Follow upFront matter- RTNCTI
- A reminder of the rules
- Ryan made a lot of notes, and is confident that none of said work will go to waste
- This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
- Witch Doctor vs Lucky vs Shockwave
- Vanquish vs Black Ice vs Basilisk
- Tombstone vs Crackers ‘N’ Smash vs Warhead
- Creepy Crawlies vs Magnetar vs Double Dutch
- !!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
- Witch Doctor vs Lucky vs Shockwave
- Witch Doctor
- Pre-2019 Witch Doctor has a rocky record
- Ryan’s extremely thorough notes completely ignored the fact that Witch Doctor took part in the 2015 season
- If they had, the 2015/16 version would have had a record of 2-5 (or 2-3 if excluding exhibitions) for a total of 5-7 or 5-5 before 2019
- Lucky
- A disappointing record?
- More configurations than we (or they) know what to do with
- More suited to horizontals than verticals?
- Shockwave
- A very Robot Wars machine
- More suited to horizontals than verticals?
- Remembering the power of ganging up
- Witch Doctor
- Vanquish vs Black Ice vs Basilisk
- Vanquish
- Do we allow the lifter to work?
- Ryan has reviewed the fight footage and now lifter movement is visible
- Do we allow the lifter to work?
- Black Ice
- That win
- Weird weapons, gaping ground clearance, not invertible
- Basilisk
- Not your typical flipper
- Slowly removing their wins
- Using cameras for an autonomous system
- re: Vanquish vs Shrederator - its worth noting that the team were ill for a while between fights, limiting their repair time and contributing to their coming into that fight weapon-less
- Vanquish
- Tombstone vs Crackers ‘N’ Smash vs Warhead
- Tombstone
- Crackers ‘N’ Smash
- Some have previously called them cowards. We do not condone this behaviour
- Series 9 version with the front-hinge lifter
- Warhead
- Grabber or spinner?
- Canonical setups and reasons for choosing either
- Very few heavyweights with exposed wheels have actually won stuff…
- Creepy Crawlies vs Magnetar vs Double Dutch
- Creepy Crawlies
- Sacrificed to the robot Gods
- Magnetar
- Pulsar, but it worked
- With the exception of self-righting, which we can forgive
- Could it have been invertible?
- With the exception of self-righting, which we can forgive
- A E S T H E T I C
- Pulsar, but it worked
- Double Dutch
- Wonky wheeling
- Decisions which make your robot work vs decisions which get you onto Battlebots
- That advert
- The actual fight
- Creepy Crawlies
- Witch Doctor vs Lucky vs Shockwave
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