26: Alan

March 21, 2018

Sam and Ryan discuss the perfect rocket, the perfect name, and the perfect robot.

SPAAAAAACE
- Falcon 9 Block 5
  - Reusable-ier, powerful-ier, space-ier
Bad news...
- Robot Wars didn't fail, the BBC failed Robot Wars
- Can Robot Wars work off of the BBC?
- At least we have KoB and new Battlebots, right?
KoB: the final 8
- Ryan's confession
- Episode 7
  - Spin Doctor vs Megabyte
    - Spin Doctor: officially not cowards
    - Ryan makes another midguided sporting analogy
  - Spectre vs Grill Judge
    - Razer vs Tornado 3.0
  - Great White vs That Which Shall Not Be Spelled
    - Rules are rules, and these rules are dumb
    - Ellis speaks, and he is visibly annoyed
  - Snake vs Thunder & Lightning
    - 'Ave they got a SRiMech?
    - Multibot immobility rules
    - Judging a multibot
  - 2v2 exhibitions
    - Snake & Sabre vs Vulcan & Tanshe
      - Shuffle the drivers
      - 4WD on flippers
    - Rust Boar & Wild Beast vs Spin Doctor & Geat White
      - Mayhem and two drones
      - LiPo smoke: not a good kind of smoke
- Episode 8
  - CJ vs Megabyte
    - Some robots just will not die
  - Thunder & Lightning vs Spectre
    - Spectre-cle. heh.
    - Perfect robots?
  - 3rd place playoff: Thunder & Lightning vs Megabyte
    - T&L with the wedge, Megabyte with the old steel shell
  - RUUUUUMBLEEEEEE
  - Grand Final: Spectre vs CJ
    - "Some kind of beetle"
Final thoughts
- Watching a foreign language programme
  - RobotRevo