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  • Battlebots Weapon Power Rankings

    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 […]

    battleblogger1

    January 26, 2022
    Power Rankings
  • Power Rankings: Week 3

    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 […]

    battleblogger1

    January 25, 2022
    Power Rankings
  • Week 3 Recap: “New Powers are Rising”

    Week 3 Recap: “New Powers are Rising”

    Record this week: 4-3 Season: 11-10 (Hmmmmm…I did predict the right outcome-KO/JD-for all four victories. Anywho…) Hypershock over Slammow Yeah there’s nothing to say about this one, nothing remarkable here. Slammow is just not ready for the big time. Nice win by HS, if he wins his next match I will stop calling him HyperSuck. […]

    battleblogger1

    January 22, 2022
    Picks
  • Week 3 Picks: COBALT Returns

    Week 3 Picks: COBALT Returns

    Got slammed by the COVID booster shot this week, gonna be a quick preview of the Week 3 fights. Can I pull off another 5-2 or better? Probably not! Fight 1: Hypershock vs Slammow Hypershock, or “HyperSuck”, as he is known around my condo… Hypershock is a pretty common design with 4 wheels, wedges and […]

    battleblogger1

    January 20, 2022
    Picks
  • Power Rankings: Week 2

    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 […]

    battleblogger1

    January 18, 2022
    Power Rankings
  • Week 2 Recap: The Bots Are Who We Thought They Were

    Week 2 Recap: The Bots Are Who We Thought They Were

    5-2 with the picks this week! Alright! I don’t think I did anything special, it was just a rather predictable week. No big upsets, only a couple of close matches, lots of blowouts by superior robots. Nevertheless, it was still entertaining, there were great fires (every week baby!), and the marquee was excellent and involved […]

    battleblogger1

    January 18, 2022
    Picks
  • Week 2 Picks: ‘Who is For Real?’

    Week 2 Picks: ‘Who is For Real?’

    This weeks’ slate of fights seems to include a large number of these “Bubble” Teams – robots that have excelled somewhere recently, but haven’t fully proven themselves. It’s largely robots in the congested middle of the standings, along with a few that I think are top notch but again, have more to prove. Here it […]

    battleblogger1

    January 13, 2022
    Picks
  • Week 2 Main Event: Bloodsport vs Whiplash

    Week 2 Main Event: Bloodsport vs Whiplash

    (NOTE: I wanted to do just one Picks column each week, but there’s too much material to cover here, so much to say about Whiplash and this excellent matchup. Rest of Picks later, here we handle the MAIN EVENT) -> Bloodsport (Discussed in detail HERE) Very much an offensive robot, with a massive and deadly […]

    battleblogger1

    January 12, 2022
    Picks
  • A Tale of Two Bloodsports

    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 […]

    battleblogger1

    January 11, 2022
    Posts
  • Power Rankings: Week 1

    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!) […]

    battleblogger1

    January 10, 2022
    Power Rankings
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