58: Infected Me with Elon

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Front matter
- Ryan sees Teslas in the wild
Battlebots
- Episode 15
  - Sawblaze vs SOW
    - Being unreasonably drawn away from SOW
    - Sawblaze’s reluctance to use the weapon
      - MegatRON
    - “Hammer Saw”
      - Two guys who have never built a spinner make wild guesses about how you build a spinner
    - The late hit
      - Such late. Many unsporting.
  - DeathRoll vs Yeti
    - Big weapons, big aggression
    - Yeti self-righting?
    - DeathRoll’s lack of spares
      - Preventative maintenance
  - Quantum vs Tombstone
    - Ray’s box-rush bamboozle
      - 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399
        
        That’s 46 perfectly recalled digits of pi
        
        The world record is 67,890. Git gud, scrub
        
        And they may not have even included the 3
        
        Relevant XCKD
  - HUGE vs Whiplash
    - HUGE: the sports model
      - Bob Lazar approved
    - A tricky/easy JD
      - HUGE gets the damage points, even if what feels like 3 points worth of damage hasn’t been done in the fight overall
      - HUGE, by virtue of being the style of robot it is, may struggle to demonstrate aggression and control despite being aggressive and controlled
    - Live event judging systems
      - No judging system?
        
        It turns out the diving judges are following a complex and rigid system, who knew?
      - Semi-anonymous judging?
- Episode 16
  - Witch Doctor vs Deathroll
    - Return of the Judges’ Decision
      - Separating judging from refereeing
        
        Controlled Translational movement
        
        Hello There! limping on with one side of drive dead
        
        “Quick Walking”
      - The JD itself
    - Spoilery trailer shenanigens
  - Tombstone vs Biteforce
    - A spectacle, but not the spectacle we expected
    - Biteforce pulls through with little-to-no damage
  - Biteforce vs Witch Doctor
    - The weird human need for variety and novelty
    - How do you challenge Biteforce?
      - Yes, we know it may not be coming back in its current form. Humour us

90 episodes

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