BattleBots Fight of the Week: Free Shipping vs. Hydra - from World Championship VII

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In pairs, bot inventors go head-to-head inside the perilous and bullet-proof BattleBot arena, with the aim of destroying or completely disabling their opponent’s machine.
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[@sleepingbee8997]

Free Shipping: “All we need to do is avoid the flipper” Also Free Shipping: *Drives straight at the front of Hydra*

[@ryanamburgy2791]

They tried

[@Durwood71]

Driving skill by team Hydra made it all but impossible to approach the bot from anywhere but head on.

[@tsjoshi]

yeah... Hydra driver just had to press flip.. Free shipping was already helping hydra setting own-self above that flipper.

[@tiger215dawn]

Hydra: *Flips Free Shipping 15 Feet In The Air*

[@ccoder4953]

I see Free Shipping is now doing air freight. Glad to see they are branching out.

[@Kyle-gb9dq]

That's some funny 💩😅🤣😂

[@GoldwingGary1]

Do they get a local radar report before the match? Any low flying planes?

[@proilanpontillasbonethugsc5628]

😂

[@zombie_snax]

😂

[@jordanwilliams2557]

Hydra was just helping them start up their branch

[@jerretringler1462]

It’s important to remember that these are 250lb robots getting launched 10-15 feet in the air

[@juanitotucupei]

Are they really 250 lbs?

[@jerretringler1462]

@@juanitotucupei they may not look like it but they are.

[@notchipotle]

they're actually huge 😂

[@IronOre33]

More like 3 - 5 feet

[@jerretringler1462]

@@IronOre33 no it is 10-15 feet. It’s higher than it looks

[@Carspotter682]

I can't believe that Hydra did 20 flips in a single battle. That's possibly the most flips ever done in BattleBots history.

[@ConairHockey]

When he took the over on the 11.5 flips I genuinely thought it was going to be close. Nope little did I know Hydra was cheerleading captain.

[@GoatedAtNFS]

has Bronco done more?

[@danz107]

And the flipper never loses the power and ability to continue to flip.

[@melin1969]

that bot has unlimited power reserves or supply for flips so could do possibly do twice that

[@TheTwistedStone]

Maybe Battlebots history but I do remember 'Chaos 2' and 'Big Cheese' doing a lot of flipping in the UK version Robot Wars....

[@danz107]

Hydra's weapon just never seems to lose power. It can flip just as high on it's first flip as it's fifteenth.

[@Living_Murphys_Law]

Hydraulics does that.

[@ntal5859]

@@Living_Murphys_Law You sure it's not a spring compressed by hydraulics as hydraulics are powerful but slow.

[@thelatiosmaster]

That's exactly what makes Hydra hydraulic flipper so unique: CO2 based flippers consumes the gas to generate pressure, so they run out of it after some flip. Hydraulic flippers don't consumes anything, so they can deliver a basicaly undefined number of flips never loosing power

[@233Deadman]

@@ntal5859 You're close to it there. It's effectively a spring type hydraulic accumulator, but utilising air for the compression vector rather than a steel spring. The advantage they have is they can keep going all fight unless they have a rupture somewhere in the system, but there is a slight downside of it needing to take a few seconds to charge it up to full power. For those wondering, Jake gave a brief explanation in a video on the Skorpios team's KZbin channel.

[@Living_Murphys_Law]

@@ntal5859 Yes. That's what made Hydra so special, and also where it got its name.

[@kodoqbesar4301]

Classic Hydra throwing it's opponents into the stratosphere

[@anushmnoyan3860]

5è,. 1 nop9ujóq890io⁰popp0⁷a top a 8

[@rodrigocampos1302]

Fight starts at 4:38

[@stinkyfungus]

🍺 for your service, sir.

[@Killemgrillem00]

Yes thanks.. this show has way too much BS to watch through.

[@pensfan-vk3bo]

Thanks

[@dlweiss]

And pretty much ends at 4:44 :)

[@Bugsy_Brown]

goat

[@rediponto9588]

Didn't expect that free shipping could take more flips than rotator

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

That's because Rotator got one of its forks stuck on the wall, high-centering it. The wheels were still turning

[@larsstougaard7097]

They should change the name to Free Flipping

[@bami2]

3:21 "we just have to win the ground war" Meanwhile Hydra struggling to even get in the starting square, scraping all the paint off the floor. There's just a pile of paint flakes in front of Hydra in the next shot.

[@what-fw5vk]

XD

[@blessingmathayo]

This was a very abusive match…..props to free shipping for taking all those punches for that long

[@GoatedAtNFS]

i think it’s safe to say Hydra has taken Broncos crown for king of a flipping machine. even though Hydra didn’t have Tombstone in his prime

[@what-fw5vk]

I think.

[@SlacktivistWeeb]

It did that when it defeated Bronco.

[@Werkvuur]

Yeah, I was thinking this Hydra reminds me of 2018 Bronco. They had a great season then.

[@xxfreedomxx9479]

Tbh bronco was just too slow and it had a flipper cooldown

[@GoatedAtNFS]

@@xxfreedomxx9479 well it wasn’t because it was slow, it’s partially because it became outdated quick. the armor wasn’t necessarily good against spinners all the time hence why they built that mechanism on the back of the bot. if you compare it to hydra, hydra is low to the ground and automatically went to the ground game. hydro also can flip faster than bronco.

[@The8BitNerd]

Now we need to go see Hydra compete against Fed Ex for who can break the most packages!

[@darkninjacorporation]

Appreciate Hydra for keeping the flipper spirit in the meta. But props to Free Shipping for tanking this hits time and time again, with pieces falling off like nobody’s business!

[@RennieAsh]

4:43 how Amazon/FedEx treats your parcels:

[@eatcarpet]

Change the name to Prime Shipping.

[@shadow-scope-fsm7165]

This fight was just peak Hydra. It's so much fun seeing it throw bots sky high, and barrel rolling them through the air. Also, it was nice of Jake to let it go to the judges. He could've taken a late knockout win (heck, John seemed like he was trying to beat the fight timer when counting out Free Shipping), but because Free Shipping did so well to survive as long as it did, it deserved to go the distance.

[@vgaportauthority9932]

It's nuts considering these bots weight as much as a man and a half... Just flung into the air with such ease.

[@Mister_Clean]

@@vgaportauthority9932 I don't even want to think of what would happen if I stood on that flipper myself

[@PurpleRanger]

One of my all-time favorite matches! I've watched it multiple times on my lunch breaks at work! "He paid for Ground Shipping. I gave him free air!" Funniest line ever!

[@smallwaves]

Hydra's wedgelets might get caught on the floor a ton and it might have to sacrifice a lot of mobility, but with how important winning the ground game is in BattleBots, I'd say it's a concession worth taking

[@smilley792]

If you watch vs tantrum(this season) hydra was much more manoeuvrable but ended up losing the ground war. I think jake tried to be ultra aggressive as he lost last season to tantrum because he apparently wasn’t. And sacrificed ground game. But it didn’t work, so they’ve gone back to ultra low, struggle to get around but win all the ground game config.

[@6root91]

From the first couple of fights I observed of Hydra, I can conclude that that bot is one of, if not, the best flipper out there. Always super consistent, precise and just all in all effective each shot.

[@dronepilotrick4928]

It’s called now Free flipping 😂😂😂

[@Javier99999]

this is the best strategically fight I've seen, hydra just controlled the middle like a boxer and barely moved unless it had to. What a shark

[@joen0411]

I’m glad they no longer have the gaps in arena so you can’t flip someone out. But Free Shipping probably would have preferred it, that was just a 3 minute of Hydra testing it’s flipper.

[@233Deadman]

Oh they do have gaps. There's a couple of small ones behind the pulverizers on the upper deck side, and lets face it there's no way Hydra couldn't still get someone in the entry gate areas by going over the screens they added by them.

[@HankMFWimbleton]

"free shipping" is the best name for an inanimate object i've ever seen, it's that funny

[@nateolmsted22]

Such an insane amount of power in that flipper. Pretty impressive build on free shipping too though to survive that many blows

[@MJY5drives]

Hydra is now ones of my favorite bots. Gotta love the yeet

[@madingthree]

Free shipping is now a gold member at Hydra airlines

[@andrewfortenbacher1176]

For a Flippin good time in the Battlebox, just see Hydra!

[@cerberus2654]

Hydra couldn't have asked for a better designed robot than free shipping. There was no way free shipping was gonna land a shot, and that opening under its spinner was perfect for hydra's flipper.

[@codster9]

Yeah it was a big mismatch.

[@InFiNiTeO7]

Hydra flipping Free Shipping like how Spongebob flipping Krabby Patties.

[@serioushex3893]

"i'm big, i'm scary, i've got a flamethrower" hydra; "haha, Yeet!"

[@LazarheaD]

When Hydra is involved, you know there's gonna be flips.

[@rrbc_robotix_2111]

Huge: rly?

[@conniee.]

Wait, not so fast... that fight with Huge was sooo boring because Hydra had a "Bike Rack" to control Huge, pushing him into the walls, not flipping him, just pinning him.🤔🥱😴

[@ericbrammer2245]

"A Shot from Our Thermal Cam' ....Yup! it's Airborn!! And going Down, in Flames!!

[@SethiozProject]

now that's my kind of flipper, this is exactly something that i'd build if i had money to build a robot. this makes Chaos 2 look like a relic .. oh wait, chaos 2 IS a relic, but Chaos 2 was and always will be the inspiration to all flipper bots! what's impressive, is how well optimized this flipper is. most bots run out of co2 after like 10 flips, actually i'm not sure what he uses to power the flipper, it could be different kind of mechanism, i haven't noticed any co2 venting during the flips. also it's impressive how many hard hits free shipping took before breaking down, don't forget that those are almost 100kg robots flying around, try dropping 10kg on your floor and see just how much force it has. i think over 90% of bots would break after 1 of those high flips.

[@valdemarhoejlund6506]

It doesn't use CO2 at all, it's a hydraulic flipper. Its name, Hydra, also reflects this. They made a post on Facebook about how it works. Being able to flip many times with the same power is one of the great advantages of this technology.

[@MrFerrariF360]

That was beautiful. That is the first time I have seen a flipper really dominate.

[@TheInvertedFollicle507]

Hydra be flipping bots like they were pancakes lol 😂 😂 😆

[@badscrew4023]

King of potential energy

[@Arkios64]

Am I glad that this video actually released, with the last five being unavailable for almost two weeks; this was a joy to watch!

[@gillesashley9314]

This is by far the funniest battle in BattleBots history. Funny fight.

[@xtheamazingax]

Flipping fantastic. Literally and figuratively. 😁

[@kodamasdad9562]

Now that's good sportsmanship. He was even laughing along as his bot got sent almost 5 meters into the air 😂

[@lisaeverage9691]

Free Shipping.... durable as always, and... As Gary Gin as always.

[@Crossingman18]

"Stop stop he's already dead" great simpsons reference!!

[@AceTrainerBanana]

"Stop! Stop! He's already dead!"

[@Frosty_tha_Snowman]

I really like team Whyachi this year. They seem to have really grown into good sportsman and I genuinely enjoy watching them, as well as their badass bots.

[@golfingnerd456]

I just love seeing hydra throw these 250 pound monsters around the box like it's nothing

[@ManIkWeet]

Hydra was flipping awesome!

[@atsuchiya624]

before the fight the audience chanting "GARY, GARY" I misheard and thought I was watching Jerry Springer.

[@AHYL88]

While one-sided, this was a good fight; kinda reminds me of the Toro vs Vladiator fight from 2001, but turned way up to 11 for modern day!

[@Kyle-gb9dq]

And don't forgot Toro vs little blue engine

[@theinfinitykid3868]

THE MATCH was tough , nice hydra keep breaking records

[@Koopa126]

Welcome to Free Shipping Airline Services, sponsored by Hydra. Such an entertaining fight!

[@Giuseppee_]

Hydra start was litterally fire🔥🔥🔥

[@zpe1200]

4:37

[@anthonybarker1843]

That was savage, that flipper has epic power!

[@neurotraumatized-thrall]

Poor Hydra is forced to go overboard with flips, or else the judges will rule for his opponent saying that he didn't do enough damage.

[@emannuelvictor7]

Hydra is one of my favourite bots. After minotaur

[@russellhltn1396]

I think the only chance Free Shipping might have had is if he could have faked out Hydra into popping the flipper and then attack while the arm was up.

[@ryanbarker5217]

a perfect example of how reese joked about hydra sitting there waiting for his opponent to drive up to him to be attacked.

[@QAZ-OMEN]

This was an incredible 1 sided match. No Mercy, loved it

[@SixSilverStones]

Hydra is a BEAST! Great comeback by team whyachi

[@evanherriges4042]

4:29 the face jake makes here is so funny

[@blockednostril9739]

I forgot how fun this fight was. Like blip, bronco and the like have power and get some high flips..but hydra gets truly VIOLENT flips don’t it?

[@tylerdowd]

that was the most one-sided fight ive ever seen lol

[@AlexReiter1988]

Made me laugh all the way through the match

[@bobhappy31]

Such an ironic name for how the match played out

[@biagiocozza8875]

Huge Hydra fan. Definitely one of my favourite bots.

[@kenshin491]

That brother's floating, in the aaaaaair!

[@terryeaster1]

This is the coolest sport in sports

[@lindsaywalsh8611]

Free shipping in the first 5 seconds of the fight: FIRE

[@HAHA.GoodMeme]

hydra proving to have a really good driver this season

[@TheTrooperMB]

lol it always has been the same

[@mosesdrubahadur3255]

Watching the camera men and everyones head is the funniest- up, down, up, down

[@suvespa]

Plot twist....free shipping actually love those free flips n air time... probably shouted 'Sent It!!!' at the start 🤣😜😅

[@GeorgeProbably]

Free Shipping? More like Air Shipping!

[@RennieAsh]

Free air express priority drop shipping

[@InfernoXXXBloodToure]

🚁ROFLCOPTER!

[@AndyHoke]

Amazing match for Hydra. He probably could have got more flips, except Hydra had to spend almost one third of the match waiting for Free Shipping to land, lol.

[@Ryu_D]

Thank you for the video.

[@xCokeMaanx]

Man i love hydra, it’s definitely one of my favorites. It’s always a amazing show, way better then spinner bots!

[@1.4142]

Free shipping got flipped harder than an actual package during delivery

[@parkerbrown9159]

Considering this and OverKill at the destruct-a-thon, Hydra is just showing off this week! Lol

[@sangwanimwafulirwa4079]

we need technology that will automatically measure height for these flips

[@liammcdonough6832]

You want my opinion? Hydraulic flippers are the future of flipbots.

[@thehardie-boy3090]

Free Shipping: We have a spinner now! Also Free Shipping:

[@hen1xc]

Hydra💜

[@Sn0wc4t]

Been a while since I've seen a fighting robot play Hacky Sack with their opponent...

[@volodymyrbabenko5594]

The hydra driver showed himself, at the end of the round, like a freak, he attacked a standing bot!

[@emp100k]

Still the best flipper in the game, Gary Jin's bots are known for their speed and durability, but any bot that gets tossed in the air 20 times is gonna start having issues. I know Hydra would like to be 3-0 right now but a convincing win over Rotator and a very dominant win here put them in excellent position going into their last match.

[@smithyblue]

When both robots were by the red square it looked like Hydra was juggling Free Shipping.

[@tryhardfighter1833]

jake eward can open a tortilla parlor right now. That's a lot of flips

[@dwaynedaniels8140]

Did they really have to "go to the scorecards" for that?!

[@RennieAsh]

Yes, they wanted to tally up the flips for the unanimous decision

[@233Deadman]

Probably the fact it's a competition means they legally have to do a proper judges decision even in a one sided match, for legal reasons (game show rules in the US be like that)

[@souljat1131]

OH SNAP indeed.

[@WhatSayCrochet]

After that much time in the air, I think Gary needs to change his bot's name from "Free Shipping" to "Air Mail".

[@conniee.]

😆👍🏼👍🏼

[@necromancer0616]

Stop picking on poor Gary, he knew he couldn't beat Hydra.

[@alexp974]

Free shipping got shipped all right

[@MADMartinQc]

Freeshipping always been a punching bag. How can you even hope to see this bot win lol

[@233Deadman]

Ask Bronco, Gigabyte and Tombstone, all previously beaten by Free Shipping in Battlebots matches.

[@what-fw5vk]

@@233Deadman Tombstone hasn't been beaten by Free Shipping.

[@Silver_Arrow]

Free Shipping is a FANTASTIC robot name

[@PatNetherlander]

Hydra: “Welcome to the Filp-Side!”

[@antoniocurcio693]

Isn't Hydra helpful? It helped Free Shipping start an air mail service.

[@conniee.]

Good one.🤣👍🏼👍🏼

[@dmitriypermyakov5402]

Гидра снова затащила. 👍

[@thelatiosmaster]

Well, I have to gave some credits to free shipping: it evolved from just a "joke bot" to an actual bot that could possibly do some damages. Still, no match against Hydra: it got flipped so many times that it spent more time in the air than on its wheels

[@andrewferguson-hannah6915]

imagine if Hydra moved as fast as Claw Viper....

[@FoReST33Veritas]

I love Hydra

[@what-fw5vk]

One of these days, Hydra is gonna flip someone to the roof.

[@ExplosiveRobotics]

And now I think they did

[@ashefallprime4563]

When will Discovery publish Farooq’s entrances, it would handily when poetry awards.