It was great to see Son of Wyachi make a come back.
The original Battle Bots, SoW was my favorite and I have been telling my kids about the original tournament and SoW. It was great to see their eye widen as SoW just nuked those other bots with ease.
I hate IMDB's Signature policy...
SoW is as devastating a bot as ever, to be sure.
Heh, but that Rumble was a fix. They knew they wanted SoW in the tourney. They just wanted to have SoW perform to add some hype. Those swarm bots never had a chance, and I don't think the remaining bot moved from its beginning square until SoW knocked it off.
If you buy a ticket for a remake, you are the problem, not Hollywood.
Something about SoW makes be think it's more vulnerable than other similar bots but I don't know why
shareThe thing that made the original SoW so devastating was the walker bot rule. The rules said if you had a bot that walked with legs as opposed to a bot with wheels or treads. You could make your bot be 50% over the weight limit. So SoW had a severe weight advantage. It could smack those other bots around like hockey pucks because it was a bigger bot.
I have no idea if the new rules say that you can do this and I also think they switched to wheels years ago. But, I am still very interested to see what they can do, none the less.
The year after the SoW, heavyweight, and I think just (W)yachi, super heavyweight, "shuffle bot" they changed the rules.
They reworded them to say something like any rotating part had to connect to a linkage to an arm and couldn't contact the floor or some other such NO MORE SHUFFLE BOTS verbiage.
W was retired and SoW added wheels and moved up a class. This is when their complete dominance ended. Spinners usually die when they hit another bot and kill themselves. With the added weight physics was on their side. Also the shuffling motion didn't give them much traction so when they hit someone they could side away. Bots with more traction put more stress on their superstructure.
I saw SoW at an event held at the now closed Robot Club & Grill and I can say the reactions from the commentators are real. Nothing can prepare you for the noise and carnage of a live fight. Your body says I really should not be this close.