Current Events > BattleBots: Fight Night week 10 discussion topic *spoilers*

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Riptide gonna eat Captain Shredderator for breakfast.

the ominous v shreddit bro match was incredibly lame...it was robot maneuvering time

I read before going into this there would be a moment... but not sure what exactly.

Either way what Riptide did was uncalled for, and from what I've read it came out to about 10k dollars worth of unneccesary damage which really helps put it into perspective. I know there was an unwritten rule about sportsmanship that not everyone has to follow, and if this was a one time deal I could probably understand, but it's just another in a line of questionable/asshole behavior. I too hope they get karma in some form.

It wasn't even that they broke the unwritten rule. They were actively ignoring Shred yielding and the refs telling them to stop to the point that the refs actually pulled the controller out of Ethan's hands. It started to create an actual confrontation and you can see the tail end of it when the camera starts to focus on the team after the fight and you see Ethan finally throw up his hands in surrender. The fact that this is hardly their first example of incredibly unsportsmanlike behavior kinda removes any benefit of the doubt they might otherwise receive. And they have successfully turned the entire Battlebots community against them. I really home Black Dragon thoroughly kicks their shit in. Like a complete totalling of the bot and that they get entirely shunned by everyone in the pits.

They play the heel but without any of the self-awareness that Tombstone or Hydra have so they just come off unlikable.

Yeah.

Ray Billings being a villain is an act for the battle box. Outside of the box, he is a nice and down to earth guy.

let me make a confession.

i am the casual eyeballs the show is working to capture. i had some vague ideas about how the behind the scenes operation worked, but i figured that was all part of the show, that battlebots bankrolled anyone who could demonstrate some sort of minimal competency. The destruction of capt shred was visually stunning, and fully what the show seems to want to present. so while i expected the extra hits to lead to a show feud, i didn't expect it to lead to a complaint about how much money the destruction was costing.

so is the 10k coming out of this guy's pocket or what? I guess what i am asking is, how do these guys make money? auto racing uses sponsors, and we see what the race cars look like - these robots are nothing of the sort. if sponsors are the answer, how do they gain their exposure? i mean, i barely follow auto racing, and i still know who the major sponsors are, and whose outfits they sponsor.

Bite Force actually has 3 Giant Nuts. It's the most successful combat robot of the modern era.

Which is part of the reason why Paul was like "shouldn't we be making money?"

Whoever lost the Shatter/Horizon fight was going to appeal and needed to. Both were winless teams and this was a very close split decision. Even if you thought you were gonna lose, you still appeal anyway because you are in sink or swim at that point.

Also Shatter's next fight is ominous. So they probably figured they had that one on lock.