Description

• Followup
  • The Heat E line-up
  • Whiteboard matches
    • On-board footage from Behemoth
  • Re-re-opening the engineering wound
    • ‘Dave Lowry’
    • Ryan’s tries to clarify his position for the [n]^th time
• Battlebots
  • WTF is Battlebots?
    • The key differences with Robot Wars
    • 2015 Highlight reel
  • How to find the shownotes. Which you clearly already know how to do. Because these are the show notes. And you are reading them. Well done I guess?
    • I’ll just put the Jellyfish video here again…
  • The bracket
• Group 1
  • HERE BE SPOILERS!
  • Tombstone:
    • Shock mounted drive
    • Last Rites
    • vs Witch Doctor (2015)
    • Fights: vs Black ice, vs Escape Velocity, vs Brutus, vs Yeti, vs Beta, vs Bombshell (low quality)
  • Black Ice:
    • What does it actually…do?
      • The 3 ‘weapons’
    • Dan Barry,
    • Fights: Qualifier vs Skorpios & Bad Kitty, vs Tombstone
  • Escape Velocity:
    • Aluminium honeycomb
    • SpaceX’s previous foray into combat robots
    • Fights: vs Overdrive, vs Tombstone
  • Overdrive:
    • Sam needs to start rhyming
    • 2015 Overdrive
    • Ryan is bothered by a lack of gyro-dancing
    • Fights: vs Escape Velocity
• Group 2
  • Brutus
    • 2015 Witch Doctor vs 2016 Brutus
    • Ryan doesn’t like gimmicks
    • Asymetric/single tooth disc design
    • Fights: Vs Moebius, vs Lockjaw, vs Tombstone
  • Moebius
    • ‘Standard full body spinner’ designs
    • Direct Metal Laser Sintering, Super-Draco engines, harder than diamond
    • Fights: vs Brutus
  • Ray Billings vs Peirce Hawthorne - because apparently somebody else also though this
  • Yeti
    • What Ryan thinks Alaska is like
    • Sam considers quitting the podcast
    • Fights: vs Lockjaw, vs Lucky, vs Tombstone
  • Lockjaw
    • Spring powered flipper
      • What came first, the flipper or the clamp?
    • Lockjaw’s lineage and previous performances
    • Fights: vs Yeti, vs Brutus
• Deconstructing the show
  • Sports broadcasting
    • Presenters
      • Samantha Ponder
      • Kenny Florian & Chris Rose
      • Faruq Tauheed
      • The pit reporters
      • The arena-side reporter
    • The tale of the tape: Less informative than a Bill Nye Netflix series
  • Online info
    • Competitor profiles
    • Competition stats (aka ‘sports information’)
    • Robot Wars wiki vs Battlebots wiki
      • Converting from lbs to more civilised units
  • Robot sponsorships
• Group 3
  • ICEwave
    • Full body spinner?
    • Stalling petrol engines
    • Sneaky paintwork
    • Fights: vs Sub Zero, vs Nightmare
  • Sub-Zero
    • Sam continues to be annoyed by ugly welding
    • Struggling to remember the weight limit
    • Fights: vs ICEwave
  • Stinger
  • Stinger: the Killer Bee
    • Gratuitous flames
    • Modular weaponry
    • Effective spinner-killing
      • Wyrm
    • Fights: vs Nightmare, vs Mega Tento (US only)
  • Nightmare
    • Estimating the height
    • Ryan is sure he rememberes the fight with Beta and is almost entirely wrong
    • ‘Self righting’ system
    • Old disc vs new disc
    • Fights: vs Stinger TKB, vs ICEwave, vs Beta
• Group 4
  • Beta
    • Two grown men fall in love with a furious limpet for approximately 5 minutes
    • Design details: Hammer head, crooked arm, armour hinges, weapon motor and mechanism, Beta website
    • Breaking the floor
    • Fights: vs Lucky, vs Overhaul (US only), vs Nightmare (US only), vs Tombstone
  • Lucky
    • Wedge weirdness
    • Fights: vs Beta, vs Yeti
  • Cobalt
    • Comparisons with Carbide
    • Bombshell won or Cobalt lost?
    • Fights: vs Overhaul, Vs Bombshell :(
  • Overhaul
    • Becoming Biteforce: a winning paintjob?
    • Fights: vs Cobalt, vs Beta (US only)
• The judges
  • The judging criteria: defining aggression
    • Beta vs Tombstone
  • Celebrity/guest judges
• Armchair Engineering: Flipper mechanisms
  • Gassing about gasses: a plea for more information
  • Mechanisms
    • The classic ‘BritWedge’ flipper
    • The Bronco/SubZero ’launcher’
    • The Escape Velocity…thing…
    • Lucky’s 4-bar lifter/flipper