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Which robot is going to win Robot Wars 2016?

Apollo
Beast
Behemoth
Big Nipper
Bonk!
Carbide
Chimera
Chompalot
Crazy Coupe 88
Dantomkia
Disconstructor
Draven
Eruption
Foxic
Gabriel
Glitterbomb
Infernal Contraption
Ironside 3
Kan-Opener
Kill-E Crank-E
King B Remix
MR Speed Squared
Nuts
Or Te
Overdozer
PP3D
Pulsar
Razer
Sabretooth
Shockwave
Storm 2
Supernova
Sweeney Todd
Terror Turtle
Terrorhurtz
The General
Thermidor 2
Thor
Tough As Nails
TR2

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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #80 on: July 25, 2016, 11:27:35 AM »
Diotoir gets ignored
Nuts gets accepted

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No just NO...
What is your problem? I'd rather see Diotoir than Nuts as well.
See the stuff that happened a few pages back.
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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #81 on: July 25, 2016, 11:37:34 AM »
Nuts was a ton of fun and I'm actually happy that Razer giving way gave them the chance to have some more fun in the arena. As much as it was seen as a "joke robot", Nuts had a unique design, was built well, had a team that was very committed to getting it back into shape after Carbide's battle, and an amazing driver who was able to hold off Terrorhurtz for the whole length of their fight.

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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #82 on: July 25, 2016, 11:44:53 AM »
Now that the first one has been shown, just to confirm, what was the CERTAIN THING that happened thats mentioned in the other discussion thread?

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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #83 on: July 25, 2016, 02:34:42 PM »
Hi big post time

- Nuts is awesome. So much fun to watch. Nicest guys. The ring was meant to spin around the bot and act as a lifter as the spikes but the gearbox broke. Not a lot more to say here because people that don't like it won't be converted.

- None of this was done cheap.

- You guys analyzing everything really heavily make me laugh. As Kurt noted, 7 out of 6 grand finalists? Don't take everything you see as gospel.

- I don't miss Craig or the music or the pit smoke or the 'slow pit speed'. Things change. Dara actually CARES and is invested, he'd walk around the pits talking to teams in spare time. Craig just sat in his dressing room drinking.

- Editing could be a little better but that's life.

- Arena is genius and huge. So well designed. Nowhere to hide at all, you're either in a CPZ, on a hazard, near a low wall or in the middle, which is the worst place to be tactically.


So promising and so exciting for the future. With 10% audience share on that time slot, and ratings around 2 million, things are looking great!

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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #84 on: July 25, 2016, 02:44:27 PM »
Craig just sat in his dressing room drinking.
insightful.

Did I miss something or has it not aired in america yet?

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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #85 on: July 25, 2016, 02:45:26 PM »
Hi big post time
Should've seen my post, now that was big :P

Also they corrected the winner on the website now.
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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #86 on: July 25, 2016, 02:46:58 PM »
a review on each robot trying to keep spoilers away...

Nuts: The thing is mad and funny to watch its always looking like it drunk the local offy out of house and home

Behemoth: Same thing again and rather boring but at least it doesn't get stuck in forward gear

Razer: Sex Drugs and Sausage Rolls

The General: Nice to see a more forgotten robot team back but it really shares no resemblance to the original general which if that version was around still would probably look like tornado or mr nasty just with camo and large wheels

Carbide: well David is from the black country so not too far away but the bot is from derby. it honestly has a colour scheme like pickled onion space raiders lol

Bonk!: I like team Mute but bonk really isn't that powerful compared the the mad Mute

Kill-E-Crank-E: I dislike it quite a bit but its nice to see team Cold-Fusion back

Terrorhurtz: that axe though...
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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #87 on: July 25, 2016, 02:52:46 PM »
Did I miss something or has it not aired in america yet?

It's not yet, iirc. You all gotta get down with what we've had to deal with to see BattleBots for the last year :P

Lifter with Spikes? As far as I understand it was some sort of self righting mechanism(probably in case they get stuck, but bots like that don't really seem to get stuck)? any more info on this would be nice.

It's a lifter. Those spikey bits are wedged, they can go under and in theory tip things over. Or just tip Nuts over to confuse everyone.

I think that's a bit of a problem since there isn't enough room to fight normally?
Loads of room. Even if the bots were 1m square (they're generally smaller) they'd still only be taking up ~1/225 of the arena. It's HUGE and designed well for interesting fights.
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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #88 on: July 25, 2016, 03:07:39 PM »
Lifter with Spikes? As far as I understand it was some sort of self righting mechanism(probably in case they get stuck, but bots like that don't really seem to get stuck)? any more info on this would be nice.

It's a lifter. Those spikey bits are wedged, they can go under and in theory tip things over. Or just tip Nuts over to confuse everyone.
The red bits on the side? Think I'm not getting it.

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I think that's a bit of a problem since there isn't enough room to fight normally?
Loads of room. Even if the bots were 1m square (they're generally smaller) they'd still only be taking up ~1/225 of the arena. It's HUGE and designed well for interesting fights.
Alright I'll take your word for it. Based on one image it looks like you could fit 4 behemoth shaped robots to make the cross part width(not counting the edges in which house robots might be)
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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #89 on: July 25, 2016, 04:23:47 PM »
didnt like it tbh, hopefully the bbc will either make it better or drop it after this series finishes, as there is no point making a bad program...

dara o briain was ok but still not as good as jeremy clarkson was (obviously we cant have him back now)
that woman was (cant remember her name) slightly annoying
nuts was good
far too many montagey bits
fights were a bit boring
house robots didnt spend 10 minutes trying to destroy the loser after every fight, which was good


in theory
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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #90 on: July 26, 2016, 06:36:05 AM »
N U T S
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Did I miss something or has it not aired in america yet?
either use a vpn/proxy for the iplayer or torrent if you care about quailty. easy as can be.

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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #91 on: July 26, 2016, 09:44:41 AM »
Does anyone know if ripper tried to enter or if it didn't why (main guess would be due to the commitment for extreme bots?)
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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #92 on: July 26, 2016, 09:48:10 AM »
John couldn't enter due to RR still having the RW name this year, iirc.
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« Reply #93 on: July 26, 2016, 10:30:45 AM »
Ah damn had a slight feeling it could of been due to some legal stuff involved in it but didn't think that would of actually stopped it, thanks :)
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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #94 on: July 26, 2016, 10:48:22 AM »
Dont get me wrong, It is very cool to see robot wars back and its always had a place in my heart, the action is on point.. but I too have a few things to get off my chest..



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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #95 on: July 26, 2016, 11:12:17 AM »
Was just having a quick read through this thread- and have only a couple of points to make.

Firstly we had an absolutely amazing time filming the show- there were some truly excellent fights and robots such as Nuts really had the roboteers supporting them backstage.

Also with regards to spoilers for the Grand Final I can confidently say that some of the fights shown are not part of the main competition. There were a good number of whiteboard fights which were also filmed (we even fought in a couple). So don't worry or look into the clips too much :)
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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #96 on: July 26, 2016, 12:18:17 PM »
Team Nuts on their time at RW. A long but good read :) . https://www.facebook.com/diegracefullyrobotics/posts/1643544712626881

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« Reply #97 on: July 26, 2016, 12:24:23 PM »
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« Reply #98 on: July 26, 2016, 07:06:31 PM »
Die Gracefully Robotics, hahaha that's great.

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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #99 on: July 27, 2016, 11:02:24 AM »
Nice to hear that Nuts enjoyed it
Also Kill-E Crank-E has a team member from the old cold fusion(body hammer, pussycat) team, their robot reminded me a lot of S3 except wider, too wide in fact, and with a blade that's attached on a swinging part, similar to Thwackers and what Pussycat sometimes did, rotating the entire robot around.
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