Category: Posts
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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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Welcome
Welcome to the Battleblog. I’m not sure there’s another blog covering Battlebots out there, I certainly haven’t found it. Thus I am tempted to call this the premier and preeminent Battlebots Blog, but there’s no need to tread on anyone’s toes or trigger unnecessary attention. This site is about passion for the sport and providing […]
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