That's some great defensive driving from Gigabyte. Not too often that you see horizontal spinners get the best of verticals, easy to see why in the first exchanges
@@Moakmeister Exactly, but it's hard to spin up when both the arena walls and the other bot are stopping you from doing so. Takes skill to find the time and space to spin up properly
@@chefboiarby304 So the bull played the part of the matador? And Deathroll, after falling for the same trick once before, fell for it again? At this point it might as well be a signature move for them.
For once i was right. This fight was indeed the best fight from the episode. Poor Deathroll, such a bad luck for them to get stuck like that. Knowing the damage Gigabyte sustained, I'm sure Deathroll can beat them if they survive or can self right
A side piece that protects Death Roll's weapon hub was ripped off by Gigabyte so it made self-righting harder. I think the weapon of Death Roll died too. Even without the flipper there, Death Roll was in a very bad spot.
@@Dysphoros Good point, I didn't really appreciate that half of deathroll's head was ripped off. A minute and a half left with their primary weapon gone, it would have been a gritty fight to continue with Gigabyte who seemed to be spinning just fine. I believe most teams consider the self-righting mechanism as an afterthought but your bot is not always going to be flat on the floor with space all around it.
@@bryansummers3219I’m not sure if you know this but gigabyte suffered a Lipo fire after deathroll was counted. If they didn’t get stuck, deathroll would’ve won.
That instance was actually extremely abnormal and not the result of a design mistake. A chinese company just thought, or *alledgedly* earnestly believed that melting high grade aluminum and casting it would result in having high grade aluminum and refuted the idea that the bad part was their fault. And good luck suing a company in china if you're not chinese.
This actually was the end for Gigabyte. I believe the team said on reddit that they used their last undamaged pole mount in this fight and Death Roll broke it. Thats why it shatters apart in thr Free Shipping fight.
@@gtcreations7666 Won by all KOs though, which means it was deserved in a way. Plus, Gary has won multiple trophies in other competitions over the years, using effectively the same robot just without a weapon on it. Don't underestimate how much experience counts for, especially in a competition like Champions with limited repair windows, he's used to maintaining his bots in events where you are only guaranteed about half an hour to get ready between matches (though often get longer in earlier stages.)
They did a good job of controlling gigabyte. In previous fights it seemed a lot of their damage was self inflicted by rushing into a hit and going flying everywhere. The held back on aggression, spun up and let death roll come to them. A risky strategy if the fight went to a judges decision, but it did pay off. If death roll hadn’t gotten stuck, who knows. But they did manage to control gigabyte better than I’ve seen before
I was really hoping we would get to see a Deathroll (AUS) v Endgame (NZ) rematch at some point, this squashed that hope. Bit sad the two teams live in neighbouring countries, travel ages to get to America and then still not get to fight.
In the last encounter DeathRoll beat EndGame due to Endgames self righter failing like Deathrolls did in this fight. That fight was years ago now and Endgame have made massive refinements since then while DeathRoll has largely been in a crate. It would be an uphill battle, but one I want to see and one we get bragging rights over if we win lol (I'm Australian)
I now know this is why brick bots like Duck exists. When collision happens, both your bot and your opponent's one may be flown to somewhere and causes scenes like this.
I think that's a bit of a design choice. They want the weapons be a disturbance, they want the bots to be destroyed mainly by the adversary, not by the arena itself.
@@therealking6202 Robot Wars was a British show doing the same sort of thing as Battlebots, and ran between 1998-2004, and 2016-2017. Rather different in style of how it was presented and the arena, but for many fans of the sport outside of the US, it was what we started with, and one of the arena hazards in it was a literal "floor flipper", a panel of the floor which would pop up to hurl robots around.
I think they should really consider taking him off television. He can be there live if he wants to watch but he is really taking away from the fun and excitement being there.
The self righter needs to be tougher. Even with all the improvements Gigabyte still has an Achilles' Heel. Though the performance improvement is remarkable.
This fight was wild. As an Aussie I'm disappointed by the result but definitely not disappointed by the fight. Felt pretty bad seeing what happened after the fight though, it was like watching the winning fighter dying of its wounds after the fight had already ended. What is that wall thing meant to actually do in the arena?
The elevated section? It's called the 'upper deck'; if you're on top of it, you have to get back off within 20 seconds or you lose the fight. It's meant to replace out-of-the-arena flips as those areas are now blocked off for safety reasons. In practice, it's widely derided by builders and fans alike and just ends up nerfing full-body-spinners like Gigabyte who hit the wall or get stuck in the two upper corners of the ring.
I meant the flipper sticking out of the wall that DeathRoll just got stuck behind. its just kind of a sticking hazard. edit:: But yeah the upper deck is also terrible. I'm yet to be convinced that the best arena isnt just a simple empty box or maybe a cylinder/circle so there are no corners
@@RygoatI believe that those flippers are supposed to push robots away from the walls, but this is the first time in years that I've seen one of them fire.
@@Rygoat Oh, I see, sorry! Apparently they're called 'paddles' and they're supposedly designed to shove bots towards the pulverizers, but they haven't seen a lot of action throughout the show.
Big props to Gigabyte for taking all those hits and still running, in exchanges where they were up to speed they fared quite favorably but it's so easy to slow Gigabyte down, you just have to get them into any wall (and their spin up time is just too long) that said they got pretty lucky here, Deathroll probably would of had it if the fight had continued.
That last hit could have resulted in Gigabyte demise or a double KO in addition to Deathroll's KO. With all three outcomes about as likely. Whatever the result, that was a great fight.
that's wild, gigabyte's older than the kids driving it. i haven't seen that bot in 20 something years. i guess the military drone contracts are finally up for all the old battlebot guys.
I think one solution to make Full body spinners like Gigabyte be a bit more effective and avoid flying across the box is to use magnets like Claw Viper uses. A bunch on the bottom would make them stick to the floor more and so at least those smaller exchanges they wouldn't jump around. This would also improve traction, if they used powerful enough motors, again, like Claw Viper uses.
@@Cyberguy42 It is. If you see Claw Viper's fights in the last Championship, he improved on his speed massively because he understood the amount of magnets to have a good grip on the floor without being too much. That's why he's crazy fast, because he can put all the power down on the wheels and stay stable. There is even a fight where he gets beaten hard and you can see the magnets under the bot, seven of them of them, star shaped. Also other teams started using magnets on the forks to have them stay down during clashes. Sawblaze and Scorpios use them.
@@Cyberguy42the floor was remade. It used to have thick coat of paint that made magnets unviable. The new floors paint is thinner and magnets are now highly competitive.
I was wondering if Gigabyte could do anything besides just get smacked around... Finally saw it actually deliver some hits out of the videos i've been watching.
Massive improvement by Derek Tran and RDC in this bracket, I still expected Death Roll to dominate and make this a repeat of Gigabyte's prior clashes with verts. It certainly looked that way from the start but once Gigabyte had a couple good spin-up opportunities the Aussies stood no chance. Still a Pyrrhic victory with the battery fire afterward but very happy to see a full-body spinner remain at least somewhat relevant in a meta that's very stacked against them.
very intresting to learn the arena can do what it did here i always thought those walls where static thats very cool unfortunet in this fight but cool none the less
I don't know why GB doesn't try harder to get to center of the arena. They do much better there. Corners and edges are usually bad for horizontal weapons because if knocked around they don't have margin to spin up in. In center you have more directions to escape to in order to buy time to spin back up. Have Jan Brady drive next time: Center Center Center! Glad to see them win regardless.
ISTG I've said it once I'll say it again. If the fight lasted longer, Death Roll would've won the fight. Because Gigabyte caught on fire AFTER the fight.
@@leafy4755Are you actually dumb, or do you just know nothing about competitive robotics? Fire does literally no damage to these bots. Gigabyte had a shorted wire and wouldve continued driving just fine
@@leafy4755 Not necessarily. We've seen fights where bots have kept working whilst on fire for a long time. We don't know how long it would've taken for them to catch fire if the fight had continued. Like I said, Gigabyte was fully spun up, not on fire, and ready to pounce. They still had another big hit left in them.
Nice win gigabyte, I think they could have done some better defense not spinning up because deathrolls whepon could only grab the edge of gigabytes shell teeth.
That's some great defensive driving from Gigabyte. Not too often that you see horizontal spinners get the best of verticals, easy to see why in the first exchanges
Well in the first exchanges they weren’t spun up
@@Moakmeister Exactly, but it's hard to spin up when both the arena walls and the other bot are stopping you from doing so. Takes skill to find the time and space to spin up properly
Gotta admit, Gigabyte luring Deathroll into a box rush face first right into the screws was hilarious.
Minotaur did that to them too in season 4.
@@chefboiarby304 So the bull played the part of the matador?
And Deathroll, after falling for the same trick once before, fell for it again?
At this point it might as well be a signature move for them.
Totally on purpose :)
For once i was right. This fight was indeed the best fight from the episode. Poor Deathroll, such a bad luck for them to get stuck like that. Knowing the damage Gigabyte sustained, I'm sure Deathroll can beat them if they survive or can self right
A side piece that protects Death Roll's weapon hub was ripped off by Gigabyte so it made self-righting harder. I think the weapon of Death Roll died too. Even without the flipper there, Death Roll was in a very bad spot.
@@Dysphoros Good point, I didn't really appreciate that half of deathroll's head was ripped off. A minute and a half left with their primary weapon gone, it would have been a gritty fight to continue with Gigabyte who seemed to be spinning just fine. I believe most teams consider the self-righting mechanism as an afterthought but your bot is not always going to be flat on the floor with space all around it.
Yeah, Death Roll or Bad Luck?
I was shocked they couldn't flip.
@@bryansummers3219I’m not sure if you know this but gigabyte suffered a Lipo fire after deathroll was counted. If they didn’t get stuck, deathroll would’ve won.
From getting de-bodied in 2 hits by tombstone to taking out one of the favorites. Gigabyte really came a long way.
Megabyte, the predecessor of Gigabyte, was one of the best many years ago, of a similar status to Last Rites, predecessor of Tombstone
That instance was actually extremely abnormal and not the result of a design mistake.
A chinese company just thought, or *alledgedly* earnestly believed that melting high grade aluminum and casting it would result in having high grade aluminum and refuted the idea that the bad part was their fault. And good luck suing a company in china if you're not chinese.
@@iceblade019 oh wow I think I've heard of it
They didn't really take them out. It was a really lucky shot.
@@UnpatternedGarbage they still survived the onslaught in the beginning... that's something
"Don't bring a knife to a robot fight!" What a perfect closing line for a perfect fight!
It wasn't that good
@@nightcorerj6024 The fight or the line? I thought the fight was amazing! And how often do you hear an Untouchables reference in Battlebots?
This actually was the end for Gigabyte. I believe the team said on reddit that they used their last undamaged pole mount in this fight and Death Roll broke it. Thats why it shatters apart in thr Free Shipping fight.
Yeah, if not for this, they could likely keep fighting Free Shipping and turn the tide. Sadly, this is how it is with those Slugfests.
I'm sorry, but it bothers me that out of all those bots in this tournament, FREESHIPPING won. This kept me up at night 😭
where did you watch it?
@@ralphjohnticsay8771 hulu
@@gtcreations7666 Won by all KOs though, which means it was deserved in a way.
Plus, Gary has won multiple trophies in other competitions over the years, using effectively the same robot just without a weapon on it. Don't underestimate how much experience counts for, especially in a competition like Champions with limited repair windows, he's used to maintaining his bots in events where you are only guaranteed about half an hour to get ready between matches (though often get longer in earlier stages.)
I did not see that ending coming! Great fight, it's good to see a full body spinner do something more than lose.
“Never bring a knife to a robot fight” 😂😂😂
Seeing a bot beaten by the box is always rough but it do be what it do be
They did a good job of controlling gigabyte. In previous fights it seemed a lot of their damage was self inflicted by rushing into a hit and going flying everywhere. The held back on aggression, spun up and let death roll come to them. A risky strategy if the fight went to a judges decision, but it did pay off. If death roll hadn’t gotten stuck, who knows. But they did manage to control gigabyte better than I’ve seen before
I feel so sorry for DR but the same thing could have happened to either of them. That’s just the way the cookie crumbles. I wanted DR to win though.
I was really hoping we would get to see a Deathroll (AUS) v Endgame (NZ) rematch at some point, this squashed that hope. Bit sad the two teams live in neighbouring countries, travel ages to get to America and then still not get to fight.
@@Rygoat there’s a strong rivalry between the two nations too. This is how they should sort out all of their differences ☺️.
In the last encounter DeathRoll beat EndGame due to Endgames self righter failing like Deathrolls did in this fight. That fight was years ago now and Endgame have made massive refinements since then while DeathRoll has largely been in a crate. It would be an uphill battle, but one I want to see and one we get bragging rights over if we win lol (I'm Australian)
@@Rygoat Deathroll is my favourite of the two and one of my favourites of all time. I’d like to see that go a lot further.
I now know this is why brick bots like Duck exists. When collision happens, both your bot and your opponent's one may be flown to somewhere and causes scenes like this.
upgrade the traps. they might as well be feathers that tickle the robots
yeah
I think that's a bit of a design choice.
They want the weapons be a disturbance, they want the bots to be destroyed mainly by the adversary, not by the arena itself.
Bad luck for my Aussie mates. They had Gigabyte in the first half. Great performances from both bots.
unexpected comeback. I like how they both have a dangling arm on top.
hilarious ending. gigabytes biggest fault is that if it isnt in the middle, it hits everything and stops spinning.
“ He’s stuck between a flipper and a hard place” 😂
😂🤣😂🤣
SPOLIER
Wasn’t expecting DeathRoll to get caught in the floor flipper like it did. Battlebots is still full of surprises
What's a spolier?!? 🤣
Floor flipper? This isn’t robot wars
@@ryanamburgy2791 Is that like a Transformers/GoBots thing?
@@therealking6202 Robot Wars was a British show doing the same sort of thing as Battlebots, and ran between 1998-2004, and 2016-2017.
Rather different in style of how it was presented and the arena, but for many fans of the sport outside of the US, it was what we started with, and one of the arena hazards in it was a literal "floor flipper", a panel of the floor which would pop up to hurl robots around.
Maybe next year Will see a completely new concept
I love Deathroll and it's psychotic "Go straight into the opponent no matter what" style
Farooq's bizarre riff on the gig economy when he introduced Gigabyte was just fantastic. Never change man!
I think they should really consider taking him off television. He can be there live if he wants to watch but he is really taking away from the fun and excitement being there.
@@nightcorerj6024, no I love his introductions.
I love gigabyte...I've got a soft spot for classic Battlebot designs.
How about tombstone
This channel is the best in youtube..👈👍👍
Really enjoy watching the Battlebots..😊
The self righter needs to be tougher. Even with all the improvements Gigabyte still has an Achilles' Heel. Though the performance improvement is remarkable.
Gigabyte be like "LOL totally meant to do that!" 🤣
5:47 - lets the bots battle begin
This fight was wild. As an Aussie I'm disappointed by the result but definitely not disappointed by the fight. Felt pretty bad seeing what happened after the fight though, it was like watching the winning fighter dying of its wounds after the fight had already ended.
What is that wall thing meant to actually do in the arena?
The elevated section? It's called the 'upper deck'; if you're on top of it, you have to get back off within 20 seconds or you lose the fight.
It's meant to replace out-of-the-arena flips as those areas are now blocked off for safety reasons.
In practice, it's widely derided by builders and fans alike and just ends up nerfing full-body-spinners like Gigabyte who hit the wall or get stuck in the two upper corners of the ring.
I meant the flipper sticking out of the wall that DeathRoll just got stuck behind. its just kind of a sticking hazard.
edit:: But yeah the upper deck is also terrible. I'm yet to be convinced that the best arena isnt just a simple empty box or maybe a cylinder/circle so there are no corners
@@RygoatI believe that those flippers are supposed to push robots away from the walls, but this is the first time in years that I've seen one of them fire.
@@Rygoat Oh, I see, sorry! Apparently they're called 'paddles' and they're supposedly designed to shove bots towards the pulverizers, but they haven't seen a lot of action throughout the show.
Love watching Gigabyte pinball off the hazards.
That ref counting down was in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Fireplace scene. :)
Until the end i thought that Gigabyte was over !
Well done guys! ✊
6:22 wow that was beautiful
Gigabyte is the man and is like the Cleveland Browns of the Battlebots. 😎
Bot Gigabyte really pleased me and gave a good fight!
Big props to Gigabyte for taking all those hits and still running, in exchanges where they were up to speed they fared quite favorably but it's so easy to slow Gigabyte down, you just have to get them into any wall (and their spin up time is just too long) that said they got pretty lucky here, Deathroll probably would of had it if the fight had continued.
When I think Gigabyte is going to win, it loses. When I think it’s going to lose it wins.
That last hit could have resulted in Gigabyte demise or a double KO in addition to Deathroll's KO. With all three outcomes about as likely.
Whatever the result, that was a great fight.
That driving skill of gigabyte made deathroll found its dead spot.
Yo Faruq, that suit is lookin SHARRRRP. Love those intros.
Look from 5:30
Looks like Deathroll was delivering hits that were sending it flying. Those are always a roll of the dice.
Fight commences at 5:48
that's wild, gigabyte's older than the kids driving it. i haven't seen that bot in 20 something years. i guess the military drone contracts are finally up for all the old battlebot guys.
This made me remember of the fight of Noisy-Boy against Midas in Real steal
Very unlucky for DeathRoll when they got stuck
They've been getting quite a bit of bad luck as of late
yeah it was Death.NO.Roll
GO GIGABYTE!!!
5:45
After the fight Gigabyte was literally on fire. 🔥
I think one solution to make Full body spinners like Gigabyte be a bit more effective and avoid flying across the box is to use magnets like Claw Viper uses. A bunch on the bottom would make them stick to the floor more and so at least those smaller exchanges they wouldn't jump around. This would also improve traction, if they used powerful enough motors, again, like Claw Viper uses.
Is the arena floor ferromagnetic now? My understanding was that Chomp's struggles (some years back) were at least in part because the floor wasn't
@@Cyberguy42 It is. If you see Claw Viper's fights in the last Championship, he improved on his speed massively because he understood the amount of magnets to have a good grip on the floor without being too much. That's why he's crazy fast, because he can put all the power down on the wheels and stay stable. There is even a fight where he gets beaten hard and you can see the magnets under the bot, seven of them of them, star shaped.
Also other teams started using magnets on the forks to have them stay down during clashes. Sawblaze and Scorpios use them.
@@Cyberguy42the floor was remade. It used to have thick coat of paint that made magnets unviable. The new floors paint is thinner and magnets are now highly competitive.
Pulls off an upset victory against Death Roll. ...only to lose to Free Shipping in the next round.
Woah! I didn't expect that one.
The end era of gigabyte. But the beginning of Terabyte era
04:30 for the start of the fight.
Great comeback
Thank you for the video.
I was wondering if Gigabyte could do anything besides just get smacked around... Finally saw it actually deliver some hits out of the videos i've been watching.
Massive improvement by Derek Tran and RDC in this bracket, I still expected Death Roll to dominate and make this a repeat of Gigabyte's prior clashes with verts. It certainly looked that way from the start but once Gigabyte had a couple good spin-up opportunities the Aussies stood no chance. Still a Pyrrhic victory with the battery fire afterward but very happy to see a full-body spinner remain at least somewhat relevant in a meta that's very stacked against them.
Fight@5:48
Man, this is better than MMA!
If anybody fast forwards past all the introduction, like i do, the fight starts at 5:50
迫力最高‼️
良い試合でした‼️👍
Very good control from Deathroll team.
Wow expert driving from gigabyte!
Its incredible machine!
Adorable fight
Love Battlebots. Long time fan.
But there are two things that come
to mind that I can definitely do without:
Minibots & theatrical button pushing.
Not saying this wasn't a lucky result, but the Gigabyte crew had mad skill to dodgr him and attack him in all the right angles.
Я нашел.. Я НАШЕЛ! Я СМОТРЕЛ ВАС ПО ТЕЛЕКУ КОГДА МНЕ БЫЛО 9 ЛЕТ! И ТЕПЕРЬ Я МОГУ СЛЕДИТЬ ЗА ЭТИМ! СПАСИБО!
Flailing and flailing to no avail.... LOL
I like gigabytes battles cause they always hit hard, usually getting hit like with hypershock but still
very intresting to learn the arena can do what it did here i always thought those walls where static thats very cool
unfortunet in this fight but cool none the less
I love that a UFC Legend Commentates this 😂😂
2 ufc Legends*
5:45 to start
50 of you posted the timestamp 😂
idiots
Pathetic little attention spans too short 😂
I don't know why GB doesn't try harder to get to center of the arena. They do much better there. Corners and edges are usually bad for horizontal weapons because if knocked around they don't have margin to spin up in. In center you have more directions to escape to in order to buy time to spin back up. Have Jan Brady drive next time: Center Center Center! Glad to see them win regardless.
5:48 for those interested in just the fight
50 of you posted the timestamp 😂
idiots
Pathetic little attention spans too short 😂
Fight starts at 5:48
50 of you posted the timestamp 😂
idiots
Pathetic little attention spans too short 😂
Started quite good and ended in tragedy
In BattleBots Bounty Hunters Season 3 (2022)
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Unless I don't know about it, we need a new game of Battlebots. Would be super cool, could see it getting pretty competitive.
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@@Atmatan 🤠🤡
@@aka_donnie I think your previous comment belongs posted on your own music 🤔
It has a hand with a knife 😂😂
That was great. I had it wrong.
ISTG I've said it once I'll say it again. If the fight lasted longer, Death Roll would've won the fight. Because Gigabyte caught on fire AFTER the fight.
Not really, death rolls weapon was out after the last hit. Gigabyte was at full speed ready to whack them again.
@@Edwiness Gigabyte would've stopped working because they were on fire
@@leafy4755Are you actually dumb, or do you just know nothing about competitive robotics?
Fire does literally no damage to these bots. Gigabyte had a shorted wire and wouldve continued driving just fine
@@leafy4755 Not necessarily. We've seen fights where bots have kept working whilst on fire for a long time. We don't know how long it would've taken for them to catch fire if the fight had continued.
Like I said, Gigabyte was fully spun up, not on fire, and ready to pounce. They still had another big hit left in them.
@@Edwinessabsolutely necessarily lol every burnt up
That was Fast 😮
Cool match! But I can't get over the refree thingy, it' looks ridiculous hahaha
That was a Lucky shot to be honest!
Agreed. Gigabyte's driving was rather awful to watch. Deathroll did everything right, it just got unlucky with that collision.
@@lunamelody2025yeah it’s like a giant sandwich for Deathroll to munch on
5:43 to skip to the fight ,,,Yourwelcome
bro that spinning 💀💀
Farook has such a dope voice, wish he calmed down with the cringe, drawn-out monologues :D
Nice fight
Gigabyte is a Redemption Story
Nice win gigabyte, I think they could have done some better defense not spinning up because deathrolls whepon could only grab the edge of gigabytes shell teeth.
Poor Deathroll, he was nearly undefeated in 2019.
Gigabyte is back 🎉
Deathroll totally misread Gigabytes hisses of death. So sad to see, that Deathroll self-KO-ed itself. Sort of a tragedy for me. 😂
🔥🔥bring it on
Thats a Massive beyblade right there
Estas balatallas son de las mejores muy real espero sigan creciendo las recomiendo
They should bring the hacksmith on this show
You should remove that side from the field because of that death roll lost
That's not a knife this is a knie 🔪🤣
Loads of time wasting on this video, fight starts at 5:45!