Tombstone vs Super Megabyte 

These are super heavyweights, the show is heavyweights (250lbs)

Except when they bring them in and stand next to them...

Still pretty damn good

I mean thats not even true but okay

A staggering 340 pounds

It was a shame, Gigabyte looked amazing

@@teeman9266 I want a rematch between them because gigabyte could probably beat them like they did in 2005

@BATTLEBOTS STUFF yeah

@@jrrobotics gigabyte's pronouns are them/they? Why not it?

@@gregp103 Probably referring to the team that built and operated it.

I dunno he did pretty damn good this year, only two losses were to the number 1 and 3 overall tournament seeds

@@piercefamilyracing That was a pleasant surprise this season (Also that paint job is gorgeous)

Don't forget it's performance in King of Bots as well

@@purplekey9330 I prefer the fire-y painting over the "Google Chrome" like that it had. It looks more like Megabyte now.

Nah, i think its still appropriately rated now

Still gigabytes is a joke

Gigabyte is not as good as his silver brother

*megabyte*

@@joshlounsberry5352 oop shit lmao it is megabyte i’m sorry

Also Pete, Tombstone lost his drive system but not his weapon.

Also Pete, Tombstone lost his drive system but not his weapon.

Alright, guys. :) Sure, I'll fix my punctuation on a 5-year-old comment if it makes you happy. XD

In retrospect Biohazard wasn't that durable if you really look at how it was constructed. It was thin titanium over 5052. Thing is, during the original BattleBots series spinners just weren't putting out that much power, especially not in the heavyweight class. Megabyte was really the first truly powerful spinner in the heavyweight class.

no that was a chunk of the arena wall

I enjoyed it , pretty raw and no shitty sound effects😂

Different weight class and electronics batteries and motors especially have gotten smaller and more powerful allowing for less heavy bots

funnily enough a fair few of the bots in that weight class were actually lighter ones where they just straight up added weights to enter in the competition, there weren't all that many built specifically for the superheavyweight competitions because there just weren't all that many superheavyweight competitions, it was also harder and/or significantly more expensive to find good parts for them whereas the middleweight on down could usually find stuff to repurpose and the heavyweights had at least some repurpose/suppliers/etc available. on top of that as the bots get bigger they get proportionately slower and less durable, so you actually get the best fights from the crowd's perspective from whatever weight class keeps things fast, but not too fast for the crowd to really observe, back then that was middleweights nowadays it's middle to heavy. seriously, if you look at a beetleweight competition where the bots have more than a hobbyist's budget put into them they are just absolutely all over the place. even the low budget ones get pretty impressive with how accessible control electronics and small high performance motors have gotten lately, also helps that junk like Styrofoam and cereal boxes and friggin' chopsticks are legitimately good materials choices at that scale.

@@subsnovideos-ur4cn electronics. Batteries

Pretty sure it has to do with his diet and exercise regime.

Wait... how did I not know the answer to this a year ago?

Yeah, Super Megabyte and Tombstone at the time were both superheavyweights. Modern Gigabyte would win thanks to the advancements in technology. The power you can get for modern heavyweights is available using components a fraction of the size of Super Megabyte's parts

@@SFCJack Are superheavyweights kind of an obsolete category like superheavy tanks, where technology advances enough that you don't have to weigh 400 pounds for a large amounts of force? Nowadays it seems to mostly be heavyweights as the main class.

@@g.williams2047 Superheavyweights died out because not enough people were making them. They weren't really capable of a bigger spectacle than the already more popular heavyweights, but were a pain in the ass to transport and sometimes more expensive to build

Therefore a lot of existing superheavyweights refined their look for the heavyweight division, or were simply retired in favour of new heavyweight builds

@@SFCJack Thanks. Makes sense.

Honestly that sounds close to what Beta's builder ended up doing in Robot Wars with the ' hertz' robots.

They have weight classes going up to 275 pounds I think

mr8I7 it doesn't fight super mega byte, there's a redesigned one to fit battle bots weight limit called Gigabyte

tombstone also wone against it too before

Everone knows what Tombstone is about, his legend status is not how good he is, but how long this design has worked as a good contender through the years. (Funfact: Tombstone hasn't been running max speed on his weapon for a while, because Battlebots told him to turn it down (as they limited all spinner max speeds over time).)

@@deadso can u imagine if they had the 2015 rules when things were allowed to go 350mph+?