Team Yeti left a roll of electrical tape inside their bot?! WOW lol. Super impressive driving on their part so far, but that's hilarious.
Wrecks was totally still able to move when they counted him out in the rumble. WTF, producers?
I've had such a mixed bag of feelings about Ray Billings and Tombstone since getting (back) into BattleBots last summer. On the one hand, he created a brilliantly simple, superlatively effective, design. And Ray is very clearly razor sharp when thinking through his strategy, using the simplicity (and flipping immunity) of his bot to methodically chew up opponents' machines. But the man is just so goddamned arrogant on camera that I can't find it in me to really respect him. Frankly, he's kind of a dick about how good his bot is. I've seen people say he's actually a nice guy in the pits, but on screen he's mostly just obnoxiously overconfident.
That said, we got to see, in this episode (and a bit of the last), a more vulnerable side of Ray. I was going to make some joke about hoping that winning the Nut won't go to his head, but I think that would be undeserved. When all was said and done he finally showed the camera his other side—the side of him that's more concerned with sharing the experience with his son than anything else. This final episode might have really changed my opinion of the man.
Too bad the semifinals, and even the rumble, were more interesting/less predictable than the final match. But that can't be avoided; the matches go how they go, you know?
Review by dgwVIP 10BlockedParent2016-09-26T09:25:16Z
Team Yeti left a roll of electrical tape inside their bot?! WOW lol. Super impressive driving on their part so far, but that's hilarious.
Wrecks was totally still able to move when they counted him out in the rumble. WTF, producers?
I've had such a mixed bag of feelings about Ray Billings and Tombstone since getting (back) into BattleBots last summer. On the one hand, he created a brilliantly simple, superlatively effective, design. And Ray is very clearly razor sharp when thinking through his strategy, using the simplicity (and flipping immunity) of his bot to methodically chew up opponents' machines. But the man is just so goddamned arrogant on camera that I can't find it in me to really respect him. Frankly, he's kind of a dick about how good his bot is. I've seen people say he's actually a nice guy in the pits, but on screen he's mostly just obnoxiously overconfident.
That said, we got to see, in this episode (and a bit of the last), a more vulnerable side of Ray. I was going to make some joke about hoping that winning the Nut won't go to his head, but I think that would be undeserved. When all was said and done he finally showed the camera his other side—the side of him that's more concerned with sharing the experience with his son than anything else. This final episode might have really changed my opinion of the man.
Too bad the semifinals, and even the rumble, were more interesting/less predictable than the final match. But that can't be avoided; the matches go how they go, you know?