Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread

[Philippa]

Just a note on spoilers giving away Grand Finalists:

Having watched absolutely everything that has been released, the clips actually show SEVEN out of SIX Grand Finalists, so that means that we can't call anything a Grand Final spoiler quite yet. It also means that extra matches were filmed, so that's good news.

[Natef]

Nuts was fun and it's great to see a team that doesn't take itself seriously. I'm glad they went with nuts and not another wedge flipper.

[R01]

Nuts is boring and a waste of an entry? oh shut up Badger stop being such a git on a team who just want to have fun! (jeez I wonder if he will carry on pestering them on how there bots underweight lol).

Cool, go have fun at robotic events that aren't televised. You can't say the the bot is fun to watch, it's like they designed the bot in every way to prevent fun occurring. It does no damage, has no effect on other bots and is a pain in the ass to damage with anything but spinners, which rape everything anyway. Good on them for having a cool gimmick with the hats etc, but I think it was a mistake to give them a spot for the show.

I disagree, they allowed some less technical advanced entries to enter so we have more unique bots to watch. In a way they are the new Diotoir and the team itself was very funny, crowd definitely enjoyed it.

It can also be predicted with reasonable confidence that Thor will be eliminated in the first round next episode.

Oh really?

Pretty sure that wasn't a first round match if you're talking about that clip of Thor being thrown OOTA by Matilda.

Oh yeah, my bad. I thought there was a third robot on it's back that was also OotA. Turns out we only saw Thor and TR2.

That MAY have been an exhibition match, but if not, it's basically telling us that TR2 is in the final four, since they aren't in the same heat. Unless they do a round robin for the final also.

Actually, now that you mention it, there was a clip in the intro of Behemoth fighting Gabriel. But Behemoth didn't go through... Wildcard spoiler?

Yesssss, I saw that(I think it's somewhere on the website) as well, maybe just a side event or from the first "test episode"?

[botomatic1000]

yeah I was so happy to see Rory and Alex two people I thought and had talks with at AWS in there having a laugh.

[R01]

Overall I gotta say that I enjoyed this more than RW Series 7, 6 and even 5(I always felt like it went down after Extreme) so it's definitely not bad, just needs a bit of improvement.

[ajprice]

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.

[RTC]

I'd say the golden age of Robot Wars was Series 3-5, including Extreme 1. I wasn't a fan of the production of Series 6 (it just felt too dark to me when in the arena), and was probably my least favourite series behind the first one.  Series 7 was better, but the producers interference ****ed things up a lot, and commercial breaks on Five really hurt the audience for the show. I saw some of the heat-finals and all of the semi-finals of that series live with my dad after I had my tonsils removed, and I really enjoyed it. Getting to witness the quickest televised fight was really monumental.

[Badger]

The problem with nuts isn't that it's a bad bot. Diotor was one of my favourite bots. The bot design makes most fits incredibly boring. Watch the behemoth fight, I nearly fell asleep.

[RTC]

The problem with nuts isn't that it's a bad bot. Diotor was one of my favourite bots. The bot design makes most fits incredibly boring. Watch the behemoth fight, I nearly fell asleep.

That was quite a fun fight actually. Mainly because of Behemoth, but Nuts played the role that was required for them in the match, which was their endurance and entertainment.

[Badger]

Meh, I didn't enjoy it but to each their own. I agree about the editor, some dubious editing. I don't need to see 2-3 seconds of the inside of the pit every time it's opened. Dara did a stellar job though, I think.

[botomatic1000]

I get it now badger is butt hurt because diotoir didn't qualify so he starts hating on the strange one that according to him does not entertain people.

[09090901]

I get it now badger is butt hurt because diotoir didn't qualify so he starts hating on the strange one that according to him does not entertain people.

it's time to stop posting

dubbed in sounds were terrible, and the flashing lights were even more retarded than the ones in battlebots.

Still pretty decent overall

[Badger]

I get it now badger is butt hurt because diotoir didn't qualify so he starts hating on the strange one that according to him does not entertain people.

Hahaha

I got to see my 2 favourite robots this episode and razer got pitted so I'm pretty happy with it.

[botomatic1000]

At least you see the bright side lol. And in terms of me stopping posting... Y-not and Y-pout?

[R01]

I'd say the golden age of Robot Wars was Series 3-5, including Extreme 1. I wasn't a fan of the production of Series 6 (it just felt too dark to me when in the arena), and was probably my least favourite series behind the first one.  Series 7 was better, but the producers interference ****ed things up a lot, and commercial breaks on Five really hurt the audience for the show. I saw some of the heat-finals and all of the semi-finals of that series live with my dad after I had my tonsils removed, and I really enjoyed it. Getting to witness the quickest televised fight was really monumental.

The rigging has sadly always been part of the series, starting with house robots completely jamming some competitors in the gauntlet while giving others free runs to other things, but those were only to minor competitors, so it was less of an issue.
I'm not really sure of Extreme 1, I enjoyed it, however notice how all that fake drama action destruction was going on, starting with the first match of Stinger vs Tornado and later Diotoir "sabotaging" Firestorm. I totally dislike Series 7, have been struggling to even watch it and the intro kills off any fun, if I were to rewatch it, I'd only want to watch the battles without any commentary. What was that wrong with Series 6?

Hearing that Diotoir failed to qualify sucks, such classic bots should've been in. Also the "active weapon" rule is still in place apparently.

[botomatic1000]

I wonder if nuts needed 50 tribars and 300 irons to be competitive...

[Badger]

Needed to ditch the retard ring and the non-existent weapons. I feel like SnS are just mega boring IRL, I got the same feeling with stinger. Does literally nothing, really hard to damage so it's just 60 seconds of them bumping into each other usually.

[R01]

Needed to ditch the retard ring and the non-existent weapons. I feel like SnS are just mega boring IRL, I got the same feeling with stinger. Does literally nothing, really hard to damage so it's just 60 seconds of them bumping into each other usually.

Well it was a joke bot, feel like they added the ring so that in case the main body gets overturned the flails still swing right? As for Stinger, it was like Psycho's hammer, might not have done visible damage but sure did stuff on the inside of robots.

If you didn't like Stinger you will most likely not like one of the bots that appears later on.

[Badger]

Needed to ditch the retard ring and the non-existent weapons. I feel like SnS are just mega boring IRL, I got the same feeling with stinger. Does literally nothing, really hard to damage so it's just 60 seconds of them bumping into each other usually.

Well it was a joke bot, feel like they added the ring so that in case the main body gets overturned the flails still swing right? As for Stinger, it was like Psycho's hammer, might not have done visible damage but sure did stuff on the inside of robots.

If you didn't like Stinger you will most likely not like one of the bots that appears later on.

Joke bots are supposed to be funny. The team itself was pretty cool but the bot was so boring. And I HIGHLY doubt those flails did literally ANYTHING to the internals of those bots.

[botomatic1000]

The comments on how it's "boring" are rather snobby don't you think? (Ooh wonder if the GTM police will give me a -1 rating I'm so scared lol)