasn't really the last chance for losers they promoted it as because some of them weren't even doing that badly overall. One of them was even undefeated. I was expecting it to be the contestants with no wins. That one undefeated one had only been in one match, though, and I don't think it was even televised. I do think its only chance of making it to the finals was winning the Desperado tournament. It seems rather unfair that the competitors don't all get the same number of matches in the fight card stage.
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MiddleOne posted:Lockjaw's current design is derivative in a bad way and that's been the problem plaguing it ever since the re-design. It's just Endgame but worse in almost every way. Its Witch Doctors paint job on last seasons Hypershock. It's better than either of them so far but it's not a visually interesting robot.
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Pakled posted:That one undefeated one had only been in one match, though, and I don't think it was even televised. I do think its only chance of making it to the finals was winning the Desperado tournament. It seems rather unfair that the competitors don't all get the same number of matches in the fight card stage. I doubt they're being that unfair. I wonder if that team missed some fights from not being able to repair fast enough.
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MiddleOne posted:Lockjaw's current design is derivative in a bad way and that's been the problem plaguing it ever since the re-design. It's just Endgame but worse in almost every way. I absolutely love how intense the driver is, though.
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If it pleases the court: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots/comments/94f67t/comment/e3m2mi6 Big table of win, loss, and strength of schedule/victory. Things of interest: the only robots to have less than two fights at this time are Vanquish (rip), tantrum, and Warhead. Of the undefeated robots, Sawblaze has had the lowest SOS and despite being 3 and 0 has the third lowest SOS in the entire tournament. Lowest SOS is Double Dutch. The highest is Reality, followed closely by Blacksmith.
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I haven’t seen all of season 3 just yet... on episode 6 or 7 at the moment, so I’m not reading the thread. Just wanted to throw this out that my son’s favorite Battlebot is Tombstone, and I just found out that I worked at the same place as the dude who made him. When I told my son, and he basically lost his poo poo. Apparently, every year for the bring your kid to work day, Ray Billings puts Tombstone on display for everyone to check out, and we got to meet him a couple months ago while season 3 was still airing. Suuuuuper nice dude, very humble and it’s fantastic what he’s done. My kid even got to touch the Giant Nut, which spawned numerous jokes. It’s something he’s going to remember forever, which is awesome. He didn’t even know what to say to Ray because of how starstruck he was. It was awesome. We’re both rooting for him to win this season. Hopefully we’ll finish watching it this week. Henrik Zetterberg fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Aug 5, 2018 |
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wormil posted:Lockjaw looks good but the spinner is too far back. Oh it looks fantastic. Which is why I'm so sad to see it lose all the time. 
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Pakled posted:That one undefeated one had only been in one match, though, and I don't think it was even televised. I do think its only chance of making it to the finals was winning the Desperado tournament. It seems rather unfair that the competitors don't all get the same number of matches in the fight card stage. Kraken held up surprisingly well and I want to see more of it.
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