RWars Series 2 Heat B Part 3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2010
- The second war smashed onto our screens bigger and better than before! The introduction of the new house robot Sir Killalot brought shock and awe to the wars. New presenter Craig Charles presents, Johnathon Pearce commentates and Philippa Forrester interviews the teams. The six combatants are Mace, Chaos, Leighviathan, Wheelosaurus, Tantrum and Death Trak..
LET THE SECOND WARS BEGIN!
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2:16 Poor guy didn't get to handshake :S
is it bad if I kinda laughed at that...
No it was the funniest thing I saw all day
Chaos was SO close to beating Cassius for the honor of performing the first Successful Self Righting in Robot Wars.
George Francis later admitted in an interview that he forgot to fit a tiny, plastic lug onto the back of Chaos designed to help it roll back onto its feet. No wonder he looks so despondent.
If he had, Chaos could have beaten Mace and completely changed the result of the wars. They would have likely passed the Gauntlet and taken out Panic Attack, easily got a decent Pinball score and because they were in the same semi-final as Mortis (who basically gave up in the arena stage of that semi) would likely have qualified for the grand final. From then it would have probably beaten Killertron in the first round of the Grand Final, leaving a Chaos vs. Cassius fight for the title.
But instead, we're in the timeline where Mace won and Panic Attack took the title, all because of a few missing bits.
Wow, those walls looked really flimsy if they could be moved by a robot crashing into them (in later wars robots like Tornado would often bash robots into the wall without the wall moving at all)
Craig makes such a big difference, it goes from laughing at the contestants for being rubbish to bigging them up, and the the whole show up.
Little things like the ending lines - not sure if him or show writers but either way, changes the tone so much.
These are great. Thanks for uploading these!!
House robots spoil every battle
crimson bolt I agree. That is one thing I like about Battlebots. The hazards are a fixture in the playing field instead of being random. The house robots were the sole decider in some of these fights. Chaos should have been a knockout, and they revived him. It reminds me of the fight in season 1 where the house robots revived Bodyhammer off the grid. He actually went on to win the fight, and his opponent was royally screwed.
+Steven Johnson Definitely in the early series the house robots had too much interference. Series 3 was better once they reduced their patrol zones to just the corners rather than the entire perimeter, and by 5 they generally bnehaved themselves a lot more and let battles play out more naturally (most of the time).
+Steven Johnson I prefer robot wars over battlebots but I love both shows
What Chaos learned: Don't make robots with 2 wheels and large enough back ends to rest on. A design like that is just asking to be flipped.
Many had the idea, but it was so hard to make a flipper strong enough to self-right a robot of about 80 kilograms in the year 1998, when technology was very different.
They probably developed it together, Team Cassius and Team Chaos were best friends
interestingly, Chaos 1 had a roll cage that they forgot to attatch that would have righted it correctly
I'm talking about their original, first appearance builds. Wheelosaurus didn't have a motorised weapon in Series 2, which was its first appearance. For example, Fire Storm (Series 3) had a rear spike, but it didn't in future wars. Atomic (S4) used to be made of aluminium that was too thin for Sir Killalot to grab properly.
I remember them broadcasting this on PBC here in America. And it always started around my birthday.
Lol the House Robots really were out for oil, they wanted revenge
Great final between two great robots.
7.07 When You just give up on life.
I met the guys who built Razer when I was about 12/13, it looks even better in the flesh. :D
Good to see a robot finally get pitted for the first time at the end
They did want the spike, but in Series 4 they wanted a bigger flipper. To keep in the weight limit, the spike was removed and the armour was made level with where the spike's hole was, then welded over. They were still over the weight limits in Series 4, but that was fixed. It took them a while to decide what to do for it when they were 1 kilogram over the weight limit in Series 7, however.
actually the origanal axle-bot was The Master. It even had the electrics in the wheels, and was competing almost from the start of the sport.
Whilst it may be no Chaos 2, you can really tell just how far ahead George Francis was in terms of damage and control by this point. Whilst Robot the Bruce was magnificently driven, it was Chaos and its battle with Dead Metal there which really showed the later success Chaos 2 were to have.
chaos left its legacy, CHAOS 2 will rise
I like the design of Leighviatan
I don't know why but I loved the reaction shots of Peter Gibson at 3:26, 3:36 and 3:41
Wheelasaraus us my favourite robot of all time
The bot that first immobilised Sgt. Bash. He is infamous eternally for that.
i like how you see the first chaos in this heat!! Chaos 2 rules!!
3 easy judges decisions there, Leighviathon team must've been gutted they lost the heat semifinal after a successful trial again, Wheelosaurus had slick vintage design but was weak in battle. Mace won here and square but Chaos failing to self-right would give George a bright idea how to improve his robot for the 2nd.
@Shockfactor22 No, I meant that Wheelosaurus is the original axle-bot. Stinger is the first full body axe.
I'm talking about the original robots, Wheelosaurus hadn't got a motorised spinner or anything like that in Series 2.
Sgt. bash vs wheelosaurus and dead metal vs chaos!
With George and Mick putting their feet up before the heat final, surely they could have used that spare time to attach the plastic ears on the back of Chaos to aid them for any possible self-righting.
fail handshake @2:17 LOL
Lol, you see the guy on the far right failing to get a handshake from the opposing team at 2:15
The house robots went out of control. They wanted revenge for want Wheelosaurus did to Bash and Dead Matel wanted revenge for chaos putting him in the pit.
Well, it's impossible to tell who had the idea first, it's just Chaos had the chance to put it into action before Cassius did.
5:30 Wow Dead Metal almost pushed Chaos right through the wall
I wonder how it would have turned out if Wheelosawus had thought to use the spinning fast on the spot tactic used in later wars by similar bots such as Stinger. It might have been one of the few bots in the early series capable of doing real damage in it's own right.
That was almost a successful srimech from Chaos 1 there (7:05).
Interesting how the way that Chaos got knocked out is the way that Gemini got knocked out rather a lot. Chaos is a good design, but I'm very surprised that Team Mace didn't take that into consideration.
7:03 >tfw no srimech
chaos actually did have a srimech, but it failed to work because they forgot to attach some rounded pieces of plexiglass to the back which allowed it to roll over rather than getting stuck on its back. I think the robot actually did have these pieces attached while the team were being interviewed in the pits beforehand, but for whatever reason, they took them off and forgot that they had to re-attach them.
Maybe it's just as well, Cassius's self right was a lot more exciting and jumpy than Chaos's would've been ;)
Stinger stole Wheelosaurus' idea.
Well it was hardly Chaos 2, but be fair- this is barely Robot Wars at this stage. We ALMOST saw the first srimech here, but Chaos lacked the power and the right shape to flip itself upright again. Close, but no cigar. Still, that was the closest thing we've had to a legitimately great battle so far in Robot Wars.
They had apparently forgotten to add a pair of rounded plastic plates to the back that was needed to make their srimech work. :/
Actually, in series 4, Wheelosaurus have a motorised weapon. They have a spinning blade weapon.
@Shockfactor22 It's fine, it's not the first time :P
7:08 - "Hmmmm... Chaos 2..."
2:17 - Awkward handshake fail
Wait... you mean to tell me that the Chaos team.... actually lost.
House robots again interrupted final...
Why did Firestorm get rid of their spike? Is it because they realised that they didn't really need it?
Sorry for being picky, but Craig Charles described the Victorian pram wheels as "18th Century", but the Victorian era was nearly all in the 19th Century
sorry for that little factoid, but I do get picky when it comes to dates :D
Probably mixed up thinking Eighteen Hundreds and Nineteenth Century, so it came out "18th Century." Happens to the best of us.
Nearly pushed out of the ring there. bit of foreshadowing..........
4:00
come at me bro
I wish chaos had won this
Doesn't seem much fair that everyone who loses does so because it's beaten by the house robots honestly
@chinospot Rejected >:3
Sorry, I'm just talking about BBC Robot Wars Series 2, not the show BBC Robot Wars is based on. The Master did do something all BBC RW competitors didn't do; they made an axle-bot with a motorised weapon. Stinger is/was a hitter and Wheelosaurus intended to spin around. Wheelosaurus looked so good, it's terrible that the ones with all the hard work put in lose in simple ways. Mortis may have looked good, but the robot itself was absolutely rubbish. It was too good to be true, in my opinion. :/