NEW BattleBots on Discovery Channel Friday

[high plains drifter]

Holy Duck!!

[STANG KILLA SS]

finally got to watch the first DVRed episode today at lunch. pretty good.
never seen the floor destroyed like that in the final.

and i cant beleive that "Huge" bot with the giant white floopy wheels survived and won.
i guess absorbing blows vs armoring against them.

[high plains drifter]

The self-righting design of HUGE is too cool.

[DVS]

Robots for 2018 season. https://battlebots.com/2018-season-robots/

[STANG KILLA SS]

they mentioned this year there fighting at 250lbs i believe. any one know what that number was in the old seasons?

[DVS]

Originally Posted by STANG KILLA SS

they mentioned this year there fighting at 250lbs i believe. any one know what that number was in the old seasons?

Maximum weight allowed this year is 250lbs. There is no minimum weight. Flying bots are limited to a max of 10lbs. each.

[Mike Flea]

In the original series they had 4 categories, Lightweight (60 lbs), Middleweight (120 lbs), Heavyweights (220 lbs), & Super Heavyweights (340 lbs), seasons 1-5. In season 6 to the present (8, now), there are no longer different classes, only Heavyweight, and it was increased from 220, to 250 lbs.

Read it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleBots

[DVS]

Watching right now. If you missed last weeks episode, looks like they will show it before tonight's episode.

[high plains drifter]

10 minutes and counting... Bump!

[DVS]

Friday night Fight Night.

[high plains drifter]

The main event was pretty wicked tonight.

[Highmark]

Holy shit that was nuts! Gigabyte is a beast, I was very suprised.

[high plains drifter]

Even though Tombstone had an impressive record of wins going into that battle, I didn't expect such carnage lol. Yea that was nuts!

[DVS]

After Gigabyte got decapitated, Tombstone could have sent him to the junkyard. That was good sportsmen ship on Tombstone's part.

[high plains drifter]

... good dose of sportsmanship and a good deal of restraint lol!

I wonder if that first hit... the one that destroyed the small center piece, was what led to the vulnerability and eventual decapitation of the main spinning section.

[DVS]

Originally Posted by high plains drifter

... good dose of sportsmanship and a good deal of restraint lol!

True, I might have went for the kill. LOL

Originally Posted by high plains drifter

I wonder if that first hit... the one that destroyed the small center piece, was what led to the vulnerability and eventual decapitation of the main spinning section.

I think so..

[DVS]

Saw these in Hobby Lobby today, to bad they're not RC.
$40 for Minotaur and $50 for Tombstone.

[high plains drifter]

Ha! My local HL has 'em too. Fortunately they were nothing like the real things or I would have walked away $80 poorer lol!

I avoided opening this thread until now because I wasn't caught up until tonight... on demand. Some awesome fights this time and what a crazy short main event!

[DVS]

Originally Posted by high plains drifter

Ha! My local HL has 'em too. Fortunately they were nothing like the real things or I would have walked away $80 poorer lol!

I was looking at them and wondering how I could make them RC. LOL


Some great matches tonight. I thought for sure that Captain Shrederator, was going to win his.

[high plains drifter]

As usual, I was at work Friday night so caught up tonight. Yep... That had to have been a bitter loss for Team Shrederator. And poor Petunia... lol. That was ugly. After the main event I was wondering who might be able to take outlast Bronco. Sounds crazy but I'm thinking HUGE. At least I don't think that HUGE could get thrown 12 ft in the air and out of bounds lol.