Contentious COUNTOUT!! Battlebots Champions 'Sin City Slugfest' Episode 2 Review | The Drop Zone 

Tell Anthony I miss seeing him and I wish him all the best.

Dustin Esswein's driving is underrated. Him driving and gyroing Deep Six is so smooth considering Deep Six is arguably the hardest bot to drive because of the gyroscopic force. And the fact that he last that long against Ribbot, the former number 2 seed, is really impressive.

Here's how I ranked the battles in this episode from strongest to weakest. 1 (Strongest): Deep Six vs Shatter! 2: Shatter! vs Pain Train 3: Ribbot vs Double Jeopardy 4: Deep Six vs HUGE 5: Ribbot vs Deep Six 6: Ribbot vs Malice 7: Malice vs Slammow 8 (Weakest): Ribbot vs Lock Jaw

16:33 Some frogs are gentlemen, some of them hold back.... I can't lie, it was a pretty stellar display from Ribbot throughout the bracket, in my eye this makes up for them being waaaay overseeded in the main season, so all's fair and all that. I would've loved to have seen Deep Six in the Champions bracket, i think they were *this* close to having it, but still, what's to come should be damn good.

Deep 6 was the real winner of the episode for me. I didn’t expect it to get past huge much less nearly get ribbot!

Apparantly Pain Train is being retired in favor of the team bringing in a heavyweight version of Shreddit Bro. Also Malice's weapon issues in its fight with Ribbot were caused by them using their back up ESCs since their normal ones blew up in the Slammo fight.

I get Adam's passion for shatter but boy were they pretty much defeated at that point and frankly speaking if the fight had continued he just would have gone home with less of a robot seeing as that was his final fight.

deep6 absolutely fucked shatter. did NOT see that coming.

Well done! Please continue with your reviews.

According to Evan Arias, the reason Pain Train's weapon stopped spinning is because one of the weapon motor backed out from the mount, and the weapon is too heavy to be run only with one weapon motor. Pain Train is also going to be retired (Evan is thinking of bringing Pain Train to Robogames 2023 though but with different name to avoid issues) and they're building Shreddit Bro, a heavyweight version of his beetleweight of the same name. Evan also stated that SB will be completely different internal wise, and will using the vulcanised wheels from the Shatter fight which proves to be pretty durable and have good traction.

Thanks for the video again and I hope Anthonys health continues to get better as he gets the rest he needs and deserves. Miss you Anthony!

Deep Six vs Shatter is obviously the best fight of the episode like holy hell. But Shatter vs Pain Train is also good. Fun fact, none of Shatter's hits pierce Pain Train's top plate. Even afterwards Adam come over and said something along the lines of "what is that thing made of?". This fight is also a great durability feat for Pain Train, not only the durability of the top armor, but also the durability of the bot of not breaking down. It's a shame that the weapon went down because one of the weapon motor backed out from the mount, but a great showing from Pain Train. And those vulcanised wheels really have some good tractions

17:09 Are we going to ignore the fact that Shatter kept throwing themselves right into Deep Six's weapon? 24:43 Actually Deep Six just appeared to stop gyroing and let the ref count them out by the looks of things.

Deep 6 surprised me. I always saw it as a modern nightmare, with all th same flaws.... But I think it can evolve and do some damage in the real season!

What is up with HUGE's bad luck in Battlebots??? It lost to Mammoth despite causing severe damage to Mammoth's frame It suffered the Hydra bike rack incident It lost to Riptide from 1 hit that directly placed HUGE in the screws It lost in a double KO JD to Uppercut And now it loses to Deep 6, a robot that looks like it was specifically designed to win against HUGE. I hope in the next season that HUGE is able to not only get more wins but also refine their design (In particular to make HUGE harder to push around the arena)

"5 points to Deep Six" Love it.

Deep 6 needs rocket launchers and guns

Deep 6 is almost there. I think they should switch to one pivoting wheel in the back as their drive. Could help the movement issues

Lockjaw is a good bot (they won last year's bounty after all) which just goes to show how much more improved everyone else has gotten! Yes they went 4-0 on the season but that is because they were given strong opponents in every single fight they had. Here's hoping they come back with a new, stronger design.

Was great to see Deep Six get some wins, like you said even though the one with Shatter was contentious Deep Six would have been the clear winner anyway. Slammo vs Malice was fun to watch too - I like seeing robots tanking big hits, but exposed wheels on the sides is asking for trouble - I guess they had to make that compromise because that front wedge looked very beefy. Hope Anthony feels better soon

For some reason I was so into the idea of Deep Six winning this episode. I was shattered when ribbot beat em. It was also an awful fight. I do also like the consistency of the ruling, Seems like the rulings is a lot better during the slugfest so far, compared to the main championship.

Gutted for paintrain, we’re doing so well until the weapon…shorted out? Reset escs? I don’t know what it was but it started up properly right at the end. Wish we get to see them perform fully soon And wow deep six, god fuckin damn I hope we get more of that, it was getting two three hit combos on shatter it was bloody fantastic

I don't agree with the Ribbot VS Deep 6 fight. I thought that was a really exciting match. It felt so Tactical, with two drivers doing their absolute best, and it could have gone either way. It was all about who would make the mistake, and there was a lot of suspense to the fight.

Oh one thing I’m a little off about the deep six shatter fight, after the big hit that sends six into the corner, you can see it self right and recover and twitch a bit..then it cuts to shatter trying to recover..cuts back and deep six has crossed the box and is ready to fight again..wondering why they cut deep six getting out the corner? Probably nothing or maybe it took a while so they cut it but maybe something shady? Was deep six given more time to recover than shatter did before count out? Mayyyybe

Shatter were done. The count out was a little contentious but it's just as well it happened.

Deep six vs huge wow

Other than the unexpected rampage of Deep Six, taking out Huge & Shatter, the rest of the episode was rather predictable I thought. Double Jeopardy technically fired three shots - 2 large BB's, and a solid slug. All three were visible in the box at various points during the fight. It's just unfortunate that they fired all three at the same time (misfire?). What was even more unfortunate, was that they actually missed Ribbot, managing to aim slightly too high, only hitting the "face" of Ribbot, not the actual robot. Oops. Big, softsided wedgebot V undercutter never ends well... Slammo suffered the fate of a grappler facing a well driven kinetic bot. Still the best fight Craig's had in years though. Pain Train got hammered, proving that all the armor in the world doesn't help if your robot is so tightly packed that any impacts are still passed through to the internals. Huge getting one shotted was unexpected, but not surprising - that fight was always likely to be decided by the first big hit disabling something on the opponent. Deep 6 got that hit, Huge lost drive on one side, Game Over. Malice V Ribbot was a classic case of horizontal V vertical. Gravity assist for the win. Deep 6 v Shatter was probably the most interesting fight of the night, with Shatter being my prediction as they had the reach and power to put large holes in Deep 6's unprotected gubbins. Dunno what happened there, as there seemed to be a delay in Shatter's reactions when firing the axe. Hella fight tho... Then Ribbot ate one of D6's wheels. Not unexpected. The other wheel failing was unexpected but not surprising. D6 had the potential to win, but not the driving experience... Ribbot V Lockjaw went exactly as I thought it would, with Ribbot's undercutter taking out Lockjaw's wheels until it stopped. Countdown for the win... A decent episode, with a couple of truly spectacular fights from Deep 6, but a predictable outcome overall...

Deep Six was chasing Ribbot with 1 wheel, and Ribbot was running away. It looked like the other wheel came apart. If that didn't happen, Ribbot probably would have lost cause they just wanted to run away

Ribbot wussed out in the fight against Deep Six, but eh a win is a win.