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Week 1 Picks: The Match of the Century
It’s here! It’s finally here!!! One of the Traditions I pointed out earlier in the week has remained in place, with Sawblaze competing in the first fight of the season. Three years running! It’s an inexplicable tradition (as far as I know), he didn’t do anything to earn this honor besides being genuinely excellent year…
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2021* Season Winner Prediction: The Age of Durability
Here I will make my pick for the Champion of the 2021* Battlebots season. This year it’s more than just a pick. It’s part of an overall larger statement for the current season, a prediction about the state of the robot fighting ecosystem and what trait might be most desirable in the present. Traditionally it…
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Battlebots Traditions
Sawblaze will fight in the inaugural match of the season, the first fight of the first episode (Win!) Tombstone fights in the main event of the first episode (Used to be a Win, now not sure!) Duck starts off the season 2-0 and somehow misses the playoffs. Minotaur finds itself in a hole early in…
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Power Rankings: PreSeason 2021
Note: Power Rankings are meant to be current representation of the field so they have an extreme recency bias. At this point in time the 2020 Playoffs has the largest impact on the analysis, after that would be the 2020 regular season, then the 2019 playoffs and 2019 regular season, etc (at this time Bounty…
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Welcome
Welcome to the Battleblog. I’m not sure there’s another blog covering Battlebots out there, I certainly haven’t found it. Thus I am tempted to call this the premier and preeminent Battlebots Blog, but there’s no need to tread on anyone’s toes or trigger unnecessary attention. This site is about passion for the sport and providing…
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