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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:I believe it's in 1 of the Team Witch Doctor / Hypershock weekly recap episodes where they had 1 of the Battlebots creators on for an interview where it was mentioned that having a bot on fire is why they didn't want those ringouts. Here is the interview with Greg where he talks about the safety on keeping bots from going out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntvPZBjhlNw&t=1046s
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PostNouveau posted:The Skorpios video above says that the "Shelf" is the new "out area," and they've taken more precautions to prevent bots from sticking between the plexiglass and area edge. You can just drive off the Shelf though, it's not like getting yeeted into the corner and being instantly knocked out. You only get knocked out if you stay up there quote:6.1.3 “The Shelf” https://battlebots.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/BattleBots-Tournament-Rules.Rev_.2021.0.pdf
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Huge is going to laugh at the shelf.
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Gort posted:You can just drive off the Shelf though, it's not like getting yeeted into the corner and being instantly knocked out. You only get knocked out if you stay up there Oh, sounds like it's not really the "out" area then
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Battlebots has a page up on Amazon Prime Video again, but it's prompting for Discovery+ this year.  Maybe that will change after the first episode's up
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logikv9 posted:hydra triggers controversy again with a lifter attachment that allows it to flip while hiding on the shelf lol
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It's probably usually better to not post much or any spoilers until after the Discovery air time. But the 1st episode is already up on Discovery Plus!
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Fish Of Doom posted:Fight card baby! Prediction: Deep Six is gonna punt Pain Train across the entire box
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:It's probably usually better to not post much or any spoilers until after the Discovery air time. But the 1st episode is already up on Discovery Plus! Welp time to go watch that, thanks for the tip
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episode 1 thoughts lol have we seen so much actual fire on this show before all in one episode? next year the arena is just going to be surrounded in large ventilator holes and if you get a robot into one of them you automatically win sawblaze v minotaur - probably the only fight where things worked correctly for everyone involved. this must be on the first times i've been minotaur lose the match because of like actual damage inflicted onto its innards versus it taking 90 hits and then deciding that it doesn't want to spin up the drum anymore. but what a loving tank, there should be an award for joining the "spent the entire match on fire but kept moving". sawblaze's new forks also looked legitimately useful and durable, minotaur is usually pretty good at bending those things upward but they stood their ground this time. uppercut v gigabyte - we all knew how that was going to go. uppercut looks a bit nerfed this year, i legitimately expected it to send gigabyte into the audience but the hits were still potent. definitely more stable that prior years, and definitely a big contender for the top prize imo switchback v gruff - i can't tell if it moved slowly because the drivers were new, the motortrain was weak / flawed, or maybe both. the design is very beautiful and i'm a big fan of new designs in a sea of spinning hunks of metal. that said this is still a spinning hunk of metal but that arm is so cool! i don't think it's going to work out well for them because i have a bad feeling it's too top heavy, meaning the arm is going to be too slow to do anything significant and it's going to be a pain to drive around the box. captain shred v tombstone - as the thread's tombstone apologist i am deeply saddened by tombstone's horrific self-own. ray definitely said it best that there was too much that was new all at once in tombstone... a lot of what made it reliable was all that old stuff, but to fight against the Zoomer bots it had to try and upgrade where it could. i'm guessing he's going to replace a lot of the newer parts with their more reliable older counterparts, meaning that it'll just be normal tombstone for other fights. which will still be a sight to behold!! free shipping v blacksmith - the rules doesn't say that fire couldn't just be a permanent part of your robot, so i guess they decided to make free shipping 30% flames. but blacksmith aka nj sawblaze now finally has a real weapon that wasn't its prior playdoh crap hammer to backup its relatively reliable / armored body, and while i don't see it eating pieces of other robots like sawblaze i think it'll make it relatively far! the sparks probably add damage points for its scorecard. pain train v deep six -  more blood for the blood godhydra v end game - again big RIP to hydra after extensive upgrades break after one hit. end game's silly looking forward forks looks effective when they aren't getting stuck in the killsaws, otherwise this is just more evidence towards the eventual battlebots convergence to lower and lower robots for better and better ground game until all bots are flat sheets of metal. all praise our 2D battlebots future arena thoughts: that corner is a killer for fullbody spinners, otherwise idk how the shelf is going to affect things yet.
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I'm so hyped for this, let's go Uppercut.
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Bluh, episode's up on Amazon now, you do need Discovery+ after all, 5 a month. I'll just have to make a note to cancel it
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I'm not really a Sawblaze believer. I think they win with good driving a lot but that weapon's never been much to write home about. It's like a less-effective Whiplash. I'd think Minotaur takes this one.
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The driver for Minotaur is so dang intense, I love it.
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How do you get into the upper deck? I don't see any ramps
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One of the most effective flame throwerings ever. Usually those things don't do poo poo unless you hold the other bot still and roast them for like 15 seconds straight Same judges this year? I remember one of the dudes was kind of a dipshit last year
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Gigabyte owned goaled themselves there
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Gigabyte owned goaled themselves there Ah they weren't gonna win no matter what they did
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Hell yeah a new looking design
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Switchback is cool, but I think a good hit on the pivot mechanism will destroy it
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Switchback's weapon sure looked weak for how much they talked it up.
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Hell yeah Tombstone timeNissin Cup Nudist posted:How can the arm not self right Did it move on its own at any point? It got bounced around, but it seemed like they lost the ability to move the arm themselves.
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That ruled Time for 2 minutes of them of them shoving each other around unless this fire kills Tombstone They were talking last year about hardening Captain Shredderator up a lot. Seems like they did it!
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Fire for the fire gods Stunned Shred didn't crap out first
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We've replaced Blacksmith with Sawblaze. Let's see if the fans notice
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Fire for the fire gods Speaking of, here's Free Shipping. If they don't erupt in a massive explosion at some point then continue to deftly drive for the full match we will all have been robbed.
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Sweet fight. I'd give it to Blacksmith
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I love Deep Six What if the weapon is the robot
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