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Great Beer posted:Philo will let you watch it live. Science channel has an extra (usually crap) fight or segment but airs several days later. Thanks, I'll give that a go if it doesn't show up today or tomorrow on Prime.
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Twitch event was p fun, Audio mixing aside. Icewave tho, what happened to ya buddy.
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Zedd posted:Twitch event was p fun, Audio mixing aside. Heatstroke probably.
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Jun 7, 2019 20:26
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Sawblaze mo as a fake wedgebot is as good as ever e: Frogbot 
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I remember Kraken being a cool looking bot that kinda sucked last time but that fight was cool.
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Jun 8, 2019 01:44
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That was a fight  Death Roll can take a hit, RIP Battlebox
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Watching the episode as I type this. Gotta say watching subzero fail was enjoyable e: a bunch were fun for a first episode. also I saw this and just had to make a gif out of it. feel free to put it in the OP if you want 
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It's pretty cool that they took the time to show some random bot not fighting in the episode and the struggle the builder went through... With Deep 6 literally destroying itself in the test box.
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Quantum and Cobalt are both so good.
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Joe Mama Poonana posted:Watching the episode as I type this. Gotta say watching subzero fail was enjoyable It's added to the OP. Looks like from the pit shot after the fight, Quantum still had the piece of armor it pierced through and not able to actually get the tooth out... Crazy to see piercing bots actually piercing metal.
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The Quantum teams other bot Spectre is great on King of Bots
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halokiller posted:Speaking of exhibition matches: I see Gary has managed to get his bot in with less camouflage this time
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halokiller posted:The first half of the first episode is out on Discovery Go as well as in the open. The opening montage has a poo poo load of future match-ups if you're concerned by that. And it's such a huge cock tease that the half episode ends in the middle of the Deathroll vs End Game fight. I really expected them to call a halt to the fight at that point because the battlebox was falling apart around them so I was surprised and delighted when they just kept pounding the crap out of each other. A proud Aussie vs Kiwi tradition. 
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So there was a very obvious cut where they had to break apart Quantum and Blacksmith the first time. Apparently it took six hours to get that done.
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An acquaintance of mine is on the Rotator team and man his face during those three minutes
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I credit the guys on NJGW for this joke but I had to do this it fits too well. http://www.youdubber.com/index.php?video=jWl1tS4UdzE&video_start=60&audio=9IdM4PLowDw&audio_start=0
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rare Magic card l00k posted:Quantum and Cobalt are both so good. Cobalt really seems to kick rear end and is a good reincarnation of Carbide (they kept the colors!) these guys build custom weapon motors so they don't gently caress around.
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TheCoach posted:Cobalt really seems to kick rear end and is a good reincarnation of Carbide (they kept the colors!) these guys build custom weapon motors so they don't gently caress around. They mentioned it was in some Chinese competitions - do any of those stream or record anywhere?
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I think they were in "This is Fighting Robots" but unfortunately that show format wasn't very good and finding episodes is not easy. They did compete with Carbide in all 3 seasons of the Robot Wars reboot though so you can watch that to see what kind of machines they can build.
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RBA Starblade posted:They mentioned it was in some Chinese competitions - do any of those stream or record anywhere? They competed and won as Tungsten in 'This is Fighting Robots'. And due to some lovely Chinese law where 80% of actors/competitors have to be domestic, they weren't selected to come back next year to defend the title.  Both Quantum and Carbide's teams do have some serious pedigree. The former were actually producers of the Robot Wars reboot and built the house robots. I expect them to go far this tournament.
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I wonder if this is finally the year that clamp bots are actually going to be good
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I think they are still gonna have a tough time with all the really good spinners in the competition this year.
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Buffing the arena weapons a bit would help the clamp/control bots. Spectre did some good work on the chinese comp using the arena.
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halokiller posted:They competed and won as Tungsten in 'This is Fighting Robots'. And due to some lovely Chinese law where 80% of actors/competitors have to be domestic, they weren't selected to come back next year to defend the title. Give me Sir Killalot in exhibition match please
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RBA Starblade posted:They mentioned it was in some Chinese competitions - do any of those stream or record anywhere? There were two Chinese competitions, King of Bots and This Is Fighting Robots. They're made by the same people, but have different formats. Think of This Is Fighting Robots as a side series. You can find every King of Bots episode here: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots/comments/7qnj4v/king_of_bots_season_1_viewers_guide/ You can find every episode of This Is Fighting Robots on Youku, but I think it's been part of the archives for so long that now it's behind the VIP paywall.
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First episode was great. Like all the fights where at worst entertaining. But the Aussie Kiwi match was the best.
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After their super arrogant, "It's not my problem that we couldn't get our tooth out of your armor," I cant wait to see Quantum get absolutely obliterated by some spinner in future episodes. Please let Tombstone blow up that stupid computer-designed arm, it's all I ask. Evil British heels of the season.
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Fish Of Doom posted:After their super arrogant, "It's not my problem that we couldn't get our tooth out of your armor," I cant wait to see Quantum get absolutely obliterated by some spinner in future episodes. Please let Tombstone blow up that stupid computer-designed arm, it's all I ask. They were super obnoxious but they weren't wrong, they put in an effort to get unhooked and just couldn't. That hold rule's kind of dumb because of that sort of thing Lol at the guy with the crowbar also failing to separate them
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Their comments on reddit added a bit of nuance to that comment. They tested on a lot of materials, applied lube to the teeth and tries what they can to shake the other bot free. So if extreme arnor makes them get stuck, that's kinda on the team that chose extreme armor. One of multiple quotes: quote:I haven’t seen the episode yet but I hope you guys enjoyed the first appearance of Quantum. I haven’t seen the edit but it was a real shame the robots were stuck together. It’s not designed to do that, it was just a matter of materials. We have tested against AR400 and all sorts and with a bit of bashing the materials never get stuck on. Unfortunately, and there is no way anyone could have predicted it as no crusher has ever bitten through AR500, it seems AR500 in particular cracks on puncture which created lots of barbs that gripped hold of the tooth. We tried a hydraulic press to remove the tooth but it wasn’t enough to overcome the barbs. The tooth had to be cut out of their armour in the end.Blacksmith just added the best material they thought would work. We had no idea if we could puncture it so chose the single tooth setup for the biggest load. Once we bit them and raised the jaw there was absolutely no movement on the tooth. We tried a few things and consciously didn’t bite down any harder because we just wanted to release them. It was an unprecedented situation and that’s why I said after the fight that if people armour with that material and we go through it we will always get stuck. We polish the teeth and add grease but even with tapered teeth (which we couldn’t make on site) I don’t think it would have made a difference in that situation. We would much prefer to release the opponent as that would help our tactics of get a bite then work out how to reposition the teeth to get an important bite.
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Yeah that was an entirely unknown problem before that fight. Nobody had ever punctured ar500 like that before. https://i.redd.it/g0dg2suro8331.jpg You can see the scratches from the barbs created by the puncture. The had to cut the tooth out, even a 20 ton hydraulic press couldn't separate them.
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Madurai posted:I can't help but think Blacksmith's problems stem less from getting stuck on a spike and more from the fact that it's a terrible design that will only win through misfortune on an opponent's part. Hammers seem like very lovely weapons for mechanoman fights
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They fall under a good spot on the fun vs function matrix.
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Blacksmith is absolutely a jobber bot that usually puts on a good match but always loses and makes the other bot look good. Mumbling posted:Am I misreading how Amazon does pricing, or is the entirety of Season 4 only $1.99? I'm also hoping that's the case and not just the price of the first episode. I paid it, we'll see if episode 2 pops up in a week.
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Mumbling posted:Am I misreading how Amazon does pricing, or is the entirety of Season 4 only $1.99? Looks like a pricing mistake, because that's cheaper than buying episode 1 and when you purchase it, it indeed says it's for the whole season in the confirmation.
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