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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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Week 3: Death Roll Returns!!!
Death Roll (last appeared in 2019) vs Cobalt (4-2 overall last season, made Final 8) Oh good god. Back in 2019 we were introduced to a new Wonder From Down Under, in the form of this out of control psychotic killer robot that 1) never stopped killing, 2) never stopped winning, 3) never really died…
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Week 2 Picks: Control Vs Power
Good Morning World!!!!! Hypershock (Preseason Power Ranked 15ish) vs Sawblaze (Power Ranked 4th) Hypershock has always been up and down but last year put together a terrific season, if you ignore the horrible and laughable playoff loss. The weapon appears to be one of the hardest hitting in the sport and they combine that with…
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Week 1 Picks
Here we goooooooo! (Note listed records are totals from regular season, postseason, and Slugfest episodes. This did not include the YouTube special or anything else that may have happened but wasnt properly televised.) First Match!!! Witch Doctor vs Ribbot Last Season: Ribbot 7-2 overall Witch Doctor 9-2 overall Gee, wasn’t I just talking about the…
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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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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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Battlebots Golden Bolt Tournament
Some Questions for the Champions of…Golden Bolt…whatever it’s called…Finale 1) How will the former champions look? Rest vs Rust – is there an advantage to the robots that have been playing recently versus some time off? It is quite likely that Tombstone and End Game have not seen live action in awhile after early exits…
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The BATT is BACK
Ahhhh, it feels so good to be back. So, I could go through each fight, but to me there’s a pretty obvious Top Three in the field of eight here, the interesting matches will be taking place in the higher rounds between the best bots. Generally that’s the case in these Bounty Hunter/Champions(?), here I…
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Battlebots 2021* Finals Recap: Revolution
Look at that stat-line. Battlebots has never had a champion that looked like this before. The obvious – there was never a champion before that didn’t possess “the strongest, hardest-hitting weapon” at the time of the Championship. Debates could be made that Tombstone was better than Bite Force in 2015 or 2018, but Tombstone has…
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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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