
Pretty obvious what the problem is here!

All better.
Watch your six, Uncle Al.
bloviation extrordinaire
Pretty obvious what the problem is here!
All better.
Watch your six, Uncle Al.
It’s robot fighting betting time!
Loser buys Winner his favorite snack!
There are 32 teams in the single-elimination tournament, all ranked based on prior performance in the group stage.
RULES
For each day of competition, pick the winners of each battle.
If your bot wins, you score points!
Points Scored = (contestant rank difference) / 4 rounded to nearest integer – so root for the underdogs when it makes sense!
PLOT TWIST! If we pick the same robot to win a battle…
… if the robot loses, the point leader after the round cannot pick the winner to win in the next round.
…if the robot wins, the point leader after the round MUST pick that bot to win in the next round.
…if the point leader has conflicting rules in a battle, the rules are all invalidated.
Round of 32
Ep11 Mike Skorpios Minotaur Copperhead Glitch/WitchDoctor Hijinx P1 Huge Riptide
Ep11 Dan EndGame Bloodsport Lucky Glitch/WitchDoctor Sawblaze Hypershock Huge Riptide
Ep12 Mike Ribbot MadCatter Blip Tombstone Whiplash Yeti Rotator Tantrum
Ep12 Dan Hydra/Defender BlackDragon Blip Tombstone IceWave Cobalt CaptainShredderator Gigabyte
Dan | 2 – 2 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 4 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 8 – 8 – 8 – 15 … |
Mike | 2 – 4 – 5 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 7 – 7 – 7 – 7 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 11 … |
Round of Sixteen
Dan EndGame WitchDoctor SawBlaze UpperCut Hydra Blip Cobalt Tantrum
Mike Minotaur Copperhead SawBlaze Riptide BlackDragon Blip Cobalt Tantrum
Dan | 15 – 15 – 18 – 21 – 22 – 25 – 25 – |
Mike | 11 – 15 – 15 – 15 – 16 – 19 – 23 – |
Quarterfinals
Dan Minotaur Sawblaze Blip Cobalt
Mike Minotaur Riptide Hydra Tantrum
Dan | 25 – 26 – 26 – 26 – 26 – 26 – |
Mike | 23 – 23 – 24 – 30 – 31 – 31 – |
Semifinals
Dan WitchDoctor Hydra
Mike Sawblaze Tantrum
Finals
Dan WitchDoctor
Mike Tantrum
Dan | 26 – 26 – 31 – 31 |
Mike | 31 – 32 – 32 – 33 |
Even Covid can’t stop it.
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LEGEND | |
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+1 | Winning choice won this leg of the race |
+1 | Losing choice was eliminated (pick again) |
+2 | Winning choice won, and losing choice was eliminated – PERFECT! |
-1 | Winning choice was eliminated – pick again, loser… |
-1 | Losing choice won this leg – just… sad… |
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“Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast”. Life is a hard long slog sandwiched between Guy Ritchie movie releases. Once he sets the bar, whatever else you were watching turns to tepid tea.
Thank you Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain. For everything!
Smoother than smooth… near perfection.
Thank you Johns for… everything!
Stephen and I drove out to his home town of Jamesville to check on his family’s properties there. It’s about 3/4 of the way from Raleigh to OBX. Classic old town America.
After we visited his parcels, we hit the Roanoke, and saw fish jumping, a great blue heron, a kingfisher, turtles among the natural lily pads (beautiful), what looked to be a copperhead fall from a tree and take a gentle upstream swim, and a pack of turkey vultures enjoying a catfish head on the shore, ha. A beautiful natural river.
Jarmusch hanging out in those long stretched out moments in between the typical Hollywood dialog.
And. Winona.
This hot mess is a lot of chaotic fun, just don’t expect anything to be Olympic-level quality. Vroom vroom!
Rules: Watch all the qualifiers. Once the final 12 are named, each contestant ranks them first to last. Upon show completion, each contestant gets 12 points for each player, minus the number of slots you were “off”; e.g., 12 points if you picked the winner as the winner, and 1 point if you picked the winner as the loser.
RACERS
Dan picks:
1. Joao
2. Atsushi
3. Brittany
4. Alex
5. Corrina
6. Sara
7. Diego
8. Fielding
9. Faruk
10. Axel
11. Alexandre
12. Jordan
Mike picks:
1 Joao
2 Diego
3 Brittany
4 Atsushi
5 Faruk
6 Jordan
7 Sara
8 Axel
9 Fielding
10 Alex
11 Corinna
12 Alexandre
SCOREBOARD
Eliminated | Alexandre | Faruk | Fielding | Jordan | Sara | Brittany | Alex | Corrina | Joao | Atsushi | Axel | Diego |
Dan score | 11 | 21 | 31 | 40 | 50 | 58 | 68 | 79.5 | 88 | 99 | 103 | 109 |
Mike score | 12 | 18 | 29 | 38 | 49 | 57 | 65 | 71.5 | 80 | 91 | 97 | 106 |
DANNO WINS!!
He gets a website with user authentication, done by Mike.