Fight Breakdowns (S7)
We knew this fight would be brutal, but we’d hoped it’d be in the other direction. Riptide has a monster of a weapon and Ethan reliably keeps it pointed in the right direction. They’ve never been walloped on the sides...
Lucky is one of the few robots that’s been on the show since the ABC days that we have yet to fight. With five seasons on BattleBots, they’re the longest-running flipper still on the show. Matt Olson, their new driver,...
When they gave us our schedules, we expected that Claw Viper would be our “easy fight”, at least relative to fighting the rank 1, 4, and 7 robots. Two fights in we were doubting that assessment. This fight turned out to be almost make or break for us, and neither of these robots have brakes.
This was gonna be the rough one. We knew Sawblaze would be so, so hard, but this was the fight that we knew would hurt. They read off everyone’s first fight in a big meeting and released the rest of...
I’m so happy this fight is available on youtube [https://youtu.be/td2Rup31pKw], it makes reviewing it so much easier. I’m also ecstatic that BattleBots has worked something out with Discovery to let them post current-season fights basically as they happen. Publishing good,...
Fight 1: SawBlaze - The Rise of HyperBlaze
SawBlaze has been Will’s pick to win the nut for a few seasons now, so to say we were nervous is underselling it. We believe we have the hardest schedule of anyone. Not on some technicality, not because of some...
Fight nights was different this year. Every team was given their four-fight schedule at once. That meant we could strategize and prepare for multiple fights at a time, really making use of those spare robots we’ve been lugging around. In...