BattleBots

Comedy Central Sports presents BattleBots.

The quarterfinals.

Vicious Valtar takes on the dangerous biohazard in a heavyweight bout.

Then the battle of the super heavyweights.

Crowd favorite Mechadon attempts to crush Ramstein.

Then a lightweight smash fest.

An angry alpha raptor.

And a colorful tentamushi fight to the death.

We're one step closer to crowning the champions right here at Fort Mason.

Hello everyone and welcome to Comedy Central's BattleBots.

I'm Shawn Salisbury and as always I'm here next to the man

with the encyclopedic knowledge of BattleBots, Bill Dwyer.

Tonight we showcase three quarterfinal matches in three weight classes.

It's been a hard road to get here.

These are the elite fighting robots.

Winners move on to the semi-finals.

Losers go home.

Let's see what they have in their arsenal for this fight.

The wedge robot Voltark is built by Steven Felk right here in San Francisco.

It's going against Biohazard who is built by

Carlo Bertaccini from Belmont, California.

This undefeated heavyweight has an amazing low center of

gravity and also has an actuated lifting arm as a weapon.

For more info on Voltark let's go down to our Bill Nye.

Heavyweight Voltark is the vanguard of wedge robots.

It's articulated lifter bar can pick up an opponent twice its own weight.

And it's sharp but the stainless steel tooth gets

underneath the enemy to graze on any exposed vital organs.

Billy as always thanks and great job.

Let's go down to Mark Miro for the best introductions possible.

Introducing first in the red square to my left.

He slams, he rams, he silences the lambs.

Voltark!

$15,000 into that piece of machinery.

Also weighing in at 210 pounds.

You're always in danger when you're near this toxic Avenger.

It's Biohazard!

Steven Felk is a cabinet maker and says the fine

detailed work he does lends itself to robot building.

Carlo has an incredibly understanding fiance

who lets him spend long hours in the garage.

The box is locked, the lights are on.

It's robot fight time.

Heavyweights Voltark, Biohazard.

Winter moves on to the semi-finals.

Coming out after each other a lot of similarities you pointed out Bill.

Oh look at Biohazard. So low to the ground.

Only four inches tall Biohazard.

Getting underneath Voltark.

Now remember about Biohazard which is a small sleeper.

It has an anti-wedge factor that's supposed to

prevent Voltark from getting underneath him.

Yeah.

Biohazard would have... Oh look at that though!

So much for the anti-wedge design.

Voltark's wedge is so low to the ground he's able to get underneath Biohazard.

Now he's got to do some pushing and moving.

Obviously.

You know where you want to bring him.

Right into the kill saws and just leaving them there.

Oh there we go.

This is slicing.

Take a look at the sparks.

Biohazard.

Oh great leverage.

Oh look at that. He's just holding them off with a kill saw.

By Voltark this is great driving.

This is glorious.

Remember you can only keep a person suspended

for 30 seconds before you have to let go.

And start the attack again.

Right now in command is Voltark who has got the leverage underneath Biohazard.

Voltark hasn't even used his articulated lifting bar.

He's just shoving them around with that sweet wedge.

I bet he'd love to go through this whole fight without having to do that.

And save the mechanical wear and tear he would

take on Voltark in this big heavyweight provision.

Yeah there he goes.

Once again great use of the kill saws.

Oh take a look at that.

I should have on my welding shades.

Oh yeah he's taking them apart one endorsement sticker at a time.

Let's talk to Steven Felt about the violence in this sport.

The thing that I really like about the robots

and why I think those are big to feel is

you have total violence.

You have these things that are just as violent as we could possibly come up with.

And yet there's no guilt.

There's no hesitation.

These machines are built to beat the crap out of each other.

Prophetic words indeed from Felt.

Biohazard has done nothing.

He ineffectively raises his arm.

Nothing.

It smells I know that.

Yeah.

You smell nothing but desperate oil underneath that arm.

Look at the domination by Voltark.

That might have been the final damage.

We're about winding down on this one.

He is taking them to every set of kill saws there is.

Taking them around the neighborhood Sean.

Leading them by the hand.

And there it is.

There's a buzzer.

Three minutes.

Utter domination.

You don't think they love this?

He is pleased.

We're going to go to the official decision in a minute.

Let's get to the replay.

Here's Voltark dragging Biohazard over the kill saws.

One of many kill saws that Biohazard met in this match.

Steven Felt, the designer of Voltark, got to be so happy.

I don't think it's too much mystery.

In this decision we're going to get to the ringside.

Find out exactly the final results.

A nine to zero decision.

And it advances the red corner.

There you go.

It's Voltark moving one step closer to the championship.

Bye bye, Biohazard.

You're going home.

What do the battle stats show us in this?

Well, the stats only confirm what we saw, babe.

Biohazard had one more slam than Voltark.

But Voltark dominated the rest of the fight.

He had two jabs to Biohazard's none.

And used its grabbing arm to gain a 13 to 1 hazard damage advantage.

Well, let's grab a little more knowledge.

Go down to Donna DiErico on the floor with the winner.

That was quite an upset.

I'm stunned. I had no idea. I can't believe I won.

I made some changes in my robot from the last fight.

And they didn't work out well.

But they worked out fine in this match.

And this is a big one.

So yeah, I'm really proud of them.

Well, congratulations.

Thanks again.

It's the big boys.

Yes, that would be the super heavyweights, Ramstein and Mechadon, coming up.

The monsters of heavy metal, bang it out next.

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Make it on Kit's ass.

A super heavyweight quarterfinal spectacular with Mechadon versus Ramstein.

These super heavyweights inflict super heavy damage.

Ramstein's builder is Corey Klein from Miami, Florida.

Its weapon is a high pressure pneumatic spike.

Mechadon's builder is Mark Satrakian from Los Angeles.

Mechadon's weapons are its six steel claws.

It's a real crowd favorite.

Well, word from the pit is the pneumatics are out on Ramstein's weapon.

But they still can use the spike.

So they're ready to fight.

But first, let's go to Team Sinister.

I'm Peter.

And I'm Mark.

We both make creatures and special effects for movies.

We make monsters.

We've been pulling up each other's stuff for years.

When they come in here, they're looking for robot arms or sleeves or switches.

This is a nice 75 amp switch.

This is a motor with a...

This is a mess.

The parts for Mechadon were close to $14,000.

Power window motors.

Many a robot builder uses these.

This would be totally useless for any fighting robot.

But it's neat looking.

This is something else.

Team Sinister.

That's us.

Let's get down to the BattleBots floor.

Introducing first in the red square to my left.

Kicking behind is on his mind.

It's Ramstein.

Ramstein covering that pneumatic spike.

You know what?

Won't be working in this fight.

Had some mechanical problems.

We had a little bit of a disadvantage without that in this fight.

72 pounds.

It's the crawling, crawling walls of annihilation.

The very popular Mechadon.

Dressed for war.

His Mechadons.

The most famous of all BattleBots by far.

Corey Klein started developing rocket propulsion systems at the age of 10.

Mark Sutrakian is a movie monster maker.

He built with puppeteered characters in Men in Black and Mighty Joe Young.

The box is locked.

The lights are on.

It's robot fighting time.

Mechadon and Ramstein.

Mechadon to the left of your screen.

Ramstein to the right.

The slow moving Mechadon.

But dangerous and beautiful.