- Front Matter
- Robonerd 2019
- We went
- We recorded basically nothing
- Sam was horrifically injured
- Hello There!, Split Decision, and Tropical Storm Phil v0.3 all fighting
- Battlebots 2019
- Episode 11
- Live commentary track
- DUCK! vs Quantum
- Sam was right
- Ryan was biased
- DUCK!’s lack of KO potential
- Old weapon vs new weapon
- Lack of non-invertible robots
- Ryan counts six competitors which aren’t invertible and have no way to self right:
- Captain Shredderator, Daisycutter, Deep Six, Kingpin, Shellshock, SOW,
- Plus four with questionable self righting ability/invertibility
- Cobalt, End Game, Bombshell, Mammoth
- DUCK!’s lack of being-KO’d potential
- Blacksmith vs Captain Shrederator
- Ryan is unintentionally meaner than he means to be
- Sam was right
- Modifications/configurations
- Blacksmith’s wedge
- Shrederator’s fally-offy teeth
- Shrederator’s sticky-uppy teeth
- A lengthy debate about how to judge damage to a spinner
- If a butterfly flaps its wings and Shrederator’s weapon stops working, does Blacksmith get the damage points?
- A robot being damaged != damage points for the opponent
- Tombstone vs Gruff
- A very lengthy (~20 minute)
debate monologue about how to judge the aggression of a spinner (and the definition of aggression)- Clarification re: ‘severity’ - the 3 judging categories are supposed to be totally separate, so the term ‘forcefulness’ being used is surprising and confusing since force should equate to damage
- For this reason, it makes more sense (to Ryan) for the term ‘forcefulness’, in this context, to refer to how the attack is carried out rather than its effect
- By this definition, it makes sense to think of ‘severity’ in terms of whether an attack could have been carried out MORE forcefully
- Clarification re: ‘boldness’ - Ryan latched onto a single phrase a little too hard here: risking damage to a weapon by using it is considered more bold than an attack with something else (eg a wedge) which is less likely to be damaged.
- This feels like it crosses over weirdly with the later clause about not using a weapon. Its ‘double damage’ against wedges, and that sucks.
- A less lengthy discussion about how to judge superficial damage
- A lengthy debate about how to judge damage to a spinner
- End Game vs Cobalt
- A welcome reminder of End Game’s power
Plowless Wedgeless Cobalt- Cobalt’s disappointing record?
- Episode 12
- The sports equivalent of a bottle episode?
- Short, one sides fights and lengthy, unsatisfying cripple fights
- Fluffy button-pressing montage
- Highlighted fights
- Shatter! vs Minotaur
- We love Shatter!
- We always talk about Shatter!
- Designs which could benefit from omnidirectional drive
- How did Shatter! die?
- Witch Doctor vs Gigabyte
- A little bit more than ‘one big hit’
- Dodgy physics alert
- Bronco vs HUGE
- TYRES!!
- Bronco’s top armour choice
- Bronco’s reputation and the team’s status
- Sam’s point makes complete sense
- Looking ahead to the top 16
- Everybody with 3 or more wins is likely in - even Minotaur
- Potential for episode 14 to feature 2-2 teams fighting for the last place/places
