Show notes
- Followup
- The Heat E line-up
- Whiteboard matches
- Re-re-opening the engineering wound
- ‘Dave Lowry’
- Ryan’s tries to clarify his position for the [n]^th time
- Battlebots
- WTF is Battlebots?
- The key differences with Robot Wars
- 2015 Highlight reel
- How to find the shownotes. Which you clearly already know how to do. Because these are the show notes. And you are reading them. Well done I guess?
- The bracket
- WTF is Battlebots?
- Group 1
- HERE BE SPOILERS!
- Tombstone:
- Black Ice:
- What does it actually…do?
- The 3 ‘weapons’
- Dan Barry,
- Fights: Qualifier vs Skorpios & Bad Kitty, vs Tombstone
- What does it actually…do?
- Escape Velocity:
- Overdrive:
- Sam needs to start rhyming
- 2015 Overdrive
- Ryan is bothered by a lack of gyro-dancing
- Fights: vs Escape Velocity
- Group 2
- Brutus
- 2015 Witch Doctor vs 2016 Brutus
- Ryan doesn’t like gimmicks
- Asymetric/single tooth disc design
- Fights: Vs Moebius, vs Lockjaw, vs Tombstone
- Moebius
- Ray Billings vs Peirce Hawthorne - because apparently somebody else also though this
- Yeti
- What Ryan thinks Alaska is like
- Sam considers quitting the podcast
- Fights: vs Lockjaw, vs Lucky, vs Tombstone
- Lockjaw
- Brutus
- Deconstructing the show
- Sports broadcasting
- Presenters
- Samantha Ponder
- Kenny Florian & Chris Rose
- Faruq Tauheed
- The pit reporters
- The arena-side reporter
- The tale of the tape: Less informative than a Bill Nye Netflix series
- Presenters
- Online info
- Competitor profiles
- Competition stats (aka ‘sports information’)
- Robot Wars wiki vs Battlebots wiki
- Converting from lbs to more civilised units
- Robot sponsorships
- Sports broadcasting
- Group 3
- ICEwave
- Full body spinner?
- Stalling petrol engines
- Sneaky paintwork
- Fights: vs Sub Zero, vs Nightmare
- Sub-Zero
- Sam continues to be annoyed by ugly welding
- Struggling to remember the weight limit
- Fights: vs ICEwave
Stinger- Stinger: the Killer Bee
- Gratuitous flames
- Modular weaponry
- Effective spinner-killing
- Fights: vs Nightmare, vs Mega Tento (US only)
- Nightmare
- Estimating the height
- Ryan is sure he rememberes the fight with Beta and is almost entirely wrong
- ‘Self righting’ system
- Old disc vs new disc
- Fights: vs Stinger TKB, vs ICEwave, vs Beta
- ICEwave
- Group 4
- Beta
- Two grown men fall in love with a furious limpet for approximately 5 minutes
- Design details: Hammer head, crooked arm, armour hinges, weapon motor and mechanism, Beta website
- Breaking the floor
- Fights: vs Lucky, vs Overhaul (US only), vs Nightmare (US only), vs Tombstone
- Lucky
- Cobalt
- Comparisons with Carbide
- Bombshell won or Cobalt lost?
- Fights: vs Overhaul, Vs Bombshell :(
- Overhaul
- Becoming Biteforce: a winning paintjob?
- Fights: vs Cobalt, vs Beta (US only)
- Beta
- The judges
- The judging criteria: defining aggression
- Beta vs Tombstone
- Celebrity/guest judges
- The judging criteria: defining aggression
- Armchair Engineering: Flipper mechanisms
- Gassing about gasses: a plea for more information
- Mechanisms
- The classic ‘BritWedge’ flipper
- The Bronco/SubZero ‘launcher’
- The Escape Velocity…thing…
- Lucky’s 4-bar lifter/flipper
