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Here's how Ghost Raptor can still win:
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 02:45 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 13:40 |
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Oh good Overhaul is here to stink up the joint
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 02:46 |
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RBA Starblade posted:Here's how Ghost Raptor can still win: Re-entering as four separate robots?
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 02:54 |
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Who did Blip team bribe to draw Rusty and Overhaul for their first two matches?
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 03:01 |
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DarklyDreaming posted:Re-entering as four separate robots? Ghost Compies
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 03:06 |
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Weird Retrograde didn't go with the undercutter for Huge. I dunno what the lifter is supposed to do Edit: yeahhhhh seems like you want to go into a fight with a win condition in mind. lol Huge doing the victory dance on the upper deck PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Feb 18, 2022 |
# ? Feb 18, 2022 03:10 |
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Holy poo poo Huge
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 03:15 |
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Lmao at the Huuuuuge touchdown celebration
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 03:17 |
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lol at all those fights
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 03:25 |
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Copperhead looks insane
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 03:36 |
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I'd expect Whiplash to win, but they did get KO'd by extremely Skorpios-like bot Sawblaze
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 03:43 |
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Lol at that being a split decision
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 03:49 |
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Weird split decision. Whiplash went in basically without a weapon, which should hurt them bad in the score, but Skorpios didn't connect once with theirs anyway.
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 03:59 |
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What fight was Lisa watching?
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 04:00 |
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rip ghost raptor it was not good blip seriously has wheelie issues but drat that's a fun bot
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 05:09 |
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I don't remember a bot coming apart like Ghost Raptor since the first season when Tombstone destroyed Counter Revolution.
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 05:16 |
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Bertha the Toaster posted:I don't remember a bot coming apart like Ghost Raptor since the first season when Tombstone destroyed Counter Revolution. its gonna be the new https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlUlGMKCBBE
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 05:21 |
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Thought Blip might go far after their first fight. Seemed like its flipper was slow to recharge tonight though. Think Hydra might kick its rear end if both were 100%. Flip a coin.
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 05:23 |
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Son of Whyachi didn't even deliver that level of damage to Ghost Raptor I'd love to know if Huge got in trouble with production at all for intentionally driving onto the shelf (a move that totally ruled).
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 05:23 |
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There's no way Huge got in trouble for driving up on the shelf to dance at the end.
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 05:34 |
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Bertha the Toaster posted:I don't remember a bot coming apart like Ghost Raptor since the first season when Tombstone destroyed Counter Revolution. Besides son of whyachi, jackpot also nearly ripped ghost raptor in half. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY3q-ZipPlw I thought it had been torn apart before but I seem to be misremembering.
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 05:40 |
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I was thinking that Ghost Raptor was ripped apart before also, but I guess it must be another bot... I don't remember which bot it was that had both sides of it's drive separated and trying to drive around though... But that was probably the most in pieces moment ever... and likely something that is going to get added to a lot of the vertical spinners strategy in the future. Just ram the other bot as hard as possible into the rails and feed it into the spinner. Something is going to break on at least 1 of the bots
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 07:32 |
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Cobalt having its spinner on top instead of the front has been a liability against bots with a good ground game. But against ghost raptor it gave them the hammer saw effect of being able to spin it up and then apply full energy at impact. Bots with a front facing spinner wouldn't be able to do that.
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 14:40 |
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I actually recommend the Battlebots Facebook group to anyone who's a fan. I know, I know, Facebook, BUT a ton of the builders are active on there and answering questions constantly. Something that came up today I've been wondering about: Why do these bots have forks thin enough to get stuck in the killsaw slots. The builders say they widened the slots between seasons and didn't tell anyone, so it was just a fun surprise for anyone with forks.
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 22:56 |
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I always wanted a UK style pit, but I know that's never going to happen. But after the discussion about making the floor uneven to gently caress with the whole fork/wedgelet game I think I'd be happy to have some UK style cobblestones as the arena floor.
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 23:43 |
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PostNouveau posted:
R/battlebots is a busy place where the teams post an awful lot too. I think it was on there or the really good 'Behind the Bots' podcast (the interview with Faruq is ace) where one of the drivers mentions that the slots were widened so they could have the sparks at the start of the battles. This was done without notifying any of the teams (who are almost forensic in their knowledge of the arena anatomy) so all of the forks were designed for much smaller slots in mind. I loved seeing Huge on the stage. Is there any other robot that could get up there??
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 23:53 |
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Bertha the Toaster posted:I always wanted a UK style pit, but I know that's never going to happen. But after the discussion about making the floor uneven to gently caress with the whole fork/wedgelet game I think I'd be happy to have some UK style cobblestones as the arena floor. ever since Hypno-Disc vs Bigger Brother I cannot ever abide by an instant death pit.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 00:05 |
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Rondette posted:R/battlebots is a busy place where the teams post an awful lot too. I hope the finals end with someone getting jammed into the slots and counted out
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 00:16 |
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Rondette posted:I loved seeing Huge on the stage. Is there any other robot that could get up there?? I think it's the only one that could just drive up, maybe a flipper could launch themselves onto it. I loved how cavalier the Blip team was with self-flipping. I was nervous the whole time expecting some classic break-your-own-bot schadenfreude, but that lil guy is sturdy.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 00:20 |
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Oh boy, imagine if last season's Duck had a flipper built under it so it could just cannonball itself into the other bots ......
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 00:25 |
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Rondette posted:I loved seeing Huge on the stage. Is there any other robot that could get up there?? I would imagine some of the control bots might be able to pull themselves up there. Also possible some of the drum spinners could manage to use the gyro dancing to get up on the ledge, but it's probably 50/50 they'd just end up high centered on it.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 00:30 |
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There was that vertical spinner a couple episodes ago that popped himself onto it
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 01:16 |
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Real good fights and it's hilarious to know the slots got changed up which ultimately screwed with the forks arms race. I get the idea that it was a close match for the final fight, but I don't think it was split-decision close. Sometimes they show the scorecards, would be good to see them this time.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 04:57 |
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Ror posted:I think it's the only one that could just drive up, maybe a flipper could launch themselves onto it. One of the team members on Reddit said they were doing that because the switch on their controller broke so they got stuck in full power mode.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 08:05 |
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PostNouveau posted:I'd expect Whiplash to win, but they did get KO'd by extremely Skorpios-like bot Sawblaze I'm convinced the only reason anyone expects skorpios to do well is because it reminds them of sawblaze
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 17:18 |
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TheKnife posted:I'm convinced the only reason anyone expects skorpios to do well is because it reminds them of sawblaze And the fact that it wins a lot of matches
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 17:54 |
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TheKnife posted:I'm convinced the only reason anyone expects skorpios to do well is because it reminds them of sawblaze That Bounty Hunter ep was real badass. I think everyone sees them in a different light after that.
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# ? Feb 20, 2022 03:04 |
Probably an unpopular opinion but I have never really cared for Scorpios at all. It's just a less entertaining, worse version of Sawblaze.
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# ? Feb 20, 2022 03:18 |
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Skorpios is good at driving, Sawblaze is good at punching holes in armour. Probably one of the best at targeted armour holes, actually. I also like the Skorpios team although I was surprised and horrified that the captain/driver Zack guy is younger than me (he's like, 32)
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# ? Feb 20, 2022 03:28 |
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ante posted:I was surprised and horrified that the captain/driver Zack guy is younger than me (he's like, 32) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG8d0x1WcAc
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