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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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Well folks, the time is nearly upon us. Episode eight marks the first set of bots to have completed their regular season schedule, and the bracket is starting to take shape. We now have a clear idea who the top seeds will be, who has a solid chance of making it through, and who the …
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A lot has happened in the world of Norwich City since I last posted something about this current season. From winning two games in a row and climbing out of the relegation zone, and reaching the fifth round of the FA Cup, the Canaries go into Friday night’s game against Southampton back at the bottom …
Continue reading "13 Games to Go: The Views of a Pessimist and an Optimist"
Good afternoon, evening, whenever you're reading, comrades, and welcome to yet another edition of some BattleBots power rankings. This week's rankings come slightly late on account of me moving house at the weekend, but in order to try and get something out before the next episode airs, I've done a certified speedrun to get this …
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Good afternoon, comrades - yes, it's that time again. Time for us to reflect on the episode of BattleBots that has just been, digest the events, action, and controversy from the 85 minutes of chaos, and decide, as uneducated viewers who have no knowledge of how to build a 250lbs. fighting robot (I can barely …
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Good afternoon, comrades, and welcome to the latest entry into everyone's favourite series from everyone's least favourite BattleBots blog - that's right, it's time for another round of power rankings! I know it's been an agonising wait for the latest entry, but we finally got there. This week's episode was another cracker. The selection committee …
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Another week has passed, another episode of BattleBots has blessed our television screens. In a diverse field of weapons, we had a flipper, a lifter, a spinning flipper, six horizontal spinners, two hammer saws, four vertical spinners, and a spinning puncher. And who says there isn't variety on this show? Among those bots, we had …
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