Chomp is a beautiful robot. It's a marvel of engineering (Scroll down through the photos of their
Facebook page for proof of that). It's no small feat to make a 360 degree pneumatic hammer and they did that with aplomb. Pop the hood and you see that everything about that robot is beautifully designed. People seem to forget that people much more qualified than yourselves (or myself, for that matter)
awarded Chomp the founders award this season, so it has to be doing something right. In the teams own words, it is awarded for "bringing an exemplary bot that does interesting things and pushes the sport in the direction in which the founders hope BattleBots will grow". It's one of the few robots that has implemented autonomous features successfully (case in point that hit on Biteforce) and there's not an ounce of excess weight on it. Basically it's CAD porn.
Unless you can come forward with evidence that they somehow influenced the judges decision outside of the fight, saying that you hate the robot based on a handful of decisions that
people other than them made, is petty. The Disk'O/Chomp call was representative of the poor scoring system and that is something I hope changes for next season, but that is not related to Chomp. The (Incredibly flawed) judging criteria of season 2 and Chomp are two separate discussions and I wish people would stop mixing them.
So, to answer this threads main question, why do I hate it? Simple, that combination of green and yellow on the side, awful.
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