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7: The Jellyfish of Battlebots
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Manage episode 185482615 series 1473760
- 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
90 episodes
Archived series ("Inactive feed" status)
When? This feed was archived on September 08, 2022 05:28 (). Last successful fetch was on May 24, 2022 18:16 ()
Why? Inactive feed status. Our servers were unable to retrieve a valid podcast feed for a sustained period.
What now? You might be able to find a more up-to-date version using the search function. This series will no longer be checked for updates. If you believe this to be in error, please check if the publisher's feed link below is valid and contact support to request the feed be restored or if you have any other concerns about this.
Manage episode 185482615 series 1473760
- 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
90 episodes
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