BattleBots Collegiate Championship Episode #1 | BATTLEBOTS

Get ready for metal-crunching action in Episode 1 of the 2009 BattleBots Collegiate Championship! Watch as university teams from across the country pit their custom-built robots against each other in a high-stakes battle for supremacy. With sparks flying and strategies evolving, this intense competition pushes the limits of engineering and creativity. Tune in to witness the adrenaline-fuelled excitement as these student engineers go head-to-head in the ultimate robotic showdown!

[@Jellyman1129]

KZbin is the closest thing we have to a time machine and I love it. It’s cool to see retro BattleBots.

[@kellenrist3973]

Interesting to see Andrea Suarez getting her roots in Battlebots, years before she'd find success with Witch Doctor.

[@cdname47]

Yeah high five! High five? Oh never mind

[@adamhamel9784]

@@cdname47 I'll high five you.

[@Hundo_Mo]

22:29 I didnt know you could tap out!

[@jagdpanzere.onehundred911]

@@Hundo_Mo I know, in one of the modern episodes there is an episode called, “There is no tapping out in Battlebots” or something along the lines of that

[@tamarahamaker7734]

Spoiler alert it will only get better for witch doctor. What do you mean you might be asking. Witch doctor will be the BattleBots champion of 2021. If I'm correct come back here and tell me why how I predicted the future

[@roufdrapht]

"why is it useful" because when someone breaks into my house at 4am, I want to be able to chase them out with an anti-personelle lawnmower

[@gaylehammond8326]

So fun to see Andrea, Donald, the whyachi’s, all before the current tournaments. That was fabulous,. Big fan!

[@BLKBRDSR71]

Donald Hutson hasn't aged a day in 12 years. 🤣

[@bakaohki]

Under modern rules, that last fight is all Category 5 - Triton never used its active weapon. Watching that match made me appreciate the rule change.

[@datguy8805]

Thomas Geraci shut the fuck up about that stupid ass rule. All it causes is trohblex It encourages and changes nothing except using a spinner, as a weapons existance encourages its use. The exception is if youre talking specific matchups like horizontals vs clamps without a wedge in front. In which cause youre not using that or youre dying, no in between. It makes for poor competition, i understand putting in you can only have active weapons, but if you have a bot that dont have a way to use a weapon effectively against certain matchups then you failed at *s e l e c t i o n* not at judging. And if something goes wrong, well you lost damage aggression and the match as long as the weapon touches you and you can make some attempt at aggression at all.

[@jrrobotics]

A wedge is a good but boring design

[@mazda2284]

fast forward to 2020 and it happened again , judges voted a win for a bot that spent 1/2 the match not using its weapon , and then it was ripped off by the bot the judges voted to lose . i think they have a certain bias judge .

[@alexv3375]

@@mazda2284 Beta won that fair and square, salty Spinner Kiddie. Outside of *one* lucky glancing hit that was by accident and didn't affect the performance at all, Rotator was completely embarrassed. It's like you expect spinners to be entitled to an automatic win just because they turned up and switched on the weapon.

[@thomasfplm]

I think that the modularity and attachments are what I have problem with. It is almost like making various robots instead of balancing pros and cons, possibly making something that would normally be disadvantageous in most circumstances, but then you make something that is just for one specific opponent.

[@lieutenantnomad9198]

This is cool seeing Battlebots in this in between state. It's looking more like the modern show while still having aesthetics of the Comady Central show. They still even use the middle weight class.

[@kreyton3312]

exactly what I was thinking

[@randynunez2666]

Sister Suzanne has an awesome outlook on what BattleBots can be!

[@jrrobotics]

Imagine the views if someone somehow found and uploaded episode 2

[@George_M_]

Obviously annoying the wedge bot wins but you gotta credit with them building solidly, unlike all the previous bots Cat5 faced who disintegrated in one weapon on weapon hit.

[@huntzzio]

yeah it is very annoying to see a wedge who never uses their weapon, but credit where credit is due, the bot is solid

[@sombojoe]

It’s not fair to consider Cat 5’s weapons weapon failure, since Triton didn’t even have a weapon to disable!

[@jacksonmin2058]

11 years later, same ref.

[@The_OD1]

Keep seeing battlebots champions when they were young

[@sonikku1011]

I see Andrea from Witch Doctor! She's my age too, hard to believe this was 13 years ago! Also I had no clue Missouri State University students got to compete! Nice to see my state being represented in Battlebots!

[@SageofCancer]

"I hate the wedge" The wedge burned down this man's village

[@EricAlder]

How far we've come since then!

[@TedApelt]

Blast from the past! I love it! Great to see the superstars before they go on to greatness.

[@8thMusketeer]

Man, the battlebots we have today would tear these ones to shreds

[@WalkerRileyMC]

Amateur bots that haven't got all their issues worked out vs seasoned bots that are top of the line. Jeez, I wonder why they'd win.

[@Leatherface123.]

@@WalkerRileyMC chunk is built by Christian Carlberg 2 time champion before this

[@familyoftacticaldroids309]

Heck, I'd honestly love to see some fight Bots of the same category/weapon class. Like Cat 5 vs Gigabyte. Maybe even Triton (wedge only) vs Duck, although Duck retired.

[@WalkerRileyMC]

"Is it your first time driving?" "No but it's the first time we had full armor on it" Then yes....if you haven't driven it at weight fully assembled, it's the first time you've driven it.

[@54raceman]

How the tech inspector made it through that entire thing without biting his tongue off from biting it so hard is a miracle

[@emp100k]

Category 5 absolutely tore Jailbreak to shreds. That curved plow on Triton is just so good at deflecting any spinning weapon attacks, drivers really needed to just get around and get even one hit on the side of the robot. During that whole match Category 5 never hit anything but Triton's plow, if it had it would have been a very different outcome. This appears to be the exact same wedge design Donald Hudson uses on his current lockjaw robot.

[@smashbother5684]

That girl from Bradley seemingly signalling the driver to spin in place as a last ditch effort after the weapon was lost, was some praise-worthy quick thinking. However, the rest of their stuff was hard to watch. Why did the driver ram the bot into the wall? Why would you drop the pulverizer on your own bot? Maybe it's nerves, but it seems like they have not prepared at all.

[@TheQuarterGuy]

They should bring back the College Championship one of these years.

[@BlackSoulKOD]

23:43 omfg!! is tombstone!!!

[@datguy8805]

Wellington Moposita this os the first time last rites as been called tombstone yes

[@Hundo_Mo]

Good eye!

[@paulkienitz]

A baby Andrea Suarez!

[@Cyromantik]

IKR? She goes on to a biomedical career and founded the BattleBots team Witch Doctor!

[@UndeadCollector]

Funny how the first fight is like watching Chaos 2 and Hypno Disc tranformed into a new Bot, destroying and flipping at the same time

[@Hundo_Mo]

34:12 Andrea flexing so hard

[@apeasantonyoutube92]

omg this was 10 years ago and yet engineering students in my country still cant create robots like these

[@nolanstone4723]

I wish episode 2 was locatable somewhere out there.

[@tommytaylorberge3875]

Where can the rest of these episodes be found?

[@destroyer9525]

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[@Hundo_Mo]

@@destroyer9525 thanks!!!

[@elitesniper923]

No where unfortunately this is the only one to exist. Apparently the Ewert boys won it all.

[@Starpommm]

Thumbs up if you are watching it in 2018

[@familyoftacticaldroids309]

I used to watch around this era of BB as a kid. I have a model of Ronan and he's still with me to this day. I will have to look for the episodes involving some of my favorites, especially SubZero, my king. It's great to see this in such high quality too, considering how other videos (including from other BB teams) are usually in horrible quality and are otherwise hard to see and hear what's going on. Of course, those may be from the Comedy Central era.

[@norsehawk]

beginning of episode, all bots this season must have an active weapon... judges give top win to bot that never used an active weapon.

[@arthurneddysmith]

Exactly. This win just encourages teams to be passive.

[@lindaraditz536]

4:15 Oh hey Jason Bardis the dr inferno jr driver 7 years later

[@MaxAntonioMendoza]

Bradley University, next time try with chew gum and chopsticks...

[@evoeightyci]

Nice to go back and see just how far this sport has come. The dedication must be there or you'll be picking up battery packs and bearings at fight's end.

[@ianb1968]

Wow that’s some young SOW boys!

[@wisewolftony]

That has to be Andrea from Which Doctor right. Unless she has a twin or something. I skipped around in the episode so not sure if they ever mentioned her name or not.

[@SINTD_666]

Wise Wolf Tony that’s her for sure. Spotted her instantly.

[@chrisz0619]

Steve Wozniak is the real deal, such an awesome guy

[@maryknance3749]

Loved them all I say from what I saw of Category 5 was awesome that were a mean battlebot and great battle.

[@joshuaveliz4212]

Sus peleas son lo mejor que he visto

[@maryknance3749]

Towards the final battle Triton did good think Category 5 still did their best efforts. Good battle for what I thought of it.

[@YARKONB]

Que genial el programa!!!! 🇨🇱

[@jayweber8333]

that headmistress knows how to prompt thought. so strong.

[@Cyromantik]

I like the chemistry between the UCSD and UCM teams, they both seem so chill and friendly

[@ShadowCourier]

I genuinely prefer this old format over the new episodes. It has so much more charm!

[@FatManWalking18]

so cool to see familiar faces from so long ago

[@ArquimedesOfficial]

LOL, 22:32 look the young Andrea S2

[@epiphonium]

Awesome battles, awesome show !

[@davidbundesen5867]

And Jake from team Wyachi too. A very young man.

[@cancerix1700]

The filler between fights here is way more fun here than in modern BattleBots.

[@StupidRobotFightingLeague]

Awesome stuff!

[@insertcringeynamehere9090]

How many likes do we gotta reach for Ep 2?

[@kumargaurav8140]

The Miami team kicked some butt there...

[@koper_r]

Soooo, when's episode #2?

[@enemdisk6628]

That lady is a great teacher. Wow.

[@watanglipuhadjar2654]

kecerdasan sekaligus kekuatan dibenturkan. sangar arek2 iki 👍

[@ThresholdDreamer111]

More episodes when? You can't just leave us hanging after only ONE.

[@agustinval1508]

where's episode 2

[@evernewb2073]

Ouch: I instinctively recoiled in horror when I saw that square grid frame during the autodesk add at around 8 minutes, I knew better playing with friggin' Duplo as a toddler! it amazes and horrifies me how something like that can progress through hundreds of hours of what amounts to prototype production. I do wish they included more of the building/designing in the show, there's all sorts of fluff piece and filler commentary in there they could trade for it. Just to be clear it *_does_* serve a purpose to include a few other things in the show than just the fights, I just wish there was more of the interesting stuff that actually goes into all this in what they choose to include to fill that role in the presentation structure of the show

[@evernewb2073]

okay, does youtube force autocorrupt on whatever you type or something? I hit enter on that, re-entered sort-newest to refresh and double check it, and now it's got several words replaced with similar ones. this is not even remotely an isolated incident, though it's rare for it to be right where I'm looking when I do it (wish->with, my eyes were on "they") messed it up a different way when editing it, tried playing around with re-editing the message a few times and it looks like it is doing a combination of re-inserting deleted stuff when compiling what it actually posts from the action log in the work area before you hit save and, yes, running spellcheck/autocomplete and possibly a censor filter over the thing before actually posting it, between compiling errors and forced autocorrupt it's pulling word replacements and plopping in/out entire sections if you are moving stuff around with copy-paste/etc.

[@54raceman]

Agreed there was a few bots this tournament that made me very concerned that these people are most likely now engineers lol

[@evernewb2073]

@@54raceman looking back on that now I think it might have actually had a lot to do with the program that they were trying to advertise: it did NOT do curves well even in the user interface, let alone the prediction tools they were talking about. that's why you saw triangles in everything that had to be engineered with precise tolerances up until surprisingly recently: strongest shape they could effectively do the math for so you'd see much the same engineering go into a making a thing whether it was the cut-and-paste design of a sherry's restaurant or a friggin' space shuttle...still no excuse for making that thing out of a bunch of unbraced rectangles though: almost nothing is supported and you either have good angles on all the joins or you have isolated application to a weak point, you could quite literally tear that bot apart with your bare hands in a couple minutes. heh: doubly so since there had been a couple preset pattern variants for "I want to make this thing strong" since before any of the event organizers were born, let alone the kids competing.

[@DinoGoofHybridHero7531]

It's so cool to see BattleBots from the past. I wonder how these bots would do against the modern ones?

[@arthurneddysmith]

4:39 Chunk v. Bear Punch. 9:54 Chunk v. Triton. 21:45 Category 5 v. Jailbreak. 29:38 Rhino v. Category 5. 35:24 Triton v. Category 5 Category 5 was the only decent bot out there. It's a shame you can win by making a snow plowing bot and do nothing other that drive around.

[@justinhogenauer5568]

"first time a hurricane hits California" ...that aged well...

[@watsmyu989]

Like I always say, my state/Missouri is exactly as it sounds like; misery

[@Johnzobeams]

Won with a wedge does that annoy anyone else also there was not use of a primary weapon

[@enemdisk6628]

This looks and feels like from a parallel universe

[@MattCooperVideo]

This is awesome! Where is episode # 2?

[@diegosanchezrodriguez2626]

I Will watching in 2019😂

[@MC_Gameing6917]

wow this was uploaded 10 years ago

[@richbrockmeier3922]

Flashback to the future.

[@jerijayz3929]

Teamwork. Autobots... I mean BattleBots... Assemble

[@SaugatChamling]

15:18 is she the captain of witch doctor?

[@deathandbananas2152]

Yes

[@jacksp1787]

Se llama La Bruja, Andrea Suarez.

[@Hundo_Mo]

Yep!

[@neurotraumatized-thrall]

"It takes more than spin to win".

[@gregmason2337]

SO cool seeing all the modern builders in their infancy!

[@alterstassfurter5743]

Wtaching bb makes me a Fan of...merry christmas!

[@notify3746]

yeah.

[@rmannayr2129]

WHERE IS EPISODE 2?!

[@grantmeier7583]

is this the 1st episode

[@anotherbbfan]

These robots are better than some of the actual series

[@user-xn5sd2sk4d]

it's amazing how it's possible to do this these days

[@datguy8805]

thecouchpotato it was possible a while ago, and it started getting its true grip in combat in robot wars uk series 3.

[@rumahlampu1702]

12 tahun 👍👏👏

[@thenewproper3uc]

thumbnail got changed?

[@RandallSlick]

Hugely entertaining, but looking back on this from the giddy heights of 2023, I'm amazed that the engineering of BattleBots of 2011 (or thereabouts) had devolved so much from Robot Wars of 1998-2002. Chaos 2, Hypno-Disc et al vs any of this motley band would have cleaned up. If ever there was a lesson in learning from history.

[@osmargarcia8752]

Andrea Suárez my crush ❤️😍😍

[@accionesdefe]

Entre los estudiantes que construyeron la Categoría 5 estaba Andrea Suárez , quien más tarde construiría el Witch Doctor favorito de la multitud de ABC Reboot

[@stuffrus]

Do episode 2

[@geraldhartman2336]

You need to turn down the background sound effects…hard to hear the what people are saying. Otherwise, loved to watch, lots of fun had by my family.

[@howardgreenwood542]

Is this like crush gear?

[@ThresholdDreamer111]

Oh, and Pete Abrahamson is like fine wine

[@Riteaidbob]

Can we lose the music please.

[@bami2]

25:00 safety first while showing home video of Ginsu almost hitting the camera operator with batteries

[@GSquid24]

21:25 “we’re not here to surrender” 22:26 “we’re done”

[@unknown-x-1777]

It would be nice to talk to the inventor of autodesk, got some autocad civil 3d questions that I can never get answers for.

[@Gamekirby]

Where are the other episodes?!

[@AbouAnas89]

شكرا الاخوين قدس

[@veritas41photo]

Bradley should get the boot. Pound on it , guys. And why is the interviewer's microphone insignia blurred out? Huh?

[@yifun6187]

Wow these are the most boring announcers ever

[@zundapp940]

is there one whitout music so i cen hear somthing?

[@SyberSqueegy]

"Why do we build fighting robots?" because we like to build. Fighting robots don't last long, so we are constantly building more, and building better.

[@geekgamesproduction3214]

Muito bom

[@ikenpakantan]

YEEEEAAHHH!!!!

[@n.b.p.davenport7066]

I want to see live animals put inside those things in a little compartment with glass and see how they survive, maybe mice with little safety belts and helmets😮 cool😅

[@gaylehammond8326]

I am pretty sure Andrea did not realize she would be a feared which doctor 12 years later.

[@familyoftacticaldroids309]

I admit, I wonder how the headmistress would've felt about seeing Witch Doctor. C5 is one thing, but WD is all sorts of dark magic/voodoo aesthetics, I wonder how she would've reacted to it and the same girl having made it. XD