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US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS)

posted by FatPhil on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-optimus-prime-factor dept.

An Anonymous Coward put us out of our misery by finally delivering the result of the long awaited international giant mecha fight:

The oft-delayed giant robot fight has finally taken place. On Tuesday, Team USA's mechs scrapped it out with Japan's Kuratas in an abandoned steel mill for the world to watch. There could only be one victor, and it proved to be [snipped for your pleasure]

[25 minute broadcast of the event]

Those not familiar with the rumblings about this fight can catch up from Engadget's original coverage, and our own in 2015, and earlier this year.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:48PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:48PM (#584871)

    Round two was lame. Round three was a bit more exciting. People inform me that it wasn't staged, though I'm not sure I believe these people who tell me that. It looked cool at least.

    Mechwarrior cited plenty of time as inspiration, but the combatants reminded me more of the standing tanks from the backstory in the manual to Battle Clash [wikipedia.org].

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday October 19 2017, @09:06PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday October 19 2017, @09:06PM (#584881)

    You'd get better action by putting chainsaws and swords on industrial welding bots and programming them to parry.
    This was just sad. Does watching 6 times ten seconds out of 25 minutes count as a "view" on youtube? I'm afraid I may have accidentally encouraged them.