15: RAPID Unplanned Disassembly

Spinnerproof

• Followup
  • Carbide’s battery woes
• Armchair Production 2.1
  • Fluff
  • ‘Representations’ of roboteers
    • Tracktion
      • Kids front and center
      • Immitate, Improve, Innovate
    • Vulture
      • Rejecting the cameras
    • Should all representations be positive?
      • Should there be a ‘representation’ at all?
      • Self-censorship for TV
      • Charlie Brooker on how TV can use editing to grossly misrepresent real events
        • Pay close attention to the use of voiceovers/interview soundbites
    • RAPID
      • Literally just money. Apparently.
      • The British view of money and success
    • Apex
      • Craig’s ‘strop’
    • Are we any better? We hope so
• Melee 1
  • Bucky The Robot
    • Ryan’s ideal entrant?
    • Unreliable self-righting
  • RAPID
    • Hugely improved
    • Excellently driven
      • Using the hazards
    • Slow flipper reset
    • Pneumatics issues
    • Boring?
      • Very well ‘planted’ and controllable with the 4WD, and therefore visually unspectacular
      • Making it look easy
  • Tracktion
    • Basically not tested in its fights
      • Immediately out vs RAPID, Apex self destructed and Vulture forced to withdraw
    • Borrowing bits
      • Where does this sit within the rules?
        • And do we care?
      • Active weapon?
  • JP’s weird and wonderful commentary
    • Overhyping the Fog of War
    • Under-hyping the Fog of War
  • Conversations with Lucy Rodgers
    • Actually analysing the value of FoW
    • The primary role of the house robots: freeing stuck robots
• Melee 2
  • Apex
    • A dangerous machine?
      • Do the BBC want us to think this was worse than it was?
  • Terrorhurtz
    • A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
    • Acknowledging the old series
    • THE CHAIR
      • An inconvenient chair with clear sentimental value
    • The Best Hits
    • Front armour upgrades
  • Vulture
    • ‘Not engineers’
      • Experienced builders with featherweights…
    • Very well constructed
    • Underpowered weaponry?
  • JP explaining the immobility rules (a bit)
    • Sam ruins everything
• Selected fights
  • Tracktion vs Apex
    • Dead Metal in the arena
    • Why Apex died
      • Ghosts
  • RAPID vs Tracktion
    • RAPID’s ‘ears’
    • Pressure to entertain
      • Playing with the rules
  • Opening melee restart
• RAPID AMA
  • Flipping a transit van 1m in the air
• Ratings
  • RobotWarsMascots.djv