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Spinnerproof
By Sam Hutchins and Ryan BratleyTechnology
Spinnerproof episodes
- 81: 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
1 hr 15 min - 80: 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
1 hr 17 min - 79: 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
1 hr 8 min - 78: 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.
1 hr 11 min - 77: 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
1 hr 36 min - 76: 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)
1 hr 15 min - 75: 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
1 hr 9 min - 74: 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)
1 hr 21 min - 73: 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?
1 hr 33 min - 72: 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
1 hr 33 min
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Spinnerproof is a podcast about combat robotics