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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: BattleBots 2018 - Discussion Thread

« on: August 31, 2018, 12:12:17 PM »

Tonight is USA vs. The World! Who do you think is going to win?

https://twitter.com/BattleBots/status/1035150272715272192

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: BattleBots Season 2 Discussion Thread

« on: August 20, 2016, 05:11:14 PM »

Oh cool, so Disco-Inferno was made by the Towering Inferno team?

Yes. It's been around for awhile. I think it was originally a middleweight.

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Discussion / Re: Status Report

« on: August 18, 2016, 10:02:57 PM »

The dead have risen... sort of.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/363530/discussions/0/357287304421745519/?ctp=8#c353916981473103496

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: BattleBots Season 2 Discussion Thread

« on: August 18, 2016, 08:58:34 PM »

The Quarter Finals, Semi Finals, Grand Final, and Rumble (Singular.) are getting mashed up into another double length episode.

Considering the Olympics and the fact that politics got in the way, I'm not surprised. Working at a TV station that broadcasts ABC, from what I can understand, every show has some sort of time limit of when they're supposed to air. Seeing how Battlebots is about to hit its limit thanks to the delays, they have to make some unfortunate decisions like that.

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: BattleBots Season 2 Discussion Thread

« on: August 18, 2016, 06:35:43 PM »

If you want incredibly boring matches that are dragged out for too long then please, use an entanglement device.

I'm of the opinion that the net was covered in the ".etc" part of the rule in S1 and quite frankly he should have been disqualified. It was a farce it was even let in the arena in the first place.

I'm under the theory that the reason he wasn't disqualified was because the creators were thinking that the moment would have created one of those shock moments. The type of moments that have a lasting impact on those that watch it, you know? If they completely disqualified him, that could have meant that they would have to scrap the fight off the episode and essentially, they wanted to spread out the entire situation for more commercials on the network.

It's just a theory and it may be a convoluted one. Someone else could probably explain this one better than I could.