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Hello everybody! It’s episode three! They say that three is a magic number, and if you needed any conclusive evidence of it, here it is, in the form of BattleBots: Sin City Slugfest! The first two episodes have been quite the whirlwind and this week slows down not by one iota. As we still recover …
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Hello everyone! How are we all doing today? Suitably buzzing? Indifferent? Depressed because the societal systems in which we live have condemned us to a life of anonymity and struggling to pay the rent because the top 1% keep taking all of our income? Well, whatever your mood, hopefully you’re here to enjoy some more …
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Good afternoon, everyone! It’s certainly been a hot minute, hasn’t it? How are we all doing? All good? Doing our best do ignore all of the sh*t that’s going on in the world right now and turning to killer robots destroying each other as comfort? High fives all round! Yes, it’s certainly been a while …
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On Wednesday the first of June at Wembley Stadium, Argentina and Italy will go head-to-head in the first of what UEFA and CONMEBOL hope to be three editions of the CONMEBOL-UEFA Cup of Champions, or the Finalissima, as it is more likely to be known as. Argentina, having triumphed over Brazil to win the 2021 …
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Happy Easter, comrades! On this fine holiday where we celebrate the resurrection of our lord and saviour by stuffing our faces with chocolate rabbits (such is the nature of our society), what better occasion to take time out to reflect on the BattleBots final that was? I should start by saying that I’m aware the …
Good day to you dear comrades, and welcome to, and I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, the final episode review/preview of the current (soon to be most recent) season of the finest robotic combat show currently on television. It doesn’t seem like fourteen weeks have passed since SawBlaze sent Minotaur into a fiery abyss …
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Good afternoon, comrades. The newest season of BattleBots is winding down before we’ve had time to process half the action that’s unfolded across our screens over the past few weeks. At least that’s how it feels. To think we only have two more episodes of the main tournament left before we find out who wins …
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Good afternoon, comrades, and welcome to how I think the top 32 should look. Yes, I promised yesterday there’d be an upcoming post regarding the discrepancies with the bracket. As with every year, there are a fair few. Broken rankings, broken systems, broken promises that everything would be fairer. Obviously, something like this is totally …
Good afternoon, comrades, and welcome to the first bit of coverage of the top 32 this season. After ten long, gruelling episodes, we know how the bracket looks, and we have a better idea of who this year’s Giant Nut winner is going to be, and the path they will have to take. Now, I …
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Hey all you cool cats and comrades, it's your boi, back again, for some more beautiful power rankings from everyone's favourite RC version of the 2011 film Real Steel. While we don't have Hugh Jackman on our books, we can offer you a lot of fire, sparks, and shocks as the top 32 begins to …
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The Robot Soccer League 