February 24, 2019 Download MP3
As Sam and Ryan continue their fantasy quest they encounter suffocating fog, legendary sea monsters, and pre-historic ghosts.
- Follow up
- Battlebots Season 4 slightly more confirmed!
- Bugglebots Series 2 very confirmed!
- Front matter
- Spinnerproof live event coverage
- There won't be any
- Sam doesn't enjoy watching them
- Ryan isn't sure he enjoys talking about them in a structured, podcastable format
- There won't be any
- Spinnerproof live event coverage
- RTNCTI
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The full rules and competitors
- Have we missed any robots? If so, please tell us now so we can add them.
- The very simplified rules:
- Every robot we have official footage of competing in a reboot series of Robot Wars and Battlebots
- Qualifying: 32 1v1s and 32 3-way melees, feeding into a randomised 64 robot bracket
- The result of every bout is decided by the roll of a die. Currently a D6, changing to a D7 next episode
- This episode's fixtures (no spoilers):
- Nuts vs ICEwave
- Supernova vs Razer
- Crushtacean vs Sweet Revenge
- Kraken vs Draven
- Mohawk vs Sharkoprion
- Whiplash vs Obwalden Overlord
- The Disk O' Inferno vs Rotator
- Poison Arrow vs Photon Storm
- Coyote vs Beta
- Ghost Raptor vs TR2
- Frostbite vs Razorback
- Cobra vs Apollo
- Aftershock vs Ironside 3
- Or Te vs Kan-Opener
- Sabretooth vs Wrecks
- Plan X vs M.R. Speed Squared
- !!!!!!SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
- Nuts vs ICEwave
- Series 10 Nuts (2), 2019 ICEwave
- Entanglement effect of Nuts 2
- FOG. OF. WARRRRRRRR
- Rhino's use of Halon to smother engines
- Minibots
- Nuts 2 wins, as well it should
- Supernova vs Razer
- Series 9 Supernova, Series 8 Razer
- Razer's anti-horizontal setup
- Supernova wins, Sam mourns
- Crushtacean vs Sweet Revenge
- Nope.
- A reasonably competent original run/live scene machine vs the most forgettable robot in reboot history
- Crushtacean wins
- Kraken vs Draven
- Series 9 Draven
- Kraken wins
- Mohawk vs Sharkoprion
- Empathising with producers and actively encouraging you not to listen to this
- 2018 Mohawk
- How effective is the Sharko disc?
- Ryan messes with the system and regrets it immensely
- Sharkoprion goes through
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WhiplashwHiplash vs Obwalden Overlord- Another close battle
- GAMBLER'S FALLACY
- wHiplash wins
- The Disk O' Inferno vs Rotator
- 2018 Rotator
- Disk O' is cool
- and would benefit from the modern judging criteria
- Rotator wins
- Poison Arrow vs Photon Storm
- Live event Photon Storm
- Ryan's utterly unnecessary and factually incorrect defence of Photon Storm
- Photon Storm competed as Tiberius prior to 2016
- Neither Photon Storm or Tiberius are a former UK champion
- Tiberius is widely referred to as 'feared', but details of its results over the years are hard to find
- Ryan's utterly unnecessary and factually incorrect defence of Photon Storm
- Photon Storm wins
- Expect follow-up...
- Live event Photon Storm
- Coyote vs Beta
- Series 10 Coyote
- Beta's wedge is surprisingly low
- Beta wins
- Ghost Raptor vs TR2
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Ghost Raptor destroys our rules
- Season 1 Ghost Raptor, as a swiss-army bot: spinner, Lifter, Keep-away bar
- Lifter for this fight
- Season 1 Ghost Raptor, as a swiss-army bot: spinner, Lifter, Keep-away bar
- TR2 is an ACTUAL UK Champion
- WITH THE BUM AXE!
- TR2 wins
- No time was wasted in the making of this battle
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Ghost Raptor destroys our rules
- Frostbite vs Razorback
- Underestimating Frostbite?
- Season 2 Razorback running the drum
- Teams probably don't select a weapon based on what would happen if it broke
- Razorback wins
- Cobra vs Apollo
- This fight LITERALLY HAPPENED
- Although it was tag-team and the World Series is essentially non-canon
- Series 10 Apollo and Series 10 (World Series) Cobra
- Ryan completely forgets that Hobgoblin exists.
- Apollo sneaks through
- This fight LITERALLY HAPPENED
- Aftershock vs Ironside 3
- Series 10 Aftershock, Series 9 Ironside 3
- A horribly tough one to call
- Ironside 3 wins
- Orte vs Kan-Opener
- Both in their short-lived Series 8 forms
- Sweeney Todd should have been counted out, but regardless the hit which killed Kan Opener arguably came after the one which finished Sweeney Todd.
- The Orte flipper does indeed work and could be reasonably described as about average
- Orte survives to be beaten in the next round
- Sabretooth vs Wrecks
- Series 9 Sabretooth, Season 2 Wrecks
- Sabretooth walks the fight.
- Plan X vs M.R. Speed Squared
- Series 9 MR Speed Squared
- An auspicious ending
- A robot which Wrecks took to the judges vs a robot which Foxic took to the judges
- Plan X somehow takes the advantage
- and wins
- Nuts vs ICEwave
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The full rules and competitors
- Next episode:
- Heavy Metal vs Chimera vs Free Shipping
- Hypothermia vs Apocalypse vs Hypershock
- Axe Backwards vs Warrior Clan vs DUCK!
- Red Devil vs Tantrum vs Battle Royale With Cheese
- Iron-Awe 6 vs Bonk vs Infernal Contraption
- Meggamouse vs Valkyrie vs Jellyfish
- Skorpios vs Behemoth vs Biteforce
- The General vs Radioactive vs Concussion
- The Swarm vs Deathroll vs Gemini
- Kill-E-Krank-E vs Gigabyte vs RAPID
- Moebius vs Brutus vs Petunia
- Gabriel vs Storm 2 vs Tough as Nails
- Push to Exit vs Overdrive vs Hobgoblin
- Gamma 9 vs WAR Hawk vs Nightmare
- Bad Kitty vs Cherub vs Ultraviolent
- Counter Revolution vs Sweeney Todd vs Cobalt
- 3-ways are decided by first eliminating the 'weakest' robot outright and then producing odds for the remaining two, still taking into account the presence of the third and their impact on the fight
- The rest of the round (episode 4)
- Carbide vs DisConstructer vs King B Remix
- End Game vs Eruption vs SawBlaze
- High-5 vs Reality vs Splatter
- Witch Doctor vs Lucky vs Shockwave
- Vanquish vs Basilisk vs Black Ice
- Tombstone vs Crackers 'N' Smash vs Warhead
- Creepy Crawlies vs Magnetar vs Double Dutch
- Big Nipper vs Parallax vs Crazy Coupe 88
- Overhaul vs Mega Tento vs Bucktooth Burl
- Ms Nightshade vs Crank-E vs Son of Wyachi
- Tauron vs TMHWK vs Dantomkia
- The Four Horsemen vs Thor vs Rusty
- Thermidor 2 vs Chompalot vs Sub Zero
- Vulture vs Foxic vs Trolley Rage
- Bale Spear vs Bucky the Robot vs Captain Shredderator
- Wyrm vs Donald Thump vs Huge
46: Fluid Ducts
February 10, 2019
The lack of Battlebots has forced your hosts into a world of fantasy from which there is no return...
45: Triangle Zone
January 29, 2019
Succinctly speaking of SpaceX's sweaty stainless starship, safe sets of switches, and Spinnerproof's scheme to sell out.
44: Captain Phasma's Dildo
January 17, 2019
Battlebots, Bugglebots, and Buh-SpaceX.
43: Nut From Outside
December 21, 2018
Sam and Ryan discuss Bugglebots, Split Decision Mk II, and hot laptops.
42: Action Castle
December 19, 2018
Ryan and Sam get together with some friends for this Christmas Special.
41: In A Nutshell
October 13, 2018
A champion is crowned, Ryan is spoiled, and Sam finds his smoking gun.
40: Just South of Henley
October 4, 2018
39: Coleslaw, But Worse
September 20, 2018
Sam and Ryan rewrite the rumble rules, discover the true meaning of 'strength of schedule', and create an entirely new class of weapon.
38: Mumblephobia
September 15, 2018
Sam works at the cutting edge of robot construction, Ryan poorly defines drums, and Jellyfish wins a fight.