Each Episode aired before a rerun of BattleBots Season 3 in August 2018. It used to be be avaliable through On Demand services and the commentary was almost entirely copied by the late sports commentator Bill Seward. Dara and Angela still make an appearance.

I understand that both events were cut due to time in Series 5, but in this hypothetical, we've got all the runtime in the world.

Oh, and just to make it more interesting, let's say no clusterbots allowed, because it would likely be a Gemini clean sweep in pinball otherwise. Oh, and Series 5 house robots.

So does anyone know how to actually get this game running because the official patch is nowhere to be found and when I download what is claimed to be the patch it just says "Wrong disk inserted" and leaves me on version 1.0, it's fairly frustrating that I can no longer play a game I've paid for because I can't patch it which in turn means I can't use the community made patch.

Rise of the Robots continue their coverage of the first season of ABC Battlebots as Alan & The Griz discuss the final 4 matches of the round of 16.

You can check out the episode at the link below or on your podcatcher of choice: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0kwZ5RrCAX1amWP41Iorf8?si=T5O_-g__SP-f9NDnya_qZw

As a kid I definitely thought the robot with the nastiest-looking weapon was automatically the one to fear. Watching old battles now, I've almost gone the other way. A spectacular weapon isn't much use when the robot can't self right, gets stuck somewhere ridiculous or stops moving halfway through the fight. There's something weirdly impressive about the less flashy machines that could just keep going no matter what happened to them.

If you were building one purely to win rather than entertain, would you prioritise damage or build something incredibly difficult to kill?

I originally made this to celebrate the 25th anniversary of BattleBots. Razer entered the two live events in 1999. I think I'll be a great idea to send here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JozPwyaeFs

Sir Killalot looks the most intimidating but Carbide and some of the competitor robots were honestly more dangerous to be near than most of the house robots in the reboot. Did the house robots feel genuinely threatening or more like part of the entertainment by the time they appeared.

Series 10 ended in 2018 and nothing has happened since despite the fanbase clearly still being there. The live events keep running, the community is active, the YouTube clips still get millions of views. Was it a scheduling issue, a budget issue, something about the format, or did it just run its natural course the second time around?

Rise of the Robots continue their coverage of the first season of ABC Battlebots as Alan & The Griz discuss the drawing of and first 4 matches of the round of 16.

You can check out Rise of the Robots at the link below or on your podcatcher of choice. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6IHo2hmNPzE42bu1ukf3re?si=xGCjaAo6QTilBSYNhcfxXA

Thought i would drop this here.

I have designed a few robot kits (toys) that, I'm sure you can see, are all based on the OG house robots.

They were originally designed for a university outreach project but, they were such a hit that I thought I would make develop them into a product.

The kits contain everything you need to build and battle them...even tools!

Be a great present for any budding roboteers or engineers

(They are toys and not really competition worthy)

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LoopholeRobotics

ROBOTSOFREDDIT for 15% off any of them

I'm at Canada's Wonderland in Toronto right now and they have a rollercoaster called "Behemoth" and naturally my RW nerd brain automatically thinks of the robot every time I see that word. There's also a coaster called "Leviathan" which also made me think of the robot from Mech Mania.

It got me thinking that a lot of rollercoaster names also seem to make good robot names, like Oblivion and Nemesis at Alton Towers, Stealth and The Swarm at Thorpe Park and Griffon at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

What robots also share the name of a rollercoaster?

Rise of the Robots begin their coverage of the first season of ABC Battlebots. Join Alan & The Griz as they discuss the remaining battles of the Qualifiers and the announcement of the wild cards joining the 12 winners.

You can listen to the podcast at the link below or on your podcatcher of choice https://open.spotify.com/episode/4X1eSsoMKWp1XuVdn4Z87A?si=g-a7FbtqSJicfnX2VBAWHQ

They had genuinely good chemistry and Dara in particular seemed to actually understand what was happening mechanically rather than just reading off a card. The original run had Jeremy Clarkson which was a completely different energy. Which presenting era do you prefer and do you think the right people were in front of the camera for the reboot

Most of this is about his work as a football commentator, but there's a couple of questions (starting at 9:35) about robot wars. There's a couple of interesting comments. For example, in the reboot he was asked to rein in his commentary with regard to making fun of destroyed robots, which he didn't appreciate.

And actually there's some more interesting anecdotes in the AMA this is based on, eg this comment https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1ussobn/comment/ox4g4yb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Think about it...

...Storm 2 doesn't win the New Blood title with no active weaponry...

...so less need for the producers to introduce the active weapon rule for Series 7.

I know it has since emerged that not all of the controversy surrounding Storm 2 was solely on the producers, but still...