Is Robot Wars /sp/?

robots are built for kissing

If F1 is allowed then why not this shit

Still not over Robot the Bruce getting tipped over in the series 1 final

spinners > flippers

>>149712771
Robot Wars is unironically more of a sport than F1

Wheely Big Cheese flipping Axe-Awe out of the arena is one of the defining TV moments of my childhood. This show is legendary and there has been nothing like it on TV since.

>>149712771
The difference is that F1 is boring

If AI becomes sentient, how will they feel about Robot Wars and/or Battlebots?

It's not /sp/ at all, but it's fantastic and /sp/ posters are far more entertaining when they watch it than the foot fetishists and paedophiles of /tv/, so I look forward to its return and threads appearing on /sp/ anyway.

Robot Wars has a serious "meta" problem. As in, there's a dominant weapon or feature that establishes itself and then there's just nothing new coming along. The last time they tried it it was dominated by le spinny blades which just wasn't interesting.

>>149712747 (OP)
It’s a sport but it’s solved thus gay. As they get cheaper and better, drone wars would be the only thing that could bring it back.

>>149712771
Kek it do be like that

>>149714760
Fuck Chaos 2.
I always hated that little shit.

>>149714760
All it needed was another category where spinning blades were banned and some innovative techniques to counter spinning blades and maybe a bit of nerf to spinning blades and boost to whatever counters it. This happens all the time in sporting regulations

>>149714760
kek love me some george
i always saw him as an asexual being so this is funny

>>149715689
It needs guns and rockets

>>149715689
>more restrictions
fuck off

>>149715689
>>149714760
you are all wrong
there's an obvious solution here which is 'no wheels'
every robot should have legs

For me it was hypnodisc
>tfw choke

>>149712747 (OP)
*flips you with our CO2 powered cannister that doubles as a self-righting mechanism*

They should get George Francis to design robots for the Ukraine War. Imagine the fear in soldiers eyes when they see CHAOS 2 powering towards them in the trenches with grenades strapped to it

>>149720012
In early Robot Wars they had a competition where you had to design a robot to climb up a rope and get to the top and one of them was a human shaped skeleton robot with legs that did this incredibly slow loud noisy knee jerk to go up 1cm at a time, and it was against this tiny little box robot that just had two wheels inside it that gripped the rope and zoomed up in like 5 seconds

Razor was the GOAT.

everytime robot wars gets mentioned i always remember my first experience of seeing a rigged final
fuck tornado

>>149712747 (OP)
>>>/pw/

>>149712771
spbp

>>149720955
That was Techno Games lad

>>149720955
I remember that. The child with the weird skeleton robot cried so much.

how would Sir Killalot fare in an actual competition instead of just as a house ni-

>>149726683
He would be disqualified for breaking the weight limit.

Some fat people don't have a sri-mech