The Battleblog

The first fight blew my mind, and the rest of the night I was just along for the ride, mentally behind and futily trying to catch up It was a legendary upset, probably the biggest upset ever. Last year Hydra-Glitch was almost as stunning, but Glitch turned out to be really good (and were at…

Wow. That was an awesome night of robot fighting action. I think it’s the best regular season episode in recent history. We had multiple fights that were legitimately great, and all fights had intrigue, except for the terrible exhibition match near the end. We’ll ignore that, it’s the least we can do. The rest was…

You know, we don’t really get a ton of comebacks in the sport. Obviously 3 minute matches (with many finishing in far less time) limit a long story, and damage is often irreversible, once you’re wounded you can’t function well enough to be successful. Well, this week we didn’t just get a serious comeback in…

6-1 last week, that doesn’t happen very often. If the trend continues I could hit the magical 7-0 this week…we’ll see. Anyhow, calling this one panic city, because we have Panic Bowl #2 to start things off, and then we have the defending champs already at 0-1 going against Hydra in the main event. Talk…

I was right. Here’s what I said one week ago. “And while Skorpios hasn’t done greatly lately against these things, I am going out on a limb and theorizing they will have a new plan for this season. The loss to Hypershock last season was so quick and unpreventable, they have to work on something.…

Sawblaze: A Hypershock: F. F F F F F F F. So here’s the deal, after years of mostly a middling clown, Hypershock seemed to arrive last season and emerge as highly dangerous robot (that earned Most Destructive for his efforts). He went 2-0 in the qualifiers with two knockouts (against middling competition but still)…

Note: I am going to (attempt to) use a grading system in the recaps this year, win or lose each robot gets a letter grade. Thus at the end of the season we have something to indicate the quality of the wins, and more significantly the quality shown in losses. Obviously most wins will be…

Wow! I was very excited reading through the fights this morning. While not the most competitive slate, there’s basically a premier robot in every fight, except for that one bad matchup near the end that appears to have wandered onto the fight card by mistake. I will write the robot’s Power Ranking (PR) alongside their…

I’ve gone 4-3 every week. Every week! Normally I start very slow, at least week 1, and then follow that up with a 5-2 day soon after. Not this time. This time I’m running my bets like a very diversified, risk-averse financial portfolio. Slight and steady gains every goddamn week. Currently +3 on the year,…