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by **Ameriganastan** » Fri Jul 19, 2019 6:00 pm

I don't know about that one. I had DUCK! winning that.

by **Ameriganastan** » Fri Jul 19, 2019 6:56 pm

Motherfucking Rotator...

by **Ozzy** » Fri Jul 19, 2019 6:59 pm

Ameriganastan wrote:Motherfucking Rotator...

What? Did he seriously fucking win? By knockout?

I'm afraid to watch it now

by **The Democratic Nation of Unovia** » Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:01 pm

Ameriganastan wrote:Motherfucking Rotator...

Ozzy wrote:
Ameriganastan wrote:Motherfucking Rotator...

What? Did he seriously fucking win? By knockout?

I'm afraid to watch it now

I am so mad Rotator won. I don't like Ray Billings, but I really like Tombstone.

by **Rakdai** » Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:03 pm

Rotator earned that win, but Tombstone showed it's durability. Driving that long while on fire is like Xiake levels of crazy.

by **Kohr** » Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:10 pm

Oh wow, some close decisions tonight. Once I saw that Sawblaze’s wedge was having trouble staying on the ground, I got myself excited for a Blacksmith win, but it was not to be...

by **Ameriganastan** » Fri Jul 19, 2019 9:15 pm

Rakdai wrote:Rotator earned that win, but Tombstone showed it's durability. Driving that long while on fire is like Xiake levels of crazy.

He didn't earn shit. He got bailed out with literally 2 seconds to spare.

by **The Hoenn Region** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 1:24 am

The operator of duck's lifter must've been the same guy controlling lucky's flipper. Great performances from Blacksmith and Duck but as long as 3/7 points are for damage which they seem pretty much unable to get points for it's unlikely they'll get the judges decision.

by **Pencil Sharpeners 2** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 4:41 am

I don't understand why people are getting angry abut RotatoR winning. Tombstone was on fire and dead at the end, looks like a perfectly legitimate win to me. If you don't like the idea of a well-armoured robot beating a powerful weapon, you must not like almost half the fights in Battlebots. How is this any different from Duck vs Cobalt, Lockjaw vs SOW, or Wan Hoo vs Shrederator?

On another note, I feel like Blacksmith beat Sawblaze. Sawblaze's weapon was disabled for the last minute, whereas Blacksmith only suffered superficial damage to its armour.

by **The Hoenn Region** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 5:06 am

Pencil Sharpeners 2 wrote:On another note, I feel like Blacksmith beat Sawblaze. Sawblaze's weapon was disabled for the last minute, whereas Blacksmith only suffered superficial damage to its armour.

Agreed, battlebots rules makes self inflicted damage not count though.

by **Washington Resistance Army** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 5:47 am

I'm glad others agree that Blacksmith won that. Tbh I think Duck also won his fight and the call was wrong.

by **Kohr** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 5:48 am

The Hoenn Region wrote:
Pencil Sharpeners 2 wrote:On another note, I feel like Blacksmith beat Sawblaze. Sawblaze's weapon was disabled for the last minute, whereas Blacksmith only suffered superficial damage to its armour.

Agreed, battlebots rules makes self inflicted damage not count though.

I feel like self-inflicted damage should count in the control category.

by **Rakdai** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 6:22 am

Ameriganastan wrote:
Rakdai wrote:Rotator earned that win, but Tombstone showed it's durability. Driving that long while on fire is like Xiake levels of crazy.

He didn't earn shit. He got bailed out with literally 2 seconds to spare.

Ah yes, because Tombstone would have won that decision after being on fire for literally half the match.

by **The Hoenn Region** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 7:11 am

Kohr wrote:I feel like self-inflicted damage should count in the control category.

So counting against a robot's control if it damages itself?

by **Kohr** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 1:21 pm

The Hoenn Region wrote:
Kohr wrote:I feel like self-inflicted damage should count in the control category.

So counting against a robot's control if it damages itself?

Yeah. I feel like that’s better than just ignoring the damage.

by **The Hoenn Region** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 12:16 pm

Kohr wrote:
The Hoenn Region wrote:So counting against a robot's control if it damages itself?

Yeah. I feel like that’s better than just ignoring the damage.

Sounds good. Battlebots sort of pushes reliability with aggression not being scored without an active weapon but they could push it a bit more.

Anyone been watching king of bots?

by **Kohr** » Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:17 pm

The Hoenn Region wrote:
Kohr wrote:Yeah. I feel like that’s better than just ignoring the damage.

Sounds good. Battlebots sort of pushes reliability with aggression not being scored without an active weapon but they could push it a bit more.

Anyone been watching king of bots?

I've been watching just the fights, as I don't speak Chinese. Looking forward to seeing the team from Ghana next episode.

by **Kohr** » Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:44 am

Hoping that someone steps up and prevents the desperado from becoming a vertical spinner slugfest.

Minotaur over Lucky
Gruff over End Game (this pick may just be me hoping)
Black Dragon over Captain
War Hawk over Ragnarok

Minotaur over Gruff
War Hawk over Black Dragon

Minotaur over War Hawk (I know they've been bad this year, but I have a hard time believing they'll let it stay that way.)

Extinguisher over Four Horsemen

Season Record: 41-14

by **The Hoenn Region** » Thu Jul 25, 2019 11:29 am

Kohr wrote:I've been watching just the fights, as I don't speak Chinese. Looking forward to seeing the team from Ghana next episode.

Same, didn't know there was a ghanaian team. Wonder if their combat robotics safety is on par with india.

by **The Hoenn Region** » Thu Jul 25, 2019 11:47 am

Minotaur appear to have sorted the drum out (https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots/comments/chpz6i/picture_from_lucky_vs_minotaur/) so I'm very much looking forward to this one.
Minotaur over lucky
End game over Gruff
Black Dragon over Shrederator
War hawk over Ragnarok

Minotaur over End game
Black dragon over War hawk

Final looks really close, I would go Black Dragon just because Minotaur's been so unreliable.

by **Kohr** » Thu Jul 25, 2019 1:03 pm

The Hoenn Region wrote:Minotaur appear to have sorted the drum out (https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots/comments/chpz6i/picture_from_lucky_vs_minotaur/) so I'm very much looking forward to this one.
Minotaur over lucky
End game over Gruff
Black Dragon over Shrederator
War hawk over Ragnarok

Minotaur over End game
Black dragon over War hawk

Final looks really close, I would go Black Dragon just because Minotaur's been so unreliable.

It would be kind of cool to have an all-Brazilian final.

by **Ameriganastan** » Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:11 pm

There's the Minotaur I've been waiting for!

by **Ameriganastan** » Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:25 pm

Captain Shrederator, you are so consistently disappointing.

by **Kohr** » Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:42 pm

That was so frustrating! Gruff deserves better...

by **Ameriganastan** » Fri Jul 26, 2019 6:01 pm

Ragnarok continues to be an utter bust of a robot.

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