Your favourite Battlebots

[Guest]

Id be interested to know what all of yours are. This thread is here so you can create a list of your US faves, it can include any of your chioce from any weight calss and the list can be any length long.

Heres my top 10:

1. Toro (SHW) - weapon: flipper
2. The Judge (SHW) - weapon: hammer
3. Biohazard (HW) - weapon: lifter
4. Bad Attitude (MW) - weapon: brute force
5. Huggy Bear (MW) - weapon: clamp
6. Hazard (MW) - weapon: spinning tool bar
7. No Apologies (SHW) - weapon: spike/axe
8. Diesector (SHW) - weapon: clamping/lifting/ramming jaws, spiked tail, axes
9. MechaVore (HW) - weapon: flywheel
10. Codebreaker: (SHW) - weapon: spinning drum

[babeth]

Your favourite Battlebots

Living in Belgium I have never seen a Batttlebots fight, except once when spending a night at the family Watts home and I was rather ill then so I dont really remember much. I heard its rather boring to watch, arena hazards doing most of the damage and such, so I am curious: is it really boring ? Or are there fierce battles worth seeing ?

[leorcc]

Your favourite Battlebots

Ive seen several very good matches, specially in the lightweight and middeweight division. The heavyweight fights are about the same as ours, and the superheavyweights to me are boring.

My RC versions of Minion and Diesector have seen better fights then the real ones.

[anukhet]

Your favourite Battlebots

IMHO Battlebots is tedious and the arena hazards (kill-saws especially) do the damage. The robots just dance around each other for a while, on the first coming together someones weapon breaks - lots of whoopin and a hollerin when the pulverizer comes into play but that gag is as subtle as it looks. 2 minutes 30 seconds worth of yawning later and we see Carmen Electra in another new outfit (a different one every link) then 2 guys behind a desk giving ever-so witty repartee (more yawns) then lo and behold its finished.
Be even more thankful if youve never watched Robotica............

[anukhet]

Your favourite Battlebots

Still its the only place Ive seen Warhead in action - its a lovely robot but it seems to think its a helecopter

[leorcc]

Your favourite Battlebots

Ive seen robotica, and that is much worse.

Whats even worse is that discovery channel aired a couple of shows of Robotica.

What i hated the most is the fact that robots were activated on the floor while everyone was standing around them, less than 4 feet away. No barriers, no bullpens, no arena, nothing to protect you.

And im not even talking about the presentation.

[leorcc]

Your favourite Battlebots

but back on topic:

1: Biohazard
2: License To Kill
3: Warhead
4: Mauler
5: Mechavore
6: Vlad the Impaler
7: Diablo
8: Greenspan
9: Atomic Wedgie
10: Nightmare

[leorcc]

Your favourite Battlebots

honerable mentioning though not in my top 10:

Mecha Tentoumushi

[storm]

Your favourite Battlebots

Karoline, the reason why you find Battlebots tedious and theres lots of dancing around isnt because the fights are boring, but because there isnt someone in the cutting room dropping all the dull bits on the floor.

If you think its only the killsaws that do the damage then I think youve missed the point somewhere.

Battlebots is far more a pure sport than Robot Wars is, and when people are trying to move Robot Wars to a more pure sport, its a shame that people think watching a full fight (rather than the edited version) is tedious :sad:

Oh well

Ed
http://www.stormrobot.comhttp://www.stormrobot.com

[jamesb]

Your favourite Battlebots

quote Still its the only place Ive seen Warhead in action - its a lovely robot but it seems to think its a helecopter

best description of warhead I ever heard....
love it1

[anukhet]

Your favourite Battlebots

Hi Ed,
having only seen the aired version of the show rather than actually sitting in the audience I do get rather a distorted view. I understand that theres a lot more than meets the eye but the sport of the thing is left well behind in editing, post production etc - its the same with RW. Perhaps its just my mind switching off after hearing the first WOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
from the commentary booth.

Im with you all the way on emphasising the sport instead of the artificial spectacle presented by TV. No one can really feel Storm II slam a robot into the side wall unless theyre actually there - thats what makes live events so much better IMHO.

As for Warhead - Apart from its desire to take off from time to time, Ive never seen a robot do a full pirouhette on tippy-toes after gouging the side out of its opponent - lovely

[anukhet]

Your favourite Battlebots

PS Ive now persuaded a colleague to take her son to the Brighton event - hopefully another convert to the sport

[fwsorg]

Your favourite Battlebots

Agree with Karoline, once the WWF stop donating all their old commentators to Battlebots, the whole thing should become much more watchable.

[storm]

Your favourite Battlebots

Karoline youve missed my point.

Battlebots ISNT edited, what you see is exactly what happenned, as it happenned without any editing of fights - hence I suspect you feel its tedious at times.

Robot Wars IS edited to ensure that you get as much action and excitement built into the fights as possible.

Thats my point - Battlebots ISNT artificial - Robot Wars is. Sadly youve proved a point which is that the average fan finds an edited together fight far more exciting than a pure sport :sad:

Ed
http://www.stormrobot.comhttp://www.stormrobot.com

[jamesb]

Your favourite Battlebots

Um...
just had it pointed out to me by my partner in crime, battlebots IS edited....

they dub the sound on to make it sound better, thats why every hit has that metal twang, even when hitting polycarb.

the visuals are real though, when they show them, I had to laugh when they just gave the results of the semi finals as they were so dull they didnt show them, they were the SEMI-FINALS!!! you must show them...

ah well, guess they thought the fans would appreciate the viewing more than the sport.... oops