Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread

[RTC]

I'd say the golden age of Robot Wars was Series 3-5, including Extreme 1. I wasn't a fan of the production of Series 6 (it just felt too dark to me when in the arena), and was probably my least favourite series behind the first one.  Series 7 was better, but the producers interference ****ed things up a lot, and commercial breaks on Five really hurt the audience for the show. I saw some of the heat-finals and all of the semi-finals of that series live with my dad after I had my tonsils removed, and I really enjoyed it. Getting to witness the quickest televised fight was really monumental.

The rigging has sadly always been part of the series, starting with house robots completely jamming some competitors in the gauntlet while giving others free runs to other things, but those were only to minor competitors, so it was less of an issue.
I'm not really sure of Extreme 1, I enjoyed it, however notice how all that fake drama action destruction was going on, starting with the first match of Stinger vs Tornado and later Diotoir "sabotaging" Firestorm. I totally dislike Series 7, have been struggling to even watch it and the intro kills off any fun, if I were to rewatch it, I'd only want to watch the battles without any commentary. What was that wrong with Series 6?

Hearing that Diotoir failed to qualify sucks, such classic bots should've been in.

I didn't really enjoy Series 6, mostly due to the production values, which I did feel were off (the lighting seemed way too dark is the main one), the floor spinner was useless for heavyweight competitors, Mr Psycho was just Sir Killalot v1.5, and I found a lot of the battles quite boring. Seeing Terrorhurtz and Dantomkia doing well was nice (but even they got through against the clearly aged seeds in Panic Attack and Chaos 2), but the rest of the series was just the same robots from Series 5 on top; there wasn't much change and the changes were not for the better.

And yeah, you can argue about rigging stuff like the Killertron pitting in Extreme 1, but never did it reach a level as it did in Series 7.

[Tashic]

Opinions this far:

What I liked: Fights, Interviews (more information about the robots and repairs) and amount of fights in an episode.

What could be better: Camera work and editing (as other have said), atmosphere and lack of energy (especially of JP, we are used to lot's of reactions on what happens and witty comments).

Overall enjoyed the episode.

[Badnik96]

Boto stop trying to bait badger and shut up

I didn't get to watch but it seems like it was a decent performance all around.

[Scorpio]

Well, even if Cobalt burns out next Thursday, Team Carbide still has something to be proud of. That blade is amazingly strong.

...and Razer is easily the BTSHDBBDDTBL of this season. K-E C-E really got lucky there (their wheel was touching the ground at pretty much exactly the right time to take Razer out with them). Also, I noticed Razer was having trouble piercing K-E C-E; was the beak not strong enough, or is K-E C-E just a slippery dastard?

Good to see Terrorhurtz and Behemoth in fine form after all these years, even if they didn't win the heat. Shame about Bonk, since the guys behind it also built Mute, which was pretty successful.

As for Nuts... they fought valiantly, but I think literally no one was surprised when Carbide obliterated them. Points to them for managing to get the bot together for Terrorhurtz though.

All in all, can't wait for Ep. 2!

EDIT: Whoa whoa whoa whoa it says on the site that Behemoth won Heat A when they didn't. What gives?

[Badger]

The comments on how it's "boring" are rather snobby don't you think? (Ooh wonder if the GTM police will give me a -1 rating I'm so scared lol)

I never claimed not to be a knob :D

[botomatic1000]

Your not and finally a GTM police member found me out lol.

[Philippa]

EDIT: Whoa whoa whoa whoa it says on the site that Behemoth won Heat A when they didn't. What gives?

Probably just teething problems, Behemoth is the first on the list so it would make sense to default to it in an error.

[Badger]

EDIT: Whoa whoa whoa whoa it says on the site that Behemoth won Heat A when they didn't. What gives?

We can dream ;_;

[Shinkioh]

What's a BTSHDBBDDTBL?

[cephalopod]

I'll make a bigger post when I'm back home from Birmingham (premiere woo) replying to a whole bunch of stuff in here and addressing concerns/questions but for now...

I loved it. :)

[Thyrus]

I didn't get to watch the show but I saw all but 2 fights.

-The camera work is annoying.
-JP sounds like he has a potato in his mouth.
-When a bot like Razer (not a fanboy of that bot) goes out it sounds like no one cares. There is a lack of enthusiasm that was there in the old RW shows.
-Nuts.
-The Voice that indroduces stuff needs to die. get the other guy back!
-I don't like the arena that much.
-Thanks to that format we had Carbide/Cobald vs Behemoth 3 times. that is really something I want to see. the same fight 3 times. good choices there. can we please have just 2 bots per heat and let them fight 6 times maybe?
-the production looks like one of the live shows filmed with cameras that are still under TV standarts

As a Robot Wars fanboy who cried when Robot Wars dissapeared I must say that I prefer the new Battlebots seasons. Yes I really f-ing hate what ABC does with all the commercials and stuff but the fights and camerawork looks so much better. I guess I have to give Robot Wars another 2 years (til they reach season 3 again wich is my favorite) to become great again.

[R01]

Your not and finally a GTM police member found me out lol.

not too happy with that -1, but I'd rather not start discussing about it.

EDIT: Whoa whoa whoa whoa it says on the site that Behemoth won Heat A when they didn't. What gives?

We can dream ;_;

You wanted them to win as well? Intro clips show a good chance that they got to be the wildcard.

I didn't get to watch the show but I saw all but 2 fights.

-The camera work is annoying.
-JP sounds like he has a potato in his mouth.
-When a bot like Razer (not a fanboy of that bot) goes out it sounds like no one cares. There is a lack of enthusiasm that was there in the old RW shows.
-Nuts.
-The Voice that indroduces stuff needs to die. get the other guy back!
-I don't like the arena that much.
-Thanks to that format we had Carbide/Cobald vs Behemoth 3 times. that is really something I want to see. the same fight 3 times. good choices there. can we please have just 2 bots per heat and let them fight 6 times maybe?
-the production looks like one of the live shows filmed with cameras that are still under TV standards

As a Robot Wars fanboy who cried when Robot Wars dissapeared I must say that I prefer the new Battlebots seasons. Yes I really f-ing hate what ABC does with all the commercials and stuff but the fights and camerawork looks so much better. I guess I have to give Robot Wars another 2 years (til they reach season 3 again wich is my favorite) to become great again.

Right, I forgot to mention the voice in my post, liked the old one better(also no music?), Arena is rather small and basic, but who knows it will probably improve for the second season. Disliked the camera cuts as well, however it did get better in the fights after that, so maybe it was just an issue for the first episode.
JP's mic was also low quality at certain points, hope they got the issues solved.
Not too much of a fan of the format for other reasons, but one was a melee so we only had them fight two times(and this will sadly happen in all heats).

You liked Season 3 the most as well? Guess you must've grown up with it just like I did(since I know you live in germany, you probably watched it on RTL(think that's where it was on)?)



As for Diotoir, here's some info from the RW Wiki:

Team Nemesis applied for the 2016 series of Robot Wars with Diotoir, but ultimately received no response from the producers and therefore failed to qualify.

That really sucks and I hope they will be back for Series 2.

[Jonzu95]

What Thyrus said. It needs better editor and battle-music. And in all honesty I miss Craig Charles, I really do. Arena itself isn't that bad but I'd still go for the old one.

What's a BTSHDBBDDTBL?

Bot that should have done better but didn't due to bad luck.

[ajprice]

Now that the first one has been shown, just to confirm, what was the CERTAIN THING that happened thats mentioned in the other discussion thread?

[Probably Rob]

Razer losing in round 1

[Badger]

Diotoir gets ignored
Nuts gets accepted

???

[Joelu Of Eagleland]

Diotoir gets ignored
Nuts gets accepted

???

Don't forget Tanto. I would've loved to see it compete.

Gravity didn't qualify as well. Yet a robot like Sweeny Todd did? I'm not sure why such bizarre choices were made, but here's hoping that next series (it's likely to happen) we can have more robots enter.

[botomatic1000]

Diotoir gets ignored
Nuts gets accepted

???

No just NO...

[Jonzu95]

Diotoir gets ignored
Nuts gets accepted

???

No just NO...

What is your problem? I'd rather see Diotoir than Nuts as well.

[botomatic1000]

I amm just defending my opinion.