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Battlebots is returning Friday May 11 at 8pm Eastern on the Discovery Channel. https://twitter.com/BattleBots/status/992801134858330113  Old thread.
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May 6, 2018 07:14
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The Walrus posted:why do they even let those wedge bots compete they're unstoppable as i recall The new (since 2015) rules require every bot to have some kind of active weapon, so pure wedge bots are a thing of the past.
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May 6, 2018 15:23
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Great episode! I like that they cut back on the fluff to show 5 battles per episode instead of 4. Huge was great but the first spinner it faces is gonna destroy those wheels.
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May 12, 2018 02:02
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:
Yeah, that really stood out to be. Minotaur must be a really solidly built bot because I don't think I've ever seen anyone take that many hits from Tombstone and keep ticking.
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May 12, 2018 05:02
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lol were Hypershock's batteries not attached to the chassis by anything other than the wires
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May 26, 2018 02:02
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Also, Gamma Nine was robbed.
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May 26, 2018 03:09
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wormil posted:I'm a casual fan but this season is the best yet. My wife is usually indifferent to everything on tv but she's really getting into this season and yelling during the matches, it's kind of funny actually. Yeah, I'm enjoying it so far. Cutting back on the fluff and having five fights per episode instead of four is great.
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May 31, 2018 04:51
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lol at the stupid burger bot
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Jun 2, 2018 02:09
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Huge vs Free Shipping was a really good fight.
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Jun 9, 2018 02:03
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Well, if Battlebots just accepted the most powerful bots, the competition would be made up of 32 minor variations on Tombstone. For the sake of entertainment, they pick bots with a wide variety of weapons, designs, and other gimmicks. If you want to get in to Battlebots, you're probably better off making burgerbot 2.0 than making the best possible bot (Tombstone)
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Jun 19, 2018 07:29
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When it was one minute to the top of the hour and Bite Force stopped moving, I thought it was over but lol nope
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Jun 23, 2018 02:03
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Sawblaze probably makes the best use of a flamethrower out of any other bot since the revival (I know that's not saying much)
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Jun 24, 2018 07:54
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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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Jul 1, 2018 08:54
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I'm shocked at how sturdy Huge is.
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Jul 7, 2018 05:01
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PITT posted:I think the judges made a strange call on that last one, I thought they were suppose to keep somewhat of a tally of hits etc to judge score. Ken seemed salty about it too.  It was a weird one. If I was scoring that fight, I'd give Icewave full credit for damage, none for control, and little for strategy. And I'd give Skorpios no credit for damage and full credit for control and strategy. So, then there's aggression. That makes it a tough call, like, in my mind, Skorpios was being way, way more aggressive, since Icewave spent most of that fight running away, but it didn't get many attacks in with its powered weapon, which is supposed to be the most important aspect of aggression. But then there's also "consideration is also given if the attacking robot is risking serious damage on each attack," which would be in Skorpios' favor. If I was a judge, I'd probably have scored it as a slim victory for Icewave, but I could see it going the other way depending on how you interpret "aggression."
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Jul 7, 2018 05:55
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PostNouveau posted:Basically The rules require that a bot have some kind of powered weapon to enter.
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Jul 8, 2018 15:01
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Duck! fought valiantly, but Bronco is a really, really good bot.
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Jul 14, 2018 02:31
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Junkyard Wars was amazing.
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Jul 16, 2018 22:57
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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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Aug 4, 2018 19:06
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