76: Be Less Nice
May 21, 2020Shownotes
Fantasy sports, but very real upsets.
- Front matter
- Spinnerproof on youtube
- Don’t use it. Listen a better way.
- New episodes will go up, but might lag slightly behind traditional uploads
- r/agedlikemilk
- Good Robottal’s latest RA2 expansion pack stuff thing
- Hello There is overpowered in relation to other non-spinners
- There are also other robots
- Hello There is overpowered in relation to other non-spinners
- Spinnerproof on youtube
- RTNCTI
- A reminder of the rules
- This episode’s fixtures (no spoilers)
- Chomp vs WAR Hawk
- Lycan vs TR2
- Tombstone vs Reality
- Monsoon vs Captain Shrederator
- Overhaul vs Bronco
- Basilisk vs Whiplash
- Expulsion (S10) vs Carbide (S10)
- Supernova (S9) vs Eruption (S10)
- !!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
- Chomp vs WAR Hawk
- Chomp
- Highly sensitive to the specifics of the matchup
- Highly unlikely to be KO’d through damage
- WAR Hawk
- Important bits exposed from above
- Weapon Motor
- Drive chains
- Important bits exposed from above
- Balancing biases
- Trying to work through various judging permutations
- Trying to remember what we do about judging
- Chomp
- Lycan vs TR2
- Lycan
- A ‘control bot’
- TR2
- One of the best records, if not the best record, in modern Robot Wars
- Lycan
- Tombstone vs Reality
- Tombstone
- Exists
- Reality
- Tanky in a way which may or may not be useful
- Ominous
- Tombstone
- Monsoon vs Captain Shrederator
- Monsoon
- Tauron, but excellent
- Captain Shrederator
- A rich history
- Phrisbee first ran in 2001
- An upsetting record
- A rich history
- Impact of shell choice for Shrederator
- Weapon-to-weapon impacts
- Monsoon
- Overhaul vs Bronco
- Overhaul
- Almost entirely unable to actively win this fight
- Bronco
- Unexpected versioning!
- Overhaul
- Basilisk vs Whiplash
- Basilisk
- Should it even be here?
- Does it matter?
- Should it even be here?
- Whiplash
- Exists
- Basilisk
- Expulsion (S10) vs Carbide (S10)
- Expulsion
- Failing to self right in the most upsetting of ways
- Might take the hits, but will still suffer
- Beat Pulsar to get here
- Carbide
- Versions combined
- Expulsion
- Supernova (S9) vs Eruption (S10)
- Supernova
- A competent horizontal
- Eruption
- Struggles against horizontals, possibly because those horizontals are usually Carbide
- Wants an OOTA but will struggle to get that here
- Supernova
- Chomp vs WAR Hawk
- The rest of the round
- PP3D vs Nuts 2 (S10)
- The Four Horsemen vs Sharkoprion
- Overdrive (2015) vs Beast
- Minotaur (2018) vs Brutus (2016)
- Vulture vs Iron-Awe 6
- RAPID (S10) vs Subzero
- Invader vs Witch Doctor (2018)
- Razorback (2016) vs Complete Control (2016)
- Magnetar vs Hypothermia
- Cherub vs Beta
- Double Jeopardy vs DUCK!
- Crushtacean vs SOW
- Biteforce (2018) vs Plan X
- Photon Storm vs RotatoR
- Storm 2 vs Sabretooth (S9)
- Free Shipping vs Bombshell (2016)