Robot Wars is coming back

[MarkRSi]

Given the various hazards in the arena I don't think a durable pusher/weaponless robot would be much less exciting than many of the robots that fail the get through the first round. A lot of robots seem to have very poor control (I understand this is probably much harder than it looks, and poor view of the arena and lack of practice/testing may also be factors) so a pusher than can be precisely controlled would be an entertaining watch IMO.

Would be interesting to see how many blows/hits it could take against a powerful spinner/flipper robot as well.

[simonrockman]

ajprice said:

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How can they not call that "Game of Drones".

[anonymous-user]

MarkRSi said:

Given the various hazards in the arena I don't think a durable pusher/weaponless robot would be much less exciting than many of the robots that fail the get through the first round. A lot of robots seem to have very poor control (I understand this is probably much harder than it looks, and poor view of the arena and lack of practice/testing may also be factors) so a pusher than can be precisely controlled would be an entertaining watch IMO.

Would be interesting to see how many blows/hits it could take against a powerful spinner/flipper robot as well.

I was thinking along these lines the other day. What often makes a very entertaining fight isn't just having a destructive weapon-it's also having a durable and game opponent.

What makes the Minotaur vs blacksmith fight so entertaining is that fact that blacksmith was able to withstand a huge amount of punishment, kept swinging and coming back and nearly made it to the end of the round. It would have been impressive to see Minotaur knock them out with one blow-but not nearly as entertaining.

Storm2 despite having no weapons was a great robot and very entertaining-having no weapons means you've got to go chasing and pushing constantly after the other robot which can make for a much more entertaining fight than waiting for two spinners to spin up then taking each other out with one hit.

Although I think the current arena design doesn't favour a pusher type robot with the slightly sloped sides.

[jinkster]

No robot wars this week?

[Laurel Green]

'Twas humans hitting balls this week - the balls didn't seem able to retaliate to well.

[MarkRSi]

No Top Gear as well for the same reason luckily the MotoGP was on.

Grand Final next week?

[Evangelion]

No Top Gear is no loss these days.

[defblade]

Battlebots was good tonight:
Warhead having probably its best fight ever and showboating with that headstand hit;
and I've never liked the SoW family, they always sulk when they lose, and tonight was no exception

[MarkRSi]

defblade said:

Battlebots was good tonight:
Warhead having probably its best fight ever and showboating with that headstand hit;
and I've never liked the SoW family, they always sulk when they lose, and tonight was no exception

Is there anywhere to watch it online /catch up TV?

[hairykrishna]

MarkRSi said:

Is there anywhere to watch it online /catch up TV?

It's on channel 5 catch up;

https://www.my5.tv/battlebots/season-2/episode-6

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

Battlebots is awesome...but too much talking, not enough destruction IMO.
Robot Wars commentary with Battlebots robots and rules would be perfect.

[rscott]

hairykrishna said:

MarkRSi said:

Is there anywhere to watch it online /catch up TV?

It's on channel 5 catch up;

https://www.my5.tv/battlebots/season-2/episode-6

Catchup is also in HD, unlike the broadcast.

[Heartworm]

New series being filmed in may,

[sjg]

Tickets for filming here if anyone's interested: http://lostintv.com/tv-show?id=860

[FiF]

Must admit I enjoyed that, some real upsets there. Sometimes the most elegantly engineered machines are just too sophisticated to cope with heavyweight attacks. Glad SoW got their arses handed to them.

[defblade]

Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

Battlebots is awesome...but too much talking, not enough destruction IMO.

I record it on my Humax and make good use of the "skip forwards 30 secs" button

You do get fewer fights, but they are much better, on the whole... the Robot Wars round robin style simply wouldn't work when so many machines are so very dead at the end of each round

[joefraser]

Just got tickets for the final day of filming for the new series in May.

For those interested it's through LostinTV

[MarkRSi]

Robot wars final on now.

Having watched the first two episodes of the new Battlebots series, I can't say my hopes are that high

[Laurel Green]

Wrecking the arena already.

[MarkRSi]

Laurel Green said:

Wrecking the arena already.

FFS it's almost as flimsy and fragile as the robots wars robots