This episode was recorded on November 28th, 2020
The cards can be seen in all their graphic glory here
- The teams:
- Mike - Mystrsyko
- Sam - Robocast
- Sam & Ryan - Spinnerproof
- Charlie - Good Robottal
- Ned - Spoiler Alert & ESC
- Oliver - ESC and No More Spinnahhs
- David - David of Smeg
- Jevan - World of Woodrow & No More Spinnahhs
- The cards:
- Mike
- Puff the Magic Dragon
- The Atomic Bomb
- Atom#94 catches fire
- Lotsa smoke or visible flames
- The 2020 Dumpster Fire
- A returning competitor flops HARD
- EG Bombshell in 2018, Bronco in 2019, or any robot designed to win fights which fails to
- Let it Rip!
- Captain Shredderator vs Gigabyte (1v1)
- Improvise, Adapt, Overcome
- Swiss-army bot makes the top 32
- Swiss-army bot = multiple weapon types
- Jumping in the Grave
- A robot is dubbed ‘the new Bite Force’
- Does not include the new champ once they are champ
- A Surprise, to be Sure
- Half of the top 8 are ‘new’
- New = no team members have reached the top 16 before
- What Would You Like on Your Tombstone?
- Tombstone loses its first 2 fights
- Mr Flibble’s Very Cross
- A team quantining on entry to the USA is mentioned
- Thank God for the Arena
- A robot is flung into the Lexan
- Ice Ice Baby
- ICEWave tears another robot in half
- Close Quarters
- A fight is restarted due to an unstick
- Might not be shown in the edit
- They’re Good Dogs, Bronco
- The dog from the Pain Train team photo is acknowledged on the show
- Shocker!
- A rookie makes the top 16
- Rookie = new robot with a new team, even if some members have competed with other teams
- Crowd Favourite
- Chomp scores a OHKO
- ‘OHKO’ = first hit from the weapon
- Clusterfunk
- Gemini fails to get a win
- Sam
- For Grant
- Grant Imahara mentioned directly
- Rocky Balboa
- Tantrum works
- Working = weapon spins, hits as well as other similar weapons, and the punching mechanism is clearly helpful
- Just Like The Simulations
- An AGWWAPTBABF fantasy matchup happens, and the result is the same
- David Attenborough
- Two or more animal themed robots fight (each other)
- Animal themes must be part of the bot’s aesthetic
- Absent Audience
- Attention repeatedly drawn to the lack of audience
- Repeatedly = at least 10 mentions
- Lithium Polymer Armament
- Old Farm Derby
- Bale Spear vs Black Widow (1v1)
- Split Personalities
- The Steel Chair
- Hammer to Fall
- A Game of Two Halves
- Look at Me, Pa!
- Two robots with minibotds fight, with their minibots
- Pink is Sus
- A predominantly pink robot makes the knockout stages
- Axolotl, Sporkinok, and HiJinx are all predominantly pink
- Extinguisher by Name…
- Extinguisher puts out a fire
- That’s Not 30 Seconds!
- A team is reminded they can only hold for 30 seconds
- Oh Lawd She Comin!
- Chomp ends the season with a positive record
- Spinnerproof
- The Killshot
- An axe/hammer scores a KO
- Any big overhead hitty thing, but not a ‘hammer saw’ or similar, and not Rusty
- We Die Together
- Gemini only uses the multibot config
- A Noticeable Absence
- Bite Force not being present is mentioned
- Apologies to Craig Danby
- OOTA is OOTA
- ‘Proper’ OOTA from a non-spinner
- ‘Proper’ OOTA = not behind the screws or stuck elsewhere
- BLUE TEAM, READY?
- Button hit with something other than a finger/hand
- Non-starters
- A robot with a website profile doesn’t have a fight
- Out With Win and You’re In
- No places in the top 32 are decided by a play-in fight
- Stop the count
- A robot comes back to life during a countout
- My Leg!
- We Get it Already
- The cast avoids saying “Covid-19”, “Pandemic”, or “Coronavirus” for the entire season
- LiPo Fire 2
- Why Why Whyachi?
- 2+ Whyachi robots face each other in any kind of match
- Don’t Bring Wheels Into the Arena
- A horizontal spinner snipes a wheel
- ‘Snipes’ = a single hit disabling or removing the wheel
- Not in my Lexicon
- The term ‘forward thrust flipper’ is used to describe a front-hinge flipper
- The Bigger They Are…
- Chomp’s hammer causes significant damage
- Charlie
- Pulverizer Pete
- Multiple pulveriser hits to one robot in a single fight
- Be Trans, Throw Hands
- Sporkinok receives needless online hate
- We’ll know it when we see it
- Slammow Fails to Work
- …as intended, through the entire season
- The Saviour is Here!
- Rusty takes a fight to the judges
- Wee Woo (No, Not That One)
- Extinguisher puts out a fire
- The One True Hammer
- Shatter! outperforms all the other ‘pure’ hammerbots
- ‘Pure’ hammerbots = Beta, Chomp, maybe Rusty. ‘Outperforms’ = better record and/or lasting longest in the tournament (“down to the second”)
- Free Parking
- Non-Bite Force champion
- Can only be ticked after the grand final
- The Future is Now
- No robots from the 2019 top 8 make the 2020 top 8
- Tears in the Gears
- A competitor cries on camera
- Sorry About Your Bike
- Jenny Taft segment involves smashing up a household object
- Double Kill
- Hide and Syk 2
- Despite the lack of live studio audience, world-renowned youtuber MystrSyko is somehow still spotted
- The Bot Whisperer
- Footage of pre-reboot BB used in reference to Peter Abrahamson
- Not Even the Younglings Survived
- Perfect Phoenix doesn’t win a fight
- Pobodies Nerfect
- The champ will have lost a fight along the way
- Lights, Camera, Smash!
- One of the lights gets broken
- Ned
- Everything is Fine
- An entire episode doesn’t mention the pandemic
- Spiderman Pointing Meme
- Sawblaze vs Skorpios (1v1)
- Hammer Time
- Two hammers fight each other (1v1)
- Chomp, Shatter!, and BETA are hammers. Mad Catter & Extinguisher count if they use their hammer setup in the fight. Rusty may or may not be a hammer.
- Tropical Storm BETA
- BETA KOs a vertical spinner
- Hammer saws don’t count. Mammoth doesn’t count
- Careful, Icarus
- A previously successful robot crashes HARD
- Previously top 16/play in, failing to make the top 32
- VERTS REEEEEEEEE
- 4WD verts make up at least half of the top 8
- If the website photo is a vert, its a vert. Mad Catter counts if they use the vert more than the hammer
- Now There Are Two of Them!
- RotatoR uses the dual disc setup
- In the Blue Hex
- A HexBug toy appears in the box for a robot’s introduction
- Third Time Lucky
- Whiplash fights and beats Tombstone
- This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
- Someone is seen wearing a mask incorrectly
- Nose not covered, hanging off one ear, constantly readjusting, etc
- Screwed
- A robot is KO’d due to being stuck in/on the screws
- Up and Away
- A whole robot hits the ceiling
- Flawed Floor
- The new floor still takes fight-influencing damage
- Proof in the Pudding
- A new build has teething trouble
- THAT’S A HUGE HIT
- Kenny or Chris say ‘HUGE HIT’
- Noob Force
- A new robot takes the Giant Nut
- Oliver
- An Open Field
- A BB rookie makes the top 8
- Rookie = new machine, even if the team have experience as a team or individuals
- The Same, But Different
- A 4WD vert wins the season
- Bot 56
- A previously confirmed entry doesn’t make TV
- Confirmed = publicly by the team, by Battlebots (eg. via the website), or by associated media. SUpporter content doesn’t count.
- Dun Dun Da Da Daaa Daaa
- Flight of the Valkyries is sung
-
GetHype
- Hypershock makes the top 4
- Spider Chomp, Spider Chomp
- Footage of a classic Battlebots walker is used
- Always on the Scene
- Extinguisher puts out a fire
- Ghost of Toad
- A Team Toad sticker appears
- The Future is Now, Old Man
- Donald Hutson is reminded of how long he has been competing
- Directly to him, eg in an interview
- Home Field Advantage
- No non-US teams make the top 16
- Thank You, Johnathan, Very Cool
- Presenters say something blatantly wrong, or something in a graphic is clearly incorrect
- You Only Got One Shot
- A fight is ended in a single exchange
- Salt of the Fans
- A JD causes online backlash
- Maxwell Edison
- The Pulverisers score a KO
- Grabbing Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
- A robot which is clearly winning dies for any reason
- Wait For It!
- John Reid says ‘good hit’
- David
- Mortal Coil
- Ghost Raptor gets split in 2
- Large and in Charge
- All 3 ‘oversized’ robots (HUGE, SMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, and Mammoth) finish with a combined win rate of at least 2:3 (0r 66.6…%)
- The British are Coming
- BETA makes the top 16
- We somehow missed reading this one out…
- Unprecedented
- The word ‘unprecedented’ is used to describe the pandemic
- Armchair Engineer
- Fan makes comments about how a robot sucks and they could do it better
- FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
- Two robots with flamethrowers fight (1v1)
- Not in my Lexicon 2
- The term ‘drum’ is used to describe something which is clearly a drisc
- See ‘the diagram’, courtesy of Jevan
- It Is Wednesday My Dudes
- Ribbot makes the knockout stages
- Stay Froggy
- Ribbot’s vacuum-formed top survives a fight
- Rusty in Pieces
- Spin Dammit!
- Axe Backwards wins a fight
- The King is Dead
- Tombstone fails to make the bracket
- Derby Match
- Slammow vs Big Dill (1v1)
- Ow, My Head!
- Chomp’s hammer snipes a robot
- ‘Snipes’ = accurately hitting a critical part which immobilises the opponent
- Knife Roomba
- A Mowbot autonomous lawnmower appears on screen
- Not just in the background, intentionally featured
- What if its an ad segment?
- What Other Weapon?
- A robot with interchangeable weapons doesn’t change weapons
- Jevan
- Frenemies
- …The Harder They Fall
- Chomp’s legs take significant spinner damage
- Legs are removed or their function is impaired
- I Don’t Think So, Chief
- A team refuses a fight
- EG. Shredderator vs Cobalt
- The Eyes Have It
- Should’a Stayed Electric
- BETA runs out of gas
- Weapon stops or can’t self right due to lack of gas
- Sorry About Your Ceiling
- An entire robots hits the ceiling/lighting rig
- Weeeeeeeeeeedge
- SMEEEEEEEEEEE wins a fight
- Can be an exhibition/other non-tournament fight provided it is aired on Discovery
- I’m A Fire Starter
- 20+ fires across the season
- Large amounts of smoke or visible flames
- No More Apologies
- Slammow makes the bracket
- Game of Clones
- A robot is likened to another in looks alone
- Beat the Clock
- A robot comes back to life during a countout
- David vs Goliath
- Mammoth fights a robot with a minibot
- Tis Just A Flesh Wound
- A badly damaged robot makes it to the judges
- Stop, Stop, He’s Already Dead!
- A clearly dead robot keeps getting hit
- Yeeted-er
- Age of Rust
- Rusty goes undefeated during Fight Night