BattleBots Recap Episodes 7-10 on Outside of the Box

But overall, though, as a viewing experience, I am really very happy with how things have been coming along.

The fights have been good.

There's still quite a few knockouts and tap outs, and I'd love to see more fights going the full three minutes.

Maybe the, I don't know if the builders would have wanted that because that probably means more destruction.

But at the same time, I mean, I think those are some of the best fights when it's like, knock down, drag out kind of fight.

And then it goes to a judge's decision and there's the drama around that.

And we just haven't seen so much of that.

I guess it speaks to the juxtaposition between the bots that are just really solid this season and the ones that are struggling where we may be seeing more of that.

Speaking of bots that are struggling that I wouldn't have expected to struggle with, The first fight in Episode 7 was Endgame versus Golden Fury.

And you can clearly see that this Endgame is not quite keeping up with the competition.

And I don't think that it's that Endgame is a bad robot by any means, because obviously, like, it's an amazing robot.

And it's won and, you know, done really well in the past.

But sometimes, you know, like there's a give and take of going with what works and making upgrades and making sure that those upgrades are working for you and all of that stuff.

And there's a lot of different things that obviously go into it.

And, you know, in this particular fight, one thing that I noticed that I don't think that they mentioned it in the episode was um honestly Jack Barker if you want to get in the comments and tell me if that was happening but it did look like there were some drive issues like it wasn't quite driving the way that they wanted it to and I think that that was a decent factor in the way that things went in the fight because I think if Endgame drove like We've seen it drive in the past that maybe, you know, Golden Fury doesn't have the ability to get those hits and things like that.

I mean, don't get me wrong.

Golden Fury is an amazing robot.

It's really, really good.

I was really surprised by it, honestly, so far this season, because I didn't know that much about it.

The only thing that I will say, and this is, it's not to take the bot down in any way, but...

What we've seen thus far in the fights that we've seen is Golden Fury fighting a not-the-top-of-its-game version of Death Roll.

And we've seen Golden Fury fighting a not-the-top-of-its-game version of Endgame.

That doesn't mean that Golden Fury isn't good.

I think it's amazing.

But to kind of look at it as... oh, it's like the best robot of the competition right now.