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Guys we could revive Battlebots in a very simple way, give the bots guns.
BattleBots - IT'S ROBOT FIGHTING TIME (probably spoilers)
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Yeah, basically this. They've been stating that they're planning on taping the next season some time in the next 6-8 months for two years now. The goal posts just keep getting moved.
It's strange that they had this whole announcement about Destruct-A-Thon ending... and then less than a month later they turn around and say "actually, ourbad, Destruct-A-Thon is still happening and we're doing the FaceOffs events next month as planned". Was that a ploy for attention or something? Like, claim the show is coming to an end and then turning around with a SIKE and saying it's still running? What happens in the very likely scenario where people only see the first announcement and just assume it's over for good?
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Today I was made aware of a collab between Mark Rober and Dude Perfect(two huge youtube channels). And I found out about it cause Ray Billings uploaded a video about it, since they were doing a robot battle and needed someone to provide them with bots as well as expertise in robot fighting(particularly the safety).
Verdict: it fucking sucked, cause it was scripted and aimed at kiddie demographic. The arena looked too flimsy, but if what Ray says is true, it was just more fakery and all the "dangerous" parts(polycabonate cracking, robot getting flung onto the roof of Mark's booth, etc.) were staged and must've been filmed separately.
Dude Perfect ended up using two of Ray's bots: Stink Eye and Brimstone, that they never called by their names, and hilariously enough, referred to Brimstone, which was brand new, as "decommissioned battlebot". And even though Mark would've been perfectly capable of building a bot of his own, he ended up using Blip that was designed and built by the same guys that made Tantrum. In the video he explains how the flipping mechanism works as if he was the one that designed it, although he does give credit in the description.
So yeah... redditors on the Battlebots sub hated it, but the target demographic seems to have loved it.
Link to reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots...ineer_mark_rober_vs_dude_perfect_feat_blip_5/
Verdict: it fucking sucked, cause it was scripted and aimed at kiddie demographic. The arena looked too flimsy, but if what Ray says is true, it was just more fakery and all the "dangerous" parts(polycabonate cracking, robot getting flung onto the roof of Mark's booth, etc.) were staged and must've been filmed separately.
Dude Perfect ended up using two of Ray's bots: Stink Eye and Brimstone, that they never called by their names, and hilariously enough, referred to Brimstone, which was brand new, as "decommissioned battlebot". And even though Mark would've been perfectly capable of building a bot of his own, he ended up using Blip that was designed and built by the same guys that made Tantrum. In the video he explains how the flipping mechanism works as if he was the one that designed it, although he does give credit in the description.
So yeah... redditors on the Battlebots sub hated it, but the target demographic seems to have loved it.
Link to reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlebots...ineer_mark_rober_vs_dude_perfect_feat_blip_5/
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New season on Youtube this June.
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One and a half year thread bump and the show is actually coming back?
YouTube episodes don't sound all that exciting though, but I guess it's good to hear that the show survived being absolutely raped by the Discovery / Warner Bros merger. Hopefully the "new season" is better than the live-cut fights they have been doing from their nightly Vegas shows.
YouTube episodes don't sound all that exciting though, but I guess it's good to hear that the show survived being absolutely raped by the Discovery / Warner Bros merger. Hopefully the "new season" is better than the live-cut fights they have been doing from their nightly Vegas shows.
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I came back with the milk. Just catching up on news.
So the Battlebot FaceOffs are being released again with the news of a new series. You can find the 5 eps available so far here:
These are placer battles for what should be World Championship 8, or S8 of the reboot season. Even after all this time they still haven't found a sponsor for it.
The actual big news though is BattleBots Pro League, a spin off series that was announced a few weeks ago by the Hollywood Reporter.
From what I can tell, this is a separate series being filmed in May to then be put on YT in June. It would then go a few months in editing to be shown on Network TV as part of a new deal somewhere. Maybe.
The format is going to be Chris, Kenny and Faruq coming back to host a special tournament featuring bots like End Game, Tombstone and Witch Doctor.
This tournament is being sponsored by Bright Data, their branding is all over. From what I can tell, Bright Data is an Israeli VPN/Proxy service that provides traffic for AI companies. Think of them as the middle man between servers and LLMs and they're supposed to make $400 million by the middle of this year. They have money to burn if they want to sponsor a Battlebots tournament.
So the Battlebot FaceOffs are being released again with the news of a new series. You can find the 5 eps available so far here:
The announcers arn't Chris and Kenny, it's the Destruct-A-Thon ones I think.
These are placer battles for what should be World Championship 8, or S8 of the reboot season. Even after all this time they still haven't found a sponsor for it.
The actual big news though is BattleBots Pro League, a spin off series that was announced a few weeks ago by the Hollywood Reporter.
The format is going to be Chris, Kenny and Faruq coming back to host a special tournament featuring bots like End Game, Tombstone and Witch Doctor.
This tournament is being sponsored by Bright Data, their branding is all over. From what I can tell, Bright Data is an Israeli VPN/Proxy service that provides traffic for AI companies. Think of them as the middle man between servers and LLMs and they're supposed to make $400 million by the middle of this year. They have money to burn if they want to sponsor a Battlebots tournament.
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Unless I am mistaken... BattleBots FaceOffs was something they filmed literally like two(?) years ago throughout their nightly Vegas events (Destruct-O-Thon). The entire series is available to their Facebook supporters (something I remember complaining about in this thread a long time ago), it's just taken them this long to get to the fifth episode of it on YouTube. Mind you, the things they are posting to YouTube I believe are the exact same cuts they made for Facebook supporters 2 years ago. It's just taken them this long to click the Upload Video button.
This is kind of a mess though. So FaceOffs are NOT the "YouTube only season that maybe might be going on Big Boy TV in the future". That would actually be this "Pro League" thing that's sponsored by some kike VPN/AI company. Yet, BattleBots has been dragging their feet posting their FaceOffs videos (and as far as I know 0 Proving Grounds videos have gone up on official channels) so what's going to happen is that if these Pro League videos are going to be filmed and posted in June, they are going to be mixed in with legacy content from FaceOffs that was filmed when fucking Biden was in office but was never posted until now.
Christ.
edit: I just realized I named no less than FOUR different spin-off "series" from BattleBots in this post. FaceOffs, Destruct-O-Thon, Proving Grounds, and Pro League. And I know during the TV series run they also had Champions and Bounty Hunters. Excellent branding guys, definitely not confusing at all.
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Yeah, you're right. The original FaceOffs were filmed in 2024 and I assume they're just B-Roll BB have had lying around for them to upload whenever they feel like, like having a new sponsor available for a new spin-off series.
"The first FaceOffs group was split into two parts, the first of which premiered on March 27, 2025. The second half of Episode 1 would be shared on April 4 and Episode 2 was uploaded as a single episode on May 8, 2025. Episode 3 premiered on July 24 and Episode 4 followed on September 18. Following a six-month hiatus, Episode 5 released on March 5, 2026"
Not even counting the Re;MARS event they had in 2019 or 2022.
Oh from the wikipage on Pro League:
"Hydra and Deep-Sea Shark were originally scheduled to compete in the Pro League, but withdrew and were replaced by Switchback and Ribbot."
"SawBlaze was invited to compete, but the team declined after "careful consideration", according to Jamison Go. Greg Munson confirmed this to be due to "personal reasons" on Facebook and Bloodsport got the callup to take their place."
"The same is true of Whiplash, though it is unknown who replaced the 2020 season runner-up."
"Monsoon was also invited, but the team declined as Tom and Sarah Brewster were expecting their first child."
"Banshee and Traves T. were "rejected" by BattleBots production, according to their team captains."
Some of these messages were posted in the NHRL public discord. Which seems to have attracted a few of the builders to use instead of Reddit for getting news out into the community.
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Cool so just another pozzed shithole for nonsense to be cast into the aether.
It's interesting that Traves T was "rejected" by production when that robot has pretty much been the stand-out star of their Proving Grounds event I think? That's the robot that looks like an impossibly rickety hunk of shit but it's literally just a big glass cannon with a giant spinning blade that blows things apart in a single hit. I assume maybe they were turned down because technically Traves T never competed in the televised seasons so they only want TV bots to be on this Pro League thing? Banshee just sucks though, despite that being one of the "TV bots" it sucked big time so yeah I can see production giving that team the thumbs down.
That said, no idea who Deep Sea Shark is, so I guess that kind of discounts my "Traves T was rejected for not being in a televised season" hypothesis.
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If you aren't part of it, the OOTA discord is pretty much the place to be for robot news. Thats not what you meant for NHRL public discord, is it?
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No. Out of the Arena is one for general robotic fights but the messages that Jamison Go posted where in the National Havoc Robot League discord.
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New episode drops Thursday on youtube, as a reminder to all.
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Got the fight card:
All are returning bots except Golden Fury. They're an Indian team that applied for Season 5 in 2020 but had to stay in the country due to Corona. They've been in a few competitions in the UK, Dubai and Russia but this will be their Pro League debut.
That competition in Russia though. Apparently it's called the "Bitva Robotov" and only BRICS countries enter it. Here's the 2024 lineup for example:
Black Dragon was in the 2025 competition and came 2nd, if I'm reading the result list correctly.
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Man, they're really not sending their best. I guess out of those six maybe End Game is the best one? Didn't that team win one of the TV championships or something? Either that or they got one of those giant bolts and not the nut for winning one of the "we need to fill time at the end of the taping sessions" secondary events.
Hypershock is fine but it was one of those robots that either had a really good season or a really bad one and it alternated between the two of them. Death Roll is also fine but I think that team only showed up twice, and they only did well their second time out because they had a string of big wins and upsets if memory serves right.
I know Huge was a tournament runner-up in the very last TV season, but I think in general the design is kind of stupid and it wears out its welcome pretty fast. It's cool and all, a nice idea for sure and I'm certain it's an absolute pain in the ass to fight against it, but I just don't like it. It's borderline just a shitty meme robot with the dumb face it has. Maybe that's why I don't like it.
Malice just sucks. I don't know how the fuck you can slap one of those big ass electric pancake style motors onto your robot, the same one that Bite Force and Tombstone used to use, and come up with something that just absolutely cannot fight worth a shit every single time it enters the ring.
The Chinese bot that's new looks like Riptide, that robot that really struck a nerve with the community because the driver was that off the wall sperg whose father was some weird autism denier/shill and completely obliterated Shrederator despite the team trying to tell them they were dead and to knock it off. Would not surprise me if Riptide's team sold it, or if it's just a straight knock-off because objectively that dumb egg-beater drum design seems excessively prevalent.
Hypershock is fine but it was one of those robots that either had a really good season or a really bad one and it alternated between the two of them. Death Roll is also fine but I think that team only showed up twice, and they only did well their second time out because they had a string of big wins and upsets if memory serves right.
I know Huge was a tournament runner-up in the very last TV season, but I think in general the design is kind of stupid and it wears out its welcome pretty fast. It's cool and all, a nice idea for sure and I'm certain it's an absolute pain in the ass to fight against it, but I just don't like it. It's borderline just a shitty meme robot with the dumb face it has. Maybe that's why I don't like it.
Malice just sucks. I don't know how the fuck you can slap one of those big ass electric pancake style motors onto your robot, the same one that Bite Force and Tombstone used to use, and come up with something that just absolutely cannot fight worth a shit every single time it enters the ring.
The Chinese bot that's new looks like Riptide, that robot that really struck a nerve with the community because the driver was that off the wall sperg whose father was some weird autism denier/shill and completely obliterated Shrederator despite the team trying to tell them they were dead and to knock it off. Would not surprise me if Riptide's team sold it, or if it's just a straight knock-off because objectively that dumb egg-beater drum design seems excessively prevalent.
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Deep Sea Shark is Mad Catter with the serial number filed off.
edit: The fight card has two runner ups and a two time champion, if you don't like that card then you'll likely hate every one after it.
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Did End Game win two seasons? Who's the other runner-up other than Huge? I don't think Hypershock ever made it past the semifinals, same with Death Roll. Malice isn't even part of that conversation, lmao.
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Death Roll had a cinderella run in season 2 or 3, didn't they?
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OG Death Roll was taken out by Shrederator early on, and I think the only other time it competed it had a surprise run but stopped in the semifinals?
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If only there was a wiki for this. You're right, they were just a semifinalist in season 3. Still a good, fun bot though.
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The first episode of the BattleBots Pro Series thing is up. People are bitching in the comments about "the editing" being bad but I'm not seeing it. It's noticeably faster than the show was but while there are a lot of cuts I think the video artificially feels even faster because it's running at 60 FPS and the movement looks more fluid. The TV episodes were broadcast in 30, except for the ones paid for by ABC those were 60 too. A lot of the tension after the fights when they talk about the judges' calls and stuff is cut out but I'm not complaining, the boring reality TV pacing can go out the window when there aren't niggercattle ads to show between the fights to pad out the runtime or have the stereotypical "and the winner is.... AFTER THE BREAK" shit.
Some of the cuts do seem weird though, like when one of the judges gets asked a question and he's in the middle of playing with his phone and he quickly sets it down but it zooms way in on the phone as a joke (I guess). There is a lot of engagement bait, I don't think they understand how to do it. I lost count of how many "WHAT DO YOU THINK" banners that Kenny Florian reads. It feels like a fucking Quartering video.
First fight is Death Roll and Golden Fury. Hosts say Golden Fury is the first robot from India and I knew that sounded incorrect because I'd swear there was another one so I went to the wiki that @whatever I feel like reminded me existed and yeah there was "ATOM94". But despite the entire team being streetshitters they were apparently "from Canada". Death Roll fights about the same as I remember seeing it last. Indian robot shits the bed and loses its weapon but Death Roll can't fight worth a shit and gets pushed around and loses. The driver of Golden Fury's name is "Logeshwaran Balasundaram" which looks like the scientific name for an as of yet undiscovered species of tapeworm. They have to subtitle the fucking guy when he talks.
Hypershock and Huge was unimpressive and fast. Hypershock's awkward big bar makes it resemble a shitty 2000's era design in the gussied up body of a contemporary robot and despite visibly spinning really fast it gets zero bite on Huge. One of Huge's wheels just stops working meaning all Hypershock has to do is not touch the big spinning thing on its opponent and it'll win. What winds up happening is somehow Hypershock loses half of its wheels and the mount(?) on one of the other ones breaks and it dies.
End Game and Malice was somehow an even worse fight. End Game's weapon just breaks immediately and Malice is about as effective of a robot as I expected which is to say it sucks and despite having this super cool redesigned weapon and all this other dumb shit they talk about it does exactly fucking nothing until two minutes in when End Game somehow catches a stray and flips over and stops working.
Terrible fights. All of them. And these retards are complaining about the editing.
Hypershock and Huge was unimpressive and fast. Hypershock's awkward big bar makes it resemble a shitty 2000's era design in the gussied up body of a contemporary robot and despite visibly spinning really fast it gets zero bite on Huge. One of Huge's wheels just stops working meaning all Hypershock has to do is not touch the big spinning thing on its opponent and it'll win. What winds up happening is somehow Hypershock loses half of its wheels and the mount(?) on one of the other ones breaks and it dies.
End Game and Malice was somehow an even worse fight. End Game's weapon just breaks immediately and Malice is about as effective of a robot as I expected which is to say it sucks and despite having this super cool redesigned weapon and all this other dumb shit they talk about it does exactly fucking nothing until two minutes in when End Game somehow catches a stray and flips over and stops working.
Terrible fights. All of them. And these retards are complaining about the editing.
I got confused by the graphic that was posted earlier. I saw the six robots and thought they were doing another round-robin thing, not just three battles. Should've paid more attention.