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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on Apr 10, 2018 10:57:00 GMT -5
Airing on Discovery Channel (repeats on Science Channel) this May and they're taping right now! battlebots.com/CONFIRMED RETURNS(via Twitter): DEBUTS (via Twitter):
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 10, 2018 11:22:41 GMT -5
Hopefully Beta will return, their fight with Tombstone was one of the best of the revival seasons.
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on Apr 10, 2018 11:29:20 GMT -5
Hopefully Beta will return, their fight with Tombstone was one of the best of the revival seasons. Couldn't find anything there, sorry. But it sounds like, judging from the various found Tweets that a lot of the lineup will be returning bots so there's always a chance.
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Post by karl100589 on Apr 10, 2018 11:39:28 GMT -5
My reaction if Minotaur isn't back:
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on Apr 10, 2018 13:28:36 GMT -5
My reaction if Minotaur isn't back: Dead serious, that was my pick to win it all. I wonder how it would have fared had it faced Tombstone.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 10, 2018 13:52:28 GMT -5
I didn't care for Tombstone, but I would have cheered the hell out of them shredding Minotaur the obnoxious lawnmower.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Apr 10, 2018 14:01:41 GMT -5
Hopefully Beta will return, their fight with Tombstone was one of the best of the revival seasons. Unfortunately beta will not be back this year because its builder, John Reid, already committed to competing in the King of Bot TV series in China during the long lull between announcements for the new season, and both shows were taping at the same time. The sad thing is the same thing happened with Jim Smentowski, which means for the first time in Battlebots history, Nightmare will also not be competing.
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Post by Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h on Apr 10, 2018 22:15:03 GMT -5
I f***ing love battle bots!
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on Apr 13, 2018 18:15:36 GMT -5
Derek Young (of Complete Control fame) and Lisa Winter (Tentomushi/Mega Tento) are judges this season according to the BattleBots Twitter.
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Post by Gopher Mod on Apr 13, 2018 21:07:15 GMT -5
Hopefully Beta will return, their fight with Tombstone was one of the best of the revival seasons. Unfortunately beta will not be back this year because its builder, John Reid, already committed to competing in the King of Bot TV series in China during the long lull between announcements for the new season, and both shows were taping at the same time. The sad thing is the same thing happened with Jim Smentowski, which means for the first time in Battlebots history, Nightmare will also not be competing. Correct. John Reid went back to China with Gabriel Stroud (creator of Robot Wars competitor Sabretooth) with Tanshe, their pneumatic flipper that got bullied by Great White (Deathroll in ABC BB Season 2) in King of Bots 1.0. As for Jim Smentowski, he went to China apparently with a re-made Breaker Box (not completely sure about this; however, the first episode of King of Bots 1.5 aka This is Fighting Bots just came online late last night so that info should be coming), so for the first time since BattleBots started will he not be on either. For the rest mentioned here: Minotaur is there. There's also a TON of newcomers, some old favorites, and one or two completely off the wall designs. Here's a full(-ish) list of all competitors going into the Box this season: YAR! HERE BE SPOILERS!
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on Apr 13, 2018 22:02:11 GMT -5
Unfortunately beta will not be back this year because its builder, John Reid, already committed to competing in the King of Bot TV series in China during the long lull between announcements for the new season, and both shows were taping at the same time. The sad thing is the same thing happened with Jim Smentowski, which means for the first time in Battlebots history, Nightmare will also not be competing. Correct. John Reid went back to China with Gabriel Stroud (creator of Robot Wars competitor Sabretooth) with Tanshe, their pneumatic flipper that got bullied by Great White (Deathroll in ABC BB Season 2) in King of Bots 1.0. As for Jim Smentowski, he went to China apparently with a re-made Breaker Box (not completely sure about this; however, the first episode of King of Bots 1.5 aka This is Fighting Bots just came online late last night so that info should be coming), so for the first time since BattleBots started will he not be on either. For the rest mentioned here: Minotaur is there. There's also a TON of newcomers, some old favorites, and one or two completely off the wall designs. Here's a full(-ish) list of all competitors going into the Box this season: YAR! HERE BE SPOILERS!Not gonna lie, while I'm excited about a lot of the ones coming back/debuting, there's a few that are easy to pick out as doomed.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Apr 14, 2018 7:05:02 GMT -5
maybe now Robot Wars is officially canned we can get some official crossovers. Storm2 Version 3 is just sitting there waiting to kill something, and I doubt the teams for Pulsar or Carbide are done smashing stuff.
Also, please fix your arena so we can see Hellachopper maybe?
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Post by Gopher Mod on Apr 14, 2018 15:43:37 GMT -5
maybe now Robot Wars is officially canned we can get some official crossovers. Storm2 Version 3 is just sitting there waiting to kill something, and I doubt the teams for Pulsar or Carbide are done smashing stuff. Also, please fix your arena so we can see Hellachopper maybe? Storm 2 is still on the live circuit, but no live events. As for the teams behind Pulsar and Carbide, both are also in China for King of Bots 1.5 with their machines Sandstorm and Tungsten.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Apr 14, 2018 15:56:51 GMT -5
maybe now Robot Wars is officially canned we can get some official crossovers. Storm2 Version 3 is just sitting there waiting to kill something, and I doubt the teams for Pulsar or Carbide are done smashing stuff. Also, please fix your arena so we can see Hellachopper maybe? Storm 2 is still on the live circuit, but no live events. As for the teams behind Pulsar and Carbide, both are also in China for King of Bots 1.5 with their machines Sandstorm and Tungsten. We are at least getting a few Robot Wars competitors at least. For example the team behind Concussion is the team behind Monsoon, one of the newcomers with a gnarly looking vertical bar spinner.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Apr 14, 2018 18:01:17 GMT -5
maybe now Robot Wars is officially canned we can get some official crossovers. Storm2 Version 3 is just sitting there waiting to kill something, and I doubt the teams for Pulsar or Carbide are done smashing stuff. Also, please fix your arena so we can see Hellachopper maybe? Storm 2 is still on the live circuit, but no live events. As for the teams behind Pulsar and Carbide, both are also in China for King of Bots 1.5 with their machines Sandstorm and Tungsten. Is it the slow Storm2 with gearbox issues from Season 8, or the one they were putting up a build log of but didn't put in Season 9 or 10 due to scheduling issues?
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Post by Gopher Mod on Apr 14, 2018 21:31:39 GMT -5
Storm 2 is still on the live circuit, but no live events. As for the teams behind Pulsar and Carbide, both are also in China for King of Bots 1.5 with their machines Sandstorm and Tungsten. We are at least getting a few Robot Wars competitors at least. For example the team behind Concussion is the team behind Monsoon, one of the newcomers with a gnarly looking vertical bar spinner. It's essentially Tauron (who's the other builder for Monsoon) from Robot Wars with a bar that's about twice as fast. Hopefully, they'll let Concussion's driver be the guy behind the controls.
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Post by Gopher Mod on Apr 16, 2018 23:37:03 GMT -5
Ladies and gentlemen, we have our first commercial for the new season: www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hxu9vThe box is locked, the lights are on, and on May 11th @ 8 pm Eastern, it's ROBOT FIGHTING TIME!
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Apr 16, 2018 23:40:53 GMT -5
There is a very brief but oh so very exciting first look teaser trailer for the show out in the wild(I found it here via r/Battlebots). The trailer is packed with quick shots of several fights, in total the fights included in the trailer are(and these are indeed spoilers if you didn’t want to know who fights who, so don’t click this tag otherwise): {Spoiler} Duck vs Free Shipping vs Mecha-Rampage Huge vs SubZero Skorpios vs Lucky Blacksmith vs Bite Force Red Devil vs Monsoon Icewave vs Vanquish Tombstone vs Gigabyte
And....the main event we were denied last season.....
TOMBSTONE VS MINOTAUR!!!!!!
Now keep in mind that due to the new format of the show(all 50+ robots will fight up to 4 preliminary fights(these can be 1 v 1 or triple threat rumbles(and presumably some robots will be too damanged to complete all 4)), with then 16 being selected for a single elimination tournament), these don’t necessarily tell us how far certain robots get yet, just that these matches will happen for certain.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Apr 16, 2018 23:45:23 GMT -5
Ladies and gentlemen, we have our first commercial for the new season: www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hxu9vThe box is locked, the lights are on, and on May 11th @ 8 pm Eastern, it's ROBOT FIGHTING TIME! Damn you robot ninja you!!!
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on May 8, 2018 20:38:40 GMT -5
Apparently the first episode’s line up of matches has been revealed thanks to the Battlebots mailing list. Episode 1 will have: {Spoiler}Bite Force vs Blacksmith Mecha Rampage vs DUCK! vs Free Shipping SubZero vs HUGE Bombshell vs LockJaw Tombstone vs Minotaur
Science Channel gets a bonus match:
Kraken vs Sharkopion vs Deviled Egg
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