Category: Picks
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Week 4 Recap: The King of SAW
Not much to say when you’re 6-1!!! First World Problem: it was a major bummer to get the first fight wrong and not have any suspense towards accomplishing a perfect night, alas. Seems like I might be rounding into form. Let’s walk through the fights and review what happened. Jackpot (2-0) over Malice (0-2) (My…
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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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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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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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Week 1 Recap Part 2: Slash and Burn
The theme of this Week’s Recap is “Everyone Has Bad Days”. Both in past and present. Hydra is allowed to have a bad day where their flipper breaks by itself(? still waiting on the autopsy for this one) and loses quickly and they are still Hydra, a top seed and obvious contender for the Giant…
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Week 1 Recap Part 1: It’s Over
Well, that’s the end of that. I experienced a sudden moment of trepidation right as the fight was starting. After picking Tombstone to win without giving the matchup more than ten second’s of thought (and even now I think my analysis was correct!), something about the editing and framing of the match, along with Mr…
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Week 1 Picks: The Match of the Century
It’s here! It’s finally here!!! One of the Traditions I pointed out earlier in the week has remained in place, with Sawblaze competing in the first fight of the season. Three years running! It’s an inexplicable tradition (as far as I know), he didn’t do anything to earn this honor besides being genuinely excellent year…
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