Spinnerproof

By Sam Hutchins and Ryan Bratley

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November 07, 202081: Offensively Wrong
Follow up
Sam’s genius ideas shamelessly stolen
Re-solving solved problems
RTNCTI
A reminder of the rules
This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
Magnetar vs Hypothermia
Cobalt vs Valkyrie
Lockjaw (2018) vs The Kegs
The Ringmaster vs Apollo
Red Devil vs Big Nipper
War Hawk vs TR2
Tombstone vs Monsoon
Bronco vs Whiplash
Expulsion (Series 10) vs Eruption
PP3D vs The Four* Horsemen
Overdrive (2015) vs Minotaur
Iron Awe 6 vs RAPID
Witch Doctor (2018) vs Complete Control (2016)
Bite Force vs RotatoR
Storm 2 vs Bombshell
!!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
Magnetar vs Hypothermia
Magnetar is not Pulsar
Hypothermia’s lifty setup
Surviving Minotaur
Cobalt vs Valkyrie
Not 2019 Cobalt, obvs
Weapon reach
Losing to Ultimo Destructo
Lockjaw (2018) vs The Kegs
The Ringmaster vs Apollo
Horizontal spinner v wedge
Red Devil vs Big Nipper
Setups - front ends and weapons
Diferent decision making in a straight knockout rather than Fight Night/Round Robin
War Hawk vs TR2
Impact of the arena
Tombstone vs Monsoon
Agreeing to agree
Bronco vs Whiplash
A fight what happened
Ryan remembers years good
Expulsion (Series 10) vs Eruption
PP3D vs The Four* Horsemen
Plucking wheels
Overdrive (2015) vs Minotaur
Overdirve beat Beast in the previous round
Iron Awe 6 vs RAPID
RAPID’s slow weapon reset
Witch Doctor (2018) vs Complete Control (2016)
Witch Doctor’s ground clearance
Complete Control’s angled sides
Bite Force vs RotatoR
Another fight what happened
Storm 2 vs Bombshell
Impact of the arena
Next round:
Fixing mistakes from this episode:
Hypothermia vs Beta
DUCK! vs SOW
Valkyrie vs Lockjaw
Apollo vs Red Devil
WAR Hawk vs Tombstone
Whiplash vs Expulsion
The Four* Horsemen vs Minotaur
RAPID vs Complete Control
Hypothermia or BETA vs DUCK! or SOW
Biteforce vs Storm 2
...more
1h 15min
November 01, 202080: Thing-Shaped Things
Front matter
Scones
Battlebots 2020
Increasing optimism
Taskmaster Series 10
Robotting
Mis-adventures in spinner testing
Learning what you’ve learned
Safety
Toilet brush robot
Proper but also not proper thwackbot prototype
Sit and spin
Googly eye robot
A potential Sam boat?
RTNCTI
A reminder of the rules
This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
Magnetar vs Hypothermia
Cherub vs Beta
Double Jeopardy vs DUCK!
Crushtacean vs SOW
Bite Force (2018) vs Plan X
Photon Storm vs RotatoR
Storm 2 vs Sabretooth (Series 9)
Free Shipping vs Bombshell (2016)
!!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
Magnetar vs Hypothermia
Nope
Cherub vs Beta
Old Beta <3
Hammers <3
How does Cherub win?
Double Jeopardy vs DUCK!
DUCK!’s redundancy
Crushtacean vs SOW
Impacts of the arena
Playing chicken with the flipper
Bite Force (2018) vs Plan X
Photon Storm vs RotatoR
Righting a wrong from many moons ago
2018 RotatoR only had the dual disc/bar setup
Storm 2 vs Sabretooth (Series 9)
Sabretooth’s lack of forks/feeder
Storm 2’s lack of anything noteworthy
Free Shipping vs Bombshell (2016)
Rubbing shoulders with the greats
Free Shipping is cool
Bombshell’s weapon choice?
Upcoming fixtures:
Cobalt vs Valkyrie
Lockjaw (2018) vs The Kegs
The Ringmaster vs Apollo
Red Devil vs Big Nipper
War Hawk vs TR2
Tombstone vs Monsoon
Bronco vs Whiplash
Expulsion (Series 10) vs Eruption
PP3D vs The Four* Horsemen
Overdrive (2015) vs Minotaur
Iron Awe 6 vs RAPID
Witch Doctor (2018) vs Complete Control (2016)
Magnetar/Hypothermia vs BETA
DUCK! vs SOW
Bite Force vs RotatoR
Storm 2 vs Bombshell
Aftershow
The making of Spinnerproof
Additional sound effects from https://zapsplat.com
...more
1h 17min
August 28, 202079: You May Be Hallucinating
Front matter
Audio woes
Battlebots October filming confirmed
This was recorded a couple of hours after the announcement
Mixed feelings
RTNCTI
Anticipated dropouts - many of which were since confirmed
A chance for less recognised robots to thrive
Will casual fans be OK with the changes?
Potential for viewership to thrive in a different TV landscape
Robonerd
An event we both really missed
Virtual robonerd
An event we both really enjoyed
Full stream VOD
Full playlist
Our interview with Dave Moulds
Kev Cleasby, not Ant Pritchard
RTNCTI
A reminder of the rules
This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
Vulture vs Iron Awe 6
RAPID (s10) vs SubZero
Invader vs Witch Doctor (2018)
Razorback vs Complete Control (2016)
!!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
Vulture vs Iron Awe 6
What is Iron Awe 6?
A very successful live scene competitor
RAPID (s10) vs SubZero
The beauty and precision of RAPID
The durability and jank of old SubZero
Invader vs Witch Doctor (2018)
Razorback vs Complete Control
Which setup for Razorback?
Permutations of a JD
...more
1h 8min
August 14, 202078: Squishy Juicy Slimey Horribleness
Front matter
Amazon are meanies
Robonerd TV
No More Spinnahhs
RTNCTI
A reminder of the rules
This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
PP3D vs Nuts 2
The Four Horsemen vs Sharkoprion
Overdrive (4wd lifter) vs Beast
Minotaur vs Brutus
!!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
PP3D vs Nuts 2
Who can hit what?
The Four Horsemen vs Sharkoprion
Audible confusion
Who can hit what?
Overdrive vs Beast
Weber
Minotaur vs Brutus
The clone wars
Adam Savage
In the interest of minimising the bias our coverage of this matter might introduce, we will not be linking to any specific news items explaining the sitution. Instead, we encourage you to find your own sources.
...more
1h 11min
June 11, 202077: Have You Ever Milked a Cow?
Black Lives Matter
Parable of the Polygons
The show of aftershows
Keeping your attention. Yes. Yours. You right there.
Opening another podcast episode by talking about youtube
Joe Rogan’s Spotify deal
Ryan’s Pandemic Projects
Silly boat video
Antweight Hello There!
Mental health in lockdown
Finishing projects
Sam’s Spinnerproof R&D Lab
Arduino experiments
Hand-cutting gears
Semi-autonomous weapon setup prototype
...more
1h 36min
May 21, 202076: Be Less Nice
Front matter
Spinnerproof on youtube
Don’t use it. Listen a better way.
New episodes will go up, but might lag slightly behind traditional uploads
r/agedlikemilk
Good Robottal’s latest RA2 expansion pack stuff thing
Hello There is overpowered in relation to other non-spinners
There are also other robots
RTNCTI
A reminder of the rules
This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
Chomp vs WAR Hawk
Lycan vs TR2
Tombstone vs Reality
Monsoon vs Captain Shrederator
Overhaul vs Bronco
Basilisk vs Whiplash
Expulsion (S10) vs Carbide (S10)
Supernova (S9) vs Eruption (S10)
!!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
Chomp vs WAR Hawk
Chomp
Highly sensitive to the specifics of the matchup
Highly unlikely to be KO’d through damage
WAR Hawk
Important bits exposed from above
Weapon Motor
Drive chains
Balancing biases
Trying to work through various judging permutations
Trying to remember what we do about judging
Lycan vs TR2
Lycan
A ‘control bot’
TR2
One of the best records, if not the best record, in modern Robot Wars
Tombstone vs Reality
Tombstone
Exists
Reality
Tanky in a way which may or may not be useful
Ominous
Wajoo is scary
Monsoon vs Captain Shrederator
Monsoon
Tauron, but excellent
Captain Shrederator
A rich history
Phrisbee first ran in 2001
An upsetting record
Impact of shell choice for Shrederator
Weapon-to-weapon impacts
Overhaul vs Bronco
Overhaul
Almost entirely unable to actively win this fight
Bronco
Unexpected versioning!
Basilisk vs Whiplash
Basilisk
Should it even be here?
Does it matter?
Whiplash
Exists
Expulsion (S10) vs Carbide (S10)
Expulsion
Failing to self right in the most upsetting of ways
Might take the hits, but will still suffer
Beat Pulsar to get here
Carbide
Versions combined
Supernova (S9) vs Eruption (S10)
Supernova
A competent horizontal
Eruption
Struggles against horizontals, possibly because those horizontals are usually Carbide
Wants an OOTA but will struggle to get that here
The rest of the round
PP3D vs Nuts 2 (S10)
The Four Horsemen vs Sharkoprion
Overdrive (2015) vs Beast
Minotaur (2018) vs Brutus (2016)
Vulture vs Iron-Awe 6
RAPID (S10) vs Subzero
Invader vs Witch Doctor (2018)
Razorback (2016) vs Complete Control (2016)
Magnetar vs Hypothermia
Cherub vs Beta
Double Jeopardy vs DUCK!
Crushtacean vs SOW
Biteforce (2018) vs Plan X
Photon Storm vs RotatoR
Storm 2 vs Sabretooth (S9)
Free Shipping vs Bombshell (2016)
...more
1h 15min
May 02, 202075: Slightly Below Average
Front matter
Actual robot building
Secret projects
The difficulties of driving and winning fights
RTNCTI
A reminder of the rules
This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
Tauron (S10) vs Cobalt
Valkyrie vs Orte
Concussion (S10) vs Lockjaw (2018)
HUGE vs The Kegs
Escape Velocity vs The Ringmaster
Death Roll vs Apollo (S9)
Red Devil (2018) vs Ironside 3 (S9)
Kraken vs Big Nipper
!!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
Tauron (S10) vs Cobalt
Tauron
S10 - ’the less boaty one'
Cobalt
The diet Carbide which predates Carbide
Ryan has range
Valkyrie vs Or Te
Two robots
Concussion (S10) vs Lockjaw (2018)
Concussion
All versions combined
Lockjaw
Spinny Lockjaw rather than jaw-y Lockjaw
Concussion did actually knock Tracktion out (or critically damage it) in the 10-way rumble
HUGE vs The Kegs
HUGE
HUGE beat HUGE on a JD in the 2019 season
The Kegs
Delightfully odd
Escape Velocity vs The Ringmaster
Escape Velocity
Extra armour or minibot?
The Ringmaster
A reliable ring spinner?
Death Roll vs Apollo (S9)
Death Roll
An old argument comes full circle
Apollo
Re-versioning?
Re-versioning!
Red Devil (2018) vs Ironside 3 (S9)
Red Devil
Finding the average robot
The plow
And how it won’t ultimately help
Ironside 3
Re-versioning
6-1: “a bit one-sided”
Kraken vs Big Nipper
Kraken
So beautifully made it looks like a render
Big Nipper
Spinny, not grabby
The rest of the round
Chomp vs WAR Hawk
Lycan vs TR2
Tombstone vs Reality
Monsoon vs Captain Shrederator
Overhaul vs Bronco
Basilisk vs Whiplash
Expulsion (S10) vs Carbide (S10)
Supernova (S9) vs Eruption (S10)
PP3D vs Nuts 2 (S10)
The Four Horsemen vs Sharkoprion
Overdrive (2015) vs Beast
Minotaur (2018) vs Brutus (2016)
Vulture vs Iron-Awe 6
RAPID (S10) vs Subzero
Invader vs Witch Doctor (2018)
Razorback (2016) vs Complete Control (2016)
Magnetar vs Hypothermia
Cherub vs Beta
Double Jeopardy vs DUCK!
Crushtacean vs SOW
Biteforce (2018) vs Plan X
Photon Storm vs RotatoR
Storm 2 vs Sabretooth (S9)
Free Shipping vs Bombshell (2016)
Aftershow: brushless motors
...more
1h 9min
April 13, 202074: There's a Hole in my Spreadsheet
Follow up
Battlebots’ Top 10 “Moments” of 2019
What is a ‘moment’?
What is a ‘marketing’?
Norwalk Havoc
Yes, Ryan has chosen the stream where they had some technical issues
Fights are 3 minutes + a potential encore, not 2 minutes
BBB Beetle Champs 2020 (SXS)
Top Four
Robot or Not
Bucktooth Burl vs Skorpios vs Deathroll
RTNCTI
A reminder of the rules
This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
Thermidor 2 vs Chompalot vs Subzero
Vulture vs Foxic vs Trolley Rage
Bale Spear vs Bucky the Robot vs Captain Shrederator
Wyrm vs Donald Thump vs HUGE
!!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
Thermidor 2 vs Chompalot vs Subzero
Thermidor 2
Series 8 version
Did Thermidor 2 ‘break down’?
Chompalot
Wins that don’t count, losses that count double
Chompalot seems to be smoking before Shunt hits it
Subzero
Old Subzero, but not the really old Subzero which won a championship
Durable? Yes. Effective? No
Doing the research we should have done beforehand
And not getting the answers we want
Vulture vs Foxic vs Trolley Rage
Vulture
The first overhead spinner thing?
MegatRON is a featherweight version of a much older Jamison GO beetle (RON), but this seems to have been a saw.
Foxic
We all knew this day had to come
A genuinely beautiful robot we want to see do well
Troley Rage
Finding out live event records
Overall, Team Spinnerproof currently have a record of 5-9 in competetive fights (ignoring large melees):
Hello There: 0-5
Kylo Wen: 2-2
Tropical Storm Phil: 3-2
How well do these robots work?
We have seen S8 Foxic’s weapon work, but not S9
Can Trolley Rage self right?
Bale Spear vs Bucky the Robot vs Captain Shrederator
Bale Spear
A vast array of wheels
Bucky the Robot
Wej
Captain Shrederator
Versioning: Slanty shell and Spiky shell
Wyrm vs Donald Thump vs HUGE
Wyrm
Wej, but bad
Donald Thump
It may or may not work
HUGE
An absolute JD machine
The upcoming round of 64:
Tauron vs Cobalt
Valkyrie vs Orte
Concussion (S10) vs Lockjaw (2018)
HUGE vs The Kegs
Escape Velocity vs The Ringmaster
Death Roll vs Apollo (S9)
Red Devil (2018) vs Ironside 3 (S9)
Kraken vs Big Nipper
Chomp vs WAR Hawk
Lycan vs TR2
Tombstone vs Reality
Monsoon vs Captain Shrederator
Overhaul vs Bronco
Basilisk vs Whiplash
Expulsion (S10) vs Carbide (S10)
Supernova (S9) vs Eruption (S10)
PP3D vs Nuts 2 (S10)
The Four Horsemen vs Sharkoprion
Overdrive (2015) vs Beast
Minotaur (2018) vs Brutus (2016)
Vulture vs Iron-Awe 6
RAPID (S10) vs Subzero
Invader vs Witch Doctor (2018)
Razorback (2016) vs Complete Control (2016)
Magnetar vs Hypothermia
Cherub vs Beta
Double Jeopardy vs DUCK!
Crushtacean vs SOW
Biteforce (2018) vs Plan X
Photon Storm vs RotatoR
Storm 2 vs Sabretooth (S9)
Free Shipping vs Bombshell (2016)
...more
1h 21min
April 07, 202073: The Diotoir of Battlebots
Follow up
TheTrueCorrectGuy’s comment
Basically everything said in this comment is accurate
The difficulty of doing RTNCTI in a post-2019 world
Potential do-overs?
The Big Bot Quiz!
RTNCTI
A reminder of the rules
This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
Big Nipper vs Parallax vs Crazy Coupe 88
Overhaul vs Mega Tento vs Bucktooth Burl
Ms Nightshade vs Crank-e vs SOW
Tauron vs TMHWK vs Dantomkia
The Four Horsemen vs Thor vs Rusty
!!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
Big Nipper vs Parallax vs Crazy Coupe 88
Big Nipper
Versioning?
Did we even make a decision about this?
Using the disc
Since recording, Ryan has learned that Big Nipper also had a third setup (a wedge) which production rejected
Parallax
A robot which was replaced by P1, and everybody was happy
Drum? Drisc? Saw? Wedge?
Our survey said: Drisc
But what would this be?
Crazy Coupe 88
Series 8 epitomised
Overhaul vs Mega Tento vs Bucktooth Burl
Overhaul
Versioning?
Sam takes the easy way out
A control bot in a spinner’s world
Before Fight Night, it could take 3 or 4 years to notch up 3 or 4 defeats, now a robot can do it in one season
Mega Tento
Moving the weapon was possibly more a response to the shell being able to block the weapon if it got broken
Tentomushi was a lightweight in Battlebots, but fought with middleweights in Robot Wars series 3
Bucktooth Burl
vs Chromefly
Ms Nightshade vs Crank-e vs SOW
Ms Nightshade
No
Breaking pre-fight
Crank-e
A better robot that it can be given credit for being?
Or entirely forgettable?
SOW
Energy
Regrets
The impact of the arena & house robots
Tauron vs TMHWK vs Dantomkia
Tauron
Monsoon, but not Monsoon. Very not
S9 Tauron is Monsoon crossed with a boat
Versioning: Series 10
TMHWK
Axes are silly
Dantomkia
A competent flipper
A reliable wedge?
The Four Horsemen vs Thor vs Rusty
The Four Horsemen
Arguing over names
Big Break - the snooker-based gameshow you never knew you wanted
Thor
A strong live event competitor
Versioning - Series 10
Rusty
Also there
The need to score points with judges
But which judges?
...more
1h 33min
April 02, 202072: What a Machines
Follow up Front matter
Sam has been streaming
Twitch
VODs - 1, 2
Ryan has been guesting
ESC
The Big Bot Quiz
RTNCTI
A reminder of the rules
Ryan made a lot of notes, and is confident that none of said work will go to waste
This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
Witch Doctor vs Lucky vs Shockwave
Vanquish vs Black Ice vs Basilisk
Tombstone vs Crackers ‘N’ Smash vs Warhead
Creepy Crawlies vs Magnetar vs Double Dutch
!!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
Witch Doctor vs Lucky vs Shockwave
Witch Doctor
Pre-2019 Witch Doctor has a rocky record
Ryan’s extremely thorough notes completely ignored the fact that Witch Doctor took part in the 2015 season
If they had, the 2015/16 version would have had a record of 2-5 (or 2-3 if excluding exhibitions) for a total of 5-7 or 5-5 before 2019
Lucky
A disappointing record?
More configurations than we (or they) know what to do with
More suited to horizontals than verticals?
Shockwave
A very Robot Wars machine
More suited to horizontals than verticals?
Remembering the power of ganging up
Vanquish vs Black Ice vs Basilisk
Vanquish
Do we allow the lifter to work?
Ryan has reviewed the fight footage and now lifter movement is visible
Black Ice
That win
Weird weapons, gaping ground clearance, not invertible
Basilisk
Not your typical flipper
Slowly removing their wins
Using cameras for an autonomous system
re: Vanquish vs Shrederator - its worth noting that the team were ill for a while between fights, limiting their repair time and contributing to their coming into that fight weapon-less
Tombstone vs Crackers ‘N’ Smash vs Warhead
Tombstone
Tombstone
Crackers ‘N’ Smash
Some have previously called them cowards. We do not condone this behaviour
Series 9 version with the front-hinge lifter
Warhead
Grabber or spinner?
Canonical setups and reasons for choosing either
Very few heavyweights with exposed wheels have actually won stuff…
Creepy Crawlies vs Magnetar vs Double Dutch
Creepy Crawlies
Sacrificed to the robot Gods
Magnetar
Pulsar, but it worked
With the exception of self-righting, which we can forgive
Could it have been invertible?
A E S T H E T I C
Double Dutch
Wonky wheeling
Decisions which make your robot work vs decisions which get you onto Battlebots
That advert
The actual fight
...more
1h 33min

FAQs about Spinnerproof:

How many episodes does Spinnerproof have?

The podcast currently has 91 episodes available.