Tournament Of Champions Episode 2

[Vicki]

Overthe course of 10 hour-long episodes containing two half-hour games, the six champions will compete across a series of league-style games that follow the standard J! structure: Jeopardy!, Double Jeopardy! and Final Jeopardy!.

After seven episodes (14 games), the top four players will advance to the Semifinals before one more player is eliminated. The championship culminates with the top three players competing in the Masters Finals for the ultimate win.

The season was first confirmed by BattleBots co-founder Greg Munson in a September 2022 Behind the Bots podcast episode, revealing that it would comprise of six two-hour episodes. Due to scheduling limitations at filming, a major change over the previous season and BattleBots: Bounty Hunters is the absence of 'gatekeeper' rounds. As such, winners of the five Champions II 'tournament' episodes (also referred to in filming schedules as Qualifiers) will no longer be required to fight a 'Legendary Bot' in order to secure a place in the main 'Golden Bolt' bracket.[1]

The five Sin City Slugfest brackets comprised of three alternates and thirty-seven fully accepted competitors from World Championship VII. Filming schedules confirm that Champions II was recorded between 26-30 October 2022, in tandem with the latter stages of the World Championship VII tournament.[2] This explains the absence of Top 8 finishers in the side tournament.

As the only two former Giant Nut winners present for the filming of the 2022 competition, End Game and Tantrum once again automatically qualified for the Golden Bolt tournament without having to compete in the Sin City Slugfest episodes. They were joined by the World Championship VII Giant Nut winner, which was confirmed to be SawBlaze.

The Golden Bolt Tournament was once again won by End Game after defeating Free Shipping, JackPot and SawBlaze, making them the first robot since Bite Force to successfully defend their title as a reigning champion in a BattleBots competition.

The Best-in-Show awards from World Championship VII were presented near the end of the first episode of BattleBots: Champions II. The Excellence in Sportsmanship Award was won by Rory Mangles of Team Monsoon. The Most Destructive Robot Award was won by World Championship VII runner-up HUGE. The Grant Imahara Award for Best Design was won by RIPperoni and the Founder's Award was won by MadCatter.

On September 7, 2023, it was announced that BattleBots: Champions II would begin airing on October 5, 2023[3], and all five Sin City Slugfest brackets were revealed to Facebook Supporters. The BattleBots website was later updated to tease one fight from each of the upcoming Slugfest brackets.

On October 2, 2023, BattleBots released a video to Facebook teasing the premiere of BattleBots: Champions II. The first bracket was publicly revealed by Team Special Delivery that same day.[5] Like the previous installment, the following week's bracket was publicly revealed in the closing minutes of each episode, but episodes were no longer uploaded a day early on the discovery+ or Max streaming services.

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Whether you're thinking about attending your first travel tournament, have already attended travel tournaments, or are just exploring the idea to see if they are right for you and your family, there are several issues worth considering. From personal experience, there is definitely good and bad. No matter where you fall on the issues, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

My son and I just got back from three days on the road and we returned with all the tournament championship bling. In this episode, I'll share our experience, some of the issues our friends and colleagues from The Soccer Sidelines community had to say, and some of the things you should think about before climbing into the car for your next one.

Let's start with the positive. Travel tournaments are fun. Soccer is fun. Competition is fun. Getting some sun in an open space, making fun of crazy people amped up with adrenaline, eating crappy road food, vacuuming the latest turf filler from your car... Ahem. Well... they are fun!

All of these questions are legitimate to ask, right? After comparing notes with some of my European friends and running some numbers on the back of my virtual napkin, I'd have to agree that asking questions like these is probably a good idea no matter who you are. The answers to them depends on what we can do about what we find when we ask.

In this episode, I'm going to share with you the experience that my son and I just had this past weekend. He played four games in two days. We drove 3+ hours each way. We came home with medals, the tournament champion trophy, and a bunch of fun photos and memories. I'll also share what I might want to see done differently in tournaments in the future, as well as a few things that you can do to help make sure that your player(s) go prepared and come home without injury.

The typical travel tournament experience starts with an email from a coach or a team manager explaining that there is X tournament in Y location on A, B, C dates. Who's interested? Once interest is confirmed and fees are paid, then we start the process of booking hotels, scheduling time off from work, checking supplies, etc. Our experience was no different.

We started our trip on Friday night at about 8 PM. 3+ hours later, we arrived at our destination. My son slept in the car while I listened to music and podcasts. We arrived tired and ready for bed. After we checked in, got our keys, got our briefing on the free breakfast schedule, we were asleep in probably 30 minutes.

The next day, we woke in time for breakfast and an early start to the fields. Our first game was at 11 AM, so we arrived at 10:30. My son warmed up while I walked the campus and chatted with other sideline parents.

We won our first match 3:0 and at about 12:45, we made some weak plans with other team parents about where we would all go to eat. My son and I bailed on those plans, picked up some lunch and headed back to the hotel, where he spent the next few hours doing homework.

After homework, my son watched a movie and fell asleep for a between-match nap. This was his first time sleeping on a sofa bed, which meant that it would also be his first time being folded up in a sofa bed by a sophomoric dad who thought folding him up in a sofa bed might be fun.

Our next match was at 6:30 PM. We grabbed some light pre-dinner snacks and arrived at 6 PM for warmup. I spent some time in the car reading and responding to email until game time. At which point, I joined other team parents, made a few inquiries about how their lunch went (others bailed on lunch too, it seems), and we watched our team win the second match of the day 7:1.

A little after 8 PM, we left the complex and went to iHOP for dinner. My son ate like a termite in a pile of dead wood and we headed back to the hotel. I have no idea why there was a fireworks show that night, but there it was! We had the perfect view from our hotel room on the 4th floor. We were overlooking the trees where the show was going on. We watched it and I recorded it for you below.

The next morning, we woke in time for free hotel breakfast. We got to the field by 10:30 AM for an 11 AM start. We won that match 2:1 and we broke for lunch on Day #2. Another trip to Panera Bread and some minimal rest in the restaurant and the car, and we were back at the field by 2:45 PM for a 3:30 PM final game.

About 90 minutes later, we won that match 2:0. We spend another 30 - 45 minutes regrouping, picking up medals, getting photos with the tournament champion trophy, and headed back to our cars. We left in the rain for another 3+ hour drive back home and arrived around 9 PM. No dinner on the road for us. Just snacks we packed before we left.

I will admit that spending time with my son for two plus days is a treasure all by itself. We could have enjoyed that time together if we were backpacking in the back country, playing soccer, or painting our garage. That part of weekend activities is always fun for us, so the Fun Factor of these tournaments gets a thumbs up from me.

The tournament that we attended boasted 146 teams that each paid between $575 and $725 per team. I did the math for you based on each of the teams ages and average fees on their Website. I figure this tournament grossed $97,750 in team entry fees. This number doesn't include the sponsorships they get from surrounding businesses, the percentage of all merchandise sold, or any kickbacks hotels give for booking them solid.

If you figure that the average travel team will do 1-3 soccer tournaments in a season, you're looking at $500 - $1500 per year in just the travel experience. Most of this "travel" money is on top of whatever club, league, trainer, uniform and equipment fees is customary for your area.

In my area, we pay $2,600 + uniform fees in addition to travel experiences like this. In case you're wondering because you know I also coach and serve as President and board chair of my own soccer club, we charge about $800 for roughly the same travel experience, but I keep club overhead and staffing costs to a minimum.

I've read estimates that a player playing a 90-minute game of soccer runs anywhere from 5-10 miles per game. If we take the median of 7.5 miles and divide that into 90 minutes, we get .08 miles per minute. In 70 minutes, a player will run 5.6 miles. Granted, some players run less than others, but if you'll allow the rounded math here for the sake of our discussion, each player ran about 22.4 miles this weekend. More than 11 miles per day across two back-to-back days.

A running marathon is 26.2 miles and they usually get 6-9 months to train before the event. This weekend, a bunch of 16-year-olds ran almost a full marathon. Think about that for a minute. They didn't run those 22.4 miles in one long amble. They ran it is a series of short sprints, cuts, and feints. They ran while dribbling a ball, while making and avoiding contact, while slide tackling, and while thinking strategically about what they need to do individually and as a unit to put balls in the net.

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