82: Strongly in Favour

November 16, 2020

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Chapters

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:08 Follow Up
00:03:10 Battlebots News
00:08:57 RTNCTI
00:50:16 Outro
00:50:48 Aftershow: Battlebots Reactions

Shownotes

Ryan ages, Sam's honest, and they're both good friends.

Follow Up
- Sam did a Minotaur oopsie
  - Not the oopsie Ryan expected
- Ryan has a pillar drill/drill press now
- Battlebots news!
  - Air date!
  - Trailer!
  - Other good things!
  - Robocast’s 2020 preview
  - Thursday broadcast
RTNCTI
- Mistakes!
  - BETA vs DUCK! should not have hapened
  - Hypothermia vs BETA and DUCK! vs SOW should have hapened in its place
  - These fights will happen now
  - If any of you actually read these shownotes you would have already know all of this
- Upcoming fights:
  - Do-overs
    - Hypothermia vs BETA
    - DUCK! vs SOW
  - Round of 16
    - Valkyrie vs Lockjaw
    - Apollo vs Red Devil
    - WAR Hawk vs Tombstone
    - Whiplash vs Expulsion
    - The Four* Horsemen vs Minotaur
    - RAPID vs Complete Control
    - Hypothermia vs SOW
    - Biteforce vs Storm 2
- !!!VERY MILD SPOILERS BELOW!!!
  - Hypothermia vs BETA
    - BETA’s potential to damage Hypothermia’s weapon
      - Similar to Thor vs Coyote
    - Yes, we forgot to justify this. We’re sorry (Ryan’s sorry). We’ll make up for it later. (maybe)
  - DUCK! vs SOW
    - Chances of a SOW weapon failure?
      - Lockjaw’s ass wedge
  - Valkyrie vs Lockjaw
    - Over-rating Valkyrie?
    - Smokey Lockjaw
      - With an ass wedge
  - Apollo vs Red Devil
    - The last remaining RW champ
  - WAR Hawk vs Tombstone
    - Wedge
  - Whiplash vs Expulsion
  - The Four* Horsemen vs Minotaur
  - RAPID vs Complete Control
    - Flipper geometry is hard
  - Hypothermia vs SOW
  - Biteforce vs Storm 2
    - SUBSCRIBE
- Upcoming fights:
  - Lockjaw vs Apollo
  - Tombstone vs Expulsion
  - Minotaur vs RAPID
  - SOW vs Biteforce
  - - Semi-finals, final, and 3rd place
Aftershow - the Battlebots 2020 field (edited highlights)
- BETA
  - It’s different
  - F’kin magnets
  - Pneumatic vs electric hammers
- Black Widow
  - Walker? Roller? Hovercraft?
    - (The answer is roller…)
    - LOGO robot
- Chomp
  - Yes
    - Yes
      - Yes
  - Autonomy?
- Extingisher
  - Fire extinguisher
    - Replacing the siren
  - Witch Doctor vibes?
  - Old Extinguisher
- Fusion
  - Gyro?
- Gemini
  - Lieutenant Commander Data - a robot? Or not?
    - Case closed
  - One bot or two?
- Malice
  - Not a drum
    - ‘Pancake drum’
  - A cool way iof getting a compact, high-inertia horizontal
  - Black Dragon-esque wheels
- Rusty
  - A R T
  - More whimsy please - Ryan
- Shatter
  - D O U B L E A R T
- Slammow
  - Please work
  - Sharing a sponsor with the show
    - Potential fan unrest?
  - Sir Clips
- SMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
  - Straight SMEEEEEEE vs bendy SMEEEEEEE?
  - Variable spellings
  - Tower of Power
- Tantrum
- Tracer
  - Monsoon-esque, but also not
  - Awesome minibot
- The Big Dill
  - vs The Krusty Grab
    - This fight is laargely an advert for The Krusty Grab rather than The Big Dill