Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread

[Philippa]

Okey dokey, here's the new thread. Delete it, merge it, or keep it, whatever happens is cool.

http://www.robotwars.tv/

Come on guys, let's keep things in spoiler tags.

[jackster96]

So who's people's pick for tonight's heat, I want razer or behemoth to win personally but am expecting carbide to take the heat

[Badger]

What time is it on?

[Mr. AS]

What time is it on?

20 minutes from now.

[R01]

Only a few minutes until it begins.

[Philippa]

Real Steel is FINALLY into the credits, get to your TV if you haven't got there already, not long now.

[Badger]

Rip razer

The show looks pretty low budget compared to the old one, and the arena doesn't look as good as the old one. Enjoyed the first battle though, feels lile theres significantly less crap filler than battlebots.

[Philippa]

Not gonna lie, but the coverage of the fight there was totally BS. We all went absolutely ballistic when Razer went out, but the show made us sound comparatively indifferent.

[Mecha]

Is there some place I can watch it online? I don't get BBC Two

[Jonzu95]

Goddamnit Razer. I had my bets on you. They really need to use the good old battle songs, and goddamnit get Craig Charles there already.

And tbh, I've been enjoying BattleBots more.

[Mr. AS]

Is there some place I can watch it online? I don't get BBC Two

I can't link you to a BBC2 stream, but I can link you to duckduckgo. Should be one of the first results.

[playzooki]

go nuts go

[Jonzu95]

Well that's one way to press the pit button. 

[Badger]

Nuts is such a boring robot. Such a waste of a spot, all their matches are a waste of time. Did the crowd really love them?

[Jonzu95]

Nuts is such a boring robot. Such a waste of a spot, all their matches are a waste of time. Did the crowd really love them?

Apparently they did. The battles were kind of entertaining though.

[Philippa]

Yeah, we did love Nuts. Mainly in an ironic way, though.

So pleased that we had time to watch Dave combing his waistcoat and learn about a drone in a pub, as opposed to The General getting tossed by Shunt, or the damage done to Bonk, or Razer chomping down on Nuts' minibot, or learning anything about the House Robots, or Dara introducing the show and talking about the arena hazards.

[Connor791]

i thought that the fresh look and it taking more of a serious approach is much better for the show. Saying the arena looks cheap is abit silly being as it can hold more power bots than it could before and it took at least 3/4 series for robot wars in its first run to get to the arena it had towards the end. Great start to the reboot for me way better than Top Gear at least and i like Dara as host tbh so glad its back :)

[RTC]

I quite enjoyed Nuts. It's really not that bad a robot, the flail chain is a decent enough weapon.

My only major gripe, other than the camera work was the spoilers throughout the episode.

[Joelu Of Eagleland]

I quite enjoyed Nuts. It's really not that bad a robot, the flail chain is a decent enough weapon.

My only major gripe, other than the camera work was the spoilers throughout the episode.

Yeah, that's STILL an issue, after all these years. I knew the heat final before it even happened.

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

[RTC]

I didn't actually know the heat final immediately, but the fact that Razer, KillECrankie, General and Bonk were gone was beyond obvious. This isn't over-analysis, this is spelt out pretty clearly.