r/battlebots • • 13h ago

BattleBots Me at the start of this season.

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189 Upvotes

Someone entered a multi bot?

Aren Hill entered a multi bot?!


r/battlebots • • 23h ago

BattleBots TV Battlebots is bad, we should free the bots from their misery of having to keep fighting and let them run free into the wild with other bots

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70 Upvotes

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


r/battlebots • • 21h ago

BattleBots TV What's THE hit in Battlebots Pro League?

45 Upvotes

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


r/battlebots • • 3h ago

BattleBots TV Who could defeat this year's champion?

15 Upvotes

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.


r/battlebots • • 15h ago

BattleBots TV Kill saws?

14 Upvotes

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)


r/battlebots • • 3h ago

BattleBots The twins in a nutshell

4 Upvotes

I think this is the most accurate depiction yet


r/battlebots • • 15h ago

BattleBots TV If the past championships had 3rd place playoffs how would they go?

4 Upvotes

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


r/battlebots • • 12h ago

BattleBots TV Unironicly Beta would be a better blacksmith than Blacksmith itself.

0 Upvotes

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


r/battlebots • • 12h ago

BattleBots Do you think ________ should be banned?

0 Upvotes

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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.

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yes
no