John3d ago
I really enjoyed the live audience voting in the #RobotRampage World Cup. I always play that game at home anyhow - trying to guess what's going to happen before it does is a really good prompt to thinking more deeply about what you're watching. And if you've followed me for a while you've seen me put out polls on this sort of thing.

So, yes, I'm very glad to see #BattleBots will be doing something similar with their new show. They won't be live, so it's a little different, because some small minority of the votes know for a fact who wins, but still... it's a nice gesture.

#NHRL does live shows, and are generally quite good at being online. I wonder if they've experimented with this sort of thing as a live-audience engagement thing before?
Edwin Groothuis4d ago

In the last three weeks the #ABC is broadcasting the US based #BattleBots instead of the UK based #robotwars

I find it too much trying-to-be-dramatic and not nerdy-it-could-be-you-and-behind-the-scenes enough.

The Hollywood Reporter5d ago

‘BattleBots’ Gets 20-Episode Order; New Season Will Premiere on YouTube Before Hitting Broadcast (Exclusive)
#TV #TVNews #BattleBots

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/battlebots-renewed-season-premiere-youtube-june-1236516464/

‘BattleBots’ Gets 20-Episode Order; New Season Will Premiere on YouTube Before Hitting Broadcast (Exclusive)

The folks behind BattleBots say this will give fans around the world the chance to watch new episodes at the same time.

The Hollywood Reporter
Aetherius Eldritch ⛤🧙‍♂️🎙️📻Feb 6

#datocurioso

¿Sabían que las competencias modernas de combate de robots tienen su origen en la frustración de un diseñador de efectos visuales de Lucasfilm por un juguete que no funcionaba?

Marc Thorpe, tras intentar sin éxito reparar un tanque a control remoto, conceptualizó la idea de un torneo donde las máquinas pudieran destruirse legalmente. El primer encuentro oficial tuvo lugar el 20 de agosto de 1994 en el Fort Mason Center de San Francisco, bajo el nombre original de Robot Wars (marca que Thorpe creó antes de que surgiera la serie británica y el posterior BattleBots).

Aquel evento inaugural contó con la participación de solo 16 robots y atrajo a una audiencia de mil personas. Entre los competidores pioneros se encontraban figuras que más tarde destacarían en otras áreas, como Caleb Chung (creador del juguete Furby) y Will Wright (creador del videojuego The Sims). Fue tras una disputa legal por los derechos de la marca "Robot Wars" que otros competidores del evento original, como Trey Roski y Greg Munson, decidieron fundar BattleBots en 1999, llevando el deporte a la televisión masiva y consolidando la estructura técnica de las arenas de combate que conocemos hoy.

#Tecnología #Robótica #Historia #BattleBots #Ingeniería #robot

Global News CanadaJan 25
Battle bots duel it out in Saskatoon
Robot enthusiasts are meeting in Saskatoon this weekend to watch and compete in a battle-bot tournament. Some contenders have spent years perfecting their robots.
#Robot #Battle #Tournament #Saskatoon #Canada #BattleBots
https://globalnews.ca/news/11636704/battle-bots-duel-it-out-in-saskatoon/
Battle bots duel it out in Saskatoon

Robot enthusiasts are meeting in Saskatoon this weekend to watch and compete in a battle-bot tournament. Some contenders have spent years perfecting their robots.

Global News
Global News SaskatoonJan 25
Battle bots duel it out in Saskatoon
Robot enthusiasts are meeting in Saskatoon this weekend to watch and compete in a battle-bot tournament. Some contenders have spent years perfecting their robots.
#Robot #Battle #Tournament #Saskatoon #Canada #BattleBots
https://globalnews.ca/news/11636704/battle-bots-duel-it-out-in-saskatoon/
Battle bots duel it out in Saskatoon

Robot enthusiasts are meeting in Saskatoon this weekend to watch and compete in a battle-bot tournament. Some contenders have spent years perfecting their robots.

Global News
Global NewsJan 25
Battle bots duel it out in Saskatoon
Robot enthusiasts are meeting in Saskatoon this weekend to watch and compete in a battle-bot tournament. Some contenders have spent years perfecting their robots.
#Robot #Battle #Tournament #Saskatoon #Canada #BattleBots
https://globalnews.ca/news/11636704/battle-bots-duel-it-out-in-saskatoon/
Battle bots duel it out in Saskatoon

Robot enthusiasts are meeting in Saskatoon this weekend to watch and compete in a battle-bot tournament. Some contenders have spent years perfecting their robots.

Global News
Show threadJohnJan 20
@kitten @ka_so

Honestly, I prefer #NHRL primarily because they're producing more new, regularly-scheduled, high-quality competition shows in places I can easily watch.

If #BattleBots went back to a championship every year plus FaceOffs or whatever... frankly I'd just watch both. I'm not so strapped for screen time that I have pick one or the other.
Show threadJohnJan 20
@Dio9sys FWIW nets are illegal in #BattleBots (under the category of entanglement devices). So your BB4QcD could just outlaw them too, if you like.
JohnJan 20
One of my New Year's resolutions was to make weight as a BattleBot by the end of the year. This is a pretty modest goal, which would bring my BMI from 30.3 to 28.9 (or lower). But it used to be that when I thought a casual observer of the videos didn't appreciate the scale of things I could point out: "Those machines weigh more than I do." which would often shock people because I'm a rather large person... and it's kinda sad that I can't say that anymore.

It's pretty early in the year so whether I appear to be on-track to reach teh goal depends on what time of day I weigh myself.

#BattleBots #WeightLoss