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Ripperoni ownseroni. Love the gimmick, love the design, love the reliability.
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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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BattleBots and NHRL aren't competitors anyway, I don't know why it would be an issue.
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Jan 8, 2023 15:47
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Emulsifier never got aggressive and spent the time it wasn't airborne spinning up or positioning. It took more damage and didn't control the fight in any way. That may not have been a strong win but it was a clear one.
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Jan 13, 2023 02:53
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Move the shelf to the middle and put a ramp on either side. Replace rumbles with 4 man king of the hill matches.
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Jan 14, 2023 20:20
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
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Jan 14, 2023 21:35
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Antivehicular posted:Was there some kind of malfunction going on with Whiplash? I don't think I saw their weapon ever spinning up, and the whole match seemed like something just wasn't working there. They were having speed controller issues. Also one of the hits killed their weapon ESC.
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Jan 17, 2023 13:37
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That IS on a high speed camera. poo poo happens fast in the BattleBox.
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Jan 22, 2023 14:19
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Slomoguys had a video on this. https://youtu.be/_lZvF-YyP0s Tldw: poo poo is complicated
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Jan 23, 2023 04:28
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Hammer saws aren't saws, they're just flywheels on a stick. They don't need prolonged contact like a saw.
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Jan 27, 2023 04:41
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PostNouveau posted:I dunno man Starchild had like a dozen glancing blows that did barely anything and lost a unanimous decision to maybe the worst bot in the field This is a problem with any vertical without a feeder wedge. Speed adjustments and tooth profile will make a tremendous difference, they just have to get it dialed in.
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sweet geek swag posted:Huge is a weird bot, and it has some very obvious flaws, but have we ever seen a flipper try to take it on legitimately? Did Huge fight Bronco once? I can't see that being effective, but Huge is one of the more unpredictable bots. Huge keeps getting flipper fights and I'm not sure why. I think it's fought all of them at some point.
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Feb 2, 2023 01:05
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NOTE: Discord-hosted image links (like this one) expire approximately 24hrs after they were copied from Discord. Lineup for their destruct a thon shows is out.
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Feb 2, 2023 18:11
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If it's like the old one, it's a lifter and the head it's mounted to rotates 360 degrees.
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Feb 2, 2023 18:36
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Overkill flails around, makes a bunch of slamming noise, and looks like it's doing something to an untrained eye while causing almost no damage. It's the perfect jobber.
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It seems Doomba was originally slated to fight Rusty. Then things happened. Certainly explains why their armor was so poorly suited to fighting Double Tap. https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots...nt=share_button
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Feb 3, 2023 21:46
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Ripperoni continues to be the best. That was awesome and I'm so glad endgame got hosed by their stupid forks.
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Feb 9, 2023 16:53
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Sirotan posted:Literally yelling at my TV that Ripperoni should have just left End Game stuck in the killsaw holes but goddamn, I can't believe they pulled it out Losing a good fight is better than winning a bad one. There's also the risk of the fight getting restarted for being over so quickly without, you know, a fight. It is TV after all.
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Slyphic posted:Minotaur v Cobalt is going to be fun, but I have no clue who's going to win it. I'll be rooting for the Brazilians. Without results spoilers: Fun was an understatement, what an amazing fight. Claw Viper vs Overhaul also surprisingly good. Overhaul is a lot of fun when it isn't getting immediately ripped apart.
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Feb 16, 2023 15:11
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Tonight, on BattleBots:
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Feb 23, 2023 13:00
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Realistically what else were they going to do? Sawblaze has longer reach and longer forks with a driver competent enough skorpios can't reliably bully him around the arena. Might as well go for glory with a dumb gimmick.
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Mar 3, 2023 03:34
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PostNouveau posted:There is a tradition after matches of signing pieces of your robot the other team ripped off and giving it to them. He wanted to completely cut off a piece of the Overkill sword to get that trophy. There's also at least 5 others since he built a bunch of Overkills to job at the live shows.
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The ewerts have a long history of being rules lawyer types. The things they do aren't always in the spirit of the competition but are technically allowed. See: son of whyachis initial weight bonus as a walker for using shufflers, minibots that do nothing but high center opponents, the bike rack. Kinda douchy but not being assholes.
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Mar 8, 2023 01:55
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Chronojam posted:I love high-center minibots and shufflers, an opinion I've had forever. More weight bonuses for silly engineering! Shufflers are cool but they aren't walkers and don't deserve the full bonus weight a walker gets. I love seeing crazy poo poo like stompychomp even if it's not effective.
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Mar 8, 2023 02:24
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Borsche69 posted:too many teams used those minibots prior and after for me to hold that against them, and warrior clan using them was because it was designed for the 200lbs class and it's legitimately a psychotic enough design that you can't really simply just 'scale it up'. using that extra weight as minibots just so you can get a design that never got on TV is fine I was thinking more of the 1lb micro wedges new Son of Whyachi used briefly. They were entirely incapable of doing anything but high centering the target. With things like warrior clans wedges or shaman they at least had the ability to release after wedging.
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Mar 8, 2023 13:15
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That preview during them ominous vs shreddit bro fight was the most disrespectful thing. 
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Beta vs Black dragon A hammer bot is effectively a control bot that can poke at exposed chains and things. betas decision to remove it's own ability to maintain control and use it's lighter weapon is just 
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It's basically the best possible shape to hit with a vert. Without forks/a wedge or some way to counter one you're hosed, regardless of armor profile.
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It also looked like overhauls lifter scraped the floor along the entire flat part on the bottom instead of just the tip. Which meant that as soon as it took even the slightest bit of force they bent upwards about half a degree and could no longer get under cobalt.
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is pepsi ok posted:I loved Triton's fingerpoke of doom. It looked like a zombie that kept crawling at its opponent.
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Mar 31, 2023 22:50
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He wasn't winning that JD anyway.
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Slyphic posted:Makes me wonder... Depending on how you define worked, quite a few. Huge, sawblaze, riptide, minotaur (sorta), and mammoth have all had varying levels of success. Overhaul and mega tento both worked fine, though I'd hesitate to call either of them good. That's more due to the increased lethality between when they were designed vs when they were scaled. There's things like smeeeee, starchild, or horizon that just don't seem to be (or aren't) working because tiny spinners don't work on things that can tank a hit from something like tombstone. And then there's shreddit bro which has no concept level flaws but it's full of mechanical ones.
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Shreddit bro definitely CAN be good. They aren't yet but if they come back I think they can get the bugs sorted out. And as seen vs Overhaul they're well on their way.
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Treads are for reducing ground pressure so you don't get bogged down on soft surfaces like dirt and sand. Not exactly useful on a hard metal floor.
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Maybe don't put the clamper motor in the exact spot the targets weapon will hit when you grab them. And if you do, protect it with more than a piece of sheet metal.
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Apr 14, 2023 02:58
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I'd be interested in any robot getting shredded. That's the point of the show. 
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RBA Starblade posted:Also again what on earth are the editors doing with the pre-fight stuff lol, that cut to Florian lmao. Kenny looked like he was celebrating the holiday. PostNouveau posted:Black Dragon-Riptide: I need an opposite version of https://youtube.com/shorts/5EgKKUs-25I?feature=share Great Beer fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Apr 20, 2023 |
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PostNouveau posted:I can't imagine they were happy about Minotaur having a spazz out in the playoffs last year either. Considering how often they bring it up I suspect they're cool with a little drama.
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Apr 21, 2023 12:19
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Oh my God, quadrant 2 is brutal. The judges can probably just take the night off.
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I liked when they filmed 8 and threw the worst one on YouTube or Science Channel
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