Robot Wars Series 10 Discussion Thread

Original post by AngryJellyfish

In all honesty, I'd probably pick it as a specialist subject over anime. Less broad. :p:

I'm no engineer, but I'd imagine the main downside of having a full-body spinner which is up to the same level as today's more conventional spinner weapons would be the damage it would sustain itself after every impact. Series 8 and 9 had M.R. Speed Squared, the only full-body spinner to take part in the reboot - always started strongly in the initial 4 way qualifier, but wasn't even remotely good in the round robin fights.

Any comments on Heat 2, before we see your robot this evening? :smile:

Get that application in!

Well, full marks for that prediction :tongue:

Original post by AngryJellyfish

3 My thoughts on Heat

Another good episode. :biggrin:

Episode 3 thoughts and spoilers.

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Stiff Little Fingers

Original post by dhr90

Get that application in!

Well, full marks for that prediction :tongue:

Episode 3 thoughts and spoilers.

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Think you've made a bit of a mess of those spoiler tags :tongue:

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Original post by Stiff Little Fingers

Think you've made a bit of a mess of those spoiler tags :tongue:

Don't know what you mean... :ninja:

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Usual pre-episode thoughts (winner prediction in bold, personal favourite in italics):

4 Heat contestant spoilers!

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And my thoughts having watched Heat 4:

Even bigger spoilers

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999tigger

Not doing the spoiler boxes if its 1 day after its been shown.

I always forget the names. My view on Ep4 and in general was one of the best / most interesting episodes so far.

Strange to think if iron awe really was the first flipper, its still just about the deadliest design if the flipper works. You think with 17 years they might have managed it.

The Tauron guy in the first round claimed he just stopped because it was over rather than being disabied.

I would say cluster bots dont work, but the kegs weapon was ok and not bad for recycled bits plus uts hardly going to compete with the £25,000 bot.

For the rest of the fights.
Andron 4000 was controlled really skillfully in the second fight v Tauron.
Nuts was awesome and rather than being a joke it actually did 2 real killing blows, the best ever being where he eviscerated Andron. Mayeb the best kill ive seen.
Oh how Concussion guy must be kicking himself fr not testing his additional armour.....

Maybe the cluster bots can carry mass entanglement payloads and ram the spinners?

Fun episode. best bot won.

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Doones

That hydraulic fluid takedown was stunning!

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I was so impressed with Nuts, I was fully expecting it to be trashed, but that first hit on Concussion proved me very wrong. I bet Concussion has more armour around the wheels if they are in the next series.
Very much enjoyed watching the kegs get destroyed :tongue:

Tauron vs Andron 4000 was really interesting, manoeuvrability and being able to pinch (not the best crusher, but far from the worst we have seen) vs a decent spinner, but a robot that needs a far better turning circle.
Iron Awe was a little disappointing, had the flipper worked it would have been far more impressive, but it did seem to take a beating from Concussion for a little while.

Odds on the arena being smashed a bit more in the next episode? :tongue:

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I keep forgetting to post - there's no Robot Wars this Sunday, because of tennis. :moon:

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Original post by AngryJellyfish

I keep forgetting to post - there's no Robot Wars this Sunday, because of tennis. :moon:

Gutted! At least I don't have to choose between this and Blue Planet 2...

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Team Track-Tion

Apologies for the delay, workload has been catching up with us this week :sad:

Our views on episode 4 are enclosed:

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Usual pre-air thoughts (my predicted winner in bold, but personal favourite in italics):

5 Heat lineup spoilers!

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Spoilers from last nights ep below

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Looking forward to the final and the 10 way! Predict some carnage from that!

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Oops, I forgot to post my after-episode thoughts on Heat 5. :ahee:

It's been nearly a week, but I'll tag it anyway

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And as for tonight's episode... I'm not even going to try and predict the winner of the 10-way, it depends entirely on who gets flipped out, smashed to pieces or ganged up on in those first 30 seconds. :p:

The robot I'd LIKE to see win it is Eruption, with Terrorhurtz and Big Nipper a close second and third.

Predicting an overall champion is also tricky, but I have to give that a go for the sake of tradition...

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Stiff Little Fingers

The ten-way is no time limit, keep going until there's only one left standing, yes?

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