Team Hurtz were forced to withdraw and intended to remedy this ahead of the next competition, but the show was canceled after Season 5.0.īeta returned for World Championship I on ABC, with John Reid being assisted by Dave Moulds of Team Carbide, who would later enter Cobalt under his own team. However, as its magnets pulled the floor panels up, Beta could not move under its own power in the BattleBots test box. Joined by long-term teammate Dominic Parkinson as well as two-time Robot Wars champion George Francis of Chaos 2 fame, the original build of Beta showed up in a finished state to compete in the Comedy Central Season 5.0 heavyweight division. ĬAD of the original Beta, dated August 2002. The robot was armored in 25mm LexGard polycarbonate with 5mm stainless steel corner armor plates. It also had to pull out of World Championship I, but returned for World Championship II, V and most recently, World Championship VII.īuilt to replace KillerHurtz after Season 4.0, the original build of Beta sported an 11kg aluminum alloy hammer head, notably including neodymium-iron-boron magnets proving approximately 400kg of downforce. So if we can hit it on the top, we can kill them with a good hit." - John Reid during World Championship IIīeta (pronounced bee-tah and sometimes stylized as βeta, beta or BETA) is a heavyweight robot built by John Reid of Team Hurtz, which originally intended to compete in Season 5.0 of Comedy Central BattleBots, but had to withdraw. It's very rare, people aren't expecting that, so people don't put a whole lot of armor on the top, it's all on the sides. What's different about Beta is we come in from the top. " There are a lot of vicious weapons in BattleBots - spinners, drums - but they all come in from the side.
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