Category: Picks
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BB23 Week 3 Recap: Skorpios Breaks Through
I was right. Here’s what I said one week ago. “And while Skorpios hasn’t done greatly lately against these things, I am going out on a limb and theorizing they will have a new plan for this season. The loss to Hypershock last season was so quick and unpreventable, they have to work on something.…
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2023 Week 2 Recap: Bigger Weapon Wins, unless they’re Facing Sawblaze
Sawblaze: A Hypershock: F. F F F F F F F. So here’s the deal, after years of mostly a middling clown, Hypershock seemed to arrive last season and emerge as highly dangerous robot (that earned Most Destructive for his efforts). He went 2-0 in the qualifiers with two knockouts (against middling competition but still)…
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BB23 Week 1 Recap: Bigger Is Better
Note: I am going to (attempt to) use a grading system in the recaps this year, win or lose each robot gets a letter grade. Thus at the end of the season we have something to indicate the quality of the wins, and more significantly the quality shown in losses. Obviously most wins will be…
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BB23 Week 5: Flex Your Muscles
Wow! I was very excited reading through the fights this morning. While not the most competitive slate, there’s basically a premier robot in every fight, except for that one bad matchup near the end that appears to have wandered onto the fight card by mistake. I will write the robot’s Power Ranking (PR) alongside their…
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B23 Week 4: PANIC BOWL
I’ve gone 4-3 every week. Every week! Normally I start very slow, at least week 1, and then follow that up with a 5-2 day soon after. Not this time. This time I’m running my bets like a very diversified, risk-averse financial portfolio. Slight and steady gains every goddamn week. Currently +3 on the year,…
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Week 3: Death Roll Returns!!!
Death Roll (last appeared in 2019) vs Cobalt (4-2 overall last season, made Final 8) Oh good god. Back in 2019 we were introduced to a new Wonder From Down Under, in the form of this out of control psychotic killer robot that 1) never stopped killing, 2) never stopped winning, 3) never really died…
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Week 2 Picks: Control Vs Power
Good Morning World!!!!! Hypershock (Preseason Power Ranked 15ish) vs Sawblaze (Power Ranked 4th) Hypershock has always been up and down but last year put together a terrific season, if you ignore the horrible and laughable playoff loss. The weapon appears to be one of the hardest hitting in the sport and they combine that with…
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Week 1 Picks
Here we goooooooo! (Note listed records are totals from regular season, postseason, and Slugfest episodes. This did not include the YouTube special or anything else that may have happened but wasnt properly televised.) First Match!!! Witch Doctor vs Ribbot Last Season: Ribbot 7-2 overall Witch Doctor 9-2 overall Gee, wasn’t I just talking about the…
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Battlebots Golden Bolt Tournament
Some Questions for the Champions of…Golden Bolt…whatever it’s called…Finale 1) How will the former champions look? Rest vs Rust – is there an advantage to the robots that have been playing recently versus some time off? It is quite likely that Tombstone and End Game have not seen live action in awhile after early exits…
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The BATT is BACK
Ahhhh, it feels so good to be back. So, I could go through each fight, but to me there’s a pretty obvious Top Three in the field of eight here, the interesting matches will be taking place in the higher rounds between the best bots. Generally that’s the case in these Bounty Hunter/Champions(?), here I…
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