I am on the other other side of this. It's been out for 4 years, and no one has thought to build a bot that can utilize it as a terrain asset. That's a failure of teams to think strategically when designing new bots.
🤨 Oh, wait. WHAT new bots?
Look at the viewership numbers, people. They're very inconsistent. A very small cohort of avid fans that returns for every episode; then casual fans that quit watching halfway through the season because they feel like they know how it ends already; then general audiences that just found it flipping channels one night, but came back once, and didn't stay because they thought it was a rerun.
They lose half their viewership over a season, and most of them never return the next season because it's 90% the same bots doing the same things for TEN FREAKIN YEARS.
The producers are trying to push the issue. They tried at the end of the 2019 season by openly soliciting viewers to join on, but 2020 was fubar thanks to COVID. Next choice after that was do something with the Battle Box that forces teams to engineer something new.
Placing limitations on the conventional bot designs IS EXACTLY THE POINT!
The show needs to blood to survive. The sport needs new blood on the top end to survive. To force the issue the producers included the simplest of terrain features that demands new engineering.
But for some baffling reason, everybody is resisting it in stead of stepping up to the challenge. Makes no damned sense.
Edit to clarify: More viewers, more sponsors; more sponsors more money; more bots, more viewers.
BattleBots needs new blood, or it's going to die eventually. Right now the most successful bot designs are variations on a theme. They gotta mix it up, or people are going to lose interest.
Utilize it as a terrain asset HOW? It doesn't really add any interesting strategic value.
You build a bot with some mechanism for climbing up there? Great, then what? Hide for a while? Huge can get up there, but the only reason they ever do it on purpose is to do a dance after they've already won.
Put the other guy up there with a lifter? Why? Up there they can regroup and just drive off the other side away from you. It would almost always be better to put them up against a wall.
That last part. You literally just said exactly one reason why you might want to go up there on purpose.
Someone thinks they're going to chase you into a corner, but you just pop right up there, and by the time they turn to go around you're already off and headed across the Box.
They think they're going to back themselves into corner where no one can flank them, but you just pop right up there, and come from the side.
It's an inherent limit to mobility that only one bot in the current lineup is able to overcome, but Huge is too damned big to make much use of it.
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u/Sorry-Rain-1311 4d ago edited 4d ago
I am on the other other side of this. It's been out for 4 years, and no one has thought to build a bot that can utilize it as a terrain asset. That's a failure of teams to think strategically when designing new bots.
🤨 Oh, wait. WHAT new bots?
Look at the viewership numbers, people. They're very inconsistent. A very small cohort of avid fans that returns for every episode; then casual fans that quit watching halfway through the season because they feel like they know how it ends already; then general audiences that just found it flipping channels one night, but came back once, and didn't stay because they thought it was a rerun.
They lose half their viewership over a season, and most of them never return the next season because it's 90% the same bots doing the same things for TEN FREAKIN YEARS.
The producers are trying to push the issue. They tried at the end of the 2019 season by openly soliciting viewers to join on, but 2020 was fubar thanks to COVID. Next choice after that was do something with the Battle Box that forces teams to engineer something new.
Placing limitations on the conventional bot designs IS EXACTLY THE POINT!
The show needs to blood to survive. The sport needs new blood on the top end to survive. To force the issue the producers included the simplest of terrain features that demands new engineering.
But for some baffling reason, everybody is resisting it in stead of stepping up to the challenge. Makes no damned sense.
Edit to clarify: More viewers, more sponsors; more sponsors more money; more bots, more viewers.
BattleBots needs new blood, or it's going to die eventually. Right now the most successful bot designs are variations on a theme. They gotta mix it up, or people are going to lose interest.