Category: Posts
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Final Thoughts
Hmmm, it appears due to an editing error I lost part of the introduction I wrote to the Paradigm Shift post I wrote recapping the Sweet 16. Darnit! So here’s a little bit more, describing the late-season shift and how the “Brawlers” are dominating the Battlebots “Bar Fights” we see in the sport at this […]
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The Vertical(!!!) Disk Spinner Crisis
(Note: Previously I have broken up this category into two types of vertical disk spinners – regular sized ones and Super Vertical Spinners. The idea being there’s the traditional, more common size, and then there’s this new massive size that has become such a force in the recent BattleBots landscape. Nonetheless, while this post was […]
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The Horizontal Spinner Crisis: Spin to (Not) Win
With Rotator now dead and buried, joining the rest, we need to talk about the Horizontal Spinner Crisis happening in Battlebots today Regular Season Records for Horizontal Spinners in 2021* Bloodsport 2-1 Tombstone 2-1 Valkyrie 2-1 Icewave 2-1 HiJinx 2-1 Ok, not so bad right? Well, all of those robots lost their first fight, then […]
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My Bracket, and Big Picture Tournament Analysis
I filled out my bracket a few days before the tournament began, the same day as I filled out my March Madness bracket. Synergy Baby! But I forgot to post it here, here’s my tweet from last week. (Man, Battlebots remains as niche as ever even on Twitter in 2022. I’ll remember these rough days […]
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Battlebots 2021* Regular Season Awards
As I write this I am still ignorant of what happened in Week 1 of the playoffs. St Patty’s Day, man. I’m getting too old for that shift. Anyhow, I wanted to circle the wagons, review the 10 week regular season and highlight the memorable moments of the year, good and bad. The commendable and […]
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Battlebots 2021* Playoffs Cheat Sheet
High Seeded Robots that got an easy ride in the playoffs: End Game (1 seed, North) round 1: winner of Skorpios/Malice round 2: winner of Minotaur/Bloodsport round 3: winner of Copperhead/Lucky/Glitch/Witch Doctor (ok, that second round might be tough especially if it’s Mino. I like their chances in round 3 in any case) Sawblaze (4 […]
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A Tale of Two Bloodsports
2020 Regular Season: Knockout win over Skorpios (the eventual 10 seed) Knockout win over End Game(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) (the eventual 6 seed and champion) Judges Decision win over Chronos (did not make the playoffs) (in hindsight this was the canary in the coal mine. I’ve never seen Chronos be anything better than “awful”. The fact that Bloodsport […]
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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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2021* Season Winner Prediction: The Age of Durability
Here I will make my pick for the Champion of the 2021* Battlebots season. This year it’s more than just a pick. It’s part of an overall larger statement for the current season, a prediction about the state of the robot fighting ecosystem and what trait might be most desirable in the present. Traditionally it […]
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Battlebots Traditions
Sawblaze will fight in the inaugural match of the season, the first fight of the first episode (Win!) Tombstone fights in the main event of the first episode (Used to be a Win, now not sure!) Duck starts off the season 2-0 and somehow misses the playoffs. Minotaur finds itself in a hole early in […]
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