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Drone was so bad it was awesome. I loved the announcers, they had some funny comments like the drone just took itself out. Too funny, also that one bot that mutilated the other one and sent shrapnel right at them. They showed the gouge in the plexi-glass right in front of them.
Like Greg said, total weight of your bots has to be under 250lb. To win you have to incapacitate half of the other teams weight. Most of the little bots or drones are just there to try and get in the way but most just get demolished (or they are driven by a kid to be there for fun). The best are a spinner against a team of little crappy annoyance bots to see how far they can go. In the preseason episode there was a team that had two bots of equal weight so you had to take out both to win. Bronco launching the hammer head to the roof of the arena was cool.
Was he actually shooting anything?
Yeah, I don't think it was....there's no way they'd let that happen right? They didn't let a bot deploy a net last year...can't imagine they'd let shooting bullets go.
I have a couple rounds of golf riding on this. I hope you're right. It didn't seem like a tough decision to pick Minotaur at all....no brainer. The driver is
Yep, that driver is so intense. He looks like Gabriel Gonzaga.I have a couple rounds of golf riding on this. I hope you're right. It didn't seem like a tough decision to pick Minotaur at all....no brainer. The driver is
My boys (9, 6, 4) all do the same thing. It's amazing how creative they get with their bots.
I thought they were winning this thing for sure. The best driver in the competition by far....not even close.
Looks like it's the producers that decide them. They produce rankings after each round of fights and then from them the producers come up with next set of match ups. Though so far it's just been one-on-one fights, it looks like they can use other formats as well (royal rumble, etc).
He seems to delight in that, especially in the fight moment. When he asks if they want more after he has beaten their bot senseless, that absolutely plays right into what they are portraying him as the villain.
Cutting through plate takes time. Now if he had gotten into a joint or other weak point...
Yeah, Four Horseman lost power in two bots 4-5 seconds before the other bot with about 15-20 seconds left in the match.
They started the battle royal by informing us that if 60% of the bots were disabled, then the multibot team would be DQ'd. Guess they were saved by the bell somehow?
It could be that the wedge bot is heavier than the other two. Didn't look it but who knows.
Just poor design all around, IMO. That projectile isn't going to do anything to the armor on most of the bots and it is one shot and done.
It's a gimmick, and I don't think they really intend to win with it...but it could lead to future innovations in long range attacks that could be interesting.
On the replay they showed the projectile ricocheting right back as soon as it hit the front of the other bot. It was worthless.
I would have preferred that they hit one of the minibots with it instead and scored a destructive blast on them. They went after the big strong one with it and as you say, was quite useless with it.
