@dalekandjedi No one asked you for your opinion. I don't like football for instance, but I wouldn't be so audacious as to say it is inferior or is taken too seriously. Additionally, you cannot deny people are having fun at these events. The joy of robot combat is not about the few minutes of combat you will get, but the months of designing, planning, and building. Robots can be rebuilt, we don't have to be pansies. We have many more non-destructive robot events, this is just a small part.
@UndeadPizzaGuy still stupid that you have a massive blade and fight a robot which could be weak and don't think about being nice you just destroy it. As i am a robottear here we just have fun by pushing flipping also hitting with axes but we don't destroy them and its not really being a Pansie if you don;t destroy a robot.
@dalekandjedi to be fair the UK robot scene has just become a flip competition and while I don't mind flipping (Wheely Big Cheese and Gravity FTW) the variety went out of the scene years ago.
There's a whole "I'm not risking my robot now I'm not getting on TV" attitude.
At least the Americans carried on fighting in the spirit of proper robot combat, gloves off etc.
But thats prob cos BB was a competittion first, TV show second unlike Robot Wars which was the other way round.
@cdname47 Very true, im in the UK scene and we do have variety. Yes, we mainly have flippers but we still have axes, lifters, rammers etc
The USA Heavyweight scene is dominated by spinners, much in the same way the UK scene is flippers, just depends on the arenas and types of events available. the USA has very few flippers and loads of spinners, the UK has a lot of flippers, but very few spinners
@mattsdragons I guess what's needed is an international competition then! lol
There's no real point building a spinner in the UK, you're only gonna get one or two fights a year as opposed to about 20 if you build a flipper/pushbot. And that's if you just get to the first round of competitions!
That said both have their frustrating moments. Tired of seeing boring wedges and unimaginative sit-n-spin bots in the US and tired of seeing push-bots a la Tornado in the UK, don't like any of them
Would love to see Iron Awe or Terrorhurtz compete in this
InquisitorMedia 1 week ago
Why didn´t someone tell me there is an up-to-date robot-fighting show (awesome one its one) commented by Grand Imahara O_O ?!?
Too. Much. Like!
RodriTheMighty 2 weeks ago
Was this shown on TV over there?
cdname47 1 month ago
you Americans take the sport of robotic combat way to seriously here in the uk we have battles for fun and we dont destroy other robots to bits
dalekandjedi 4 months ago
@dalekandjedi No one asked you for your opinion. I don't like football for instance, but I wouldn't be so audacious as to say it is inferior or is taken too seriously. Additionally, you cannot deny people are having fun at these events. The joy of robot combat is not about the few minutes of combat you will get, but the months of designing, planning, and building. Robots can be rebuilt, we don't have to be pansies. We have many more non-destructive robot events, this is just a small part.
UndeadPizzaGuy 3 months ago
@UndeadPizzaGuy still stupid that you have a massive blade and fight a robot which could be weak and don't think about being nice you just destroy it. As i am a robottear here we just have fun by pushing flipping also hitting with axes but we don't destroy them and its not really being a Pansie if you don;t destroy a robot.
dalekandjedi 3 months ago
@UndeadPizzaGuy indeed, if i want something killed, i want it killed dead!
TheHazzabigun 3 months ago
@dalekandjedi to be fair the UK robot scene has just become a flip competition and while I don't mind flipping (Wheely Big Cheese and Gravity FTW) the variety went out of the scene years ago.
There's a whole "I'm not risking my robot now I'm not getting on TV" attitude.
At least the Americans carried on fighting in the spirit of proper robot combat, gloves off etc.
But thats prob cos BB was a competittion first, TV show second unlike Robot Wars which was the other way round.
cdname47 1 month ago
@cdname47 Very true, im in the UK scene and we do have variety. Yes, we mainly have flippers but we still have axes, lifters, rammers etc
The USA Heavyweight scene is dominated by spinners, much in the same way the UK scene is flippers, just depends on the arenas and types of events available. the USA has very few flippers and loads of spinners, the UK has a lot of flippers, but very few spinners
mattsdragons 1 month ago
@mattsdragons I guess what's needed is an international competition then! lol
There's no real point building a spinner in the UK, you're only gonna get one or two fights a year as opposed to about 20 if you build a flipper/pushbot. And that's if you just get to the first round of competitions!
That said both have their frustrating moments. Tired of seeing boring wedges and unimaginative sit-n-spin bots in the US and tired of seeing push-bots a la Tornado in the UK, don't like any of them
cdname47 1 month ago
Modern Day Gladiators!
ttow1944 4 months ago
I wish it would get to the point more quickly.
Extermidalek 6 months ago
Congrats to my coworker Wendy Maxham - world combat robot champ! Who knew?
RadioAndMore 9 months ago
... I want to see grants robot kick some ass
DRAGONS423 9 months ago