Battlebots Champions II

[Prepuce of Doom 21087]

I have to confess that I don't remember Champions I, but this looks like a fun little six episode mini-season. 

Starts this Thursday. 

 

[bernorange 8362]

Fuck yeah.  The first champions was good shit.  The slugfest brackets generally had the above avg bots battling it out (there were a few poseurs in there, but not many).  Bring on the destruction.

[Prepuce of Doom 21087]

Bump. 

Tonight's the night, though our family may wait and watch it tomorrow night... 

[bernorange 8362]

So... I did not see that coming...

[Prepuce of Doom 21087]

Yeah, our family did really poorly on our picks. 

Good for that guy. He's a little much sometimes, but I do appreciate that he has a completely different background than almost every other team captain and participant. 

[Captainant 27682]

I'm digging this format as a proving ground for new teams and build types to get tested at heavyweight scale! Shreddit Bro has been a monster at the beetleweight and mid divisions, so it's cool to see a team make the jump up

 

And WOW I think this was the first time I've ever seen Beta to real damage with its hammer!

[Captainant 27682]

Another great week of fights - some up-and-coming bots are starting to gel and it's cool to watch teams gain more confidence

[bernorange 8362]

I was a bit underwhelmed by the quality of the contestants in the last two weeks.  There were a few actually decent fights, but a lot of boring cripple fights too.  It looks like they saved the best for last though as this Thursday's bracket features a lot of quality bots.  I expect to see some high impact carnage.

Mladnic (SP?) should learn how to drive Cobalt in a training arena, not a Battlebots competition.  Watching him struggle to control the bot was painful and frustrating.  I thought Battlebots was supposed to punish bots for playing the Hydra strategy of just sitting in the middle and turning to maintain a face on their opponent.

 

[Captainant 27682]

Cobolt is one seriously tough bot - if they could get a better driver theyd be one hell of a contender. It was crazy to see it still landing big hits while a minute into it's own viking funeral

[Captainant 27682]

Nice just saw they uploaded the Jackpot vs Cobolt fight to youtube

 

[bernorange 8362]

 

[Prepuce of Doom 21087]

Yeah, there's got to be some kind of behind the scenes beef or something within the Cobalt team right now.

Edited November 1, 2023 by Prepuce of Doom

[bernorange 8362]

The finale was quite entertaining.  It's a shame that Riperoni performed an epic fail face plant.  We laughed a lot at the end of the Sawblaze v Tantrum fight.  That stoic giant on team Sawblaze cracks us up the way he tries to steal your soul when looking around. The final battle was great too.  I was personally rooting for the bot that lost, but there was no question about the judges' desicion IMO.   

[Captainant 27682]

It was great to see Jackpot have a good showing too, they've been building year over year and just couldn't kick their gremlins 

[bernorange 8362]

I like how team Jackpot actually made a nuisance bot that is effective and can affect a fight.  

[Prepuce of Doom 21087]

We got behind and just finished last night. 

The Ripperoni/Hypershock match (penultimate episode) where they were both crippled and trying their best to get into each other's orbit was pretty entertaining. 

This was a fun "mid-season" format for a tournament.