![]() We have done so as well and you can see it at Again, this doesn't mean that there will no longer be a BattleBots, it just means a little more delay before you get to see a new season. I saw BattleBots live in person, before they were a TV series. As I recall, the event I was at (during Comdex 1999) was broadcast on pay-per-view on Super Bowl weekend a couple months later. The actual competition, before Comedy Central got ahold of it, was awesome. It was a really great time going, and I would have gladly paid to go to it again. Comedy Central turned it into something so crappy I didn't even want to watch it on TV. The 'commentary' and between-match garbage was so insufferable as to totally negate the coolness of the actual combat. Incidentally, Leo Laporte (the managing editor of ZDTV, now TechTV) was at the BattleBots show that my wife and I went to. We had a nice chat with him, where he asked us such questions as whether we would like to see BattleBots on TV, how often we think we might watch it, etc. He was keen on the show, and seemed really interested in getting it for ZDTV. So what happened? Well, I asked him the next time I saw him - at CES in early 2001. They did go after BattleBots, but very simply, they were outbid by Comedy Central. This is not surprising, given CC's obvious clout (and $) compared to TechTV. Whether TechTV even wants BattleBots now, is an open question, but I wouldn't put it past them. They don't have as high viewership requirements to consider something successful as Comedy Central has, I'm sure. If they do end up on TechTV, I'm sure it will be a better show than Comedy Central's was. Blech.Summertime is no-man’s land for sports fans. We’re fortunate to have a World Cup this year, but there are still no sports to watch after 4:30 p.m. EDT (baseball doesn’t count because nobody has watched an entire baseball game since 2007). Something needs to fill the void between Woj tweets. While there may not be many human sports going on this summer, Elon Musk says we will soon live in a posthuman world, so it’s the perfect time to dive into the best posthuman sport: BattleBots.īattleBots is why God invented electricity. Surely the pinnacle of human innovation is a televised March Madness-style tournament in which robot gladiators try to smash, squeeze, slice, and melt their opponents with military-grade weaponry. There are knives and axes and drones with flamethrowers. Bots that get too close to the walls are smashed by giant hammers. Bots that stay in the middle get skewered by “kill saws” that rise out of the ground like the tigers in Gladiator. ![]()
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