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,

BattleBots Beat: When Titans Collide

Senor Weaselo - December 17, 2020December 16, 2020

Everyone still standing? Good. Welcome back to the Beat, the leading BattleBots wall o'text that gets written and formatted the day before because it's important to put the pro in procrastination! Anyway last week was the premiere, where Fusion nearly achieved it, Malice still didn't do the D-X Crotch Chop, and

BattleBots Beat: Welcome to BubbleBots

Senor Weaselo - December 10, 2020December 10, 2020

Ladies, gentlemen, non-binary friends, lizard people… we made it. Welcome back to the Beat. I am once again your friendly Senor Weaselo here to once again take you down the rabbit hole that is 250-lb. robots beating the ever-loving fuck out of each other for our entertainment. And their builders' entertainment, for

BattleBots Beat: 2020 Updates

Senor Weaselo - December 3, 2020December 2, 2020

Yes, we have fighting robots. There is much rejoicing. The 2020 season of BattleBots, delayed by *points to globe* all this shit is up and running. It won't be as grand as originally expected back in April, again due to *points to globe again* all this shit, but there are robots