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Random Thoughts (and potentially a Paradigm Shift), on ‘Championship Eve’ of a Wonderful Battlebots Season
I’m too tired to do full columns for recaps or go into detail discussing whatever else is noteworthy right now. Building the Bettlebots site really took a lot out of me. I’m just going to dump all my “relevant” thoughts here, while the season is still live. The Drums Unite (This is the Big Story)…
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BB23 Final Eight Thoughts and Picks
Most interesting playoff outcomes (Champion!): Veterans Finally Get Over the Hump: All-Weapon Vertical Drum Spinners Rule: Um, wow!: Who can defeat Huge? Uppercut ain’t walking through that door. Ice Wave is DEFINITELY not walking through that door. His old playoff nemesis? Whiplash is already dead. I wonder if it’ll come down to slight disappointment on…
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BB32: Sweet Sixteen Tiers, and some thoughts on the Matchups
Great start to the playoffs! Here’s how I view the field at this time. Favorites: These two all looked unstoppable to me and their victories were never in doubt. I guess Minotaur did take that one good shot before Fusion burst into flames, and Huge did get his self-righting sticks clipped off, and Hydra ended…
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BB23 Round of 32 Part 1 Thoughts: Vertical World
This is interesting, because I’ve been harping on this theme all season, and now we’re getting to the “final exams” for all these robots, and here’s our first batch of results. On the surface, yes – the robots with the vertical spinner weapons continued their domination, essentially winning every fight (Huge isn’t a traditional robot…
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BB23 Round of 32 Part 2: “It’s About to Get Weird”
Hydra (4) vs Deathroll (29) I mean, LOL, Hydra is the lowest robot we’ve probably ever seen, and Deathroll is like, defiantly non-low, to the point that it made non-competitive in his two losses (Cobalt and Monsoon). I don’t know how to envision a Deathroll win here, OUTSIDE of Hydra tossing DR, and then DR…
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BB23 Round of 32: Part 1 – Heating up the Engine
Here we go! I took almost all favorites, honestly this feels like a warm-up round for what’s to come. There’ll be more intrigue next week, and then the final two weeks, wahoo. We have a lot of elite bots this year, it’s awesome. But yeah I’m expecting chalk in Part 1 of round 1, we’ll…
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BB23 Playoff Preview: The Battlebots Throne
Who will sit upon the Battlebots Throne? Region I: Minotaur’s Story We begin here, in Q1/the North. I like to give the conferences real names, using cardinal directions mirrors the NCAA tournament, which was the largest and most exciting sports tournament prior to Battlebots. Q1 and Q2 isn’t doing it for me. But I also…
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BETtlebots Bracket Challenge
The Battleblog is very pleased to announce the 2023 BETtlebots Bracket Challenge! There are two cash prizes up for grabs (NO ENTRY FEE) – $100 for the bracket with the most correct picks made (there are 31 matches total. All fights will be weighted equally) – $100 to be awarded and split between all brackets…
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Playoff Seeding Projections
(I’m assuming Cobalt beats Lucky for convenience sake. Seeding a 4-0 Lucky, without knowing how on earth they beat Cobalt, would be really hard!) (Also I guess I’m assuming Deathroll beats Monsoon. If Monsoon wins they make it but not as high…I dunno. After 16 or so it gets pretty murky) 1: Minotaur 4-0 (if…
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Every Contender’s Worse Nightmare
Most of these are obvious matchups (Huge having a weakness for a Bloodsport-type weapon is pretty obvious) or a case where the robot has specifically lost to this opponent in the recent past. Also like, the best robots in the sport are good against 95% of the field. I could honestly answer End Game, Hydra…
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