Category: Power Rankings
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BB23 Tiers Part 3
A third installment as we make our way through the 2023 season. Tier 1: Best of the Best 1) Sawblaze (2-0) 2) Minotaur (2-0) Two at the top. You could put them in either order, it’s extremely close. Both are 2-0 with two knockouts against robots that won their other fight. The case for Minotaur…
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BB23 Tiers Part 2
Ok, everyone* has one match under their belt. Let’s check in on the state of the fields and re-do the tiers, updating from the preseason post. Tier 1 – The Greats End Game (1-0) Witch Doctor (1-0) Sawblaze (1-0) Minotaur (1-0) Hydra (1-0) Tantrum (0-1) Tantrum maintains its status in tier 1 but just barely.…
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Battlebots Tiers
1 – The Big Three Sometimes in a sport, at a particular point, there is a select group that is clearly above the rest. This is one of these times. I would point to 2018 as another case, the Big Four (Tombstone Bronco Bite Force and Minotaur) positively dominated the regular season and it was…
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Power Rankings: Pre-Tournament Reveal
A quick post to lay out my own rankings on the field, before we see the tournament bracket at 9:58pm tonight! Here’s how I would seed the top 20…with some ambiguity in the second ten due to some robots not playing their third fight until tonight (Number in parenthesis is the # of KOs this…
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Week 7 Power Rankings: Two at the Top
Alright! With 7 weeks completed out of a 10 week regular season, every robot (or at least, everyone who’s anyone) now has two fights under their belt. This is a wonderful time for a new Power Rankings, with the primary factor being performances this season. Their results last season and overall legacy will be considered…
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Battlebots Weapon Power Rankings
First Installment of the Battlebots Season 2021* Weapon Power Rankings Overall, the general order of weapon types is the following Big Vertical Spinners (this might still be the dominant weapon type in the sport at the time of my death) Big Drum Spinners (I like the flexibility of this weapon and the ‘smashing’ factor it…
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Power Rankings: Week 3
Alright! At this point we’ve seen the entire field, or at least everyone important (Skorpios?!?). The regular season is 3 fights per bot, so we’re essentially 1/3 of the way through our year. Going forward the Power Rankings will focus most on this regular season, previous results matter less. It’s all about the here and…
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Power Rankings: Week 2
Note: This has proven to be a little weird since not every robot plays every week…we’ve seen 2/3rds of the field or less. Once everyone has fought in 2021* (hopefully after Week 3) then we’ll have a better handle on the true state of the sport. Another Note: Each robot has its current win-loss record…
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Power Rankings: Week 1
Here we go… 1) End Game (1-0) Robots I’d like to see go against End Game, and I think would have a shot to win: Uppercut (I think Uppercut has a more powerful weapon and would win easy. But I also went 2-5 in week 1, so) Huge (the anti-vertical spinner robot) Bloodsport (the rematch!)…
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Power Rankings: PreSeason 2021
Note: Power Rankings are meant to be current representation of the field so they have an extreme recency bias. At this point in time the 2020 Playoffs has the largest impact on the analysis, after that would be the 2020 regular season, then the 2019 playoffs and 2019 regular season, etc (at this time Bounty…
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