85: Stick It In There
December 24, 2020Shownotes
Sam and Ryan try desperately to talk about the fights.
- Front Matter
- How Spinnerproof is covering Battlebots
- What we want, when we want
- Fights and topics which interest us, released sporadically
- What we want, when we want
- How Spinnerproof is covering Battlebots
- Battlebots 2020 - episodes 1-3
- Bloodsport vs Skorpios
- The power of managed expectations
- Bloodsport's improvements
- Shatter! vs Ghost Raptor
- Shatter! is amazing and if you disagree you are wrong
- The best hammer?
- How to use a hammer
- Shatter!'s driving style distilled
- Omnidrive all the things
- HUGE! vs Mammoth
- The dream match?
- Are non-meta robots as fun when they aren't facing the meta?
- Witch Doctor vs Hydra
- Long main events are good main events
- Hydra starting with a flip charged
- Black Dragon vs Kraken
- A coin-toss or a theft?
- Rules not rewarding what fans see as dominating a fight
- RotatoR vs Beta
- Decision not rewarding what the rules appear to priorities
- Enforcing weapon usage?
- Better hammers firing straight into weapons
- Shatter! vs Ghost Raptor
- Shatter! vs Kingpin
- Blue vs Crossfire
- Blacksmith vs Biteforce
- Chomp vs Biteforce
- Competitors no longer feeling that they can rely on the rules being applied consistently
- The quality of online discourse
- How the presentation of the show influences this
- Robocast #79 - listen to it
- Listen to it somewhere other than youtube
- Actually judging the match
- How the judges scored it
- The 2020 Judges' Guide
- Beta can't score 5 points for aggression
- Giving Beta damage points because...reasons?
- Assumed damage?
- Penalising RotatoR for their damage being unintentional?
- Loose rules vs rigid rules
- Blame falling on people or falling on a system
- Unnecessary and possibly unhelpful maths
- Format
- Bit different, innit
- Crowd noise
- Less suppression of audience reactions?
- Dud fights
- No basement tapes
- Generally good handling of the rough fights
- Bloodsport vs Skorpios
