Yeah I remember him telling Jake Ewert that someone has to play the villian.

@@fukkitful Ray Billings Is Passing The Torch To Jake Ewert.

Oh wait he is actually a villain, look at him overkilling as many bots as possible.

He’s not a great guy. He discusses me how he likes tearing up bots when they can’t move. That makes him garbage.

@@Techman1969 Times have changed. Back then, the show was more about the carnage and there were no public complaints about it. The people came to see destruction, Ray delivered it, and the showrunners and the audiences loved it. Now there's a demand for consideration, probably because times are harder and costs have gone up so much.

his entire purpose for competing is to be an exciter, and to wreak havoc whether it be to himself or to the opponent. He could win if he wanted to because he could go with a boring vertical spinner and play it safe, but Ray Billings would rather lose and destroy things than win with precision.

@@goronimus304 Thats why he's a crowd favorite, I take it. I have never seen a boring fight when Tombstone was involved now that I think about it. One bot always leaves in pieces.

He’s always up for putting good show and make this show great like a boss for the audiences and viewers, and the same time he also accept defeats like a boss too, good spotsmanship. unlike those arrogant babies from the MIT

@@tigermafia6251 Yeah, I like how he will admit defeat. It drives me crazy when a bot gets wrecked by the competitor, and the driver will still be trying to drive with no wheels, while on fire. I'm sure age and experience plays a big part. Plus he's already got a Giant Nut at home. lol

@@tigermafia6251 Which MIT team are you referring to? I’ve just started getting back into BattleBots after losing track of it for years, so I may have forgotten the specifics of some of the teams. In any case, I have to agree with you about Ray. His whole villain persona is just an act on his part to make the show more fun, but moments like these show how good of a sport he really is, and I absolutely love it!

Minotaur can drive with one wheel

​@@thedevilandgodareamongus9792It didn't.

They aren't the best bots lel

The best bot wouldn't die in 1 single hit and destroy itself completely

No right now that would be even simpler endgame, tombstone puts up some great fights but is pretty bad, matchup wise

@@DieEineMieze I wouldnt make tombstone any different if I had that chance to change it, the thing sacrifices all defences and goes for the biggest weapon in the hardest hitting configuration. It's bad and I still love it for the reactions people get when they beat it. It hasn't gotten worse the bar is just so much higher than before

@@DieEineMieze Biteforce is definitely the best bot. It has 3 titles. It's pretty much universally regarded as the GOAT of this sport's short history.

Endgame did the same. They do have very similar designs though.

@@fukkitful Endgame punted Tombstone right out of the area. But it too Endgame 8 seconds to do that, whereas Biteforce broke Tombstone in a single hit in the first 6 seconds of the fight.

Captain Shrederator took longer, but still knocked Tombstone for a loop. I think it should count, since *no one* expected Tombstone to lose that one.

It slaught himself lol

I’m pretty sure it was tombstone hitting himself

When Biteforce broke Tombstone's weapon, it flew backwards and destroyed its own wheel.

@@csguak what?

@@billybobbrenn4243 Paul V to Tombstone: "stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself."

S6E8 Sawblaze vs Endgame

I had to look that up and you are right. They are reminiscent of each other. In the process, I found out Berbick was murdered at church with a hatchet. Yikes.

Junior Orellana the funny part is He got the wheel on the side he didn’t even hit

Lol

Tombstone’s bar spinner acts as a good wheel guard normally But nothing can protect you from Biteforce!

Soooo, here's the part you missed: Bite Force was nowhere near that wheel. It was Tombstone's own broken blade that sheared its own wheel off through pure kinetic energy as it was ripped off.

And half a blade

There is no luck when it comes to this Bite force had more control if tombstone even lost a small part of wheel it would spin out of control

@@chaosleviatho879 Tombstone's reputation is well-earned and deserved. If it were flimsy or vulnerable, it would not have gotten anywhere near to its level of success. I'm not saying it doesn't have weaknesses to exploit, only that those weaknesses have not _been easily_ exploited up until now.

@@EVAUnit4A bruh the blade got snapped in half that's more than just luck those bots are terrifyingly strong

@@chaosleviatho879 Tombstone faced vertical spinners before, that's not a factor.

@@EVAUnit4A yes it is not all spinners are the same It also matters what blade tombstone used

Probably, because his girlfriend got kidnapped by Ray Billings and Tombstone.

i hate endgame because of one of your reason and i believe rotator beat them

Until they change the game, that's going to be the meta. Physics literally gives vertical spinners an advantage.

You forgot about Minotaur

@@winni2701 Bite Force hardly batted an eye at minotaur. Hate to say it cause he's my favorite, but drums are inferior.

SPOILER FOR LATEST SEASON: S6 winner was slightly different from Bite Force, so I’ll take it.

Well, its colors are black and red, the colors of villainy itself :p

It’s all about the driving, and the design

bite force OP wedglets if you see all his fight vs vertical spinner bot he wins the ground. its like he does have the perfect design of vertical spinner, he was never flip

Endgame did the same. They do have very similar designs though.

this might have been a material fatigue on Tombstone's blade, if he does not use new one for each fight. Might have happened against any other bot. Not trying to take the victory from BiteForce, he withstood the attack that tore Tombstone's blade in half...

@@zedlav915 The driving of Bite Force looks so simple compared to many other bots. So many other bots circle around their opponent, looking for the perfect angle for an attack, trying to avoid a weapon to weapon collision. Bite Force instead just confidently drives directly into a weapon to weapon collision. When the collision happens it's always the other bot that breaks and Bite Force remains intact. So I think the key to Bite Force's success was its superior durability that allowed it to survive weapon to weapon collisions

When the rest of the 'bots quit cowering in fear at the mere mention of his name.

@@Asertix357 haha.. so true. Bite Force was so awesome. I heard he was building a new robot. I hope he brings something back to the Table. The group that won this year..... Tantrum....didn’t measure up to BiteForce. I think Hydra was the winner of that fight with Tantrum. I didn’t like the way the Tantrum and Witch Doctor went down either. I have never seen fights stopped to unstick the robots when they get hung up.

Don't know what happened to him, but I would guess that he got bored from finding BattleBots too easy.

@@Aethelia He "retired" largely due to frustration with the lack of profit sharing between Discovery and the bots. He felt that the teams deserved to share in what became a profitable hit show for the network.

There are other viable horizontal spinners. Bloodsport, Malice, Valkyrie. I want Tombstone to win too but the randomness of what happens when all that mass hits a 250lb solid object is difficult to engineer around.

Funny thing is, that WAS the s7 blade - Bite Force is just that damn strong.

It's almost conclusive that vertical spinners are superior to horizontal ones which usually break in few exchanges, I love Tombstone and Ray is a great guy but clearly Bite Force is tune and engineered to perfection.

One blow to the side of bite force from the tombstone and wheels will get jammed. Driving and control makes bite force so remarkable. Amongst other things of course)

I think they mentioned it either during that episode or the previous one but they had a wedge set up specifically for toombstone designed to produce something fairly close to this result, my thoughts on seeing it were "ohhhhhh, this is going to be....energetic" and about 5 seconds after I finished saying that into the discord call (watching the episode as a big group) the bar was in two pieces. it actually worked even better than I thought it would: I expected more throw and less structural damage to the weapon, dunno if I modeled it wrong in my head or if they just got super lucky with exactly when and where they hit or maybe if there was just plain bad material in toombstone's weapon bar...really wish they had low-end highspeeds in the arena so we could get a look at _how_ these weapons are interacting (most of the arena cameras are only going at 24 fps so a lot of the time they just straight up do not get a frame reasonably close to either side of a big/good hit which seems...rather a poor decision when the show's production and writing side is so completely focused on them).

No Tombstone’s most embarrassing loss was actually against Captain Shedderator since Captain Shredderator sucks most of the time

@@2biggunz598 omg. why?

@@BotvacProductions469 Captain Shredderator is a shitty bot loses lots and it was easy to assume Tombstone would win

I mean, it's not that embarrassing. Considering how bite force is the best bot in BattleBots history.

immovable object vs unstoppable force

Ikr? And its even harder to hear that tombstone wont be competing in season 7 due to ray's hand injury

"Bite Force’s weapon actually played no part..." "...Tombstone’s blade broke upon contact" Contact with what? Bite Force's weapon?

@@Aethelia Probably the flat part of Bite Force's wedge, but I'm not sure.

​@@BigFatWedgeit LITERALLY made contact with biteforce's weapon and got ripped apart

@@Aethelia Yep. The notion that Bite Force's weapon "played no part in the monster shot" is utterly ludicrous.

It's normally not a problem because trying to get in close enough to take the wheels off also puts you in range of that devastating blade.

His wheels have only been taken off twice here and a Lucky overhead shot from Scorpios but his wheels are actually pretty smartly placed

They are bait

Why? He was a great 3 time champ. I’ll sadly miss him.

@@sonicthehedgehog7115 like I said, the dude reminds me of a few people I know. They are Eagle Scouts and “have to be perfect, scared of doing activities that involved possibility of getting hurt” I can’t unsee Edward, and maybe his brother Donnie

Ok

sure It does

Bite Force