Battlebots 2019

didn't know this was still a thing honestly

Started watching it last year. Some of those bots are pretty frightful

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Some of those bots are pretty frightful

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I am quite sure that many of them could easily kill a man.

Obtuse1,
Give the intro a chance this season. It's a well photographed montage of lots of the great bots and their builders from years past. Some of the bots don't appear changed at all (although most say they've upgraded the 'workings'.
We rewatched tonight, and there is a new wheel with built in rollers between two discs that make up one tire. Moves smoothly.
Huge is now a smaller iteration of last year's huge and there's this big gangly thing that almost works like a trebuchet.

OT If I watch walking dead and other zombie stuff I get nightmares. I can watch Battlebots and sleep soundly with no bad dreams.

I was pondering making a season thread. But I’ve made season threads before that went nowhere.

I love how Duck got revenge. frick those dumbass judges last year. And Capt Shrederator should’ve wasted that Chinese team. But those spinners are bad about knocking themselves out.

we use to have season thread(s) when battlebots was on abc.



Needs to be brought back to abc.

It's a good if you record and want to watch and hour show in 10-15 minutes

The improvements to Duck make it a challenger. Tombstone will destroy Mammouth (The Trebuchet) it has no defensive capabilities. Bronco (The Flipper) will be next week's main event

I'm not sure what you're asking.

Things that seem to be different (to me) (and we've been watching since the had multiple size classes and we made tapes to rewatch (and there was a forum where the participants talked about basics like which cordless drill motors were stronger and on sale.)

The outdoor box where the bots have to pass certain tests before they can participate down stairs. The interviews with the bot builders.
An almost throwaway line from Tombstone's builder that Tombstone can rotate at 400 rpm, but Battlebots' rules limit him to 250 rph and they tested for that as the max it could do. (Spoiler plates, anyone?) Ray Billings may be the most hated person, but may have a better feel for strategy than almost anyone else. And he's added additional different spinners- and he doesn't bother to cover /protect his wheels.

In two nights I don't think we saw any total annihilation like last year when you just knew that the bot couldn't be rebuilt for its next scheduled match.

Wheels vs.tracs. Not as many, so far on tracs, and a lot more exposed wheels.

Newsweek has picked ten "mostg terrifying".

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Tombstone totally pwned Lockjaw in episode 1

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ITA.

I can't find where I read this, but Billings had that planned in advance.

He let Lockjaw hit him once on each side and then turned around, with his back to Lockjaw (which would back up and then charge him.) As soon as Lockjaw began his approach for its third hit, Tombstone (whose blade never stopped spinning) did a fast 180 and ripped one side of Lockjaw off, wheels, siding and innards. Billings said he figured he could sustain two hits and then give a KO on the third. You'd recognize his little smirk as he described what happened.