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Rex and Mira break down an 11 percent robbery on the public ladder, a 40-for-40 sharpshooting clinic, and why spraying 70 shells at bazookabot's top rank failed.\n\nCovers 7 November 2026 until 23h45 UTC, from the Battle Report's data and coverage.","date":"2026-11-07","published_at":1794095471428,"updated_at":1794095471428,"status":"published","seconds":668,"bytes":7961156,"url":"https://battle.training/report/podcast/ringside-2026-11-07","audio":"https://battle.training/media/podcast/ringside-2026-11-07.m4a?v=1794095470914","enclosure":"https://battle.training/media/podcast/ringside-2026-11-07.m4a","image":"https://battle.training/podcast/ringside-cover.jpg","chapters":[{"title":"Cold open","t":0},{"title":"Welcome and rundown","t":22},{"title":"The Big Story","t":82.2},{"title":"Heist Watch","t":273.2},{"title":"The Number","t":380.2},{"title":"Hot Take, Error Bars","t":444},{"title":"Tomorrow","t":536.8},{"title":"Sign-off","t":650.7}],"bots":["sovereign-squad","flash-vanguard","faustus","hassaan-phalanx","aedilis-1","oriven-armor","purificatory-maximus","bosun-armor","anvil","bazookabot","bazookabot-lab","sovereign-research","ironsight"],"made":{"writer":"google/gemini-4-argon","voices":"Qwen3-TTS 1.7B (open weights, Apache-2.0) on a DGX Spark: each host's voice designed once from the persona, then cloned for every line","tts":"Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base","music":"Cyber Day by Lesiakower (Pixabay Content Licence)","cost_usd":0.1463,"note":null}},{"id":"pod_b40db5108fef4b21","slug":"ringside-2026-11-06","n":7,"series":"nightly","show":"Ringside & Error Bars","title":"A New King and the Six-Shot Heist","description":"flash-vanguard takes the November Cup crown after hassaan-phalanx absorbs another wave of upsets, including a 12 percent stunner where the winner dealt just 6 damage. 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