Megabots (USA) vs Kuratas (Japan)
stream starts at 7:00 pm pst
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Megabots AMA from yesterday:
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Andrew Wilson
>maneuvers behind you
Juan Collins
Bumping because faggots in here aren't realizing that this match could turn giant robots fights into a whole sports league
Jonathan Baker
Allright /m/, it's time to get down to brass tacks.
Who's gonna take it home?
Alexander James
metal gear..
Gabriel Cruz
some of these comments from the megabot team in the reddit ama are making me think that the kuratas actually managed to outmaneuver and flip eagle prime
so much for that howe and howe technologies maneuverability
Jayden Rodriguez
Hmmm... nice.
Kevin Myers
that's literally frink's robot
Asher Kelly
>hydraulic lines on the outside of the legs
Noah Clark
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Bentley Robinson
this sounds fucking based
but i bet itll turn out to be shit. the robots will fight like retards or something
hope im wrong though.
Wyatt Morris
>Can you give us a tease as to what other groups have expressed interest in a fight? How long until you'll be doing another event? And will you allow spectators at future events?
>There are a couple of groups in China, one in India, a couple in Australia, and I think a couple in Russia. Most of the promising ones are are privately-owned companies with infrastructure already set up to build big stuff.
>We'll have more news soon about the next event, and we will absolutely allow spectators!
Also, reminder that Megabots DOES plan to make this a sports league.
Austin Johnson
red robot looks shook AF. gonna get heemed in round 1. robot on the left has a literal iron chin. mismatch desu free money go bet
Michael Reyes
That's just a parody of the robot on the first Robocop movie you stupid pasta eater.
Jayden Watson
>tfw one of the japanese team members is named kyoji
Gavin Williams
I knew about the Chinese teams, the Monkey King and the Dawei. The India, Australia, and Russian teams are news to me though!
Jose Powell
According to the Megabot team, Monkey King is more akin to an animatronic machine than a mecha right now, but the company behind it has large funds and assets available, so they should be able to develop it into something concrete.
Isaac Hill
>british robot massively overpriced
>american robot too heavy to move
>chinese robot falls apart with one punch
>gemran robot just a german in a suit and nobody can tell
Alexander Jones
Polish robot conquers all because it's just a forklift with a paper machier head.
Austin Torres
If this became some kind of annual/bi-annual tournament, I'd probably ejaculate uncontrollably.
Charles Cruz
>british robot massively overpriced
Sup
>inventors are looking to triple it's speed
Paint it red.
Jayden Howard
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Nathan Brown
>Paint it red.
I get it.
Jaxson Cox
That's the goal of the creators actually.
Xavier Jones
Yeah, but I'll save my fluids for when it actually happens.
Luis Gutierrez
Gavin Brooks
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But seriously that speed.
Building these sort of things gotta be cheaper first.
Hell make them glorified drones/RC's instead of a cockpit and watch them tear at eachother without health and safety risks
Lucas Anderson
>and watch them tear at each other without health and safety risks
Spectator safety will still be an issue. Battlebots was already pushing the limits of reinforced bulletproof glass and they had a 250lb weight limit.
Luke Morris
Goddamn I need to watch this series again.
Landon Bell
i doubt they made much money on the spectators desu. dont really need them if they had a tv deal or something
Nathan Thompson
>tfw no monkey giant robot from your country
Grayson Hill
Place your bets lads
Carson Taylor
Realistically speaking, Eagle Prime is almost double the weight of Kuratas. I guess we'll see how it goes, but I'm almost certain that America is taking this one unless Kuratas has a significant mobility advantage.
Lucas Sanchez
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Dylan Foster
Some kind of ambiguous "everybody wins" cop out.
Eli Roberts
Japan is coming at us with a Manlet, but they had months to manufacture their Kuratas with Nipponese steel while our boys were still in the design process. I want to believe in American exceptionalism, but Japan knows it's mecha.
Josiah Campbell
This would be the worst possible result
Remember that one video of Eagle Prime punching a car? It was so fucking slow
Aiden Hill
PILDER ON
Nolan Gonzalez
If we're talking pure arm speed, sure, but its torso twist is pretty fast: youtube.com
Angel Robinson
That left arm looks like some serious business at least. I guess we'll see what it can do soon enough.
Joseph Jenkins
Blake Ward
>Suidobashi has secretly been working on a functional version of this
If we get Shining Finger'd I'll probably shit myself.
Adrian Allen
Rate them
Carson Rogers
It was at 2 percent speed for safety concerns
Benjamin Morales
I know it'd be prohibitively expensive, but I'd kill to see Method One used in this
Jonathan Ortiz
bump
Dominic James
1 hour
Chase Young
>the twitch chat is filled with Zeon Memery
Y'know what? I'm hyped.
It will be shit, I know that, but fuck me its the 1st robot battle in fucking history.
Ryder Powell
Exactly. If you go in expecting it to be G Gundam you're going to be disappointed. But if you take it for what it is, the first clumsy steps into what could eventually be the most mind blowing entertainment spectacle in human history, then it'll be fun.
Hudson Bennett
>putting a human inside a giant robot fight
they could die. unmanned robots is one thing; you put them in a secluded place, avoid falling debris, and everyone's fine. but if you put a person in a fight with giant robots, so so much could go badly. plus, if someone dies in a robot fight, it may never happen again.
Xavier Campbell
Piloting is no place for the faint of heart.
Ryan Fisher
have you ever watched old car races?people died all the time.
Jordan Turner
if someone dies in a nascar race, it may never happen again.
if someone dies in a monster truck rally, it may never happen again.
if someone dies in an air show, it may never happen again.
Nathan Lee
mfw they start up...
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Dylan Sullivan
>they could die
That's what makes it worth watching.
Jonathan Stewart
/m/an here, this is exactly what I want to happen
Daniel Cook
wouldn't be a bad way to go
Blake Thomas
I want G Gundam to be real.
Colton Sullivan
fag
Eli Lee
That's not what your mom calls me.
Nathan Russell
William Torres
>Unicorn
>Not The Big O
Julian King
People are inside the kuratas and the megabots one at least in promotional footage.
Jacob Perez
>yfw the fight is gonna be extremely slow and nothing will happen
Noah Baker
This is the first of its kind. The first cars were not fast either.
Brayden Collins
Already posted it on /m/, a board I never go to except for megabots, but I'll repost here:
>this match could turn giant robots fights into a whole sports league
That's literally the entire goal of the megabots vs kuratas fight. Megabots isn't in this to build and sell robots, and that's not how they've pitched themselves to investors. They're looking to start a sports league, and in this case, that means kickstarting it themselves.
They get enough views, enough ad revenue, enough merch sales from this? It tells investors that "giant fighting robots are worth the absolutely massive buy-in cost". Remember, this thing still costs far less than an F1 car. Then we see companies doing sponsorships (Autodesk is already the biggest investor in megabots). Megabots themselves end up leading the league and working with teams to set rules and standards, prepare venues, work logistics, assist in construction, and organize the actual fights.
On top of that, this is reaching into a demographic that shies away from sports as a rule. I know it doesn't apply to Sup Forums, but your average grognard simply isn't into sports. I'm not. Most of my friends aren't. I went to a Red Sox game once and it was pretty great, and I'll watch whatever's on at the local bar, but I'm not into it, and neither are most of my friends. But giant robots as a sports league mean that they get to use the same business models that MLB and NFL use, for a demographic that those models simply couldn't work on before. The advertising potential alone is ridiculous.
For a good idea of how Megabots are going about all of this and their mentality, check this video, a pitch directly to startup investors: youtube.com
Nathan Brown
The broadcast schedule from the kickstarter email:
>7:00PM - Suidobashi and MegaBots backstory videos to get everyone up to speed
>7:30PM - THE GIANT ROBOT DUEL!
>8:00PM - Live Q&A with the MegaBots team
So 30min pre-game show followed by 30min fight.
Aiden Brown
First impressions are everything
This is gonna suck
Brody Perry
No Suidobashi interview? I'm really curious about what they've been up to given that they've been completely silent up until now.
Wyatt Richardson
Maybe the backstory segment covers preparations?
Ayden Lewis
>Someone with sufficient funds just decided to make a mech so they did
We need more stuff like this in science. The future is coming so slowly.
Kevin Ward
Here's hoping the melee is good.
Andrew Thomas
Here's Kogoro's blog
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Cooper Thomas
>Duel starts at 7:30
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Parker Long
The definition of a mech is a giant robot that's piloted by a human.
Ian Baker
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Zachary Butler
Wait is the fight not live? How do they know its going to be thirty minutes long?
What's going to happen if the fights a wipe-out and ends in the first minute? Is the whole thing staged like Lucha Underground?
Henry Jackson
bets on winner?
Owen Ward
>PVC pipes
Nippon steel will prevail
Isaiah Evans
Gonna give it to the US
Love Japan's design, but it don't like all that sturdy
Oliver Smith
5 bitcoins on Megabots AKA Chadbots. Look at that chin, bouya. That thing can take HITS.
Cooper Barnes
>posting the cannon from the old ones
>the cannon that was only used to shoot tshirts at events
Adrian Walker
Probably USA, but fuck, the Kuratas is fucking awesome.
Robert Fisher
look at these sad losers who don't know how to have fun
Let's go there and post janitor memes
Mason Garcia
It's not live no because the actual event took place over several days for teams to do repairs between bouts.
Noah Young
Go back to /m/, idiot.
Michael White
That actually is more interesting to me. Definitely looking forward to this now.
Camden Thompson
If they died in the first event, then yeah.
They'd never happen again.
Logan Phillips
the Kuratas looks stable af
Aaron Ward
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Jacob Moore
Jackson Brooks
You know that's bullshit, though.
If it becomes taboo, then demand for it would skyrocket after the initial scare dies down.
Luis Evans
Definitely more stable than that picture of the MK1 but it has a much bigger tread base now.
William Miller
GLORIOUS DETROIT STEEL FOLDED ZERO TIMES
Connor Green
It seems to have pretty even weight distribution, but remember that the Chadbots is also on treads, giving it major stability on a flat surface for its shape.
Christopher Garcia
I like the way the Kurata looks but in terms of combat I think this is a win of the US of A.
Eli Thompson
USA is gonna take this one and cement themselves as the one true giant robot nation
Joseph Phillips
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Brandon Taylor
Chadbot is also very top-heavy, though. If Kuratas managed to jam itself underneath and push, it might be able to topple it. Notably, Kuratas is capable of moving up and down in the same way that Eagle Prime is.
Alexander Gomez
Live shows are always like this. Those are the planned times. hings can easily get delayed and such.