Author Topic: Robot Wars is back! Sort of... (Read 6985 times)

Vertigo · « **on:** February 26, 2013, 03:58:15 PM »

Roaming Robots are now in collaboration with Robot Wars LLC and are now officially Robot Wars! The next few events will see some rebranding, including the old logo etc.

The first Robot Wars battle in over 9 years:

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=plcp&v=3BcybSn0G6g

AlexGRFan97 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 26, 2013, 04:05:45 PM »

My jaw. Someone pick it up.

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #2 on:** February 26, 2013, 04:25:52 PM »

TOO MANY FLIPPERS ARGH but oh well, it was worthy of robot wars :P

boombabyboom · « **Reply #3 on:** February 26, 2013, 04:29:20 PM »

so is it going to be on tv or will i have to watch it on youtube

Badnik96 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 26, 2013, 04:32:30 PM »

Ooh, a new Toon Raider. It needs a wheelie bar though X3

Nice to see they used the old MV for the background on this fight

Also, half the video was some stupid intro. This needs to stop

Mr. AS · « **Reply #5 on:** February 26, 2013, 04:37:32 PM »

SPOILER: the actual fight starts somewhere around 2:07

will the old arena/house robots be making a return sometime in the future? or is it going to be the basic "box with hole" arena

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #6 on:** February 26, 2013, 04:42:43 PM »

The old arena's been scrapped, but the house robots are ok as far as I know.

qwertythe300th · « **Reply #7 on:** February 26, 2013, 05:03:57 PM »

This is a great day for robot combat. I have waited for this day so long, it is very fitting I posted series 17 Heat B today. This is something I see becoming very big once again, and may lead to televised events up here in the states. I can't wait for all this to happen. By the way, is Craig Charles still interested in hosting? :P

Badnik96 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 26, 2013, 05:06:05 PM »

Quote from: Vertigo on February 26, 2013, 04:47:57 PM

Quote from: Badnik96 on February 26, 2013, 04:32:30 PM
Also, half the video was some stupid intro. This needs to stop
You've got to remember we're putting on a show. In a two hour long show a minute and a half intro isn't too long, and it makes it seem so much more professional to the audience.

Yes, but does the intro have to be in the YT video?

RedSawn · « **Reply #9 on:** February 27, 2013, 02:24:08 AM »

This is excellent news.
I guess the one thing we're missing now is an arena safe enough to let more then flippers and rammers participate. At least that's my understanding of the current situation.

GoldenFox93 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 27, 2013, 04:59:03 AM »

Welcome back, Robot Wars. =D

Jonzu95 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 27, 2013, 05:57:28 AM »

Reminds me the time when Robot Wars started. the bots weren't that big and the arena didn't have all kinds of stuff like pit, floor flipper etc.

This will be interesting, looking forward to see more.

cephalopod · « **Reply #12 on:** February 27, 2013, 06:03:08 AM »

Quote from: RedlineM203 on February 27, 2013, 02:24:08 AM

This is excellent news.
I guess the one thing we're missing now is an arena safe enough to let more then flippers and rammers participate. At least that's my understanding of the current situation.

I believe the other thing is if lots of spinners are allowed in more events, more bots will be destroyed, and with teams having much less money and just doing it as a hobby, repairing seems unlikely.

RedSawn · « **Reply #13 on:** February 27, 2013, 06:26:57 AM »

At the same time, there is a major category of robots (referring to spinners, but I haven't seen any crushers or hammers at all) being disallowed from competing to begin with. You can forgo the Robot Wars arena, the house robots, as iconic as they are, but the destruction and mayhem they touted was fundamental to selling the show.

cephalopod · « **Reply #14 on:** February 27, 2013, 06:50:11 AM »

It does seem like a bit of a catch-22 (or whatever it's called). Spinners are really needed to make the destruction that makes the show worthy of TV. But teams don't get involved because they don't know about it, because it's not on TV.

Resetti's Replicas · « **Reply #15 on:** February 27, 2013, 08:33:56 AM »

Quote from: Craaig on February 27, 2013, 06:50:11 AM

It does seem like a bit of a catch-22 (or whatever it's called). Spinners are really needed to make the destruction that makes the show worthy of TV. But teams don't get involved because they don't know about it, because it's not on TV.

It worked out better during the economic prosperity; people could take time off from work, and credit was cheap and easy. Now we've got the recession, compounded with the fact that designs have evolved way past the point where you can build a reasonably competitive bot from a couple hundred pounds' worth of scrap and a slavaged lawnmower or electric wheelchair. I agree that they need to find some way to allow for destructive weapons, can the O2 arena be made to handle them?

Though, gettign hte word out should be no problem, the original Robot Wars was before the internet was the hulking behemoth it is today, and they managed to get the word out pretty nicely

cephalopod · « **Reply #16 on:** February 27, 2013, 08:53:03 AM »

I'm not sure it'd be practical to be using the o2 a lot if that's part of the suggestion, it's a huge venue that I imagine is very expensive to hire out, besides, they tend to be quite busy with gigs a lot of the time. It would be good if we could go back to the salvaged wheelchair days but I'm not sure people want that..

HurricaneAndrew · « **Reply #17 on:** February 27, 2013, 09:18:03 AM »

You think it would make it more interesting if they had some sort of spending limit while building the bot? You wouldn't have all of these $10,000+ designs for builders to compete with. If they do that, they could also film the building of the bots and make a show out of that.

Badger · « **Reply #18 on:** February 27, 2013, 11:38:13 AM »

Quote from: HurricaneAndrew on February 27, 2013, 09:18:03 AM

You think it would make it more interesting if they had some sort of spending limit while building the bot? You wouldn't have all of these $10,000+ designs for builders to compete with. If they do that, they could also film the building of the bots and make a show out of that.

^ this

Badger · « **Reply #19 on:** February 27, 2013, 12:14:57 PM »

What's your expert opinion on a cost limit for the bots?