Category: Picks
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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 Week 15 Picks: I keep predicting exceptional fights and they keep disappointing, but this does look like a Great Main Event!
Yeah, it’s an unfortunate trend, this epic fights on paper failing to live up to their stature, recently. This one might be different, because we already saw it once, and for all the controversy it was really great for the first 90 seconds. You know, while they were still fighting. Fingers crossed. Let’s try to…
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BB23 Week 14 Picks: A Fight For the Ages
Starchild (0-3) vs Huge (3-0) HUUUUUUUUUGE. You may notice the disparity in records here. Umm, yeah. This would be a shocking upset, because Starchild has really looked terrible the entire season to date. The reason why it wouldn’t be an all-timer is that rookie robots are highly volatile and predictable, and sometimes suddenly “figure it…
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Week 13: Resolving some Uncertanties
I guess one can say this most weeks, but I do feel like we’ll get some answers on a few key robots tonight. Among them are Copperhead finally getting a real test, Skorpios needing to prove they’re actually good rather than 500, Rotator and Fusion limping along at 1-2, and Ribbot at 0-3 taking it’s…
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Week 12 Picks: A Good Night of Fights
What a slate! I’m, er, reluctant to make comments like “Match of the Century” after I used the term on occasion last season(here, here), and in both cases the fight designated as such was a total flop(here, here). First was Hydra’s flipper failing immediately against End Game, then there was the End Game-Sawblaze “fight”. Anyhow,…
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Week 11 Picks: Back in the Saddle
We’re back! Obviously the sport took a two week vacation so everyone could focus on March Madness(?), the blog took a three week break when I saw the fight card for week 10, and it just wasn’t that compelling! Not every week has a killer lineup. So I posted my picks on Twitter (5-2, lost…
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