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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Favourite Robots

« on: May 25, 2014, 09:22:28 AM »

top 5:

panzer mk4
sewer snake
last rites
diesector
ziggo

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Modifications / Re: BattleBots 2014 Mod/AI Pack

« on: May 23, 2014, 08:11:11 AM »

http://www.telerover.com/robotdojo/

Here's their site if you want to get skin references.

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Robots Showcase / Re: Team Inky

« on: May 20, 2014, 04:41:38 PM »

are flails legal?

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Chatterbox / Re: Videos that made you LOL.

« on: May 20, 2014, 09:39:27 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AdClmPD6r4&index=250&list=FLSMnkS7BvY8lx4z9tMyQiJA

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Tournament Archives / Re: Middleweight Mosh Pit

« on: May 19, 2014, 03:07:16 PM »

paint puffing?

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Guys I found something amazing

« on: May 15, 2014, 04:17:24 PM »

No sozbots?

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Bots in pop culture

« on: May 15, 2014, 11:04:06 AM »

nah it's a MW from team think tank

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Bots in pop culture

« on: May 14, 2014, 10:57:37 PM »

there were several bots on an episode of "auction hunters", entitled "battle bought". i saved some screencaps of them here:

http://imgur.com/a/DxHXG

jason bardis and chuck pitzer (i believe) are in it, too!

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Discussion / Re: RA2 in Robot Magazine

« on: May 14, 2014, 09:09:53 PM »

Well no wonder why Eye-Poker was so crap. Could they not get better drive?


But cool.

dude its internals are shown in the game's opening picture things how did you not know that

I thought that was Setinel's internals.

nah, it's eye poker's. sentinel is next to it, though.

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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: The General Chatter Thread.

« on: May 14, 2014, 03:57:25 PM »

i made a blog post http://infernaltank.blogspot.com/2014/05/motorama-2014-days-2-and-3.html

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Discussion / Re: RA2 in Robot Magazine

« on: May 13, 2014, 08:17:53 PM »

it also mentioned robot wars extreme (or arenas of, i forget) destruction

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Custom Components Showcase / Re: Pay Tribute With Replicas

« on: May 13, 2014, 07:43:38 PM »

nice!

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: If Battlebots was to come back on, who do you think would come out of retirement

« on: May 13, 2014, 01:12:52 PM »

IMO, Diesector's plow and lifter is no different than No Apologies' bizarre welded cage that it used against Son of Whyachi or all those times builders have padded their robots with wood/rubber when fighting a spinner.

T-Minus used an extended flipping arm to beat Hazard in the same season. If it goes with the rules, it's okay.

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Existing Games / Re: The Walking Dead

« on: May 13, 2014, 01:08:06 PM »

My brother has met a few of the stars of the show.

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Bots in pop culture

« on: May 12, 2014, 10:10:38 PM »

two other builders and i were doing a live facebook discussion.

i will have to say, it could've been a lot worse. probably the only redeeming factor aside from the bots was hal sparks. he looked like he was having a lot of fun while on set.

as far as robot combat representations in pop culture goes, zoey 101 is probably the worst IMO

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: robot wars talk anything to do with it

« on: May 12, 2014, 10:04:08 PM »

oh and TERRORHURTZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why did you not go farther in series 7
i mean he won the competition the year afterwards and couldnt even compete
/ rant

sadly that's the way events work.

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: If Battlebots was to come back on, who do you think would come out of retirement

« on: May 12, 2014, 10:02:51 PM »

don hutson is probably the most photogenic builder of all time. i honestly owe a lot to him, he got me interested in the sport (well him and jonathan ridder of ziggo fame).

he did what he did to win. it was within the rules and didn't violate anything (I also consider it to be one of diesector's best, if not the best match). let's face it, everyone would've done the same thing if they were in his position.

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Bots in pop culture

« on: May 12, 2014, 09:57:12 PM »

Im going to mention Gamma Raptor and Dr Inferno Jr appearing on Disney's absolute horror of a show Lab Rats. To this day one of the saddest things Ive seen on tv.

gonna be honest, "the merchant of menace" was a great bot name. so was "josh" for some reason.

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Discussion / RA2 in Robot Magazine

« on: May 12, 2014, 09:55:58 PM »

I found this like 4 months ago but forgot to post it.



The article in question was about CAD and similar programs for dreaming up robots.

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: If Battlebots was to come back on, who do you think would come out of retirement

« on: May 11, 2014, 09:30:26 PM »

well there are people from battlebots that weren't televised that still compete

Any names come to mind?


EDIT: Blazin it

Here's what I know:

Ray Billings had a lightweight and middleweight, and still has Last Rites, Great Pumpkin, and a feather called Suitcase Nuke.
Jim Iocca built "Golem" and occasionally competes (he's also a judge and safety inspector).
The team that built Deb Bot and Matts Bammer still compete with ants and beetles.
I think Jim Smentowski still comepetes with Shazbot, and is also a judge.
Rob Farrow (of Death by Monkeys and Silverback/The Killa Gorilla) runs events in Seattle and has a bot for one of his kids.
Jerome Miles, who built Knome/Knome II had a 30 pound version of Hyperactive that went to Motorama 2014.
Al Kindle, who has been with the sport since '96 (I believe), is probably going to compete at Franklin 2014.