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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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!)…
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Week 1 Recap Part 2: Slash and Burn
The theme of this Week’s Recap is “Everyone Has Bad Days”. Both in past and present. Hydra is allowed to have a bad day where their flipper breaks by itself(? still waiting on the autopsy for this one) and loses quickly and they are still Hydra, a top seed and obvious contender for the Giant…
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Week 1 Recap Part 1: It’s Over
Well, that’s the end of that. I experienced a sudden moment of trepidation right as the fight was starting. After picking Tombstone to win without giving the matchup more than ten second’s of thought (and even now I think my analysis was correct!), something about the editing and framing of the match, along with Mr…
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