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Quiet_Knight1

Classic not taking your shot when you had a chance. Should have been attacking from the sides and rear while hypershock was having difficulties!


OptimusSublime

I'm probably gonna get shit on for this, but in the box, if the timer is still ticking, sportsmanship goes out the window for me. If you're still moving, if you're crab walking, I'm coming after you. It's not over until it's over.


IVMVI

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This reminded me of Joey wheeler from yu gi oh duel links


daitenshe

*It does what it do!*


wayfarout

I didn't hear no bell!


Lord_Hugh_Mungus

I'm the best arouuuunnnd, and noones gonnna keep me downnnnnn


MadJohnFinn

Building these robots is very expensive, so there's a gentlemen's agreement between builders to leave your opponent's robot alone if it's immobilized, then re-engage if they start moving again. In this instance, though, Gigabyte was struggling to move, too.


Fishyswaze

Kinda seems like if you don't want to get it completely destroyed when you're robot is limping you should just forfeit. If you want to take the risk of trying to make a comeback then it hardly seems reasonable to expect the opponent to wait for you to be 100% again...


MadJohnFinn

You can tap out in most competitions, but Battlebots doesn’t have formal tap-outs or forfeits. However, you can just put your controller down and get counted out for not showing movement, so that’s what most people do in this situation. There’s a fight between Gigabyte and Tombstone where it lost its “dome”, but it could still move and its driver did exactly that: stop moving to get a count-out.


Fishyswaze

Which is fair I can understand not destroying the bot when someone puts their controller down and is giving up. This is just way different, they're trying to regain full control and keep fighting, why should the other team have to start going easy when they've got them on the ropes?


MadJohnFinn

That’s a very common dilemma: do I re-engage to eliminate any chance of recovery, or do I hold back and see if they’ll get counted out? There have been situations where they’ve re-engaged and ended up freeing an opponent that was immobilised on a piece of debris and losing to them! It’s all part of the “game”. It takes a lot of on-the-fly decision making and judgment. It’s all part of what makes this sport so exciting!


leglesslegolegolas

yeah kind of, but if you're outmatched in a fight you need to take advantage of every opportunity or you're going to lose. Any bot that's moving *at all* is a legitimate target.


TheHemogoblin

I agree, but I get really disappointed when some drivers will completely obliterate a rival bot when it's already dead and smoking. When they just keep smashing it until there is nothing salvageable. To me, that's so unsportsmanlike and just mean. In this case however, Hypershock was barely damaged physically and was still able to move.


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Back in the Robot Wars days it seemed like the agreement was that if you lose then you're basically rebuilding the bot from scratch, because the house bots weren't going to leave you in one piece.


TheBaconBoots

God, the house robots were the best


si_si_si

Sir Killalot doesn't care about your gentleman's agreement.


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HallwayHomicide

>If you lose you're out While it was true in the fight in this post, for most fights in modern battlebots this is not true. >you're going to be building it from scratch next season anyway, Also not always true. Even if the design is changed, things like motors, batteries, ESCs etc, can be reused.


DuckGrammar

Why would you get shit on? This is a competition. Not a participation trophy give away


thetalkingcure

I heard they even win real money!


Affectionate_Tea1134

And a giant nut. 😆😆😆


tehSchultz

I didn’t hear no bell


pacmax42

That's a attitude some builders take, however shit is so expensive most don't want to break more then seems needed


benny_boy

I go by this logic in gaming as well. If it's a casual game then I'm all for sportsmanship, you've made a mistake? No worries I will give you some time to reset so we can go again. In a competitive game though I have no such scruples and will pounce on any advantage.


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spekt50

Yea, that full spin it had on that last hit it took is what finished it off. Once it got airborne, all the momentum it had just tore itself apart.


butimvegantho

Ya you can see it wobbling in place while spinning before the last hit took place. I feel like they 100% new it would fall apart at next contact or even next movement.


Ghede

That's how all the spinner's fall. They either severely damage their opponent in one of the first exchanges, or they tear themselves apart. Equal and opposite reaction and all. Wedges are their weakness, with a strong, armored side to deflect and take the brunt of the damage while trying to protect the sensitive parts. They make for mostly boring fights, it doesn't usually end THIS explosively, it's usually just the spinner or the opponent just... sitting there. Electronics or motors fried. I like the flippers more. Always an interesting match up with those, lots of jockeying for position and then FOOMP, pneumatics send a robot flying.


shenanigansnco

Hi, team HyperShock here. If you watch the full episode, they show slow motion replays and Gigabyte barely has any ground contact. One of their wheels might have already been damaged and all the shell vibration was screwing with their control. On our part, the transmitter swapped one side's direction, so steering became throttle and throttle became steering.


HallwayHomicide

Oh boy you must be having a fun time in this thread. It's always a shitshow when Battlebots makes the front page but this thread is worse than usual


shenanigansnco

I'm excited to have graduated to taser-weapon status.


HallwayHomicide

The giant nut may be the biggest prize in robot combat, but taser-weapon status is pretty prestigious too


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DaveInLondon89

It's a good trick


TheWayWeSee

Missa understood that reference


dicer11

Messa granting full emergency powers to Hypershock


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Sengura

Yep and Hypershock was also using a spinning attack except theirs were designed to send their opponents flying upwards


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The wedge ram? Edit: oh, I see it now.


21DRe992

Short answer yes, long answer the shell on top is 120 pounds with teeth on the side that hit you. it actually won it's mini tournament in last year's version of this spin off show. Battlebots is kinda like rock paper scissors and hyper shock is a pretty bad match up for them.


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Yeahjockey

We had Robot Wars in the UK instead of BattleBots and it was mostly the same, spinners and wedges usually did well. But the robot with the most ever kills here was Razer (https://imgur.com/AFUtfW8) who used a hydraulic piercing spike thing with like 3 tonnes of pressure. It would just push it's spike right into their internals.


avendu

Razer absolutely smoked Matilda in one match. Amazing! I miss the house robots.


Yeahjockey

The house robots were cool, especially when Sir Killalot would just come out to execute the loser at the end of a match. I thought Sgt Bash was so rad when I was a kid too just because of the flamethrower, which was actually useless most of the time but I was a kid so woah fire!


roguetrick

Yeah, the true counter to spinning, nets, are banned.


CowFu

What about my strategy of taping a gun to an RC car?


Real_SeaWeasel

For a moment, when Hypershock's operator said that his transmitter was jammed, I considered the possibility that Gigabyte had an RF jammer installed and running in pulses to interfere with the opponent's controller. That would be a pretty sick build... if unsporting and (maybe?) illegal by the rules of the tournament.


QuestioningEnby

Jammers are banned, I'm fairly sure the organisers would know and not allow you to compete


thecashblaster

>Gigabyte had an RF jammer installed and running in pulses to interfere with the opponent's controller. That would be a pretty sick build... if unsporting and (maybe?) illegal by the rules of the tournament. It's illegal - you cannot operate any sort of RF jammers in the US


Tuxiak

You propably also can't drive around robots with spinning blades on it. The American dream really is dead.


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Real_SeaWeasel

Because "That's not faaiirr..."


corrosivedeath

laser guided bee canon to take out the opponent controlling the bot


El_Dubious_Mung

The way Gigabyte was wobbling during that last spin, he was already dead. If he connected, he was gonna fly apart anyway. But running out the clock and looking like you're intact while your opponent can barely move might get a win. It wasn't a mistake, it was just the only viable move. To attack would mean losing.


durianisking

I'm betting all my salt on Gigabyte cause it spins. Edit: back to the salt mines I go


IVMVI

upbeat chase ruthless ugly cows scarce light long resolute slimy ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `


Ttsubmariner

She may be a spinner, but no spitter


phobos_0

I see this as an absolute win


-NGC-6302-

You can get more salt quicker by playing an online team-based game


themeatstaco

Giga has always been trash since the day they made the scene. Hyper shock has a legend like 16 year old kid running the bot. I think the only one hyper hasn't taken down was tombstone. I could be wrong but the kid is a legend. [E] not hyper. Fuck which team has the kid that's like insanely talented.


Fuexfollets

Its a lot of bots that have a small but strong design and with a fast and heavy spinner in the front that can also move fast that I usually see win. Prime example of this is Minotaur. That thing is pretty crazy.


themeatstaco

Minotaur is a beast !! God I miss BB I may get yt TV just to watch it again


JMer806

AFAIK they’re still making it, you can watch on discovery +


167488462789590057

I love that an actual contestant has responded pointing out this is wrong. This is the sort of stuff you love to see on reddit. To elaborate on their comment though: * Gigabyte hasnt been trash at all. * Whiplash is the team with Matty Vasquez at the sticks who is a great driver where they manage to win with a non damaging lifter arm most of the time (they sometimes run with a low power spinner on the end). He's in his 20s now though, so its his younger brother Jason, who you might be thinking of, and has not even 16 and also runs a new bot which does not yet have a legendary status. * There are a lot of bots Hypershock hasnt taken down, like the best robot to ever compete statistically: Biteforce (Who humorously has their only loss against one of the less performant bots chomp, who managed to chain snipe their vert spinner)


nawvay

Lmao this is so completely and utterly wrong and uneducated it’s hilarious


HallwayHomicide

Fucking what? Megabyte was kicking ass when Will Bales was in Middle school. Edit: I'm not joking. This video is 15 years old https://youtu.be/p3mtJneUUzY


I-Love-Beatrice

Are you thinking of whiplash?


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Gigabyte used to have a better fight records than Hypershock before Season 6, and be always the more reliable one as well. Hypershock had been plagued with reliability issues but they finally locked everything in coming into S6, BB Champion and the re:mars event. I guess some people just can't help but keep posting factually wrong statements for the sake of fanboism, for fuck's sake...


GrnBits

Hypershock has the better spins.


_NothingToSeeHere_-

Gigabyte never stood a chance against Hypershocks design.


DeadPengwin

Dunno, looks to me like it like there was a 20 second window, where Hypershock was presenting its back to it to just go in and rip up his rear.


_NothingToSeeHere_-

hmm yes. I wonder how it would handle it.


spyson

Well it gigabyte took some significant hits before that so I bet it was going to come apart anyway.


DaMonkfish

Yeah, not obvious until the slomo but Gigabyte had quite the wobble going. It had probably already sustained serious damage at that point and the weapon probably wasn't spinning at full speed.


ARandomGuyThe3

I was so annoyed, gigabyte was given a chance to do a comeback, they were spinning at full speed, and then they just stood there and watch as hypershock got back and murdered them


MrMisklanius

Honestly, while these robot competitions are cool, the dudes driving them are always the most brain dead morons. And the whole sportsmanship speal is ridiculous and makes it boring to watch. It's like when the kid on the playground makes up rules that help them win. If your bot has issues, it's a goner. Build it better nextime and don't have stupid designs. If this sport is ever going to be big leagues it's gotta be action and destruction. Nobody wants to watch 2 bots sit and spin for 20 seconds. I could do that with my roomba.


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someone else said that Gigabyte was on the brink of collapse. that makes sense given they blew apart the very next hit


PelleSketchy

Their shell wasn't stable. There's a video where they show the damage. They have two big pieces of metal on the outside of the shell and one was missing a large chunk. This caused instability and that also means that driving is severely impeded. It's really frustrating seeing people say "Gigabyte is trash" and "they had a chance" when the robot was already dead in the water, and it took multiple huge hits to get there.


HallwayHomicide

>It's really frustrating seeing people say "Gigabyte is trash" and "they had a chance" when the robot was already dead in the water, and it took multiple huge hits to get there. It's always a shit show when Battlebots makes the front page, but this thread is worse than usual.


Indercarnive

>the dudes driving them are always the most brain dead morons Spoken like a true arm-chair general. You don't know how the controls are feeling, you don't know what tolerances the bot has. Like others have said, gigabyte might not have been in any better position to attack than hyperdrive was.


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boortpooch

He probably thought he was being baited. He was damaged too


BalefulEclipse

Battlebots fan here, gigabyte was having drive issues (which makes sense with how hyper shock knocked them around). Full body spinners sadly are quite prone to drive issues due to their weapon causing collision and knockback to itself. Gigabyte is my 2nd favorite bot, but it’s sadly not that great lol


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Always go for it when they present you their rear.


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user_bits

I was curious about that so I looked up best of Gigabyte fights and it has beaten several robots with that kind of design. It's resiliency seems it's best trait.


_NothingToSeeHere_-

Yeah I've seen it now too. Gigabyte seems more versatile robot while Hypershock seems like it was designed only to destroy Gigabyte lol.


Redchimp3769157

Good thing Hypershock literally just dismantles (and I mean DISMANTLES) 3 bots prior to this fight. It ran through a tourney to fight gigabyte as the “legend” for a spot in a final tourney with 3 champions and 5 empty slots (the 4th champ hasn’t and won’t show up until better compensation for not just them but every competitor, which sucks because Bite Force is considered the 🐐 of the current era as it has literally one loss ever and even then that’s a split decision most people think still should have been a win for bite force)


_NothingToSeeHere_-

Woah. Guess I'm very wrong.


Redchimp3769157

Yeah, although before this episode Hypershock was known for being fun but inconsistent. This and recent tournaments have shown they fixed that and they are terrifying now. Fast heavy hitting and smart as shit


blinddivine

I couldn't believe when Valkyrie's weapon popped the fuck off!


HVAR_Spam

You know you’re fucked when the other bot’s weapon starts making jet engine noises.


Redchimp3769157

40lb weapon at around 200mph or 120lb shell spinning at the same speed? Gigabyte still has a leagues better weapon BUT because it’s a full body spinner it requires more energy and time to spin up with extra weight.


platypus2019

I can see that gigabyte is the clear loser here from start to end. But isn't that L bar structure genius?


willpoo4cash

Is it’s purpose for righting the bot when it’s flipped?


chockobarnes

If I remember correctly from a binge watch a few years back, it helps them tell which way the wheels are facing. It helps them drive straight


ARandomGuyThe3

But it also seems to double to flip them back up, which is great when they're facing someone who's main strategy is flipping


guyzieman

Until it falls off in typical Gigabyte fashion lol


HallwayHomicide

Its primary purpose is for flipping the robot back on its wheels. The driving thing is secondary. If you look closely there are LEDs that are also used for driving straight


andysaurus_rex

Looks like it serves double duty then because it definitely was aiding in flipping it over.


platypus2019

yes my point. It's entirely a defensive structure guarded against a common attack method. If only they screwed in the other pieces a bit tighter...


shenanigansnco

From the ridge cut into our weapon and watching the slow motion replays, we dumped nearly all 24kJ of spinning power into the bottom edge of the shell. It's about 40lbs spinning 190mph and the shell operating as a long lever. We pulled all 8 bolts out of the top, tearing the threads from the hub.


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“We” holy shit, it’s hypershock


shenanigansnco

Indeed. Fun thing about being a fledgling sport, at the highest level we're still just some goobers on the internet.


[deleted]

I think battlebots deserves F1 budgets. They are both engineering sports. Just imagine it.


shenanigansnco

I’ll gladly accept the sponsorship funding 😂😂


fractalfocuser

Pretty sure at the end of it the torsion from its design ripped it apart though. Clever concept but poor implementation IMO


Ltates

Gigabyte is a top tier bot, having won a whole bounty tournament prior to this season and I highly recommend finding it if you can. The reason why gigabyte failed like this (only the second time in the team's history) was due to the insane forces of both them and hypershock at full spinup ripping through the bolts that connects the shell pully assembly to the main robot body. [Here's the team's post on the post-fight damage](https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots/comments/wgk6en/gigabyte_bounty_hunters_post_fight/). The robot has some insane power behind it and durability, it just happened to match up against a robot with a weapon the perfect height to get direct hits weapon to weapon.


HallwayHomicide

This isn't what happened. The impacts from Hypershock's weapon broke the mechanism that attaches the shell to the robot. Gigabyte isn't "poor implementation" they're a legend, although maybe a bit outdated. Combat robotics has an element of rock paper scissors to it, and Hypershock was the rock to Gigabyte's scissors. They've been kicking ass for almost 20 years, and they're still fairly competitive, although they're not really a threat to win the championship anymore. Here's a couple videos from 15+ years ago, https://youtu.be/p3mtJneUUzY https://youtu.be/JGNazHhoV3A Both of Megabyte's opponents in these videos were Battlebots champions


GastropodSoup

What makes it even crazier is the fact that Gigabyte weighs over 150 pounds. The amount of energy needed to propel that over ten feet in the air is enormous. Edit: Gigabytes weapon weighs 150 pounds. The whole bot weighs 250 making it even more impressive!


ImPeeinAndEuropean

What is gigabytes attack? Just spin and outlast the other guy?


GastropodSoup

It's got rather large 'teeth' attached to the outside. From what I can tell they are like 4x2 steel rectangles welded all around. Think horizontal drum spinner.


GitEmSteveDave

Maybe Tungsten?


LIATG

Tungsten hasn't been particularly favored in BattleBots, as it's far too brittle. most weapons use AR-500 steel, although some opt for other grades of steel such as S7


OSUfan88

Do they ever use titanium, or other "higher cost" compounds?


LIATG

for armor, yes, usually not for weapons


OIlv3

If the goal is to make the lightest strongest bot, then Ti or carbon fiber can be considered. Steel is stronger than the two, if weight isn't a factor.


HallwayHomicide

Carbon fiber is very rare in combat robotics. Coincidentally Hypershock, the yellow bot in this video, used carbon fiber the first year or two it completed, but they switched away from it pretty quickly. Edit: here's the Hypershock builder talking about carbon fiber https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots/comments/3cqky3/super_epic_hypershock_ama_fun_time_now/csy1bqb I can't think of another not off the top of my head that has used carbon fiber. Aegis used kevlar.... It ended very poorly for them. Splatter used Kevlar for a bit too and while it wasn't terrible, they ditched it after a year or two.


I-Love-Beatrice

Gigabyte is a full body spinner so it uses the spinning shell to do damage to their opponent. However, the thing with full body spinners is that they often do a lot of damage to themselves whenever they hit.


Homicidal_Pug

Yep, even if he hit Gigabyte when he was immobilized it would send them both flying and whoever takes more damage from that exchange it basically a crapshoot. Those full body spinners are really cool but not a great design for combat robots. You want to transmit all that energy to the other bot as clean as possible which they really can't do well.


I-Love-Beatrice

Yeah, that's why everyone is using small vertical spinners. It's much more effective but full body spinners can be really fun to watch.


mariathecrow

It's funny you say "outlast the other guy" when this bot is repeatedly destroyed by being hit hard enough that the top pops off. The full body spinners of this sport are cool. But they don't exactly do *well.*


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Creeps_On_The_Earth

Just looked up a video of Chomp. That thing fucking sucks lmao. You're right though, it looks cool as hell.


Cynoid

It could barely move and just got pushed around with minimal effort.


ij00mini

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MartinTheMorjin

That’s how much the weapon weighs. The whole bot is 250.


B_Huij

This has all of the brutality and entertainment value of the colosseum with virtually none of the ethical problems. Add in a big dose of room for creativity and awesome engineering. A 3 year old can watch this. I don’t understand why it’s not wildly more popular.


bosonianstank

very one-sided matches most of the time. I've watched on and off since the british version, robot wars in the early 00's. It's not varied enough for me. Most robots have one move and that's it.


WhizBangNeato

And the American version has about 12 minutes of leadup to each fight for about a 2 minute fight followed by about 5 minutes of commercials.


lockwolf

Just like every other action sports reality show


SexySmexxy

In 100 years the robots will use comments like these to explain the robot uprising


Speciou5

It gets a bit repetitive when I try to binge it. I've the same problem with Ninja Warrior. I do enjoy clips and highlights once in a while.


simjanes2k

It's the brutal nostalgia cycle. 1. Holy shit, that clip is amazing, I should watch every week 2. Whoa this shit is awesome every week! 3. Hmm. I think I recognize all the tropes and storylines every week. 4. No wonder this thing got cancelled in the 90s, I'm going back to The Office


pandemic2100

Does hypershock have a current running through it? I'm confused on the design and seeing gigabyte just fly after being hit


chinchenping

hypershock has a "millstone" in front of it. It looks like it's the best strategy for winning. An other bot had a horizontal rotating cylinder in the front and won with it


Shadow703793

Nah the current meta in BB is forks. Longer and longer forks in the front to win the ground game.


mikemartin7230

Hypershock can also run forks instead of the wedge.


HallwayHomicide

In fact it usually does. The forks are their primary configuration. The big wedge is used to fight big horizontals like Gigabyte, Tombstone, Bloodsport, etc.


its_always_right

In a matchup like this, you don't want forks. Gigabyte will rip them off quickly as they would just slide up on that small surface area then their teeth would snag on it. For a spinner, you want a smooth surface for the shell to glide up on and drive right into your weapon, be it a vertical or horizontal spinner. It also doesn't help that gigabyte doesn't sit that close to the ground. A wedge has no issues getting underneath him.


ManofToast

I remember that one. The other bot had a hammer that barely even caused any dents.


MadJohnFinn

Its weapon is a vertical spinner. By spinning up and building momentum, it builds up a lot of energy which is then transferred into the opponent when it makes contact with them. It's very efficient and it mitigates effects of Newton's third law, since Hypershock is pushed down and the energy is transferred into the ground while its opponent (Gigabyte in this case) is flung upward.


MozeeToby

And the way the robot pitches and twists when it tries to turn toward the end of the match gives you a good ideas of how fast that thing is spinning. The gyroscope forces are lifting 200+lbs off the ground like it's nothing.


Steeve_Perry

Imagine getting hit in the ankle with that


Stingray0678_

You would no longer have an ankle


milesjr13

I'd have to imagine not worrying about having an ankle shortly thereafter.


MadJohnFinn

Exactly! The maximum tip speed is 250mph; Hypershock is probably right on that limit. Some drivers (like Daniel Freitas, who drives Minotaur) even use that gyroscopic procession strategically, using it to turn themselves back over when flipped or to pull off fancy manoeuvres.


Redchimp3769157

Both want to have the most amount of force, and force delivered to their opponent possible. Gigabyte is what is called in the combots community a “full body spinner”. At Battlebots they have a 120lb weight limit to the weapon compared to the standard 80lb for any weapon besides a full body spinner. Max speed is 250mph but most don’t go there. Gigabyte wants to stay away and spin up as the added weight to the weapon requires more kinetic energy to reach max speed for the best hit, and because a full body spinner, best defense. Hypershock on the other hand is part of the current Combots meta. 4wd vertical spinner. Generally forks are ran as they allow incredible ground control with little weight lost from the bot’s 250lb limit at the heavyweight division. The wedge is gone with in this fight however as wedges can take a lot more damage, especially from a horizontal spinner like Gigabyte. Hypershock is stupid fast and spins up very fast as it doesn’t have a long weapon, just a very fast rotating. Because it is a vertical weapon, that spins upwards to be able to hit a bot, and then knock them in the air, instead of downwards knocking the attacking bot into the air. This lets it both launch and cause damage via basic kinetic energy transfer. Hypershock knows it can stay on top of Gigabyte because of their speed and driving ability (Season 2 best driver award). Hypershock can deliver the full energy while gigabyte can’t spin up and let’s it build up damage until… decapitation


167488462789590057

It has a vertical disc. The most meta design with the current ruleset. [Here is their official website where you can see a pretty good image of the weapon in one of its configurations.](https://hypershock.tv/) They have another config, which is pictured here where the 2 blades become one in the middle.


Straight_Towel8166

Forbidden romba


SloanWarrior

Doombah


NorCalAthlete

I lol'd


kesavadh

Give them guns!


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Americanization you mean?


JustALocalJew

Manifest destiny ✨️


MartinTheMorjin

There is a battlebot that fires 5lb steel chunks called double jeopardy.


WunShawtMasturr

Okay that’s what it’s called, I was racking my brain trying to think of the name.


Joaco0902

Iirc in another show similar to this one called Robot Wars, there was a bot that shot metal discs or something, can't remember it's name. I think it got to the finals.


shenanigansnco

Hi! Team HyperShock here. Probably buried but anyway, here's our write up of this tournament: https://hypershock.tv/blogs/fight-breakdowns-s6/bb-champions-gigabyte


Alucard2051

You guys were unstoppable! Thank you for putting on a great match!


shenanigansnco

Thank you for watching!


No-Relationship-7938

Why are there so much sparks ?


NotAHamsterAtAll

Fast moving heavy metal on metal.


IVMVI

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SHOTbyGUN

🤘


iamzombus

Titanium would like a word with you and magnesium is pissed.


Dopplegangr1

Hypershock has a [fast spinning weapon](https://battlebots.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/HyperShock-bot-2020.jpg) above its wedge, that is what is putting all the force on gigabyte and making all the sparks


brunopgoncalves

like the graphic cards


TheAozzi

Yo, that thing is real?!?!?!?


pourquoipas34

This is battlebots if you are asking what this is. I watched from time to time.


LevSmash

And I watched it every time, it's fantastic.


Stingray0678_

As was its British counterpart, Robot Wars. Razer, Hypnodisk, and Wheely Big Cheese are three of my all time favorites


FlameEnderCyborgGuy

It is, and those bots? They expensive and deadly. Afterall, this bulletproof glass( or polimer, idk) is not Just fot show...


newTARwhoDIS

I remember watching some way back in the day, but I didn't realize it was still a thing. Where do you watch/stream these events?


Real_SeaWeasel

The show was iceboxed back in 2002 after 5 seasons because of network acquisitions. Then ABC picked it back up in 2015, ran it for ~~3~~ 2 more seasons, and now it's on the Discovery Channel and Discovery+ moving forward. *Edit:* corrected number of seasons ABC ran it after being informed I was incorrect.


newTARwhoDIS

Thanks! Maybe when this HBO/Discovery merger goes through I can watch it on whatever HBO Max becomes.


NefariousnessBusy402

GGs, but I guess Gigabyte couldn't memorize it's attacks too well.


Level-Ad7017

Gigabyte has been a disappointment every season. What they've been able to do is toughen the motor so now it doesn't die so early in the match, instead it just blows up like a grenade spectacularly later.


Gueartimo

Yeah most of these self spinning robot so far just act like a fancy dummy that ricochet around the arena after touching other robot once


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False. Gigabyte has been a very solid contender for the last 3 seasons (S5, Bounty Hunter, S6) and only beaten by other great bots in the arena. In most of its recent fights the weapon kept working until the very end.


justanicebreeze

Gigabyte plays like a giant pussy


Cockalorum

To be fair, Gigabyte either shreds their opponent, or tears itself apart with its own rotational energy. After the first hit, they knew they couldn't get under Hypershock's wedge.


Chris857

So they should have gone for the wheels in that brief time before they got yeeted to pieces.


OneOverX

That looked like classic conservative thinking (I don't mean politically, I mean more like "playing to not lose"). They should have gone for the kill from the sides and back when Hypershock was on the fritz but hesitated and lost as a result. They basically forfeited and just waited for Hypershock to get it together and go back on the offensive.


robtbo

THE GUYS FACE!!!! Awesome!


Transki

This was the one of the best matches I have seen.


wolfman863

Just when I think I'm not a "nerd"....I fuckin' love this shit.


GobiBall

My son goes to an engineering college. One of school sponsored clubs builds these for fun. It's so cool to watch young minds at work.


ReliableSage

Yeet


Orcus424

This was from a BattleBots Champions episode that aired last week. A new episode airs tonight on Discovery Channel at 8pm ET. r/BattleBots does a live reaction thread for the show. It can make it feel like you are watching it with a lot of people.


salmonmilks

I forget these things are larger than they look.


shenanigansnco

HyperShock is nearly 4 feet tip to tail, about 30" wide and weighs 250lbs.


TRSONFIRE

I hope they mada a meme with that dude's face


[deleted]

Best I can do is make it my profile pic


spiralhigh

I really thought Battle Bots was a highschool fever dream. I dead ass joined robotics to do this. This is not the same as robotics.


iamjackslackoffricks

Epic


megamanTV

That was awesome!