As for Ghost Raptor, yes, it made the semi-finals in 2015, but the last time we saw it on television it was getting torn a new one by Son of Whyachi.
BATTLEBOTS 2019 BRACKET UPGRADE
It’s got power in it for sure, but it just seems to get more and more unreliable each year, and with it looking like the team haven’t done that much to upgrade it (externally at least), I think it will suffer a pretty similar fate to the ones it has before.
However, I feel that with Captain Shrederator, there’s a tendency to base its capability on its 2016 battle against Death Roll, as well as Brain Nave’s impressive reputation, but for a bot that’s fought in every season of the reboot, you’d think it would have a better record than 2-9. Both these teams have over twenty years experience to their names and both have had impressive runs in prior competitions. You’re right in thinking I’m a bit crazy, but I swear there’s method to the madness here. You might also think that I’m a bit crazy for sticking Captain Shrederator and Ghost Raptor in this section. And as much as I love that Mad Catter and Sharko are coming back, and as much as I love the zany antics of Martin Mason and Ed Robinson, while I think both these teams are going to give us plenty of entertainment, I don’t think they’ll be making enough of an impact to advance that far. Tantrum looks as though it might improve on its showing from last season, and it’s probably still as compact and durable as before, but I can’t see it making it to the top 32. I suppose Gemini has had a small redesign, but it still looks pretty much the same as it has done for the previous two seasons.īale Spear is also back, but somehow its weapon looks even less effective than it did in 2018, so I’m not holding out much hope for its chances here. Robots such as Axe Backwards, Gemini, Chronos, Extinguisher, and P1 all appeared last year without making much of an impact, and it doesn’t really look as though any of them have made significant improvements or upgrades that will change this.
Now, it goes without saying that none of these bots are, or look, inherently bad. They’re all fine pieces of engineering in their own right, so allow me to explain why I don’t think they’ll put up much of a challenge for the Giant Nut.įirst up, I guess I’ll start with the returning bots. So in this section, my sincerest apologies go out to the teams of Axe Backwards, Bale Spear, Black Widow, Captain Shrederator, Chronos, Extinguisher, Gemini, Ghost Raptor, Grabot, Mad Catter, P1, Rampage, Rusty, Sharko, SMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, and Tantrum. Essentially, this will be a hot mess from start to finish.įirst up, and apologies to any competing teams who happen to be reading this, here is my selection of bots who I don’t think will get near to the knockout tournament. Regardless, that’s what we’ll be rolling with here, and it also means I have to rank these 32 bots on the basis of their hypothetical performances in the undercard matches, and I don’t even know who they’ll be facing. This is why I personally advocate for the battles to go from 1 vs. Yes, upsets can happen (see Red Devil against 3 rd seeds Witch Doctor in 2016), but these are few and far between, and it’s usually the higher seeds who make it to the latter stages of the bracket. Personally, I’ve found this structure to be problematic, making it easier for the big names to have an extended run in the competition. It will essentially be based on the seeding bracket for the 2016 championship, which also had 32 teams. 16), and we work our way inwards from there.
BATTLEBOTS 2019 BRACKET SERIES
I’m also not sure what structure the bracket will take, but I’m going to assume it’s the one that’s been taken in every series of the reboot, whereby the top-ranked bot meets the lowest ranked (i.e. So many teams missing, so many newcomers, so much room for shocks, upsets and Cinderella stories, all in a big 32-way knockout bracket to cap it all off. So why have I decided to sit down and try and predict the entire tournament? That’s a really great question.įor this to work, it means I have to attempt to predict which of the 32 competing teams will make it in to the Championship bracket, and I don’t even know if there’ll be any Desperado Tournament, any qualifying rumbles, and I haven’t even seen half of the bots in action, meaning I’m essentially basing my predictions on their look, and what I’ve seen on the internet. As I’ve mentioned several times previously, this 2020 season of BattleBots is going to be the most unpredictable on record.
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