That's a second extremely unlucky loss for Ragnarok. Getting toppled by Monsoon, now deflecting one hit from Valkyrie right into another hit directly into the motors... god, that really sucks. That bot should not be 0-2 right now.
I'm not sure I can get on board with this. Like it has been practically one-shotted in each of it's appearances. For a new bot, I don't chalk it up to bad luck, just a bad bot. Part of that I'll admit is a bias I have against hammer-bots (I think they are wildly out-dated and will never be consistently competitive in the current BB environment), but I think that like Subzero or Axe Backwards, it's just a bad robot.
I'm sorry, I just can't agree with you.
Getting hit by Monsoon in the exact spot that killed its axe motor and stopped it from self-righting on the first hit that also flipped it? Bouncing Valkyrie right up to its gears, a place that Valkyrie's spinner wouldn't be able to hit normally, causing a non-fatal hit to become fatal? There's no way in hell those took any skill by the other teams or were the result of any sort of obvious flaw in Ragnarok. To me, it was all just bad luck. I'm not going to sit here and pretend that Ragnarok would have won both of those fights had those things not happened (I still think Monsoon would have beaten them in the end) but I can damn sure say that it wouldn't have died in one hit either time if it weren't for bad luck.
If they lose their next fight and the loss isn't something fluke-y like the Valkyrie one, then I might agree with you. But not yet.
I guess I'm just too harsh, but I typically don't give any bots the benefit of the doubt until they can prove it in the box. Maybe Ragnarok is a really strong bot who is unlucky but right now I have no reason to believe it. ---
S*** I have to stop doing that," Gheb said, as he lay back down and died again. - Forgotten Love Chiefs are going to win the Super Bowl