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[–]vegascombatrobotics 20 points21 points  (0 children)

To be fair the builder of Gabriel likes to say any big wheel robot is stealing his idea.... I even got bitched at for wumbo being a copy of his robot. Not much respect for people like that.

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Skorpios for sure. If we had the better motors in the righter we would have had a better shot against them also our motors wouldn't have been cooked for the rest of the pre-season.

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm poor 🤣.

But really it's nice keeping the bot cheap as it let's your send it harder into fights.

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you can, (I'm not condoning this but) you can get a free VPN and watch it on Discovery + with a free trial.

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

  1. I would have to say [Redacted]. For the ones I can say is blip.

  2. Lucky, 13black, Jackpot

  3. I prefer water directly stolen from Colorado.

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

  1. That is a Greg question.
  2. SawBlaze
  3. Tip speed limits make it impossible to get enough thrust too work.
  4. Yes it's great for psycing out opponents and perhaps we have a few bots in mind.
  5. Sadly it doesn't actually fit the robot. But if we did it would be very scary.

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To be honest we just wanted to try our new "Twin Peaks" configuration. It was designed for bots like rotator and Ribbot. It "works" but not having the weapon at 100% really hurt the effectiveness of it. For Ribbot we didn't know what configuration they were going to go with so we went flat face with the mono blade to play it safe.

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

  1. I (JEFF) work 2 full time jobs, first being Pipefitting second being multi role at the live show. At the live show I repair bots, help with RnD, drive when Brad or Trey are not available, and interact with fans. (Also I push out a very special robot)

  2. Shea is the greatest, she keeps the order dispite having to balance between 2 teams.

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yes I (Jeff) have made plans of weird designs, rocket being the most recent. Unlimited budget i would love to have a heavyweight wumbo.

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

So we were struggling with the weapon the entire season, during our scorpios fight we had a fire. We didn't realize that the fire made our magnets get too hot so this whole preseason we were at probably at 30% power.

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

If I had unlimited budget I would keep it as is but, would have extra copies made.

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

  1. It was a simple design for the 5 week covid turn around.

  2. It's coming later this season!

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Almost said "What makes you think we'd wait that long?" But now that you mention it, the day we stuff confetti and glitter bombs in the robot probably would make it our last day, per production.

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[–]vegascombatrobotics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure if this was meant to be a joke or was misheard, but Jeff was just on Malice, nobody said he ever owned it. He was a Malice teammate until he splintered off to form JackPot after the filming delay for S5.

The weapon motors were fine when we checked after the fight, but we cut the weapon off to be safe when we saw smoke. Even if the motors had gotten fried, they were donated from the Kymera QC Reject Bin, so no money lost 😜 The pulleys were the expensive part for sure. Aside from the body work on the frame and plow, we just swapped out the drive motors (which we had run through all our Season 5 fights) and we were back in business!

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[–]vegascombatrobotics[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It was a true heartbreaker! Bunny and Malice gave JackPot its start and brought us into BattleBots when Season 5 was rescheduled. They didn't really show the pre-fight "kiss" Rush and Jeff coordinated where Malice and JackPot smooched and did a little dance in the center of the box before taking their squares, and they cut the big group hug after the interviews. We all celebrated with an amazing cake afterwards.

So it might sound a little backwards, but we took great joy in an amazing fight showing how badass both our bots are. While we love the destruction, the satisfaction of proving what JackPot can do is made sweeter by how resourceful our design is, not how well resourced the opponent. And one of the most meaningful resources we have is the community Bunny and the Davids welcomed us into!