Category: Picks
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Battlebots 2021* Finals Recap: Revolution
Look at that stat-line. Battlebots has never had a champion that looked like this before. The obvious – there was never a champion before that didn’t possess “the strongest, hardest-hitting weapon” at the time of the Championship. Debates could be made that Tombstone was better than Bite Force in 2015 or 2018, but Tombstone has…
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Battlebots Season 2021* Finals Preview: “Everybody Dies”
The seeds of the remaining robots are just unbelievable 4 7 11 14 16 21 24 31 I’ve been talking about how certain weapon types are actively faring (here and here), here’s how I would rank the weapons on the eight remaining robots. 1 Super Vertical Spinner, on a bot that at times reminds me…
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Battlebots Sweet 16 Recap: Paradigm Shift
I guess the canary in the coal mine was last week, when Black Dragon went against the mega-spinner of Madcatter. (If you want to go back even further, you could see the canary in the canary’s coal mine was Hypershock’s wild loss to P1, a case where a robot with a dangerous weapon lost to…
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Battlebots Playoffs Week 2 Recap: Rise to the Occasion
Many things rose to the occasion this week. Most among them was the show itself, Battlebots. Thank you for a terrific product and some terrific fights. But yeah, I use that title because that’s what I saw, in a few big spots. The underdog winners mostly – Hydra and Black Dragon. Hydra played twice (though…
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Battlebots Week 3 Preview: Sweet 16
I like this concept of previewing the fights in the order of least exciting/compelling to most exciting/compelling. We’re going to do this again while examining regions as a whole. The West: The Young and the Restless (Upper-and-comers at different points in their development) Sawblaze (4) vs P1 (20) I mean, what would a P1 victory…
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Battlebots Week 2 Playoff Picks: Group of DEATH
Hmmm, with the newfound inclusion of fights getting summarized and booted to YouTube (a practice not seen since Season 4), might as well make it a game and try to predict which ones suffer such a fate! Fights are ranked in order of “YouTube Worthiness”, most to least. Which means I’m ranking fights worst to…
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Battlebots Playoff Week 1 Recap: Six Killings and a Funeral
Well, umm, most of that was very straightforward and predictable! And then there was that other fight… Nine fights in week 1, two were ignominously kicked to YouTube and briefly summarized near the end of the episode. And a shame too, because one of those was very interesting and should not be overlooked. The other…gee,…
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Battlebots Playoffs Week 1 Preview: End Game and Sawblaze at the top
I assigned the regions like March Madness does it, each region here comprising 8 teams. Going around the circle: North is End Game’s region, Ribbot is the top seed in the East, Whiplash in the South and Sawblaze in the West. This week are the first round of fights in the North and West. The…
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Week 10 Recap: Hurry, lets just skip ahead to the Tournament, which is going to RULE
6-1!!!!!!! Week 8 was a disaster (2-5!!!) and last week wasn’t great at 4-3, but I close out the regular season strong. They’ll be an upcoming post that looks at my week to week record and considers the Picks overall. Anyhow, Week 10! Bloodsport (2-1) over Claw Viper (1-2) Ummm, despite a win Bloodsport seems…
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Week 9 Recap: Cobalt Awakes!
This was probably the only week this year that I felt was extremely meh. Some significant teams got their records to 2-1 (Cobalt, Minotaur, Valkyrie if you’re into that sort of thing). Cobalt woke up, Blip was hella impressive again, and Lock-Jaw is apparently bad now. But the fights, eh, I dunno, not very compelling.…
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