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RBA Starblade posted:Captain Shrederator seems like they really need to reconsider what they're doing at this point, outside a few good wins they're kind of just easy pickings at this point I don't know really. (Spoilers for the fight) Quantum was an okay Crusher in the 2019 season, a few years to refine the design. And A crusher bot piercing the top armor is pretty much kryptonite for a full body spinner. One puncture in with the teeth, and you're bound to jam up the spinning body to the frame. Captain Shredderator is kind of a lovely bot though that needs a real rework
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Ripperoni ownseroni. Love the gimmick, love the design, love the reliability.
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I imagine Gary Gin holding the giant nut in the air after winning Battlebots with this meh, shrug of the shoulders expression on his face. drat I love his personality on screen
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breakdancing Gigabyte ruled, but try to avoid driving in reverse next time Minotaur back to form, nice Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Jan 6, 2023 |
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This show being released to streaming earlier than on cable makes me a little sad, I can't tune in for live reaction commentary in the thread anymore.  That being said: -Ripperoni is really cool, I love the pizza box design -Full body spinners just....kinda suck? -Huugggeeeeeee had a great night, I think that is the most dominant I've ever seen them -Minotaur definitely would have won the giant nut last year if they'd won that match against Witch Doctor
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How is Cobalt splitting Ghost Raptor in half only at 7
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Banners! They even had the Comedy Central champions with the old school Comedy Central logo! I don't recognize Lamachine at the end though, or the symbol above it.
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oh jay posted:Banners! They even had the Comedy Central champions with the old school Comedy Central logo! I don't recognize Lamachine at the end though, or the symbol above it. https://robotwars.fandom.com/wiki/1995_UK_Open_Competition They didn't get a good shot of it, but pretty sure it's a Robot Wars logo. LA Machine won the 1995 UK Open championship, that turned into Robot Wars. And the bot was built by Greg Munson and Trey Roski (who created and still run Battlebots).
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:https://robotwars.fandom.com/wiki/1995_UK_Open_Competition Ah, I thought the R might have meant Robot Wars, which confused me because they tend to never refer to that series by name. I never knew that proto-Robot Wars and BattleBots were intertwined like that from the start.
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I really enjoyed the Riperoni team going full chaos and refusing to turn off their weapon despite being clearly out of control Also, I think we're at the point where teams have to admit that full body spinners just aren't viable anymore. They had already been struggling for years, but the upper platform has shrunk their usable space so much that its not even a guarantee that they can spin up to full speed The Glumslinger fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jan 6, 2023 |
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Clearly what we need are full vertical spinners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjEhA-L1Sf0&t=28s Or some sort of hosed up sphere that probably will self-destruct on impact If it'd count as moving under its own power somehow though it could be a 500 pound nightmare ball. That'd be fun 
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Waiting on a weaponized hamster ball.
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oh jay posted:Waiting on a weaponized hamster ball. https://www.twitch.tv/smashbotztv/clip/FlirtyFlaccidCarrotGrammarKing-85Stz5qVzKrG3BlY
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Great Beer posted:https://www.twitch.tv/smashbotztv/clip/FlirtyFlaccidCarrotGrammarKing-85Stz5qVzKrG3BlY Now make it 250 pounds.
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Full body spinners seem like the trilobites of battlebots at this point: something that flourished in prehistory, has no place in the modern ecosystem, but would still be neat to see
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Tunicate posted:Full body spinners seem like the trilobites of battlebots at this point: something that flourished in prehistory, has no place in the modern ecosystem, but would still be neat to see I'm generally on the side of whatever is the most destructive, but even I'm getting to the point of wanting to not have a whole field of vertical spinners. At least full-body spinners are something different.
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People forget Gigabyte is sometimes an actual competitor. Don't know much about the new crew running the bot or their experience but they pulled a pretty tough first match, takes a lot to knock out Free Shipping. And likely that was their 1st time actually driving the bot with it spinning. Gigabyte's whole schedule is pretty tough, Bloodsport, Starchild, and End Game. Starchild is a partner bot with Riperoni and is a Huge like bot. Bloodsport and End Game will probably just destroy the poo poo out of Gigabyte... No idea why Captain Shredderator keeps trying though, needs some serious redesign to be at all worthwhile. Also as mentioned before, as the full fight schedule was released at start of filming, Battlebots has also released the whole fight schedule of the season. https://battlebots.com/match-schedule/
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Gigabyte's whole schedule is pretty tough, Bloodsport A clip of this fight was shown in a trailer. The two bots must be spinning on the same axis, so when they hit each other...well it looks like it might be the most violent hit possibly ever since both bots fly out of frame nearly instantly. Edit: ah it's here at 56 seconds: oh jay posted:https://twitter.com/BattleBots/status/1606983333950488583
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Great Beer posted:Ripperoni ownseroni. Love the gimmick, love the design, love the reliability. Yeah, I dunno how far it'll go but goddamn is it entertaining to watch 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah, I dunno how far it'll go but goddamn is it entertaining to watch The 30lb Ripperoni had some of the hardest hits at the NHRL event. The 250lb version has some potential.
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oh jay posted:Waiting on a weaponized hamster ball. man this reminded me of a CAD proof of concept someone made way back in the day of a hamster ball covered in spikes, with like a little robot inside of it driving around with an omni-wheel system to steer the giant ball. i think his name for it was Chaosphere or something equally 2005.
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Railing Kill posted:The 30lb Ripperoni had some of the hardest hits at the NHRL event. The 250lb version has some potential. Yeah it'll be a monster of they can figure out how to consistently direct those hits towards their opponent and not at the battlebox/themselves. Their second hurdle is figuring out how to keep the 'bot fighting and not randomly breakdancing. 
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Borsche69 posted:man this reminded me of a CAD proof of concept someone made way back in the day of a hamster ball covered in spikes, with like a little robot inside of it driving around with an omni-wheel system to steer the giant ball. i think his name for it was Chaosphere or something equally 2005. Someone in the first season of Robot Wars UK make a bot that was literally just an RC car inside a giant hamster ball. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j8ICuKKqvc
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good fights this episode. i will defend full body spinners to the death, not because they are good (they're not, they're very bad) but at least it's different. coming soon to season 9: captain shredderator but it's a vertical spinner instead
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Ripperoni is going to have a disastrous season and I want to watch every minute of it
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logikv9 posted:coming soon to season 9: captain shredderator but it's a vertical spinner instead How about the top half of a store mannequin on tank treads, holding the spinner like a shield?
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Battlebots should just change the rules to let a Meltybrain spinner compete. I guess currently not eligible because technically there is not an active weapon system since it's all part of the drive... Team Liftoff from NHRL is great fun to watch and they've been doing crazy poo poo with their bot/s. They also have a crazy write up on NHRL's wiki page with all the changes, don't think any of the other NHRL competitors have such a write up. https://wiki.nhrl.io/wiki/index.php/Project_LiftOff Also for fun, this is one of Project Liftoff's fights from NHRL featuring the 3lb Starchild... Which the 250lb version is fighting Overhaul in a few weeks on Battlebots. Also they are the sister team of Riperoni, I guess both bots used mostly interchangeable parts for Battlebots. The builder of Starchild is also the builder of P1 from the previous seasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2oilmugmZw
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Also slightly unrelated, I'm interested to see how Discovery / Battlebots handles Shreddit Bro (first fight is also in a few weeks, same episode as Starchild above) as they straight up have the NHRL logo on the bot and their shirts. NHRL is of course at least 1 of the "local competitions" they mentioned last week for Jonathan Shultz getting driving practice with Huge, but they decided to just say local competitions instead of giving NHRL the credit they deserve.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Also slightly unrelated, I'm interested to see how Discovery / Battlebots handles Shreddit Bro (first fight is also in a few weeks, same episode as Starchild above) as they straight up have the NHRL logo on the bot and their shirts. It's the same team as Pain Train from the last couple of years, which I think also had NHRL branding.
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There's a few teams that have it on their shirts, I know I saw one this week, I think it was Tantrum.
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BattleBots and NHRL aren't competitors anyway, I don't know why it would be an issue.
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Battlebots should be fine with NHRL because it helps grow and sustain interest in robot combat, as well as functioning as a feeder league that Battlebots doesn't have to financially support. If NHRL didn't exist already, Battlebots would have to invent it.
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Y'all are talking like Battlebots isn't owned by a traditional television broadcasting company. Norwalk isn't competition per se, but YouTube, where their videos are hosted, is
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:How about the top half of a store mannequin on tank treads, holding the spinner like a shield? ah yes, the Worst Timeline option
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Mannequin spinner would have won 3 straight titles in the Comedy Central days
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Updated version of Buddy Lee Don't Play in the Streets.
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I for one can't wait to see the triumphant return of the Obwalden Overlord.
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Thursday night fight card.  Emulsifier is another NHRL team. Looks like they went all out on the NHRL branding. Which is cool. 
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