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Which robot is going to win Robot Wars Series Nine?

Aftershock
Apex
Apollo
Behemoth
Carbide
Cherub
Chimera 2
Cobra
Concussion
Coyote
Crackers & Smash
Crank-E
Crushtacean
Draven
Eruption
Expulsion
Foxic
Frostbite
Heavy Metal
High-5
Hobgoblin
Ironside 3
Jellyfish
Meggamouse
MR Speed Squared
Ms. Nightshade
Nuts 2
PP3D
Pulsar
Push To Exit
Rapid
Rusty
Sabretooth
Supernova
Tauron
Terrorhurtz
Thor
TMHWK
Trolley Rage
Wyrm

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #40 on: March 12, 2017, 05:16:09 PM »
Kurt's on point. :thumbup



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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #41 on: March 12, 2017, 05:17:51 PM »
When you play a tournament in RA2 and you glitch through the floor does the game care about that? no it doesn't!

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #42 on: March 12, 2017, 05:58:55 PM »




Camemberta won the third prize at BB9.
Also apparently she was real lucky.


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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #43 on: March 12, 2017, 07:01:05 PM »



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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #44 on: March 12, 2017, 07:08:19 PM »

Major spoiler hidden.. phew

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #45 on: March 12, 2017, 07:13:27 PM »

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #47 on: March 12, 2017, 10:00:09 PM »
Oh I'll be doing some banging.......

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #48 on: March 13, 2017, 04:09:34 PM »

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #49 on: March 13, 2017, 05:50:44 PM »
I have several opinions.

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #50 on: March 14, 2017, 07:18:17 AM »
are they still fixing judges decision to the favorite robot?

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #51 on: March 14, 2017, 07:27:32 AM »
No.

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #52 on: March 14, 2017, 09:26:43 AM »
I'm afraid not, otherwise it could be the case that Robots such as Tornado would of won over Storm 2 in the Series 7 Grand final due to being the champion at the time.
Despite this, I do have some links to Noel Sharkey's Explanations/tweets behind one of the Judge's decisions on the Second Episode. Both Tweets were around the PP3D VS Cherub match and formed together, they should make a message behind the decision why the judges chose Cherub over PP3D. Unfortunately I don't know if he did make some tweets on the Infamous Cherub VS Behemoth match, but I don't think there are any unless anyone wants to prove me wrong.

https://twitter.com/NoelSharkey/status/841222083669553152 
https://twitter.com/NoelSharkey/status/841223193000062976

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #53 on: March 14, 2017, 09:35:57 AM »

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #54 on: March 14, 2017, 09:38:07 AM »
I'm afraid not, otherwise it could be the case that Robots such as Tornado would of won over Storm 2 in the Series 7 Grand final due to being the champion at the time.
Despite this, I do have some links to Noel Sharkey's Explanations/tweets behind one of the Judge's decisions on the Second Episode. Both Tweets were around the PP3D VS Cherub match and formed together, they should make a message behind the decision why the judges chose Cherub over PP3D. Unfortunately I don't know if he did make some tweets on the Infamous Cherub VS Behemoth match, but I don't think there are any unless anyone wants to prove me wrong.

https://twitter.com/NoelSharkey/status/841222083669553152 
https://twitter.com/NoelSharkey/status/841223193000062976
There's nothing to discuss about Behemoth vs Cherub - Behemoth did nothing in the match, and the reaction afterwards is the only reason it's controversial - Ant didn't give any indication that he thought they made the wrong call

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #55 on: March 14, 2017, 09:55:28 AM »
I'm afraid not, otherwise it could be the case that Robots such as Tornado would of won over Storm 2 in the Series 7 Grand final due to being the champion at the time.
Despite this, I do have some links to Noel Sharkey's Explanations/tweets behind one of the Judge's decisions on the Second Episode. Both Tweets were around the PP3D VS Cherub match and formed together, they should make a message behind the decision why the judges chose Cherub over PP3D. Unfortunately I don't know if he did make some tweets on the Infamous Cherub VS Behemoth match, but I don't think there are any unless anyone wants to prove me wrong.

https://twitter.com/NoelSharkey/status/841222083669553152 
https://twitter.com/NoelSharkey/status/841223193000062976
There's nothing to discuss about Behemoth vs Cherub - Behemoth did nothing in the match, and the reaction afterwards is the only reason it's controversial - Ant didn't give any indication that he thought they made the wrong call
If you can notice that Behemoth did try to get underneath Cherub multiple times but failed due to not only Behemoth getting in at the right angle, but also not being able to get underneath Cherub due to the ground clearance of the Grabber. Despite Behemoth constantly on the attack half the time, trying to get the grabber underneath Cherub as based on what was shown on TV. While Cherub did charge in and did a few lifts with the forks and managed to get Dead Metal to damage Behemoth, but what I saw most of the time was that Behemoth was mostly on the offensive than Cherub.
I had stated that the Tweets were to do with the PP3D match not the Behemoth match due to some people finding the match to be a controversial one but not as controversial as the Former due to these tweets being made before the lateral match was shown on TV.
But I'm now regretting posting this un-required information due to how this has nothing to do with the Behemoth vs Cherub match. But it just if you require some information on some of the Decisions that the Judges made.

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #56 on: March 14, 2017, 11:49:19 AM »

In response to the floor flipper comment, I feel that a rumble environment tends to be a "no unsticks" situation, due to the additional safety concerns of so many robots. That's my best response besides the typical "it was a sideshow antweight rumble 16 years ago and doesn't matter".
I built that big robot on that TV show that time


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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #57 on: March 14, 2017, 01:00:25 PM »

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #58 on: March 14, 2017, 01:04:28 PM »
people should stop comparing modern spinners to Hypnodisc

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Re: Robot Wars Series Nine - Episode Discussion
« Reply #59 on: March 14, 2017, 01:56:15 PM »
Hypnodiscs spinner was mounted in tinfoil compared to PP3D, it's just that Hypnodisc stored less energy than a modern featherweight robot which made it too weak to really break itself.

people should stop comparing modern spinners to Hypnodisc

please yes
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