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Week 4 Picks: The Cat and the Ax
Lessons Learned So Far: Don’t bet on anyone that missed a season or more, unless they’re facing another robot that missed a season or more (Blacksmith) Don’t bet on rookies, unless they’re facing Rusty, or Huge, who apparently sucks now (tears) Ummm, I thought there was one more…hm. Ah the Horizontal Spinner crisis, will be […]
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Battlebots Weapon Power Rankings
First Installment of the Battlebots Season 2021* Weapon Power Rankings Overall, the general order of weapon types is the following Big Vertical Spinners (this might still be the dominant weapon type in the sport at the time of my death) Big Drum Spinners (I like the flexibility of this weapon and the ‘smashing’ factor it […]
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Power Rankings: Week 3
Alright! At this point we’ve seen the entire field, or at least everyone important (Skorpios?!?). The regular season is 3 fights per bot, so we’re essentially 1/3 of the way through our year. Going forward the Power Rankings will focus most on this regular season, previous results matter less. It’s all about the here and […]
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Week 3 Recap: “New Powers are Rising”
Record this week: 4-3 Season: 11-10 (Hmmmmm…I did predict the right outcome-KO/JD-for all four victories. Anywho…) Hypershock over Slammow Yeah there’s nothing to say about this one, nothing remarkable here. Slammow is just not ready for the big time. Nice win by HS, if he wins his next match I will stop calling him HyperSuck. […]
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Week 3 Picks: COBALT Returns
Got slammed by the COVID booster shot this week, gonna be a quick preview of the Week 3 fights. Can I pull off another 5-2 or better? Probably not! Fight 1: Hypershock vs Slammow Hypershock, or “HyperSuck”, as he is known around my condo… Hypershock is a pretty common design with 4 wheels, wedges and […]
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Power Rankings: Week 2
Note: This has proven to be a little weird since not every robot plays every week…we’ve seen 2/3rds of the field or less. Once everyone has fought in 2021* (hopefully after Week 3) then we’ll have a better handle on the true state of the sport. Another Note: Each robot has its current win-loss record […]
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Week 2 Recap: The Bots Are Who We Thought They Were
5-2 with the picks this week! Alright! I don’t think I did anything special, it was just a rather predictable week. No big upsets, only a couple of close matches, lots of blowouts by superior robots. Nevertheless, it was still entertaining, there were great fires (every week baby!), and the marquee was excellent and involved […]
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Week 2 Picks: ‘Who is For Real?’
This weeks’ slate of fights seems to include a large number of these “Bubble” Teams – robots that have excelled somewhere recently, but haven’t fully proven themselves. It’s largely robots in the congested middle of the standings, along with a few that I think are top notch but again, have more to prove. Here it […]
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Week 2 Main Event: Bloodsport vs Whiplash
(NOTE: I wanted to do just one Picks column each week, but there’s too much material to cover here, so much to say about Whiplash and this excellent matchup. Rest of Picks later, here we handle the MAIN EVENT) -> Bloodsport (Discussed in detail HERE) Very much an offensive robot, with a massive and deadly […]
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A Tale of Two Bloodsports
2020 Regular Season: Knockout win over Skorpios (the eventual 10 seed) Knockout win over End Game(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) (the eventual 6 seed and champion) Judges Decision win over Chronos (did not make the playoffs) (in hindsight this was the canary in the coal mine. I’ve never seen Chronos be anything better than “awful”. The fact that Bloodsport […]
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