![]() ![]() It swings its body around and connects with Icewave's weapon again, losing more armor in the process. Chomp isn't able to drive in a straight line anymore. After the third hit, something round is torn out of Chomp's body. After two hits, a piece of armor falls off. Icewave begins to tear into Chomp's armor. Although the very edges create a sort of halo around the orange blur, so I'm not sure whether it would be effective. I guess the gray tips do kind of blend into the floor. Kenny does use the word "jam" again when discussing what strategy Chomp might want to employ when facing Icewave's spinning blade. Nothing of much substance to comment on, though. We move to the BattleBox, where lots and lots of spectacle takes place. Then again, apparently the entanglement rules were lax, so who knows what goes anymore. ![]() Gee, I'd hope that there's something in the rules about shielding gasoline engines from heat. If Chomp could set that on fire, then an explosion could occur. Kenny points out that Icewave's weapon operates on a gasoline-powered engine. The hosts discuss what Chomp can try to do offensively. Most robots move so rapidly that precise maneuvers are rarely executed, but it is a nifty idea. The idea being that the opponent will see the blur of orange and miscalculate the distance before damage will occur. Kenny provides some actual information by pointing out that the tips of Icewave's orange blade have been painted gray. I need to stop looking at this show's robot comparisons. Does that arm on the top clamp down? Does it have a lifting wedge? Are flamethrowers automatically worth 63 points? Am I being narrow-minded in my definition of "weapon"? What is a weapon? Am I a weapon? What would be my Weapons ranking? What, truly, is a ranking? Is the concept of numbers fully analogous to the concept of a ranking? What are numbers? Aren't numbers themselves arbitrary? Aren't all representations of "things" arbitrary? Is anything in this universe actually real?! We still don't know what exactly it does other than spew flames in front of its body. I know that looking at them will just make me angry, yet I do it anyway. It's implied that he'll be ready in time for this fight.Ĭhris presents the category rankings. Remember how at the end, Marc DeVidts was concerned about the apparent fire taking place inside his robot? Turns out he had a battery fire, which did a lot of internal damage to the machine. Then we see clips of Icewave's first fight. Zoe Stephenson and her family went to work conducting minor repairs. We see some clips of Chomp's fight that didn't air. I'm going to guess "minor repairs." That'll be good television. Molly says we're going to look at what happened to each robot since their last fight. It's Icewave, which got here via knockout, versus Chomp, which got here via wild card. And if the show wants to arbitrarily place these sixteen robots in the brackets, that's fine - just don't say that they were seeded and then leave us confused as to how those seedings were determined.įor the first battle of the night, we'll start with the 2 vs. If I'm right that Bite Force is a new robot, then I'm not sure how they ranked two similar designs that delivered similar results in their preliminary fights. And I don't think past victories are much of a consideration - while I don't know how well it did, I know that Stinger (with the 5 seed) competed at the BattleBots event that never aired. Maybe they're going by fastest KO's? No, because they told us that Hypershock scored a quick knockout in its first fight, and it has the 14 seed. It's at this point that things already get shaky. It does have an intimidating weapon when the weapon works. I guess you could make an argument for that. Tombstone is seeded number 1 - it's difficult to argue that decision. This is really just an invitation for me to complain further about where these rankings may have come from. Chris tells us that the remaining robots have been seeded 1 through 16. It's a new day (or at least, everybody knew that this would be a different episode than the prelims), so now our hosts have been allowed a change of wardrobe. At the end of this hour, we'll have seen a full 50% of everything this season has to offer. Before this episode begins, it occurs to me that we're already one-third of the way through this entire tournament. ![]()
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