BattleBots Beat: Bots on the Ground!

Senor Weaselo - June 20, 2019June 20, 2019

Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Beat! Last time out, Tombstone clipped Lock-Jaw, HyperShock blazed by Valkyrie, and Cobalt made SubZero's team rage and regret swapping the fight. This time we've got the return of HUGE and a robot even bigger than it, a new Brazilian bot, the first

BattleBots Beat (Part 2): Back to the Studio

Senor Weaselo - June 14, 2019June 14, 2019

Hello there, and welcome back to the Beat, the second-funniest Thursday (normally) running BattleBots review column! This becomes a special two-parter because I realized, "Holy shit, if I just do the re: MARS stream it's still a 3500 word post," Also it was 3 AM because I was finally actually

BattleBots Beat: re: MARS Remarks

Senor Weaselo - June 13, 2019June 13, 2019

Welcome back to the Beat! We're back for realsies this time, not just a preview but actual honest to goodness fighting. And for this premiere we've got way too much work for me to do—it's so big we're going to split it into two parts. So let's just get to

BattleBots Beat: Your 2019 Preview!

Senor Weaselo - June 6, 2019June 5, 2019

Hi there, lizard people. It's been a while, hasn't it? But the summer's here, and with it, large robots that would maul your face, legs, or anything else. That's right, it's another season of BattleBots, and with it, another season of the BattleBots Beat! So, I don't have anything to recap

A BattleBots Beat Special: What Got Cut

Senor Weaselo - January 3, 2019January 3, 2019

Surprised to see this feature back so soon? Yeah, I know, the season's over, but not all of the fights made it to TV. And we wanted to see them all. So now we get to see them in a segment on the Youtubes known as the BattleBots Basement. Not

A BattleBots Beat Halloween Special: Conquering the Reaper

Senor Weaselo - October 31, 2018October 31, 2018

Welcome to a very special BattleBots Beat vignette for Halloween. For your enjoyment, but hopefully not for your pleasure, because eww, we bring you this tale of a plucky underdog doing anything and everything to try and shock the world. We call this story, "Conquering the Reaper."* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89LYj3d1jCw "6… 5… 4… 3…" "Bombshell's

The BattleBots Beaties: Because Senor Couldn’t Come Up with a Better Name

Senor Weaselo - October 18, 2018October 18, 2018

Welcome to the second [DFO] BattleBots Awards! With the rebranding this season of the BattleBots Beat, we (I) decided that we needed something cleverer than the generic "BattleBots Awards." But all the good fasteners were taken (the Giant Nut and Bolt by BattleBots, the Giant Screw was a thing that

BattleBots Beat: Who Will Survive in the BattleBox?

Senor Weaselo - October 11, 2018October 10, 2018

Hey everyone, and for the last time this year, welcome back to the Beat! Last time we covered the right side of the BattleBots championship bracket, where Bite Force dominated and Whiplash drove daringly. They joined Lock-Jaw and Minotaur in the semifinals, the final four fearsome, uh, fighters, I guess,

BattleBots Beat: More BattleBots Bracket-Busting?

Senor Weaselo - October 4, 2018October 4, 2018

Hey everyone, and welcome back to the Beat! Last week, we saw Tombstone's frame finally give up the chain, Bombshell doing what it seemed to be its only purpose in life, and Minotaur be Minotaur. This week the other side of the bracket comes into play as we see who

BattleBots Beat: From Fight Nights to Tournament Time

Senor Weaselo - September 27, 2018September 27, 2018

Hey there, and welcome back to the Beat! Last time, we had our hexadectet of hexadecimal destruction. Not to be confused with HexaDecimator. (That would be Hexy D to his friends, by the way.) Anyway, let's look at that bracket again: Week 1 of the tournament covered the left side of