/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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>>1013108
Anyone know where I can watch it online outside the US? I managed to watch it live but missed the start.

>>1013154
The fights will be on youtube in a day or so.
Or you could torrent it in like 30 minutes once the public trackers have it up.

>>1013154
I didnt even realize the show was coming back
Im probably gonna record the episodes to make webms.

>allow drone bots
>they are fucking shit

Color me surprised.
Also Stinger is gonna take it all the way this time.
Remember he is the tombstone killer, in that other com bot competition thing.

>>1013162
Tombstone is super vulnerable from behind.
That said, it and Bronco are probably the only two that have a chance against Minotaur.

Although, I could see Witch Doctor pulling a victory, too.

>>1013166
I didnt see with doctor.
Is it the same exact bot?

Their big problem was being a small bot, because their allocated too much of their weight to a not so mini, mini bot.

>>1013171
They didn't fight tonight, but yeah.
Looks to be the same from what I've seen.

The only reasons I think they could take on Minotaur is because they basically have the same kind of weapon.
Also, they fucking ate the shots they took from Tombstone last year- to the point of breaking the goddamn blade.

We'll see what happens, I guess.

>>1013175
I totally forgot they broke tombstone
I really like that sort of spinning weapon, kind of bummed that Bucktooth robot had technical problems. It had a huge heavy spinner on it.

>>1013181
You mean the little girl's bot that didn't even get spinning?
Yeah, that looked like it would have kicked ass.
Maybe we'll see it in a wildcard fight.

What do you guys think of my spinner design?
My rendering here looks autistic as fuck, but the main idea is that you can't get close enough to attack it before it hits you.

Also, each half serves a separate purpose.
Bottom half holds all the necessities for the wheels and RC bullshit.
Top half hold the motor that drives the blade.

"How can you make it with two sets of wheels and only one half dedicated to them?" you might ask.
Easy.
Reverse wiring through the center of the pole the blade centers on.

Seriously considering building this.
Thoughts?

>>1013191
How do you plan on attaching the top to the bottom. It seems tricky to do while keeping it stiff and strong enough to take throwing the bot around.

>>1013201
Basically a thick rod through the middle.
The blade wouldn't be a rectangle all the way through like in the picture.
It be more like pic related- with a circular center to allow for strength.
The rod running through it that would also relay the drive system would have about the dimensions in pic related.
Thick enough to take damage but with a cored out center to allow passthrough.

>>1013191
>Seriously considering building this.
I know there are a few people who have actually built and fought bots who have been in these threads.
A guy from the MIT team actually came on here last season when his bot was fighting.

>>1013191
I could have sworn I have seen a bot built like this.
I looked and can't seem to find one though.

I would love to see a build thread if you do.

>>1013219
Yeah people say they have but never posted pics or anything

>>1013431
>implying he didnt post a fucking video of his team and his bot in a competition.

>>1013191
You kinda described Icewave ... ?
He got his ass kicked by bronco i think
The idea is nice but his problem was he wasn't up/down symmetrical so when he got upside down he couldn't do anything.

>>1013431
You're probably thinking of Icewave.
I'll make sure to post if I do.

>>1013447
Yeah, Icewave is actually what inspired me to make a design.
Like you said, it's only flaw is it's not flippable.
They use a shitty internal combustion engine, and I wouldn't do that.
A few more things would be different too- like how quickly it could turn and whatnot.

I just rewatched the Chomp vs Disco Inferno match, and im mad.
Trying to force a narrative is bad. Like we know they seed to set up certain bots, but come on.

Everyone is just bringing their daughters along, and if you dont have a spiffy name and a costume, you arent going to get any air time.

I like how they are setting the show up, but at the same time they are doing really annoying stuff.

>>1013456
Nah im thinking com-bots or early battlebots.
I found Swirlee, but its spinner wasnt very good.

>>1013497
Oh wow.
I didn't even know that bot existed.
Just watched a few of it's fights, and it looked a pretty solid design.
That bot absolutely needed a real blade instead of that toothed disk, though.

Thanks for showing me that,
:)

>>1013108
Wtf, is it 1998 again?

>>1013546
Nigga, robot combat never went away.

There are a few different big competitions, and more high schools around the country host their own competitions.

ABC did bring back the battlebots name, and is airing the competition.
IIRC someone else is gonna bring back the Robot Wars too.

RC technology has changed a lot since back then

>>1013549
> technology has changed

Then why do we keep seeing the same shit over and over

>>1013797
>improvements in RC technology means the old weapons that kicked ass still aren't the best weapons
Lol, okay.

>>1013819
the kick ass weapons were defined by the rules and the rules were defined because they felt they needed a studio audience.

They should have no-rules and just have a weight-class limit and a fire-arms/explosives list like 'I have A/B and will also fight A/B' or even 'I don't have A/B but will still fight A/B' Big fight in the desert, distances/height advantage by random draw.

Would be much better. Rules now are retarded and lead to certain designs being clearly butt-rapingly superior so that it's not even fun to watch two wedges bump into each other when what made the series awesome was the crazy guy trying to use a warhammer attached to an arm trying to hit a wedge.

>>1013847
>and the rules were defined because they felt they needed a studio audience.

Actually, they copied the rules of existing robot tournaments.
Right now they have the most lax rules of any tournament ever has. Sorry you cant have robots with grenades on them.

>>1013847
Firearms would limit designs, I'm sure. Seeing miniature tanks battle in the desert would be sweet though.

>>1013108
any streams yet? I can't torrent it over my university internet

>>1013915
nevermind, found something.

Episode one, if anyone cares:
http://rapidvideo ws/embed-ljlmb5i45bxb-615x360.html

I don't understand why they changed the rule saying that bots couldn't use Co2. Chomp is running liquid nitrogen. That feels far more dangerous to me.

>>1014015
Liquid nitrogen is cryogenic, they use pressurized nitrogen. The main tank has 3000 PSI if I remember correctly.

No idea why they forbid CO2. Probably because muh greenhouse gas

>>1014118
They banned it because they had a problem with it last season.
A tank got punctured, and when it expels that quickly it gets real cold.
It can potentially freeze which means itll still be under pressure, you get into the ring and touch the bot or something and it could potentially start spewing again.
They were worried enough about the incident they banned it.

>>1013490
It was total horse shit, they didn't even get a hit on disc o inferno , and disc o inferno controlled and flipped stupid ass chomp the whole match ,but muh feminism caused chomp to win . Adam savage was the one dude out of the 3 to vote for disc o inferno

>>1014220
yeah. On the bright side we'll probably see the wretched thing tilt and get ripped apart by something with a powerful spinning weapon, it looks really vulnerable. To bad disco infernos wedge wasn't working, considering how often chomp showed its underside it would've gotten ripped apart.

>>1014220
Let's be honest.
It's good that Chomp won that fight.
Disco Inferno would have been beaten unspectacularly, but maybe we'll get to see Chomp V Icewave 2

See that tin can get torn open again.

>>1014015
>>1014118
CO2 wasn't allowed according to the 2015 rules as well.

>>1014220
Inferno was heavily damaged (spinner not working)
Chomp was fine at the end
I would have somewhat regretfully given chomp the win as well.

>>1014513
The spinner wasn't working from the beginning I think

Any idea what was leaking out of Bombshell after getting cooked by CC? My bet is lithium ion fluid. Announcers called it "oil".

>>1014633
No idea, but it was soooo satisfying to see flames actually matter in a fight.
On an unrelated note, I think Minotaur could break any bot there, including Tombstone or Bronco.

>>1014629
It worked, I just rewatched it. Broke in the first 30 seconds though.

>>1013162
I would blame the drones crashing on the pilots, not sure how effective the flames would be but they could easily torch a robot that has been disabled or clamped

>Humanoid bot with exposed strings battles fire breathing dragon
How did that pos even get in? I mean i know it's prolly good for ratings/advertising the show but damn....

Quick Touro (Minotaur) reminder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNC8OAFNGUc

>>1014633
What melted was the rubber shock thing that the axe rests on so the axe handle doesn't collide with the main body according to the creator on leddit.

>>1014645
TY for the vid. I used to watch in the early 2000's and late 90's so I had no idea about this.

>>1014642
Yea that bummed me out to, seeing a 3D printed mechanism melt and not work was shit, it would have been so much cooler against a spinner or something with a hammer

>>1014645
Well hold on now.
That's one of two fights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi1MJW6nzS4

Their 1 to 1.
No decisive superior yet.

>>1014673
>their
Fuck me.

So I just thought of a brand new system for spinning a blade like Tombstone.
What if you made it out of a metal that can be affected by magnets?
Instead of connecting it to a chain or belt to drive it, which seem to break all the time, simply have an electromagnet pointed at one end of the blade in order to assure that it keeps moving after being hit.

It would also assure that big hits don't stop your blade from spinning.

>>1014690
>implying an electromagnet powerful enough to spin a blade that fast won't fuck with electronics and get disqualified.

>>1014673
>>1014645
Speaking of experienced bots who are in the competition.

Here is Last Rites (tombstone) vs Sewer Snake (stinger)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE5VCA_U5oM

>>1013887
Agreed, WarDrones would be a pretty great show to watch. Though it would be filmed differently. Driver and gunners would use controls and screens, and the fight would take place safely in an arena that is away and closed off.

>>1014700
I feel like with that kind of thing there won't be any kind of spectacular exciting moments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uGlFM23Wqg

>>1014697
I don't know what kinda wheels the Stinger team uses, but they seem to break into pieces easily.

>>1014767
Its weird, they do seem to get destroyed in a lot of matches but it still seems to stay mobile.

Not a lot of tires are gonna hold up to a big spinner like that, so maybe redundancy with 6 and rolling on half wheels is a good tradeoff as opposed to some other tire types.

>>1014767
Stinger/Sewer Snake runs these wheels filled with foam
http://www.harborfreight.com/8-inch-non-marring-rubber-tire-47638.html

>>1014777
They dont look anything like that.
They are solid tires, because when chunks get ripped out they are the same color inside as they are outside.

If you see a newer Stinger video you can clearly see yellow chunks flying off

>>1014784
Those wheels have been a bad joke in the community for a while and are indeed the wheels run on sewer snake.

>>1014787
Oh wow
At least he changed and got real tires for Stinger, even though they dont seem to be any more reliable.

>>1014774
It's not just the spinner.
Their wheels seem to break all the time.
At least in the televised fights it was every time.

>>1014787
Those are definitely the Sewer Snake ones, but the Stinger wheels seem to be solid chunks of rubber.
They certainly aren't set on the bot dually style.

Speaking of Sewer Snake, this is a good rundown of the insides of a robot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt6_dXKwQYw

>>1014934
He seems like a cool dude.

>>1014934
I can't tell if his system for making the wheels move is genius or retarded.

>>1014985
Simplicity means there's less shit to go wrong. It's what makes Sewer Snake and it's reincarnation Stinger so good.

>>1014934
I really liked this video. I thought Stinger was pretty awesome in the first reboot season. I mean he lost by getting thrown out of the ring by bronco, not from failure or getting outmatched.

Im rooting for him this season. Looking at some of the sewer snake videos, the bot looks tough as nails.

>>1014232

I want to see Chomp versus Tomb stone or Hypershock.

I think Hyper shock would just have a blast ripping it apart like they did their previous opponent.

Oh, what's that your on your side? LET ME JUST RIP INTO THAT AIR TANK ON TOP OF YOU! YOU TOP HEAVY SKANK!

>>1015209
Icewave took those lesbian bitches apart last year, if you'll recall.

>>1015209
I wanna see Team BR wreck Chomp's shit with their millennium falcon minibot that sounds like a jet engine.

This is a screengrab from the show.
Im not sure if these are officially the matches or not.
But it looks like its gonna be Bronco vs Chomp

Not sure, the battlebots website doesnt have brackets up. Maybe once more matches are finished they will do one. I think they did one last season, the only bracket still on the website is only for the final 16

>>1015227
Also, TentoMushi is fucking back

>>1015227
>icewave vs last year's winner
Time for someone to get taken off their high horse.

>>1015227
>tombstone v stinger
I've seen this fight already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE5VCA_U5oM

>>1015239
And here again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjlUIILyo0

>>1015234
Bite Force is a pretty stout bot. Im not so sure that IceWave is gonna just roll over him.

Fuck.
Sewer Snake even handled Touro Maximus like it was nothing.
https://youtu.be/kP3Gy2vu4gw?t=269

>>1015244
Yeah
Good thing Original Sin isnt in the competition eh?

>>1015242
Bite Force got fucking lucky with it's matchups last year.
They only won against Tombstone because he fucked up by wrecking his innards in the Bronco fight.

I'm sure Icewave will win.
But we'll see, I guess.

>>1015245
man you aren't fucking kidding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx2Z_BAS-xQ

>>1015247
Original Sin has beaten Sewer Snake something like 8 times now.

>>1015248
Not that anon, but it's literally just a fucking wedgebot.
It should always win.

>>1015250
Eh, wedgebots arent necessarily good. Original Sin is a really well built bot and the driver is just really really good.

Though you have to actually have a weapon in the new Battlebots, and wedges dont count.

>>1015227
>Bronco vs chomp

Get fucked

>>1015252
yeah but it's boring as fuck. stale, safe design. at least last rites/tombstone family is entertaining.

watching touro maximus tear it up was pretty good

>>1015246
>Icewave
>Winning
>Implying that he wont go out in the most fucking retarded way possible.
SCREENCAP THIS

>>1015407
Didn't he stall his weapon in the first match and barely win already?

I really don't like his ICE engine, it stupid

>>1015409
Yes, I know. But in some REALLY retarded way.

>>1015410
>>1015410
blade stopped working but the other guy broke down too
icewave won on points

>>1015684
I seen that episode. But LATER ON. I bet that Icewave will just get Ripperoni'd by external reasons other than Traps or Attacks

>>1015227
Bronco > Chomp
Captain Shredderator < Hypershock
Beta < Complete Control
Icewave < Bite Force
Ringmaster > Chrome Fly
Escape Velocity < Warrior Clan
Tombstone < Stinger
Minotaur > Warhead

>>1015696
Bronco > Chomp
Captain Shredderator > Hypershock
Beta < Complete Control
Icewave > Bite Force
Ringmaster > Chrome Fly
Escape Velocity < Warrior Clan
Tombstone > Stinger
Minotaur > Warhead

FTFY

>>1015710
>implying captain shredderator can beat anyone when he flips himself upside down every single time he hits something
>implying icewave isnt a faggot
>implying stinger hasnt beaten tombstone multiple times already

>>1015711
>implying captain shredderator can't beat a literally what bot
>implying icewave hasn't only lost once due to that one faggot and his "de-icer"
>implying fighting a 220 lbs spinner is the same as fighting a 250 lbs spinner

SHOW TONIGHT
GET HYPE

>>1016026
Watching it live on some bootleg website from the uk.

>>1015836
>a literally what bot

A strong vertical spinner, vs one of the worst full body spinners I have seen in a long time. It takes forever to spin down while its teeth do very little damage. Its a really crappy bot.
It may do some damage to hypershock, but its not going to disable him before knocking himself out.
Its a stupidly unstable full body that doesnt even have the sheer power that other full bodies do.

As for Stinger and Tombstone, the design has been proven to be a very effective "spinner killer"
Just because they moved up in weight class doesnt suddenly mean that the design is going to stop working.

The two drivers are friends IRL, they have fought with different bots many many times.
The problem is Tombstone cant really do anything to prepare for Stinger. Its pretty much its final form.
Stinger can greatly modify its body to be ready for it. He knows very well what he has to do to beat him. Its not a guessing game at this point, like it would be with a rookie who has never fought a bot like it.


The only one that im iffy on is Icewave vs Bite Force
Bite force totally took a ton of heavy hits from Tombstone, and it didnt phase him.

Icewave in season 1, his blade very clearly would slow down and take a long time to spool back up after a hit.
In season 2 he already had his blade completely stall
Its all filmed in a 3 day period, that means Icewave may have sustained some serious damage from stalling since its an ICE weapon.

im just not convinced that Icewave is going to roll right over him, especially if there was damage needing repaired in the prelim fights.

>>1016055
Well, we'll see in just a few hours.

I like this thread btw.
I like having a place to actually discuss this instead of a quick thread on /tv/ that dies immediately after the show's over.

>>1016061
>Well, we'll see in just a few hours.

Sorry buddy, its gonna be a few weeks till we see.
We havent finished prelims yet.

>>1016061
Im probably still gonna run to the /tv/ thread once it turns on though.
These threads do OK, but they arent fast enough.

/sp/ has a thread, and /m/ also has a thread.
/tv/ seems to be the best for an actual gamethread though

when does it start in gmt?

>>1016071
Im bad with time zones
It starts in 2 hours from the time of this post

7pm central time.

>>1016072
Thanks

>>1016067
/tv/ is fun during the actual show, but they're shit for discussion.

>>1015227
Looks like a lot of new bots we have never seen before are left.
Does anyone know how many matches they show per episode. It's a regular 1 hour episode now.

>>1016087
Well, there's 8 of 16 left
I'm guessing four. just by simple math

Its on in 10 minutes!

>>1016122
i'm watching an abc stream but it's not on?

>>1016124
Its on, they are introducing bots right now

>>1016125
What the fuck i'm on an abc stream but it's a completely different show. I can't find a stream for it in the uk.

3 "Jam it ups" so far for me.

Is American tv is 70% adverts or something?

>those wildcards

Yes I mad

>>1016143
>megatento got a wildcard
pissed off

>>1016145
I wanted Tento, Nightmare and Overhaul :P

Your wild cards are

>Blacksmith
meh, bot is shit
>Ghost raptor
NO
>Bombshell
NO
>Lockjaw
good
>Lucky
meh, this is an alright selection
>Megatento
NO
>Nightmare
NO
>Overhaul
meh, dude is a faggot

They didnt bring back Disco Inferno, or Mobius, or Rotator, or Bucktooth Burl or any other number of good bots that SHOULD have gotten wildcard

Instead they are trying to force name recognition with some shitty bots

>>1016148
>Nightmare
I seriously don't get the love.
It's only wins come when it gets lucky.
Gets BTFO almost every time.

>>1016149
Im not sure about their ratings, but they are pushing Nightmare and Tento because they are old school bots that were prevalent in old battlebots.

Trying to build narrative by bringing back Ghost Raptor.

I have no clue why Bombshell got wildcarded.

>>1016141
Yes.

>>1016141
Depends on the show/station.

Official brackets are out.

What are your guys picks?

>>1014787
Nonmarring Harbor Freight 6in tires, painted steel hubs.
These tires were mildy popular for FRC robotics this year.

>>1016210

>>1016210
Pic related.

>>1016215
Wow
We're pretty fucking close

>>1016219
Also, I can't call Tombstone V Minotaur.
They're 1-1 in previous fights.

>>1016215
Oh I don't see Stinger beating Minotaur.
Minotaur will eat Stinger's wheels for breakfast.

>>1016221
When you get to matches like that, its gonna come down to how well you drive, because one mistake from either bot its gonna be over.

Also going through the bracket I see a ton of really good matches coming up.

>>1016223
And yeah, minotaur isnt a great matchup for Stinger, but im a homer and think that Matt is the best driver in the tournament. Also think Stinger is the most well rounded and tough bot in the competition

>>1016225
Matt, is that you?

>>1016225
You're totally right.
In such a tight match, it's almost not fair simply because it all falls to driver error over one bot being horribly superior.

But yeah.
They really seem to know what we want to see this year.

Since we already know who's fighting who >>1016210 I thought I'd post the dates when the fights are happening.

(July 7th)
Bronco VS. ChromeFly
Minotaur VS. Blacksmith
Witch Doctor VS. Red Devil
Yeti VS. Lucky

(July 14th)
Tombstone VS. Escape Velocity
Razorback VS. Ghost Raptor
Complete Control VS. Warhead
SOW VS. Poison Arrow

(July 21st)
Brutus VS. Lock-Jaw
Icewave VS. Nightmare
BETA VS. Overhaul
Bite Force VS. The Ringmaster
Cobalt VS. Bombshell
Stinger VS. Mega Tento
HyperShock VS. Warrior Clan

Since we already know who's fighting who >>1016210 I thought I'd post the dates when the fights are happening.

(July 7th)
Bronco VS. ChromeFly
Minotaur VS. Blacksmith
Witch Doctor VS. Red Devil
Yeti VS. Lucky

(July 14th)
Tombstone VS. Escape Velocity
Razorback VS. Ghost Raptor
Complete Control VS. Warhead
SOW VS. Poison Arrow

(July 21st)
Brutus VS. Lock-Jaw
Icewave VS. Nightmare
BETA VS. Overhaul
Bite Force VS. The Ringmaster
Cobalt VS. Bombshell
Stinger VS. Mega Tento
HyperShock VS. Warrior Clan
Chomp VS. Capt Shrederator

Well if this isn't a cool little collection of guest judges.

>>1016241
>vernon davis

Wow
What a year this guy has had.
His long time team falls apart, he is traded mid season to the eventual superbowl winning team.
Is then shipped off to the dumpster fire that is washington.

And to top it off he gets to judge Battlebots!

>>1013887
you could limit them by calibre. Otherwise if armor is not an option then redundancy could help. would make it more complex thought. So most of the hobbiists are out.

For a really succesfull current format they should limit armor that even "weak" wepons leave marks.

>>1016271
If you limit armor so that weak weapons leave marks bots like tombstone, cpt shredderator and minotaur will just annihilate anything

>>1016149
Nightmare usually loses because he smashes some bot and flips himself and gets counted out while the other bot desperately tries to prove it's not dead by spinning in circles on it's one remaining half functioning wheel.

This year nightmare can work upside down.

Thank feminism and desperate attempts to show how progressive battlebots is with stronk womyn for Megatento getting a wild card. Shit bot, with a shit driver doesn't get a wildcard for "showing potential."

Same show that rejected M.O.E for bein too similar to tombstone and not having enough personality. Considering Tombstone is based off of M.O.E, and Ray doesn't act like the massive dick he does in battlebots in any of the other robot events it's obvious Battlebots is choosing a flashy story over a good bot.

This stupid shit will kill battlebots faster than the wedge swarm.

>>1016284
To be fair, MegaTento is not a new bot.
That girl helped her dad design and build the original TentoMushi years ago.

She drove the bot in the original show, and won 8 matches with the stupid thing.

Shes about the only girl on the show who wasnt just brought along to make ABC happy.

Ghost raptor strikes again.

>>1016284
You know, ever since the "One more!?" moment when he hit Bronco and all the guts of Tombstone spilled out, I've been suspecting a rigged competion.
It's too storybook.
The big bad evil dude is his own defeat and the underdog pulls the win.
Now in season 2 we have an even bigger and badder evil bot that will probably be beaten by last year's bad guy- who by this point we all like.

It's odd.

Hah didn't think my lecturer would actually make it on the show, originally his robot was bulldog which was on the roster a few months ago. He was also the maker of bigger brother from robot wars.

>>1016350
Your lecturer got raped.

>>1016346
I never thought about that.
Now that you say it, it does seem a little suspect.

>>1016311
If it was fair M.O.E would be here this year. And Mobius did better in original battlebots than tentomushi ever did, and still has more potential then Tento this year, which is sad considering its a spinbot that self destructed like literally every spinbot ever. I just hope it goes against something destructive so they can't just take it home and wait for next year without building a new one.

In fairness to Tento it somehow deserved a spot more than The ever evolving luck raptor, who literally got lucky ever single fight last year and then this year didn't do anything. All he did in his match was walk in cocky like he wasn't afraid of SOW, get it by SOW a bunch and then self destruct. Did not land a single hit in it's match and was in pieces at the end. WILDCARD

>>1016346
I don't think it's rigged, I just mean there's people talking about how when Ray is yelling "One more?" was because Bronco driver was yelling something along the lines of keep going. The other moments of him asking if robots want hit again was because they kept moving, In all his non Battlebots fights he rarely hits anyone who stops moving. Moving suggests you haven't given up, dudes literally asking if they are willing to take more hits. He also in interviews pre-battlebots talks about being worried about fights, especially against Stinger's driver because he's a good, aggressive, and sporadic driver.

Then battlebots comes and he's like IM GOING TO KILL EVERYTHING IM THE BEST, YOU WANT SOME MORE?

I'm ranting though, I'm genuinely worried about the sport because of the way its being handled. The robot fighting is still, and will always be good, but this fake drama and characters shit will kill it. I don't want that to happen.

>>1016355
I'm not surprised, He only got on the show with creepy crawlies as they were 'interesting' not because they would do well.

>>1016346
Nah dude its not rigged.

The only part that I could see being "rigged" is the seeding and wildcard. But even at that point the competition is so unpredictable.
The seeding will "rig" it to the point you see good bots beating the mediocre bots in the early rounds, and the top tier bots battle it out later on.

This is filmed in a 3 day period, its really fast and really crazy.

Realize that they just bulk film everything those 3 days, then retroactively film stuff to fit their story.

Have you ever seen a reality TV show?
Think about survivor, they film people 20 hours a day for 30 days doing mundane shit 95% of the time.
They edit the living fuck out of it to create narrative, to create villains and heroes and people you love and feel sorry for.

With the bot battles, you watch how the whole competition went down and then edit the footage to create the narrative you want.

Ray Billings didnt actually do anything to be a "villain" in the first season.
The WHOLE villain image came from his cutaway interviews that were filmed away from the competition. He actually said that he was asked to be a villain and he didnt mind it, hence why they filmed him saying cocky stuff and evil laughing.

After you have created characters in the first season, they obviously feel somewhat invested in their characters and want to bring them back.
It also makes it easy to continue with the characters in season 2.
I mean they already fabricated a "come out of retirement" grudge match.

There is so much stock footage of people laughing, looking bored, looking upset from just their bulk filming. They can make you look however they want
Watch this video and you can see how crazy light editing can be to create narrative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBwepkVurCI

>>1016405
>I'm genuinely worried about the sport because of the way its being handled.

Nah
ABC is trying to create brands for bots, like reality TV or wrestling.
They want to start selling toys and shit again.

Its making the battlebots brand kind of lame, but its not going to hurt the actual sport.
If anything, its going to create more popularity for existing competitions. Maybe make some more.

I mean battlebots had been dead 15 years

Also I read that MOE talked a bunch of shit about ABC and battlebots, because they didnt like the reality TV show direction of the competition. Its not surprising they didnt select them

>>1016488
That's actually a great video.

>>1016219
i would only change that SOW will win over Poison Arrow

>>1013108
in the uk we had robot wars, there was this one robot with a hydraulic flipper, cant remember its name, but that thing was unstoppable. there was also one called gemini that could split into two robots, that was awesome

>>1016607
ok did some research and it was the chaos 2. im telling you, weapon wise, nothing beats a flipper. ever dropped anything electrical, gravity will fuck a robot up better than any hammer or blade

>>1016611
does battle bots have house robots? the old robot wars ones were amazing

>>1016611
>nothing beats a flipper
kek
meet the most poweful flipper ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2vSMMXmGdg

>>1016621
>does battle bots have house robots?

No, its a fucking gimmick

>>1016607
The USA had robot wars aswell with mick fucking foley

I always much prefered battlebots.
I think the house bots were dumb, I thought the pit was dumb, I thought allowing fire was dumb (still do), I thought the Gauntlet episodes were dumb.

Battlebots is just straight bot vs bot. They are adding in stupid gimmicks now that they banned before, but its still just a bot battle.

I heard they are actually bringing Robot Wars back. Im not sure how well that is gonna go

>>1016664
I'm a little worried the new robot wars isn't going to take itself seriously.

>>1017241
Robot Wars never took itself seriously.

Holy shit i just watched a clip of bb on youtube that was badass

>>1017345
What did you watch?
I can link you the best fights.

>>1017356
I would appreciate that

>>1018019
Watch them in descending order.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBkEMZg1iqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgY0BRrEsxw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2vSMMXmGdg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4AAIfQD8ew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoRAeAOoDCc

>>1018025
The recent Bombshell Vs Complete Control has become one of my favourites.

>>1018065
It sucks that they created some sort of "bad boy" image in the first season, because complete control seems to be a pretty stout bot

>>1016661
>unlike 'The Pulverizer™' amirite?

>>1013108
Is Craig Charles still hosting?

>>1018270
>trying to trivialize the fucking circus of retarded gimmicks that Robot Wars had

At least the hammer is a weapon that you could use against the other bot.

Robot Wars was a horse and pony show.
>flames continuously coming out of the walls
>big bots sitting in the corners
>house bots intervening in the match if you get to close to the corners
>beat your opponent by lamely pushing it into a hole in the floor
>if bot get KOed, the match doesnt end
>house bots spend as much or more time than the actual match pushing it around
>pick it up and throw it in the pit
>pick it up and throw it out of the arena
>pick it up and put it on a catapult device to flip the bot over
>all while cheesey music is playing and commentator yelling about how ruthless it is.

Over production of a show sucks sure, but robot wars went way over the top to appeal to 8 year olds.

>>1018025
thanks

i don't really watch tv, where can I get caught up on this years season and be able to watch the rest when it comes out?

>>1016488
>not putting mega-tento against a heavy spinner like ICEWAVE or last rites.
I hate that gimmigky thing.

>>1018344
i wait until the episodes are uploaded, you can usually find them shortly after the show on various stream and torrent sites.

There are probably tons of livestreams on the web if you search for it, i think the series is broadcasted on abc (?)

>>1018366
would be funny. Would be even better if someone set that shitty plastic pool they use on fire.

>>1018344
ABC has the full episodes on their website, if you are in the USA and have a cable subscription (i have xfinity, you log into your account and it works. Same for HBO GO, FX Now and a few other ones)

If you arent, youtube has most if not all the bot battles.
The show has a lot of fluff and narrative about hyping the bots up, so you really arent missing too much by only watching the bot battles.

Torrent sites have the show uploaded by the next day.

>>1018510
Not that I would know, but TV shows usually show up on public trackers an hour or two after airing- depending on their popularity.

They need to spend more time covering the builds in the pit. The actual arena is fun to watch but I'm more interested in how they build them.

>>1018581
They did show some Pit stuff didnt they?
Like its all behind the scenes extras on the website.

They are trying too hard to be WWE to actually show anything technical on the show.

>>1013847
>bee cannons

Robots Wars official website is up and running
http://www.robotwars.tv/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/20zGntPHlh74VX2MtHXz6xY/the-battle-rules

They must be serious about bringing the show back.

>>1019237
"OMG it's razzor!!?!"

Razer is back looking exactly the same just with a hot daughter now.

>>1019238
Mini bots confirmed

>>1013497
>>1013191
http://www.robotwars.tv/competitors/week-2/mr-speed-squared/

>>1019239
From what I've seen it's just nuts and Terror Turtle, one a piece of junk and the other an antique.

>people still make thwackbots/2 wheeled axe bots

Hot horrifying, this one in particular.

>>1019243
That's not even the worst, this thing that looks like Christian Carlberg's "Slugger" from 1999 is probably the worst I've seen in a while.

>>1019244
>115kg max weight limit
>build a thwackbot that weighs 72kg

lol

>>1019244
>>1019246
Nevermind, there's what is basically a season 1 robot that is so bad they didn't put up a picture.

>>1019244
Is that a girl or a guy in the middle. I keep going back and forth.

>>1019247
forgot pic of it, spam filter is harassing me though

>>1019249
>ICE engine
>3/4in MDF armor


I will say that the Robot Wars website is pretty nice.
But a lot of the bots I see are just really mediocre looking. Hopefully like in battlebots, come season 2 they will have a lot more, better equipped bots competing.

>>1019241
>disk
that anon wants a blade
fuck off with your shitty disks

>>1019274
He is in the designing process, you never know what you can take away from similar designs.

EPISODE TONIGHT
GET HYPED

FIGHTS
Bronco VS. ChromeFly
Minotaur VS. Blacksmith
Witch Doctor VS. Red Devil
Yeti VS. Lucky

>>1019290
As a europoor I'm just going to watch it tomorrow morning on some bootleg site without the constant adverts.

>>1019290
Those first 3 matches are going to be bloodbaths.
The only match that may be close is Yeti vs Lucky

Im not sold on Yeti, and Lucky doesnt have big weak exposed tires. Should be a good one

>>1019319
I think Yeti will tear Lucky in half.
It'll be good regardless.

>>1019378
I think yetis drum is weak and that lucky is armored well enough to take the damage.

Im just not sure lucky can disable yeti with just flipping him about

>>1019381
Actually, you're probably right.
Shit, now I'm excited.

I'd like to see how much these bots each cost. Some of them, like Bronco, seem to just outclass the others as if they're just made of better parts.

>>1019392
Look here

>>1014934

>three $350 motors
>three couple hundred dollar planetary gearboxes
>titanium on sheet on the bottom and the top
>large aluminum body
>hundreds of dollars of sprockets and chains (stuff adds up real quick)
>RC electronics and speed controllers
>custom built batteries
>any other number of odds and ends

And dont forget you have to have a ton of extra parts on hand for the tournament. You have to win 5 matches in the course of 3 days to win.

Its a decent amount of money

>>1019392
>Some of them, like Bronco, seem to just outclass the others

In the case of Bronco, its because its a long term tweaking of the flipper design.
They built Toro, T-Minus, and Matador. Years of experience with flippers.

>>1019400
I had no fucking idea those were all built by the same dudes.

ITS ON IN 10 MINUTES

Blacksmiths weapon was shit, but the bot all in all was pretty great.

I hope he comes back next year with a bot that has a better weapon

Welp, didn't see that coming.

Pussy pass denied

>>1016219
>>1016215
brackets btfo already

>>1019513
>Implying Cobalt won't win anyway and make it all work out

>>1019528
But both of those brackets have Cobalt losing to witch doctor. How would that fix the rest of the bracket?

>>1019529
>Cobalt doesn't take Witch Doctor's place
Kek

I don't know if it's a good idea to let broncos wheels unprotected, one nasty hit from the side and it's over. The thin armor from last season at least offered protection against the first few hits. Also i really wonder how good the new armor in the back will hold up against something like tombstone.

Funny how the gyroscopic forces turn minotaur everytime he tries to spin.

Also did anyone see if red devils saw really made it through to the batteries of witch doctor? Only watched a LQ stream. Never would've thought that a saw like this could make it through in a situation like this.

>>1019681

>>1019681
Problem they had last time is that the armour bent inwards and jammed up the wheel. This time they're taking a page out of stingers book where as long as you have at least one on either side working, you can drive.

The Bot builders seem so much like bros, and ABC tries to make them into WWF stars.
Its sad

Here is the Yeti driver after the match
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6JSxNoHYk0

>>1019692
Fuck.
I never thought saws would do any damage.

>>1019703
network tv's a cruel mistress

supposedly in the pits, everyone helps everyone else, but that sort of thing is never shown

>it's another "Rob Knight doesn't bring Mortis out of retirement" episode

>>1013219
I'm back.

I've been looking for this thread for weeks, no joke. Will post proof when I get home, currently don't have any pictures that don't violate NDA and $1m fine.

>>1019718
For the most part, we're all bros. The Ewerts keep to themselves and Pitzer's a dick, but everyone else tends to be friendly, although they can get caught up at times.

>>1019888
>NDA
Not asking you to break it, but what's it entail?

>>1019888
i assume you were part of jacd last season? which team did you separate into?

>Pitzer's a dick
it's not a tv persona? well whodathunkit

>>1019888
You need to get a tripcode so nobody can imitate you.

>>1019904
You can kinda tell just by the look on his face during a match that it's not a game to him.

>>1019692
nice. where do you have that picture from? Never would've thought a saw could be effective.

>>1019698
but wont a single hit from tombstone or something similar completly fuck up multiple wheels on one side?

>>1019901
I can't spoil any of the tournament results aka who wins what fights.

>>1019904
Take a guess and you're probably right

>>1019907


>>1019916
Jerome's been posting it all over Facebook, and it migrated to reddit.

Check out some of the Sewer Snake/Last Rights fights, tires are surprisingly effective armor.

>>1019936
How much did your bot cost to build?
>sorry if you've answered this before. I'm new to this thread

>>1019936
What's your favorite bot design?
Like if you had to start from scratch again, what would you build?

>>1019907
>You can kinda tell just by the look on his face during a match that it's not a game to him.

Its funny, because his bot is shit.
Im not sure HOW the fuck he beat anyone last season.

>>1020000
Well, mr. quads.
He won by being a cheating son of a bitch.
>the de-icer
HOW WAS THAT ALLOWED

>>1020006
>de-icer

totally forgot about that abomination
I mean yeah it worked but....

>>1019936
I am gonna assume you are the overhaul team, even though it said the original overhaul team split and made a couple different bots this season.

How in the fuck did you repair the damage done by cobalt?
I saw the pic on reddit, doesnt look like something easy to do in the pits.

>>1020009
What's the really shitty part is that he got beaten fairly by the net.
He lost, fair and square.
They gave him a rematch because it didn't feel fair, and then he went on with "the modulator" and just swapped parts out to beat whoever he fought next.

>>1020038
The comedy central run had McDonalds toys.

I always wanted the Biohazard one, he was my favorite bot. Didnt go to mcdonalds all that often so I didnt get it. I had an overkill and ankle biter one though.

>>1020040
Fuck dude.
Bringing back some memories I didn't even know I have.

I think I had all of those except like Megatento and the barrel-looking one.

>>1019888
I've always heard tombstone/last rites dude is pretty bro but they want him to play heel, am I right?

>>1019718
Those girls asking beardman about yet I seemed like they would be willing to help if he asked. Overall the atmosphere seems fairly friendly.

>>1020038
>no ghost raptor, even though the other three are from the quarter finals and wd got knocked out in the round of 8

kek, didn't know the good doctor was so popular

>>1020049
yeah, which kinda raises the question if you help teams you're immediately scheduled to fight (or stronger competitors in your quadrant)

>>1020049
I heard that Yeti come woefully unprepared and that someone sold him a pair of spare tires
Thats pretty crazy seeing how you only have a certain amount of your own spare parts

>>1020053
It was Bronco's team.

>>1020051
Witch doctor might be the most popular according to ABC. Sucks they lost already.

Also Apparently the Bronco RC toy was canceled. I guess they didn't want to put a powerful enough flipper in it.

>>1020056
I think they're popular simply because they BTFO tombstone last year.
Would have won if they had a srimech.

>>1020056
>Apparently the Bronco RC toy was canceled

Booo
The only 2 toys I would consider buying would be Bronco or Stinger. And Stinger just isnt popular enough to get a toy.

>>1020058
Matt, I know it's you.

>>1020055
and their tires were obviously too small for yeti

hopefully they managed to get a shipment in from alaska before the next fight

>>1020059
Nah
Watched a local high school competition and got way into combots and other competitions before battlebots came back. Fell in love with sewer snake.

Im just really excited to see him in the competition because a lot of builders in other competitions wont deal with the exclusivity and other horse shit that battlebots puts them through.

>>1020061
Wow, I dont know how the fuck I missed that.
They are clearly mismatched.

>>1020070
the back wheels were always smaller

What do you guys think of the Japanese version of battlebots?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ivFpsmEVQ

>>1020159
This.
It keeps their ass close to the ground.

>>1020163
We need an American equivalent

Why is this show filled with so much bloat? The hosts have no fucking clue what they are talking about. You could cut down this 1 1/2 hr episode to 20-30 min tops.

>>1020210
There are a few youtube channels that cut the episodes down to just the fights. Average air time of fights per episode: 4 minutes

>>1020163
There are all types of small local competitions that do stuff like this
There is one happening like 6 hours away from me next month. Im trying to decide if I should slap together a 1pound bot on my 3d printer and enter it for fun

>>1020214
Do it.
Make it the memebot.

>>1020215
Here is a video of the competition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4AwizXXxIY

A few of the bots are 3d printed, would work fine I guess. Its just a pretty long ass drive, and I have never done anything like it before.

>>1020219
What bot would you make?

>>1020221
Lol, I have no clue. Thats the problem. Kid in the video sounds like he has a lot of experience in RC stuff at least

>>1020226
A wedge bot would be easy.
All you'd need is a controllable box with a slope on one end.

Sorry for the late response, Tinder date.

>>1019959
Like most people, we ended up building 1.5-2. At the end, we were about 20k in the hole, but Battlebots paid us 10k to build. Other people went way less, most everyone else went way more. Some people spent 10k on titanium alone.

>>1019960
Yeti and Blacksmith are my favorites. They're dead simple as far as mechanics go, but jesus they're much more fun to watch fight than the vast majority of robots out there. I'm likely going to go with something that looks like a sword/jetfighter for next season, if there is a next season. Ratings are shiiiiiiiit.

>>1020006
>>1020009
>>1020000
They were very clear that if anyone wanted to pull off de-icer/present box shit again, they were all for it but we needed to tell them ahead of time. The megatento match got delayed when Lisa hung a bunch of fish hooks on the inside of the shell, and they made it abundantly clear to Bombshell that they would have a lifetime ban if there was anything inside of the box.

>>1020016
Charles literally had 3 separate frames machined for him and just had to replace the fuckered parts. He has no idea what to do with all the spares now that the season's over though.

>>1020048
He had a part to play this year, so he was a little more of a diva. I usually left the drinking when he showed up because it would turn into a "remember the old days" fest and groveling around him.

>>1020049
Yeti ends up borrowing spare parts from 5 different teams to keep it running. It's lost a lot after the first two matches, and he didn't bring any spares.

>>1020186
We've actually had hebocons at MIT a couple of times now as a frat rush event for one of the more interesting frats. It happens a couple of other places too, it's very easy to organize in the grand scheme of things.

>>1020159
Yeti bought all of their wheels from Bronco to start with. Getting spares was nbd.

>>1020062
Matt's so cool irl. He's definitely a professional at this robot crap, but unlike say the Bronco guys, he's really nice and sociable.

>>1020226
I've got a lot of experience in the smaller weight classes if you want a hand with electronics and design.

>>1020246
>a sword
As a spectator, that sounds dumb.
Any hammer or axe designs seem to get btfo 100% of the time.

What do you think of this anon's idea >>1013191 ?
I thought it was stupid at first, but after seeing Rotater get killed because of having an exposed wheel, I'm thinking he's onto something.

>>1020252
Lol, he's gonna think you're me.
I updated the rendering, in case you're curious.
This is more realistic.

Also looks like I might have to wait a year or two to build it.
Starting college really soon and a Bio-Med degree doesn't come easy.

>>1020246
>10k on titanium alone.
Stop it, you're scaring me.

>>1020252
Mo parts means mo things to fail. Motors weigh much more than motor controllers. and while I've seen wiring up the middle of the shaft work before, most of the time it doesn't. My preference is to have two isolated systems for top and bottom.

One of our guys has a 30lber that fights with a sword and it's always hilarious to watch, and the crowd loves it. I guess a big thing that people arn't realizing about this season is that it's a TV show about robot fighting for your entertainment, rather than robot fighting filmed for TV. Blacksmith was great as fuck to watch, but mildly effective, so that's a little what I'm aiming towards.

>>1020255
The big problem I see you having is rectifying the length of your blade with the base of your robot. You might be better off with a 2wd on top and bottom and little skid plates on the front and back to save weight and reduce footprint.

What weight class were you thinking about? 3lbs is really popular, and relatively cheap to get into.

I personally don't believe in titanium, but shit adds up, especially when you have to do desperate last-minute fixes the week before ship. That extra $50 for shipping is really worth it if it buys you more time.

>>1020255
That Looks much better than before.
>bio-med
Stop bragging

>>1020260
The blade length is definitely a big factor.
The RioBotz Combot Tutorial book has like 15 pages on balance and length alone.
Those pictures are more just so I don't forget my idea.

As for the 2wd, you're probably right.
I see a lot of spinners, both horizontal and vertical, using that instead.

It'd have to be Heavyweight, almost.
The weight of the blade alone would set you past lightweight, and middleweight bots don't seem solid enough to survive getting flipped most of the time.

I'm probably wrong though.

>>1020260
Let us pick the name for your next bot

>>1020264
I got a good 11" sweep with a tool-steel bar on one of my 3lbers that was less than 1/3 of the weight, I bet you could get bigger just fine. Also, scaling on these things is really messed up and entirely dependent on drive systems for each robot. There are also very few places to fight heavyweights.

>>1020274
But then you'd know who I am, senpai. I'm pretty sure most of my names are 4chan approved anyway.

>>1020281
I suppose I'll figure the weight issue out when it comes.
Thanks for the advice.
:)

>>1020281
If I can guess who you are do I get a cookie?

>>1018025
First 4 were "unavailable in my country" but the Witch doctor looks pretty fierce! :)

>>1020040
Oh god I had the eight-wheeler one. What was it called?

red devil is a gorgeous looking bot

usually those get smoked by the more blue-collar ones, but WD got cocky

/r/battlebotsraw

I know it's reddit but they have the episodes there so it's just the fighting. Should be visible everywhere

So ive been watching the UK version of Robot Wars
The whole first season is pretty bad

Im still excited to see it rebooted

>>1021007
The first season no one had a single idea what they were doing pretty much other than Mortis, and Mortis still lost.

>>1019718
>supposedly in the pits, everyone helps everyone else
>>1019888
did you/most other competitors do FRC when you were younger?

Wtf Minotaur vs Blacksmith has reached 15 million views now on facebook and 1.5m on youtube.

>>1021586
Facebook counts views differently (smaller fraction of video played before it counts as a view). Also facebook has autoplay.

>>1021262
While I did, no one else on my team and very few of the other MIT teams didn't. There's always been a bias against combat robotics from FIRST all the way up to the top, and that has actually prevented MIT from having an official team until now. I'd say the biggest common factor between teams was "owning a machine shop" or "being a mechanical engineer"

For the most part, we realize that this is an entertainment sport and want to help each other put on the best fights possible. Battlebots wants us to do that too, but give us a really contradicting message by paying us to win.

>>1021586
We're flipping our shit over this. Ratings have been in the garbage and we've had like 0 engagement with a new fan base 'cause ABC has spent like $12 on advertizing. We'll see how well the numbers do this Thursday and how much of the "NEW BATTLEBOTS 8PM ABC THURSDAYS" comments got through the "wew lads what a shitty robotwars ripoff am I rite also razer"

>>1021603
*did, not didn't. No love for Battlebots from FIRST and vice versa.

>>1021603
The amount of "Why is minotaur allowed to use electric shocks" comments blew my mind.

>>1021614
The "this is clearly fake nothing can move like that" while referencing the gyroscopic precession comments are also great, especially when some wiser commenter comes along to explain the anti-gravity device.

>>1021603
>Ratings have been in the garbage and we've had like 0 engagement with a new fan base 'cause ABC has spent like $12 on advertizing.

I missed the whole first episode, I had no clue it was gonna be. The advertising has been very very poor.

I went to the ABC website to see it, 15 different shows pop up. You have to click on the "view more shows" to find it.

I downloaded the Roku ABC streaming app to watch it, it literally isnt on the app.

Im happy ABC brought it back, but its like they dont actually care about it.

REEEEEEEEE IT'S BEEN PUSHED BACK A WEEK BECAUSE OF AN OBONGO SPEECH ARGHH

>>1022167
What?
Really?

Yes I mad

>>1022222
quints confirm, everyone mad

>>1022167
this can't be happening

>>1022329
literally the worst time, after the 17m views video there could have been so many views.

>>1022167
>you now realize that they are going to push it back when the olympics start
>the finale will literally be in september

>>1021603
the advertising has been godawful

and the "lol robot wars" brits are being whiny pissants. also retarded, but that's a given.

>>1022333
>>1022329
qq gg

A decent amount of the builders are right-wing lolbritarians, so some of the butthurt on our end has been...interesting.

>>1022376
They're going to cut the season in half for the Olympics. It'll resume after they're over; THE GOOD NEWS from the broadcast is that pushing the season back an episode means that the finale won't be hanging on it's own like an awkward dingleberry weeks after everything else, it'll actually have an episode or two before it.

>>1022514
Battlebots themselves are a little despondent when it comes to advertising. Why do you think I'm here, other than to shill for the show?

>>1022684
>shilling for the show
>to 63 people who already watch the show
m8 you might want to take a few marketing classes

>>1022690
Dammit Jim, I'm an engineer, not a marketing exec. Those guys were too busy doing cocaine off of hookers tits to bother marketing Battlebots and you're seeing the results!

>>1022693

When is the next episode out?

>>1023082
The 21st?

>page 8
WEW

Is battle bots a rip off version of robot wars

>>1024226
They are just televised robot combat. The 'sport' has been around for years. One show is probably older than the other but they both are just showing something else that already existed.

>>1024228
I'll check it out. Love that kinda shit me like.

New season of robot wars coming soon also

>>1023877
>page 7

>>1024226
>Is battle bots a rip off version of robot wars

This is real "robot wars"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7CqpPdSnFs

The original "robot wars" and Battlebots were both in the mid 90s

The UK version that was fagged up for television came after battlebots had already started, and was a clear deviation from the original robot wars competition.

So its all a perspective thing. The original robot wars predates battlebots by a couple years, but the UK one was after.

>>1024235
>>1025243
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbKKkYuwjNI&feature=share

>>1025673
burger here, what's the point of house robots? seems like they make for unfair fights

When will the new episide be aired? And is there a list of the fights?

>>1025706
There is a USA version of Robot Wars, and it had Mick fucking Foley as host.

Regardless, the house bots are just for spectacle.

>>1026089
TONIGHT

8PM EASTERN

ABC

WARHEAD VS COMPLETE CONTROL - 2ND BEST FIGHT OF THE SEASON

TOMBSTONE VS ESCALE VELOLCITY

RAZERBACK VS DOUCH RAPTOR

POSSIBLY SOW V POISION ARROW OR RINGMASTER AND BUTT FARCE

>>1026089
The new episode (that was bumped last week for the president) will air tonight.

Here is the bracket that hasnt been updated
http://www.battlebots.com/bracket-s2/

Tombstone vs Escape Velocity
Razorback vs Ghost Raptor
Warhead vs Complete Control
Son of Whyachi vs Poison Arrow

>>1026090
lel

Look at this fucking shit
A WWF style "fight" in the pits.

At like 20 seconds, they start "fighting" before the match
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSszw4LoqY

NEW THREAD
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>>1026160
>>1026160

>>1026161
Didn't realize the bump limit is bigger here.
Continue.

By the way, if any of you folks are in the Boston area, we have viewing parties every Thursday night at Aeronaut in Cambridge, usually with one of the big robots in attendance.

ALSO, we'll be showing off all of them this Saturday at the Boston Mini Maker Faire. Should be good fun.

>>1026162
I thought it was still 300 here

>>1026200
It hasn't reached the limit yet.
The post count isn't italicized yet.

I'll make a new thread when it does, don't worry.

its on right now

>>1026091
>WARHEAD VS COMPLETE CONTROL - 2ND BEST FIGHT OF THE SEASON
You really must not like Pitzer.

>>1026091
>WARHEAD VS COMPLETE CONTROL - 2ND BEST FIGHT OF THE SEASON
You really must not like Pitzer.

Just watched it online, that Warhead fight was incredible.

>>1026458
it really was. Finally someone took out the propane tank.

Is icewave running with gas or gasoline? Busting a gas tank open would be even better.

I'm having trouble finding a torrent or a stream, is it listed as episode 4 or 5? Some places I've watched it count the gears awaken as episode 1.

GUYS GUYS. i just found htis thread and i love the show, anyone have a torrent for full season 1?

Red devil is so fucking cool

>poison arrow beat sow

when will this drum spinner meme end

>>1026586
agreed

>>1026595
It's only going to get worse from here.

The big concern is that the new rules are going to turn the competition into BBIQ, which is 15lbers fighting each other with an active weapon requirement. All of them end up being clones of each other's vertical spinners.

>>1026598
Shouldn't you be able to defend vertical spinners the same way as horizontal spinners? Just let them hit something hard and stablee until they take care of themself, like chromefly did. With the 250 lbs limit there should be plenty room for a piece of hardened steel. Kind of like broncos new tail, but stronger.

>>1026619
There are a couple of approaches, but they usually take a fair amount of driving skill. One of our guys does very well with close-to-the ground horizontal discs that catch the vertical right as it starts the up-swing. The result is that they get thrown up by their own force + the horizontals.

The Blacksmith/Minotaur fight shows Blacksmith doing a pretty good job with his wedge, but the second it started fraying the fight was over. The real problem comes in with people like Minotaur who have been building the same robot for over a decade, and they've got reliability down completely.

>>1026626
Yeah, I really don't think minotaur can lose. It's just too sturdy, really. I can see it losing if it had its wheels or motors damaged, but even then it's pretty doubtful it'd get KO'd. It does seem like it could get picked up and lose by decision that way but I think red devil is the only bot capable of that left, and it is not a sturdy machine.

>>1026598
>It only gets worse from here
No...please tell me my boy Bronco sends riobots back to the favelas...please tell me he mops them out in the quarters then ends poison arrow in the semis. Yeti can stay but all other drums must go.

>>1026633
Hey, he's going against Warhead next, and Warhead still has the dino mode

>>1026634
You know I can't tell you anything =^).

That being said, the matches do get more intense every week from here.

>>1026626
Blacksmiths wege didn't look really stable to begin with though. Something with thicker steel secured by more than a few screws could probably do the job. Also probably with a less steep angle.

Also the vertical spinners that really pack a punch like minotaur are hard to steer due to the gyroscopic forces, if you're fast and agile enough you probably could keep getting around it.

Also a more general questions: Do the size limits only apply to how a not enters the fight? Could you theoretically build something that deploys quite high legs after the fight starts? Something like pic related, just with more legs. Would be funny if someone build something like that and then harpoons his enemy from like 2m above.

>>1026646
Warhead sucks dick. The thing nearly self destructs all the time. It has pointless arms that do nothing. Only good for breakdancing.

>>1026655
Can't it self right with the arms?

>>1026647
Solid, braced 4mm thick titanium all the way though. It was nothing to be trifled with!

And you're right about maneuverability, I know a few guys that win out at vertical spinning matches because they're smaller, easier to control, and spin faster with harder blades. They're less effective at common bots though, so it's a tradeoff.

No size limits other than 'can your robot fit through the door'. The only person I know hwo has ever had an issue with this is Hal Rucker from Ringmaster. His robot "Crazy Susan" for season five was a little excessive
http://www.halrucker.com/crazy-susan.html

>>1026655
But this is a television show, and sometimes the most entertaining robots are the ones that blow themselves up =^)

>>1026655
Adding to >>1026657
, they seem to have the S2 flamethrower emerge through the arms in the spinner configuration. And they breakdance pretty damn well.

>>1026660
BB has a rule against entanglement weapons - nets, ball bearings and such. But we've seen that you can bring ablative armor (Plan X) and minibots designed to jam up people's drivetrains/weapons (nuisance bots from SOW, CC) by soaking hits/driving underneath them. Where's the line drawn? Could you bring a swarm of minibots in addition to your main bot that essentially replicated the function of a bunch of ball bearings?

>>1026679
You're ruining my season 3 plans!

In all seriousness, the rules for the last two seasons have been pretty handwavy. As long as it doesn't LOOK or perform intentionally like entanglement to the producers, it should be fine.

It's almost as if they are doing everything to decrease views at the moment, now they've started region locking the fresh youtube videos.

>>1026598
Yuuup I really hope that doesn't happen, BotsIQ is fairly boring at this point due to that.

>>1026826
Also the BotsIQ officials can eat a bag of dicks, their rules at this point also encourage the never ending stream of drum and beater bots.

>>1026167
fuck man, I should check that out, I'm in boston

Alright, bump limit officially reached.
I think it's time for a NEW THREAD

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