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I like Duck! and it losing that one rumble to Bombshell a couple seasons ago was the most bullshit thing I've seen in all the Robot Wars and Battlebots I've watched. I'm not much of a fan of Tombstone myself either. But some of that is probably how much they just keep hyping it up. I also mentioned this in the last thread, but one of the guys on the Skorpios team is dwangoAC of TASBot fame, who I have some contact with. Last season we chatted a bit about BB on IRC after I recognized him in the crowd, including that he originally wasn't on location but had to drive down with some extra front plates ahead of some fight since they had run out of good ones.
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"The Internet Investigator" on Youtube posted a video about The Dark Side of Robot Wars, discussing some incidents and dispelling some longstanding myths, including a skewering of Ed Hoppitt's (of Storm 2) old claims about how the producers tried to screw him, specifically, over. Claims that weren't actually looked into by anyone to see if they held any water until just a few years ago. The reason he never returned after season 8 is that he seems to have been straight up banned from RW at that point. I had read about most of the stuff that's discussed in the video, but there were some more details I didn't know, and one thing I hadn't heard about at all before was that Dead Metal apparently almost decapitated Jeremy Clarkson during the filming of The First Wars. KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Dec 14, 2021 |
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Looten Plunder posted:making Bots out of Lego Edit: Found 'em. Pictures of the full lineup of 16 bots I had. Watching AGDQ right now, can post them later. Edit 2: I'll channel 10 year old Kenny and post about my AWESOME LEGO FIGHTING ROBOTS after I've watched this week's episode. KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Jan 13, 2022 |
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PostNouveau posted:^^^ Tentamoochi or something like that. The builder is one of the judging panel now. I've liked Duck in seasons past but this season's version seems like a clear downgrade, that lifter is just... so limp and seems to just make the front weaker.
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Deep Six vs. Smeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee is up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaBejT_TpWs
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Don't forget the last Battlebots rumble had Blacksmith gently caress over Duck to get into the tournament.
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El Fideo posted:I could see the sport eventually moving towards something more like a "stock" format. You get a, b, c, or d chassis, give it e, f, g, or h wheels, armor made from I, j, or k etc., maybe on a point buy system or something. I definitely think that's a long way off, since the focus right now is split between iterations of the meta defined by Bite Force, and innovations attempting to break that meta. Lone Goat posted:That sounds incredibly loving boring Spoilers: It's not very interesting and spinners still dominate
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They did spin non-combat events off into its own show for a bit when main RW became combat only: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno_Games
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The bonus Retrograde vs. Defender fight is up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6tL8a02ibs
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Bertha the Toaster posted:Also, completely random shower thought. Isn't it weird that all three women lead teams are horizontals?
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RBA Starblade posted:House robots in Robot Wars were lame if only because no one ever teamed up to try and intentionally kill one (presumably because in the rules they couldn't) The most notable example was the Flipper Frenzy during I believe one of the Robot Wars Extremes, where four of the top tier flippers at the time were entered into a free-for-all. They instead teamed up to flip as many of the house robots as possible. Really it's just not something you'd see during the main tournament where a win is more important, but in side events where losing doesn't mean you're out of the tournament you can go more wild. There were also many occasions where after pitting the opponent, the winning bot would go on to attack the house robots. Razer famously crushed Matilda at one point because they were planning on rebuilding her anyway so they gave Razer permission to go to town on her.
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Couple of gambles in here. Almost wanted to put Cobalt as the winner but I think End Game would come out on top in that battle.
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I was surprised Blip's third fight wasn't against Hydra, really thought we'd get a flipper showdown.
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Icewave was specifially noted to have swapped in an older model of the robot, and iirc a season or two ago it was mentioned that Donald Hudson had brought three whole Lock-Jaws.
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Well my bracket got thorougly busted lol Really thought Witch Doctor was gonna take it after that Sawblaze fight. Cobalt should stop sticking things like that to the front of their bot, I think every time they've lost it's been due to those front additions. So, yeah, they have helped them at least once, but with the way their weapon is oriented, if the addition *doesn't* work they just prevent them from hitting the other bot. Also can I just mention how tired I am of hearing "impress the selection committee" and "strength of schedule", I get that it's a way to make sure the most popular bots get more camera time even if they perform like rear end but I vastly prefer the Robot Wars format where each episode sends one bot to the finals/semi-finals.
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PostNouveau posted:Someone made an application for next season for a robot you see a fair amount of in the NHRL lower weight divisions, but I don't think has ever been attempted at 250 lbs. KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Apr 12, 2022 |
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Borsche69 posted:was it really a melty? every fight I've ever seen it in just has it spinning dead in place; maybe slightly drifting in a direction. every hit it seemed to get was because someone drove into it Found some videos from Team Nuts demonstrating their test rig and a test drive where you can clearly see it's moving a specific direction while spinning. They were posted in this topic where two of the Team Nuts members, including Rory, specified some stuff. KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Apr 12, 2022 |
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