It appears that The Twins are really strong against any conventional meta four wheel vert. So what current competitors could take them down?

First possibility: HUGE. The Twins can't hit anything but its wheels, and they can't really pull off the weapon-on-weapon hits that Minotaur did. They don't really have the durability to take too many hits from Huge's weapon either. Now it wouldn't surprise me to find that Aron Hill has some special anti-HUGE attachment, but we didn't see that this year, and I can only go off what we saw them run at this year's event.

Second possibility: Horizontal weapon bots like Gigabyte or maybe Bloodsport. These kind of designs don't have a vulnerable side, they can damage The Twins on contact no matter what direction they come from. This will come down to a test of speed, can the spinner bot get to a dangerous speed before The Twins can box rush them? If they can't keep their weapon spun up, The Twins will destroy them. And the existing bot design is not favorable to horizontal spinners.

Third possibility: Tough drum spinners like Minotaur, Manta, or possibly Copperhead. These kind of robots are hard to kill, and have a large weapon relative to their overall size, so even with better maneuverability it's hard for one of The Twins to hit them without being hit themselves. And Copperhead did actually beat The Twins, although I think that was a deeply questionable decision by the judges. I think Minotaur would stand a pretty good chance of beating them. Manta maybe not as much, it seems to be more fragile and more susceptible to getting flipped over and not being able to recover.

I think this is the most accurate depiction yet

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Multi bots

I love the twins. I think it introduced a new meta and was just fun to watch super fast bots zipping around and they've managed to make it work in a way that takes a lot of technical ability.

I've seen some hating and the YouTube comments about the twins and how it's unfair that they have to knock out both. But I think this is a shake-up that is needed and that will make for really interesting television moving forward.

That’s all, i just wanted to talk about Beta (who is the best Battlebot ever)

Someone entered a multi bot?

Aren Hill entered a multi bot?!

With Battlebots bringing forward 3rd place playoffs to the Pro leagues begs the question of how previous championships would've went including Golden Bolts

Ribbot Vs Copperhead can go either way but in favour of Copperhead given it's ability to face tank so much hits and break others weapons alongside the frog having lots of exposed areas to hit for the Drum to chew on

Tantrum Vs Jackpot - leaning towards Tantrum to wear down Jackpot and push around the box but the self righter of Tantrum had on and off problems that year

Tantrum Vs Hypershock - Can go either way but Tantrum again, I think it's speedy nature would eventually get Hypershock stuck in a gyro flip and some tyre chewing commencing plus chewing the forks

Sawblaze Vs Hydra - Seen this fight before and Id imagine moreso in Hydras favour this time due to Sawblaze coming off the beatdown from WD

Tantrum Vs Black Dragon - Tantrum again provides the weapon and self right motor works, BDs ground game was not at it's strongest here so I'd imagine it be a similar bout to Tantrum Vs Sawblaze

Deathroll Vs Tombstone - could go either way but voting Tombstone, I recall Deathroll was running short on spares by Witch Doctor and can see the recoil of Tombstone sending the Aussie bot for er a Deathroll

Lockjaw Vs Whiplash - locking in Whiplash due to Lock jaws weapon not hitting as hard as it's later versions here but can go either way

Spoilers for manta v minotuar

I'm the last minute manta basically held minotaur over a kill saw slot and nothing happened. Do the saws not work anymore? Are the slots just there to trap endgame so it can get hit by pizza? Is this a deeper conspiracy? (Ok probably not)

For me its Golden Fury sending one of the Twin to India (as Kenny Florian said)

Every year, bots are snatched away from their natural habitat to be put into the Battlebox to fight for their lives against their will, minibots were not spared from such a thing too, countless bots have died from this inhumane treatment. This cannot keep happening and we have to put a stop to this.

Adopting minibots isn’t enough, we must go further, everyone plays a part in the rescue and conservation of bots.

/hj

There's a robot combat hall of fame. It's not something that people take too seriously, but it has been around for over 2 decades.

https://runamok.tech/hall_of_fame.html

After the absolutely insane performance of The Twins this season, I think we should all band together and nominate The Twins the next time the ballots happen. It's not only the first good multi bot, but it's the first great one, and we all know what it did in the finale. Extremely innovative. They took a bot concept that was considered a joke, and turned it into a monster. I think after that amazing year, it should absolutely be inducted into the hall of fame. There's no other major robot combat competitions this year, so inducting it should be the main priority.

Anybody agree? Disagree?

2v1 Speed blitzing is crazy

Widely considered to be one of the best, made it to the finals multiple times and lost. Highly respected but never gets over the hump.

And Manta working at 100%. A really back and forth battle against 2 top tier drum spinners.

First off, nasty fight, definitely an awesome one to watch.

But man, knowing that could have been the final meaning my boy Minotaur would’ve been the champ if it was, damn that hurts.

Anyways, twins are a deserving champ for sure

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thoughts

Was messing around with my battlebots models in Tinkercad, just mashing the acceleration button for its spinner the whole time and got this lol

Idk a friend of mine wanted me to make a Wrecks sim where you could control them

Tombstone is just there cuz I got bored and place his model there

Both legs and spinner can be controlled, just that I dec to power down the spinner to try walking first (having the spinner on will vibrate Wrecks across the floor)

I got impatient at the end

It seems
This competition and in the previous ones when they try to bring the Hammersaw forward to strike, the saw grinds to a halt as it moves forward and down, it was very obvious against Terrortops but it’s been happening before, and made them completely ineffective compared to Sawblaze even though they had many chances.

From "Matty" to "Matt" to "Matthew", this guy is one of then premier builders and drivers. Has he changed teams? What happened to his team (and family)?

Well this can only be for the normal reasons someone would part company with an organisation 😬

I doubt someone has as many major awards as he has with 15 non-championship tournament wins at NHRL alone, but he has 30lb Megatron being 2 time championship winner and 250lb Sawblaze having a championship as well. Excluding cross over between Battlebots heavyweights and the general heavyweights for simplicity. I know team seems reasonable has had bots win in different weight classes for their team, but not for individual captains.

the lost art form of robot filmography.

Once upon a time there used to be artistry in making robot combat. Now  every shot is flat and boring. Let me explain.

Let's look at classic robot wars, when the would have any robotier introduce their robot instead of doing just 1 flat boring shot they would break it up with very simple actions either the robotier take of armour to how the inside or do display of the weapon they would given a distinct action and the camera work break up any interview clean and simple breaks though do follow though shots of the weapon, zoom-ins of the inside and so much more and the annoying thing is these are simple things we have forgotten how to do.

Like look at this most recent season of battlebots, a series that such bad editing they re-made the first episode it was that bad, and even the fixed version with is better relays to heavy on event’s and old battlebots footage and has very static camerawork of robotiers, where is artistry in caring on how these robots are filmed and photographed like if you don’t care you would snap a photo of a robot but if you cared for the robot and artistry of the robot you would get the correct angel get the correct lighting and correct backing to make it stand out and there is none of this and it isn’t just battlebots.

NHRL is also  at fault at this while yes the “hero” shots are good ideas and give much needed movement to a shot they can fill to ridged and repetitive and it feels some robotiers need a bit of direction or given the ability to let out their personality as i do feel they fear they cannot show much of that to have a chance with pro league and look good on camera.

Heck battlebots had their own hero shots but they had so much more character as there was more freedom and creativity in a blank canvas battlebots gave the teams as it being a picture meant teams and procedures could try different things.

We as a fandom should be promoting and supporting upcoming robot photographers and filmographers, i would also love to discuss what makes an artistic robot photo shoot a simplistic one as this is something we can disagree with in interesting ways to get unique and interesting ideas of how to take a robot photograph.

It is indeed an art form that is in desperate need of new faces and more support and re kindle this lost art and re-define what it meant to take a pic of a robot or robot fight