Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread

[R01]

Not a spectacular episode overall as it showed the head to head format at its worst now.  I'm glad Thor was chosen as a wildcard as I thought they did deserve it, but they just kept getting beaten to the point where it's now a byebot for the head to head battles.  It really showed how anticlimactic each battle was after their bout against Carbide.

Also, the final battle, was probably one of, if not, the best finals in Robot Wars.  Though that being said, there really wasn't much competition overall on that.  I also liked both Carbide and Apollo from their heats, so that's a good start.  While the battle had both bots their weapons, it was still finding ways to be interesting overall.  Great to see Apollo win overall.  Congrats to them.

Also, I pretty much agree with Thyrus to bring the old battle format back.

Not sure if I'd call it the best final out of all of RW, but it was definitely good.

As for the format, like mentioned it does have the good point of bots not going out if they mess up once, thought about Battlebots Wildcards some weeks ago, but in the end you will reach a stage where one mistake puts you out and this format can really be bad against Spinners. If you give the roboteers more time to prepare and get this link thing sorted out, bots shouldn't be knocked out like that anymore.

Thor was the best Wildcard to pick, won all battles minus the final one, sadly didn't have a good spinner wedge(which I think is needed in today's time, don't think you could have that strong armor all around your bot, at least not without losing weapon/drive power)

[martymidget]

Carbide is love.

[Thrackerzod]

Just got around to watching this!  Really enjoyed it!

I actually liked the head to head system.  It tested bot's endurance more than the usual bracket style would, which I thought was cool.  Sure it could use some tweaking - it was weird to start with 8, lose 4 immediately, then spend basically the rest of the episode with the remaining 4.  Also some weirdness going on with the countouts in that one episode.  Overall though, I enjoyed it, like I said.

The best part, though, was how impossibly salty Badger got over everything.

[cephalopod]

The best part, though, was how impossibly salty Badger got over everything.

Hahahah

[hazardpuss]

My understanding of the format is that it was meant to be more for the roboteers Than the tv audience, because I would imagine that roboteers hate when they have an easily fixed mechanical fault and their tournament is over. Unfortunately for the viewers, this means that sometimes you have to watch mr speed squared vs foxic and thor's grand final appearances. on the other hand, carbide gets through its heat, and we get t2 vs carbide and we get pp3d vs storm and we dont get gabriel in the grand final vs 2 flippers