Robot Wars returning to BBC2!

EVH said:
I actually hope Thor ISN'T given the wildcard, again. Mainly because he had it last year and he's suffered the same fate with reliability.

Ultimately, he had a chance to compete and was knocked out. They shouldn't keep giving him a chance to win it with the wildcard or what they're basically saying is Thor gets 2 lives, everyone else gets 1. That's not fair. He has a fantastic robot but he needs to improve the weapon system which he won't properly do if they keep giving he second chances.

I'd fully support Apollo getting the wildcard as the credible winner of last season, who only went out due to the crap 2hr time limit.
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How long a time limit would you suggest? 2 days, 2 weeks? Apollo's chassis was bent and who knows what other internal damage was caused during its battle with Carbide. It's highly likely that the robot would need a complete rebuild from the chassis up.

Shamikebab said:
Wonder what happened to Razor? Did they just give up completely? I personally hope Eruption win, awesome robot and probably the best driver on the series imo. It's not a boring spinner and actually has to be able to drive around and do stuff.
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Eruption is a boring flipper instead :D. Razor would need a complete update. The increased weight limit along with vast improvements in battery and motor technology would allow a very different robot to be designed.
 
Alibaba99 said:
How long a time limit would you suggest? 2 days, 2 weeks? Apollo's chassis was bent and who knows what other internal damage was caused during its battle with Carbide. It's highly likely that the robot would need a complete rebuild from the chassis up.


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a couple of weeks, if it was straight knockout one fight per robot, then most robots would only have one fight. Then you can film semi finals and then finals a few weeks apart. Or at the very minimum over several days. But also as only winning bots go through they should also have less damage.
 
MikeTheNative said:
The old series was only shot over a week and they had a lot more robots. I doubt it could be done over a longer time than that.
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even over a week would be fine, knock out style. So only winning bots go through, which means they should be less damaged, and you would still have overnight to fix them.
 
I'd like them to go back to the old format and add in the side tournaments for the assault course style thing and other things like that. Would make it a bit more interesting and fit in with their whole 'robotics can be used for many thing' vibe they have with the education segments.
 
Carbide vs Thor when both fully functional, that's what I want to see :D

Would be great to see Mr Speed Squared, that looked lethal if a little uncontrollable.
 
Can't not see carbide winning it.
Last night was amazing. Carbide is an absolutely beautiful, reliable and powerful machine.
To get such a powerful weapon and be so reliable is pretty impressive. All the other spinners of that damage capability destroy themselves.

It's especially evident that single point mounted spinners are particularly susceptible. Which makes sense.

Carbide is a monster

Only bad bit of this series is the predictability of the results. I'd say there's only been a few you can't predict. Such is the void between the best and worst

Thor needs a new weapon. Hammers are cack.

I think those really low robots could have beaten carbide with one immobilising it and the other being active. If that's in the rules, they did have that on Sunday
 
413x said:
Thor needs a new weapon. Hammers are cack
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Yeah seems that to get anything even remotely close to powerful enough against today's armour requires significant engineering, beyond anything really feasible, to handle the power and produce something reliable.

Not a great fan of "cluster" bots in the way of that episode - if more than one bot is used they should be limited to a lot smaller than the main one and immobility, etc. should count against the main one.
 
The only real way to reliably beat a spinner is to basically build a robot that is just armor and a powerful drive train. Basic tactics are to push the spinner around and let the spinner destroy itself on your armor.

Super boring mind.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
The only real way to reliably beat a spinner is to basically build a robot that is just armor and a powerful drive train. Basic tactics are to push the spinner around and let the spinner destroy itself on your armor.

Super boring mind.
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Wonder what would happen if you had something to snag in the spinner - some of them have almost literally torn themselves apart when chains, etc. have got into the spinner.
 
Rroff said:
Wonder what would happen if you had something to snag in the spinner - some of them have almost literally torn themselves apart when chains, etc. have got into the spinner.
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I did wonder about ablative armour. I guess it'd be hard to make and harder to test.
 
Any level of Kevlar thread would entangle a spinner in no time. Might end up looking like Rasta bot though :D
 
trouble is you aren't allowed nets, wonder if you could get away with laminate armour, where you have massive threads snadwhiched between an outside weak amour and an internal strong amour.

manoeuvrable and well driven flippers do well against spinners, spinners when launched tend to destroy themselfs. But flippers are generally designed to steep. these days need to be deisgned lower and shallower, you give up mechanical leverage but gain protection.
 
Would be interesting to see Warhead in this though they would have to ditch its flame emitters. Is it not a bit too heavy though? I thought it was over the weight limit for the uk show.
 
EVH said:
Any level of Kevlar thread would entangle a spinner in no time. Might end up looking like Rasta bot though :D
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I've wondered how well a Kevlar dilatant hybrid would work but I don't think the stuff I'm thinking off exists outside of a lab.
 
I've always wondered if you could build a really flat robot. That is effectively a wedge.
Get the other robot beached on it and just Jack up a platform . It would eliminate a lot of robots. But may not be allowed
 
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