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Road to the Giant Nut is a televised BattleBots after show due to take place at the end of the final four episodes of World Championship VII.
Presented by Chris Rose and Kenny Florian, the after show takes place in front of the iconic BattleBox and provides an insight on each of the episode's fights, upcoming match-ups and discussions with team captains.
Chris Rose and Kenny Florian presenting Road to the Giant Nut.
Also included is a "Botopsy" segment, harking back to the Botopsy Reports seen during Comedy Central BattleBots. The most damaged robot of each tournament episode is introduced for analysis alongside its team captain.
Road to the Giant Nut is similar to the Tale of the Tape After Show, which Team Witch Doctor and Team HyperShock hosted until the end of World Championship V, in the sense that it recaps the most recent battles and interviews key personalities within the show.
World Championship VII - Episode 16[]
Following the conclusion of half the Round of 32 battles, Chris and Kenny discussed several of the fights they had seen. They then spoke to Shatter! captain Adam Wrigley, who was on the receiving end of a destructive loss to Riptide. He elaborated on his side of the pre and post-fight controversy, and why he refused to shake hands with Ethan Kurtz after their respective interviews. Bots FC's captain analysed the damage to his robot alongside the co-presenters, and discussed the thinking behind Shatter!'s ablative UMHW plastic armor protecting their billet aluminum frames.
Chris and Kenny speaking to Adam Wrigley.
- "I don't handshake people who insult me during their interview - that's just my thing. I didn't feel like they were sporting when they did that, so I didn't feel like there was a need to do a handshake."
- — Adam Wrigley during Road to the Giant Nut
Chris and Kenny talk tactics with Aren Hill and Jamison Go.
He later showed his support for Team Robo Challenge and Quantum as his choice to win the Giant Nut.
Chris and Kenny later spoke to Aren Hill and Jamison Go, ahead of the following episode's Round of 32 clash between Blip and SawBlaze. The pair explained how they had competed and helped one another out in National Havoc Robot League events between BattleBots seasons, and discussed tactics before their all-important battle.
World Championship VII - Episode 17[]
With the end of the Top 32, Chris and Kenny returned to discuss fights from both this and last episode as they looked toward the Round of 16 matches. For the Botopsy segment, they spoke to Anna Zolnikov of RIPperoni, whose team had lost out to Black Dragon in the opening fight of the episode. They discussed the unique design of RIPperoni, speaking in particular about the robot's counter-rotating flywheel to limit gyroscopic motion as the robot turns with its weapon spin up, as well as the team's use of dry ice in cooling the robot's motors.
Chris and Kenny catching up with Anna Zolnikov.
The after-show then featured a comedic memorial to the fallen robots who exited the tournament during the second half of the Round of 32, concluding with Reese Ewert hauling Fusion outside the BattleBots venue.
- "Son of a bitch!"
- — Reese Ewert as the memorial comes to a close
Martin Mason and Jonathan Schultz compare wheel sizes.
Later in the episode, Chris and Kenny previewed the upcoming Round of 16 match-up between HUGE and MadCatter, speaking to team captains Jonathan Schultz and Martin Mason. In a similar format to the previous after-show, the pair spoke tactics and potential add-ons for the fight.
- "You know, HUGE is big. They're like a whale, they're like a great white whale. But we don't have the harpoon, we have the HUGE-poon!"
- — Martin Mason speaking to Chris and Kenny, before realizing his innocent remark
Jonathan Schultz also discussed his rituals ahead of and during fights in World Championship VII, which he believed were crucial to their unbeaten streak to date.
World Championship VII - Episode 18[]
Chris and Kenny discussing End Game and HyperShock's losses.
Following the Round of 16, Chris and Kenny spoke to Team End Game co-captains Jack Barker and Nick Mabey, as well as Will Bales of Team HyperShock. Both End Game and HyperShock were wheeled in for a double Botopsy segment.
- "Surprisingly, the motors seem to still be working, that's a miracle. But everything just kept coming off. There was this blue blur, this blue and black blur that just, like, kept ripping parts off! Throwing them this way, and this came off, and this looks important... and this is bent a different way than it was before..."
- — Will Bales on the extent of HyperShock's damage at the hands of Riptide
Team End Game analyse damage caused by Copperhead.
They then discussed the evolution of combat robots since World Championship I in 2015, showing clips from Plan X vs. Wrecks, Chomp vs. OverDrive, Ghost Raptor vs. Warrior Clan, Icewave vs. Razorback, Radioactive vs. Sweet Revenge and brief footage of Counter Revolution.
- "We're looking at the smaller weight classes and they seem to develop a lot faster - you know, the 3lb, the 30lb... so we're seeing beater bars like Riptide come through and just clean everyone out. So, yeah, I think just more weapon, more power and the teams are going to get better and better."
- — Jack Barker on the direction of the BattleBots meta
Chris and Kenny speaking to Jake Ewert and Ethan Kurtz.
In keeping with the previous episode, the after-show played another memorial to the defeated robots from the Round of 16 stage. Kenny Florian provided an update on his favorites to win the Giant Nut, giving Minotaur, Riptide and Witch Doctor the best odds of going the distance in World Championship VII.
The pair later spoke to Riptide captain and driver Ethan Kurtz, as well as Hydra's Jake Ewert. Although both teams were not scheduled to face one another in the quarter-finals, they appeared together in order to discuss their varied methods of attack, comparing the size of Riptide's eggbeater drum spinner to the tip of Hydra's flipper. Both captains were confident ahead of their Top 8 clashes, with Riptide facing Copperhead and Hydra fighting a rematch against Ribbot.
World Championship VII - Episode 19[]
Team SawBlaze hoist the Giant Nut.
In the final Road to the Giant Nut episode for World Championship VII, Chris and Kenny spoke to the tournament winner, Jamison Go of SawBlaze, in the immediate aftermath of his Championship final win over HUGE.
- Jamison Go: "Is this real?!"
- Chris Rose: "Soak it in, dude!"
- — Jamison Go and Chris Rose as the live crowd chant SawBlaze's name
In a shorter episode than the previous three, the entire SawBlaze team were present for the after show as Jamison Go picked out his mother from the crowd. Chris and Kenny then briefly discussed Jamison's origins in combat robotics as a teenager before BattleBots co-founder Trey Roski presented his team with the Giant Nut. A season montage closed out the episode, and ended World Championship VII.
Trivia[]
- Episode 18's Road to the Giant Nut after-show featured footage from Sweet Revenge and Radioactive which was never shown as part of World Championship I's highlights of less eventful qualifying battles.
- Jamison Go was the only guest to appear on the after-show twice during World Championship VII - once alongside Aren Hill to preview SawBlaze vs. Blip, and again as his team were declared the season champions.
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