robot wars talk anything to do with it

[microminer100]

There is, and this is the wrong place for this thread as it is.

sorry i just clicked the wrong link and didnt relise till it was to late

[cephalopod]

It's cool, it's been moved to the right place now. :)

[microminer100]

thanks im new on this web site and didnt know how to move it

[Resetti's Replicas]

let heavyweights have spinning weapons

That's a matter of health, safety and very high insurance bills.

have a main UK tournament that gets televised and keep the other events untelevised?

Good luck finding a station willing to take RW on.

1. This is why I suggested the arena panels like in 2005 and roboteer pods. Insurance... Touché
2. BBC, Even Dave or Challenge who currently aire series 2 now?

The production of a series is a huge huge risk, the producer had to take on about 100 thousand pounds of debt just to get Series 1 off the ground.  So that's a bit different than airing reruns.  Perhaps they could get some kind  of educatipn grant by replacing philippa forrester and jonothan pearce with engineers.  Or they could get an embarassing photo of Sir Alan Sugar, and blackmail him into funding it.

[El Chickenado]

Or they could get an embarassing photo of Sir Alan Sugar, and blackmail him into funding it.

yeah! that seems like a good idea

[RFS]

You can't replace Jonathan Pearce, how many engineers do you know that can find 14 different things that rhyme with "arena floor flipper"?

[microminer100]

You can't replace Jonathan Pearce, how many engineers do you know that can find 14 different things that rhyme with "arena floor flipper"?

lol soooooo true

[Jaydee99]

Or they could get an embarassing photo of Sir Alan Sugar, and blackmail him into funding it.

I quite like this idea.

[Natef]

oh and TERRORHURTZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why did you not go farther in series 7
i mean he won the competition the year afterwards and couldnt even compete
/ rant

sadly that's the way events work.

[El Chickenado]

oh and TERRORHURTZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why did you not go farther in series 7
i mean he won the competition the year afterwards and couldnt even compete
/ rant

sadly that's the way events work.

this is true but he was set for success
off topic - Delta Cubes

[thesnowingsteak]

What really annoyed me is how they knew Terrorhurtz wasn't going to compete well in advance and they didn't replace him with another machine because that's would be too sensible.

[El Chickenado]

What really annoyed me is how they knew Terrorhurtz wasn't going to compete well in advance and they didn't replace him with another machine because that's would be too sensible.

well killerhurtz was either under the copyright battlebots law or was still buried in the desert and if they brought a new machine and it did not do well they would have looked dumb. terrorhurtz always had been unreliable so it made sense

[thesnowingsteak]

What really annoyed me is how they knew Terrorhurtz wasn't going to compete well in advance and they didn't replace him with another machine because that's would be too sensible.

well killerhurtz was either under the copyright battlebots law or was still buried in the desert and if they brought a new machine and it did not do well they would have looked dumb. terrorhurtz always had been unreliable so it made sense

Wait killerhurtz was buried in a desert?

[cephalopod]

The axe head was buried in the Nevada Desert after every BattleBots competition so John didn't have to take it through customs, then he'd come dig it up again next year.

[RFS]

The axe head was buried in the Nevada Desert after every BattleBots competition so John didn't have to take it through customs, then he'd come dig it up again next year.

That's pretty much the most baller thing to do.

[Natef]

What really annoyed me is how they knew Terrorhurtz wasn't going to compete well in advance and they didn't replace him with another machine because that's would be too sensible.

well killerhurtz was either under the copyright battlebots law or was still buried in the desert and if they brought a new machine and it did not do well they would have looked dumb. terrorhurtz always had been unreliable so it made sense

it did have its own RC toy, so that was most likely why

[RFS]

The flipside to that thought is that Blendo had an RC toy as well that looked nothing like the robot at all, and Vlad II bore no resemblance to the original Vlad that was turned into merchandising. :P

[Natster-104]

The axe head was buried in the Nevada Desert after every BattleBots competition so John didn't have to take it through customs, then he'd come dig it up again next year.

But how did he know where he put it?

(WITCHCRAFT)

[El Chickenado]

The axe head was buried in the Nevada Desert after every BattleBots competition so John didn't have to take it through customs, then he'd come dig it up again next year.

But how did he know where he put it?

(WITCHCRAFT)

obviously he would just hold the controller on terrorhurtz down for an hour and wherever it landed was where it was buried
(at least that would be a great image) probably a flag or something maybe ...
A TREASURE MAP! that has to be the next pirates of the caribean movie plot that would be great

[RFS]

Or, you know, beside one of the many mile marking signs that pepper US highways.