The RETIREMENT party - Battlebots: Champions 'Sin City Slugfest' Episode 1 Review | The Drop Zone 

This was probably my favorite Battlebots episode ever. Absolutely incredible matches. Hypershock is an absolute monster and i hope Will Bales sticks with this version or something very similar for next year.

Gigabytes shell was unbalanced, which is why they weren’t able to attack HyperShock since the wobbling kept its wheels from getting a grip.

Best wishes and all the love to Anthony and yourself. Hope the year lets up and gets easier soon. Also the last 2 fights both end up in my top 10 fights of all time

This is exactly what I needed today and just a side note I hope you have an absolutely lovely day

This episode was probably my most favourite, purely and simply because of Hypershock vs Gigabyte, the best highlight for me was Will Bales' facial expression at the end of the fight.

HELL YEAH THIS BRIGHTENED MY ENTIRE DAY

The fights this episode from best to worst in my opinion; 1) (Best): Hypershock vs Gigabyte 2) Hypershock vs Valkyrie 3) Hypershock vs Mad Catter 4) Hypershock vs Duck! 5) Claw Viper vs Defender 6) Claw Viper vs Mad Catter 7) Valkyrie vs Smeeeeeeee 8) (Worst): Mad Catter vs Triple Crown

You could almost nickname it the Crop Zone.

Excellent review. I like that you make the videos one fight at a time.

Hypershock disassembled every robot it faced in this episode I want Hypershock tested for performance enhancing drugs

I am surprised Valkerie's bar didn't go through the roof

BTW The reason the shell came off was because all the bolts holding the shell to the pulley all pulled out of their threads. Also Gigabyte was still fully functional at the end.

18:30 - When a major structural component such as a weapon shaft or a full-body spinner's vertical axle breaks, it's not usually down to a big single hit, but to the cumulative effect of repeated smaller impacts (wear and tear) over days, weeks or months, causing metal fatigue leading to sudden failure. The only sure way to guard against it is to do what the aviation industry does with things like turbine blades and landing gear legs - replace components after a set number of hours of use, or X-ray them or use ultrasound scans to detect any changes. Unfortunately, for robot combat, both options would be prohibitively expensive, so all you can do is live in hope and avoid fighting vertical spinners too often. The micro-cracking is completely hidden otherwise. Before X-ray and ultrasound scans, railways employed 'wheel-tappers' to check for cracks in locomotive wheels and axles. Trained men would use steel hammers to hit the various forged and cast components, listening for a clear, clean ringing sound. A damaged or failing part would sound like a cracked bell or in some way 'just...wrong'. Hard to imagine the robot combat community getting into wheel-tapping, though...

Wait who is retiring? What bots are retiring?

All of the Hypershock fights are pretty much this, hello I would like to report multiple murders.

This first Sin City Slugfest bracket was straight-up redemption after the season finale pissed off so many people. Such a great episode, one of the best of the entire reboot!

Thanks for the video, new styles perfectly fine. Any Content is better than no content. Gunna go watch the other 3 now. xD Bit late I know.

Finally Im able to keep up with this after finding a free streaming service with decent quality. I dont mind the current format(your video format) at all. Love to hear your take, as always. I also love that they stretch the content out this year and didn't do a bounty hunter, which for me was to soon after and without the stakes of a championship and the chance at a trophy.

Very nice 👌

Feels like Gigabyte could have pulled out the win if only they could drive well enough to hit Hypershock in the rear end once it's drive was compromised. I really didn't think it'd be all that difficult... and then the just drove right into the weapon again.

Hipershock has become bite force but yellow and a more powerful weapon

I'd love to see Triple Crown again in a smaller footprint

The sound design in this episode was great. The hits from Hypershock sounded so brutal I nearly jumped out of my chair in surprise on some of them

valkyrie’s bar is the world’s deadliest beyblade

It was either MadCatter was stuck on part of Claw Viper or it was stuck on it's own minibot. I noticed Gassy Cat was there when MadCatter was able to move

This bracket singlehandedly made me into a Hypershock believer: season 6 had started to do it, the upgrades & changes they'd made just worked and worked, but the hits Hypershock was dishing out were just insane, the Gigabyte fight especially, total evisceration of Gigabyte, reduced to atoms. Now we know what they can do when the stars align like that, christ they're gonna be one to watch against the rest of the champions!

I think duck needs an actual flipper like hydra or blip, with a more duck like appearance

This was a very special episode so many instant classics

Here's hoping that Anthony's health improves.

I remember I made a comment along the lines of how I had no hope for Hypershock because they could have easily one their p1 fight yet lost and their previous history of the robot itself. Now I see they actually are looking competitive since season 4.

Hypershock is a amazing robot, design wise and concept wise. They have made some great changes, focusing on making a robot to suits Will Bales(it seems). High speed, high maneuverability and decent damage. The down side is of course its a robot that really dont afford to many mistakes. Even with the wheel upgrade. Which means, its performance is very much up to which alphabet letter Will bales decide to bring. And this episode he clearly brought the big fat A (clearly stolen from the sign of a Gigabyte fan).

12:12 "He has built machines that are driving about on Mars". But Mars has fewer radio interference than Earth. That MIGHT be the issue.

I feel like the BB showrunners were waiting a few months for the bad taste of the Season 6 finale to fade before they showed us this proper successor to Bounty Hunters, but all it ended up doing was leaving a lot of people confused as to whether it will be shown at all. After that spectacular run of fights though who can really complain at this point? Now I'm hoping for a REMars 2 drop before the start of Season 7 proper. All the love to you and Anthony, I'm hyped for that Antweight Anarchy but hoping you're both on the mend.

This episode is gonna move Hexbugs, also how have you managed to order a set already? Everywhere I've seen them has no UK shipping

Was so good to see Will get redemption after his loss to P1. Now can he keep that momentum going or will he do himself in? That final shot to Gigabyte was just beautiful. Just absolutely destroyed the competition and was a fantastic ep.

Another great episode. What's wrong with Anthony? I hope he is on his way back to health soon!

In the replay of the 'bounty fight', I saw that at one point Gigabyte got off balance after that double hit from Hypershock (that caused the transceiver glitch) thanks to the slow motion. I don't know how well Gigabyte would have been able to capitalize without compromising itself Also, Matt Maxim cameo in the Gigabyte team before the fight Also, a LOT of good sportsmanship between Hypershock and Mad Catter, as well as Hypershock and Gigabyte I hope that they can keep up this pace for the rest of the bounty fights, though they did say it was 6 episodes before they get to the 'tournament proper' (Where Tombstone, Endgame, and Tantrum will finally get some stick time) before they revealed the Gigabyte bracket

Really good vid, hyershock is a monster

HyperShock vs MadCatter is definitely a contender for my favorite robot fight of all time…

This was a good episode, from the fightcard I assumed it would be Mad Catter vs Hypershock for the right to fight Gigabyte, but I dont think anyone predicted how devastation of a run Hypershock would have in this episode! Clawviper once again showed why having a rambot would be good for Battlebots, its Storm 2-esque speed and power makes it a serious threat as a chassis. Would love to see them evolve to maybe grab hold and ram other robots around rather than suplex.

Mad Catter ended up looking totally outclassed by Hypershock. It always seems to be one extreme or another with them.

🐌 --- Slugfests? Naah. Go snail or go home.🏠

Does anyone else almost find it a bit suspicious how good they were? I don’t know what I’m accusing them of… maybe they’re using plutonium or something… but really how did they get that good? They lost to P1 during the season!