Onward, Buttercup, there's fuckery to spread.

Might be the best episode we've had of the whole season so far editing wise

The fact that End Game has gone 0-2 is insane, this is the former world champion and 2x Golden Bolt winners being KOd by Malice and Golden Fury; cos, while I love Malice and Golden Fury (especially Golden Fury, even back in Bitva), that's not the calibre of robot you expect to beat End Game

Valkyrie being out of contention for the bracket is bonkers as well but understandable given the circumstances they had at the start of the season, I think Leanne even said words to the effect of "if the robot was set up how we wanted at the start of the season, we'd be winning"

Manta has been (sadly) a bit disappointing, given how destructive we know it's been outside of Battlebots, the Skorpios win being just bc of a wire coming loose, and Valkyrie tapping out in like 40 seconds, like I'm glad we have Manta in the season, but it feels like a bit of a far cry from the Manta that absolutely cheesegratered Magnitude at Robogames or dismantled Raging Scotsman

Some teaser shots ahead of tomorrow's episode - MadCatter with the Full Court minibot will be very interesting 👀

Manta taking on a beefy horizontal in Valkyrie will be fun to see, given how much it banana'd the blade of the last horizontal it faced, in Triton

Honestly the best episode of the season we've had so far (I didn't go 0-3 on predictions, you did)

Ribbot getting the OOTA on Witch Doctor was insane, punted that mf like a field goal

HUGE/Minotaur was a really really good fight, the judge's decision must've been so close between them, they got it right imo, I've seen some people disagree which psshh

And Death Roll/Malice had no right to be as good as it was, Malice had been on an absolute tear this season, a 3-0 Malice with that strength of schedule is gonna be terrifying come the finals