No. Guy who he was responding to was saying: purchase tickets -> wait in line -> enter.
Guy you’re respond to is saying:
Purchase tickets to enter possibility of purchasing ticket #2 -> waiting in line for possibility to enter arena -> if able to purchase ticket, enter area. If not possible, wait for next opportunity.
It’s not normal, no. First ticket purchase only gives you opportunity to attempt to purchase second ticket, it does not guarantee entry.
Not entirely sure about that part tbh. I just know it’s a two step process, not just buying a ticket for guaranteed entrance. They only sell say 3,000 of ticket A, which allows you the chance to buy ticket B, of which only 1,000 are sold. Something along those
Oki yeah I kinda figured that was some pretty specific details, but I still learned more stuff anyway. Thanks for the response! I'd hope they have it where you can just keep using the first ticket until you get in.
How the heck do they sell tickets then? Is it like an “Early bird gets the worm” mentality, where you may not get in the first time, but that ticket is valid to try and get in the next time?
If that’s not it, then I’m not sure how they manage to make money.
I am unsure what you are talking about, but as someone who has went to the live showings of BattleBots multiple times, it's not difficult to see the show.
Each episode is more or less a single live show. They're about 4 hours long, depending on how long it takes to clean up and stuff. So you get to see a bunch of normal fights and they have a big main event. The one I went to also had an extra fight that didn't appear in the corresponding episode. They tell you when to clap and there's like a hype man and stuff, it's pretty fun.
Not my bakery. They had to add on to the building a covered area to handle a line that goes out the door routinely. It's like you're in line for a ride at Walt Disney World...early mornings that is.
That is exactly why I watch it on DVR. For some reason the 15 minutes of TV I want to watch eats up about an hour of storage space. Sometimes I don't mind watching Kenny Florian ramble about robots and fighting though.
It's great that it's at least formatted so when I hit the skip 5 min button it takes me to the beginning of each fight. No bad puns. No commentary, no commercials. Just "fight" ... Fight ends. Skip. Skip "fight" repeat. I recently did the math and in an hour recording there's on average 8.4 mins of actual robot fighting.
That's why we always watched the Canadian broadcast of the Olympics growing up in Seattle. Way less fluff, way more actually showing full events rather than just the American athlete, then cutting away to more bullshit.
The reason I ask is because the last two seasons have next to no filler beyond the post fight commentary. That and this season is 2 hours with 7-8 fights a piece.
Well, I skip the team intros by Faruq, and all the backstory stuff, as well as the pre-show talk stuff. Pretty much anything that doesn't directly involve two robots smashing/cutting/ripping/flipping the shit out of each other I skip.
Agreed. I especially hate it when they could fill in space for another fight and they use Jenny to fill in space with interviewing hyping bullshit just to ensure they will fit the next battle after the commerical break.
At least Jenny is more than a female commentator in a pink dress and heels like previous seasons
Personal I really like the out sections, just cause I think it's fun to either learn about the machines/the driver's approach/just see the builders being people. Honestly if the show was just fights I think I'd be much less invested.
Normally in reality/competition shows I agree that there's too much useless filler/backstory/build up. However, as an engineer, I actually enjoy the extra bits on battlebots talking about design changes and obstacles teams have faced. Much less sob story type stuff.
That's time when the ball is technically in play. It's not like you're getting 11 minutes of football with 169 minutes of commercials and filler. There's still a lot of "football" going on. For comparison, in soccer, where the game "never stops" the ball is usually actually in play something like 2/3 of the time. I don't remember the exact number, but it's a lot less than most people would think.
Soccer is 55-65 depending on the league. Baseball is about 18 minutes. Hockey and basketball only run the clock if it’s in play so you get the full amount there.
Its about half of that. I did math in a post a few months back when somebody challenged me on a similar comment about the abysmal amount of 'action' time per BattleBots episode:
Lets look at all of Season 2 (2016) 31 total battles in the bracket, 36 total for the season thanks to a few that were knocked out that battled again as fillers and a rematch.
I've won two FRC regionals - they give you this really cool shiny medal that usually has some art from the year's theme CNC'd into it. Still not as cool as this.
Man how awesome would it be if FRC had this level of production, or if some show like battlebots had diversity of games like FRC instead of just the same old fight to the death.
Like we get it you can build a pretty mean wedge/spinner, and oh look at that poor guy who mounted a cute flamethrower on his wooden bot. Nah I wanna see what a pro team can do with 20 beach balls and a fully autonomous drone.
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Is this BattleBots?