• Follow up
  • Battlebots 2019 coverage:
    • We won’t be talking about every single fight
      • We feel our strength is talking about robots, not talking about fights
      • We would rather focus only on the best fights than talk unenthusiastically about the less interesting ones
      • We will make sure we talk about every robot over the course of the season - most of them multiple times.
• Front matter
  • Captain Shrederator vs Cobalt
    • Telling people to chill ~2 weeks after everyone stopped being angry
    • There’s usually a reasonable background to this kind of story
    • Fight Night isn’t purely a Legitimate Sporting Competition
      • It’s about maximising entertainment while maintaining a valid competitive format
    • How do teams use social media effectively?
      • Is there a ‘right’ way to talk about this kind of behind the scenes info?
    • Bad situation - great memes
• ~~Battlebots Season 4, Episode 2~~
• Battlebots 2019, Episode 2
  • SOW vs HUGE
    • Wheels
      • How much difference did they make?
        • +Defence, -Speed
      • Tyres - helpful?
      • Pretending we know precisely how the wheels failed
        • SOW’s hammers vs an ‘ordinary’ bar
    • Reversing the weapon
      • Fairly serious damage to SOW
      • How efficiently can HUGE’s bar usually hit?
        • SCARY PHYSICS - ABORT! ABORT!
  • Texas Twister vs Black Dragon
    • Nobody was robbed
      • It’s not as simple as ‘who do you think won’ - there are points being given out.
        • If you don’t like the result, your issue is with the rules and not the judges.
        • Does the show make this clear enough?
    • Sam and Ryan roleplay as judges for 18 minutes
      • The full judging criteria
      • Since recording, it’s been confirmed in multiple places that points can be split in all categories
      • Damage:
        • Sam: TT 2-1 BD
        • Ryan: TT 2-1 BD
      • Aggression
        • Attacks not using a weapon are still worth something, its just less than attacks with a weapon. How much less? Good question
          • Sam: TT 1-1 BD
          • Ryan: TT 2-0 BD - but 1-1 feels very valid
      • Control
        • Sam: TT 1-1 BD
        • Ryan: TT 0-2 BD - but 1-1 feels very valid
  • Witch Doctor vs Shatter!
    • Shatter!‘s weapon issues
    • Good driving all round
    • Trying to work out how good Witch Doctor is: episode N
      • Going into the fight, Witch Doctor had 5 wins and 7 losses
        • This win and the 2 Vegas wins bring them to 8-7
      • Their wins (pre-Vegas) were largely unimpressive, but their losses were all really tough fights
      • Season 1: Witch Doctor vs Tombstone
    • The magic of TV
    • Shatter!‘s crazy levels of armour
  • Axe Backwards vs Mammoth
    • Mammoth works
      • Sam didn’t think it would
    • Tweel
• Battlebots 2019, Episode 3
  • Bloodsport vs Lucky
    • TL:DL - we are visionaries, and any team who wants to avoid this kind of issue should invite us to join them next season
    • We really made this bit confusing: During the build of Hello There! we tried to test the robot with a drive setup very similar to what Lucky used for this fight. It was horrible. Don’t do it.
      • Here’s a video
  • Free Shipping vs Hydra
    • Making assumptions about how Hydra’s weapon works
      • Since recording, the team have clarified how Hydra works
      • Rollercoaster launches (Hydraulic @2:25)
      • Bad washing machine science
      • The potential pros and cons of Hydraulics
  • Unexpected format chat
    • Length and pacing
      • Do the gaps between fights create more backlash when a fight isn’t good?
    • Sound effects
  • Breaker Box vs Falcon
    • Trying to explain Falcon’s relationship with gyroscopic effect
    • Trying to explain why 2WD turns faster than 4WD
    • How effective is Breaker Box’s lifter?
    • RoboGames 2012
      • RoboGames 2011
  • Biteforce vs Yeti
    • A genuinely decent main event
    • Unsticks Confirmed by Paul
    • Forks vs wedgelets
      • The universe won’t allow anything to go under Biteforce