Competition

Full, Unedited Robot Battles Posted from BattleBots / BotsIQ 2011

April 28, 2011

By popular request, I’m posting the raw video from fights I shot at BotsIQ 2011 (and 2010, the competition in the film). Teams like to analyze the fights frame by frame to see what happened. Right now I’m posting El Cholo and Fluffy DeLarge fights. If you have any requests, email me. I know it’s [...]

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Robot Battle Vid – Grasshopper vs Witch Doctor in Slow Motion

March 21, 2011

This has been online for a few weeks, I just forgot to post it on the blog (which is why you should like Bots High on Facebook, because there’s where I post everything first). It’s from the 2011 BattleBots IQ tournament, which happened last month. 120 lb. open division – last year’s champ Witch Doctor [...]

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Girls in Robotics

January 12, 2011

One of the biggest elements in Bots High is featuring girls build robots and involved in fields that statistically you don’t usually see them in – science and engineering. Two of the three featured teams are all-girls teams (My Mechanical Romance and Mechanical Misfits), and girls play important roles on the other teams as well. [...]

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How a Robot Battle Works

December 10, 2010

This little sequence above has turned into one of my favorite parts of the film. When I got to Texas for sound designing, they said “We have an idea,” and suggested adding an announcer to this sequence. Coincidentally, the head of the sound studio is also a voice actor and has one of these epic [...]

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Post Robot Competition Updates

May 7, 2010

Well the BotsIQ competition came and went in a blazing two days. While that wrapped up most of the filming for the documentary (with a few post-competition interviews left) there’s still a long road ahead in first sorting all the footage, and then editing it all. As I go through stuff I’ll be posting more [...]

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The Calm Before the Battle

April 13, 2010

Just finished lighting the arena. I’ve been helping build it since Saturday. It’s a beast. I’ve also found myself living on the roof of the arena for the past few days too. I think I might have been a cat in another life, hoping from beam to beam. Early registration starts tomorrow. Then more registration. [...]

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Help Fund Bots High – The Robotics Documentary

March 17, 2010

Bots High – Robotics Documentary – Teaser Trailer from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. We’re about 4 weeks away from the grand finale – the National High School BattleBots Championship. So far I’ve mostly been filming everything myself, but this time I’m bringing in more crew, more cameras, more epicness – to do things right and [...]

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Bots High Teaser Trailer

December 2, 2009

Bots High Teaser Trailer from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. It’s probably not the best to call this a trailer, since I really have no idea how the film will shape up (though I’m 90% sure Flamin’ Fluffy will be in it), but this played in the trailer section of the Borscht Film Festival, so I’m [...]

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Flamin’ Fluffy at Mayhem in Miami

November 16, 2009

The Explosive End of Fluffy from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. The first Miami BattleBots competition went off this past weekend. As you can see in the video, I don’t think you could have asked for a more spectacular ending. Stay tuned for some more videos from the competition.

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Miami Science Museum Competition

October 13, 2009

This past Sunday was a task competition at the Miami Science Museum. A ring is filled with 10 red and 10 blue balloons, and the task is to design a robot to pop an assigned color, plus a white balloon on the back of your opponent, while preventing yours from being popped. While this isn’t [...]

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