This also gives the top eight robots a free pass so they can sit back and relax while their opponents kick the crap out of each other. Due to the 2-hour long episodes, you can easily squeeze these 8 battles in. The first round would have 8 battles with 16 robots fighting each other. Because of which, Battlebots should expand the 16-seed bracket into a 24-seeded tournament to include those incredible 2-2 robots.Ī 24-seeded bracket actually works out really well when you do the math. The increase of just 13 robots made the field incredibly competitive to the point that if you were not 3-1, you would be hard press to make it post-season unless you had some incredible wins. This season has the largest selection of robots yet for the competition clocking in to 68 robots (2017 had 55 robots, 2016 had 44, and 2015 had 28). It’s not surprising that we see a deluge of 3-1 bots for this season. Something should be done that includes these prominent robots that got unlucky breaks. Without these 2-2 bots, we’re losing some potential dark horses. We’re missing some interesting bots that could upset the tournament. I’m talking Minotaur, Duck!, Cobalt, and Copperhead. This poses a problem because there are sooooooo many good robots that have a 50% win record that are majorly missing out. There might be some backlash but it wouldn’t be very controversial. Automatically, we have 16 bots that we could easily pick and add to the tournament. There are also 11 bots that have a 3-1 standing (Lockjaw, Sawblaze, Tombstone, Huge, Uppercut, Rail Gun Max, Skorpios, Son of Whyachi, Hypershock, Whiplash, and Yeti). Also, at the time of this writing, there are four bots with a 4-0 standing (Deathroll, Hydra, Biteforce, and Witch Doctor). And the crazy thing is…we already have a rather clear idea which bots would be in a 16-seeded tournament.įirst, Black Dragon is the automatic in as it won the Desperado Tournament. Unfortunately, we are not given the whole picture as there are a lot of bots who’s battles haven’t been televised. So when the most recent episode, episode 13, ended the Battlebots’ main season, many people are wondering…who’s in and who’s out? These bots have seen a variety of opponents and as such, no 2-2 bot has the same path. The problem is, there are an incredible amount of bots that have scored this 2-2 record. After the Battlebots’ 2019 season Desperado Tournament, there was a constant discussion between the hosts, Kenny and Chris, about whether a 2-2 bot could make it post-season.