- Follow up
- Battlebots 2019 coverage:
- We won’t be talking about every single fight
- We feel our strength is talking about robots, not talking about fights
- We would rather focus only on the best fights than talk unenthusiastically about the less interesting ones
- We will make sure we talk about every robot over the course of the season - most of them multiple times.
- Front matter
- Captain Shrederator vs Cobalt
- Telling people to chill ~2 weeks after everyone stopped being angry
- There’s usually a reasonable background to this kind of story
- Fight Night isn’t purely a Legitimate Sporting Competition
- It’s about maximising entertainment while maintaining a valid competitive format
- How do teams use social media effectively?
- Is there a ‘right’ way to talk about this kind of behind the scenes info?
- Bad situation - great memes
Battlebots Season 4, Episode 2- Battlebots 2019, Episode 2
- SOW vs HUGE
- Wheels
- How much difference did they make?
- Tyres - helpful?
- Pretending we know precisely how the wheels failed
- SOW’s hammers vs an ‘ordinary’ bar
- Reversing the weapon
- Fairly serious damage to SOW
- How efficiently can HUGE’s bar usually hit?
- SCARY PHYSICS - ABORT! ABORT!
- Texas Twister vs Black Dragon
- Nobody was robbed
- It’s not as simple as ‘who do you think won’ - there are points being given out.
- If you don’t like the result, your issue is with the rules and not the judges.
- Does the show make this clear enough?
- Sam and Ryan roleplay as judges for 18 minutes
- The full judging criteria
- Since recording, it’s been confirmed in multiple places that points can be split in all categories
- Damage:
- Sam: TT 2-1 BD
- Ryan: TT 2-1 BD
- Aggression
- Attacks not using a weapon are still worth something, its just less than attacks with a weapon. How much less? Good question
- Sam: TT 1-1 BD
- Ryan: TT 2-0 BD - but 1-1 feels very valid
- Control
- Sam: TT 1-1 BD
- Ryan: TT 0-2 BD - but 1-1 feels very valid
- Witch Doctor vs Shatter!
- Shatter!’s weapon issues
- Good driving all round
- Trying to work out how good Witch Doctor is: episode N
- Going into the fight, Witch Doctor had 5 wins and 7 losses
- This win and the 2 Vegas wins bring them to 8-7
- Their wins (pre-Vegas) were largely unimpressive, but their losses were all really tough fights
- Season 1: Witch Doctor vs Tombstone
- The magic of TV
- Shatter!’s crazy levels of armour
- Axe Backwards vs Mammoth
- Mammoth works
- Sam didn’t think it would
- Tweel
- Battlebots 2019, Episode 3
- Bloodsport vs Lucky
- TL:DL - we are visionaries, and any team who wants to avoid this kind of issue should invite us to join them next season
- We really made this bit confusing: During the build of Hello There! we tried to test the robot with a drive setup very similar to what Lucky used for this fight. It was horrible. Don’t do it.
- Free Shipping vs Hydra
- Making assumptions about how Hydra’s weapon works
- Unexpected format chat
- Length and pacing
- Do the gaps between fights create more backlash when a fight isn’t good?
- Sound effects
- Breaker Box vs Falcon
- Trying to explain Falcon’s relationship with gyroscopic effect
- Trying to explain why 2WD turns faster than 4WD
- How effective is Breaker Box’s lifter?
- RoboGames 2012
- Biteforce vs Yeti
- A genuinely decent main event
- Unsticks Confirmed by Paul
- Forks vs wedgelets
- The universe won’t allow anything to go under Biteforce
