FollowupThe Heat E line-upWhiteboard matchesOn-board footage from BehemothRe-re-opening the engineering wound‘Dave Lowry’Ryan’s tries to clarify his position for the [n]^th timeBattlebotsWTF is Battlebots?The key differences with Robot Wars2015 Highlight reelHow 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?I’ll just put the Jellyfish video here again…The bracketGroup 1HERE BE SPOILERS!Tombstone: Shock mounted driveLast Ritesvs Witch Doctor (2015)Fights: vs Black ice, vs Escape Velocity, vs Brutus, vs Yeti, vs Beta, vs Bombshell (low quality)Black Ice:What does it actually…do?The 3 ‘weapons’Dan Barry,Fights: Qualifier vs Skorpios & Bad Kitty, vs TombstoneEscape Velocity:Aluminium honeycombSpaceX’s previous foray into combat robotsFights: vs Overdrive, vs TombstoneOverdrive:Sam needs to start rhyming2015 OverdriveRyan is bothered by a lack of gyro-dancingFights: vs Escape VelocityGroup 2Brutus2015 Witch Doctor vs 2016 BrutusRyan doesn’t like gimmicksAsymetric/single tooth disc designFights: Vs Moebius, vs Lockjaw, vs TombstoneMoebius‘Standard full body spinner’ designsDirect Metal Laser Sintering, Super-Draco engines, harder than diamondFights: vs BrutusRay Billings vs Peirce Hawthorne - because apparently somebody else also though thisYetiWhat Ryan thinks Alaska is likeSam considers quitting the podcastFights: vs Lockjaw, vs Lucky, vs TombstoneLockjawSpring powered flipperWhat came first, the flipper or the clamp?Lockjaw’s lineage and previous performancesFights: vs Yeti, vs BrutusDeconstructing the showSports broadcastingPresentersSamantha PonderKenny Florian & Chris RoseFaruq TauheedThe pit reportersThe arena-side reporterThe tale of the tape: Less informative than a Bill Nye Netflix seriesOnline infoCompetitor profilesCompetition stats (aka ‘sports information’)Robot Wars wiki vs Battlebots wikiConverting from lbs to more civilised unitsRobot sponsorshipsGroup 3ICEwaveFull body spinner?Stalling petrol enginesSneaky paintworkFights: vs Sub Zero, vs NightmareSub-ZeroSam continues to be annoyed by ugly weldingStruggling to remember the weight limitFights: vs ICEwaveStingerStinger: the Killer BeeGratuitous flamesModular weaponryEffective spinner-killingWyrmFights: vs Nightmare, vs Mega Tento (US only)NightmareEstimating the heightRyan is sure he rememberes the fight with Beta and is almost entirely wrong‘Self righting’ systemOld disc vs new discFights: vs Stinger TKB, vs ICEwave, vs BetaGroup 4BetaTwo grown men fall in love with a furious limpet for approximately 5 minutesDesign details: Hammer head, crooked arm, armour hinges, weapon motor and mechanism, Beta websiteBreaking the floorFights: vs Lucky, vs Overhaul (US only), vs Nightmare (US only), vs TombstoneLuckyWedge weirdnessFights: vs Beta, vs YetiCobaltComparisons with CarbideBombshell won or Cobalt lost?Fights: vs Overhaul, Vs Bombshell :(OverhaulBecoming Biteforce: a winning paintjob?Fights: vs Cobalt, vs Beta (US only)The judgesThe judging criteria: defining aggressionBeta vs TombstoneCelebrity/guest judgesArmchair Engineering: Flipper mechanismsGassing about gasses: a plea for more informationMechanismsThe classic ‘BritWedge’ flipperThe Bronco/SubZero ’launcher’The Escape Velocity…thing…Lucky’s 4-bar lifter/flipper
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