BattleBots! (US Robot Wars)

Surprisingly great.

Compared to the tinfoil-covered badly painted robots from the UK Robot Wars, this is light years ahead. Some serious engineering has gone into these bots and the battles are excellent.

you can just watch the fights without the boring bits

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=battlebots+just+the+fights

Yeah even given wildcards to get them back in after they lost, a bit pathetic alright.

If you're building a robot for this its clear you need some kind of heavy spinner weapon if you want to go far, its the only way to get enough kinetic energy on a little robot to actually fcuk an opponent up not just butt them around, Tombstone is probably going to win it if I had to put money down for this reason. Hypnodisk on the old Robot Wars used to destroy everything he went up against aswell. There used to be a Robot Wars champion called Chaos II aswell with a vicious flipper weapon that used to send opponents into the air but I haven't seen anything like that on Battle Bots, all these flipper builds are more like toy forklifts from Smyths...

Im confused about the people building crappy little wedge bots and also multibot builds with weak little flamethrowers, do they actually think they're going to win anything with these? Has a flame weapon ever done any damage ever? The arena needs a bit of a redesign aswell, the screws and the tinfoil hammers around the edges are all a bit lame, remember the House Robots on Robot Wars, you used to have to stay out of the corners or they would actually damage you.

Hopefully now a lot of the dross is gone and it will be all proper fights, been a few too many boring little wedge bots pushin each other around until one stalls or the timer ends in the last couple of eps...

There was a Season 2 special last night, in which the last few spots were filled for this year's tournament, and those spots were decided on the battlefield.

Season 2 doesn't officially start until June 23, so this special may have flown past people's radars, but check it out for some robot fighting... Oh and Clark Gregg was one of the judges last night, so even more of a reason worth catching up on it.

Jesus there were some proper stinkers of builds in that episode, basically anything that took a hard hit lost communication with the pilot, what was that drone supposed to be doing? I thought it was going to have some kind of attack but it died trying to ram another competitor, just bizarre.

Zero interesting weaponry made it through to the new series, the last winner was just a metal box on wheels, nothing else to it. That giant spinning green thing could have been interesting but the pilot had zero control over it and its gone now.

I know that, I meant zero interesting weaponry made it through from that episode, well son of Whyachi was okay, spinners are always entertaining. The rest are just cannon fodder. Still dont get what that drone was supposed to achieve though. Also all the swarm bots were useless aswell.

Back tomorrow night, looking forward to this as much as Game of Thrones

Good start to the competition - should be an interesting season overall.