Robot Wars returning to BBC2!
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I thought the rule is if 50% of your robots are immobilised you are out.
55% (by weight I believe), which is a crucial difference.
EDIT: Crackers and Smash explained at the beginning that one bot was 54% of the weight and the other 46%, so both would have be be immobilised.
Carbide is a really impressive bot. It's ability to keep on running is stellar, not many spinners can take the force of landing on their own weapon.
I was pretty disappointed this week. Apollo+Carbide - two of the best bots of last season - should have made for a great episode but it didn't really click. The opposition was weak and Apollo struggled to recover from the first fight, climaxing in the failure of the flipper in the final which should have been a great match. Shame.
The cluster bots were solidly built but just failed to ever use their weapons, and I haven't seen a crusher bot since Razer that actually works.
I was pretty disappointed this week. Apollo+Carbide - two of the best bots of last season - should have made for a great episode but it didn't really click. The opposition was weak and Apollo struggled to recover from the first fight, climaxing in the failure of the flipper in the final which should have been a great match. Shame.
The cluster bots were solidly built but just failed to ever use their weapons, and I haven't seen a crusher bot since Razer that actually works.
Couldn't have been much more accurate with this post....It basically sat there, flapped out its "petals" a bit then got sent flying and that was it. And 2 supposedly untested robots in the first fight...
Gemini was a seriously cool robot, everything since has been naff.
Cluster bots shouldn't be allowed. They're just evasive and boring.
Carbide looking seriously impressive. Looks like Thor is invited back for the final too
Clusterbots just seem to be to give other people on the team something else to do, they always have these big ideas of what they'll do but more often than not they just run around or get destroyed fast. That cheese wedge only lasted a few seconds before it was disabled.
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Carbide is looking phenomenal. Lethal and reliable, which is a rarity.
Personally I enjoyed watching the Apollo guys. Yes, they were arrogant, but it was just gamesmanship and they had personality and were different, just like last series; they're fun, and that's what this is all about first and foremost.
Personally I enjoyed watching the Apollo guys. Yes, they were arrogant, but it was just gamesmanship and they had personality and were different, just like last series; they're fun, and that's what this is all about first and foremost.
Might not have seen the last of them this series either, judging by the trailer for the final.
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The apollo guys were a bit of fun. I was seriously disappointed with crackers and smash though. Forfeiting when they were still running to save themselves damage but most of all going into the carbide fight with no weapons! How that was allowed, I have no idea as robots going into the competition had to have active weapons. I enjoyed the episode mostly because of carbide destroying everything in it's path but there were too many crap robots in the heats.
Can't decide how I feel about the crap robots, I get that they're trying to bring in some variety but when you've got proven robots like TR2 who don't get selected feels a bit cheap to have the filler (even if it would otherwise mean a lot of flippers I'm sure!)
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You need some cannon fodder and variety but what the **** was mrs nightshade? wyrm was crap but at least it could move. While TR2 is more of the same as the others at least it's competitive and will give you an entertaining fight.
Absolutely. They went 100% evasive, with two bots designed so both needed to be disabled and then deliberately removing all their weapons in an attempt to evade attack from Carbide. Rubbish like that isn't what the show's about and shouldn't be allowed.
I dunno it was interesting to see something different and I've got a feeling if they stick with it they can find something a bit unique that will work - while it was a bit rubbish in the arena some of the engineering involved wasn't easy to pull off at all.
like what it was just pointless, the petels are to weak to do anything.
multiple weapons just means they aren't powerful enough to do anything.