Mecha-Rampage is by Team C2 Robotics, formerly Team Coolrobots, best-known for building Toe-Crusher, Minion, and Overkill from the Comedy Central days. Quick background, because these are new robots but with some old teams: Blacksmith was saved by the bell, but Bite Force wins by unanimous decision. Bite Force was able to push Blacksmith onto the screws with the final push with 7 seconds left, stranding the hammer bot there for the end of the fight. It was whatever held Blacksmith’s fuel line together, which meant that Blacksmith’s flame was gone for the rest of the fight.īy the last minute of the fight both weapons had been damaged, as Bite Force’s bar wasn’t spinning (I think Blacksmith was able to jar it by number of blows, rather than one flush shot) and Blacksmith’s hammer wasn’t firing, and it became a shoving match. And then we realized that the stuff that went flying wasn’t from Bite Force, who got smart this year and put armor on top of its weapon chain so it wouldn’t immediately disable after a few strong attacks, or one well-placed strike from a hammer, as happened with their fight with Chomp. Not to say Blacksmith didn’t have its chances as a result of this, and the prongs delaying Bite Force meant that by sheer number of hits Blacksmith had the upper hand, but until some pieces of something went flying you couldn’t really see much of an effect. But once Bite Force could get under those prongs or get to the side of Blacksmith the damaged quickly piled up, including able to lift Blacksmith. Blacksmith had a pair of prongs attached to the front of the robot which did a pretty good job of keeping Bite Force’s vertical bar away. However, they’ve redesigned the hammer, which now has two points to try and concentrate the force from the strikes, as opposed to the previous hammer, which was blunt and had the fire in the middle. The fire is a nice touch, but Blacksmith’s hammer wasn’t as strong as BETA’s or as accurate as Chomp’s. Paul Ventimiglia noted that Bite Force wasn’t too worried about Blacksmith’s hammer. Not sure where that falls in with Bite Force, but it’s Faruq doing his thing. So let’s get to the robots fighting!įirst off, Faruq Tauheed is still a pun master, with Blacksmith’s “Jersey Thor-nado” and many Star Wars jokes for Bite Force.
I am very happy about this because “The Narrative” is great and all, but we’re here for some robot fighting. Which I think is because of the change to Discovery and Science, where the people who otherwise watch those channels actually might care about those things sometimes. And more talking about the specs of the robot, there were weapon weight and weapon speed and horsepower stats for each tale of the tape. Hell, even the name of this most-of-season has changed! They’re calling this portion of the season “BattleBots: Fight Night.” And there’s less talking, and definitely less “The Narrative!” talking, and more talking about past robotic history (they mentioned Donald Hutson and Team Mutant Robots’ six total Giant Nuts, and how Tombstone and Minotaur’s builders have never fought in BattleBots. Where a loss does not immediately eliminate you, because you’ll have a few fights, but it’ll certainly damage your chances of being in the last 16, and that final 16 in the last two episodes then compete in a bracket. As Chris and Kenny put it, it’s just like any other sports league now, with a “regular season.” 20 episodes, with the first 18 weeks being robots fighting, and fighting, and fighting again. But things are going to be different this time around. Seriously, Chris Rose and Kenny Florian are excited.ĥ5 robots (looks like there’s no Mystery 56) will duke it out for this year’s Giant Nut. Other than the founders and builders I guess. Oh, and we got a banner! Thanks Low Commander!Īnyway, BattleBots is officially back, our two-year wait is over, and I don’t know who’s happier about it than the announcers.
Also I figured a second season of this means it deserves a category, maybe I’ll retroactively categorize things like the Season 2 recaps? No, that wasn’t the name of the episode, that was me trying to be clever.
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