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« on: March 14, 2017, 01:00:25 PM »
So PP3D's problem was doing damage to itself as much as the thing it hits. Are they missing something in their spinner that other spinners have, like damping between the mechanism and the body or something like that? Probably very different levels of force involved, but as an example was Hypnodiscs spinner mounted a different way to protect it from it's own forces? Tombstone's spinner is outside the body so that probably gives some shock protection.
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« on: January 04, 2017, 01:40:17 AM »
It kept falling over. Been said here before but if they made it wider and moved things to between the wheels instead of on top of them, it would probably be a lot better to control and use that auto trigger weapon, have a lower CoG, and not fall over so much. Winning the fights it won would have been fine if it hadn't been on its side for large parts of them.
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« on: September 03, 2016, 05:50:10 AM »
Great final! Chomp's drunk fish on land impression finally got it out.
Well done to John Reid and Beta. As said already, it looked like the shape of the robot and strength of the armour fed Tombstone's bar into the hammer mechanism.
Bronco getting its wheels taken off by Minotaur reminded me of ye olde Robot Wars Razer v Milly Ann Bug, MAB getting its wheels bitten off, one by one :) . Would Bronco have been overweight with the back wedge and the wheel guard panels fitted?
I didn't realise that Minotaur's one wheel gyro dance thing that it did after previous wins could be used to turn it over completely. The driver was not happy about something as soon as they were counted out against Bombshell, he turned around and had a go at the team boss straight away! Any ideas what that was about? And would a shiny new drum have made any difference? When the fight started I thought Bombshell's disc was too high up the wedge panel to get at Minotaur. I was wrong. After this, the trophy was Tombstone's to lose. Next year, let's have Tombstone v Minotaur in there somewhere.
If Robot Wars 2016 was about links coming out, Battlebots has been about the belts and chains in the drive and weapons breaking. It did it for Bite Force, Beta, I think Minotaur (there was something hanging when it was driving on one wheel).
Well done to Tombstone, it has to be one of the most effective things out there.
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« on: August 27, 2016, 07:01:16 AM »
Still think it's going to be Tombstone v Minotaur final. Although that means Beta won't win  . It also means that Chomp won't, and in the process, hopefully be smashed to pieces, many many pieces (yes, I think Chomp is terrible and the woman really annoys me. Don't do that arm jaws thing on the walk in, your bot doesn't have jaws this year! Totally agree with the comment about it flipping around like a fish on land). Ok, rant over. In the UK, Spike will be showing Battlebots starting with the 2015 competition on Sunday 4th September at 8pm. Nicely following on from the Robot Wars final on BBC this weekend.
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« on: August 15, 2016, 12:33:56 PM »
I agree that the 1v1 matches should have the teams in separate pods. Things like Storm saying press the pit release and Apollo saying they lost a chain or lost drive does give things away to the other team. As for the interviews, Dara for one box, Angela for the other. Like it is for the first round.
It was a really good episode last night, in the fights (other than when both bots partially lost drive and drove on the spot for 2 minutes), and the inbetween bits (Dara having a go at the guy hammering when he was filming :D )
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« on: August 09, 2016, 03:13:42 PM »
If we only take the bots we've seen in the RW reboot into account, then definitely. But there are good bots out there(sadly many of them just aren't updated to today's standards yet)
How would you rate Carbide against Battlebots entries?
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« on: August 07, 2016, 04:22:30 PM »
I don't think Shockwave and TR2 are going to do much against Carbide
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« on: July 26, 2016, 12:18:17 PM »
Team Nuts on their time at RW. A long but good read :) . https://www.facebook.com/diegracefullyrobotics/posts/1643544712626881Spoilered to save space because its a very long chunk of text. Robot Wars and Team Nuts - Robot Wars
There is a time when filming Robot Wars that you have to stop feigning over famous fighters and pinching yourself very hard to check you're not having a wonderful, vivid hallucination, and actually get on with it. As we loaded Nuts onto the trolley and headed over to the arena for the first time, everything was very workmanlike and systematic. Some have described it as a similar feeling to when you're about to perform in a school play and Rory was certainly very nervous as the driver. For me though, I don't really get scared in those situations. It was just time to do the job - entertain the audience, drive the minibot and fight to the best of our ability. The reboot was relying on all the teams now and it was time to go to work!
Not that we had much hope of making it beyond round 1. When you find out you're in with Razer and Terrorhurtz you flatten your ambitions somewhat and just decide to have a damn good rumble. There was brief team talk of trying to take out Kill-E-Crank-E so that we could at least "claim 3rd" but we also had a feeling that Razer and Terrorhurtz would team up. When we were lead into the control booth alongside Robin Herrick and the young lads with the Crank, our suspitions deepened and, sure enough, upon activate, we found ourselves in a rather personal battle with Terrorhurtz.. Everything was a blur - you don't have time to try and work tactics, you just have to go with it, and there is little point trying to dissect the fight from my point of view; you've all seen what happened better than I can remember thanks to the BBC! All I know is that there was a bang at one point and we looked up to see two robots had disappeared. After a wave of comprehension swept over us, we went a bit mental! Rory later asked me if I thought our celebrations would come across as a bit obnoxious on TV. I think all you have to do is ask "If you'd built a robot for Robot Wars, been drawn into a melee with such esteemed competition, and then suddenly found you were heading through to round 2, what would you do?" So that's what we did.
A little background here to address the elephant in the room. Do I think the Razer team did it on purpose? No, I don't. I talked to Simon and Ian a lot before our battle. They were absolutely exhausted having been up most nights trying to finish the new Warhead in time for Battlebots (which filmed just after we did). Simon came over to check Nuts out and bizarrely even seemed...not 'concerned', but he didn't write us off in the way I expected. He picked up one of the chains and then went over to get Ian and they started talking amongst themselves about the weight of them and how they didn't fancy Razer being hit by one. Was this delirium due to lack of sleep? Maybe. But if you ever enter your own robot into the show you'll find that a lot of the legendary roboteers won't scoff at your efforts - they know better than anyone that anything can happen in the arena.
Anyway, Ian told me they weren't intending to enter Razer at all. They said it was retired and they were too busy with Warhead and that they'd maybe consider building something else if the series took off again, but didn't think they'd apply this time out. But then the pull of Robot Wars took hold and they put in a late minute application with the intention of "giving Razer a final run out". So I don't think they were taking it very seriously. As they went to dump Kill-E-Crank-E into the pit, they misjudged and their foe definitely helped to take them in. They were very gracious about it.
Anyway, we were through! We had to come back tomorrow with a new wristband! We had to enter that arena at least 3 more times! We had to...go one on one with Carbide. Ah.
But first off, Behemoth, a team as nice as they come. Genuinely. We knew Nuts would be very little competition for them but they seemed keen on making a show of it rather than dumping us in the pit in 3 seconds and boy was this one fun. Yes, that was my minibot they launched through the air! It came up to eye-level with us in the booth, hit the floor and then, amazingly, drove off again! I could not believe it. Also, Nuts' run in with Matilda's flywheel may have only looked like a glancing blow on TV, but the damage done to the ring was super. 3 minutes later the battle was awarded to them, obviously, but we weren't really concerned with the results. It was great and we love them for it.
Carbide next. We would have to wait until the next day to take them on which lead to some slightly panicked suggestions over breakfast. Me and Rory talked about maybe trying to modify Nuts somehow to deflect the spinning blade of doom. Alex talked the most sense though. "We came here to fight, spinners and all! Lets just put it in and go for it!" So that's what we did. We knew Carbide had lost to Terrorhurtz the previous day and that their motor was in a bit of a bad way and we had caused one major upset already...maybe...?
We did make one modification to Nuts in the end. If you look closely at the start of the fight you can see we put some gloves on the front of the ring to give Carbide a good tickle! I only ever got one of them back - there was no trace of the other! Anyway, you all saw what happened. It's strangely satisfying watching a machine you know well disintergrate below you. The spectacle was astonishing. Dave Moulds later said he was surprised how good a job Carbide did on us. I don't think we were, he's just a very nice man. Anyway, we got a trollyfull of bits back and wheeled our new bag o' Nuts back to the bench.
Another note here - despite what you saw on TV with Dave Moulds offering to help fix Nuts so that we could take on Terrorhurtz, he never did. This is not a criticism of Dave, he had a lot of work to do himself on Carbide, but some have suggested he was the reason we got back into the arena. He wasn't. Our help came from Team Foxic on the next bench and Team Gabriel, who gave us a box of spare motor parts to help us nurse ours back into existence. Craig from Foxic helped us dismantle the motors and gearboxes and reassemble them. It was his efforts, and our efforts, that got Nuts going again. Alex even managed to get the red minibot working!
Another shout out here for Gillian from Team Razer. The minute we wheeled what was left of Nuts out of the arena she was over offering to go make us tea, get us food, offering hugs and support. She's amazing! We owe those people a lot.
The moment Nuts spluttered back into life on that pit bench, Rory beamed. We were tired, hot and dirty but it was euphoric. We later heard reports that the warm-up guy had announced to the audience that Nuts was alive again and the whole place errupted into applause. We felt as warm and fuzzy as our wasitcoats, but we really did think that one smack from Terrorhurtz would finish us off for good. But at least we could show up! After our exhibition of fun with the Behemoth boys the day before we decided that we should try our best to take Terrorhurtz to a judges' decision, knowing this would grant Behemoth a place in the heat final and knock Terrorhurtz out. We didn't have anything against John Reid's beautiful machine, and indeed thought we'd be doomed on the first blow anyway, but it was the only reason we could find to put up a fight.
As activate was called on our final match, I asked Rory how it was driving. "Lumpy," he said, "Verrrrrrrry luuummmmpy." My favourite quote from our time there. We have no idea how we survived that final battle but we did. In fact, we liked Terrorhurtz so much, that we put a ring on it! ;-)
So that was our time at Robot Wars over with. We had rumbled with legends like Razer, Behemoth and Terrorhurtz, and "done a Robogeddon" against Carbide, only to rise again for a final moment of glorious silliness. I don't take to praise very well, but even I couldn't deny the amount of people who were saying we'd done good. Cast, crew and audience alike were patting us on the back, and since it has gone out on TV, the love for Nuts has increased tenfold. It's mindblowing to think that we originally thought our robot was just too amateur to even get a place on the series looking back on it now. I hope this doesn't sound arrogant, we are all rather stunned by what our daft little machine has done, but I think it proves that there is a space on this wonderful TV show for ANYONE who can get a robot together. If you don't have the knowledge, talent or resources to build the next Razer or Carbide, then think outside the box. Build something designed not to compete, but to simply be different. Really go for it with the theatrics. Remeber it is a TV show. And don't ever back down from a battle, whoever it may be against. Shed builders of the UK, get to it! It is looking fairly likely that we will get another series and you have as much hope of making an impact on it as the engineering superstars do. Get creative, have fun and come and play. It really is the greatest pleasure in the world.
Dave.
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« on: July 25, 2016, 01:27:09 PM »
Minotaur vs Warhead in the 16! Giggity! 
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« on: July 25, 2016, 06:43:50 AM »
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?
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« on: July 24, 2016, 04:30:08 PM »
Thumbs up from me. I liked Nuts, as said above, they were a bit like the Diotor team, there for fun. Everything I've seen on different sites and comments has been positive, and I hope it does stick around for more series with more entrants. The first round were a bit manic to keep track of, but I think the league system of everybody fights everybody 1v1 after that worked, and it meant a lot of fights in the hour. Dara O'Briain and Angela Scanlon did a good job too.
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« on: July 13, 2016, 07:12:38 AM »
Starts Sunday July 24th at 8pm
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« on: July 09, 2016, 09:04:34 AM »
Caught up with the second and third episodes, and there have been some really good fights so far, especially Minotaur v Blacksmith and Lockjaw v Yeti. Looking forward to the next one :)
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« on: July 09, 2016, 08:57:55 AM »
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« on: June 30, 2016, 10:35:39 AM »
I don't think they will use the T-Rex head in serious fights.
I guess time will tell, I am curious if the head has another purpose.. Simon and Ian are very crafty. Love their work either way.
According to the Wikia page, the arms also have smaller flame torches in them. I guess they are for when it is running the disc instead of the head. I can't find it now to get the numbers, but its said somewhere that the jaws aren't as powerful as Razer. http://battlebots.wikia.com/wiki/Warhead
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« on: June 29, 2016, 01:44:47 AM »
Watched it. Shame that Blacksmith didn't get the flame working in their hammer, not sure if it would have made any difference to Bronco though :) .
Chomp/Disco Inferno was 50/50 but I don't think Chomp will get far, way too tall and top heavy. Warhead's fight was a ye olde Robot Wars UK meet up (did Razer and Mortis ever fight each other?).
Going forward, I can't see anything yet that will get near Son of Wyachi without getting smashed, the other Wyachi robot (small flat disc robot, can't remember name) should do well too. Wyachi vs Wyachi final? :D
As others have said, I'm not sure what Ultraviolent is supposed to do
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« on: June 25, 2016, 03:38:43 AM »
They are getting really good at this now It sort of reminds me of Ravage from the 80s Transformers (that turned into a cassette tape)  Apart from the neck and head.
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« on: June 23, 2016, 08:24:32 AM »
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« on: June 23, 2016, 07:29:59 AM »
Goes without saying, but everybody watch the show so we can get another season :)
Not sure watching it from the UK will help but I'll be watching tonight. Looking forward to seeing it!
But yeah. Season 3 better happen.
There are plans in motion. :)
Youtube? Or a man with a wooden leg and a parrot on his shoulder? 
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