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Battlebots Playoff Week 1 Recap: Six Killings and a Funeral
Well, umm, most of that was very straightforward and predictable! And then there was that other fight… Nine fights in week 1, two were ignominously kicked to YouTube and briefly summarized near the end of the episode. And a shame too, because one of those was very interesting and should not be overlooked. The other…gee, […]
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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 Playoffs Week 1 Preview: End Game and Sawblaze at the top
I assigned the regions like March Madness does it, each region here comprising 8 teams. Going around the circle: North is End Game’s region, Ribbot is the top seed in the East, Whiplash in the South and Sawblaze in the West. This week are the first round of fights in the North and West. The […]
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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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Week 10 Recap: Hurry, lets just skip ahead to the Tournament, which is going to RULE
6-1!!!!!!! Week 8 was a disaster (2-5!!!) and last week wasn’t great at 4-3, but I close out the regular season strong. They’ll be an upcoming post that looks at my week to week record and considers the Picks overall. Anyhow, Week 10! Bloodsport (2-1) over Claw Viper (1-2) Ummm, despite a win Bloodsport seems […]
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Week 9 Recap: Cobalt Awakes!
This was probably the only week this year that I felt was extremely meh. Some significant teams got their records to 2-1 (Cobalt, Minotaur, Valkyrie if you’re into that sort of thing). Cobalt woke up, Blip was hella impressive again, and Lock-Jaw is apparently bad now. But the fights, eh, I dunno, not very compelling. […]
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Week 8 Recap: The Veterans Hold on
Tombstone, Gigabyte, Black Dragon all managed to save their seasons and make it to 2-1. On the other hand, Hydra notably did not. Then we had a couple of 2-0 matches to conclude the night, one was very good, one was a ‘blink and you’ll miss’ type of event. Not exactly what everyone was looking […]
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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 10 Picks: Tying up the Loose Ends
Huh, I wasn’t expecting this! Week 10 is here and we haven’t seen the third appearance of Whiplash, or Uppercut, or Rotator, or Tantrum, or several other 2-0 robots. Well! It looks like they’re just getting a free pass into the tournament at 2-0! I guess that makes sense, only have the robots fight that […]
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