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Lagamorph wrote:Just started watching the final now.
Damn straight they chose Thor to go through. Would've been an utter disgrace for any of the others to be picked over him.

Behemoth should've got in. He's a beast.

I wanted Carbide to win but the Apollo team were great so not too bothered. I'm just bored of flippers! I know there are a lot of spinners too but a) Carbide is no ordinary spinner and b) I love the carnage, real shame it started to malfunction towards the end of the series. I reckon Chaos 2 is a better robot than Apollo.

Pancake wrote:I wanted Carbide to win but the Apollo team were great so not too bothered. I'm just bored of flippers! I know there are a lot of spinners too but a) Carbide is no ordinary spinner and b) I love the carnage, real shame it started to malfunction towards the end of the series. I reckon Chaos 2 is a better robot than Apollo.

Thing is flippers were boring before, because literally every side of the arena was flippable.

So many robots can self right now that flippers are not OP since it's actually hard for them to win now.

Oh man....about to watch the final now.

I felt so bad for Thor. One guy somehow managing to just keep that thing going and going, but just couldn't manage it here.
The fact that he somehow managed to come back at all after that fight with Carbide is strawberry floating amazing.

Qikz wrote:

Pancake wrote:I wanted Carbide to win but the Apollo team were great so not too bothered. I'm just bored of flippers! I know there are a lot of spinners too but a) Carbide is no ordinary spinner and b) I love the carnage, real shame it started to malfunction towards the end of the series. I reckon Chaos 2 is a better robot than Apollo.

Thing is flippers were boring before, because literally every side of the arena was flippable.

So many robots can self right now that flippers are not OP since it's actually hard for them to win now.

There is no doubt that the simple wedge flipper is an effective design if engineered properly but I'm not bored of them because they're effective, I'm bored of them because they do not cause metal crunching carnage! In my opinion they are less spectacular, even when they're chucking house robots around.

Dangerblade wrote:Just saw a trailer for Battlebots, which is going to be showing over here on Spike...Sundays at 8pm

ISWYDT

Nice, shall we just keep using this thread then?

Yeah sure thing. I'll change the title

ITV 2 have started showing old robot wars episodes in HD. Might be worth a look.

Bumping the thread to let people know battlebots is on tonight.

Battlebots is utter shite, seen a few episodes on youtube and it really is terrible.

The robots are awful too with ineffective weapons, no self righting mechanisms in sight and make even the worst RW robots look high tech.

This is so American.

Kenny Florian wtf

Oh look, the spinner won.

Wrecks with an amazing spinner yet no mobility due to the stupid walking system.

Dangerblade wrote:Wrecks with an amazing spinner yet no mobility due to the stupid walking system.

Those legs were the stupidest idea. Couldn't even self right.

Jessica Chobot what the hell What is this show.

Team Razer

Warhead looks like a Razer rip off.

Edit: oh, is it the same team?

I'm not sure who any of these hosts/judges are.

Warhead is strawberry floating dire.

It's understandable why they came back to Robot Wars with Razer, at least That was dreadful.

Interesting that there's no pit or house robots or anything. Just a few slightly more extreme arena weapons...