robot wars or battlebots?

[HurricaneAndrew]

Robot Wars was rigged, battlebots had filler crap...


I prefer NERC...


If battlebots  was on an appropiate channel for what it was; Spike, Speed, or Discovery and took a different approach to the show and presented it as how Spike presents UFC cage fights I think it would have been much more successful.

If you've been to a robot combat event you'd understand. The atmosphere is very similar to a race or any other motorsport. I could almost compare it to a Freestyle at a Monster Jam event, but it's not quite that exciting. 

>Implying that Monster Jam isn't rigged.

[Jonzu95]

Robot Wars, for sure.

[R0B0SH4RK]

Robotica, ladies and gentlemen.


Seriously though, Robot Wars had a far better production value, but Battlebots robots were far and away superior machines. I preferred Battlebots, but the bullcrap "slams, jabs, rams, etc." judging criteria that Comedy Central displayed really bothered me at times.

[Dexterhunter]

debbot from robotica was pretty cool

i still prefer battlebots

[Resetti's Replicas]

Robotica, ladies and gentlemen.


Seriously though, Robot Wars had a far better production value, but Battlebots robots were far and away superior machines. I preferred Battlebots, but the bullcrap "slams, jabs, rams, etc." judging criteria that Comedy Central displayed really bothered me at times.

That wasn't what they were actually being judged on, but I agree, it was stupid.  The Mortis vs Voltarc match, Mortis won on those made up categories, but Voltarc won on the actual criteria, so all they managed to do was confuse the viewing audience.

[R0B0SH4RK]

That was pretty clear, especially considering that CC's categories and counts were completely arbitrary.

[Naryar]

From what i've seen ? Battlebots.

Also, RW tends to create more fanboys than battlebots. Although i've never met a battlebot fanboy, I'm sure they exists, and maybe i've met the right persons on these forums.

[ty4er]

robot wars. battlebots had pretty crap commentators and not enough fights

[Natef]

From what i've seen ? Battlebots.

Also, RW tends to create more fanboys than battlebots. Although i've never met a battlebot fanboy, I'm sure they exists, and maybe i've met the right persons on these forums.

Sadly true.

[Jonzu95]

From what i've seen ? Battlebots.

Also, RW tends to create more fanboys than battlebots. Although i've never met a battlebot fanboy, I'm sure they exists, and maybe i've met the right persons on these forums.

Sadly true.

Disagreed.

[09090901]

Robotica, ladies and gentlemen.

Didn't they play the entire season 3 in one day?

[Natef]

From what i've seen ? Battlebots.

Also, RW tends to create more fanboys than battlebots. Although i've never met a battlebot fanboy, I'm sure they exists, and maybe i've met the right persons on these forums.

Sadly true.

Disagreed.

Explain.

[GoldenFox93]

Robot Wars didn't take itself too seriously, and always made it clear that the point was to have fun.

Aye, that's another thing I liked RW for- you'd never have seen something like Diotoir make it onto TV in Battlebots, for instance.

[NFX]

Robot Wars didn't take itself too seriously, and always made it clear that the point was to have fun.

Aye, that's another thing I liked RW for- you'd never have seen something like Diotoir make it onto TV in Battlebots, for instance.

At least up until the seventh series, when it did veer much more towards the destructive competition aspect of things, I reckon. It was already headed in that direction, just from the technology improvements and so forth, but the first couple of series, where you had the Gauntlet, Trials, that sort of thing, it was a lot more about having fun rather than winning. Bots like Diotoir, Cerberus, Milly-Ann Bug, Recyclopse, even Razer to an extent. And at the very least, you were likely to have a complete robot at the end of it, instead of being disassembled by Ziggo or whatever happened in Battlebots to the less robust competitors.

[Natef]

What about stewbot?

[GoldenFox93]

Robot Wars didn't take itself too seriously, and always made it clear that the point was to have fun.

Aye, that's another thing I liked RW for- you'd never have seen something like Diotoir make it onto TV in Battlebots, for instance.

At least up until the seventh series, when it did veer much more towards the destructive competition aspect of things, I reckon. It was already headed in that direction, just from the technology improvements and so forth, but the first couple of series, where you had the Gauntlet, Trials, that sort of thing, it was a lot more about having fun rather than winning. Bots like Diotoir, Cerberus, Milly-Ann Bug, Recyclopse, even Razer to an extent. And at the very least, you were likely to have a complete robot at the end of it, instead of being disassembled by Ziggo or whatever happened in Battlebots to the less robust competitors.

Agreed. What I also liked was how in the earlier series, they also showed the more technical aspects of the competitors in their introductions- lifting the bonnet on the robots and showing how everything worked. I thought that was cool.
 
And again, you never saw that on Battlebots- instead it was mostly completely irrelevant filler that ate into the time they could've used to show something relevant, like more fights or technical thingamajigs.

[Scrap Daddy]

Herp everyone from overseas like robotwars and everyone over here like battlebots.



Anyway, battlebots obviously had better bots and the fights were actually bot on bot, not with the pit deciding or a houseboys coming in just because the more popular bot was losing.

[SuperchuFrost]

Herp everyone from overseas like robotwars and everyone over here like battlebots.



Anyway, battlebots obviously had better bots and the fights were actually bot on bot, not with the pit deciding or a houseboys coming in just because the more popular bot was losing.

hey, im American

[ty4er]

Herp everyone from overseas like robotwars and everyone over here like battlebots.



Anyway, battlebots obviously had better bots and the fights were actually bot on bot, not with the pit deciding or a houseboys coming in just because the more popular bot was losing.

on the odd occasion they actually had a fight

[R0B0SH4RK]

Yeah, occasionally. House Robots are probably the dumbest idea ever though. It's akin to trying to play a game of (American) football and randomly releasing an angry bull on the field at any given time. You're not playing football anymore, you're trying to avoid an animal with some football on the side.