Noticed he was not in this weekend's streams (at least so far, I haven't gotten to prime time yet but you'd think he would have been there for part of the day already if he was there at all).
Hopefully he just had the day off rather than being gone? I rather enjoy his commentary.
been herring horror stories of allergy people having to throw hole bots in the bin from fighting fire bots didn't believe it so i ask how bad is fire damage?
Bringing some kids to an event soon. None of us have ever been. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Also wondering if I should bring earplugs for the kids? My hearing is already fucked.
I bought the experience tokens too, but there wasn’t much info about what that’s for either.
Kazaa Eins obviously had no functional weapon, yet it was allowed to start the fight and even won it once Maccabot got immobilized? How's that possible when other bots got disqualified before their fight even began for not having a functional weapon?
I've been watching Battlebots for a while. I've seen clips on YT from NHRL and been intrigued, but it's all a bit overwhelming with shorts and spotlights.
Is there a playlist of season ladder fights? Are they titled something consistent that I should search for?
I'd love to get into it!
NHRL war on BORING.
Watching NHRL grow form small tiny events to benign the F2 of robot combat has been interesting but it’s been a bumpy ride and it has a big effect on the Beatleweight scene and how it has allowed it to become as big as it has ever been but in somewhat losing its original identity but has become something very different.
Chapter 1. Active Weapons only: the banning of weaponless robots may seem simple now but it was a huge deal due to the high influx of D2 KIT BOTS which lead to many think those fight are "boring" it didn’t stop other kit bots being entered but it gave it a usp it almost impossible to find many events now that don’t have an active weapon rule now in the USA as many try to copy NHRL’S success.
Chapter 2. First wave of flame: NHRL has not been a stranger to some controversies in its history but at the start its “lack of safety” with flame bots caused much concern from the UK teams and fans. ( all uk events ban fire and are very strict with exposed lipo’s) while fire bots were not serious at this moment of time as most of the items were there to get around the “active weapon rule” now NHRL is incredibly safe now.
Chapter 3: Team smee and full court…. rules and robots have a symbiotic relationship, the rules affect what robots can be built but in contrast certain designs and rule get around can force the rules to change, changing other robots by accident or on purpose, both bots have skirted the rules in different regards so much so whether or not they are the robots to lay the whole blame on why…
-Pins got limited to 2 pins (after the 2nd pin every other pin counts agents you in points)
-minimum active weapons. (all weapons must pass a dummy test and also means if your weapon isn't active in the arena you are forced to forfeit )
-the removal of control as a judging score and the change to Harm, and Attack.
Whether or not these robots were the reasons for the changing of rules but all i can say is rules and robots are not made in a vacuum and that has been part of the sport since the very beginning.
Chapter 4:minimum active weapons: on paper this seems like a good rule however this rule has screwed over many wedge bot drivers and builders some of witch i have sadly screen see leave due to the disrespect and sometimes hate wedgebots have been given, but i’m also conflicted because all things need to progress and evolve and sadly some people will get left behind and the fact more and more events want to be NHRL and i can’t blame them.
Chapter 5; second wave flame: PLA has become popular as a cheap and easy to use materials for many small teams especially teams with fewer resources, this is why they are very popular in beatle’s, flame bots don’t just counter them they single handedly retire robots and teams out of competition petition for months or years and for many this become a final nail in the coffin as the smaller team are trying to fight back their weight class as beetles have slowly become the toughest hardest ot entry weight class in robot combat and this division something NHRL will have to try keep the peace of.
Chapter 5.a. Nate Franklin: Nate is a very well respected and well liked roboter who respectfully tried to call something to be done on matter or at least have a discussion with many robotiers and fans where respectfully having, however some bad eggs purposely destroyed and wrecked the thread, which made Nate shut the thread in embarrassment witch wasn;t just disrespectful to nate but also the robotiers and fans who were using that thread to have good faith discussion.
Look nobody wants fire bots banned most people want fire bots kept to the same rules as other weapon types.
What’s next? Well NHRL seems to be trying to divide the class in three categories “pro league” the regular league and “xp” and weather this works and helps the midsize team’s and small team’s will only be found in time and i do trust NHRL will make rules with new era fire bots in mind but 1 thing they desperately need to improve is weapon variety at events but that doesn’t happen on a whim.