by Draco | May 5, 2023 | BattleBots: S12
It is officially tournament time here on BattleBots Update! For the past 15 episodes we’ve been watching the qualification rounds where each of the 50 robots in the field battled through four prelims to determine their final seeding for the tournament. The Fight...
by Draco | Apr 14, 2023 | BattleBots: S12
It’s BattleBots Update time once again and we are now in a post-RoboGames 2023 world. I’m writing this article later than usual (and as such stressing myself out to get it done in time) because I just spent four days restreaming RoboGames on my Twitch...
by Draco | Mar 3, 2023 | BattleBots: S12
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...
by Draco | Feb 10, 2023 | BattleBots: S12
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...
by Draco | Jan 20, 2023 | BattleBots: S12
It’s already time for another Update so soon after the last one because I took a vacation and wound up finishing last episode’s article in an airport terminal. Can you think of a better way to pass time during a 2+ hour layover? I’m just glad that my...
