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King of Bots
« on: October 13, 2017, 04:39:23 PM »
im not sure if you know about this (you probably do) but I stumbled upon basically chinese battlebots and they've got some big names on board like Ray Billings and John Reid et al

https://www.facebook.com/KOBCHINA/   <has some videos
http://kobchina.com/
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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2017, 09:19:27 AM »
Found this interesting..

http://kobchina.com/robot/33

I know Whyachi were selling some SoW bits a while back.. Is this where they ended up? or a full-blown clone?

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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2017, 10:10:19 AM »
We were close to entering, but we had a last minute problem.

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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2017, 10:30:40 AM »
We were close to entering, but we had a last minute problem.
I'm guessing the >10,000 km distance and the language barrier didn't help.
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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2017, 10:33:33 AM »
yes, and we suddenly had a problem cuz it costs huge money, they may of let us in if it werenot for that.

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Re: King of Bots
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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2018, 10:33:47 AM »
Bot thoughts (not all, prolly)

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Re: King of Bots
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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2018, 03:06:50 PM »
KOB reminds me of a mixture of old RW and new BB. I enjoyed that way more than the UK vs ROTW special form season 10 of Robot Wars. Some nice(ly copied) designs in there. I never was a fan of Razer but Spectre looks really awesome.
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I'm glad they cut down the instant slowmos after the first few fights as that was kinda annoying after a short while. I assume KOB is a pure single elimination tourney which is really nice to see as I prefer those over the Reboot Wars format.

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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2018, 05:17:26 PM »
I wasn't a big fan of the pauses when counting out and general pauses, whether it be for a potential comedic effect or suspense building which I didn't understand due to a language barrier. The bots were pretty cool with Spectre being my favourite out of the bots, followed by.... Zhuge.
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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2018, 06:23:54 PM »
i liked it, i liked how the arena looked its like robogames, battlebots, and robot wars combined....but the dramatic pauses isnt needed.
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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2018, 07:00:49 PM »
Really enjoyed it. So good to have more shows being made.
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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2018, 04:59:33 AM »
Good fun to watch. Looking forward to next week.


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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2018, 02:04:55 PM »
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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2018, 02:43:50 PM »
Great White vs Spin Doctor is probably gonna be the fight of the series, that was intense.

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Re: King of Bots
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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2018, 03:44:27 AM »
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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #17 on: January 22, 2018, 11:31:24 AM »
Here you go guys, another episode of King of Bots has been added to Youtube just you case you missed a live stream of it:

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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #18 on: January 22, 2018, 12:05:37 PM »
Any news on where to get Episode 1? I wanna start watching this but the Youtube stream for EP1 has been taken down 'cuz of copyright...  ::2mad


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Re: King of Bots
« Reply #19 on: January 22, 2018, 12:15:31 PM »
Any news on where to get Episode 1? I wanna start watching this but the Youtube stream for EP1 has been taken down 'cuz of copyright...  ::2mad
Easy said than done, Episode 1 was uploaded onto Zhejiang TV's Youtube channel two weeks ago, and I have the video link right here: