BattleBots 2015 Discussion

[Philippa]

and even the possibility of drones and flying battlebots

Oh, please no.

[yugitom]

and even the possibility of drones and flying battlebots

Oh, please no.

This is definitely something that I don't want implemented, too.

[RedAce]

and even the possibility of drones and flying battlebots

Oh, please no.

This is definitely something that I don't want implemented, too.

Boarding this train.

[Somebody]

I'd like to see somebody try but from a reliability standpoint there's just no way it would work

[yugitom]

I'd like to see somebody try but from a reliability standpoint there's just no way it would work

Why are you talking in the 3rd person like that?

[Resetti's Replicas]

It's fairly easy to make an anti-drone pole to jam them up, as Chris and Kenny would say.

[Kossokei]

It's fairly easy to make an anti-drone pole to jam them up, as Chris and Kenny would say.

Dragon wings.

[Somebody]

I'd like to see somebody try but from a reliability standpoint there's just no way it would work

Why are you talking in the 3rd person like that?

I'm out of practice!! I am building a robot soon but no damn way am I doing that.

[Mr. AS]

Flying robots already happened all the way back in the 90's.



SPS #2 (the one with the weather balloons strapped on) won a fight before this because lolnet (which are banned now anyways), but that's about it.

Not to mention that it'd be really difficult to do any damage with a flying robot. Imagine if you made a regular run of the mill spinner like, say, nightmare, and strapped balloons or other methods of flying onto it. Sounds pretty overpowered, right? Since you get the damage of a spinner along with the mobility of a flying robot? Not really, because the moment the spinning disk (or any kind of moving weapon really) hits the other bot, the flying robot will just push itself back due to recoil and newton's second law. Then it'll just kind of flop around and probably tangle itself too.

Also, good luck getting anything larger than maybe a LW off the ground.

[Scorpio]

^ I lol'd.

But yeah, a true flying bot is really too impractical to work within Battlebots's regulations. A hovercraft-driven bot, on the other hand, would likely work much better (and be way less cheap/ actually hitable).

[Scorpion]

Flying robots is a very dumb idea, may as well allow the use of gasses again if they want that '95 vibe.

[qwertythe300th]

So happy to hear its back

B R O N C O B O Y S

A ton more speculation on the way though

[qwertythe300th]

Sorry to DP.

Who do we know is coming back or applying?

We know Bite Force, beta, Chomp, Hypershock, Nightmare, Overhaul, Tombstone, Witch Doctor, and Wrecks are all intending to come back.

We know that Team whyachi is as well, with a new Son of Whyachi.

Which new teams do we know are applying. I know Mauler has expressed interest. Anyone else?

[playzooki]

Sorry to DP.

Who do we know is coming back or applying?

We know Bite Force, beta, Chomp, Hypershock, Nightmare, Overhaul, Tombstone, Witch Doctor, and Wrecks are all intending to come back.

We know that Team whyachi is as well, with a new Son of Whyachi.

Which new teams do we know are applying. I know Mauler has expressed interest. Anyone else?

Team Storm are "speaking to a potential Battlebots 2016 sponsor"

(source: https://twitter.com/TeamstormUK/status/664415635070435328)

[cephalopod]

Move 2016 discussion to here please everyone :)