Description

• Front matter
  • Sam recommends youtube channels
    • James Bruton - he makes robots
    • Barnaby Dixon - he makes puppets
    • Frank Howarth - he makes wooden things
    • Colin Furze - he makes mistakes
  • Antweights
    • The omni-flipper
    • PAD vs CAD
• Battlebots - The World Championship Finals of the World
  • The fluffening
    • 4 fights, plus another top 10 for the Science channle bonus.
      • BUT unaired fights are coming! (According to a now deleted tweet…)
    • Battlebots: Resurrection
      • High-quality graphics and editing
      • Bot 56: Raven
        • A competitor explained the Raven situation 4 months ago on reddit - nobody seemed to notice
      • There would be a link to the series here but, since we’re in the UK, we can’t access the legal link to share. Well played, Discovery. Well played.
  • Exhibition: Tombstone vs Tantrum
    • HUGE ARENA BREACH THREATENS TO KILL THOUSANDS
      • Or turn the lights off
      • How Can Battlebots Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real?
    • Being spoiled
  • The losing semifinalists
    • Lockjaw
      • Ryan is glad that Lockjaw didn’t win
      • Jaw vs Minotaur?
      • Deceptively resilient wheels
      • The plough
        • 12mm AR500 is, shockingly, quite resilient.
    • Whiplash
      • RIP little friend, it was a fun ride
      • Non-translational movement
        • More mobile than a certain robot in a certain rumble?
        • Ryan explains sport
          • The entertainment/sport spectrum for TV programmes
          • William Osman!!
      • Robogames silver medallist, not champion
  • The finalists
    • Biteforce
      • Not a fast weapon, but an efficient weapon
      • Only ever beaten by Chomp
    • Minotaur
      • HUGE damage. Both sides broken into 2 or more pieces again
• Series retrospective
  • It was good
  • It was long
  • Podcasts are hard work
  • It had ad breaks
  • It wasn’t available in Europe