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nooneofconsequence posted:Is Ziggo coming back? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ngygH4ii8
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NowonSA posted:Yeah, I think the fix was in on that first fight somewhat. Plan X has a better story going forward and variability through different equipment loadouts, and just looks like a cooler bot. It did no real damage to lovely walker bot, but that bot would take out huge chunks of it any time it got the chance to. I guess you could get points for control, but I think controlling a crappy walker and getting it to flip back over is more impressive than moving around Plan X with what has to be a dozen wheels or so. It really needs to switch out that hammer for a sawblade of its own, and give the minibots literally any weapon because they seemed useless in the first fight. I'm sure explosives of any kind are banned, with good reason, but they seem like perfect suicide bombers. quote:Well c'mon now, we want to have some question as to who the winner is. If you put a Grantbot in the ring it'll be over real quick. You'd have a prime Muhammad Ali fighting Glass Joe from Punch Out every other week.
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KyloWinter posted:I don't think anything beating tombstone.
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So would I, but I bet they were lame anyway. Actually, about half the battles on the original series were really boring push fights, so I'd have to imagine that the ones that didn't make it to TV were a special kind of awful.
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Gonz posted:Tombstone is basically unstoppable.
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Blue Canary posted:Vertical spinners tend to try and tip when turning. Good example is this match, watch the drum spinner try and turn quickly, it goes onto one side. I think Nightmare showed this a bit in its match aswell.
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raditts posted:When I heard they were bringing this show back I was really hoping they would force them to be more creative than A Goddamn Wedge vs. Another Goddamn Wedge this time.
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There were some really good 'my dog died' faces tonight.Dexo posted:once a robot is flipped and not able to move why the gently caress would Stinger continue to attack Warhead.
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Fish Of Doom posted:Little girl's dad should have brought a decent robot like he made 15 years ago. Minion, Overkill, Knee Breaker, and Toe Crusher were all great. I was a bit underwhelmed with Overdrive.
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LeJackal posted:Now vertical spinners, either they have to be huge and tall which makes flipping a nightmare, or smaller and almost drumlike. The big ones are good KE weapons, but so unwieldy. The smaller drum type like WD has can be effective, but only as a flipper - and to get that to work you have to elevate the other bot up to your drum/disc. You can make it lower, sure, but that means your drum has to be lower and/or smaller, and so needs to spin faster increasing your power/gearing requirements, etc. Drum spinners just don't seem to be worth it. The Whole Internet posted:drums are pretty good weapons actually. their matchups tend to be a mix of what spinners and flippers matchups are like. i don't know of any vertical spinners that have won a title in a heavy weightclass though... pretty much ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0dHUahUDRM Bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baP6W0mZWTo
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Seiyal posted:Time to place your bets: who's taking home the trophy?
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Didn't know Bite Force's creator also made Brutality, a Hazard clone/Icewave minus the Ice. Actually won a 2009 Battlebots tournament, but also had many of the same weaknesses of those inverted lawnmower bots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3mtJneUUzY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHjh3hwClw
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Judging by those last couple of minutes, Minotaur looks to be getting the treatment Tombstone got last season. Will it also lose to Bite Force in this competition? 
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GuavaMoment posted:I kind of remember some spinner breaking free from its robot and spinning on its own unpowered for a couple of minutes during a pause in a match. I thought it was MOE in season 4 but can't find any video or record of it. Because the hit that broke the spinner free also stuck the two robots together, there weren't any bots in the box to nudge the now spinning top of doom, so everyone had to stare at it for a few minutes before it stopped. keevo posted:Yessss. I'm so stoked about Battlebots coming back. I decided to look at the sub-Reddit and holy poo poo one of those bots that are competing scares the poo poo outta me. There's a video of it testing itself in the arena and gently caress me that thing is fast. I'll just leave it as a link if you want to remain completely spoiler free.
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Yeah, but that looks like a performance that will secure a wildcard for Lucky.
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I was shocked when Lucky and Disk O' Inferno shrugged off repeated hammer strikes from Beta and Chomp, respectively. Seems like armor is still outpacing 'thwack' weaponry.
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halokiller posted:And drat that weapon the Boys from Brazil had. First time I ever seen an effective drum spinner in this weight class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE5sLHfq6jM
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That srimech seems too slow for it to be effective during combat, especially against a bot like Stinger.
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If there's another season, they should really modify that. I know Battlebots & ABC doesn't want shoving matches between metal boxes, but there comes a point where judges' decisions that don't pass the eye test will affect viewership more negatively.
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halokiller posted:Looks like they're slowly uploading the other matches, here's SawBlaze vs Razorback
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Yeah, that result does not pass the eye test when it looks like Razorback was on the back foot for the bulk of the match. But based on this new scoring, if SawBlaze had used the wedge to pin Razorback by the pulverizers and get a few good hits in, it could've won the split decision?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:If SawBlaze had pinned Razorback and then used its saw it would have likely won. The lack of actual primary weapon attacks was the issue.
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MikeNCR posted:On the plus side, pushing it back a week speaks more for their confidence in the show than just shoving it to a random open slot later that night/Friday.
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Great Beer posted:Ringmaster could probably get away with a symmetrical design without any issues so its probably a stylistic choice. https://vimeo.com/160687959
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Great Beer posted:They've been posting the unaired fights on the battlebots Facebook page. Most of them are weapons breaking resulting in a shoving match between broken robots.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Really, Stinger didn't do poo poo for the entire match. Mega Tento won the match on damage and having a weapon that did something. *flips itself over* Really, using the forks was a tactical error, I think Stinger needed to bring the wedge out. Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Fourth match was the worst and I really don't understand the show's love of Chomp. It's well built and capable of taking punishment, but it's incredibly top heavy and likely won't survive against something like Tombstone.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I think the reason Bite Force's weapon broke is because Ringmaster was a ridiculously dense, solid bot. It's very low to the ground, has a solid magnesium frame, and there wasn't much of anything to yield. Hitting Ringmaster is like hitting a solid block of metal. In contrast Chomp is far larger with more empty internal space. Bite Force is also extremely well armored.
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Gromit posted:I'm not a professor of Battling Robots, so I have to ask why Nightmare is a fan favourite. Is it because it is an absolute piece of poo poo that looks like it should be disabled within 30 seconds but manages to fight on regardless? Did it do some amazing work years ago back when most other bots were useless or something? I also think there's residual nostalgia for Backlash tearing up the lightweight division in the early Battlebots seasons.
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Gromit posted:It must have been a different time back then because I was hoping for some real damage. The video I saw searching for those terms was pretty much a just a flip against a rubbish bot with no way to self-right.And I went and looked at other Nightmare videos, thinking maybe it destroyed earlier bots, but no - it gets torn up by everyone. Is this an underdog thing?
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Coaaab posted:I think Chomp could pull off the upset against Bite Force. There's a lot of surface area on Bite Force for Chomp's beak to attack, it looks well-armored against that vertical spinning bar, and BF's weapon motor could hilariously break again.
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Great Beer posted:My broadcast has been delayed until 1:15 AM because Football which means I cant watch it until after work tomorrow at around 5 pm. I'm watching some lovely livestream that goes at about 5 FPS and its loving miserable.  Hi buddy, man that was a real pain in the rear end, it actually made me want to vent by complaining to ABC about the preemption.Anyway, congrats to Tombstone, all hail our lawnmower overlord
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Robogames HW is 220 lbs, Battlebots is 250 lbs.
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