Ideas for Robots: Extreme Wars

Hi guys

After replying to a message from Stu on Youtube, I thought I'd post a thread with some relevance to it here and ask the same question he asked which was is their anything needed to make the shows better. So I thought as a roboteer, I'd do a contribution on the forum to do something similar.

My idea to make the shows better is in addition to robots entering the arena from a bullpen and having their info read out to the crowd, I was also thinking about maybe before the battles you could interview teams with their robots about to take part in upcoming fights and then show them on the projector screens to the audience. The interview would be like the roboteer behind the robot introducing himself, the team and the robot about to take part (think Robot Wars style), an example of what they would say would be like this when talking to the camera.

Hi my names Liam Bryant, this is Shane Swan and this is Jason Marston and this is Storm Force, armed with an axe and a lifter, here to hopefully go all the way.

Thats my idea but if anyone else has other ideas, jot them here.

Cheers
Liam

That sounds like a brilliant idea!

I can't think of much for a physically better show but a larger pit might be better so heavies can fit a but better but Appart from that it looks brillient

That sounds like a great way to increase interest in the machines themselves, and to get the audience on the same level with those competing. Anything more like the Robot Wars style must be a good thing. And the In the red square, to my right, this robot doesn't do something or other but does do this! Here is, Example Name! like Battlebots did would get the crowd more involved still, as they cheer for the robot they support, etc.

great idea i think and when the robot enters maybe try to get a deep voice to say the name :)

You mean something like this?

From Nottingham, the Number 1 seed, Ripper, From Edinburgh in Scotland, Storm Force

ye :proud:

sounds great it would be great to buy a dvd of the whole event with comentry aswell

i dont mind doing any filming if needed like back stage with my vivitar camcorder

isn't this what happens already during the filler time when loading bots in? Description of the bots along with a bit of this and that about the comp so far?

ye but did they add the deep voice :P

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Originally Posted by the16henry16

great idea i think and when the robot enters maybe try to get a deep voice to say the name :)

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That's something I've been looking in to; it was always great on RW.
Get John to give the bloke of RW an email to ask him:
stuart@activatetv.co.uk

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Originally Posted by the16henry16

great idea i think and when the robot enters maybe try to get a deep voice to say the name :)

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That's something I've been looking in to; it was always great on RW.
Get John to give the bloke of RW an email to ask him:
stuart@activatetv.co.uk

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I did this for the 2012 UK FW Champs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTg4fMp7GwY

I like the interview part, but like in Robot Wars it will be hit or miss. Were you get team's with great personality like The Plunderbird team or Sumpthing with the Captain Jack Sparrow look alike :lol: then you get people who look and sound awkward on camera.

But to me what made Robot Wars great was not just the roboteers and there robots, but the House Robots they had personality and they were villains that you love and if one on the roboteers take down the House Robots, they become hero's, and they can develop rivalry like Panic Attack and Shunt.

That's all I want to say but I think the interviews and House Robots will get people involved and entertain. I like to add more game types like pinball and sumo or Inferno Insurrection match with Ramrombit and Nemesis :rofl:

The ideas of backstage filming is a great idea, means the presenter has to do less filler, and keeps the audience interested on the robots. Would also be great if theres a delay, as the robotieers could talk you through their robots and it would kill time, especially as they enter the arena.

One small problem though is whos going to film it. We shouldnt expect john, or any other organiser to fork out on a film crew just for backstage access. And most of the robotieers tend to be busy, strangly with robots. There are of course people who have free time at events, but then you got the problem of are they willing to do it, and also can they actually film? no one wants a shaky camera and so on, and the cameras are expensive in themselves.

You could do the interviews before the show when people are less busy and that means if people muck it up it can b refilmed. And if the robot hasnt changed you can use the same one again for te next show. You could even try and get people to do it themselves at home as most people have a camera with a record function- it would b like when they introduce the teams on scrapheap challenge

No offence to anyone here, but I don't think anyone is going to come to these shows to watch the roboteers talk about their robots.

If anything, they should be hidden away (I know this will rankle with some who want the reward of fame for their roboteering hard work) and the pretence of the robots being autonomous played up.

That way the robots themselves become the stars and develop a personality of their own.

Even back on Robot Wars it was Razer is devastatingly powerful with its jaw or Tornado is tenacious etc, not Ian and Simon are working well together today to attack their opponents etc

In a way, the drivers should be a bit like the operator of a Dalek, seeing them would ruin the magic a bit...

Fine to have an interview AFTER the fight to talk about what the crowd have just seen, but not before really.

Hey Ho

When are Roboteers going to start thinking out of the box (Jonno) and bin that wedge!.

On a more constructive note I think the last post is well wrong,the crowd would be more interested
in the team talking about how thier robot was made than hearing the compare waffle on too long.

Also most roboteers do have access to a decent video camera so decend on the arena on mass
instruct them on areas to film and cover all angles thats how mentorn did it-hey you might even
sell the edited version to a tv company.

Anyroad.............Colin

The masses do come to a show to see the robots fighting. Like the TV the chatting to roboteers has been a time filler just like at live shows. If there was no need to fill time while robots are cleared up you wouldnt see roboteers at all.

NO NO NO roboteers interviews, there's only so many 'Ro-butt' jokes I can take!

Is it possible to use any of the soundtrack from Robot Wars during fights? Someone extracted the tracks from the Extreme Destruction game a while ago, and Mentorn isn't exactly doing anything with the rights at the moment.

Is it crazy to deliberately use them with the possibility of there being an issue? It would get their attention, right? :lol:

Maybe some themed fights, like the Team Bud challenge. Maybe have the Legends trophey (where a robot must have qualified for a series of robot wars to compete). Or maybe something wacky, like 7-8 featherweights take on one heavyweight (each side weighing ~100KG). Would be nice to watch as a side event.

For cameras, maybe a camera that can view the pen like a cctv camera would a garage door. So people can see the robots being activated and rolled in whilst they wait for the next round, would only require a camera connected to the feed to do so.

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For cameras, maybe a camera that can view the pen like a cctv camera would a garage door

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For obvious reasons this would have to be pointed at the faces of the roboteers. We would not want to place the contaigen that is Alice Crack on a 63 TV screen (it wouldn't fit for a start) :proud: