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Music: Ride of the Valkyries Carbonemys : 4/1+1/1/15+1/9 (+1 wedge) Jackal : 6/5/4/3/12 Turtling sucks, but I’m a turtle. Head straight for the closest corner and turtle there. With 15+1 damage, I’m doing four on every shot which is pretty srs bsns. The hazards only deal 2 points to me and hit from ...

Ghostwriting for Kody. I can do some solid damage to his front wedge and this is a good arena for spinners. I also have a wedge that's equal to his and better than the sections he can't press. The main part of my plan is just to avoid the hazards, stay spun up, and keep my 2WD toothed wedge facing h...

And just like that we go from lively to bleak, from a bustling Northern Canadian city full of natural goodness to the windswept highlands of Kran, Bulgaria, with its peasant farmers and grim, Soviet-era industrial remains. Perched atop the greatest of its hills is the mighty, decaying monument to Co...

In like sin. Tentatively reserving for FW, LW, MW, and HW. Bots and stats to come. Bot One This is mostly just here because it looks goddamned gorgeous: like a deadly hoverboard. That's right, I like my hoverboards deadly. I laugh in the face of danger, or something. Anyways, speaking of danger, jou...

We're in the home stretch now! Only two rounds remain for our lightweights and middleweights, and those that haven't had a bye week yet will actually be finished after this week! It's been a long road, but it isn't quite finished. Round six sees us returning to a favourite stomping ground of old: th...

Black Diamond: 8/6/2/5/9 vs. Spitfire: 6/6/2/6(4/4)/10 Both of us will take some damage fromt he hazards, but not a great deal. Just protect the wheels, mostly. The main thing here will just be outwedging him by using my speed advantage to angle in on his little prongs, which render the entire rest ...

The Cherry Bomb Classic Gazette Nine grueling weeks: that's how long we've been at this for, and the playoff picture is starting to take shape. While some groups have played out largely as expected, others have taken a left turn at Albuquerque. Many remain competitive but some have clearly stratifi...

This week, it's back to The Woodshed. Now, we could do the predictable thing and focus on just how terrifying this arena is. I mean, it's rough, no doubt, and things have gotten real in the final push towards the playoffs. Bots have been eliminated. A couple have locked up postseason spots but, for ...

Okay, HFL is going to pick apart my design with engineering stuff and hyperbole: unstable AF, vulnerable treads, some other obscure thing he can exploit. Let’s assume, for argument’s sake, that those are true. I still have a weapon that only needs one meaty hit to either kill his bot or cripple it. ...

It's easy for writers to make mistakes late at night, but we should definitely try to remember this, since I know that it matters to you. We went out and changed it anyways. Grats on the win. GL next week.

Well, you know you're past the halfway mark when you're back at the Asylum. I feel like there was a witty something or other to be made there, but I'm hungover, so it's just not happening this time around. Anyhow, what better place to grab a pint at your local pub than the English countryside just o...

Long Name Bots I Dance Crabcore, Motherfucker!: 6/5/2/7 (5/5)/10 (+1 claws) Vs. Lifter 2: Electric Boogaloo: 7/6/3/3/11 Okay, so this fight is going to be all about adjustment. He has a slight (one point) edge in all drive categories, meaning that he’s faster and a bit pushier and we have equal con...

Black Diamond: 8/6/2/5/9 Vs. Petaflare: 5/4/1/13(+1 srimech)/6 The wedge game is more or less a wash, but he’s slower against my quick-firing while I’m faster against his slower one. Weapon to weapon, he does 14 damage to my 11 armoured plow in theory, but I’ve got that great big blocking bar in the...

A simple vertical spinner from the March 26 half-hour render challenge. I called it Blue Malice because I couldn't think of a better name.

Blue Malice


Blue Malice by Floating Castle Robotics on Sketchfab

I wanted to have my own Hellhound, since it's an archetype I haven't done often before. I just wanted one that looks cool because I am an objectively better renderer than my brother, when he can be coaxed to render. Anyways, inspiration was wanting to make an American muscle-themed bot but then flip...