BattleBots

BattleBots, the future is here. Be afraid.

Be very afraid. This is Las Vegas, Nevada,

and we're here to document the destruction

that is BattleBots. Welcome everyone. I'm

Sean Salisbury, and we're going to jump right to the super heavyweight quarterfinal

action. It's Dissector versus Ramstein, and

to guide us through the match, as always,

my partner, Bill Dwyer. Thank you, Sean. And this

one is a tough fight to call. Both robots have

already notched wins in their metallic highs.

Donald Hudson's Dissector is a fast and furious

robot whose clamp jaws are ideally suited

to grab and lift Ramstein's pneumatic spike.

Corey Klein's Ramstein is an aluminum-plated,

six-wheeled terror that's equally adept at

inverted driving and dishing destruction.

Well, what do Ramstein's builders do to relax?

Get a load of this. The Miami-based team Ramstein

are a tight-knit group. It's a big family,

and you know, you do robots and robots and

robots, and then you decide you want to do

something fun, and it's a whole different

world out there. It's all a terrific lesson in

teamwork. Teamwork underwater definitely helps

with teamwork and building robots. We all rely

on each other. And relying on each other is what

it's all about, above and below the surface.

When you're underwater, you have to worry about

sharks and rays and all those things. And when

you're in the box, you have to worry about robots,

which sometimes can be a lot more dangerous.

The team that dives together drives together. It's a Miami thing.

Let's get to the floor. So you guys have a

big anticipated match coming up with Ramstein.

Did you fix the problem that you had earlier?

It looked like some of my battery leads

me have got a little hot and connected together and shorted out, but surprisingly,

my entire set of electronics stayed functioning.

Awesome. Good luck to you. Thank you.

Let's get to the fight. Introducing first, in the red square to my right,

so foul and fair a day, you have not seen

until this badass makes the scene. Ladies and

gentlemen, all hail Ramstein. And in the blue

square, using a pickaxe instead of a scalpel

to cut open his specimens, this diabolical

genius specializes in making a bloody mess.

Here's Die Sector.

The box is locked. The lights are on. It's robot

fight time in a super heavyweight division.

Ramstein and Die Sector speed and power and offensive weapons for both of these

bots. The power of Ramstein's pneumatic rod. Did you see that spear come out?

When it looks like this clamp bot's moving in on Ramstein,

Bill, explain what clamp bot is to people. Die

Sector's a clamp bot. You see, he's got jaws

on the front of him that actually close and

overlap. If he's on his back or on his belly,

he can grab any bots. And he just did. He's

got him in his clamps now and that mouth

doesn't have to talk because it's roaring without saying much as he's got Ramstein

in his mouth right now. But that pneumatic

spike can get rid of Die Sector. The pneumatic

spike caused Ramstein in between the chassis

and the tires. We had a big standoff there.

Oh, those kill saws come out.

We got our Sklar brothers ringside who are down

close with some action. Let's check in with

them. Guys, you see a little smoke coming

out of Ramstein. It looks like he's trying to

take him to the hammer. He might be finished.

And as you heard, the smoke coming out of

Ramstein because he would not sit here and

take this punishment over by the pulverizer.

Must have been stuck in the spikes. Oh, there

we go. Got him under the pulverizers now. Four.

Count with us because you know what? It looks like Die Sector's got him pinned

and isn't going anywhere soon as Ramstein

misses punishment. 30, 90, five. Taking it four.

How's this for tag team wrestling? Pick one

up and allow the pulverizer to knock him down.

Look at the damage being done to Ramstein right now.

You can drive somebody up there like Die Sector did to Ramstein.

You score major points with the judges. And

you can see the power of Die Sector's jaws.

Donald Hudson wanted to use actual jaws of

life for those jaws but they were too heavy

and slow. 19 straight poundings. Those pulverizers gave Ramstein Die Sector's

out of the game up against those spike strips.

Those pickaxes pale in comparison to the pulverizer

but each one of those is a 10-pound pickaxe

capable of doing major damage to the top of

any bot. We talked about how both of them got

offensive weapons. Well, the offensive weapon

is Die Sector right now. Ramstein obviously

having trouble with some drive train here.

Stuck up against those spike strips and being pounded.

Now you might think he's having problems with his pneumatic spear.

He's got to keep that out as a defensive mechanism.

He's had a little taunt as we're inside 15 seconds. Lifts him up does Die Sector

and keeps himself away from hazard. At this

point in the fight when you know you've won

like Die Sector has, you're practicing.

You're picking up. You're taking the bad bot.

This one's over. Not a lot of points for

Ramstein. A little celebration from Die Sector.

Nice shoot. Domination by Die Sector. Take a look at the replay.

Pulverizers go about their business and their

business is pounding the snot out of Ramstein.

Let's go down now and get the official decision from Mark Vero.

The three judges at ArenaSide have turned in

a 39 to 6 decision for the blue square. Die

Sector. No surprise here. 39 to 6. Die Sector passes his boards with these scores.

He led Ramstein and hit 7 to 2. Die Sector had

the only lift and a 25 to 1 lead in hazard damage.

If the first fight was any indication, we could

be in for total annihilation in our next match.

Keep your fingers crossed. It's Toe Crusher

and he's going to try and put his mechanical

foot through evil fish tank. The lightweight quarterfinals are next.

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Exciting lightweight quarterfinal action is

guaranteed as evil fish tank tries to steamroll

Toe Crusher on its way to the top. Evil

fish tank has been feeling pretty cocky since

it killed Mecha Tenomushi in the first round.

Toe Crusher is another of the robots from the fertile mind of Kristen Carlberg.

Toe Crusher uses a war hammer spike in its smash and bash fighting technique.

With evil fish tank, Dan Danik and Tony Bucciani

hope to get a giant nut in the lightweight

division. The lifting ramp wedge on evil fish

tank could make Toe Crusher sleep with a fish.

It's time to get to the fight. Introducing in the red square to my right,

like the fat girl your mother made you take

to the front, don't tangle with Toe Crusher.

And in the blue square, you know this

barbarian from the aquariums here when you see

dead robots floating on the surface. Introducing

evil fish tank. I don't think this fish tank

is evil. I don't think robots float. The box is

locked, the lights are on, it's robot fight time.

Toe Crusher and evil fish tank for three

minutes until ultimate destruction. Toe Crusher,

you remember seeing him on Jay Leno, the

Tonight Show, a lot of publicity for Kristen

Carlberg and now he's got to come out of the arena and fight right now. Looks like

evil fish tank's on the aggressive side. Toe

Crusher looked like he was waiting, playing

a little defensive game, but it's harder to drive

a two-wheeled bot than any four-wheeled bot.

You won't be able to tip over Toe Crusher,

but you've got to attack because both of these

are quick and I think evil fish tank understands that right now.

You see those kill saws do a little bit of

damage to Toe Crusher and Kristen Carlberg

and now look at this, Toe Crusher gets back to

the kill saw score point for evil fish tank.

Both of these guys, pippity-pop -pop over the kill saws. Beautiful.

Oh my goodness, his spikes is gone. Evil

fish tank, the main weapon of evil fish tank

gone. And that was done by the Pulverizers, big and bad. Now if you're Toe Crusher,

you're saying all I've got to do is do a little bit of attack and stay away from

the kill saws. Now you wonder why we love

the kill saws. How about that evil fish tank?

And Toe Crusher, they're both spending way too

much time around there, such a dangerous area.

Man alive, oh look at that. Kill saws are

scoring points, do we have three bots in this?

We are seeing more air in this fight than any other.

We've doubled down with these kill saws this

year, a lot more teeth and a lot more speed,