When I met this wonderful team that night, they apologized for losing. 😭 They’re so precious and nice. I wanted to be the one to apologize to them because I’m sure they were hurting more, but there they were, more concerned for me. Elaine and the boys are awesome, I can’t wait to see them again next year. 💕

Amazing fights last night

Rail Gun Max got screwed over in their last battle and should have already been in the tournament. Then you throw them in a three way battle with two teams that are better than most of the others I saw last night. Minotaur gets 7 fights to get in?

Those were some great fights last night !

Stand tall RGM, you should have qualified.

Where did Mammoth go? I only saw them in two matches and still want to see them battle Huge at some point (maybe next year) even though Huge would probably win.

Making only one match a 3-way bout was a mistake. It was unfair to the teams involved, particularly RGM in the end. If this had been a 1 on 1 like every other match, RGM would have won because they disabled the other bot. But instead Uppercut, who took almost no part in the bout, won because it didn’t participate and thus wasn’t damaged, and thus won by default. You owe the RGM team an apology for setting that up. They’ve got a great bot that’s going to keep getting better.

I'd like to see a Tombstone VS Blacksmith match.

Duck! and Hal will be back! Quackin’ and Attackin’!

Elaine Wu is a hottie

Hydra will get the giant nut this year

Railgun max is a dumb name and the dumb egg beater dumbness was dumb. Duck is dumb, too. Lets have a bot with no weapon. Dumb.

Wow, the way Son Of Wyochi STAYS BALANCED with all that power it has when knocked in the air is extremely IMPRESSIVE!

This was a good Battle!

This great battle.😘

Great battles!

Entertaining episode!! So happy Mino in the top 16! 😊

That was a really satisfying end of the battle. 😁

Great fights!

For a moment, I thought SOW had bent its spinner shaft. Entertaining fight, but I missed the button-pushing sock puppet show.

Son of Whyachi is a scary spinner! Really has aged gracefully 🙂

All of these matches were spectacular! Can’t wait to watch the future matches.

Several really BIG hits last night! It was a great show!!!

Amazing fight, could have easily gone the other way. Every bot earned their placement imo.

Great battles all around this episode. Sad that Duck didn’t get through. Looking forward to the tournament. Go witch doctor!!

That was precision control of SOW by Luke. Really well driven. SOW will either kill its enemy or itself after the first hit or two--like most full body spinners. That said, it's certainly a lot more reliable than the shell spinners we've seen. Loved that bot since it was a shufflebot with meat hammers attached.

Great episode. Any of tonight's bot deserved top 16.

I was hoping valkyrie, rail gun max, hypershock, and rotator would win 🙁

Very nice match!

That was an epic battle. Yaaa sow. See ya next season copperhead

Spoiler, but totally worth watching!

What a battle and what an episode!!

Just a spinning motor on wheels Should not even considered as a bot Seriously no creativity at all in this thing.

Whyachi vs Tombstone would be a great playoff match

VIOLENT ENERGY!!! What a fight, and what a night! OH MY GOD!!!

Anyone else been pondering which top 8 bot you would’ve replaced with SoW, if it’d been up to you? 🤔

The energy transfer was INSANE!!!

100 internet points for those that get the blowed up real good reference 🤪

Thank you Lincoln Electric, Tormach Inc. and Markforged so much for sponsoring!!!! 💙❤️💚🧡

We could not repair and keep going with Lincoln Electric! Year after year, they are always 100% reliable, and always fun to hang out with too, thank you Lincoln team!

big thank you to the sponsors!!!!! this is my fav sport

I really wish that for those of us who buy the entire season on Amazon could get the bonus fights.

Love "Lock-Jaw's" WIFE'S BOOTS, so cool!

🚦

Simon Cordat je te conseille cette page, franchement c'est très drôle

Sawblaze should be fighting for a spot......

Hydra will get the giant nut this year

Can't wait

Thank you Lincoln Electric, Tormach Inc. and Markforged. Long live BattleBots!!

stop with the kissing Mr. and Mrs. Yeti

I really like the way they're doing this. They're essentially expanding the playoffs an extra round and giving the top third of the bots a first round bye. For a playing field that is so large (68 bots), a tournament of just 16 is too small, that's only 23.5% of the field. As a reference, in the NFL, 12 out of 32 make it (37.5%), MLB 10/30, 33%, NHL 16/31 51.6%, NBA 16/30 53%.

Great picks. Can’t wait!

Wish Gruff was in!!! #imagruffgirl #teamgruff #ilovegruff

This is going to be awesome!

This is gonna be awesome! I can’t wait for tonight!

! Awesome !

Sawblaze i Still very septical with this bit.not a great potentiel

This has potential to be the best episode of Battlebots so far!

I still don’t agree with Sawblaze automatically getting in as their performance was very hit or miss compared to last year (especially with that “win” over Blacksmith)

who are the final 17 and who is fighting who? I think it would have been fun to repost that info with my picks of who would get the final 8 slots.

C'mom Duck! and Hal! Winners no matter what happens tonight! Love the Quack Attack!

Definitely a tougher road to the giant nut. Some of those bots have really taken a beating in the prelims. And remember all this was filmed and in a very short time frame. Not allot of time to rebuild between matches. Hats off to all these teams.

I got a feeling that Huge will get in, as will Hypershock

I was right. It was Tombstone, SawBlaze and Whiplash in the other three spots of the top 16. Can't wait to see who the other eight are.

Love battlebots; gets better every season !!!

It's going to be a good one for sure!

Sweet!

Not really surprised by these choices honestly. I'm just anticipating the other half.

For a sec there, I thought they were listed by tournament seeding. (1,8,4,5,2,7,3,6). And then I realized it was alphabetical

I think we find out who the seeds are on Thursday out of these sixteen robots.

So it's kind of like an extra round of the tournament. Eight battlebots are already in, but the remaining 17 robots have to go through an extra fight in order to make it to the round of 16. So I guess this could kind of be the pseudo round of 25?

I've been a Battlebots fun for a long time, but this so called format is an absolute joke and an insult to both the builders and fans. Is the committee that incompetent they can't select the other 8? You guys seriously cheated Railgun Max out of the top 16. You made it fight 2 bots at once? Uppercut just sat back and then took the victory. That's a complete joke.

I absolutely don’t understand why Sawblaze and Whiplash are automatically in while Huge and SOW (along with Hypershock and Lockjaw) are risking to be eliminated. SOW is way stronger than SawBlaze. Maybe the committee doesn’t like the fact that a single team might have 2 bots in the final top 16 (the other being Hydra) and so they have decided to put on a grudge match vs Copperhed to make the show more entertaining. But to my mind this is very unfair.

I think too that the bots that looked unbeatable could be making an early exit, or get really smashed up in the tournament and an upset occur. No way to tell but watch out for black dragon.

Can we bring back the tournament where 32 bots are in?

I absolutely love these little videos. The BattleBots community is very positive and there's a sense of camaraderie all over. Displays of good sportsmanship are plentiful, and that's really nice to see these days. I've wanted to become a supporter for awhile now, right now I'm paycheck to paycheck, waiting for the Texas summer and $400 electric bills to hurry up and leave. It would be a dream come true to actually go and be a part of it all 😃😃

Yep. This is one of the reasons I love Battlebots. It's not just the fights. It's the people. Will all the negativity in modern sports this is a great thing to see.

That was awesome, it's important to let people know how they have inspired you and what a gracious reply. Love it! I also like the good guy/bad guy thing but we all know they're all good guys.

I'm kind of shocked with some of the selections. I'm just one person, but IMO a few of the 3-1 bots in the play in should have been in (their one loss being to a top 10 bot).

So cool!

THIS is what Battlebots is all about. 💜 I totally felt his emotion.

A great show, I cannot believe we are starting the knockout tournament this week. I am looking forward to a new season next year!

At first I was alittle confused, but this makes alot sense. Lockjaw is 3-1 with 1 loss to tombstone, but the duck fight was close, bombshell had them for alittle while and there only true dominate win was quantum. As for skorpios, they are 3-1 but there lost is against uppercut which was probably unexpected by the selection committee. There tantrum win went the full 3 minutes and wasnt as dominate as it could have been and copperhead was destroying them until it just died. There only dominate win is against a 1-1 sidewinder. I bet alot of people are gonna be confused though

Looking for Duck! and Hal to get back in the win column!

I reckon this fight is going to be one of the ones to narrow down the robots currently undecided for the tournament, but are still in the running, whereas some bots like Bite Force, Hydra and Tombstone are already locks for the tourney.

Lock jaw sure dominated that whole fight

Anthony

If this is legit, then I'm guessing lockjaw won. Because we know why free shipping vs bronco was a rematch

I was expecting both to get in the tourney not eliminate the other smh

Can't wait

Ironically Zach looks a lot older than Donald.

A're the Battlebots social media team getting enough sleep? 😉

I’ve learned this season that the arena & judges all need to be replaced for 2020.

Definitely should've been a win for Lockjaw, but great sportsmanship and a great match!

Lockjaw won control, aggression and damage. The only thing I can think of was it didn't have movement, it really should have never gotten to the judges because it didn't have movement (in the sense described by the rules) for well over 10 seconds. If the ref was counting they should have started earlier.

Well technically Lockjaw was immobilized in the last couple seconds. Plus he was on fire, that's considered highly damaged. As much as I love Lockjaw, I'd give it to Skorpios

LockJaw had it all the way...plain and simple, kept mobility, kept striking, judges were wrong in my opinion. GO BATTLEBOTS!!!!!

I think the judges WE'RE right and besides it was a friendly match that was fun to watch

True saved by the Bell, there was no countdown that I saw started. Lockjaw should have been way ahead on points.

That’s tough. Maybe the judging guidelines should change to a different and higher points system? Would that help at all?

not the correct call. what were the judges watching. I rarely agree with the judges decisions

One thing I've noticed watching battle bots all these years, is that you never want the match to go into the judges hands.

I was iffy on this decision, but I mean the internal damage of Lock Jaw speaks volumes and Skorpios - BattleBot did keep coming at Lock Jaw and kept on going head on despite the weapon going which does indeed count for points. The judges know what they're doing and sometimes they might make a call I don't agree with, but they got three people in now who know the sport and know how fights go, and have all been personally a part of a close JD in the past

Its time you guys got new judges!

If Lockjaw had been fully counted out like Nightmare was against Beta back in 2016, then I'd agree with Skorpios winning. But it hadn't. As far as I can see, Lockjaw was by far the more damaging machine, while both robots consistently put up an aggressive display against each other. Regardless of Skorpios' contributions, past applications of the 'primary weapon' rule dictate that its efforts would've normally been nullified once the saw became disabled. Shame to see this battle take a turn like this, but oh well...

I am not sure what the criteria is for winning.I thought the loss of the primary weapon was the eliminator.

At the bell Skorpio was able to keep fighting and Lockjaw despite being the aggressor throughout was not. Good call.

This is a perfect example of the saying “never leave it in the judges hands. “

There is no way this was a win for anyone but Lockjaw. Skorpios didn't DO anything. No weapon, took tons of damage, and drove around like a poor pushbot for the whole match. New judges next season, and a demand that the scorecards be displayed. That's an absolute failure by the judges.

To me, this was clearly a Lockjaw win. Not close. The decision was wrong.

Terrible. LockJaw won plain and simple. Skorpios did nothing the entire fight.

Please understand, I don't know what the judges were thinking. Lockjaw had it, 99%.

Tough call but Lockjaw was clearly done for at the end.

I think lockjaw beat one of the judges in the past and this was pay back lol

Lockjaw disabled the primary weapon of Skorpios early on. Lockjaw won the damage battle 3-0, because clearly Skorpios didn't cause any damage with their primary weapon and Lockjaw was drilling Skorpios repeatedly. Are you telling me Skorpios sweeps 4 points for aggression and control? I think not. Lockjaw won this one. The damage he suffered was not caused by his opponent.

Lockjaw ended the match literally on fire and could barely move... I can't see why the victory should be handed to them... they lost that match, even if it wasn't Skorpios doing...