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Calwings
08/04/22 5:48:13 PM
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Tonight is the premiere episode of the new 6-week summer series, BattleBots Champions! The first 5 weeks will be play-in tournaments under the old bounty hunter format (an 8-bot tournament, then the winner faces an all-star "bounty" bot) and the 5 bots that advance from those will join the 3 active bots who have won a BattleBots world championship (Tombstone, End Game, and Tantrum) in a Tournament of Champions in the final episode.

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This week's tournament has veterans like Hypershock and heavy hitters like Mad Catter and Valkyrie taking part in the tournament, and the bounty bot waiting at the end is the powerful spinner of Gigabyte. Which bot will advance to the tournament of champions and earn a chance to fight for the Golden Bolt trophy? Tune in and find out! Also, a reminder since it's been a while: please put any discussion of match results under spoiler tags until 24 hours after the episode airs out of consideration for people who can't watch the episode live, especially if you decide to watch the episode early on Discovery+ before it airs on TV. Showtime for us TV viewers is 8PM EST tonight on Discovery, a little over 2 hours from the time of this post.

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Gobstoppers12
08/04/22 5:48:41 PM
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Hell yeah, just waiting for my gf to get home from work and we'll be watching.

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KFHEWUI
08/04/22 5:49:37 PM
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What the duck!

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Imit8m3
08/04/22 5:56:15 PM
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I like the format. It's like a video game, leveling up in difficulty with each new level of the tournament.

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Calwings
08/04/22 6:05:22 PM
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Imit8m3 posted...
I like the format. It's like a video game, leveling up in difficulty with each new level of the tournament.

Not only that, but 4 of the 5 bounty bots in this series (Rotator, Skorpios, Lock-Jaw, and Gigabyte) are bots that won a bounty hunter tournament and defeated a bounty bot during last year's Bounty Hunters side series. So those 4 have already leveled up from hunter to bounty bot, and if they win again, then they get to move up and hunt the biggest bounties of all in the three world champions.

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divot1338
08/04/22 6:07:42 PM
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Are the robots allowed to splooge out blobs of glue or oil to incapacitate the other robots?

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DeadBankerDream
08/04/22 6:08:58 PM
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Where's HypnoDisc?

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Imit8m3
08/04/22 6:09:42 PM
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I don't think so to post #6

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divot1338
08/04/22 6:11:27 PM
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Imit8m3 posted...
I don't think so to post #6
What about a cape that it could unfurl when pursued that had glue on it (like flypaper?)

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Gobstoppers12
08/04/22 6:30:03 PM
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divot1338 posted...
What about a cape that it could unfurl when pursued that had glue on it (like flypaper?)
Nah. No entangling devices, oil slicks, ball bearings, etc. Not only for sportsmanship reasons, but also because that kind of stuff is a nightmare to clean up after.

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Calwings
08/04/22 7:29:06 PM
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Bump for half an hour until showtime.

DeadBankerDream posted...
Where's HypnoDisc?

Retired ages ago, both the bot and the team behind it. There are a few bots these days that use horizontal spinning discs like it (including Valkyrie who's competing in tonight's bracket) so its legacy in the sport lives on.

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unclekoolaid73
08/04/22 7:33:14 PM
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DVRing it for later viewing.
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Starks
08/04/22 7:34:31 PM
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That was easily one of the best eps of Battlebots ever.

Hypershock destroyed everything in its path. Surprised it wasn't counted out.

Not sure where that bot was during the nut tournament.

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Calwings
08/04/22 7:51:16 PM
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DuranOfForcena posted...
nice! i forgot this was coming up so soon. me and my folks haven't finished rewatching ABC Season 2 yet, lol

You've got a long way to go to catch up, but it keeps getting better from there.

Season 3 (the first after it moved to Discovery) was when the reboot really hit its stride IMO. The production values got better, the new "fight night" format was way more appealing, Chris and Kenny got more comfortable with their commentary, the bots got stronger, and the action got more intense.

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Calwings
08/04/22 8:05:06 PM
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IT'S ROBOT FIGHTIN' TIME! Duck vs. Hypershock is the opening bout of the night.

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Calwings
08/04/22 8:18:08 PM
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Dominant win for Hypershock to start the tournament. I liked Will talking about the mistake that cost him in the main tournament against P1 and how he wanted to avoid making the same mistake again. Duck really needs to go back to the drawing board and come back with a decent weapon though, because this "pure defense" build isn't working in the current meta where bots are both more powerful and more durable.

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Calwings
08/04/22 8:47:06 PM
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SMEEEEEEEEEE got SMAAAAAAAAAASHED, Triple Crown got dethroned off-screen, and Defender couldn't defend its own life. The first round has been solid so far, but not really any standout fights yet. The second round should be more interesting.

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chukklez17dc
08/04/22 8:50:51 PM
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Battlebots is cool but this japanese robot wrestling thing blows my mind

https://youtu.be/N_xTvZCvuQ4

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Calwings
08/04/22 9:01:38 PM
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HOLY SHIT VALKYRIE JUST GOT FUCKING OBLITERATED

Wow

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Imit8m3
08/04/22 9:02:42 PM
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chukklez17dc posted...
Battlebots is cool but this japanese robot wrestling thing blows my mind

https://youtu.be/N_xTvZCvuQ4
That is fucking weak!
Total weeb shit.

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Calwings
08/04/22 9:17:35 PM
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Mad Catter is such a fun bot to watch, and Martin Mason is such a nice guy. After those two enjoyable semifinal fights, the tournament finals and the bounty fight against Gigabyte are probably going to be great.

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Compsognathus
08/04/22 9:28:17 PM
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Calwings posted...
HOLY SHIT VALKYRIE JUST GOT FUCKING OBLITERATED

Wow
Good fucking gravy. What an absolute bloodbath.

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Yazarogi
08/04/22 9:30:38 PM
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RIP Grant, I think he'd love this.

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Imit8m3
08/04/22 9:39:07 PM
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Wow what a match!

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Imit8m3
08/04/22 10:00:01 PM
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To shreds you say???

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Calwings
08/04/22 10:00:48 PM
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HOLY SHIT HYPERSHOCK WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!?

I'm just stunned. Hypershock has shown glimpses of this potential in the past, but it's been inconsistent and had reliability issues (plus a bit of bad luck) for most of the previous seasons. It looks like Will and the team have finally pulled it all together, and now that they have... this thing is a monster. Valkyrie and Gigabyte got absolutely annihilated, and the arena itself suffered a lot of damage too. Hypershock blew me away this episode.

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Compsognathus
08/04/22 10:14:51 PM
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Calwings posted...
HOLY SHIT HYPERSHOCK WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!?

I'm just stunned. Hypershock has shown glimpses of this potential in the past, but it's been inconsistent and had reliability issues (plus a bit of bad luck) for most of the previous seasons. It looks like Will and the team have finally pulled it all together, and now that they have... this thing is a monster. Valkyrie and Gigabyte got absolutely annihilated, and the arena itself suffered a lot of damage too. Hypershock blew me away this episode.

Yeah this Hypershock is a serious contender. Good lord, an absolute bloodbath.

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Gobstoppers12
08/04/22 11:04:59 PM
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HOLY SHIT

I'm in shock. I have literally never seen Hypershock do anything like this before. It's absolutely insane right now.

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ThePrinceFish
08/04/22 11:15:24 PM
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Where is HUGE

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Calwings
08/04/22 11:17:18 PM
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ThePrinceFish posted...
Where is HUGE

Not in this episode. I don't know if it's a competitor in any of the four bounty tournaments later on (I only know the bounty bots at the end of them so far) but if it does pop up in one of them, I'll give you a mention to let you know.

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toreysback
08/04/22 11:56:32 PM
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damn lost power and missed it. oh well i'll catch up

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Gobstoppers12
08/05/22 1:14:53 AM
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Calwings posted...
Not in this episode. I don't know if it's a competitor in any of the four bounty tournaments later on
The preview for the next episode's bracket shows Huge and Deep Six matched up in the first round

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unclekoolaid73
08/05/22 3:15:55 PM
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My goodness hypershock is dialed in!!!
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Starks
08/05/22 3:28:27 PM
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I'm surprised how most of this footage is about a year old at this point. I don't know why they held it back so long, especially when the 2022 tournament is almost ready to start.

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Calwings
08/05/22 3:32:47 PM
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Starks posted...
I'm surprised how most of this footage is about a year old at this point. I don't know why they held it back so long, especially when the 2022 tournament is almost ready to start.

Yeah, I agree. It was odd to hold off on showing this for so long after taping it. Maybe they wanted to wait until after certain issues with the Warner/Discovery merger were hammered out first?

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DuneMan
08/05/22 6:27:05 PM
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If I had to sum this episode up in one word: 'rampage'. When you pair performance with reliability these are the kinds of results one would expect.

To be honest, I'm not sure how the next episode is supposed to measure up to the first...

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NightRender
08/05/22 6:30:45 PM
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This was an all time episode.

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Gobstoppers12
08/05/22 7:22:20 PM
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NightRender posted...
This was an all time episode.
It may literally be the best one I've ever seen. I can't believe how amazing it was.

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KFHEWUI
08/05/22 7:52:18 PM
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Is Gigabyte dead? Or just its career?

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Gobstoppers12
08/05/22 11:36:48 PM
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KFHEWUI posted...
Is Gigabyte dead? Or just its career?
Based on how far apart its pieces flew, I think the next Gigabyte is gonna have to be the Son of Gigabyte.

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