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Jan 28, 2022 03:26
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 at Ghost Raptor resurrecting this opponent 3 times so they can lose to it
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Jan 28, 2022 03:37
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That one's gonna be close, probably Glitch though.
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Jan 28, 2022 03:37
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Glitch has some glitches and lol Ghost Raptor Chuck is a cool dude tho
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Jan 28, 2022 03:37
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Christ, Sawblaze is so surgical
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Jan 28, 2022 03:54
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Jamison Go is such a good driver
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Jan 28, 2022 03:56
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Sawbalze rules, that bot is legit
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Jan 28, 2022 03:57
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JT Jag posted:Christ, Sawblaze is so surgical If "Chopping someone to pieces by swinging an axe up and down repeatedly like a cartoon barbarian" counts as surgical then yes 
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Jan 28, 2022 03:57
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Have the mini bots some people use ever been even slightly decisive in a fight?
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Jan 28, 2022 03:58
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DarklyDreaming posted:If "Chopping someone to pieces by swinging an axe up and down repeatedly like a cartoon barbarian" counts as surgical then yes
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Jan 28, 2022 03:59
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Lucky noooooo I had to rewatch it and I feel like Tantrum's puncher probably would've jarred it loose. But in that case probably would've been best to position yourself right underneath for if/when Tantrum does fall, rather than forcing the issue.
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JT Jag posted:Yeah, but with Jamison's driving he can basically pick and choose what specific parts of the bot he wants to chop off. When the hammer gets stuck, he just slammed them against the walls. It was so goddamn brutal.
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Jan 28, 2022 04:17
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Sammus posted:Have the mini bots some people use ever been even slightly decisive in a fight? i vaguely remember one getting underneath the opponent's bot and making it immobile, or something like that
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If you want more of Jamison Go... NHRL put up a highlight video of their 2021 finals. He's ran 3 bots in it including a 30 pound Sawblaze... There's also a few other Battlebots faces in the fights and Team Kraken's captain on the judges panel. Also they deserve way move love on YouTube now that they are putting out pretty good results / compilation videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5hZVGyfUQM SLICK GOKU BABY fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:If you want more of Jamison Go... NHRL put up a highlight video of their 2021 finals. He's ran 3 bots in it including a 30 pound Sawblaze... There's also a few other Battlebots faces in the fights and Team Kraken's captain on the judges panel. Also they deserve way move love on YouTube now that they are putting out pretty good results / compilation videos! Watched that last night before going to bed, was quite good, definitely worth a watch. So Skorpios then. Were they dicks for continuing the fight and not letting Blade get counted out? I always thought it was an unwritten rule that if someone was disabled you backed off and let them get counted out, you didn't keep going back and doing more and more unnecessary damage. Its not like they're an inexperienced team and couldn't tell that Blade wasn't fully mobile.
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Jan 28, 2022 11:28
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Sammus posted:Have the mini bots some people use ever been even slightly decisive in a fight? Those tiny bots that you can buy online in a kit? Probably not. Deathroll's minibot overseas however,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW-Uw2rJ5vE
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Scorpios definitely could have backed off. But I feel like they might have been at least a bit worried about the smoke that was coming out of their bot a few times during the match and wanted to keep going. The Battlebox really is the only place a lot of teams can actually test their bots... It also wasn't a random unknown team to Team Skorpios. So it's quite likely that they even had some form of agreement to keep the fight going or possibly said to keep going during the fight. They even did a short chat with the team where Zach marvels at how beautiful their bot is... (He did a few videos prior to the start of filming while teams were arriving and getting through safety stuff)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYataaVuInU&t=313s
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Oh well... and more fun from them  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1NptdMa1jw And Part 2... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzbvX_9ctYM SLICK GOKU BABY fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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JT Jag posted:Oof, bad luck for Tombstone Tombstone hits so hard, it took out two bots in just one blow. Unfortunately one of those two bots was Tombstone itself.  Hilariously, Mammoth's plan of letting Tombstone go hog wild until it hosed itself up almost worked perfectly apart from one little detail.
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Jan 28, 2022 15:11
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Bertha the Toaster posted:Watched that last night before going to bed, was quite good, definitely worth a watch. Watching the big Norwalk compilation, I was struck by how frequently a team would "tap out" of fight, sometimes at the first sign of trouble. It makes a lot of sense when there are a lot of teams without tons of extra parts to work with. I think the unwritten rule in Battlebots actually goes the other direction. We've seen teams tap out once or twice, but for the most part everyone is there with lots of extra parts and time to do repairs. I think there's likely pressure to keep the fight going if your bot is at all functional because everyone wants to put on a good show at that point. They made it clear the Blade team is super experienced. I don't think Skorpios crossed the line.
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To quote one of the refs: "there's no tapping out in BattleBots". You're either dead or you're fighting.
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Great Beer posted:To quote one of the refs: "there's no tapping out in BattleBots". Yeah, Norwalk has a button for it, but the only way to tap out in Battlebots is to ask your opponents to let you get counted out.
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You can tell the ref you're done and stop moving, but your opponent still has 10 seconds to beat on you until the count finishes.
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There's a lot of lucky failures that'll swing a fight due to the massive stresses involved in the 250lb fights, too. And a "good" loss can be valuable since getting into the tournament at the end isn't strictly based on the raw win:loss rating. Showing you can stick it out for three minutes is thus better.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Scorpios definitely could have backed off. But I feel like they might have been at least a bit worried about the smoke that was coming out of their bot a few times during the match and wanted to keep going. The Battlebox really is the only place a lot of teams can actually test their bots... I noticed it seemed like the smoke only occurred after they made a hit, so I think what is happening is the weapon is coming to an immediate stop, so the belt slips and creates a friction burn which probably serves as sort of a clutch. Edit: after re-watching it, I see its actually a chain, so I'm going to guess there is an actual clutch that is burning to keep the chain from destroying the weapon drive train. - Yep found a video where he shows it in detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF8pYcN2ogs PITT fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Jan 29, 2022 |
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Malice was finally working and they had to go up against Jackpot looking stronger than ever. Just horrible, horrible luck. The Tombstone fight was the most Tombstone fight possible. Also Lucky finally got Lucky. Unfortunately their driver hosed it up. And Sawblaze looks fierce this year. Those new forks are way more effective than I thought they'd be.
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NightGyr posted:You can tell the ref you're done and stop moving, but your opponent still has 10 seconds to beat on you until the count finishes. I feel like teams used carve up corpses alot more in the Comedy Central days. Probably because it was a one and done tournament, so if you lost, at most, you were looking at fighting in a rumble Also, they should totally bring back rumbles at the end of a season
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Some absolute clown rear end decision making this episode. Glad the two teams I dislike most (Mad Catter, Malice) got absolutely wrecked. Glitch looked cool, too bad it was completely immobile.
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Hyped for Glitch because I'm a sucker for omni wheels
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Chronojam posted:Hyped for Glitch because I'm a sucker for omni wheels It was real cool until it failed like 60 seconds in.
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Glitch was 100% the lesson in weaknesses of omni wheels. Shatter can get away with it because it doesn't need to push up against other bots just keep its distance.
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NightGyr posted:Glitch was 100% the lesson in weaknesses of omni wheels. Shatter can get away with it because it doesn't need to push up against other bots just keep its distance. Shatter probably has a better distribution on its omni wheels as well. The delta design of Glitch almost certainly did them no favors in terms of mobility.
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I finally got a chance to catch up on the latest ep. Was Tombstone v Mammoth the first double KO in Battlebots? Has this ever happened before in any other league? It seems like it would have by now.
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Railing Kill posted:I finally got a chance to catch up on the latest ep. Do bonus fights count? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5uc3-13uJk
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Jan 29, 2022 19:32
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Didn't deep six double KO against (with?) nelly the ellybot? Edit yep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LF9ajD9XcU
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Andrea from Witch Doctor put up a Q&A video that I guess she is doing with Patreons / FB supporters... Quite a bit of behind the scenes & production stuff thrown in, along with some chat with the fight with Duck. Including bots having to go into a special tent after the fights to make sure the batteries don't catch fire... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbZKTknF7oU
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How blip's flipper works is pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzZufNCXaeE They push a spinning flywheel into a clutch using a pair of what looks like hand-made solenoids, which begins twisting a synthetic fiber cord. The cord acts as a continuously variable transmission, so it starts out with very little force but ramps up as it continues to twist and shorten in length, which probably goes a long way toward not destroying itself. The cord pulls a sliding assembly inward, and that interfaces with the flipping arm with gear teeth. Springs pull everything back into firing position after the flywheel has lost its momentum.
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Railing Kill posted:I finally got a chance to catch up on the latest ep. Probably the most famous one from way back when on comedy central: https://youtu.be/cC_8X1f9Vwk
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