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PostNouveau posted:Mammoth creates a lot of weird physics stuff, but I never really feel like it's a good show. It's got the Huge concept of a bot that is hard to damage because of how odd it is, but then there is absolutely no weapon at all. Does a bunch of little love taps and tries to win on technically "hitting" the opponent more. It's like watching a Floyd Mayweather match except Mammoth loses 90% of the time. Mammoth had some good showings back when ringouts didn't require an act of God. In the current Battlebox, there's no chance.
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PostNouveau posted:Apparently the Captain Shredderator team were very pissed at the Riptide guy after the competition. Interested to see what this is about. Maybe a match controversy or an Ethan Kurtz making an rear end of himself controversy. Sounds like he's not a heel, he's an actual rear end in a top hat.
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I appreciate that the Mammoth flair breaks the format Also, yeah, Ethan Kurtz, Apparently Just An rear end in a top hat is making me feel very charitable towards the Ewerts
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Yeah I don't really have a big issue with Jake Ewert other than he should probably have shut up about losing a little sooner; even with the cowcatcher thing it seemed a lot more like a referee failure than him flaunting anything, in retrospect Tombstone's just funny because Ray Billings seems like really obviously a nice guy having a good time Mason's guest commenting next episode and I don't know if it'd be funner if he keeps up his shtick during the whole thing or drops it entirely just for that. The guest commentating has been fun though they should keep it up, even if mostly they're just awkward.
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The ewerts have a long history of being rules lawyer types. The things they do aren't always in the spirit of the competition but are technically allowed. See: son of whyachis initial weight bonus as a walker for using shufflers, minibots that do nothing but high center opponents, the bike rack. Kinda douchy but not being assholes.
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Mar 8, 2023 01:55
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Great Beer posted:minibots that do nothing but high center opponents To be fair, has any other minibot ever done anything effective in a fight? High-centering is about all they can do besides be mascots/get team kids some stick time.
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Mar 8, 2023 02:00
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I love high-center minibots and shufflers, an opinion I've had forever. More weight bonuses for silly engineering!
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PostNouveau posted:Apparently the Captain Shredderator team were very pissed at the Riptide guy after the competition. Interested to see what this is about. Maybe a match controversy or an Ethan Kurtz making an rear end of himself controversy. Oh poo poo,  drama incoming
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Chronojam posted:I love high-center minibots and shufflers, an opinion I've had forever. More weight bonuses for silly engineering! Shufflers are cool but they aren't walkers and don't deserve the full bonus weight a walker gets. I love seeing crazy poo poo like stompychomp even if it's not effective.
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PostNouveau posted:Apparently the Captain Shredderator team were very pissed at the Riptide guy after the competition. Interested to see what this is about. Maybe a match controversy or an Ethan Kurtz making an rear end of himself controversy. I have a high tolerance for drama, but I really hope the show doesn't spend a lot of time on the MAGA chud vs the autism/vax grifter
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El Fideo posted:I have a high tolerance for drama, but I really hope the show doesn't spend a lot of time on the MAGA chud vs the autism/vax grifter I would appreciate it if they'd tone down the drama where they can for the teams' sakes. Apparently, the Minotaur-Witch Doctor match last year actually generated loving death threats for Team Witch Doctor, and the Tantrum-Hydra match caused a lot of harassment for Team Tantrum, and Lisa Winter gets a fair amount of harassment in general, and I think you can see the pattern here. But whatever this is sounds like it's unavoidably going to be dramatic. Also it involves only dudes so unless it's a controversial judging decision, it probably will mysteriously not result in harassment of the teams.
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PostNouveau posted:I would appreciate it if they'd tone down the drama where they can for the teams' sakes. Apparently, the Minotaur-Witch Doctor match last year actually generated loving death threats for Team Witch Doctor, and the Tantrum-Hydra match caused a lot of harassment for Team Tantrum, and Lisa Winter gets a fair amount of harassment in general, and I think you can see the pattern here.  I agree with this assessment
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PostNouveau posted:Apparently the Captain Shredderator team were very pissed at the Riptide guy after the competition. Interested to see what this is about. Maybe a match controversy or an Ethan Kurtz making an rear end of himself controversy. Considering Shredderator probably has next to 0 chance against Riptide. If there is some post match drama, I would bet good money that Ethan made a few post death hits that pissed Team Shredderator off.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Considering Shredderator probably has next to 0 chance against Riptide. If there is some post match drama, I would bet good money that Ethan made a few post death hits that pissed Team Shredderator off. Oh yeah, that sounds like exactly something he'd do. Go for the de-shelling like Tombstone did to Gigabyte.
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He recreates Shredderator's inevitable defeat then gets dizzy and falls on one of them
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PostNouveau posted:Apparently the Captain Shredderator team were very pissed at the Riptide guy after the competition. Interested to see what this is about. Maybe a match controversy or an Ethan Kurtz making an rear end of himself controversy. i will say that, without reading or knowing anything at all, if this is nick nave (brian's son) he's been on the subreddit a lot over the years just kinda generally being an rear end and a sore loser. usually willing to talk up any and all drama. so just take it for what it's worth. it varies from year to year but i remember him popping off years back about multiple stuff
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Great Beer posted:The ewerts have a long history of being rules lawyer types. The things they do aren't always in the spirit of the competition but are technically allowed. See: son of whyachis initial weight bonus as a walker for using shufflers, minibots that do nothing but high center opponents, the bike rack. Kinda douchy but not being assholes. too many teams used those minibots prior and after for me to hold that against them, and warrior clan using them was because it was designed for the 200lbs class and it's legitimately a psychotic enough design that you can't really simply just 'scale it up'. using that extra weight as minibots just so you can get a design that never got on TV is fine
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A little breakdown of the Scorpios / Sawblaze fight and delivering the Overkill blade to Jamison Go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPaHazSnTYQ
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Borsche69 posted:too many teams used those minibots prior and after for me to hold that against them, and warrior clan using them was because it was designed for the 200lbs class and it's legitimately a psychotic enough design that you can't really simply just 'scale it up'. using that extra weight as minibots just so you can get a design that never got on TV is fine I was thinking more of the 1lb micro wedges new Son of Whyachi used briefly. They were entirely incapable of doing anything but high centering the target. With things like warrior clans wedges or shaman they at least had the ability to release after wedging.
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High centering an opponent really is the only thing the minibots are ever good for. Some teams run them just because they have the weight, but getting under the other bot is pretty much their only strategic use. Even Gemini running 2 125lb bots couldn't do poo poo against a 250lb bot...
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Bushido Brown posted:It seems like it’ll be nothing. Psh, seems like Borsche69 was right about Nick Nave just liking to stir poo poo up on Reddit
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Witch Doctor vlog from before and after the Gruff fight. And some Minotaur planning as well and pretty much accepting their frame is at least going to get wrecked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ICr0eEtDzg
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Witch Doctor vlog from before and after the Gruff fight. And some Minotaur planning as well and pretty much accepting their frame is at least going to get wrecked.  they cut through a wheel hub the long way
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PostNouveau posted:Apparently the Captain Shredderator team were very pissed at the Riptide guy after the competition. Interested to see what this is about. Maybe a match controversy or an Ethan Kurtz making an rear end of himself controversy. Spoiler from the episode... Pretty obvious Shredderator was dead / dying, but still spinning and moving so Riptide gave them a few extra hits until they stopped, no tap outs in Battlebots... Seemed pretty obvious they were not happy. Could say they got shredderated. SLICK GOKU BABY fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Congrats to Team Riptide, I guess, for somehow making me root for Team Shredderator. Egads that team is obnoxious.
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Riptide-Shredderator: woooooooo that Shredderator frame is toast. I dunno if I buy Riptide's excuse that the free-spinning shell made it look like it was still functional. Mammoth-Deathroll: Just noticed how much of a resemblance Deathroll has to the new Kraken. Ah, all those pit problems Mammoth had really showed in the fight. That wasn't much of anything. Banshee-Emulsifier: Both bots looked gimpy to start. Mainly I think those treads aren't doing it for Emulsifier. It gets around OK (nothing to write home about) when it's not engaged, but as soon as it engages, it's completely unable to push its weapon through. I think the fork actually hurt them a lot in that fight because of that lack of drive power. Copperhead-Kraken: Oh my god, Kraken looked Claw Viper-level fast for about 3 seconds there. Despite getting their rear end beat, Kraken looked wayyyyyyyyyyy more functional than their other fights. Copperhead looking great again as usual, but they haven't really faced the cream of the crop so far. Future fight speculation: I think Ripperoni is a somewhat favorable matchup for Copperhead, but I could see it going the other way. Ripperoni just needs to flip them and get one good shot on their backside to win. Horizon-Shatter: lol that Smeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee minibot. I would hope there's not a team in the field that is sad enough to be slowed down by that thing. Horizon finally gets a proof of concept? Great to see them so pumped at finally getting their bot working. It's a super weird weapon that seems like it's got a critical RPM point where it goes from doing absolutely nothing to doing something (not that it hits incredibly hard when it's full speed though.) Can't tell how many of those hits were Shatter's weapon sending itself flying. Obviously a good time for Shatter to appeal. Seems like a very technical fight to score so I could see a scorecard going the other way, especially with Horizon's weapon going halfway down and Shatter not having anything but cosmetic damage. Ominous-Shreddit Bro: Ominous did a Nightmare! Saddest fight of the year? They put a loving long-rear end preview for Whiplash-Monsoon in the middle of it! I can't recall them ever doing that before. Whiplash-Monsoon: Really interesting fight. On first glance, I think Monsoon won it so I can see why they appealed. There was so much for the judges to look at in that one. Weird Monsoon guy spooning his girlfriend the whole fight. Overall: Worst episode of the season so far? 3 weeks off, apparently!
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I think the show did a good job this week of not letting an appeal get in the way of things. It seems like we're going to see more of them as teams with nothing to lose take a hail mary appeal.
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PostNouveau posted:Riptide-Shredderator: woooooooo that Shredderator frame is toast. I dunno if I buy Riptide's excuse that the free-spinning shell made it look like it was still functional. Yea I dunno. Team Riptide are cocky assholes and I really hope someone really just fucks their bot up. But realistically it was like 10-20 seconds where they definitely could have backed off, but if the other bot is spinning / moving, not many teams would unless they had a slow spin up time. Plus they always claim, "If we're spinning, we're winning..." quote:Copperhead-Kraken: Not really a spoiler for anything but... I'm not sure. The fight is going to come down 100% just to the ground game. In all of Copperhead's career, they haven't had too many fights against verts. They beat Fusion & Lockjaw last year and lost to Witch Doctor. quote:
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Yea I dunno. Team Riptide are cocky assholes and I really hope someone really just fucks their bot up. But realistically it was like 10-20 seconds where they definitely could have backed off, but if the other bot is spinning / moving, not many teams would unless they had a slow spin up time. Plus they always claim, "If we're spinning, we're winning..." To bolster Riptide's case a bit too, It's extremely important to get the kill shot when you can. Fights often come down to one big shot that disables something important, and teams have lost matches by not taking the open shot to see if their opponent was still moving. That said though, Riptide wasn't in any danger of ever losing this one. They could have afforded to back off and assess because even if Capt. Shred spun back up and started moving again, Riptide was simply going to pound it into the dirt again.
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Yeah with that one tbh if it were me I wouldn't have stopped either. It's still moving and they didn't start a countdown, and it was really only a matter of seconds.
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RBA Starblade posted:Yeah with that one tbh if it were me I wouldn't have stopped either. It's still moving and they didn't start a countdown, and it was really only a matter of seconds. There is some chatter online about something I didn't notice during the episode that Capt. Shred team essentially tapped out and was asking Riptide team to stop hitting them. No tapping out in Battlebots and all, but if that's true it's some real bad sportsmanship.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:
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PostNouveau posted:There is some chatter online about something I didn't notice during the episode that Capt. Shred team essentially tapped out and was asking Riptide team to stop hitting them. No tapping out in Battlebots and all, but if that's true it's some real bad sportsmanship. I saw that but we know that they tend to splice stuff like that oddly so I wonder. The ref said they gave a warning though, so maybe it's worse than it looked to me. Unrelatedly Mammoth is neat, but man they need to reconsider what they're doing. It can't seem to do anything without lifting itself. Mason's a good commentator for this! He knows when to drop it lol RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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tbh Riptide was probably doing them a favor considering Shrederator sucks rear end and they should try a new bot already
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RBA Starblade posted:Mason's a good commentator for this! He knows when to drop it lol Thank god Queering Wheel posted:tbh Riptide was probably doing them a favor considering Shrederator sucks rear end and they should try a new bot already I hope if Shrederator is too damaged to do the last fight that they give it to Terrortops.
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RBA Starblade posted:Mason's a good commentator for this! He knows when to drop it lol Kenny looked delighted watching the shift. Based on his background, I imagine he appreciates a good persona. Great Beer posted:That preview during them ominous vs shreddit bro fight was the most disrespectful thing. We promise there's a good one right after this! Please don't change the channel! The Modern Leper fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Mar 10, 2023 |
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