39: Coleslaw, But Worse

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Sam and Ryan rewrite the rumble rules, discover the true meaning of 'strength of schedule', and create an entirely new class of weapon.

• Followup
  • Garfie’s comment re: active weapons and mid-tournament changes
  • F O R E S H A D O W I N G
• Episode 17
  • Robots cost money, ya know
  • DOUBLE DOWN
  • ICEWave vs HUGE
    • Let’s talk about wheels
    • HUGE vs Crippling Depression
    • Giving ICEWave the credit it deserves
  • Gemini vs Some Horsemen
    • How is the Horsemen’s weight distributed?
      • 60% (by weight) must be incapacitated
    • Aggressive wedging
  • Skorpios vs Hypershock
    • Angle grinder: a thing which Chris owns
    • Speed, power, and driving ability from SKorpios
    • An almost functioning weapon and genuine reliability from Hypershock
      • THAT opening hit
    • Anticipating controversy
  • Play-in matches
    • The vert rumble
      • Three deserving robots being whittled down to one
      • ‘The green square’
      • The non-death of WarStop
        • Untethered minibots
    • That other rumble
      • Ryan refuses to write notes on his own rant. The rant cannot be condensed. The rant is perfect.
        • s t r e n g t h o f s c h e d u l e
      • Back-to-back Battlebots champions:
        • Heavyweights: BioHazard
        • Middleweights: Hazard
      • Dubbing
  • Final 16 seedings
    • Simply MASSIVE spoilers /s
    • WHOOOOOGE
  • Looking back on the Fight Night format
• Aftershow: SpaceX’s first confirmed customer
  • Yusaka Maezawa
  • Sam is aware that he was wrong about who would be going with Yusaku, and would like to point out that the technology being created is far more interesting to him than the people going.