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The March competition from #NHRL inspired me to crunch numbers.

It's not much, but it's a thing. Maybe more thing come later.

gitlab.com/jbt/nhrl_stats

#combatrobotics

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John Mar 8

Settling in for some #PrimeTime viewing on a 2-hour delay. Really looking forward to it. Don't spoil it for me too badly!

#NHRL #CombatRobotics

John Feb 28

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?

Chris Hayes Feb 7

#NHRL robot fighting is live today with the first tournament of 2026.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9yEINJzn_A #robots #NorwalkCT #Connecticut

All Day Robot Fighting Action: Round 1 of NHRL's 2026 Pro World Championship KO Show is LIVE!

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John Jan 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.

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John Dec 15

I challenge @gilhova
to watch 5:18:20 through 5:26:30 .

I'm going to say I rather appreciate that #NHRL doesn't do Olympics-style cheese mixing synchronized dance troops with CGI animation and blinking LEDs and black lights and laser show stuff... but hey they were trying something right?

John Dec 11

Anyone aware of "Battle of Robots" at "Games of the Future" coming up in a week? What is the ruleset, exactly? Single-elim bracket?

It's weird for an event with the largest 1st-place cash prize ever to have so few details available. And when I tried to watch what I could find of their one previous event, I was more confused than anything.

#combatrobotics ... not #NHRL or #BattleBots but I don't know what tags one would use for visibility ... #GamesOfTheFuture I guess?

Chris Hayes Dec 6

Norwalk Havoc Robot League is back today for their last meet of 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klADSAUnOv4 #robotics #NHRL #Connecticut