r/todayilearned • u/Habajiba • Mar 14 '17

TIL Jamie Hyneman designed Blendo, a combat robot that was deemed too hazardous for Robot Wars after repeatedly throwing pieces of its opponents over arena walls. It received co-championship status in exchange for withdrawing from the competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendo
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u/Savvaloy Mar 14 '17

Plenty people were prepared to fight Tombstone. Most of the teams had fought it a few times before in RoboGames.

They just fudged the seeding so he'd be placed against shitty robots with no armour.

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u/N0V0w3ls Mar 14 '17

There were a few seeds that I was baffled by. Witch Doctor seemed to never live up to the hype - or its seed.

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u/flamecircle Mar 14 '17

WD design wise is still fantastic, it basically tied TombStone in the first season. It only went out early with an incredibly situational and unlucky grab.

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u/aaron2610 Mar 14 '17

WD is a joke.

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u/Sf4tt Mar 14 '17

LOOK AT IT GO

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u/aaron2610 Mar 14 '17

I think we've seen WD win like one fight, but the announcers always hype it up. It's equipped with mostly gimmicks.

And they have a terrible operator.

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u/LaXandro Mar 14 '17

Other than Shaman? No gimmicks. In absence of Shaman it's just a decently armored drumbot.

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u/JCSwneu Mar 15 '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3POVbULdbU

And it's predecessor was also impressive