All battlebots knowledge is since a Battlebots 2024 Series didn't I'd though i'd create my own BattleBots Series Based on BattleBots Season 2.0 as seen on Comedy Central filmed at the all-american sportpark in las vegas nevada and would also even be after Season 2.0 and before Season 3.0 only it would be a fictional Nickelodeon Series featuring 1 fight per episodes so that it would be a series of shorts with the grip n' grapplers, battle bashers, bump n' bash bots, keychain bots, robot wars pullbacks and minibots, clutch n' clashers, push strikes, hexbug rc's, lego models and even cardboard models be needed here is the list:

Lightweights:

1. Dr.Inferno Jr.

2. Buzz Saw Destroyer

3. Alpha Raptor

4. The Crusher

5. Backlash

6. Sallad

7. Mecha Tentoumushi

8. Evil Fish Tank

9. No Tolerance 3

10. Fang

11. Toe-Crusher

12. Mouser Mecha-CatBot

13. Ziggo

14. Disposable Hero

15. Shish-Ka-Bot

16. Scrap Metal

17. Endorthem

18. Grunion

19. Scrap Daddy LW55

20. The Missing Link

21. Sublime 2

22. Serial Bot Killer

23. Das Bot

24. Afterthought 2.0

25. Green Dragon

26. Rampage

27. Scrub

28. Rott-Bott 2000

29. Lite Force

30. Bronci

31. Gravestone

32. Jnr Witch Doctor

Mediumweights:

1. Complete Control

2. Deadblow

3. Bad Attitude

4. Spazz

5. Buddy Lee Don't Play In The Street

6. Subject To Change Without Reason

7. El Diablo

8. Spinster

9. Super Chiabot

10. The Master

11. Hazard

12. Sunshine Lollibot

13. T-Wrex

14. T-Minus

15. Blade Runner

16. Fusion

17. Turbo

18. Space Operation Force 2

19. Instigator

20. Turtle Road Kill

21. Bumper Bawt

22. RA

23. M.I.A. (Missing In Action)

24. Scrap Daddy MW110

25. Blue Streak

26. Kegger

27. Ankle Biter

28. SABotage

29. Knee-Breaker

30. Thor

31. Garm

32. Mr. Roboto

Heavyweights:

Diesector Vs Vladiator

Rammstein Vs Dooall

Whyachi Vs World Peace

Kenny's Revenge Vs Doom Of Babylon

Snake Vs Anubis

Juggerbot 2.0 Vs The Judge

Grendel Vs Ronin

War Machine Vs Graymatter

Minion Vs Mechadown

Toro Vs Tripulta Raptor

S.L.A.M. Vs Abbatoir

Odin 2 Vs Prompt Critical

Chainsaw Massacre Vs Comet

Rip-Out Vs Liquid Lunch

Dawn Of Destruction Vs Atomic Wedgie

Super Heavyweights:

Tazbot Vs Cerulean Mermaid

Razer Vs Sucker Punch

Frost Bite Vs Pyramidas

Panic Attack 3 Vs Frenzy

Nightmare Vs Mortis

Golddigger Vs Killerhurtz

Bigger Brother Vs Voltronic

Biohazard Vs Overkill

Dantomkia Vs Son Of Whyachi

Mauler 51-50 Vs Towering Inferno

Mechavore Vs Tombstone

Bite Force Vs Axe-Awe

Witch Doctor Vs Revolutionist

Suicidal Tendencies Vs Bronco

Blendo Vs HexaDecimator

Punjar Vs Vlad The Impaler

UltraHeavyweights (Mega-Super Heavyweights):

1. Chinkilla

2. Ginsu

3. Dreadnaught

4. La Machine

5. Mac Attack

6. Giga-Tentoumushi

7. Cluckerbot

8. Scrap Daddy UHW 400

Special/Extra Super Heavyweights:

X-Terminator (which is the pullback with series 3 and/or series 3-esc colour scheme that is)

Chaos 2

Firestorm

Hypno-Disc

Pussycat

Tornado

Thermidor 2

And if anyone of you are and is interested in this fan made battlebots series then leave a comment and please keep me posted

Sorry if this has been talked about already. My son abd I were watching the Vegas All Stars and got curious. Google says he "said no" to something. Did he really just leave to go to PFL, or was there something worth talking about that happened?

Thanks!

From what I’ve looked into, SendCutSend is best for laser cutting parts, while CNC madness is best for carbon fiber parts. Is that accurate, and are there similar services that are worth mentioning?

Looking at expanding from plastic ants to Full-combat ants and beetles (most likely beetles). My school has a machine shop with TONS of scrap metal to use, especially mild steel. While obviously not going to outperform metals like AR400/AR500, 4130 or S7, is it passable as a weapon material?

To set the bar, I’ll say “passable” means it can survive a 3 minute fight against another spinner.

Dual 2lb bots i fought at the October NHRL (0w, 2l) :/

I don't know if this is just me, but I've been trying to subscribe to the facebook page for about 2 weeks now, because I both want to support the show and get access to the new fights they're putting up, but facebook is refusing to actually accept any payment.

I'm UK based, if anybody else is having similar problems, and have tried both paypal and a debit card, and every single time I just get a generic "unable to process payment at this current time" type of message.

Anybody else who had this kind of problem actually figure out how the hell to make it work?

I can't help but feel that it really shouldn't be this difficult to give a company your damn money!

I’ve been rewatching the first season of King Of Bots recently, and honestly I’m still surprised how great the show was. It definitely felt like a love letter to robot combat watching it.

When an international competitor showed up, the show actually went into depth with how well they did in Robot Wars or Battlebots. Before Tanche’s first fight, they actually mentioned that Terrorhurtz beat Sabretooth in series 6 and Sabretooth beat Terrorhurtz in series 9. Ian Lewis from Razer was actually one of the judges who they interviewed fairly regularly. This was also where we got to see Great White and Blue which would eventually become Death Roll and Shatter from Battlebots. And seeing Megabyte in this was glorious. I would argue we never saw Gigabyte this ferocious, and their fights were all amazing.

A bunch of the Chinese machines were no slouches either. Barbecue King was a very powerful machine that was definitely on the upper end of vertical spinners for the time (remember that this was before Battlebots season 3). Thunder and Lightning made it to fourth place as a multibot which will probably remain the best performance one will ever do. And Sun Wheel was so incredibly durable. Watching their wedge and drum being ripped away and STILL working was unbelievable. A very worthy runner up.

The here is probably the ideal arena for robot combat for me. Oota zones in the corners, flippers closer to the centre, and those massive spinners along the sides that can actually do damage. I’m not a fan of the fog that blocks the driver view for a few seconds though. It’s no fog of war, but it’s still not my cup of tea.

One thing that’s surprising to me is the lack of bias towards the Chinese machines. I’m well aware that in This Is Fighting Robots this wasn’t the case, but I couldn’t detect any Chinese bias here. Of the four wildcards, three of them were international, with the one Chinese wildcard being a deserved pick. The tournament bracket wasn’t particularly favourable to the Chinese machines either. They could’ve easily had the top 4 be Spectre vs Megabyte and Thunder & Lightning vs Sun Wheel, but they did it.

Speaking of Spectre, they were definitely the robot that robot combat needed. The hydraulic crusher that was finally able to take the reins from Razer. When I first saw their first battle, I thought to myself “this machine has to be the champion, I will not accept any other result”. They were a great machine to watch, and instantly became my favourite robot of all time before Quantum entered the scene.

The show wasn’t without its flaws, but rewatching the series on YouTube made me remember how impressive the show was for a first season. I highly recommend watching it if you haven’t already, I think it’s easily the strongest of all the shows’ first seasons.

In an ant weight robot, what do you do with the long floppy antennas that most receivers come with? Seems bad to leave them loose inside the chassis, but equally bad to have them exposed on the outside

With the recent reveal of Tombstone's FaceOffs design, I thought I'd make a poll asking you which Tombstone design is your favorite.

Since only 6 options are allowed I had to narrow the designs down.

Season 1

Season 2/Season 3

Seasons 2 and 3 are grouped because it's the same frame with no discernible changes.

Season 4/re:MARS 2019/Season 5/Bounty Hunters

I grouped up re:MARS 2019, Season 5 and Bounty Hunters with Season 4 because they all use the frames that were built for that season and once again, there are no discernible changes. (I'm not counting the blades)

Season 6/Champions 1

re:MARS 2022

re:MARS 2022 isn't grouped with Season 6/Champions 1 because it has a shorter back, the shock mounted plates for Tombstone's wheels have been redesigned and the wheels are closer to the frame.

FaceOffs

While the FaceOffs Tombstone uses the same frame as 2022, it's wheels have been brought forward which is enough to grant it it's own spot in the poll.

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Hey, I'm a High School student, running a robotics club. We fight bots quite unsuccessfully at NHRL, and i'm trying to change that. The link below accesses the parts list and google drive with my .IPT files. Just want some opinions on my design!

Drive:

4wd with direct drive rear wheels and v-belt driven front wheels, foam 0.75" fingertech for rear. lego 68.8mm on custom hub front wheels.

Drive ESC:

JCR 30A drive ESC pre programmed for the motors

Construction:

UHMW, TPU and PA ribs for mounting stuff, 3mm carbon fibre top plate, 1'8" aluminum bottom plate, may make 1/16. Front face 1'8" 6061, Rear 1/16" 6061, sides TPU with 1mm of post-attached contact acetone smoothed ABS, bolted on and spot (soldering iron) welded

Weapon:

JCR Hub motor with 1/4" steel weapon blade 6"

Weapon ESC

Pariah 70A

Batteries:

Dual 450MAH 4s 80c Li-Po in Parallel

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8IH6nrdiLkjDAAPVi_3637uRkwcQUFHAvhuqr191Ok/edit?gid=0#gid=0

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1x4Rdhr3HqGJzjzS35D1col4-RPj19cPs

My previous bot designs: A.J. and O.J. Which I fought at NHRL on the 27th.

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Those were on one 4s 450mah 80c each, 20A drive ESCs, Repeat robotics brushless drive, 4mm weapon motor direct drive (They snapped immediately off). All red is TPU, black is ABS. Should have used paht-cf for the prongs and TPU for the dustpan. these 2wd bots stayed planted well but suffered from bad weapons systems. This was their failure. Also, in the future I'll probably add a front lifter to the fronts of the bots to allow for more complex attack strategy, These are assembled with m3 threaded rods through the entire robot.

Rise of the Robots is back as Alan & The Griz discuss Day 9 of the 2003 Techno Games, check out the episode on the link below or on your podcatcher of choice. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rise-of-the-robot0/episodes/S27-Ep9-Rise-of-the-Robots-Techno-Games-2003-Day-9-e2qbk4n

Everyone has a favorite bot, but what's your favorite to just look at? Mine, is Switchback.

Hi! I'm a big fan of battlebots from when the show aired on netflix, unfortunatly i can't seem to find any streaming services that displays BattleBots (I live in Italy). would really like a helping hand.

The materials used in combat robots are often chosen for their toughness and durability in the battle box. Unfortunately that means they are often a pain to fabricate and modify, because again they are very tough.

My baby mill cries when I bring Ar500 into the shop. My tiny lathe hides under the bench. But the grinder? It laughs and tears through material. Unfortunately I'm not a steady hand, and the wibbly wobbly shows in the results.

So. I think I want a X/Y/Z manual motion system of some kind, that attaches to a beefy bench grinder? Something so I can bevel a whole batch of forks consistently. Or contour a fat wedge. Or take the nasty impact marks out of a weapon blade, and restore the rake angle.

Surely there's a standard machine that does such things? I'd rather not have to design my own. (I'm a big fan of buying used whenever possible... Such a great value!). Sort of like a valve grinder? Or an endmill grinder?

Maybe I'm over complicating this, and the real answer is fixtures for a surface grinder? (that's one of the last 'real' tools my shop is missing.... But I just have zero space left).

This tournament was filmed before season seven yet they keep acting like it’s brand new

Saw this in a post a WHILE ago. Was this just a thing they tried or is this how it'll be looking going forward?

Hi!

I'm trying to build a 3lb bot with 4wd, My design philosophy is belts are stupid: Direct drive weapon and 4wd.

Previous bots i've built are all 2wd, just want the good tracking of a 4wd bot. I currently have FS-i6X with the 6 ch receivers. Any ideas?

I'm using brushless drive with the PalmBeachBots gearmotors.

The Robot Fighting League Switzerland got just recently founded in February and held it's first Tournament yesterday, and the first official Tournament in Switzerland at all (to my knowledge). It was a small 150g Antweight Event with about 8-9 Participants and 16 Bots in total.

And I've won :P

We will try to organize semi-regular events starting with next year, planned are about 4 Tournaments yearly ranging from 150g Antweight, 450g AntweightXL up to 1.5kg Beetleweight. For the time being only Antweights as the Arena needs to be reinforced for Beetleweight (which isn't cheap). We also organize bot building courses for complete beginners, but also for veterans to connect & exchange knowledge. We are a primarily a german speaking community, but most speak english too ;) You can find more information and a discord link on the official webpage.

There will be some Videos and more Pictures at some point, after we've compiled all the stuff we captured ;)

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