November 16, 2020
Shownotes
Ryan ages, Sam's honest, and they're both good friends.
- Follow Up
- Sam did a Minotaur oopsie
- Ryan has a pillar drill/drill press now
- Battlebots news!
- Air date!
- Trailer!
- Other good things!
- Robocast's 2020 preview
- Thursday broadcast
- RTNCTI
- Mistakes!
- BETA vs DUCK! should not have hapened
- Hypothermia vs BETA and DUCK! vs SOW should have hapened in its place
- These fights will happen now
- If any of you actually read these shownotes you would have already know all of this
- Upcoming fights:
- Do-overs
- Hypothermia vs BETA
- DUCK! vs SOW
- Round of 16
- Valkyrie vs Lockjaw
- Apollo vs Red Devil
- WAR Hawk vs Tombstone
- Whiplash vs Expulsion
- The Four* Horsemen vs Minotaur
- RAPID vs Complete Control
- Hypothermia vs SOW
- Biteforce vs Storm 2
- Do-overs
- !!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!
- Hypothermia vs BETA
- BETA's potential to damage Hypothermia's weapon
- Similar to Thor vs Coyote
- Yes, we forgot to justify this. We're sorry (Ryan's sorry). We'll make up for it later. (maybe)
- BETA's potential to damage Hypothermia's weapon
- DUCK! vs SOW
- Chances of a SOW weapon failure?
- Lockjaw's ass wedge
- Chances of a SOW weapon failure?
- Valkyrie vs Lockjaw
- Over-rating Valkyrie?
- Smokey Lockjaw
- With an ass wedge
- Apollo vs Red Devil
- The last remaining RW champ
- WAR Hawk vs Tombstone
- Wedge
- Whiplash vs Expulsion
- The Four* Horsemen vs Minotaur
- RAPID vs Complete Control
- Flipper geometry is hard
- Hypothermia vs SOW
- Biteforce vs Storm 2
- Hypothermia vs BETA
- Upcoming fights:
- Lockjaw vs Apollo
- Tombstone vs Expulsion
- Minotaur vs RAPID
- SOW vs Biteforce
- + Semi-finals, final, and 3rd place
- Mistakes!
- Aftershow - the Battlebots 2020 field (edited highlights)
- BETA
- It's different
- F'kin magnets
- Pneumatic vs electric hammers
- Black Widow
- Walker? Roller? Hovercraft?
- (The answer is roller...)
- LOGO robot
- Walker? Roller? Hovercraft?
- Chomp
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Autonomy?
- Yes
- Extingisher
- Fire extinguisher
- Replacing the siren
- Witch Doctor vibes?
- Old Extinguisher
- Fire extinguisher
- Fusion
- Gyro?
- Gemini
- Lieutenant Commander Data - a robot? Or not?
- One bot or two?
- Malice
- Not a drum
- 'Pancake drum'
- A cool way iof getting a compact, high-inertia horizontal
- Black Dragon-esque wheels
- Not a drum
- Rusty
- A R T
- More whimsy please - Ryan
- Shatter
- D O U B L E A R T
- Slammow
- Please work
- Sharing a sponsor with the show
- Potential fan unrest?
- Sir Clips
- SMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
- Straight SMEEEEEEE vs bendy SMEEEEEEE?
- Variable spellings
- Tower of Power
- Tantrum
- Tracer
- Monsoon-esque, but also not
- Awesome minibot
- The Big Dill
- vs The Krusty Grab
- This fight is laargely an advert for The Krusty Grab rather than The Big Dill
- vs The Krusty Grab
- BETA
81: Offensively Wrong
November 7, 2020
Intentional misrepresentation, flawless reasoning, and a cursed die.
80: Thing-Shaped Things
November 1, 2020
Real robots, virtual tournaments, and the appearance of a natural conversation.
79: You May Be Hallucinating
August 28, 2020
A normal episode in which Sam and Ryan discuss the abnormal.
78: Squishy Juicy Slimey Horribleness
August 14, 2020
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77: Have You Ever Milked a Cow?
June 11, 2020
We take a break from RTNCTI to talk about racism, pandemics, and our mental health.
76: Be Less Nice
May 21, 2020
Fantasy sports, but very real upsets.
75: Slightly Below Average
May 2, 2020
Sam loses his grasp on what's real while Ryan rewrites history.
74: There's a Hole in my Spreadsheet
April 13, 2020
As the qualifiers come to a close, Sam and Ryan discuss the inevitable.
73: The Diotoir of Battlebots
April 7, 2020
Versions are versioned, mistakes are acknowledged, and predictions are made.