Followup
The Heat E line-up
Whiteboard matches
On-board footage from Behemoth
Re-re-opening the engineering wound
'Dave Lowry'
Ryan's tries to clarify his position for the [n]^th time
Battlebots
WTF is Battlebots?
The key differences with Robot Wars
2015 Highlight reel
How 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 bracket
Group 1
HERE BE SPOILERS!
Tombstone:
Shock mounted drive
Last Rites
vs 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 Tombstone
Escape Velocity:
Aluminium honeycomb
SpaceX's previous foray into combat robots
Fights: vs Overdrive, vs Tombstone
Overdrive:
Sam needs to start rhyming
2015 Overdrive
Ryan is bothered by a lack of gyro-dancing
Fights: vs Escape Velocity
Group 2
Brutus
2015 Witch Doctor vs 2016 Brutus
Ryan doesn't like gimmicks
Asymetric/single tooth disc design
Fights: Vs Moebius, vs Lockjaw, vs Tombstone
Moebius
'Standard full body spinner' designs
Direct Metal Laser Sintering, Super-Draco engines, harder than diamond
Fights: vs Brutus
Ray Billings vs Peirce Hawthorne - because apparently somebody else also though this
Yeti
What Ryan thinks Alaska is like
Sam considers quitting the podcast
Fights: vs Lockjaw, vs Lucky, vs Tombstone
Lockjaw
Spring powered flipper
What came first, the flipper or the clamp?
Lockjaw's lineage and previous performances
Fights: vs Yeti, vs Brutus
Deconstructing the show
Sports broadcasting
Presenters
Samantha Ponder
Kenny Florian & Chris Rose
Faruq Tauheed
The pit reporters
The arena-side reporter
The tale of the tape: Less informative than a Bill Nye Netflix series
Online info
Competitor profiles
Competition stats (aka 'sports information')
Robot Wars wiki vs Battlebots wiki
Converting from lbs to more civilised units
Robot sponsorships
Group 3
ICEwave
Full body spinner?
Stalling petrol engines
Sneaky paintwork
Fights: vs Sub Zero, vs Nightmare
Sub-Zero
Sam continues to be annoyed by ugly welding
Struggling to remember the weight limit
Fights: vs ICEwave
Stinger
Stinger: the Killer Bee
Gratuitous flames
Modular weaponry
Effective spinner-killing
Wyrm
Fights: vs Nightmare, vs Mega Tento (US only)
Nightmare
Estimating the height
Ryan is sure he rememberes the fight with Beta and is almost entirely wrong
'Self righting' system
Old disc vs new disc
Fights: vs Stinger TKB, vs ICEwave, vs Beta
Group 4
Beta
Two grown men fall in love with a furious limpet for approximately 5 minutes
Design details: Hammer head, crooked arm, armour hinges, weapon motor and mechanism, Beta website
Breaking the floor
Fights: vs Lucky, vs Overhaul (US only), vs Nightmare (US only), vs Tombstone
Lucky
Wedge weirdness
Fights: vs Beta, vs Yeti
Cobalt
Comparisons with Carbide
Bombshell won or Cobalt lost?
Fights: vs Overhaul, Vs Bombshell :(
Overhaul
Becoming Biteforce: a winning paintjob?
Fights: vs Cobalt, vs Beta (US only)
The judges
The judging criteria: defining aggression
Beta vs Tombstone
Celebrity/guest judges
Armchair Engineering: Flipper mechanisms
Gassing about gasses: a plea for more information
Mechanisms
The classic 'BritWedge' flipper
The Bronco/SubZero 'launcher'
The Escape Velocity...thing...
Lucky's 4-bar lifter/flipper
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