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Originally Posted by Loose Screw
After watching episode 2, I can tell most of the controversy was manufactured, just to build up "drama". A veteran would know better to do a blatant late hit. A grey area in the rules about entanglement? That all seems like stuff the producers shoehorned in to build up hype.
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I'm surprised you can tell all of that was manufactured, because it was in fact real.
I guarantee the producers and audience and event staff didn't know what was in the box because it would have messed up that team's strategy to reveal it to everyone. Furthermore, when you have a borderline legal devise, an "ask for forgiveness" situation will almost always help you. If you ask ahead, it will usually be looked at more closely and a gap in the rules closed.
The late hit stuff just isn't a big deal (when you're not a spinning weapon robot). Some people are just more sensitive and their are emotions involved. Both teams are good guys, I've known them both for forever, but they both get very sucked up into the competition.
The sort of hokey or "fake" looks stuff is still the builders being people. It's just a show.
Battlebots has a neat goal, to make robot builders be famous and look like rock stars. So kids look up to them like Michael Jordan or Britney Spears. My idols when I grew up? Battlebot builders. Isn't that strangely similar to another one of my passions?
/sarcasm Also, yes please come up with wacky designs to stop spinning weapons, especially if I am fighting you with a spinning blade! Please use anything besides angled hard steel plates. /sarcasm As a spinner builder, I would love to hit absolutely anything over just angled steel plates
