[faruq] in the 25-year histo of the sport,
Excellence at battlebots has been measured in hardwar
The pride of the giant bolts
[chris echoing] what a destructive robot!
[faruq] the glory of the desperado and bounty hunter.
[chris echoing] they have run the gauntlet.
[faruq] and the ultimate pri
For those seeking battlebots immortality, the giant nut.
[chris echoing] world champion!
[faruq] now a new quest for greatness begins.
This is battlebots champi
The race for the golden bolt
[robot voice] robots activat
[crowd cheering]
[chris] hey, everyone, and welcome back to battlebots champions
I am chris rose, joined, as always,
By everyone's favorite ufc legend turned world class robot combat analyst,
The one and only kenny florian.
[crowd cheers]
[kenny] thanks, chris. It's so great to be here,
Surrounded by fans of the sport,
At my favorite place in the world, the battlebox.
[calls] how ya doin', vegas?
[loud cheers]
This year, we're cranking it up a notch here at battlebot
With a brand new event
That'll satisfy even the most bloodthirsty fan of mechanized carnage,
The first-ever sin city slugfest.
It's an unbelievable new event with five qualifying tournaments,
Boss bots around every corner,
And it all culminates with the winner being awarded the coveted new trophy,
The golden bolt.
[chris] now, to get your han on that beautiful new piece of hardware,
You must first gain entry into the exclusive golden bo tournament.
Already guaranteed to be the are giant nut winners
Tombstone, endgame,
And 2021 champion, tantrum.
After last week's flurry of fury, they're joined by hypershock,
Who won its golden bolt qualifier against gigabyte.
With only four precious spot remaining,
Tonight's eight new teams will try and run the gauntle
In hopes of claiming one of them.
Standing in their way,
A formidable gatekeeper,
Looking to grab the glory for itself...
Donald hudson and lock-jaw.
[kenny] donald hutson is one of the most influential engineers in this sport.
He and lock-jaw conquered a similar beast a few seasons ago
In the bounty tournaments,
Ultimately taking down his bounty target, beta.
But now it is lock-jaw that represents
The pot of gold at the end of tonight's pain-bow.
[chris] donald's impeccable pedigree has earned him the easiest path
To the golden bolt tournamen here tonight.
But will lock-jaw be a stubborn gatekeeper
And clinch a spot in the field of champions,
Or will it be one of our fearless contenders?
Let's check out tonight's tournament bracket.
We'll see bunny sauriol and malice take on the british brawler slammo!
In a battle of new yorkers,
Pain train squares off with adam wrigley's shatter!
[kenny] and how about this plus-size match up?
Deep six faces huge
In a fight that proves size does matter.
[chris] but up first, rising superstar, ribbot,
Still reeling from its round of 32 upset, is out for vengeance.
Captain david jin has a first round fight
With the twin killers from double jeopardy,
Who's looking to add another wart to ribbot's resume.
All right, let's get this thing going.
-Are you ready? -I'm ready.
-You guys ready? -[crowd cheer]
Faruq, take it away.
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready?
It's robot fighting time.
[crowd cheering]
In the red square,
From irvine, california,
The bot so nice, it'll kill you twice.
It's double jeopardy.
[crowd cheering]
[chris] oh, yes, they're al dressed for success.
Evan and bryce,
With their pops dragging in the heavy machinery.
That's evan on the left, that's bryce on the...
Or it's bryce on the left, and...
Oh, hell, you'll figure it out.
[kenny] very professional-looking team, here.
Both are lawyers by day, bot-builders by night.
I haven't seen this bot since 2019,
And double jeopardy is so unique.
It uses a cannon that fires projectile slugs at 220 miles per hour.
It only has a few shots,
But bryce and evan are hopin it only needs one to disable ribbot.
[faruq] in the blue square,
From worcester, massachusetts,
Cry havoc, and let slip the frogs of war.
It's ribbot.
[crowd cheering]
[chris] aw, ribbot, it's everybody's friendly frog...
Oh, look at this. They're playing a little gam of leapfrog on their way out
Kenny, ribbot is undoubtedl the favorite here tonight.
What do they need to do to take care of business?
[kenny] well, ribbot needs to be a moving target
To avoid direct shots from those slugs,
And once double jeopardy has expended its ammo,
Look for ribbot to go "full attack".
Mike tyson once said,
"everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth,"
So we hope that everybody has a plan as a corollary until they get shot in the face.
So, no matter what ribbot throws at us,
We're ready for it.
There's a nice big weak spot on ribbot.
On the side of their robot, the drive is exposed.
The chains and the sprockets are right there.
If we get a nice shot on a broadside,
We think we can disable their drive
And maybe even knock them out.
Literally from the beginning of the match,
They can decide to take a shot, right at the start.
Um, also, as we're driving around the box, at any point, they might be able to hit us.
That's definitely unique just to double jeopardy. No other bot can do that.
We decided to put on our horizontal spinner attachment.
In this configuration, you have the most frontal armor.
We figured, if there's ever a time to put on our front shields,
Right now would be the time.
We don't wanna just win it, we wanna win it in a confident fashion.
We really wanna give ourselves that confidence boost
Going forward into the bracket.
[robot voice] robots activat
[loud cheering]
[chris] well, it's been a while
Since we've seen double jeopardy inside the battlebox.
They've made some major improvements to their cannon.
[kenny] that's right. It used to be a one-and-don weapon,
But now it fires a five-pound slug
And two 2.5-lb projectiles.
They've also added an onboard camera for precision accuracy,
Which they'll desperately ne if they wanna dissect this frog.
[robot voice] red team ready.
[crowd cheers intensify]
Blue team ready.
Hell, yeah.
[loud cheering and applause]
[crowd chants] fight, fight, fight, fight.
[chris] all right. You gotta win three matches
To take down lock-jaw at the end of the night,
And only one bot will be punching its ticket to the golden bolt tournament.
We're ready.
Let the slugfest begin!
Double jeopardy moving into position. Uh-oh!
-[loud shot] -oh!
It's just blown the face off the ribbot. My goodness
It was 220 miles an hour with a 5-lb slug,
And now ribbot says,
"all right, you gave me your best shot. Take mine."
[kenny] wow. The body of the frog still very much alive, though, chris,
And it looks angry.
Remember, double jeopardy does still have
Those secondary slugs left in the chamber.
[chris] oh!
[kenny] ribbot just destroye double jeopardy.
[chris] oh, my gosh. Let's see if it's able to fi another slug,
This time a 2 lb-ball bearin at ribbot.
-[loud bang] -whoa!
Ribbot not letting double jeopardy get in the right position.
[kenny] no, they took that first slug personally.
[chris] sure did,
And now double jeopardy frozen solid on the railing
Underneath the drivers' deck
Here's some signs of life.
Can the twins find a way to fire another shot?
That's the big question.
Oh, boy.
[kenny] oh, their guts are coming out.
-[chris] why's ribbot... -[loud bang]
[chris and kenny] oh!
[referee] ten,
-Nine... -[kenny] the ref has seen enough.
-...Seven... -[chris] does david jin wann keep playing with his food?
-...Three, two... -Ribbot's like, "nah,
-I ain't getting in front of that thing." -[electronic buzzer]
[chris] it's over.
[crowd roar intensifies]
[chris] wow.
[kenny] that was awesome.
[chris] all right, so here we go, the big shot.
Lining it up. Oh! Oh, gosh, ribbot's...
-[kenny] what a shot! -[chris chuckling]
[kenny] bye, face!
[chris] that slug traveled at 250 miles per hour.
Our cameras could barely capture the thing.
-[kenny laughing] -[chris and kenny] whoa!
[kenny] wow. It just melted the face off of ribbot.
Just gone.
[chris] so ribbot said, "okay, you took your shot.
Can you take mine?"
[kenny] yeah, the frog was not happy.
Started cutting double jeopardy to pieces,
Parts flying everywhere.
Never gave them the chance to fire those extra slugs.
[chris] oh, that is just brutal,
And at the end of the day,
There's the hit that did in double jeopardy,
But hey, why not take one more look at the shot?
[both laughing]
[chris] I can watch that over and over again.
[chris] david.
-Hello. -Did you know your frog could take a 5-lb slug to the head
At 220 miles an hour?
Well, we know our robot can.
The frog didn't exactly last. It got cleaned off right away.
-I gotta see that shot in slow motion now, though. -[kenny laughs]
So, the goal isn't to win one fight,
It's to win three and then get a shot here at lock-jaw
At the end of the evening.
How confident are you in the durability of your robot to be able to do that?
I think we're all really confident in the durability.
We just gotta make sure we do our job, prepare for each match
And then keep getting kos.
Sounds good. Thanks, david.
-[cheers and applause] -yeah!
[chris] so, despite some unsolicited facial surgery,
Ribbot is moving on in the tournament.
For now, they'll hurry back to the pits to repair and reconfigure
For their second-round matc up later this evening.
[kenny] and for double jeopardy,
Although they've got an incredibly tough draw, this early exit stinks.
We love their one-of-a-kind design, but this match was proof
They've gotta up their game to move up in the robot hierarchy.
[chris] we've got three mor first-round fights on the way,
And remember, it's gonna take four wins
For these contenders to sweep this bracket
And earn a spot in the field of champions.
And manning the gate tonight it's donald hutson and lock-jaw,
Who's all too happy to steal the glory for himself.
All right, coming up, will craig danby's grappler bot
Delivering a greco-roman beatdown,
Or will bunny sauriol turn it into a rabbit food?
It's slammo versus malice.
That's next on battlebots champions sin city slugfest. I get it.
[chris] welcome back battlebots champions sin city slugfest
Where hopeful contenders are battling it out
To earn entry into the exclusive golden bolt tournament.
Whoever conquers tonight's qualifying bracket
Must also take down the gatekeeper, lock-jaw, to punch their ticket.
All right, this is a big-time bout we've got coming your way.
It's malice and slammo. Let's start with malice.
Bunny sauriol leads this squ and, kenny,
Malice is coming off a disappointing sophomore season
That saw them take a big step backwards.
They need a strong showing in this tournament
To prove that they can hang with the top bots in this sport.
[kenny] yeah, absolutely. Malice is an intimidating horizontal disc spinner
With a lot of potential, but they've been plagued with inconsistency
And mechanical issues.
With the possibility of fighting four times tonight,
They have an opportunity to put those failures in the rear-view mirror.
In the meantime, craig danby is back with slammo,
And it had been a frustrating ride for several seasons
For craig danby.
A year ago, he felt like he had a big-time breakthrough.
[kenny] yeah, he loves this bot.
And when slammo can execute its game plan by getting in lifts
And keeping its opponents neutralized,
It can really dominate the control category.
But wins have been elusive for this squad, and an early exit here
Could be the death nail for this grappler bot.
-Slammo against malice. Faruq! -[cheering and applause]
In the red square, from raleigh, north carolina, his name's an onomatopoeia,
And he's the automaton to beat ya', it's slammo!
[chris in cockney accent] 'ello, guvnor!
Craig danby rocking the union jack to represent his native England.
Kenny, what are you looking for from slammo?
[kenny] well, you can see slammo has that psychedelic wedge up front.
Craig wants to use that to jam up malice's weapon.
From there, it's all about his favorite manoeuvre the suplex.
A few of those, and slammo can run away with this match
In the blue square, from san jose, california,
Forget about wonderland, this bot's gonna take you to thunderland.
-It's malice! -[cheering and applause]
[chris] here comes bunny leading her squad out.
She is a highly respected captain in this sport,
And as monty python said, "that rabbit is dynamite."
[kenny] yeah, let me tell yo those bunny ears are cute, but that weapon is not!
It's made of three-inch-thic ar500 steel, and it hoicks!
If they can keep it spinning which we know is a big if,
The battlebox could look like a scrapyard by the end of this match.
Malice has got one of those big horizontal weapons
That we don't really like, being a control bot.
I mean, we're armored for it, but, uh, the team behind it
Is probably scarier than the robot itself.
The golden bolt definitely signifies that you know what you're doing.
You can get things turned around really quickly,
That you can accomplish a goal in a very short amount of time.
Slammo and malice are a little bit of a different class of robot.
Slammo is very much about control
And malice is about smashing things.
There's gonna be nothing left of slammo when malice is done with it.
Ready. Yeah, new paddle, red.
[robot voice] robots activat
[chris] for more on this fight,
Let's head over to the man with the bionic brain,
Former battlebots competi and our bot whisperer peter abrahamson.
Pete, what have you got on this one?
So, if you notice that big giant wedge,
One of the things they call that, is that's the bunny boiler.
They are going to be running this as fast as they can across this box
One of the things that's changed, also,
Is they've gone to a larger diameter rear wheel
Which should give them higher acceleration
And faster speed across the box.
The bunny boiler! You've just sent michael douglas
Scurrying under the bed.
[audience chanting] fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
[chris] let the bot battle begin!
[kenny] see those grappling arms in the up position ready to bite down on malice
Nice hit there by slammo.
[chris] malice is inverted right now,
It can drive that way, it's just not as effective.
[kenny] that's right. Though slammo does have to be caref
To not let malice clip its grappling arms in this position, chris.
[chris] uh-oh, and now malic is right-side up. Oh! Taken right into the rails!
[kenny] beautiful hit there almost got a hold of malice as well.
[chris] uh-oh, but slammo's slow to reset here.
[all exclaim]
-[chris] okay, there goes... -[kenny] there goes the whee
[chris] it sliced it right o like the top of a carrot.
And now craig danby just driving in circles.
-[mechanical clash] -[both exclaim]
-[chris] and now malice is on the cuff! -[kenny] oh, my goodness!
[chris] finds his feet!
[kenny] you see that triangular piece of metal on the back of the bot?
Bunny added that to prevent exactly that scenario.
Malice lost a fight two seasons ago
Getting tipped on its back like that. Nice adjustment there.
[chris] and look at that weapon now taking bite out of the wedge of slammo.
[kenny] oh, boy, he's got one other tire.
And he's got--
-[kenny] oh! -[chris] good shot there,
And the pulverizer nearly derailed slammo.
[kenny] craig danby doing an excellent job
Of keeping malice off balanc with its wedge. Even on just one wheel, chris.
[chris] and it looks like malice may now be having some trouble
-In the drive department. It is not moving well at all -[kenny] oh!
Yeah, they sure are, they're kinda going round in circles there.
Malice gets some good hits there.
[chris] not the first time we've seen wobbly partners on this side of las vegas.
Under 90 seconds remaining here in the opening round match up.
Remember, all these teams are fighting for a spot
In the elite golden bolt tournament.
Both slammo and malice, they've been aggressive from the opening bell.
But which one of these wounded warriors
Can make the push here in the closing stretch? That's the big question.
[kenny] how about slammo taking malice for a ride!
[chris] okay!
[kenny] and now malice, chewing up that wedge!
[chris] slammo looking a little worse for wear here kenny.
[kenny] that's not how they want to run their wedge it spins around...
-[chris] whoa! -...Completely. Oh, no!
[chris] malice rips wheel number two off of slammo
And that's gonna be a major major problem.
-Ten! Nine! Eight! -[chris] yep, the countdown has started.
Craig danby given a standing ovation
And a thumbs up to his opponent who is now moving on.
[buzzer sounds]
Well played.
Thank you.
[chris] great action in this fight, huh, kenny?
[kenny] yeah, this was an awesome fight.
Slammo had his opportunity there to get a hold of malic from behind.
The wedge was working well.
It seemed like that lifter was having some issues, though.
They're big-time exposed there... That's the wheel!
If that wedge was down that would not have happened
So a little bit of a mechanical issue
With that wedge getting caught up.
[chris] very impressive that slammo
Was even able to make it as far as it did on one wheel!
[kenny] yeah, it's amazing. Again, he's carrying around a 250lb robot on one wheel,
Moving it around the battlebox. That's still impressive.
But again, you see that lift getting caught in the up position up once agai
And that's really where mali was able to take full advantage of him.
[chris] and there's the final hit,
And at that point, slammo finito!
[chris] hey, bunny!
-Hey, how's it going? -So, what did you do best out there today?
We kept spinning, so now we're a force to be reckoned with.
-It's very exciting. The team is great. -[crowd cheering]
It seems like there was a big momentum shift
Once you took out one of their wheels.
Was that a part of the game plan?
That was absolutely a part of the game plan.
I told them that they'd be picking up the clippings of their robots,
Um, and they did. But we're all friends, so it's all good.
Are you durable enough to make a run all the way to lock-jaw?
-Absolutely. -Congratulations on taking that first step.
[cheering and applause]
Cheers.
[chris] so malice moves on and will fight ribbot in the second round.
That is gonna be a brutal undertaking for this squad,
But also, hey, its best opportunity to put this sport on notice
Coming up, it is the battle for the big apple
As staten island's pain trai tries to get on track against brooklyn's shatter!
And it's next on battlebots champions sin city slugfest.
We continue on here, on the sin city slugfest.
And there it is, in all its tantalizing glory the golden bolt.
Tonight's competitors are fighting for a chance to take out lock-jaw
And gain entry into the golden bolt tournament where, in a matter of weeks
One champion of champions will hoist this coveted new trophy.
Up next, it's pain train taking on shatter!,
And this is really a new york area battle,
Both captains hailing from the empire stat
Adam wrigley and team shatter!, they wanna use their vicious hammer
And flatten pain train like a brooklyn-style pizza
And for evan arias and pain train,
After two seasons of struggl
It's put up or shut up time for this staten island squad
Can pain train drum up a win?
Let's find out. Faruq!
[crowd cheering]
In the red square, from staten island, new york,
A bot almost as dangerous as an actual new york subway,
-It's pain train! -[crowd cheering]
[chris] there's evan arias on the right
Rocking the shades indoors.
You know, even though it hasn't had success yet
Pain train's got a very intimidating looking weapon, kenny.
[kenny] yeah, that drum spinner
Can reach up to 250 miles-an-hour
And it has some serious bite
If pain train can avoid shatter!'s hammer
And chip away at its sides we could see an upset here.
[crowd cheering]
In the blue square, from brooklyn, new york,
Take a look in the mirror
'cause you've got something in your teeth.
It's his blade! It's shatter!
[chris] adam wrigley and shatter! Had an early ex
In the world championship tournament last season.
This squad would love a sho at the golden bolt.
[adam] let's go!
[kenny] that's right and they're hoping for a quick fight.
They're using a wedge that's set up
To get pain train to ride up on top of them.
[together] shatter! Shatter! Shatter!
[kenny] from there, it's all about
Putting that hammer to work
[crowd cheering]
For this fight we've got the robot completely ready from head to toe.
We got the weapon spinning fast enough
To introduce them to the ceiling
And, you know, I'm gonna show them
A little bit of the wall, too, today.
So, we just added some new wheels
That will give us a lot more traction
So I'm not going to be drifting any more
And I really wanna go head-to-head with them
And knock a nice piece of their bot off.
This year, shatter! Is gonna have
A grand tour of the box and then maybe vegas when we send them packing.
Yeah, we got brooklyn versus staten island,
Which borough is better,
A lot of pressure riding on this one,
So there's always a risk
When you fight against a vertical spinner
That they can get the right hit,
They can pop you the right way and that can turn a fight.
You know, everyone has vulnerabilities
And vertical spinners
Are great at taking advantage of them.
We hope to not let them get that chance. [chuckles]
We've been tweaking the drive settings,
Tweaking the hammer settings.
Everything is looking 100% right now.
[robot voice] robots activat
[chris] kenny, both teams wanna be the bot king of new york
But priority number one
Is taking home the golden bolt.
[kenny] well, shatter! Is the clear favorite here
But they need to take care of business.
With the 2022 world championship right around the corner
This is a major opportunity for shatter!
To leave their mark on the sport.
[crowd chanting] fight! Fight! Fight!
[chris] let the bot battle begin!
Here comes pain train on the attack!
Adam wrigley and shatter! Backs up--
[chris and kenny] oh!
[chris] nice shot by pain train,
Stripping away that ablative armor.
[kenny] there you go.
[chris] that's meant to absorb damage and fall off,
Hence the name shatter!
[kenny] pain train getting o to a good start here, chris
[chris] really nice.
There's a shot, though, by that weapon so sharp.
[kenny] pain train able to remove
One of those front wedgelet on shatter!
In those exchanges, chris.
That's gonna be a plus on the damage category.
[chris] this is as good as we've seen pain train look offensively, kenny.
Oh, no. Did we speak too soo
Pain train is looking a little lost out there
And here comes shatter!
[kenny] uh-oh!
[chris] shatter! Able to lan a couple of big time shots to the top of pain train.
[kenny] and it looks like after that fast start
The durability issues
Have reared their head agai for pain train, chris.
Its weapon no longer appears to be working.
[chris] shatter! Meanwhile continues to swing away with that deadly hammer.
Pain train's gotta scurry out of the line of fire and reset here.
Yeah, that weapon just hasn't been working
Since the first 30 seconds
And adam wrigley and shatter trying to take advantage.
[kenny] and they can just place that thing anywhere, too, chris.
[chris] well, there's no fear factor.
There's not the fear of getting hit
By a 75-lb drum.
[kenny] no doubt it's open season
For adam wrigley and team shatter! Now.
Let's see if they can finish the job
And score the knockout.
[chris] yeah. Get in, get the win, get back to the pits healthy
That is the name of the gam tonight.
[kenny] oh! Massive hit ther to the weapon.
[chris] oh, gosh!
[kenny] uh-oh!
[chris] more than half way through
And that one caused sparks.
[kenny] these are big shots
[chris] I have a feeling adam wrigley
Might be aiming for the whee at some point, too.
[kenny] that would be smart
That top armor on pain trai has proven durable so far.
[chris] great shots there.
Pain train relegated to push bot duty
Since its drum is no longer functioning.
I will give pain train some credit
With now a minute to go and the kill saw active.
At least it's still hanging around,
But it's in a real bad spot
-[kenny] yeah, shatter! Doin some serious damage here. -[chris] woo!
[kenny] attacking from above oh, now the hammer...
The pulverizer's getting involved.
[chris] it's got the sharp, pointy one
And then the 100-lb pulverizer.
[kenny] one hammer from shatter! Was enough.
The pulverizer's getting involved now?
[chris] closing in on 30 seconds to go--
[kenny] oh, no!
[chris] ...And now he's got pain train up against the screws.
Back off, back off.
[chris] pain train
Is still moving, though, kenny.
[kenny] yeah, I mean, this is a huge upgrade in its drive.
I'm not sure it would have survived
One hit from shatter! Last season.
Oh, jeez.
Come on. Come back on, baby.
[chris] uh-oh and now pain train's
Near the other 100-lb pulverizer in the corner.
Does shatter! Wanna run the hammer?
Of course it does!
[kenny] just chewing them up
[chris] now with ten second to go.
Pain train's still moving.
You've gotta give evan aria and his team credit for tha
As it officially goes to the judges.
Let's go!
Who's the king of new york now?
[chris] yeah! Shatter! Fired up.
All three of the judges, former battlebots participants.
Lisa winter, jason bardis, derek young
Scoring on an 11 point syste
Up to five points can be awarded for damage,
Three for aggression, three for control.
Well, pain train's drum
Worked well out of the gate kenny.
[kenny] yeah, absolutely.
It got off to a hot start getting underneath shatter!
Uppercutting it into the ai and ripping off a fork,
But then the gremlins return to haunt evan arias
And pain train lost its weapon.
[chris] shatter! Took full advantage, able to attack at will.
So impressive, the precisio adam wrigley and the team have
With that weapon.
[kenny] yeah, they are so durable, so precise.
It was hammer time and they can't touch this.
[chris] pain train did make it the distance
But not before taking a beating from shatter!'s hammer
And, of course, the 100-lb pulverizer as well.
Gonna feel that one in the morning.
The results from the judges are in!
[crowd cheering]
The winner, by unanimous decision, is...
Shatter!
[crowd cheering]
Let's go!
Woo!
Good fight.
[chris] so, kenny,
Despite going the full three minutes with pain trai
Shatter! Didn't really take any significant damage
[kenny] yeah and that is so valuable in a tournament like this.
Instead of burning time making repairs
They can instead focus on preparations for their next opponent.
[chris] well, up next
It is a super heavyweight fight
Between two of our biggest bots,
The immovable object meets the other immovable object
As deep six takes on huge.
That's next on battlebots champions sin city slugfest
[crowd cheering]
[chris] welcome back to battlebots champions sin city slugfest
Where we are getting
A live look at donald hutso in the test box
And there's lock-jaw firing that deadly vertical spinner
With a storied history and a top-notch pedigree
No one's gonna argue,
Lock-jaw has earned its standing as tonight's gatekeeper
In this qualifying tournamen
Donald hutson only needs one win
To join the field of champions.
His quest for the golden bol
Will begin at the end of the evening.
But right now it is time for the final fight of the first round
And it is a monster.
You've got huge taking on deep six
And jonathan schultz,
When he arrived on the scene in 2018
Instantly became a fan favorite,
But the past few seasons have been a struggle.
Jonathan, he's hungry for a winning streak
So he can put to rest any concerns
That his bot has peaked.
[kenny] well, I think those wins will be coming.
Huge's weapon is spinning so fast and hitting harder than ever
This team has put a ton of work into the b
And jonathan schultz
Is optimistic about the future.
[chris] he's gonna take on deep six
And dustin esswein
And kenny, truth be told, I still have nightmares
From when deep six took a chunk out of the battlebox floor.
This bot is just so dangerou with that gigantic vertical spinner.
[kenny] yeah, dustin has actually downsized that weapon
From 100 lbs to 80 lbs
And lowered the power for better stability
But it still packs its patented punch.
[chris] the winner of this match up
Will fight shatter! In the second round
And move one step closer to earning a spot
In the gold bolt tournament
Can dustin esswein and deep six bury huge at se
Or will jonathan schultz give the navy diver the bend
Let's find out. Faruq.
[crowd cheering]
In the red square, from norfolk, virginia,
This bot's captained by a navy diver
And he's ready to shove a nerd into davy jones' locker,
It's deep six!
[crowd cheering]
[chris] captain dustin esswe leading in his crew.
It is composed of former members
Of team lucky, chronos and jackpot.
I know the navy loves to recruit
But this is just crazy, huh
[kenny] get a look at that weapon.
They call it "the anchor."
It's a 4-foot-long blade that spins at 200 miles-an-hour.
Both of the weapons in this fight are so violent
Weapon durability might be the x factor in this one.
In the blue square, from south windsor, connecticut,
This bot makes andre the giant
Look like andre the regular guy.
It's huge!
[crowd cheering]
[chris] there is the man, jonathan schultz, team huge
This squad has yet to make a deep run
At the world championship tournament
But jonathan firmly believe that huge can win the golden bolt.
Why is that, kenny?
[kenny] well, listen,
Jonathan's gone back to the basics.
He and his team
Have put all of their focus into the weapon.
It spins four times faster than it did last season
And they think they've rediscovered their knockout power.
This competition is the best robots that have ever been
And the golden bolt tournament is even more intense than that,
So, like, these are the top of the top,
Highest level robots
And if we can even get close that would be amazing.
For huge we have a massive amount of reach
But if they get anywhere close to our sides or anything like that
We're super vulnerable.
We have no topper or anything and they can
Get through aluminum just like that
So it's definitely something we're not gonna take lightly.
I'm gonna keep the weapon spun up,
May get a little chaotic,
But I'm just gonna keep coming at them the whole time.
I think deep six
Is a bigger version of uppercut
And uppercut's a scary robot.
They hit really hard, they're really tall
So we know that it's something where we have to drive carefully.
Huge should have the advantage because we're a lot faster
And more maneuverable.
We can turn quickly.
My hope is that we'd be able to drive around,
Avoid the weapon and hit the sides
And a lot of just trying to hit them harder than they hit us.
[man] good luck.
[robot voice] robots activat
[crowd cheering]
[chris] this match has serious b-b-e.
That's "big bot energy."
Will huge finally get its big break?
Or will deep six break them into pieces?
The fight when battlebots champions continues.
[chris] welcome back to battlebots champions the sin city slugfest
Where two of the biggest machines in the sport
Are about to go full hulk.
Here we go.
One of these behemoths is gonna move one step close
To joining the field of champions
And fighting for the golden bolt.
[crowd chanting] fight! Fight! Fight!
[chris] let the bot battle begin.
Two terrifying weapons spinning up to full speed.
Look out! Whoa!
Nice shot there by deep six to get huge off-balance.
-[kenny] uh-oh! -[chris] oh!
That's a bad sign for huge, kenny.
[kenny] yeah, huge a little out of control here to start
And deep six is taking advantage.
[chris and kenny] whoa!
[kenny] uh-oh.
[chris] and look at this, deep six's blade is caught
Right on one of those wheels kenny, that you love so much
Why don't you go in there and dislodge him?
[kenny] I mean, it's a better place to hit than the main frame.
[chris] and these two beast
Are able to untangle themselves from each other.
[kenny] I didn't expect this fight--
-[chris and kenny] oh! -[crowd cheering]
[kenny] deep six! My goodnes
[chris] holy smokes. Let's go for a ride, big boy
[kenny] that was a ridiculous shot by deep si
Sending a 250-lb huge flying
[chris] jonathan schultz' bo trying to collect itself
And huge continuing to deal with a major mobility issue here, kenny.
It has very little control out there.
[kenny] yeah, it looks to m like that left wheel
Is having trouble rotating correctly, chris,
And may have been damaged very early in this fight.
Jonathan trying to find a wa to power through here.
[chris] jonathan schultz
Is having all sorts of trouble.
He looks like a new driver on the road.
He's all over the place.
[kenny] deep six continuing to attack.
[chris] yeah, but it doesn' look like dustin esswein
Can fire up that weapon to full capacity right now.
I don't know if one of thos shots he delivered may have dismantled something.
[kenny] well, you see the bar of huge
Kind of jammed up that weapo
Let's see if deep six can get up to full speed.
[chris] huge trying to stay above water here.
Remember, winner of this mat goes on to face shatter! In the second round
And at the end of tonight's bracket
Lock-jaw awaits.
Take down donald hutson, stamp your ticket
To the golden bolt tournamen
That is what all these team are gunning for.
Kenny, we've seen a couple of times
A little bit of plume of smo out of the back of deep six
Something to keep your eye o
As we're closing in on the one-minute mark.
[kenny] yeah, I believe that's from the tires of deep six
As it grinds against the floor.
Trying to lean on huge here
[chris] and that pulverizer just hit one of the spokes on huge.
Huge trying to spin its way out of oblivion
With 45 seconds left.
The weapon isn't spinning on huge.
It is on deep six which lands a glancing blow
[kenny] yeah, huge in a very deep hole no
Without the use of its primary weapon.
Jonathan schultz gonna have to hope deep six blows a motor
And loses drive here down this stretch.
It is desperation time for team huge now.
[chris] huge has got to make a statement.
Jonathan schultz has got to right the ship against the navy diver.
[kenny] the wheels of huge
Have given it some good protection,
But huge hasn't landed anything as far as offense here.
[chris] this is gonna go the distance
But an awfully unsatisfactor performance
For jonathan schultz and hug
[buzzer sounds]
As deep six has taken it to them.
[crowd cheering]
And now we will take this on to the judge's scorecard.
Well, kenny, I'd say deep six was the underdog
Coming into this fight,
But dustin esswein flipped that script in a hurry.
[kenny] big time and it looks like this first shot
May have been the one that swung the match.
Huge never regained control of its left wheel
After that initial exchange
And that left deep six in complete control.
[chris] had the blade stuck for a while,
Was able to spin around and get dislodged
And then I think that set it up
For certainly the most pleasing hit of the night.
[kenny] oh.
-[chris] there's some seriou judge eye candy. -[kenny] yeah.
That's what the fans came to see.
Just a tremendous shot ther from deep six.
Gotta tell you, I'm surprised huge
Was able to recover from that one.
[chris] these two heavyweigh slowed down as the time ticked away,
But dustin esswein continued to lean on huge
And eventually jonathan schultz' bot lost its primary weapon.
A dominant performance by the boys from deep six.
[crowd cheering]
The results from the judges are in.
The winner by unanimous decision is...
Deep six!
[crowd cheering]
Good fight, guys.
[chris] all right, so, deep six kicks off its ques for the golden bolt in styl
And moves onto the second round
And a match up with shatter
That is sure to be a smashing affair.
And with that,
Our first round action is complete.
Three more wins is gonna earn one team
A berth in the golden bolt tournament.
Coming up, our four remaining robots
Will throw down in the box.
Who will earn a fight with donald hutson and lock-jaw?
That's still to come here on battlebots champions sin city slugfest.
[crowd cheering]
It is time for more of the sin city slugfest here on battlebots
And there is a live look at dustin esswein and deep six
Coming off their impressive win over huge
And as you can see the work in the pits is frantic
In this grueling one-night tournament.
Deep six will return to the battlebox shortly
For its upcoming fight with shatter!
But back inside the arena we are diving straight into the second round action
As ribbot squares off with malice.
Both teams are behind the glass
Itching to move one step closer
To the hottest new trophy in las vegas, the golden bol
[robot voice] red team, read
Ready!
[chris] somebody's fired up
For captain bunny sauriol a win over ribbot
Would silence a lot of critics.
She wants the robot fightin world to know
Malice means business.
[kenny] no question, chris,
A win against ribbot would dramatically alter this team's trajectory
And launch them into the next tier of elite bots.
You can see they're using their 55-lb drumette, big red, for this fight.
As always with malice weapon reliability
Will be crucial to their success.
[robot voice] blue team, ready.
[chris] kenny, here's an incredible fact.
All of ribbot's victories have been by knockout.
They have never, never, won a judges' decision.
[kenny] well, that kind of history
Is so valuable in a tournament like this
Where quick knockouts often mean less time repairing back in the pits.
Ribbot's gone with their vertical spinner for this one.
They think they can keep malice off-balance
And finish this fight.
[crowd cheering]
[chris] big opportunity for these teams.
The winner moves one step closer
To a fight with lock-jaw
And a potential berth in the golden bolt tournamen
[crowd chanting] fight! Fight! Fight!
[chris] let the bot battle begin!
Ribbot on the hunt.
Here's big red.
[chris laughs]
Malice on the defensive, takes a shot to the schnoz
And gets flipped over.
It can drive inverted, remember.
[kenny] oh, nice shot by ribbot.
That big front wedge holding up well so far.
[chris] doing a nice job taking malice into the screw
David rush, driver of malice needs to find a way
To create some space here
And kenny, are we already seeing proble with malice's primary weapon
[kenny] yeah, it doesn't look like
They're able to get big red up to speed.
[chris] oh, man.
[kenny] we talked about how this team has struggled
With weapon reliability in the past.
This would be a bad time for that to rear its head again,
But it hasn't looked right since that opening shot by ribbot.
[chris] david jin continues to stay right up in malice's grill,
Not giving it an inch,
Controlling the action with that big front plow.
It has been all ribbot here so far.
Can malice hang on?
And now that weapon has been shut down temporarily,
We've got a little bit of a grudge match going on.
At this point big red is more like "big dead."
Hasn't done much of anything
[kenny] yeah, ribbot really just
Bullying malice all over the place.
Now that primary weapon of malice is spinning up
But it doesn't matter
Because ribbot's attacking from behind.
[chris] but, kenny,
Could it be that ribbot's primary weapo
Is no longer working?
Doesn't appear to be any life in that spinner right now.
[kenny] I think you may be right, chris,
And as we know that is gonn factor in heavily
On the judge's scorecards in the damage category.
[chris] so, perhaps this fig
Now more even than it appeared.
Ribbot continuing to dominat
The control category with that front plow,
But does david jin have to try to find a way
To break malice's weapon at this point?
[kenny] well, one thing's for sure,
David jin has to continue to be aggressive.
[chris] ribbot now has malic in a short corner,
And that 100-lb pulverizer doing some damage as well
And now ribbot just shoving against the upper deck,
Saying, "sure, you might make it a full three minutes,
But you're gonna lose in terms of points
For aggression and control,
And given the shape big red is in
Maybe even damage, too.
And look at the big chunks
That have been taken out of that massive 55-lb horizontal spinner.
[kenny] malice just unable to get anything going here.
[chris] winner of this figh moves one step closer
To a date with lock-jaw at the end of the night and, of course,
The ultimate goal is to figh for the golden bolt.
[kenny] there's some life out of big red
But it may be too little, too late.
[chris] ribbot deflects that blow with eas
And says, "what else you got
All right, you gotta tell me you got some kind of movement.
[chris] the referee issuing a warning to malice.
And how about this,
Ribbot's weapon is back at full speed.
Looks like that was a strategic shutdown
And as time expires it appears david jin...
[buzzer sounds]
...Is indeed in the driver's seat.
We got this thing on the wheels.
[chris] ribbot with an awfully impressive performance.
[crowd cheering]
Kenny, this one was all ribb out of the gate.
[kenny] that opening shot put malice on its back heel
And they stayed that way for most of this fight.
We thought maybe ribbot's weapon got disabled,
But that turned out to be an intentional shutdown by david jin.
[chris] ribbot bullied malic all over the battlebox,
Got the pulverizer involved as well.
A dominating performance from the not so friendly frog.
The results from the judges are in.
The winner, by unanimous decision, is...
Please don't continue the streak.
Ribbot!
[cheering]
Yeah!
[chris] all right, so, the judges have spoken and they saw what we saw
A powerhouse performance from ribbot.
David jin and his squad
Are heading straight back to the pits
To prepare for their next fight.
By the way, we witnessed some history here
David jin and ribbot's first ever win
By judges' decision.
So, hippity-hop and it don't stop.
Ribbot moves onto the third round
To face the winner of shatte versus deep six
And standing guard
Outside the gates to the golden bolt,
It's the man, the myth, the legend,
Donald hutson and lock-jaw.
They got a new trophy. I'm coming for it.
I work my ass off.
That's what I do. I put my back into this
So that I can say I left it all on the table,
I did everything I could.
I think this is gonna be the best lock-jaw you've see
[crowd cheering]
We continue on
With the March toward lock-jaw
Here on battlebots champi sin city slugfest,
Where donald hutson guards the gate
To the greatest new spectacle in the sport,
The golden bolt tournament.
And up next it's deep six and shatter!
They each won a judges' decision
To get here to the second round.
For team shatter! They were able to avoid any significant damage
While also turning pain trai into swiss cheese.
That hammer is looking fierc kenny.
[kenny] absolutely and the rate of fire
Must be so demoralizing for shatter!'s opponents.
There's just no understatin how lethal
Those consistent and precise shots are to these heavyweight bots.
Well, deep six represents a major competitive step up.
Dustin esswein has to be hap
After taking down a fellow giant in huge.
Deep six is turning a lot of heads.
I think they can make a deep run here.
[kenny] yeah, listen,
I think when that weapon is working
It is absolutely devastating
I thought it was a good sign in its last figh
There was way more stability
That weapon wasn't throwing them off-balance so much,
So if there's a time to do I it's now.
If deep six can stay on point and take out shatter!
They can graduate from fringe spectacle to serious contender.
You know who's always on point? Faruq.
[crowd cheering]
In the red square, from norfolk, virginia,
Prepare to get put in a shallow grave by deep six!
[chris] captain dustin esswe pushing deep six back into the arena.
Took down huge earlier tonig
And its reward, a fight with shatter!
Piece of cake. Right, kenny
[kenny laughs] far from it,
But I gotta say, deep six has the kind of one punch knockout power
That is so valuable in a tournament like this.
If dustin can keep his bot under control,
It only takes one shot.
In the blue square, from brooklyn, new york,
The hammer bot that will give you a splitting headache,
Shatter!
[crowd cheering]
[chris] oh, yeah.
Team shatter! Fired up.
Adam wrigley told us how badly he wants the golden bolt.
Feels like shatter! Is right on the brink of greatness.
[kenny] well, listen, these are the kind of matche
That separate the good bots from the great.
Adam needs to find the right balance
Between caution and aggression here
Against a dangerous opponen like deep six.
[chris] and can somebody check in on that tennis ball
It looks like it's got a seasonal affective disorde
We did take a decent amount of damage
In our fight against huge.
They destroyed our weapon pulley
And they did some serious damage to the frame.
We have no top armor whatsoever,
Like, honestly, if you step on the top of deep six in the wrong way
You're gonna hurt something
And that's because we put all of the power into the bar.
We have a ton of reach and a ton of power.
The strategy accordingly is gonna be drive aggressive,
Hit them hard.
Deep six has the largest, sort of, most powerful,
Most inertia vertical spinner at the competition.
We have a lot of armor that we'd like to not test against that spinner.
They don't have a lot of armor.
They've, sort of,
Put all of their weight into that spinner
So we think if we can get a hit on their robot
We'll get a great tactical advantage there,
But that robot has insane power
And it will just launch you straight across the arena if you're not careful.
[robot voice] robots activat
[chris] big time second round match up here.
The winner will face ribbot for the right to take on
Tonight's gatekeeper lock-ja
Any predictions out there, kenny?
[kenny] between deep six's spinner
And shatter!'s hammer, I'll quote another legend, mr. T,
"our prediction? Pain."
[crowd cheering]
[crowd chanting] fight! Fight! Fight!
[chris] we are ready for deep six and shatter!
Eric wrigley mean mugging deep six.
Pure focus from the navy diver.
Let the bot battle begin!
Look at that giant blade of deep six spinning up.
That thing's terrifying.
No, now hovering over the top of shatter!
Oh no! Shatter! Says, "back off me, pal."
[chris and kenny] oh!
[chris] big countershot by deep six!
[kenny] wow.
[chris] shatter! Shakes it off, self-rights
And resets here.
[chris and kenny] oh!
[chris] my goodness! Unbelievable
And that got a "wow" out of adam wrigley...
[kenny] oh!
[chris] ...Who continues to feed its face
Right into the weapon of deep six.
What is shatter! Doing, kenn
[kenny] it looks like they're trying to
Break deep six's weapon.
Playing with fire here.
Right there they have deep six off-balance.
[chris and kenny] oh!
[chris] unbelievable!
Bots end up
In opposite corners of the battlebox.
Stuck on the floor, man.
The wheels are spinning. I'm stuck on the floor.
[chris] both fighters are weary.
[kenny] shatter! Looking a little punch drunk here.
Deep six is hovering.
You want it? You want it?
[chris] dustin esswein saying, "you want more?
You want more, I'll give you more!"
And shatter! Just got hit by the pulverizer
And takes another shot right to the grill.
[kenny] oh, my goodness.
You want another?
[chris] oh, I love the taunting,
But has shatter! Had enough
[referee] gotta see movement.
[chris] here comes deep six
[kenny] oh, man.
[chris] adam wrigley trying to keep the beast at bay
With shatter!'s hammer.
[kenny] what an upset this would be.
Shatter! Is in serious trouble, chris!
I'm moving that wheel.
[chris] team shatter! Trying desperately
To get its robot back in the action,
But all shatter! Can do is flail that hammer.
[referee] gonna have to count you out.
[chris] yeah, this is gonna be it.
-Deep six has done it! -[referee] ten, nine...
[chris] the countdown has started.
[referee] seven, six...
[chris] deep six is gonna pull off the upset
And meet ribbot in the next round.
[referee] two, one. It's over.
-[buzzer sounds] -[bleep]
[chris] listen to the crowd giving it up
For dustin esswein's crew.
[dustin] woo!
[crowd cheering]
[kenny] team shatter! Maybe thinking
They shouldn't have been counted out there.
He was spinning in circles.
[chris] that's eric wrigley of shatter!
Almost shattering our glass
No points for damage on that one.
Well, kenny, dustin esswein
Traded out a few of his navy seal buddies
For more engineers on his pit crew
And boy did it pay off dividends.
[kenny] 100%. Defeating an experienced tea
Like team shatter! Is a huge feather in his cap
[chris] major props to deep six.
It was one massive shot after the next
And here comes the big one.
-Wow! -[kenny laughs]
[chris] deep six survived, shatter! Was reeling
And I don't know what movie team shatter! Was watching
But this fight was o-v-e-r, over!
[indistinct conversation]
Thank you.
[chris] dustin esswein's fac says it all.
This was a shocking victory for deep six but hey,
There's no time to celebrat
As his team now sprints back to the pit
To get set for their third round fight with the mighty ribbot.
[kenny] I mean, deep six absolutely dominated that fight,
Like, it wasn't even close.
Their weapon was hitting so hard.
Amazing performance from that team.
[chris] they are halfway hom
Toward getting a shot at winning the golden bolt.
Coming up we have our final tournament match u
Who's gonna come out on top and earn a fight with lock-jaw?
Find out next on battlebots champions sin city slugfest.
[chris] we are back on battlebots champions sin city slugfest.
It is the final between deep six and ribbot.
The winner of this match will face lock-jaw
For the right to join the field of champions in the golden bolt tournamen
Now, earlier these two squad
Were working feverishly to get set for this fight.
Remember, these turn arounds they're lightning fast.
It'll take some heroic work in the pits
To overcome this brutal bracket
And tonight's gatekeeper donald hutson and lock-jaw.
Okay, let's start with ribbo and david jin.
Is it always about which weapon they pick on their modular bot?
-[frog croaks] -[kenny] well, I do think it matters
Depending on what robot they're going against, yeah
I would imagine they're gonna go with the under cutter here,
But, again, whatever weapon they have,
They're gonna hit hard and they're gonna drive aggressively.
And the weapon that dustin esswein
And deep six are bringing to the party these days,
It's not as big as it was back in 2019 when we last saw them
But it is effective.
[kenny] yeah, absolutely. I think dialing down on that size,
Dialing down on that power
Has given it much better stability.
It's way more consistent, it's hitting harder
And they're last fight against shatter!
Was just amazing.
Winner takes on lock-jaw. Let's find out who it'll be. Faruq!
[crowd cheering]
In the red square... They say, "virginia is for lovers,"
And that slogan makes sense
Because, "virginia is for murderous robots,"
Is just too intense,
But if y'all are trying to grow tourism,
Let me help on your behalf.
This bot can double the amount of tourists
When he slices them in half.
Give it up for deep six!
[crowd cheering]
[chris] deep six won a decision against huge
Knocked out shatter!, now facing ribbot.
We could be looking at one of the most impressive one day runs
This sport has ever seen.
[kenny] no question. Whatever ring rust they had
Has been sufficiently shook here tonight.
Ribbot is clearly
Their toughest opponent so far,
But as always they have the power to end this fight in a hurry
[faruq] in the blue square...
For this intro I googled, "fun facts about frogs."
Now, let me begin.
Did you know they don't have lungs?
They actually breathe through their skin.
They come in all sorts of colors
From green to yellow to white
And how's this for impressive?
Many can jump twenty-times their height.
There are over 4,700 species of frogs.
There used to be millions
But then this bot showed up at the pond
And started to kill them.
Give it up for ribbot!
[crowd cheering]
[chris laughs]
Faruq never fails to impress
Way to go, my man.
Team ribbot came into the night as the favorite, kenny,
And they've certainly lived up to that billing.
[kenny] yeah, they've been calculated,
They've been aggressive
And as I predicted
They've gone with their under cutter here.
One thing we know about deep six,
If you can get under it there's a great chance they flip over
And potentially destroy themselves.
They're an extremely tough machine.
Probably one of the best driven machines
That we've ever had to face.
I'm gonna try to keep facing them
And keep trying to chase them down the whole time.
I think that they're really gonna
Take my gyroscopic precession to advantage.
I'm just gonna keep turning, keep spinning up the weapon
And keep trying to hit them.
So, we're confident in the robot.
It's honestly gonna come down a lot to me
And how well I drive it.
We hoping that we can utilize the fact that
They have a ton of gyroscopic precession
To kind of outdrive them.
We really wanna avoid getting hit directly
By that massive bar.
So, if all goes to plan we'll hopefully
Only be hitting wheels this whole match
And it should be quick and easy.
The mobility of ribbot will be really important for this match.
That's why we decided to go with our under cutter attachment.
It has no forks or anything
To impede us on the floor
And we'll be able to maximize our mobility.
[crowd chanting] fight! Fight! Fight!
[chris] let the bot battle begin.
Deep six takes a deep momen of reflection.
[kenny] om.
[chris] now pointing that blade at the frog.
Deep six trying to stay squared up.
Ribbot might have missed an opportunity
To get under him.
[kenny] yeah, looks like they were trying to attack from the side.
Obviously showing great respect
For that weapon on deep six
And you see deep six having a gy-roll there where
[chris] uh-oh!
[kenny] take advantage... Nice shot there by deep six
[chris] yeah and that face is already done in.
It's a face only a mother fr could love at this point.
[kenny] dustin esswein doing an incredible job
Keeping deep six squared up to ribbot here,
Keeping david jin at bay.
[chris] and ribbot just cannot get around.
Ribbot rolls over one of the legs.
[kenny] oh, there they go. They're looking for that side.
[chris] yeah. Oh, they misse
They overshot the runway, kenny.
[kenny] yeah, they're trying to cut throug
On those stabilizing legs on the side of deep six.
[chris] trying to avoid the middle.
To say that big blade is a deterrent
Is an understatement.
One shot form that thing could certainly end this fight.
[kenny] we've got a standoff here.
Which one of these bots is going to flinch first?
[chris] the tension building in the arena
As these fans wait for the next big exchange.
[kenny] ribbot staying patient.
[chris] at some point
Somebody's gonna have to make the move
And that's gotta be ribbot.
[chris and kenny] oh!
Nice! Go in, go in, go in!
[chris] what a sensational move
And now back under it.
[kenny] oh!
[chris] unbelievable as ribbot has got deep six pinned against the screws.
[kenny] and look at this, ribbot missing a wheel on that left-front side.
[chris] can deep six wiggle out of here?
Ribbot threatening with that under cutter.
Oh, the grind.
[kenny] dustin esswein escap but ribbot took a wheel off deep six there.
[chris] deep six is hobbled after that sequence.
Ribbot surveying the territory.
A minute left to go in this high-stakes fight.
Winner moves on to face lock-jaw.
Both bots have taken damage
Operating on one less wheel
Than they started the match with.
Kenny, ribbot back hanging, perhaps waiting for a count out here.
Can they afford not to attack, though?
[kenny] well, deep six
Clearly showing enough movement to avoid a count out.
Ribbot cannot assume
They're ahead on the scorecards here
And if they don't try and engage
It could really hurt them in the aggression category
If this goes to the judges.
[chris] deep six trying to sticker the fight
[referee] you gotta show me you can move.
[chris] but the ref is issuing a warning.
And here comes that countdow
[referee] ten, nine, eight, seven...
[chris] dustin esswein with a look of despair
Because his season is about to end.
[referee] one! Knockout!
[buzzer sounds]
[chris] ribbot is moving on to face lock-jaw.
[kenny whistles] patience pays off.
[chris] kenny, this was lik a wild west showdown
To start and it was deep si who struck first.
[kenny] yeah, pinned ribbot against the rail
And look at that, ripped its face off. Wow.
But ribbot shook it off and used its speed
To get behind deep six for the pivotal shot.
Woo!
[chris] deep six going for a ride
Courtesy of its own 80-lb weapon
And then ribbot finished it
By jamming him against the screws and the rails
And then just gnawing on that tiny wheel.
[kenny] credit to dustin esswein for a hell of a fight,
But this was a masterclass in patience from ribbot.
David jin stuck to his game plan
And deep six was stuck to the floor.
Got a little bit too close to the middle.
That got real spooky.
[chris] david jin...
Man, you have more patience than the two of us.
-[laughs] -we're like, "when's he going in?"
"when's he going..."
Was it difficult to hold back there?
Yeah, I mean, well, it's not that difficult.
We're pretty scared of deep six's weapon
So we didn't really wanna risk getting hit by that.
Dustin did a really, really good job controlling the gyro
And staying on us.
He never over turned. He never turned too little.
Given how uncontrollable deep six sometimes can be,
I think that's huge props to dustin there.
[crowd cheering]
I waited as long as I could. He wasn't giving me an opening
So eventually we had to kind of go a little extra aggressive.
All right, so, now you've won three fights.
The goal tonight is to win four.
You ready to face a legend in lock-jaw and donald hutson?
Oh, yeah. We're ready.
Yeah!
[chris] you're not scared of the legend?
I mean... I think I said this last year.
You can't always drive in fear so no, not really.
-Ah, okay. -I like that.
We'll see you in the gold bolt qualifier.
-Congrats, david. -Thank you.
[crowd cheering]
[chris] there you have it.
Ribbot will move on to the golden bolt qualifie
And face tonight's gatekeepe lock-jaw.
And I'll tell you, kenny, even though deep six's run ends here
They put on one hell of a show.
[kenny] and they basically accumulated
A full season's worth of experience here in just one night
With their 2-1 record.
I can't wait to see what they bring to the tabl
In next season's world championship.
[chris] all right, coming up...
They have run the gauntlet, they have won the tournament
Now they have to take down a legend
To earn a shot at the golden bolt.
Ribbot, lock-jaw, it is nex on battlebots champions sin city slugfest.
[faruq] it's lock-jaw! [echoes]
[donald] it's quite honorabl
To be chosen to be one of the legends
But that's not enough.
[chris and kenny] oh!
[chris] no mercy from lock-jaw.
Lock-jaw is one of the legendary bots of the sport.
[chris] whoa! Lock-jaw has gone right at him.
[david] donald has been arou for a long time.
He's been competing in this longer than some of our teammates have been alive.
[chris] donald hutson the legend!
Lock-jaw's incredible. I mean, we've all been watching him
Since we were kids.
Donald hutson is a legend.
Bundles and bundles of respect for donald.
He's one of the best builder probably in the history of the sport.
[bunny] lock-jaw is not just configurable
But it's also perfectly beautiful.
[chris] whoa! What a shot!
Unbelievable, the driving by donald hutson
He's ruthless.
[crowd cheering]
[chris] we are back on battlebots,
The golden bolt qualifier between ribbot and lock-jaw
And of course lock-jaw checks all the boxes here.
They won a bounty tournament they won the desperado
And when you look at lock-jaw's
Overall body of work in this sport,
Few are more deserving of this position as gatekeeper,
But despite all of donald's accolades and accomplishments,
He wants nothing more
Than to add the golden bolt to his trophy case.
[kenny] absolutely.
Donald has been a titan in this sport for 25 years.
David jin is only 23.
So, you can do the math here
Experience obviously is on team lock-jaw's side,
But last season was a struggle.
Donald missed out
On the world championship tournament
For the first time in his battlebots caree
And he is out for redemption here
In the sin city slugfest.
[chris] but this is gonna b a real challenge
Because ribbot, engineered by david jin,
What a remarkable 2021 seaso they had.
Perfect regular season,
Ended up being the number tw overall seed heading into the round of 32.
Their early exit at the hands of hydra was a tough bug to swallow,
But they've picked up the pieces
And taken out their ribbity rage on tonight's opponents
And now they're only one win away from a shot at immortality.
[kenny] ribbot is the ultima swiss army bot.
Like a true amphibian it is endlessly adaptable
So there's no question that tonight's performance
Has solidified ribbot's stat as a rising superstar in this sport,
But we know they won't be satisfied
Until they are crowned a champion.
[chris] can ribbot
Make the biggest leap of its career?
Or will lock-jaw join the field of champions
And potentially takes its place
On the mount rushmore of battlebots greats?
Let's get to it. Faruq.
[crowd cheering]
[faruq] ladies and gentlemen, are you ready?
It's time for the main event.
In the red square...
They say you have to kiss a lot of frogs
Before you meet your prince,
But get to close to this frog and you'll lose your lips.
This ain't a fairy tale, mother goose.
You've got something to dread because you can't live happily ever after
If you're already dead.
It's ribbot!
[crowd cheering]
Yeah!
[chris] already tonight, victories over
Double jeopardy, malice and deep six
Has david jin and ribbot right on the cusp of fightin for the golden bolt.
It's been through the ringe but, man,
That bot looks in tip-top shape.
[kenny] yeah, it sure does
And once again they've gone with the under cutter.
They'll have a tough time outdriving donald,
Who's as good as they come, so to me this weapon choice
Screams that david jin wants to chew up lock-jaw's tires.
[faruq] in the blue square...
This guy is from southern california,
Like ice cube and Friday
And he'll deebo your butt if you look at him sideways.
When he charges up that weapon and hits you with a slam
The whole crowd here in vegas will be like, "damn!"
Give it up for lock-jaw!
[chris] there he is.
Donald hutson and lock-jaw.
They are tonight's big bosse and let's be honest,
This man is a golden god and wants the golden bolt more than anything.
Kenny, what do you see?
[kenny] well, he loves running that plow
On the back of lock-jaw to try to slow down horizontal spinners
And that's what he's gone with here.
And of course he's got that heavy-duty vertical spinner
That packs so much power.
This is donald's chance to prove
He is still one of the best in the world
[crowd chanting] lock-jaw! Lock-jaw! Lock-jaw!
Lock-jaw's one of the unique bots
That can prepare for both a vertical spinner
And a horizontal spinner
'cause while they're running the rear plow
They can also run their forks on the other side.
I think he has the experience to be ready for us,
Although no one is ever truly ready for the frog,
So we'll have to see.
I think what you'll see is us come out
And try a little bit of a defensive strategy
To get him off his comfort zone
And then move in for the attack.
Ribbot has definitely earned his spot
To come against lock-jaw,
But this is where it has to end.
[robot voice] robots activat
[crowd cheering]
[robot voice] red team ready
[laughs]
[robot voice] blue team read
[crowd chanting] fight! Fight! Fight!
[chris] here we go,
The golden bolt qualifier.
Ribbot, lock-jaw.
Winner joins the field of champions
Let the bot battle begin!
Uh-oh.
Ribbot going right after lock-jaw's tires.
Uh-oh!
[kenny] donald hutson trying to slow down that under cutter
With that plow on the back.
[chris] ribbot trying to overpower lock-jaw
Oh, nice shot by ribbot to invert lock-jaw.
[kenny] they're already slashing those tires of lock-jaw, chris.
[chris] donald hutson under assault by the frog.
Can he hang on?
Ribbot's weapon just ferocious.
[kenny] donald hutson in big time trouble here.
Not able to self-right.
[chris] look at that... The rubber's all chewed up
Courtesy of that frog.
[kenny] ribbot looks so dominant out there
My goodness.
[chris] lock-jaw stunned.
[referee] let me see if you have control.
[chris] he cannot move!
[kenny] oh no.
If they twitch I'll go in.
[chris] the countdown is on
Ribbot has risen up, run the gauntlet.
Oh! Ripped right through tonight's gatekeeper!
[referee] two, one... Knockout!
-[chris] and that will do it -[buzzer sounds]
David jin and ribbot are moving on
For a chance at the golden bolt.
Were you not surprised by that stick drift? [laughs]
Thank you, sir.
[chris] the strategy by the frog
Was pretty simple and effective.
[kenny] yeah, that's right. Ribbot went right for those wheels.
He had him inverted there.
He was in a tough spot.
Got stuck into the battlebo at one point,
And ribbot just took full advantage of that.
[chris] they went after one tire, two tire...
Couple of big flips and at that point
Lock-jaw and donald hutson, one of the legendary driver in this business
There was nothing he could d
Because his bot has just literally gone flat
Dude, you know I got that tokyo drift music on in my brain.
-[chris] david jin. -Hello.
You just demolished a legend and rode to
To a chance to play for the golden bolt.
How's that feel?
Pretty good. Right, guys?
[together] yeah!
David, what have you learned about your weapon this year?
It seems so ferocious.
We learned that it hits harder than it ever has before.
It also spins up faster than it ever has before.
So far, so good.
-[laughs] -[crowd cheering]
David, you went right for those tires.
Was that the game plan here?
Yeah, we knew the rear wedge was gonna be really tough to get through
So we were hoping to get the tires early on.
Seems like we were able to do that.
It took a little bit to get around
To the other side.
Obviously donald is a very talented driver,
But luckily we were able to get there in the end.
I know it didn't go your way as you were searching
For the giant nut this season, but now you have a chance at the golden bolt.
You have to beat a bunch of world champions
In order to get there.
Are you up for the challenge?
-I think we are. -Oh yeah.
-Yeah? -Absolutely.
-Hell yeah. -[crowd cheering]
Yeah!
David jin, keep smiling.
We'll see you in the race for the golden bolt.
-Congratulations. -Thank you.
[chris] donald, you're not only a legend of this sport,
You're also a fan.
How impressed are you with the quality of robots,
The young minds
That are in this sport right now,
Compared to kind of where we were 15-20 years ago?
Oh, there's no doubt
That the talent that's coming in now
Building robots, especially these young kids,
They've watched us for years and they've raised the bar with all the new technology
And, you know, it's getting down to metals
And, you know, heat treating
And just arrangement of the designs
To be interchangeable which is what they do well
And, you know, my hat's off to them.
They're keeping up
And I'm slowly gonna have to catch my wind
And get back in there
If I'm gonna be competitive, so...
Great job for them
And great to all the other teams out there
-Who are entering battlebot and building cool designs. -[crowd cheering]
Always classy.
We appreciate the way you represent the sport.
You are one of a kind.
Donald hutson and lock-jaw, thank you.
Thank you.
[chris] kenny,
We talked about it before the fight.
This was a chance for ribbot to kind of put their stamp on the sport.
They absolutely did that.
I mean, that was a flawless performance out there.
[chris] so, here's a look at the golden bolt tournament field.
Ribbot has secured its spot joining giant nut winners
Tombstone, end game and tantrum
And last week's slugfest champion, hypershoc
How're you liking ribbot's chances, kenny?
[kenny] well, after tonight's showing,
Not even the world champs will look forward to a figh with the frog.
[chris] and we heard donald hutson say
The sport is in a great plac
And they gotta kinda pick up their game.
He admitted as much right here.
Yeah, listen, I think combat's one of those things.
If you're not getting better, you're getting worse
And part of what makes donald a legend
Is his ability to learn from those losses
And bounce right back.
[chris] next week another batch of contenders
Will put it all on the line to join ribbot
In the golden bolt tournamen
For faruq, our bot whisperer, pete, my man kenny florian, I am chris rose,
We will see you next time on battlebots.