BattleBots Return - And They're Powered by VEXpro!

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by Billfred

The first surge never abated.

Ok, I'll give you that...but there should have been a generation gap dang it!

[dodar]

I'll give the first episode a solid A-.

[dlavery]

To slightly rephrase a relevant quote : "There are those that understand BattleBots. And there are those that don't matter."


-dave




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[CalTran]

Team Aptyx for the win. It was mentioned earlier in the thread, but I am curious; how much scouting and robot modification actually goes on for Battle Bot competitions? The show kinda alluded to it when they were talking about Project X and her multitude of weapons, but it was never clear.

[Lij2015]

Didn't even know about the 254 mentors before I deemed Bite Force as my favorite battlebot! Still don't know why circle swerve ramp bot isn't here yet though...

[Ryan Dognaux]

So question to the people helping teams competing in this - how did you get selected to be on the show? I bet there are a few others that will want to compete next season (hopefully there is a next season.)

Awesome episode but a few of those robots would have benefited from the KOP chassis. Some pretty weird drive choices with a high center of gravity.

Bite Force is going to go far. The magnetic tank treads seemed to do the trick, it didn't even budge when hit.

[Tom Line]

Some very questionable design choices........ The commentary leaves a lot to be desired. In a car race they have a lot of commentary about the car technology. This was dumbed way down.

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by Hallry

What an incredible match by Bite Force. Amazing job, Team Aptyx!

With no lack of style in the bot design. Looks slick out there!

[Lil' Lavery]

I think some of the people are viewing this from a too FRC-specific mindset. A large part of Battlebots, and especially televised Battlebots, is the "cool factor." Some of the design choices may not be ideal, but they set the robot apart and made them a noteworthy machine that plays well on TV. Otherwise we'd just see a bunch of sturdy wedges and defensive spinners.

[sanddrag]

It took a decade of it not beong televised to get people to not associate FIRST robots with BattleBots. Looks like the association will be back on the upswing.

Nonetheless, it's pretty entertaining and it was fun to see Cory and Travis on there.

[Torrance]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

So question to the people helping teams competing in this - how did you get selected to be on the show? I bet there are a few others that will want to compete next season (hopefully there is a next season.)

Paul told me that ABC contacted well known builders and asked them to either build a brand new bot or upgrade an old one. They didn't make it an open competition because they only started contacting people back in December 2014 and wanted to make sure that they would have tried-and-true builders who could manage to make epic robots in that time frame that would work and look cool on TV.

[xman206]

I'm rooting for BiteForce and Plan X. Also what did you all think of the commentators, I personally thought they were very scripted...

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Team Aptyx for the win. It was mentioned earlier in the thread, but I am curious; how much scouting and robot modification actually goes on for Battle Bot competitions? The show kinda alluded to it when they were talking about Project X and her multitude of weapons, but it was never clear.

Quite a bit. It is a lot like FRC...plus the weight limit is enforced only for your current configuration, so you can mix and match modular systems without any real penalty (whereas in FRC, all components must be weighed together).

[Munchskull]

Bit Force for the win. I just love the fact that FIRST mentors just pwned a "legend". Also some one should start a March Madness style lineup for the top 16 robots once they have the top 16.

[Caleb McCune]

After yesterday's episode I am super hyped for next Sunday. I also can't wait to see Whysachi's minibots get destroyed again.