OFFICIALS BATTLEBOTS SEASON PREMIERE DISCUSSION THREAD STARTS IN 20 MINUTES
Last year this was allowed on /sp/, don't know if it will this time but I suppose we will find out.
2 HOUR PREMIERE STARTS AT 7PM CT ON ABC
COMPLAINTS FROM LAST YEAR CHECKLIST
>obvious forced mandrama
>60 minute program being 30 minute background stories, 20 minutes of commercials and 10 minutes of actual robot fighting.
>unique designs getting put up against Tombstone or Bronco and being eliminated immediately
>only 1 rumble at tail end of the season
Will any of this be fixed? It's ABC so probably not. 32 competitors this year as opposed to 16 last year, so that's one improvement.
Enjoy.
>>68858005
>Will any of this be fixed?
Hell no.
Except getting BTFO by Tombstone and Bronco just shows you had an inferior design
>>68858057
I have a strong feeling if Tombstone is on the roster again he will "lose" his first fight. ABC has to drum up suspense, and having him bulldoze everything again won't draw many viewers
I saw on one of the commercials some moron is entering drones. Gonna be satisfying watching them leave in a garbage bag
Starting now
Stream?
abc is blocked
>meme warfare
What's going to be the biggest meme bot in the tournament?
BRONCO
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>>68858814
drones
BLACKSMITH BTFO
>>68858814
Mecha Tentamouchi. Lisa Winter said it was retired last season, but now it's back.
Heh, looks like they covered that outer ditch from last season that Bronco always threw his opponents in
>>68858701
http://www.stream2watch.co/live-now/live-tv/us/abc-live-stream
Are any of the old classics there?
Next up: Merica vs Straya
>Straya with the memebot
USA USA USA USA USA
USA USA USA USA USA
USA USA USA USA USA
USA USA USA USA USA
DECAPITATED
Spinner memes going to ruin another season I guess
>>68858429
it was inevitable, but they will not have enough attack force to be worthwhile. One good swipe and they will crash.
they could be the future of battlebots, someday.
Stick to shitposting Australia
>>68859431
success is not a meme.
ABC did a really poor job of advertising this
Reminder that fire is the biggest meme weapon that does nothing
>>68859468
Spinners and flippers are the ultimate memes
>>68859431
Spinners never survive a whole season, they damage themselves too much
>>68859490
HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST BOT
>TEAM BETA
my fucking sides
Beta uprising?
>BETA
fucking kek
I love hammerbots though, even though they do no damage and always get BTFO
Great fucking start beta
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>wait 14 years to fight in a battlebots show
>fucking drop your robot off the dolly
kys
>beta vs A FUCKING LEAF
Did they just drop the beta?
Why is Tombstone so based?
I love this, the commentary is fucking pathetic though.
Medabots it's not a sport
>>>/asp/
This commentary is cringe as fuck, show me the robots, i dont care how the commentators are reacting
>>68859806
Fuck off poland
Will the judges start the Bee-TA uprising?
>>68859806
You're awesome, please never go to >>>/asp/
Remember this, or are you a phony?
>>68859854
He was way better than the flipper meme at least. Beeta uprising is here
Commercials are still heavy but the background stories have been trimmed down quite a bit
What are the most meme components? Hammers? Flamethrowers? What else?
Beta uprising now
BETA UPRISING. REEEEEE
>>68859931
Legs are the ultimate meme.
>>68859905
The background stories will start kicking up again when there are less fights to get through, in the later rounds. It's going to be mandrama shit again.
>muh kid driver
>>68859931
Are you allowed to use flamethrowers in Battlebots now?
>Female drivers
>Child drivers
>>68860070
Yes, it's a waste of your 250 pounds, they do nothing ever
>>68860091
I thought they were banned back when the show was on Comedy Central.
>>68860015
>tombstone piledriver through the table!!?
>did you see that JR?
>>68858005
Is an bot a athlete?
Hmm, a Razer lookalike next. He will be leaving in pieces
>>68860126
Yes
>>68860116
They were
>MIOTAURS SPINNER IS SO DEVASTATING
in b4 it breaks 40 seconds into the match.
>Brazillian Bot
>inb4 7-1 decision
Huehuehuehuheuheu 7-1
>>68860087
>Little girls getting destroyed by SpaceX employees
There is hope in the world
Minotauro obviously wins this or else they wouldn't have pushed it so much just now
This is the most rigged opening match I've seen. They definitely want Minotaur to wreck shit and be the new Tombstone. This photon thing is going to get fucked up, it looks useless.
>>68858005
>I already saw the robots on Tested
FUCK. I love spoilers before i see them, but then i hate myself afterwards.
BTFO
would have been funny as fuck if they choked though
Does this make up for 7-1?
>need a job
>you like battlebots
>aply
>get hired
>have to count from 10 to 0 when a bot is destroyed and put your soul into it on camera
Wow.
>>68860342
>Tfw we get a Tombstone vs. Minotauro final
>7-1 shitposting ensues after inevitable Tombstone victory
I don't think they actually read that book
Why isn't this thread more popular :^(
>>68860426
>Implying you wouldn't do it for ez money.
I mean they probably don't pay match.
>>68860465
ABC barely advertised this, not surprisingly no one knows it's on
STOP FUCKING TAKING CAMERA FOCUS OFF THE ROBOTS TO SHOW THE MANDRAMA COMMENTATORS AND DRIVERS JUST STANDING AROUND
YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHY PEOPLE WATCH THIS SHOW AND ITS NOT ANYTHING THAT ISN'T THE ROBOTS REEEEEEEEE
>Chomp got BTFO twice last year
>gets put up against a huge meme this year so it can win once
>>68860465
the /tv/ thread is slightly faster, and the /diy/ thread got 0 replies
Last season the threads were way faster, but like the other anon said they did poor job advertising
>>68860465
i think everyone else is in the /tv/ thread
Why can't they just make a VBIED bot?
Ok well that girl is a douche and she got BTFO last year but I love hammer memes
>>68860465
No advertising and the NBA draft is on
>works for nasa
winner announced gg
>>68860493
Please post spoilers when posting aliens. They trigger me
Anyone get BTFO yet I just tuned in?
>>68860592
kek, your flag looks like my toothpaste
>>68860527
>still doesn't win
>>68860609
Yeah, the American spinner bot absolutely destroyed some Australian monstrosity
Chop is getting his shit pushed in
>>68860696
Got that backwards m8, amerispinner rekt the crocodile meme
Chomp is so fucking shit. Beta uprising showed how a hammerbot should at least look and function. Give up.
>>68860609
Minotaur BTFO some meme and the American spinner shit on a bot.
>>68860657
That's red, not orange.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%27s_Flag
>having a bottlebot that shoots flame
>>68860696
>>68860727
never mind I can't read
>inb4 Chomp gets a pity win even though it obviously lost
>>68860527
>gets memed on by a meme bot
>wymmyn
Oh shit, that Disco memebot is driven by the Dr Inferno builder
>>68860779
MGTOW isn't a sport guys
"Devastating blows" from the hammer. Hammer didn't do shit
>use our pills unless you're sick
These commercials are allowed in your county? I might just move.
>women judge gave it to the women
I hope she gets put up against Tombstone
How soon till Chomp gets TOMBSTONED
Chomp did fucking nothing the entire fight other than get flipped, they literally point out that Disco Inferno controlled everything and fucked it up. Absolutely fucking rigged.
>>68860937
>>68860941
>>68860961
>Implying Chomp isn't going to meme it's way to a ship
>win split decision against literal meme without a weapon
>cry
why do nerds let women into their hobbies?
Chomp TOMBSTONED when?
It won't be able to fight memebots forever.
>>68860973
>Chomp gets knocked-out
>wins on split decision
Dis gonna be a slaughter. Scrub bot gonna die
VTECH KICKED IN YO
Seriously where can i get glasses like that
Stop the Fight
>Ultraviolent
this is the biggest fucking meme bot, what's the point? to be a shitty flipper?
Did it even function from the beginning?
Where's the security?
rip in pee ultratard
REKT. Remember kidos functionality over style
>Virginia Tech engineering
JUST
WTF is ultraviolet supposed to even do? That is the dumbest damn thing I've ever seen
>ultraviolet
wtf was it supposed to do?
>>68861111
Nice quads, he had a bretty gud dodge though
>>68861130
You can't win by dodging though.
BATTLE DRONES WHEN?
>>68861111
nice quads
>>68861122
>>68861111
Look cool
What was it even supposed to do?
>>68861146
If you think that's cool check this out
>>68861153
Die for the masses
>>68861153
What it had to do...what it always does...turn death into a fighting chance to live.
Disco robot gets a wild card for being a good sport about the judge rigging
>>68861181
How many wild cards did they say they were gonna have?
>>68861111
It had 2 lifting arms but the motor or tires died after the 1st hit so it could only move by having a seizure
>>68861237
6 I think
TIME FOR MEME CONTROL
We should start a movement to get battlebots banned because it's a cruel and vicious bloodsport and see how many dumbasses join
Complete meme
>We cheated and lost last year. Feel bad for us.
>these guys that meme'd on ghost raptor last year
10/10
>>68861287
>bloodsport
>Fire
>Looks like a nu-male
this is the ultimate meme bot
>>68861339
>cheated
Nice meme
>getting booed
>complete cheats
Holy shit this is ridiculous
>truly the bad boys of the tournament
Didn't the old show have weight classes? They not doing that any more?
>>68861341
>>68861341
>drones
>"bad boys of battlebots"
>flamethrower backpacks
>block of wood bot
this whole match is so cringeworthy
>>68861382
I think the upper limit is old heavyweight or superheavyweight
>decoy plant robot
>its just a block of wood
we have reached ultimate meme bot status
>Manlet bots
>Drones
What the fuck am I watching?
>Drone
That's me as Pharah in Overwatch
>>68861446
qualifying round memebots
>>68861446
complete control (of all memes)
>>68861411
That one fucking team is more edgy than Kai Leng from Mass Effect
How the hell is this team allowed to use a decoy bot, a drone, and a bot??
>getting rekt by complete meme
kill yourselves
>>68861490
Meme season
A FLAME ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING
I would love a webm of the drone being fucking retarded and crashing itself.
Wow a flamethrower actually worked
>The only time a flame did anything or worked out well.
Guess it takes a meme to beat a meme.
>Losing to a meme flamethrower
The fuck would complete control do against a spinner or huge bot it cant pick up
>>68861504
I'm not sure which was more effective, the flying flame fag that didn't do anything or the fucking block of wood that didn't do anything
>decoy bot immediately falls over
>drone immediately crashes
>weapon is too weak to actually do anything
>get beat by a flamethrower of all things
what am i watching?
>>68861504
What the fuck did they think was going to happen?
>>68861550
It's a pretty successful bot, if a spinner stops it will put it on its top pretty easy
>>68861550
get wrecked like it did against ghost raptor last year
we're getting BTFO by the /tv/ thread
>>68861602
Yeah but then you have to browse /tv/ and fuck that.
>>68861602
Well to be fair battlebots isnt exactly a traditional sport to say the least
>YFW they introduce mecha in S3.
>>68861602
At least we're not /m/
>>68861630
There was suppose to be a psuedo mech match in this episode. I think it's an exhibition match but who knows.
So is that a new rule this year that flying drones are allowed as buddy bots?
>Nightmare BTFO
feels bad man, even if he hasn't been relevant in a decade
Memest bots coming up
>>68861557
To think, Nightmare lost fighting a real bot vs one of these scrubs
>>68861752
Flying bots have never been against the rules actually
As you can see, you can't win with them, which is why they were never seen
>>68861752
you could have minibots last year, they just are included in the combined weight and they're utterly useless
>>68861638
Does /m/ have a battle bot thread?
We Reel Steel now!
>>68861863
It's dead though
>more memebots trying to be "innovative"
>you got insurance, right?
holy shit btfo by a woman
>>68861863
>>68861869
Nevermind, I'm retarded I got /m/ and /mu/ confused
this memebot
TOPKEK
WONT LAST ONE MINUTE
MUH ARMS
Is a humanoid bot a meme?
>>68861914
the biggest of all, unfortunately
This gundum looks fucking retarded
>Arm broken already
Mediocre
OH GOD THE MEME BOTS, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE
>Gundam bot
>Arm breaks in 2 seconds
DRAKKARIS
He looks like a retard casually getting mugged, humanoid bots are cool in concept but not ready yet
arm didn't even work. fucking kek. what a meme
its like watching a fire breathing dog attack a double amputee
He forgot his anti dragon shield
>>68861985
Yeah it was a nice concept but it wasn't gonna work unless they get that time response cut down.
>>68862001
Lel
>beat by a fucking flamethrower
fucking elastic tendons got melted and it was over lol
nice fucking advanced technology
muh arms
muh shield
>flamethrowers win 2 battles in a row
memebots are out in full force this year
>>68861985
No shit. When it take 7 seconds to move an arm 5 degrees and meanwhile everything is exposed wire, it's not gonna end well
>>68861914
If it didnt have exposed wires and better controls problaby not
>>68861914
Yes, it would be far too heavy to build a reliable one
let's all pay respects to the OG greatest memebot of all time, Snake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKhIVFavqP4
What the fuck? Did they skip Tombstone or did I miss it?
God I wanna fuck that pink haired slut
Whens the next episode. I dont wanna miss the whole season again
>>68862110
They skipped tombstone and icewave
They won handily so they didnt show the full matches.
>>68862110
He BTFO someone off camera
>>68862110
They skipped him. He was in one of the short clips they showed tearing some memebot a new asshole.
Aaand it's over. Whaddya think overall?
>Chompwinslol
>huehues hueing to the next round
>Complete Control wins clean for once
>memebots everywhere
Samantha or Molly?
>>68862114
Post pics, my faggot roommate turned on American Dad
>>68862153
I think every episode should be 2 hours long
>>68862158
Who is that girl that won and talked about getting girls into math and science?
I want to fuck her and turn her into a right wing bitch
>>68862153
Continue to cut down on the human segements and its probably ok. Buffing the pool to 32 is good because it means more fights, but bad because you get an influx of memes that just get wasted by real bots.
Chomp will get destroyed in a real fight so that will be fun. Hues are going to be put in a piss easy part of the bracket because they definitely want to push them.
As long as it doesn't get too mandrama like season 1 it'll be okay. But considering they kept showing the commentators I have my doubts.
>>68862153
I'm actually glad Chomp got by, now we get to see it dismantled by a real bot.
Discobot is guaranteed a wildcard so it's whatever
>>68862232
chomp, crying because she knew she didnt deserve to win
>>68862238
I dont actually hate the commentators, and im not sure why. I kind of like them...
>>68862293
She deserved it. Did more hits
>>68862331
No she didn't, discomeme was in control the whole time
>>68862238
Do the hues need easymode? There not seems very capable
>>68862331
I dont know how they break the points down, and I realize it did get an ok amount of hits. But disco bot completely controlled chomp.
You cant ignore control, because then bots without weapons would literally never win.
>>68862370
The second half was all hers. She disabled their weapon and landed a bunch of hits.
>>68859440
Kek.
Discomeme got jewwed right out, The Best Hammer is a shit bot. Also, why is the Ultraviolet driver so retarded? He knows his robot has wheels, right?
So who tonight definitely WONT get a wildcard?
>shitposts alligator bot - destroyed
>magikarp LED bot - destroyed
>humanoid robot held together with string - shockingly destroyed
And who WILL get a wildcard? Remember there are 8
>disco bot - obviously paid to take a fall to a shitbot
>Overkill builders daughters bot - old builders always get it
>Nightmare - shit but a crowd favorite
The rest were nothing spectacular
hello where are the robot wars?
shouldn't this be in /asp/?
>What did I miss?
>since when is battlecocks a sport?
>sport
an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.
"team sports such as football and basketball"
Is bot human and wear #23 like Lelbron?
Is bot really just C. Ronaldo and C Ronaldo is on vacation have homosexual sex?
Why are hotpockets the only thing you fucking eat?
Is an robot an Athlete?
Battlebots is great, but Robot Wars was better. Luckily that's getting revived soon too.
