Category: Posts
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Mr Big
There are two things I’d like to accomplish in this post 1) Honor and praise the remarkable season Huge is having, having possibly “arrived” and “broken out”, after many years of being good but not great And 2) Look at how the sport has evolved as a whole, and how it’s really worked out in…
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The Worst Robots on Earth
DISCLAIMER: These obviously NOT the worst robots on earth. They are some of the best! They are literally on a show whose goal is to entertain humans. This is worth noting. The reason for this post – it just seems like the lower class of Battlebots this year is…well…really low. Really bad. So we’re going…
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Further Consideration of Skorpios beating Jackpot, and a new tool against Vertical Spinners
I thought Skorpios was an underdog to Jackpot and I said as much, picking it correctly (as I have done with few upset picks this season). They might be close, ok. Jackpot was a combined 5-0 in the past two regular seasons, Skorpios was 3-3. Last year Jackpot was the 10 seed while Skorpios ended…
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Most Likely to Go 0-2
Here’s a quick fun little exercise – let’s look at the robots with decent to high expectations this season that started the season with a loss. We will peak ahead to their next match and rank accordingly. I’m not going to look at their final two matches, that’s too much. Here’s the list, and next…
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On Battlebots in 2023, How To Combat Vertical Spinners, and a Season Prediction
I’m going to begin the year by talking about Vertical Spinners. Pretty much the entire modern history of the sport, and certainly the entire time I’ve been watching, a single weapon type has dominated the field. That is the vertical spinner. Yes, I’m aware of Tombstone’s existence and that whole crazy thing. Yes he won…
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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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