HeadCrash, my first 150g bot. Made with a 2.5in HDD
Mind=blown
The look on this kid's face when Son of Whyachi launched Copperhead out of the box is just perfect.
One way to turn off a bot, yank out the entire power switch!
Here’s a cache of combat videos from the Korean show Robot Power
https://www.youtube.com/@user-ic5re2hd2n/videos
Extreme Robots Guildford 2023: Implosion Vs Ripper VII
Extreme Robots Guildford 2023: Implosion Vs Ripper VII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJr2Thb9sX4
The Judges Guide
Now that this is a new Battlebots community, it seems fitting to christen it with a reminder on how the Judges judge matches 🙂
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Defense, Aggression, and Control are judged off a rubric table which assigns the score based on how the two bots did relatively against one another. Furthermore, it's almost impossible to get a complete shutout 5-0 or 3-0 for any category.
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Defense: You get more points for taking out a robot's critical system, defined as either the primary weapon or its drive. When both bots critical system are equally damaged, it's only then that the judges look at damage to the other parts of the robot. In other words, it doesn't usually matter if a piece of armor hits the ceiling, but it does if a bot can't drive or attack well.
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Aggression: This is surprisingly complicated but in general, the robot who attacks the other bot more with its functional primary weapon gets the 2 out of 3 points. If both bots don't have working weapons, it becomes "Well who hit each other more with the non-functional weapon?" or "Well who hit each other more?"
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Control: Simplest one -- whoever controlled the fight more gets 2 points.
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Override for not using a weapon: If a robot has a functional weapon and does not use it in a meaningful way, it can NOT be awarded more than 2 control and more than 2 aggression points.
Source: Judge's Guide https://battlebots.com/rules/ as of the 2022 revision.
My beetle that fought at NHRL in May, Softlock
This is one of the wheels after my first fight:
Too bad the Reddit BattleBots sub did not join the blackout.
I was tempted to post and tell them to blackout but being a commercial sub I doubt they would.