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Spinnerproof
By Sam Hutchins and Ryan BratleyTechnology
Spinnerproof episodes
- 41: In A Nutshell
- Front matter
- Sam recommends youtube channels
- James Bruton - he makes robots
- Barnaby Dixon - he makes puppets
- Frank Howarth - he makes wooden things
- Colin Furze - he makes mistakes
- Antweights
- The omni-flipper
- PAD vs CAD
- Battlebots - The World Championship Finals of the World
- The fluffening
- 4 fights, plus another top 10 for the Science channle bonus.
- BUT unaired fights are coming! (According to a now deleted tweet…)
- Battlebots: Resurrection
- High-quality graphics and editing
- Bot 56: Raven
- A competitor explained the Raven situation 4 months ago on reddit - nobody seemed to notice
- There would be a link to the series here but, since we’re in the UK, we can’t access the legal link to share. Well played, Discovery. Well played.
- Exhibition: Tombstone vs Tantrum
- HUGE ARENA BREACH THREATENS TO KILL THOUSANDS
- Or turn the lights off
- How Can Battlebots Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real?
- Being spoiled
- The losing semifinalists
- Lockjaw
- Ryan is glad that Lockjaw didn’t win
- Jaw vs Minotaur?
- Deceptively resilient wheels
- The plough
- 12mm AR500 is, shockingly, quite resilient.
- Whiplash
- RIP little friend, it was a fun ride
- Non-translational movement
- More mobile than a certain robot in a certain rumble?
- Ryan explains sport
- The entertainment/sport spectrum for TV programmes
- William Osman!!
- Robogames silver medallist, not champion
- The finalists
- Biteforce
- Not a fast weapon, but an efficient weapon
- Only ever beaten by Chomp
- Minotaur
- HUGE damage. Both sides broken into 2 or more pieces again
- Series retrospective
- It was good
- It was long
- Podcasts are hard work
- It had ad breaks
- It wasn’t available in Europe
1 hr 3 min - 40: Just South of Henley
- Follow-up
- Sam vs Youtube
- RoboNerd 2018
- Sam done vlogged. It’s on YouTube.
- Split Decision - the greatest machine ever conceived
- Split Decision - the greatest machine ever conceived
- Battlebots - 16 –> 4
- Episode 18
- Sawblaze vs Monsoon
- Underrated nuances of driving
- Did you know we built and fought a robot?
- The psychology of driving
- Driving with a teammate
- Tombstone vs Bombshell
- Ragequitting Battlebots
- Tombstone: the ONLY horizontal spinner in Battlebots
- Bombshell’s pre-season: Lock-Jaw (8th seed), Bronco (2nd seed), Yeti (7th seed), BiteForce (3rd seed)
- Has anybody had a tougher pre-season? Tombstone faced 2 machines which didn’t make the final 16 (DUCK! and GigaByte)
- Ray’s mega-post
- Minotaur vs Witch Doctor
- The forbidden love between Witch Doctor and Witch Doctor’s wheels
- A candidate for highlighting?
- Highlighted fight: Lockjaw vs SOW
- Can we fit all the fights into an episode? Should we?
- Sam wants to drop Faruq. Sam is wrong.
- Lockjaw vs Bombshell
- Next…
- Minotaur vs Monsoon
- So much potential, so little delivered
- Episode 19
- Biteforce vs HUGE
- Hailed as the biggest potential upset of the 16
- The true value of HUGE
- ICEwave vs Wedgetator
- Twisted spoilers
- ICEwave’s lack of ICE armour
- Do seedings matter? Do they work in robot combat?
- Bronco vs WarHawk
- One of the better verts vs the only flipper
- Aggression’s place within Bronco’s strategy
- Rotator vs BiteForce
- Wow.
- Whiplash vs Bronco
- 2(Wow.)
- Whiplash’s weapon usage - accident or stroke of genius?
- Ryan carefully prefaces an argument by repeatedly stating the obvious
- Is Bronco’s approach overly negative?
1 hr 7 min - 39: Coleslaw, But Worse
- Followup
- Garfie’s comment re: active weapons and mid-tournament changes
- F O R E S H A D O W I N G
- Episode 17
- Robots cost money, ya know
- DOUBLE DOWN
- ICEWave vs HUGE
- Let’s talk about wheels
- HUGE vs Crippling Depression
- Giving ICEWave the credit it deserves
- Gemini vs Some Horsemen
- How is the Horsemen’s weight distributed?
- 60% (by weight) must be incapacitated
- Aggressive wedging
- Skorpios vs Hypershock
- Angle grinder: a thing which Chris owns
- Speed, power, and driving ability from SKorpios
- An almost functioning weapon and genuine reliability from Hypershock
- THAT opening hit
- Anticipating controversy
- Play-in matches
- The vert rumble
- Three deserving robots being whittled down to one
- ‘The green square’
- The non-death of WarStop
- Untethered minibots
- That other rumble
- Ryan refuses to write notes on his own rant. The rant cannot be condensed. The rant is perfect.
- s t r e n g t h o f s c h e d u l e
- Back-to-back Battlebots champions:
- Heavyweights: BioHazard
- Middleweights: Hazard
- Dubbing
- Final 16 seedings
- Simply MASSIVE spoilers /s
- WHOOOOOGE
- Looking back on the Fight Night format
- Aftershow: SpaceX’s first confirmed customer
- Yusaka Maezawa
- Sam is aware that he was wrong about who would be going with Yusaku, and would like to point out that the technology being created is far more interesting to him than the people going.
1 hr 26 min - 38: Mumblephobia
- Followup
- Fights for newcomers
- Criteria
- Modern era
- Spinner involvement/weapon variety
- Visual mode of operation
- Damage
- Evenly matched?
- No spoilers!
- Fights
- Carbide vs Eruption (S10 Grand Final)
- Carbide vs Gabriel vs Big Nipper
- Yeti vs LockJaw
- Bronco vs Blacksmith
- Tombstone vs DUCK!
- Complete Control vs Bombshell
- Tombstone vs Bronco
- Titanium sparks and jumping
- Or, ya know, Carbide vs RAPID - a fight which is essentially identical apart from the bits where its better
- Complete Control vs Warhead)
- Front matter
- Sam’s Apple repair woes
- Severely damaged iPad
- Samtweight update
- Sam refuses to allow me to put a picture of his finger here.
- Bugglebots
- Filming was, by all accounts, a great success!
- Due to launch in December
- Episode 15 (starting at: 00:30:50)
- Manufacturing more controversy?
- Blacksmith vs Warhead
- Out to put on a show
- Judges’ decision
- Internal vs visual damage
- Captain Shredderator vs Vanquish
- No active weapon on Vanquish
- Body removed from wheels
- Kraken vs Red Devil
- Kraken - a crazy idea which worked
- Hypershock vs Reality
- Hypershock: uncompromisingly compromised
- Reality: deceptively hardy
- Sawblaze vs EndGame
- Ryan was wrong about EndGame’s chances
- Sam is consistent
- EndGame’s strong start somehow going to waste
- A close JD?
- Episode 16
- We heard you like verts…
- Whiplash ws Warhead
- Jaws mean no self righting
- Although sheer size makes them ahrd to flip
- Whiplash’s regrettable late(ish) hit
- Has Warhead had a chance to impress enough?
- Mohawk vs Reality
- The unusual armour priorities of Mohawk
- Blanked out clocks?
- WarHawk vs Free Shipping
- Free Shipping is a silly robot with no tangible charm or merit
- Free Shipping will NEVER die
- Witch Doctor vs Overhaul
- Meh…
- Recalibrating mobility
- Minotaur vs SubZero
- Irrisitible vs largely immovable object
- The final 16
- All robots by record (correct at end of E16)
- This was a great segment when we were expecting to release it before episode 17 aired. But hey, we were fairly right!
1 hr 35 min - 37: Ctrl+Shift+N
- Follow up & front matter
- Sam knows how cars work
- What creates more pollution: walking or electric skateboarding?
- SAM WAS WRONG a bit
- Valkyrie’s bar failure, via Max Owers on twitter and the team on facebook
- King of Bots International Featherweight Championships
- Playlist of all fights [Warning: LOUD]
- The sordid tale of Orpheus
- Probably the best event report video ever
- Episode 13: Spinner, Spinner, Chicken Dinner
- Valkyrie vs Red Devil
- Foreshadowing
- Dragon King: Red Devil’s Chinese Cousin
- Binding multiple recievers
- Brutus vs Gigabyte
- The Ultimate Wedge
- Bold strategy, Cotton
- Biteforce vs Bombshell
- Anybody’s fight - everybody saw this one going the full 3 minutes.
- SoW vs End Game
- Blacksmith vs Minotaur
- High quality graphics
- Fights to show a new fan
- Blacksmith’s forks
- Screwball Scramble
- Episode 14
- Duck! vs Tombstone
- Tombstone snapping the plow like its nothing
- Isosceles trapezoid
- Mystrsyko expertly demonstrates precisely how the edit misrepresented Tombstone’s immobility
- Petunia vs Yeti
- Sub-par driving?
- Monsoon vs Axe Backwards
- A terrible, terrible matchup for Axe Backwards
- How small can an active weapon be?
- Weapon rules
- Warhead vs Warrior Dragon
- Argy Bargy
- Warrior Dragon’s hilarious unreliability
- Split decision
- Broken record in 3…2…1…
- Bronco vs Sawblaze
- Has modular armour gone too far?
- Arena damage
- Early damage to Sawblaze destroying self-righting capability
- Unstick?
1 hr 17 min - 36: A Spherical Podcast in a Vacuum
- Episode 11: The Desperado Tournament
- How it all worked
- Lucky vs Gemini
- Lucky is unluckly lol
- Gemini’s lack of teamwork
- Friendly fire
- LockJaw vs Krakken
- Theme over function?
- Innovative crusher mechanism
- Slow spinup for LockJaw?
- Cut fights:
- Double Dutch vs Gigabyte
- Novel spinner concept vs old school spinner concept
- Not a particularly close fight
- Hypothermia vs Valkyrie
- Hypothermia showing the strength of the wedge
- LockJaw vs Valkyrie
- Valkyrie’s weapon failure
- Lucky vs Gigabyte
- The Good Wedge
- The Bad Mast
- LockJaw vs Lucky
- Problematic wedge choice?
- Sam’s theoretical wegde design corner
- LockJaw’s asymetrical spinner
- Translational movement…
- Episode 12: The episode after the Desperado Tournament
- Sam sees things, he sees them with his eyes
- RotatoR vs Skorpios
- RotatoR works now
- !wall
- Ultimo Destructo vs Witch Doctor
- PULVERISE
- Overhaul vs WarHawk
- Those pesky mobility rules
- Chomp vs WarHead
- Non-spinner fights FTW
- Dino head for WarHead, lower pressure for Chomp
- Tombstone vs Whiplash
- Another genuine challenge for Tombstone
- Exceptional driving on both sides
1 hr 28 min - 35: Forky Spork
- Followup
- Ryan is stupid
- Sam is young
- Both are getting fit
- The knife of robots
- Spork 1: the forky spork
- Spork 2: the spoony spork
- Spork 3: prime spork
- Front matter
- ‘Bounty matches’
- Tombstone? Last Rites? Whoc ares about saying the right one at the right time?
- Battlebots Episode 9 (00:10:45)
- Chomp vs HUGE
- Crippling Depression vs HUGE
- HUGE is wonky
- Chomp is practically indestructable
- WARhawk vs Brutus
- WARhawk is awesome
- Gyroing for mobility
- Captain Shredderator vs Petunia
- Petunia’s wedge-fac
- Hammer-and-nail bot?
- Yeti vs Bombshell
- Two machines not quite at their best so far
- Positives and negatives for both sides
- More overanalysis of a judges’ decision
- ICEwave vs Skorpios
- Skorpios wins in basically every sense of the word
- Skorpios may be unable to score aggression points for most of the fight, but ICEwave totally fails to score them at all
- Battlebots Episode 10: The Driving Masterclass
- Hypershock vs Free Shipping
- Powered weapon?
- Twitch test?
- What is a flamethrower?
- Can the flame ‘disconnect’ from the nozzle?
- Wedges
- Whoops! vs Last Rites
- Red Devil vs SubZero
- How many flips does SubZero have in it?
- Droooooooones
- Sam is never fully satisfied
- Sharkoprion vs Warhead
- Jaws vs jaws
- ????????????????????????? YAAAAAY!
- The best recycled robot to date?
- Monsoon vs SOW
- RIP
- Unprecedented damage to Monsoon
- Bronco vs Duck!
- Ryan, an intellectual…
- Pure driving genius
- How did Duck! plan to win?
- Sam fails to count to three
- #SackAlisonHaislip2K18
1 hr 11 min - 34: Tacit Approval
- Followup
- The Great Wedge Debate 2K18
- Dantomkia
- Multiple wedges
- Forks
- Front Matter
- Buttonless phones
- HTC U12+
- Sam regrets starting this conversation at 4m 45s
- P R E M I U M
- Ryan’s ideal phone
- Asimo is ‘retiring’
- The cutting edge of early 21st century technology
- Battlebots episode 7 (starts at 00:15:49)
- Lucky vs SOW
- Terrorhurtz vs Fluffy ft. John’s keepaway stick
- The pure, unadulterated power of SOW causes glitches in the Matrix
- Better slow-mo?
- Gratuitous slow mo destruction from last Rites
- The Slow-Mo Guys
- SawBlaze vs Mohawk
- Entanglement?
- Exceptionally fair driving
- Chomp vs Overhaul
- Hooray for juges’ decisions!
- CHoMp HaS a HIgH cENtRe oF GRaViTY
- Re-boot the hard drive
- Unaired fights
- Predator has…struggled…
- All robot’s records have been updated on the Battlebots website
- Biteforce vs End Game
- The main event curse
- Battlebots episode 9
- BOT 56 REVEALED!!!!!
- Swampfish? Jellything?
- Warrior Dragon vs RotatoR
- To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Warrior Dragon. The flipper mechanism is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of torque conversion most of the attacks will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Clint’s lawn chair, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from RioBots literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these machines, to realise that they’re not just violent- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Warrior Dragon truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Faruq’s existential catchphrase “It’s Robot Fightin’ Time,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Mark Beiro’s Battlebots Las Vegas 1999 announcements. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Greg Munson’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. And yes, by the way, i DO have a Will Bales tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid
- Drone death!
- Rotator’s setup - bars > discs and direction of rotation
- Duck! vs Reality
- W E D G E
- Fork?
- PanicAttack.HEIF
- Weapon comparisons
- Hypershock vs BRWC
- MEME BATTLE!!!!
- Witch Doctor vs Blacksmith
- Blacksmith running with the forks and winning the ground clearance battle
- Reversing the screws
- Lockjaw vs Bronco
- Another fight which will go down in history as having taken place.
- Radio issues or mechanical issues?
- Talking about aviation themed robots and not mentioning Hellachopper
- Spitfire
- What kind of wedge is it?
1 hr 19 min - 33: Bushy Nashua
- Followup
- Wedgegate: the Definening
- Visual guide
- The wedgiest wedge
- Dominator 2
- NitriDe…
- The hot new wedge in town
- Front matter
- Tesla fire
- This is Fighting Robots
- Sam continues to not watch TiFR
- Xiake is the real MVP
- Battles only edits on dailymotion
- Ryan has now won a game of Fortnite. He didn’t deserve it.
- Battlebots Episode 6
- Reality vs SawBlaze
- Reality’s ground clearance makes this a reasonably easy fight for SawBlaze
- Reality’s motor housed inside the weapon - what are the benefits?
- SawBlaze’ wheelying issue is the only thing between them and a flawless fight
- Monsoon vs Petunia
- Monsoon bending their weapon axle
- Chris and Kenny’s reference-o-rama
- Petunia with chances to get a crush in
- Robots getting stuck
- SubZero vs Captain Shredderator
- Whyohwhyohwhy
- Big rebuilds for both machines
- Captain Shredderator AMA
- Chomp v Warrior Dragon
- SPLIT DECISION WATCH: Part dowehaveto?
- Is bias unavoidable?
- Where do you give the damage points? Did WD damage Chomp at all?
- Chomp’s hit on WD
- Team Whyachi describe the weapon as a ‘kinetic energy flipper’, as opposed to all those flippers with no kinetic energy
- Chomp coming in with even more automation
- Bronco vs Bombshell
- Bronco’s anti-vert armour setup
- Bombshell’s inability to self right boding very well for this fight
1 hr 40 min - 32: Yesterday's News, Today
- Battlebots Episode 4
- Classic Battlebots footage in the intro
- Red Devil vs Monsoon
- Is Monsoon among the most energetic spinners?
- Nightmare vs Slamjob
- Split decision watch: Part 1
- Final 16 selection ‘process’
- Judge’s scores seem to be 1/40 of the full picture.
- Lucky vs Skorpips
- The efficacy of saws
- The rarity of flippers
- Weird wedglets?
- What is a wedge?
- What killed Lucky?
- KO?
- Battle Royale With Cheese vs Tantrum
- Schedule shuffling and re-shooting fights
- Lockjaw vs End Game
- Did End Game hold back?
- Flipper/Grabber option
- Tombstone vs Gigabyte
- Could have gone either way. Could have.
- Anticklockwise spinner vs clockwise spinner
- RDC explain the issue which caused the shell to detatch
- Sportsmanship
- Battlebots Episode 5
- HUGE intro there!
- Free Shipping vs huge
- Free Shipping with the modified forks
- HUGE immediately wecking those forks
- HUGE team explain why they don’t add rubber to the wheels
- A small lick of fire turning UHMWPE wheels into jelly /s
- Split decision watch: Part 2
- The worst one yet?
- Damage, Agression, Control, & Strategy defined
- Kenny’s interviews
- Minotaur vs Hypothermia
- Extra wheels vs heavier wedge
- Split decision watch: denied
- Blacksmith vs The X Horsemen
- Multibot knockout rules
- The role of armour against hammers
- Son of Wyachi vs Brutus
- Uneventful?
- Has SOW become an easy target?
- ICEwave vs Yeti
- Yeti in defence mode
- ICEwave tip speed
- The late hit
- Sam finds a new button to press
- Yeti team explain/demonstrate the reciever failure
1 hr 27 min
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Spinnerproof is a podcast about combat robotics