BattleBots: S12 E9

BattleBots: S12 E9

Remember that one season where BattleBots would start almost every episode with a cold open featuring some kind of skit grounded in the sport? The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are the one where Sharkoprion destroys a bathroom with fetid shark shit...
BattleBots: S12 E8

BattleBots: S12 E8

It’s Friday and that means only one thing: it’s BattleBots Update time again! As we enter the eighth of fifteen Fight Night episodes we’re now in the back half of the qualifiers; we’re still seeing many robots finish their second rounds but in...
BattleBots: S12 E7

BattleBots: S12 E7

Welcome back to BattleBots Update. I’m writing this post on Super Bowl Sunday because the only sport I give a shit about involves two or more robots fighting to the death in an arena full of useless hazards that only activate when they feel like it. I...
BattleBots: S12 E6

BattleBots: S12 E6

Normally I don’t comment all that much on the goings-on of the robot combat community but god damn after last week you guys really fucking hate Ethan Kurtz and Riptide. I’m talking multiple different posts on the /r/BattleBots subreddit, one of which that...
BattleBots: S12 E5

BattleBots: S12 E5

Man is it already Friday again? I mean you’re reading this on Friday but it’s Monday for me right now, and it’ll probably be Tuesday before my stupid ADHD brain can finish this write-up and then it’ll be Wednesday by the time I take all the...