Martin
A monoid in the category of endofunctors
Robot Wars is my favorite TV show ever (and something I grew up watching), so back last summer when series 8 started airing I was psyched as all hell. Now that we are onto series 9, I'm just as hyped about it as I remember being as a kid. Feel free to discuss the series as it airs here.
Series 9 Standings
Robots competing: Aftershock, Crank-E, Jellyfish, Nuts 2, Rapid, Sabretooth, Terrorhurtz, TMHWK
Round 1
Head-to-Head battles
Round 1
- Jellyfish vs Nuts 2 vs Rapid vs Terrorhurtz: Rapid and Terrorhurtz qualified
- Aftershock vs Crank-E vs Sabretooth vs TMHWK: Aftershock and Sabretooth qualified
Head-to-Head battles
- Sabretooth vs Terrorhurtz: Sabretooth won by KO
- Aftershock vs Rapid: Aftershock won by KO (After this battle, Team Rapid forfeited, and were replaced by Jellyfish)
- Aftershock vs Sabretooth: Aftershock won by KO
- Terrorhurtz vs Jellyfish: Terrorhurtz won by KO
- Aftershock vs Terrorhurtz: Aftershock won by KO
- Jellyfish vs Sabretooth: Jellyfish won by Judges' decision
- Aftershock vs Sabretooth: Aftershock won
Robots competing: Behemoth, Cherub, Cobra, Draven, Eruption, Hobgoblin, PP3D, Push to Exit
Round 1
Head-to-Head Battles
Round 1
- Behemoth vs Cobra vs Eruption vs Hobgoblin: Behemoth and Eruption qualified
- Cherub vs Draven vs PP3D vs Push to Exit: Cherub and PP3D qualified
Head-to-Head Battles
- Behemoth vs Eruption: Eruption won by KO
- Cherub vs PP3D: Cherub won by Judges' decision
- Cherub vs Eruption: Eruption won by KO
- Behemoth vs PP3D: Behemoth won by KO
- Eruption vs PP3D: Eruption won by KO
- Cherub vs Behemoth: Cherub won by Judges' decision
- Cherub vs Eruption: Eruption won
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Jellyfish was such a badly designed robot that I'm amazed that they managed to win Judges' decision against Sabretooth, granted it ultimately didn't matter because Jellyfish annihilated by Aftershock as expected and Sabretooth got through by default. Speaking of Sabretooth, this is a very scary looking machine which ultimately just falls short to the sheer ferocity of Aftershock's vertical spinner despite the fact that it debatably has the more destructive weapon. It'll be back as a wildcard but I'm generally very impressed by both of the finalists' machines.
Much more eventful week than the very short games that made up the majority of week 1, and overall it was a better competition. First heat went to finals in a superb fight, Cherub's driver showed a high level of competence despite how young he is (at first I thought they played extremely badly and just wanted to show off the handstand versus Eruption, but afterwards when they explained the wheel wasn't turning I dropped my criticism of the decision), PP3D showed one of the biggest issues with horizontal spinners in that impacts take a much heavier toll on the machine than vertical spinners do. Eruption tossing someone out of the ring in every heat as well as the finals was immensely impressive--it's the first time I think I've seen anything toss Behemoth out of the ring (I may be forgetting) which really caught me off guard--and I am definitely going to be paying close attention to them in the grand finals. Flippers are dominant as ever, with them regularly showing their consistency even if it is very limiting with regards to design decisions. Probably the thing which shocked me the most, however, was the really bad decision making from Team Behemoth going into the fight against Cherub. They had literally no reason at all to use the jaw as opposed to the flipper, and the driver was right to storm off at the end 'cause it just showed a lot of incompetence for such an important match from what should be one of the most tactically honed teams in the tournament.
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