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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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Week 7 Recap: The Hit of the YEAR
Picks Record: 5-2 Back on track! Bloodsport (1-1) over Subzero (0-2) “In which Subzero cannot time a flip right to save his life, and ends up losing his life” Pretty good showing from Subzero, who I worried about after they lost embarassingly in a YouTube match that really should have been a better showing (Shatter!…
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Battlebots Week 9 Picks: The Home Stretch
Last week was awful. Let’s do better! No complaints on the fight card but it is lacking almost any “top tier” bots. We’re still waiting on the third match for Uppercut, Whiplash, Copperhead, Witch Doctor, Bloodsport, Madcatter, Rotator, Mammoth, Huge, Shatter!, holy moly that’s most of the fight card. I guess they’re saving a bunch…
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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…