Current Events > BattleBots returns to TV tonight with BattleBots Champions 2 side-series

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Calwings
10/05/23 5:30:59 PM
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https://twitter.com/BattleBots/status/1709523771579617336

The first 5 weeks will be play-in tournaments (no bounty bot stuff this time around) and the 5 bots that advance from those will join the 3 most recent BattleBots world champions in a Tournament of Champions in the final episode. The first play-in tournament tonight features a few veterans like Rotator, Skorpios, and Valkyrie, as well as the recently re-designed Kraken and a few newer bots to the competition. As a reminder, 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+ or MAX before it airs on TV. Showtime for us TV viewers is 8PM EST tonight on Discovery, or you can check it out on the streaming options I mentioned above.

I made the topic a few hours early this time just to get the news and reminder tags out for some people who posted in BB topics in the past:

@KFHEWUI
@Starks
@DuneMan
@Compsognathus
@ANort175
@LostForest
@PiOverlord
@NightRender
@thronedfire2
@Torgo

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Calwings
10/05/23 5:31:24 PM
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More reminder tags because of the 10 per post limit:

@TomYo
@Gobstoppers12
@Machete
@itcheyness

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KFHEWUI
10/05/23 5:33:31 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dkl0Dm0ihGM

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thronedfire2
10/05/23 5:34:46 PM
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oh shit thanks for the tag, I forgot all about this

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Calwings
10/05/23 5:40:42 PM
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KFHEWUI posted...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dkl0Dm0ihGM

Nice. It's a shame that Ray and Tombstone had to miss the WC7 tapings due to his injury, but hopefully he's back for WC8.

thronedfire2 posted...
oh shit thanks for the tag, I forgot all about this

No problem, I always do it for the first episode of a season or side series, and I remembered you mentioning you were watching the previous seasons. Did you make it through WC7, the most recent one? If not, then watching this side series would spoil who wins that, so keep that in mind.

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mystic_belmont
10/05/23 5:43:49 PM
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Why wasn't I @'d? I love BB.

Calwings posted...
Nice. It's a shame that Ray and Tombstone had to miss the WC7 tapings due to his injury, but hopefully he's back for WC8.

It could have been way worse.

But yeah, he was missed.

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thronedfire2
10/05/23 5:44:28 PM
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Calwings posted...
Nice. It's a shame that Ray and Tombstone had to miss the WC7 tapings due to his injury, but hopefully he's back for WC8.

No problem, I always do it for the first episode of a season or side series, and I remembered you mentioning you were watching the previous seasons. Did you make it through WC7, the most recent one? If not, then watching this side series would spoil who wins that, so keep that in mind.

yeah I finished it a few days ago. can't believe how many robots were on fire that last season especially in the early episodes

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StealThisSheen
10/05/23 5:46:37 PM
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I love Battlebots, but I'm admittedly several seasons behind. My current favorite is Witch Doctor. I have no idea how long they're even a thing, or if they stay competitive, or whatever, though.

EDIT: Oh, I also love Minotaur, too.

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PiOverlord
10/05/23 5:56:15 PM
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Thanks for the mention, will definitely watch this.

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Gobstoppers12
10/05/23 6:00:23 PM
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Just saw this coming out as of last night, my gf and I had been waiting for the next championship event impatiently. Watching it in about 4 hours when the watch party crew is assembled!

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Calwings
10/05/23 6:03:05 PM
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mystic_belmont posted...
Why wasn't I @'d? I love BB.

Aside from thronedfire2 (who made a separate topic mentioning they were watching past seasons) I just checked the archive for the final topic of WC7 and the post announcing Champions 2 and tagged as many fans as I saw in those topics. I didn't see you in there, so that's why you didn't get a tag. Sorry.

thronedfire2 posted...
yeah I finished it a few days ago. can't believe how many robots were on fire that last season especially in the early episodes

Good to hear. And yeah, there was quite a bit of fire.

StealThisSheen posted...
I love Battlebots, but I'm admittedly several seasons behind. My current favorite is Witch Doctor. I have no idea how long they're even a thing, or if they stay competitive, or whatever, though.

EDIT: Oh, I also love Minotaur, too.

I won't tell you any exact results in case you decide to go watch those seasons yourself, but Witch Doctor and Minotaur are among the all-stars of the sport, pretty much always competitive. Aside from the first 2 seasons that aired on ABC and not Discovery (which were pretty scuffed and feel outdated now) all of the seasons of the modern BB reboot should be on D+ and MAX if you want to try and catch up.

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DuneMan
10/05/23 6:48:48 PM
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Cool. I actually got wind of this yesterday and was going to send a PM to you if I didn't see anything about it today. Thanks for the mention.

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thronedfire2
10/05/23 6:50:48 PM
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StealThisSheen posted...
I love Battlebots, but I'm admittedly several seasons behind. My current favorite is Witch Doctor. I have no idea how long they're even a thing, or if they stay competitive, or whatever, though.

EDIT: Oh, I also love Minotaur, too.

those are both favorites of mine too

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Starks
10/05/23 6:55:50 PM
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Is this even on Plus or Max yet?

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thronedfire2
10/05/23 6:57:14 PM
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Starks posted...
Is this even on Plus or Max yet?

I didn't see it a couple hours ago, and Im assuming they'd suggest it to me since I just watched all 7 seasons in like a month >_>

I've got 10 minutes left of this movie then I'll check

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Calwings
10/05/23 7:01:46 PM
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Starks posted...
Is this even on Plus or Max yet?

I don't have either to check for myself, but the BattleBots subreddit does have a thread titled "Go here to discuss the early showing of Battlebots: Champions II Episode 1 on Discovery+ and Max - everywhere else is strictly off-limits [SPOILERS]" so that's why I assumed the episode was already on there.

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Starks
10/05/23 7:05:52 PM
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If it doesn't show up at 8, that'll be the end of my D+ sub. I think it's the new post-merger policy.

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StealThisSheen
10/05/23 7:07:13 PM
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Calwings posted...
I won't tell you any exact results in case you decide to go watch those seasons yourself, but Witch Doctor and Minotaur are among the all-stars of the sport, pretty much always competitive. Aside from the first 2 seasons that aired on ABC and not Discovery (which were pretty scuffed and feel outdated now) all of the seasons of the modern BB reboot should be on D+ and MAX if you want to try and catch up.

Thanks! Yeah, I've been catching up on D+, I believe. Maybe Max. One of the two.

I legitimately forget which season I'm on, I'll have to check next time I watch.

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ANort175
10/05/23 7:14:51 PM
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Is Shreddit Bro finally gonna show us its full power? Probably not.

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thronedfire2
10/05/23 7:25:37 PM
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Calwings posted...
I don't have either to check for myself, but the BattleBots subreddit does have a thread titled "Go here to discuss the early showing of Battlebots: Champions II Episode 1 on Discovery+ and Max - everywhere else is strictly off-limits [SPOILERS]" so that's why I assumed the episode was already on there.

maybe they actually did an in person early showing somewhere?

I know some of the teams post on reddit and they're at those things.

I checked and I can't stream a new episode at 7:25

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Calwings
10/05/23 7:47:42 PM
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15 minutes away. After the episode, I'll look around the subreddit more and see if there's still early streaming on D+/MAX or if that's done.

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Calwings
10/05/23 8:04:22 PM
#22:


IT'S ROBOT FIGHTIN' TIME! BattleBots Champions 2 kicks off now with Skorpios vs. Shreddit Bro and...

ANort175 posted...
Is Shreddit Bro finally gonna show us its full power? Probably not.

...this aged rather poorly because SHREDDIT BRO WINS! I don't know if it's at full power yet, but they KO'd a pretty tough Skorpios.

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thronedfire2
10/05/23 8:53:28 PM
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Calwings posted...
IT'S ROBOT FIGHTIN' TIME! BattleBots Champions 2 kicks off now with Skorpios vs. Shreddit Bro and...

...this aged rather poorly because SHREDDIT BRO WINS! I don't know if it's at full power yet, but they KO'd a pretty tough Skorpios.

it looked like Yeti to me. I want to see it go against copperhead

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Calwings
10/05/23 9:16:38 PM
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Shreddit Bro looks unstoppable. That's a sentence that I never thought would come out of my mouth.

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Starks
10/05/23 9:18:49 PM
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Oh my god. Shreddit won the whole thing.

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Calwings
10/05/23 9:34:23 PM
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It's awesome to see two bots who underachieved during the regular season find it Champions. Good for Valkyrie on the semifinal win.

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Calwings
10/05/23 10:09:59 PM
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I'll be damned. Shreddit Bro won the whole thing. Not as dominant of a win as its first two, but still, I'm impressed at how well the bot is working now. Overall, a pretty good first episode for Champions 2. No highlight reel knockouts, but we got a some good ones plus an amazing back-and-forth tactical bout in Rotator vs. Valkyrie too.

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ANort175
10/05/23 11:27:37 PM
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Starks posted...
Oh my god. Shreddit won the whole thing.
Yeah that was really unexpected, they're not quite Minotaur but they got some really nice hits in those first 2 fights, and staying aggressive even after their weapon died really paid off. Pretty much went from a joke to a serious contender in a single night.

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Compsognathus
10/05/23 11:48:14 PM
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A bunch of upsets tonight. I really kinda expected Rotator to get through this easy but honestly I'm starting to this it's just past its prime. It hasn't really won a notable fight in quite some time. Good job to Shreddit Bro for actually managing to stay alive consistently. That said I'll be shocked if this doesn't end up being the easiest of the five mini-brackets. I feel like half the bots from next week's episode would have cleanly dominated this weeks.


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Gobstoppers12
10/06/23 12:19:39 AM
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I thought I was seeing the signs of Shreddit Bro being half-decent last season, but this has just proven that there's potential there. Looking forward to seeing how he performs in the final tournament rounds. I don't have high hopes, but the captain has always been positive and chill, so I hope the team and the bot do well.

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DuneMan
10/06/23 9:56:00 PM
#31:


After watching that episode, "Bro?!"

I also don't know what Victor Soto of Rotator was thinking, going weapon to weapon over and over. Each time it was clear as the match went on that he was getting the worst of each exchange. Then to challenge the result afterward, which the staff mentioned in passing to underplay it, is just like, "Really? Did you not experience the same match that I just watched? The judgement was the right one."

Anyway, next week's lineup should have some crunchy matches.

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Starks
10/06/23 10:12:30 PM
#32:


All of the damage to Valkyrie was cosmetic. There was a lot of it and it does count, but quality of damage matters.

A busted wheel vs a shredded front is not a hard call.

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