30: Compensating for Something
May 24, 2018Shownotes
Ryan gets dressed, Faruq gains Sam's approval, and this episode is held hostage.
- Follow up
- Minotaur’s wedge
- ‘True’ feeder wedges
- Minotaur’s wedge
- Front matter
- Battlebots
- Many memorable moments
- Short fights = more fluff?
- Superb cold open
- ICEwave vs Vanquish
- ICEwave
- Other petrol engines in robot combat?
- Vanquish
- Seemingly a robust wedge
- Very well driven
- Build diary
- Tweedy’s AMA responses seem to indicate Vanquish WILL be back
- Repair time
- 360 cameras
- ICEwave
- RotatoR vs Petunia
- RotatoR
- Splitting weight between two spinners
- Impacts which slow one disc don’t slow the other
- Splitting weight between two spinners
- Petunia
- Faruq justifies his existence
- Sam fails to realise that the tweet comes after the publication of the episode
- Sam is…disappointed…by the weapon
- A slightly unusual crusher design
- More Androne than Razer
- Broken beak tip
- Faruq justifies his existence
- RotatoR
- Brutus vs Red Devil
- Brutus
- Standard vertical spinner
- Serious electrical issues
- Minor commentary shenanigens
- Red Devil
- The wedge is a good choice, but not classic Red Devil
- Has the tight timeframe reduced the showmanship of some teams?
- Pinning/grappling rules
- Brutus
- Captain Shredderator vs End Game
- Captain Shredderator
- Dated internals
- Tiger Claw is competing in TiFR
- Dat transmitter
- Dated internals
- End Game
- FMB champions
- Ryan was grossly mis-remembering this title fight vs DiotAwe
- Rough floor issues
- FMB champions
- Captain Shredderator
- Yeti vs Witch Doctor
- Yeti
- One big robot
- Apparently has a set of wedge forks, whatever that may mean
- Witch Doctor
- Post-fight report
- Why do motors overheat?
- Cooling on an ESC
- Post-fight report
- An underwhelming matchup?
- Ryan’s list of acceptable verticals:
- Hypershock, Monsoon, Yeti, HUGE, End Game, Sharkoprion, Whiplash
- At least 50% of the vertical spinners in the field…
- Hypershock, Monsoon, Yeti, HUGE, End Game, Sharkoprion, Whiplash
- Yeti
- The new Reddit layout(s)
- A conversation predicated on Ryan not having realised there are 3 versions of the layout