BattleBots Beat: Your New Champion Is…

Senor Weaselo - March 18, 2021March 18, 2021

Welcome back to the Beat! The recap this morning is a pretty simple premise: Eight robots, seven fights, one champion. So with that, let's get started. 5. Black Dragon vs. 20. RibbotRecords don't matter now anyway, it's the final 8 bots. And one of these bots you could totally have expected to

BattleBots Beat: The Final Octet

Senor Weaselo - March 11, 2021March 10, 2021

Welcome back to the Beat! I open up with a lightbulb moment that we'll get back to later as we break down the fights. So, we haven't been covering the Bounty Hunters side episodes on Discovery+ for a variety of reasons, one of which is "if I'm getting a free trial

BattleBots Beat: Burn it All Down

Senor Weaselo - March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

Welcome back to the Beat! Last time out I did a dumb and thought HiJinx would upset Uppercut, and was rewarded with about a ten-second fight. How about the bracket this week? Well, the title might give things away. So, onto the fights! 14. Lock-Jaw vs. 19. Shatter!Lock-Jaw: 2-1 (W, KO

BattleBots Beat: You Too Can Become an Octofinalist!

Senor Weaselo - February 25, 2021February 24, 2021

A blurb in one year of my high school's yearbook had the note about the debate team "You too can become a triple-octofinalist." Which I guess would be a round of 64 of whatever big debate tournament there is. I don't know, I wasn't on the debate team. But anyway, welcome

BattleBots Beat: Start Your Arguments!

Senor Weaselo - February 18, 2021February 18, 2021

Welcome back to the Beat! It's the last midnight Fight Night of the (technically) 2020 season, and with it the 32-bot bracket will be revealed following the conclusion. Will there be seeding complaints? Undoubtedly! Who's in and out complaints? Probably! Will we know? Not until the end, so onto the

BattleBots Beat: Bubble Battles

Senor Weaselo - February 11, 2021February 10, 2021

Brought to you by Blake Bortles. Welcome back to the Beat! Last time out we started asking questions about 1-2 bots. Among them, Tombstone. Could Tombstone be on the bubble? Could Tombstone be out? Well, we'll find out soon enough. But in the meantime, we'll find out how big the bubble

BattleBots Beat: All the Horizonal Spinners, Please

Senor Weaselo - February 4, 2021February 4, 2021

Welcome back to the Beat! Last time we watched the equivalent of a mouse beating an elephant right after the saddest fight in BattleBots this season. This week we have old favorites trying to get to 1-2, and in the main event, two fan favorites trying to avoid 1-2. And

BattleBots Beat: For Lack of a Good Joke

Senor Weaselo - January 29, 2021January 28, 2021

Yeah, I don't have one. Writing a requiem movement does that… (it's also part of why this is late because I was zapped.) Welcome back to the Beat! Last time we saw more sparks than at a Spyro the Dragon convention, thanks to Valkyrie and Rotator; Malice did the thing; and

BattleBots Beat: Cue Lazer Light Show!

Senor Weaselo - January 21, 2021January 20, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2aUD0Rgwho Catscratch was an underrated show and deserved more than one season. DON'T AT ME. (Unfortunately Doug TenNapel… yeah.) Welcome back to the Beat! Last time, there was salt, and anger, and arguably the worst win of the season, by a bot that I currently have as a top 3 seed! The

BattleBots Beat: Oh Great, More Salt

Senor Weaselo - January 14, 2021January 13, 2021

Welcome back to the Beat, now back at its regular time assuming I get this done in time! Eh, I should be fine. Anyway, last week we watched Chomp walk, which made it the second robot of the week to have no wheels because Tombstone sliced Slap Box's off. This

BattleBots Beat: Oh Lawd She Chompin’

Senor Weaselo - January 8, 2021January 8, 2021

Welcome back to the Beat, and Happy New Year! We took a week break because we could, but that led to a fuck-ton of procrastination, so sorry if we're late, because I was too lazy to write this between Christmas and New Year's and then started writing at 11:00 local

BattleBots Beat: Let the Salt Begin

Senor Weaselo - December 24, 2020December 24, 2020

Welcome back to the Beat! Last time out, we learned that Senorita Weaselo's two favorite bots (and two of mine) are a combined 0-2. But hey, the NYC bots are 2-0, and people I've met are 3-0. So, clearly it means something and I am a good luck charm. Right? Anyway,