BashBots Season 4 Episode 1 - Battle of the BattleBots

[@WorldofWoodrow]

This show is really really well polished now. To the whole team, well done, fantastic first episode

[@teamgetwreckedcombatrobots776]

Broke: BattleBots decreasing the size of the BattleBox by adding a stupid fucking self. Woke: BashBots increasing the size of the BashBox to give bots more room to fight.

[@RoboBowler.]

increasing the size of the arena was a huge pain in my arse definitely worth it in the end though; makes the old arena look tiny in comparison

[@gengarisnotinsmash...]

Ironically, I won't be able to watch this when it premieres because I'll be driving the robot at my team's next robotics competition, which is tomorrow.

[@anaustralian9694]

I had a friend on a Discord server I'm on introduce me to this. I'm so glad they did. This is extremely well made. Good job 👍

[@thedarkergerkin]

Love the change to the fight card format, this show is so good.

[@fellowinternetstranger8700]

I love that you chose effectivenes over damage

[@drneroli]

As one of the people who helped decide effectiveness as a criteria to supercede damage, i'd explain it thus, we felt that the way some tournaments use the damage criteria in judges decision feels a bit limiting to machines that aren't spinners. We wanted to pick a criteria that was easy to explain and worked for every robot, so effectiveness replaced damage, easy, hah

[@fellowinternetstranger8700]

@@drnerolibriliant idea

[@razer259]

@@drneroli That's actually a really good idea. Based on that explanation, hopefully more events in the future could take inspiration from this.

[@Jalor218]

@@drneroli It's so great because for spinners, it's still damage. They don't lose anything, lifters just gain something else.

[@Living_Murphys_Law]

Bashbots, Lego Battlebots, Robot Khaos, Battlebots, Motorama, all on the same day? Am I dreaming?

[@curtislitz397]

i love the fact that the actual driver for huge is driving the bot I love this show keep it up

[@ThePimpasaurusRex456]

Nice episode featured a lot of my favourite bots and most of them won, keep up the great work.

[@TheRealDylanTRM]

ITS FINALLY HERE.

[@Frosty_tha_Snowman]

15:17 Croga - here is the part where the clock wasn't moving that I was referring to. I KNEW I'd seen it somewhere. Couldn't find where though, was making me feel crazy. 😂

[@Jonnyonthespot123]

Absolutely love the show. Somehow the production value got even better this year! My only criticism is the same problem I have with the real life Battlebots, why are you having champions facing bots who aren't in the same league as them? Both Mars and Atlas fought bots in their first fight who were in the same losers rumble last season and who didn't stand a chance. Wasn't the point of the fight night format that you get excellent fights all the time? Especially when it's a video game where spare parts aren't a problem? I only criticise because I love the show so much and because I want better fights all the time. This episode was fantastic. Also Rampage does what Hydra can't, they actually hit the ceiling with another robot!

[@ThyrusEvo]

To be fair Erod did a really good job outwedging Mars.

[@croga9581]

it's not mentioned in the episode but the tournament actually follows a "swiss" style tournament where you can only fight someone of the same record as your own, so that means the main events will create themselves past round 1 as only 1-0s will fight, then 2-0s and 3-0s. Round 1 was kept randomised to keep it fair for everyone - obviously putting mars and polis or whatever as the episode 1 main event would be good tv but it wouldn't sit right with me putting so many good robots on the back foot. With only 16 spots available, robots with more than 1 loss are close to guaranteed to not be in the bracket, so it would be like in seasons past putting 2 top tier robots against each other in the qualifying round. Basically tldr just a matter of fairness for round 1 as the main events will create themselves as the season progresses

[@Jonnyonthespot123]

@@croga9581 That's absolutely fantastic and should totally be in the show. So glad you guys are doing a proper tournament and now I know what you're doing I can retract my criticism. You are officially now the best robot combat show!

[@croga9581]

​@@Jonnyonthespot123 there are a lot of little technicalities to the format that can all just easily be summed up as "robots get up to 4 fights" to keep things simple for the viewers

[@killdozer7792]

Good lord, if that first fight had lasted not even a second longer, we'd have had a MAJOR upset....

[@codesilvergaming]

Builder of Vertically Unchallenged here. Hi.

[@hobodrew4498]

who are you

[@Living_Murphys_Law]

@@hobodrew4498 Builder of Deep Six with a Disk.

[@codesilvergaming]

I am you but not. who are you?

[@RoboBowler.]

builderofmarshere sadly croga didn't use my interview for my first fight, but my interview was this word for word: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYmanYd9pp2Cm7s

[@TaleOfTheToaster]

mate that's class

[@leafycrossing4755]

I was confused where there were pre qualifiers robots here...

[@michaelbreen7865]

I know I'm not the first to suggest this format, but I'd never thought you'd actually DO it.

[@scottbennitt3528]

I was worried there when Mars took on E.R.O.D. You were really on to something there.

[@GalacticSpartan]

Me and Wither (Migronic/Wishbone) did our after thoughts of BashBots Ep 1 and pre-qualifiers! Enjoy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJezho2tj9l4n68

[@bennythesnail3914]

This will be awesome

[@FaithfulMC]

Are the bots driven and built by real people? Can you play vs others in RA2?

[@ladela7348]

You can in RA2, however this is Garry's Mod. A completely different game.

[@smithcast08]

I broke down the footage, tenderlove hit the pit floor just before time, so I would give it to Mulsanne.

[@TaleOfTheToaster]

Rocket League, is it? 😂

[@prodgbm]

Minecraft

[@shiken2224]

Nah it looks more like Tetris

[@LeafarBlade]

Its LBX...

[@The_Seaborg]

Microsoft flight simulator if you go by some fights XD

[@Living_Murphys_Law]

Nope. It's in Mario.

[@Dubstepper]

Panther is my favorite!

[@R_e_a_l-LB]

I’m still salty about tenderlove losing to mars

[@TheRobD4200]

*T H E H Y P E I S R E A L!*

[@rachelchristensen5825]

everyone rampage got its first ever win

[@richardclark9816]

👏

[@acnhsasha3085]

THE NEW SEASON

[@mehmarcus1995]

"It's Mul-sane!" NO AGH I love you bashbots, but as a motorsport fan it's pronounced "Mul-saan" Like how the americans pronounce "Nissan"

[@abotto5667]

Nice

[@ThomasRodriguez-jq1mb]

Finally s4

[@claudiapaz3620]

FINALLY

[@drneroli]

thebuilderof

[@nathanielhayden5919]

The judges are drunk

[@drneroli]

For which fight?

[@nathanielhayden5919]

@@drneroli first and last I would say

[@nathanielhayden5919]

@@drneroli and also the criteria they decided on

[@drneroli]

@@nathanielhayden5919 In the first fight, I hadn't fallen in the pit yet so they decided based on the fact that Mav struggled to do alot against me for most of the fight so I won it. In the last fight I was one of the judges, and we decided that, overall, HUGE hadn't managed to do enough against Rampage where Rampage had stayed very aggressive through the fight, so we decided that it had won overall And we decided against using Damage as a criteria as it was sort of unhelpful to hammer, crushers, control robots, it just made them less effective by default. We'd decided on Effectiveness instead of damage to give non damaging robots more a chance

[@nathanielhayden5919]

@@drneroli fair enough I thought it the rules were different I still believe huge won but that was close ether way I feel effectiveness is a good category but I feel some points for damage would be good as well thanks for the detailed response to my wonky comment

[@LKSgm]

bro tf is this

[@MrDaddy405]

Awkward

[@Dubstepper]

Panther is my favorite!