Description

• Front matter
  • Ryan sees Teslas in the wild
• Battlebots
  • Episode 15
    • Sawblaze vs SOW
      • Being unreasonably drawn away from SOW
      • Sawblaze’s reluctance to use the weapon
        • MegatRON
      • “Hammer Saw”
        • Two guys who have never built a spinner make wild guesses about how you build a spinner
      • The late hit
        • Such late. Many unsporting.
    • DeathRoll vs Yeti
      • Big weapons, big aggression
      • Yeti self-righting?
      • DeathRoll’s lack of spares
        • Preventative maintenance
    • Quantum vs Tombstone
      • Ray’s box-rush bamboozle
        • 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399
          • That’s 46 perfectly recalled digits of pi
            • The world record is 67,890. Git gud, scrub
              • And they may not have even included the 3
          • Relevant XCKD
    • HUGE vs Whiplash
      • HUGE: the sports model
        • Bob Lazar approved
      • A tricky/easy JD
        • HUGE gets the damage points, even if what feels like 3 points worth of damage hasn’t been done in the fight overall
        • HUGE, by virtue of being the style of robot it is, may struggle to demonstrate aggression and control despite being aggressive and controlled
      • Live event judging systems
        • No judging system?
          • It turns out the diving judges are following a complex and rigid system, who knew?
        • Semi-anonymous judging?
  • Episode 16
    • Witch Doctor vs Deathroll
      • Return of the Judges’ Decision
        • Separating judging from refereeing
          • Controlled Translational movement
            • Hello There! limping on with one side of drive dead
          • “Quick Walking”
        • The JD itself
      • Spoilery trailer shenanigens
    • Tombstone vs Biteforce
      • A spectacle, but not the spectacle we expected
      • Biteforce pulls through with little-to-no damage
    • Biteforce vs Witch Doctor
      • The weird human need for variety and novelty
      • How do you challenge Biteforce?
        • Yes, we know it may not be coming back in its current form. Humour us