Good morning, and welcome back to the Beat! Last time, Chomp got outchomped, Tombstone had a tough but not that tough fight against Whiplash, and we got some clarity about who's in, who's out, and who's on that bubble. If this right here is Episode 13, then by my math there
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BattleBots Beat: Honest-to-Goodness Playoff Pictures?
Welcome back to the Beat! Last time out, the Desperado Flash Tournament rolled through and Lock-Jaw became the first robot to punch their ticket to the BattleBots World Championship. Oh, and somewhere along the way we made the sidebar, so that's cool too. This week, we've got some legitimate bracket-making
BattleBots Beat: Drawing the Queen of Diamonds
Sorry. Had to make it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=977oExzDh50 Welcome back to the Beat, and welcome back from the break! Everything's all caught up now, Shark Week has come and gone, though the last Sharknado movie isn't for another couple weeks, and it's not even by the original writer. (Fun fact: We went to the
The BattleBots Beat Midseason Roundtable! And Your Desperado Friday Evening Open Thread
Request Line: The Future
Hey. Hey. Stinger. ... Hey. HEY! ...what? Stinger? ...am I...? Yeah, cool, I thought that was you. ...where? You're in orbit, man. You remember how you got there? I remember being on fire. I'm not on fire now. Why am I not on fire? Ain't no oxygen in space, buddy! How... You got flipped out of the gravity well by Bronco. You remember now? I...yes. I'm
Evenings with the BattleBots: A Collection of BattleBots Vignettes by the BattleBots Beat
Here is in Long Beach an arena where the custom exists among the competitors, several of whom are intellectual robots—oh yeah, they are not man but machine—to indulge in reading, nay, even in more or less literary and robotics talks during other robots' fights. This means they read and talk
Senor’s BattleBots Beat: Animal Style
Welcome back to the Beat! Last week, there were a pair of controversial decisions and neither of them were Chomp's fight. Also three robots went 0-3 crippling their chances of making the big end-of-season playoff bracket. This week, we have all sorts of crazy matchups, including my favorite-looking bot, Warhead.
Senor’s BattleBots Beat: Mama Said Knock You Out
Senor’s BattleBots Beat: Bring Back Bil Dwyer!
Senor’s BattleBots Beat: Go for 3!
Welcome back to the Beat! Last time out, the Dutch had a rough go, Chomp learned about the foibles of technology, and we met a robot that had a… pneumatic fist as its weapon, and the Internets responded as you'd expect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDekhoeEoCc Fister Roboto Bale Spear does not make an appearance in