Spinnerproof

15: RAPID Unplanned Disassembly


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  • 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
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                                                                          SpinnerproofBy Sam Hutchins and Ryan Bratley

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