Show notes
- Front matter
- We’re building for Bugglebots
- We should probably also apply at some point…
- It’s not Split Decision. We have plans for Split Decision. Awful, disgusting plans
- Building robots is hard
- HDPE is melty
- Hello There! The prequel-meme-themed bidirectional axebot that nobody asked for
- We’ve been guesting on Roasting Robots
- Battlebots Season 4 confirmed
- Spinnerproof: bringing you the big, breaking news since 2017
- We’re building for Bugglebots
- RTNCTI
- Some follow-up
- Apollo vs Cobra kinda happened
- Cobra vs Behemoth vs Eruption…vs Hobgoblin
- Photon Storm is not, as far as we can tell at least, a former UK Heavyweight champion
- 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 randomised 64 robot bracket
- The result of every bout is decided by the roll of a D7 die.
- This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers):
- 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
- !!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
- Heavy Metal vs Chimera vs Free Shipping
- Chimera 2: Elwedgetric Boogaloo
- Thwackbots and active weapon rules
- Physics corner: for thwackbots which sit flat when inactive, driving ’towards’ the weapon will cause a combination of wheel movement and weapon movement in which the centre of gravity moves upwards.
- What does Heavy Metal’s weapon do?
- Potential difficulties for Free Shipping in the RW arena?
- Chimera 2: Elwedgetric Boogaloo
- Hypothermia vs Apocalypse vs Hypershock
- Ryan completely disregards the existence of Season 1 Hypershock
- Ryan wrote all of his notes on the train to/from a football match. It shows.
- We forgot to decide which front end Hypothermia is running, but since we repeatedly allude to the wedge they’re running the wedge
- Ryan completely disregards the existence of Season 1 Hypershock
- Axe Backwards vs Warrior Clan vs DUCK!
- Warrior ClanDragon
- Axe Backwards.jpg
- DUCK!’s strategy
- Red Devil vs Tantrum vs Battle Royale With Cheese
- Red Devil’s configuration
- Do Tantrum and BRWC work?
- Ryan.exe has stopped working
- Kenny and Rose.img
- You just listened to a full 50 seconds of Sam attempting to roll a die
- Iron-Awe 6 vs Bonk vs Infernal Contraption
- Bonk and The General were hit at pretty much the same time by Carbide: The General lost a wheel but was still twitching, Bonk doesn’t seem to move thereafter
- Trying to explain Infernal Contraption
- Meggamouse vs Valkyrie vs Jellyfish
- Battle of the Biases
- Skorpios vs Behemoth vs Biteforce
- Struggling to judge Skorpios
- Which Behemoth scoop?
- Funding RTNCTI
- Ground clearances
- The General vs Radioactive vs Concussion
- Fun fact: The General faced Behemoth (and Carbide and Bonk) in its only RW battle
- Funner fact: Radioactive barely even beat the ‘ready’ button
- Heavy Metal vs Chimera vs Free Shipping
- Some follow-up
- Next episode:
- 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
- The rest of the round
- 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