80: Thing-Shaped Things
November 1, 2020Shownotes
Real robots, virtual tournaments, and the appearance of a natural conversation.
- Front matter
- Scones
- Battlebots 2020
- Increasing optimism
- Taskmaster Series 10
- Robotting
- Mis-adventures in spinner testing
- Learning what you've learned
- Safety
- Toilet brush robot
- Proper but also not proper thwackbot prototype
- Sit and spin
- Googly eye robot
- A potential Sam boat?
- Mis-adventures in spinner testing
- RTNCTI
- A reminder of the rules
- This episode's fixtures (no spoilers)
- Magnetar vs Hypothermia
- Cherub vs Beta
- Double Jeopardy vs DUCK!
- Crushtacean vs SOW
- Bite Force (2018) vs Plan X
- Photon Storm vs RotatoR
- Storm 2 vs Sabretooth (Series 9)
- Free Shipping vs Bombshell (2016)
- !!!!!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!
- Magnetar vs Hypothermia
- Nope
- Cherub vs Beta
- Old Beta <3
- Hammers <3
- How does Cherub win?
- Double Jeopardy vs DUCK!
- DUCK!'s redundancy
- Crushtacean vs SOW
- Impacts of the arena
- Playing chicken with the flipper
- Impacts of the arena
- Bite Force (2018) vs Plan X
- Photon Storm vs RotatoR
- Righting a wrong from many moons ago
- 2018 RotatoR only had the dual disc/bar setup
- Storm 2 vs Sabretooth (Series 9)
- Sabretooth's lack of forks/feeder
- Storm 2's lack of anything noteworthy
- Free Shipping vs Bombshell (2016)
- Rubbing shoulders with the greats
- Free Shipping is cool
- Bombshell's weapon choice?
- Magnetar vs Hypothermia
- Upcoming fixtures:
- Cobalt vs Valkyrie
- Lockjaw (2018) vs The Kegs
- The Ringmaster vs Apollo
- Red Devil vs Big Nipper
- War Hawk vs TR2
- Tombstone vs Monsoon
- Bronco vs Whiplash
- Expulsion (Series 10) vs Eruption
- PP3D vs The Four* Horsemen
- Overdrive (2015) vs Minotaur
- Iron Awe 6 vs RAPID
- Witch Doctor (2018) vs Complete Control (2016)
- Magnetar/Hypothermia vs BETA
- DUCK! vs SOW
- Bite Force vs RotatoR
- Storm 2 vs Bombshell
- Aftershow
- The making of Spinnerproof
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