Battlebots cobalt
Shellshock, a shell spinner, is also here and is paired up with RailGun Max. You might remember Tantrum as the robot whose decorative fist was ripped off of its chassis by Tombstone and embedded into the arena framework last season. Arriving this episode is the new Tantrum looking to take on Gemini.
We’re one episode shy of the mid-season Desperado event and we’re still seeing bots making their season debuts (televised, at least). We don’t yet know who’s participating in this event because there’s still a few bots in this episode who’ve yet to reach the point where their teams need to make some hard choices but I’m sure we’ll find out who’s in the event at the end of the episode because the Desperado is literally the next one. The Desperado event is a miniature tournament of eight robots where the winner automatically qualifies for the main tournament. Right now we’re seeing a lot of robots reach the halfway point and some of them are turning in early showings of 0-2 and 1-1 which obviously don’t bode well for their chances at qualifying. So far this “Fight Night” hubbub is actually a collection of qualification rounds and everyone gets four of them in order to stake their claims and vie for a place in the main tournament that’ll happen in the last few episodes of the season. Relationship goals, am I right you guys?Īnyways if you’ve somehow made it to the seventh episode of the season and you still don’t know what this “Desperado” thing is I’ll break down alongside Chris. Kenny says Chris will always be “the elf on his shelf”. Even if we wind up never having another season of snow again and our Christmas pines get replaced with that stupid palm tree from the Corona beer commercial they’ve been showing for 30 goddamned years at least the calendar will still say “December”.
I know the planet is warming up to the point where December might as well be the new August but for fuck’s sake at least wait until the calendar is ready to keep up with your joke. I also have to point out how relevant it is to hear Chris Rose open the episode with an extended Christmas analogy. This is the final episode of the season before the Desperado event and I don’t know about you but I think I’m ready to not hear Kenny Florian say the word “Desperado” again until next season. Faruq just heard Kenny say “Desperado” for the 40th time.