KOB2 English Reference Card - Version 2
Posted Jul 15, 2019, 12:50 PM UTC
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Thanks everyone for your feedback! I've incorporated most of the requested changes into this updated infocard! Hopefully the next version will feature the international teams! If there are any errors or corrections that need to be made, let me know!
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Man some of these names are fantastic. My favorite is "iron barbie"
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I like "Ouch Ouch" the best
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Medusa VS Broken Blades sounds nice.
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Hold up one of these robots is called Doraemon?
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According to the translator who made these translations, the robot's name is a nickname for the cartoon cat character of the same name and doesn't translate out to English, so we agreed that simply referring to it as "Doraemon" is the best option. I've seen some people call it "Little Bell" as well.
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It does look literally has a Doraemon paint job though.
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The hell is tuzi also a drill battle bot I’ve been wondering when I would see one
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Lmao syringe looks hilarious
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“Hold me back” hahaha
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So some minor changes/possible fixes:
Tuzi (兔子) translates to Rabbit, but there's a a third character at the end there that I don't know
Xiake (侠客) translates to Knight. I've always been annoyed by people just calling it Xiake and not actually translating the name to english
Just out of curiosity, found out Quinglong is apparently "Azure Dragon," an Eastern Dragon god according to Wikipedia
Ocean Waves and Thunder both have an additional character at the end that I don't know
Will update this later
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Rabbit Ball, i'm pretty sure. Would make sense.
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Yep
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From what I've been told, the team behind Xiake has officially stated that's the robot's name in English, just as their previous machine was called "Chiyang Jinlun" in both English and Chinese. Quinglong is a specific mythical creature, hence why the translator I talk with chose to leave it untranslated (like a name). Tuzi I've definitely seen translated in a few places as Rabbit Ball, however, Tuzi seems to be by far the more popular common name in English, so we've chosen to stick with that on the reference card, as it's far more likely to show up in discussions, similar to what happened with Violent Dragon/Peerless Zhuge, where the "fan" name is far more common than the literal translation. I look forward to any updates on Ocean Waves and Thunder, should there be an error there.
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I think that the reason why the Xiake team say that is because Xiake is in pinyin, the way to make Chinese characters into English. However, that doesn't make it a translation, its just putting the Chinese characters into pronounceable terms through English letters. If the team want the robot called that way, sure, but in a direct translation over to English, Xiake means Knight
So for Ocean Waves, the last term is 花, meaning flower, so the full name would be Ocean Wave Flower. And for Thunder, the 2 characters combine to mean simply Thunder
One translation I found particularly strange is To The Future, which I'm guessing you got from the side of the bot. In Chinese, its characters are 地心铲, and when translated, gives the name- Ground Heart Shovel, or more simply Earth Shovel
Another weird name is Age of Bronze. It more or less translates to Magic Force Wind Car 魔力风车, or in simpler terms according to Google Translate- Magical Windmill
One last slight correction would be to Mist Lion (雾都雄狮) which translates to Misty Complete Grand Lion, or according to Google Translate, Foggy Lion
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I had someone else tell me that the robot was being called To The Future at the event, but I'm not so sure. You are correct that it directly translates to Earth Shovel or Shovel Core. They also gave me the Age of Bronze name which has since been deconfirmed by the Saber team (Team Age of Bronze built "The Magical Windmill"), and so will be fixed in Version 3, which I'll put out once we have all the international teams. There has been some translation selections to make the names flow better, hence Mist Lion over Misty Complete Grand Lion.
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Except Huntsman and Button lee are Australian and American teams respectively.
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Due to Chinese government rules regarding cast makeup, Button Lee and Huntsman are officially led by and considered Chinese teams, hence their appearance earlier in the show unlike the other international teams.
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Yeah it struck me as odd that there was two exceptions, thanks very much for the explanation.
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Why isn’t anyone talking about the fact that there is a robot called Giraffe?
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Thank you for this
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I appreciate the number of non horizontal spinners here.
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Tuzi
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Wait, there's two tombstone rip offs in this?
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Fat-head Fish? lol!
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I see ICEWave has lost some weight on top there.
I mean, it did get its engine smashed by Rotator last season. I guess what was left shrank in the wash.
Real talk though, other than that it's essentially a repainted Icewave. Is it actually the Icewave team competing or is it just China being China again?
EDIT: Probably the latter, now that I've noticed the "Chinese Robots" text
Yeah, I think Marc was taking most of the year off from robot building(aside from the Vegas appearance).
It's widely believed that Storm Slasher is a swiss army bot from the same team as Soul Reaper from Clash Bots.
There is a Motenergy brushed motor up in there.
Ricewave.
And Minotaur got a new paint job at the bottom and tombstone got stubbier