Show notes
- Follow up
- Sam has been reading about meltybrains
- There was code, it was a special kind of code, Ryan should not be writing this note.
- Links vs Switches: Redux. Switches bad, links good.
- Switches don’t always fail dangerous, but they’re roughly as likely to fail dangerous as safe.
- Sam has been reading about meltybrains
- Front matter
- Battlebots season 4?
- Probably. Very probably. But not definitely. Yet.
- Bugglebots continues!
- UK vs ROTW: 11th February 2019. AFTER the release of this episode!
- Battlebots season 4?
- RTNCTI
- The full rules and competitors
- Have we missed any robots? If so, please tell us now so we can add them.
- The very simplified rules:
- Every robot we have official footage of competing in a reboot series of Robot Wars and Battlebots
- Qualifying: 32 1v1s and 32 3-way melees, feeding into a 64 robot bracket
- The result of every bout is decided by the roll of a die
- !!SPOILERS BELOW!!
- Expulsion vs Pulsar
- Versions: Series 10 Expulsion, Series 9 Pulsar
- S10 Expulsion did win some fights, but largely by default.
- Expulsion wins
- Versions: Series 10 Expulsion, Series 9 Pulsar
- Androne 4000 vs Bombshell
- Season 2 Bombshell with the horizontal bar
- In the Robot Wars arena
- Bombshell wins
- Complete Control vs Overdozer
- Season 2 Complete Control
- Complete Control wins
- Lockjaw vs Tracktion
- Season 3 Lockjaw, running the spinner
- Tracktion with Vulture’s wedge
- Lockjaw wins
- Predator vs Beast
- What is Predator?
- Beast wins, despite a spirited Predator performance
- Yeti vs Double Jeopardy
- Double Jeopardy wins
- Minotaur vs Blacksmith
- Season 3 Blacksmith, with the forks
- Minotaur wins
- PP3D vs Chromefly
- PP3D wins
- Apex vs Invader
- Invader wins
- The Kegs vs Terror Turtle
- Cloned drivers
- Technically the team joined with the Bigger Brother team for The Grubs at KoB and the Four Horsemen at Battlebots, not The Swarm
- The Kegs win
- Stinger (TKB) vs Escape Velocity
- Stinger with the wedge, Escape Velocity with the minibot
- Escape Velocity wins
- The Ringmaster vs Terrorhurtz
- The Ringmaster wins
- Lycan vs Mecha Rampage
- Lycan wins
- Devilled Egg vs Bronco
- Bronco running whatever armour they like because this is still a 1-5
- Bronco wins
- Monsoon vs Ultimo Destructo
- Season 3 Ultimo Destructo, running the horizontal spinner
- Monsoon wins
- Chomp vs Glitterbomb
- Chomp wins
- The full rules and competitors
- Next episode:
- Nuts vs ICEwave
- Supernova vs Razer
- Crushtacean vs Sweet Revenge
- Kraken vs Draven
- Mohawk vs Sharkoprion
- Whiplash vs Obwalden Overlord
- The Disk O’ Inferno vs Rotator
- Poison Arrow vs Photon Storm
- Coyote vs Beta
- Ghost Raptor vs TR2
- Frostbite vs Razorback
- Cobra vs Apollo
- Aftershock vs Ironside 3
- Or Te vs Kan-Opener
- Sabretooth vs Wrecks
- Plan X vs M.R. Speed Squared
- The rest of the round (episodes 3 and 4)
- Heavy Metal vs Chimera vs Free Shipping
- Hypothermia vs Apocalypse vs Hypershock
- Axe Backwards vs Warrior Clan vs DUCK!
- Red Devil vs Tantrum vs Battle Royale With Cheese
- Iron-Awe 6 vs Bonk vs Infernal Contraption
- Meggamouse vs Valkyrie vs Jellyfish
- Skorpios vs Behemoth vs Biteforce
- The General vs Radioactive vs Concussion
- The Swarm vs Deathroll vs Gemini
- Kill-E-Krank-E vs Gigabyte vs RAPID
- Moebius vs Brutus vs Petunia
- Gabriel vs Storm 2 vs Tough as Nails
- Push to Exit vs Overdrive vs Hobgoblin
- Gamma 9 vs WAR Hawk vs Nightmare
- Bad Kitty vs Cherub vs Ultraviolent
- Counter Revolution vs Sweeney Todd vs Cobalt
- Carbide vs DisConstructer vs King B Remix
- End Game vs Eruption vs SawBlaze
- High-5 vs Reality vs Splatter
- Witch Doctor vs Lucky vs Shockwave
- Vanquish vs Basilisk vs Black Ice
- Tombstone vs Crackers ‘N’ Smash vs Warhead
- Creepy Crawlies vs Magnetar vs Double Dutch
- Big Nipper vs Parallax vs Crazy Coupe 88
- Overhaul vs Mega Tento vs Bucktooth Burl
- Ms Nightshade vs Crank-E vs Son of Wyachi
- Tauron vs TMHWK vs Dantomkia
- The Four Horsemen vs Thor vs Rusty
- Thermidor 2 vs Chompalot vs Sub Zero
- Vulture vs Foxic vs Trolley Rage
- Bale Spear vs Bucky the Robot vs Captain Shredderator
- Wyrm vs Donald Thump vs Huge