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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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Offline cephalopod

Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #200 on: August 15, 2016, 08:24:20 AM »
There is a center pod, but that's where the arena/house bot operators lurk.
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« Reply #201 on: August 15, 2016, 08:56:46 AM »
The ease of interviews is probably the most obvious reasoning come to think of it lol


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« Reply #202 on: August 15, 2016, 12:33:56 PM »
I agree that the 1v1 matches should have the teams in separate pods. Things like Storm saying press the pit release and Apollo saying they lost a chain or lost drive does give things away to the other team. As for the interviews, Dara for one box, Angela for the other. Like it is for the first round.

It was a really good episode last night, in the fights (other than when both bots partially lost drive and drove on the spot for 2 minutes), and the inbetween bits (Dara having a go at the guy hammering when he was filming :D )

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« Reply #203 on: August 15, 2016, 01:11:59 PM »
I think that this weeks episode was the best one so far. They need to get rid of the judge bits though, they're terrible.


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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #204 on: August 15, 2016, 09:52:29 PM »
I hear Sir Killalot likes to provide people with robot combat entertainment, Joe.

Okay so I really don't want to go on about this right now too much but - this is my account. I plan to get them all up in a couple of hours after release and have been succeeding so far but starting from Episode 3 BBC have been uploading some really shoddy streams that are considerably slowing down the process. Ah well, here's hoping they don't throw too many more spanners in the works for the next two weeks

Anyway, on another topic, I find Eruption really fascinating. To me, Eruption is evidence of what the last ten years of having no considerable spinners on the scene have done to robot building.

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« Reply #205 on: August 16, 2016, 03:00:48 AM »
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« Reply #206 on: August 16, 2016, 08:00:48 AM »
Someone posted that before and Craaig got the answer to it, check his post a few pages back
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« Reply #207 on: August 16, 2016, 09:32:59 AM »
I hear Sir Killalot likes to provide people with robot combat entertainment, Joe.

Okay so I really don't want to go on about this right now too much but - this is my account. I plan to get them all up in a couple of hours after release and have been succeeding so far but starting from Episode 3 BBC have been uploading some really shoddy streams that are considerably slowing down the process. Ah well, here's hoping they don't throw too many more spanners in the works for the next two weeks

Anyway, on another topic, I find Eruption really fascinating. To me, Eruption is evidence of what the last ten years of having no considerable spinners on the scene have done to robot building.

Keep up the great work Its very helpful to people :)

You raise a really good point about Eruption, like Battlebots has this year.. if robot wars has a second season id expect the building styles to change dramatically to catch onto what worked in season 1

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« Reply #208 on: August 16, 2016, 12:35:49 PM »
I'd never expect all the bots in RW to be the crazy high standards of BB though, RW tries to promote the whole build it in your shed thing. Plus BB bots get a massive cash injection from the show to make them fancy, which RW generally don't.
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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #209 on: August 16, 2016, 02:53:23 PM »
Yeah, there's only a few heavyweights in Robot Wars that could really put up a strong performance against most Battlebots machines.

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« Reply #210 on: August 16, 2016, 09:13:41 PM »
I'd never expect all the bots in RW to be the crazy high standards of BB though, RW tries to promote the whole build it in your shed thing. Plus BB bots get a massive cash injection from the show to make them fancy, which RW generally don't.

I meant more in the sense... battlebots 2015 had a lot of varied designs but after Tombstone stormed through we are seeing a lot more compact kinetic robots (particularly drums) this year

Id expect robot wars to evolve similar.. spinners like carbide will be a handful this year because not many would have taken spinner precautions.

If battlebots is anything to go by the sport evolves a lot more quickly then the old series given new technology we have now

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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #211 on: August 17, 2016, 07:29:58 AM »
Have we ever seen a drumbot in RW?
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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #212 on: August 17, 2016, 07:38:28 AM »
Have we ever seen a drumbot in RW?

Wait until next week.

Seriously though off the top of my head there's been Barborous, Black and Blue, Suicidal Tendancies and some American robots I forget the names of.

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« Reply #213 on: August 17, 2016, 07:40:06 AM »
Have we ever seen a drumbot in RW?
Well there's Barberous, Tornado, Tetanus Booster, Slicer in the Dutch series, Black and Blue, The Brute, Widow's Revenge...

Edit: Ninja'd by Conraaa.  Damn it.

Anyway, got around to watching all the episodes thanks to that Sir Killalot tumblr account.  It's okay, but I feel these could be handled a lot better.  The camera editing wasn't the best, the hosts feel like they are lacking a bit of enthusiasm along having Dara thinking he's funny, and the league format just dragged.  That last one really made me have a harder time watching these episodes.

Everything else was alright, but if there is a second season of this reboot (which is a bit doubtful) fix these issues that I and a lot of other people have mentioned here.

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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #214 on: August 17, 2016, 07:45:37 AM »
if there is a second season of this reboot (which is a bit doubtful)
Isn't it getting really good ratings despite the (obviously) low budget? Would be surprised if they dumped it after 1 season.
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« Reply #215 on: August 17, 2016, 07:58:22 AM »
if there is a second season of this reboot (which is a bit doubtful)
Isn't it getting really good ratings despite the (obviously) low budget? Would be surprised if they dumped it after 1 season.
Huh, so it has.  I haven't been keeping up with the ratings of this show.  Alright, but I would still like the issues fixed for the next season.

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« Reply #216 on: August 17, 2016, 09:10:32 AM »
Have we ever seen a drumbot in RW?

Even tornado technically had a drum weapon in its arsenal

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Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread
« Reply #217 on: August 17, 2016, 09:21:35 AM »
I always kinda saw it as more of a VS.

I can actually remember a few of those bots that Redace listed now I've seen the names, just couldn't remember them before !
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« Reply #218 on: August 17, 2016, 09:32:03 AM »
Mad Cow bot was an alright drum spinner also The Brute but the best in my opinion is Tetanus Booster.


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« Reply #219 on: August 17, 2016, 10:28:14 AM »
I remember Tetanus and Madcow now I think of it...

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