Giant Robo Wank Off!!~

[Taro Toporific]

USA's "MegaBot" vs Japan's "Kuratas"
Next week, America's MegaBots, Inc. will battle SUIDOBASHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES' Kuratas robot to a wank off!

megabots.jpg

Japan's entry:


Details:
• techcrunch.com/2017/10/12/megabots-and-suidobashi-heavy-industrys-giant-robots-are-finally-fighting-next-week/
• theverge.com/2017/10/12/16464150/megabots-giant-robot-duel-live-stream-watch-twitch
• engadget.com/2017/04/05/megabots-giant-robot-duel/

[Grumpy Gramps]

Tuesday 7 pm PDT is Wednesday 11am JST, right? I won't be able to watch it live, then

[Russell]

Excellent!

Looking forward to it!

[Taro Toporific]

Tuesday 7 pm PDT is Wednesday 11am JST, right? I won't be able to watch it live, then

For the Robo Wank-off, "live" is a very relative term. "First view" would be a better description.
The competition is actually occurring over several days and the first viewing will be streamed on Twitch go.twitch.tv/megabotsinc. Then immediately after it airs on Twitch, the battle will be posted to YouTube: youtube.com/user/megabotsinc.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Ah, thanks, Taro, just subbed to that YT channel, so will surely catch it.

[Taro Toporific]

See the giant robot battle, Wednesday 11am JST at:
https://go.twitch.tv/megabotsinc

robo-war-time.jpg

If you miss the "live" broadcast, the robo-battle will be available at: youtube.com/user/megabotsinc

[Taro Toporific]

Staged.

(This is not a total "win"...ri-i-i-ght.)
Duel 1: Left USA | Right Japan

https://gifs.com/gif/one-punch-1 https://gifs.com/gif/one-punch-1rw8lm


Fast forward through all the staged hype-n-horseshit and just watch:
Duel 1: youtu.be/Z-ouLX8Q9UM?t=6m41s
Duel 2: youtu.be/Z-ouLX8Q9UM?t=13m
The totally lame faux "action" of the two duels last only moments. In the post game show, the robo-builders admitted the robots had to be continually detuned/weakened to make them survivable.

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Duel 2 photo

Duel-2.jpg

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Spoilers at:
cnet.com/news/robots-megabots-twitch-suidobashi-battle-japan-usa/

[matsuki]

That was just terrible....what a waste