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Split decision? Chomp was awful in that fight. I left the room when it ended and never heard the decision. I assumed it was obvious. The ability to auto-right itself is cool, but it is was too slow. Everybody saw the strategy template to beat Chomp in this match. Going to be a rough road ahead for Chomp. You can win a piece of Chomp here.
I hope the show doesn't go too off the rails with marketing like this. The three main elements are the Robots, Faroq,
Three male judges this week. She gave a split decision to Chomp-that could have
No idea, I don't think they were on the same frequency, they just weren't getting a good connection.
The control systems used take advantage of Digital Spread Spectrum technology (DSS) which is pretty much immune to interference. Essentially, the power is distributed across a range of frequencies. Control systems rapidly, and randomly, change frequencies, basically similar to the technology used in military communication systems. Even if someone was trying to intentionally jam the signal, they would have a difficult time doing so. The signal would change faster than they could possibly zero in on. The critical piece to make these systems work is for the transmitter and receiver to be in sync for effective communication.
Deep six? Looks awesome but I can see it being a giant fail...is it going to just fall over with some side impact?
I saw that one on the website, not on TV. Yeah, it looks questionable, but hard to understand how it maneuvers from the picture. https://battlebots.com/robot/mammoth-2019/
Has there been a robot yet that has used fire as an effective weapon? Just wasted weight on the bot that could have been used elsewhere better IMO.Why would they put fire on the end of the spinning thingy? If you plan to use fire, wouldn't you want that fairly stationary so you could roast a single location for a significant amount of time to do damage? Also, the spinner does not look massive enough to deliver much damage on its own.
The "bad boy of battle bots" judge did this a few years ago. He put a gift wraped box at the front of his bot, when the spinner hit it there was a net inside. They stopped the fight, untangled the spinner and re started it. At the time they said any tangling devices were against the rules.
1. Minotaur: had an unlucky break against Tombstone last year. Not a big fan, but it is straight up mean.
1- agree if they can undo the modification that they seemingly made this year that makes them less awesome.
I took the field in the bet.
I watched the last episode "on demand". It was awesome. Fast forward until I see Faruq then hit play.Not a fan of all of the puff pieces this season. One fight. Then three commercial breaks in between the next fight filled with backstory on how the robots were made. No one cares. We came here to see robots fight. Not people talk.
My OCD won't let me fast forward through the fluff. I feel like I'm going to miss something important.
3 of your first 4 lost on Friday and didn’t look good at all. Mammoth in particular looked awful to a brand new robot. The 4th was Witch Doctor who I’m not a fan of as they promote them as way better than they are. They break down all the time.
I think that was Deep Six. I looked it up because I remember that snippet and we haven’t seen it yet.
I wonder if we are going to get a "new bot" episode soon...or some kind of online thing to view the fights that aren't being featured on TV. There's a bunch of bots who haven't been on yet, and many of in their first or second year:
I wonder if they just suck. I think they have bypassed a lot of useless battles in the past of bots that just fail or battles that are uneventful at best to keep things entertaining.
Gotta take the field. Bots I like:
