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[Spehss _]

Woooo. Championship episode. I'm doing a quick survey of the internets and not finding any online videos of the episode but I'll be sure to post a link when I find it. Pretty great season all in all, I'd say.

I like how competitive this series feels compared to the original Battlebots. It's more intense and feels like quite a competition. Feels real. Watching old Battlebots episodes on Youtube and it feels much more like a bunch of guys and their wacky robot fight club, with stock sound effects added to make hits sound more heavy and goofy music playing during the fights. There's a charm to the original series but I like the way this new series has gone. I especially liked the clips of the teams repairing and making last minute changes to their bots in the pit.

I heard a rumour that in season 2 Battlebots will bring back the weight tiers, and this season was just heavyweights to see how well the reboot is received. Cross your fingers for season 2.

Also found an interesting article while searching the web for the championship video uploading. How Battlebots Ended Up at ABC.

Also also, check out some ratings. Battlebots on ABC had a high point of 5.1 million viewers nationwide in the US at the first episode, and averaging ~4.5 million each episode after that.

[NAV]

Here is a link to episode 6!

[Rose]

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It was nice to see Tombstone get beat, though it seems the only reason he got as far as he did was because he was against people with no armor to speak of. As soon as he was against witch doctor, he started showing his weaknesses. And then bite force used a similar tactic to take him out.

[Flying Dice]

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I'd attribute it less to Bite Force and more to him getting cocky at the end of the match against Bronco and causing a bunch of damage to Tombstone for that last hit. He lost his weapon power in the championship fight because of faulty equipment and rushed repairs, not anything done by Bite Force -- even with it only working for the first bit, he almost completely dismantled that armored wedge.

[Rose]

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That doesn't explain Witch Doctor, though, who only lost because of not having a way to right herself.

[Flying Dice]

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Oh, yeah, agreed on that one.

But, y'know, when you make a pushbot that isn't reverseable and can't self-right, that's your own fault. Especially when it's relatively light in a heavyweight tournament full of flippers and blades that'll toss you around. If it had the ability to self-right, it would have won easily. But it didn't, same as how Icewave could have gone farther if it hadn't been built the way it was.

Note how the same thing happened to Witch Doctor in the three-way bout: it got put on its side and was irrelevant after that.

[RedWarrior0]

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Tombstone/Last Rites has always been its own worst enemy. It produces a lot of energy and can do tons of damage, but it also does a ton of damage to itself. Also, wedges in general are the way to counter high-energy horizontal spinners

With regard to Witch Doctor, remember that they replaced their entire minibot with an armor plate, while Bite Force presumably didn't have enough extra weight to go nearly as heavy. I do agree that Bite Force deserved the win, but I think Tombstone is still a good bot.

Also, Witch Doctor is normally able to self-right, but not in that battle after their weapon broke and they had a 30lb plate on front.

[MonkeyHead]

Here is hoping the success of this re-boot inspires a broadcaster in the UK to bring back our own version back to TV. It might just tempt me out of retirement.

[Spehss _]

Good news.

The official Battlebots website has information on applying for season 2. Season 2 is going to be a thing, slated for "this summer". No official date yet, only "this summer".

I am a bit late on this news, seeing how one of the articles I'm looking at is from November 5, but better late than never.
Some articles:
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Their website says that the deadline for applying is either once all tournament slots are filled, or the deadline date arrives, which is currently set to February 15, 2016. There will be 32 slots this season. No mention of the return of weight groups.

I'm looking at the pdfs they have on their site and one of them mentions "flybots", or flying combat robots. Sounds like robot dogfights could be a thing for this season.

[My Name is Immaterial]

HYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYPE

[Rose]

The rules allow for flying flamethrowers.

[Spehss _]

The rules allow for flying flamethrowers.

Surprisingly, the part about fliers was in there before season 2 revisions, if I'm reading it right. Parts revised for season 2 are in blue. So I'm guessing it was in there for season 1 but no one used it. There's an added clause about not accepting any kind of nets or other entangling or disabling devices, thanks to that fiasco in season 1 with the net in a box.

Note that the weight limit for fliers is 10 pounds, so I suppose fliers would only really be useful for minibots, until they bring back weight classes like featherweight tournaments.

I found a loophole - if you could call it that - in that there's no limit to the number of multibots, so long as the combined total weight doesn't exceed the limit of 250 pounds. Theoretically, you could have a swarm of 25 10 pound fliers, or even 250 little 1 pound fliers. This would probably never be accepted and the logistics of radio controlling them all is a nightmare but I find it funny to imagine.

[Rose]

No, this is version 2016.2, with blue being differences from 2016.1

[Furtuka]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/robot-wars-returns

Ohey

[Rose]

Nice.

I wonder if lister will show up.