63: A Battlebots Way of Thinking

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Followup
- Sam likes your tweets, Sam dislikes his poor experiment design
  - Spinnerproof on YouTube
    - In the process of fetching this link, Ryan realised that we have already ticked over to 50, so don’t bother subscribing
- We will take a detailed look at the new Battlebots rules in the near-ish future
  - RTNCTI should also return post-Bugglebots
Bugglebots 2019: heat 2
- Splodeyboi vs Phoenix
  - Phoenix vs Tempus
    - Other Phoenix fights in this video seem to show that they couldn’t self right from a standstill, but this might have been rectified between UWE and Bugglebots
- Snappy vs Gear Down For What?!
  - Probably the best Bugglebots fight to date
  - GDFW smacking the arena around
  - The pit escape
  - Judging the judges: pt. 1/?
    - Defining control
      - How well you control the fight vs how well you control your specific robot
    - Live opinions
  - Explaining the robots
    - Who is the Bugglebot audience?
    - Whilst making these shownotes, Ryan realises that he referred to direct drive last episode and didn’t clarify it
      - Ryan is a hypocrite
- Wajoo vs Shark Setrakien
  - Pronunciation minefield
  - No matter how amazing you think Wajoo is, its amazinger
    - Neutron stars aren’t actually very bright…
  - Is it a good fight?
    - Sam enjoys seeing Dave’s robot destroyed
    - Dave enjoys seeing Dave’s robot destroyed
    - Ryan is describing Hypnodisc’s fight against Robogeddon, but conflating it with the fight against Stealth
      - The Robogeddon team took it pretty well, Stealth less so.
- Snappy vs Pheonix vs Shark Setrakien
  - Two relative newbies lecture everybody on LiPo safety
    - Bugglebots is in good hands with Tim and Shane on the case
  - Ordering the final results of the tournament
- Gear Down For What?! vs Phoenix
  - P H Y S I C S
  - Link placement
  - Tim spies with his little eye
- Wajoo vs Splodeyboi
  - Splodeyboi sailing through a realistically quite unfavourable matchup
- Splodeyboi vs Pheonix
  - Counting the ceiling strikes

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