u/Jamez2021

Personally I have two, the first is that the arena hazards are a net negative for the competition and should be removed. My second is that I believe that Magnitude has the greatest potential out of all the Battlebots. If team magnitude can find a way to keep that bot from bouncing around after weapon hits (look at the manta fight to see what I mean), with some better driving I think it becomes a dominant force. I can’t wait to see more of it in Pro League, Ray Billings was impressed by it in his video too.

In my opinion I think that Ray Billings and Tombstone are under a lot of pressure. With more robots incorporating small but powerful brushless systems into their designs, robots are more compact and better armored than ever before. The ground game is also more intense than before. Tombstone is a bot that many are saying is outdated, after all it’s lost 5 out of its last 6 fights. But for pro league Tombstone is bringing so many new things to the table at once to try to modernize the robot. And from his videos it didn’t seem like Ray Billings had a whole lot of time to get all of this done. This feels like a sort of “do or die” type of situation but Tombstone has perhaps the strongest “brand” out of all the battlebots so I don’t think it will be forced out of competition for being “obsolete”, but I do think its performance in pro league will have HUGE ramifications on its reception going forward. But what team/bot do you guys think is under the most pressure?

I made a simple spreadsheet of all the groups in Battlebots Pro League to ultimately find the collective win percentages of the groups. I was expecting Group E to have the highest win percentage but surprisingly Group A had the best win rate. I used data from the Battlebots wiki which had the win/loss records for all the robots. It’s not the best way of collecting data, there are no records on Golden Fury for instance. But it was fun to make this.

BattleBots is a a crazy and violent sport and we quite often have to see our favorite bots get smashed up. My favorite bot is Copperhead and I think its fight against Chronos was when it got damaged the most (pictured). What picture shows the most damage your favorite battle bot has taken?