Wonder why I didn’t have 25 robot images for the BattleBots 25
th anniversary? In case of a draw, that’s why!
Here’s the tie breaker image - best guess counts (it wasn't needed):
Answer Key:
- Mammoth
- Diesector
- Ziggo
- Death Roll
- Vlad the Impaler (1.0)
- Son of Whyachi
- Ginsu (Season 2.0)
- Hazard
- SABotage
- Sunshine Lollibot
- No Tolerance III
- War Machine
- Rhino
- Double Agent
- Whacker
- Tentomushi
- Fang
- Super Ginsu / Ginsu 1999
- Phere
- Road Dot
- Eye of the Storm
- Timber Wolf
- MicroVore
- Monster
And the unused tiebreaker: 25. ÆON 00
Winner
Our winner with a score of 33 from a possible 48 is: DRACO from
BATTLEBOTS UPDATE.
Yes he is a ringer, but there was no separate "professional" class. If it makes you feel better you can give him a hard time about the trivial error he made on his guess for Robot #11.
I know Iceybot said there was no prize, but I sent Draco a small prize as a momento of his win.
Draco's incorrect answers:
1) Nightmare
11) No Tolerance II
17) [no guess]
21) Evil Con Carne
22) [no guess]
23) MechaVore
None of the submitted entries correctly identified numbers 17) Fang, 21) Eye of the Storm, or 23) MicroVore.
Who in blazes is "ÆON 00"?
At BattleBots 3.0, lightweight ÆON 00 lost its first and only fight in a qualifying round to "Silver Bullet" by knockout. Depressed, ÆON 00 made its way toward the Golden Gate bridge to jump off.
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While "ÆON 00" was waiting at a cable car stop, "Silver Bullet" showed up all depressed over its opening-round loss to "Patriot". It was heading for the bridge as well.
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Then "Patriot" lost its TV-round fight to "Whirl Weap X25" and headed off to the cable car stop for a quick ride to the bridge.
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"Whirl Weap X25" lost to "Sublime" and quickly caught up with the others at the cable car stop.
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"Sublime" then lost to "Sallad", and "Sallad" lost to "Dr. Inferno, so they shared a cab ride to the cable car stop.
When the cable car finally arrived there wasn't room enough for all the 'bots to get on and go jump off the bridge, so they all just went home -- except for "ÆON 00", who wasn't paying attention and was run over by the cable car. "ÆON 00" was turned into a manhole cover and placed in the intersection of 3rd and Kearney, where it serves to this day.
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