33: Bushy Nashua

June 22, 2018

Chapters

00:00:04 What is a wedge?
00:15:43 Car catch fire?
00:18:48 This is Fighting Robots
00:21:04 Battlebots
01:17:56 Outro
01:18:10 Aftershow

Shownotes

Sam and Ryan debate wedges, judges decisions, and how to lose an argument with yourself.

Followup
- Wedgegate: the Definening
  - Visual guide
  - The wedgiest wedge
  - Dominator 2
    - NitriDe…
  - The hot new wedge in town
Front matter
- Tesla fire
- This is Fighting Robots
  - Sam continues to not watch TiFR
  - Xiake is the real MVP
  - Battles only edits on dailymotion
  - Ryan has now won a game of Fortnite. He didn’t deserve it.
Battlebots Episode 6
- Reality vs SawBlaze
  - Reality’s ground clearance makes this a reasonably easy fight for SawBlaze
  - Reality’s motor housed inside the weapon - what are the benefits?
  - SawBlaze’ wheelying issue is the only thing between them and a flawless fight
- Monsoon vs Petunia
  - Monsoon bending their weapon axle
  - Chris and Kenny’s reference-o-rama
  - Petunia with chances to get a crush in
  - Robots getting stuck
- SubZero vs Captain Shredderator
  - Whyohwhyohwhy
  - Big rebuilds for both machines
  - Captain Shredderator AMA
- Chomp v Warrior Dragon
  - SPLIT DECISION WATCH: Part dowehaveto?
    - Is bias unavoidable?
    - Where do you give the damage points? Did WD damage Chomp at all?
      - Chomp’s hit on WD
  - Team Whyachi describe the weapon as a ‘kinetic energy flipper’, as opposed to all those flippers with no kinetic energy
  - Chomp coming in with even more automation
- Bronco vs Bombshell
  - Bronco’s anti-vert armour setup
  - Bombshell’s inability to self right boding very well for this fight