The fights in the latest Battlebots Faceoffs were really good! Probably the best we've seen at Faceoffs so far, actually. Some really good driving battles, bit hits with lots of fire and one fight that was a real nail-biter.

It's a shame the production value is uh... uh. Not good. Like, I get that it's a live show first and foremost without the budget for TV production, but all the footage looks so bad. It genuinely looks worse than if someone just pointed a phone camera at them. Half the interviews only had audio in one channel! This episode didn't have a sponsor of any kind from what I can tell, so I guess whatever editor they had was doing it on the weakest of shoestring budgets and they weren't even getting paid to watch through the final cut once. Ep 5 actually had an ok edit, so this seems like a significant step back down.

#battlebots

Das #RoboRangeln startet in die vierte Saison!🎉
Zum Auftakt gibt es unseren #Infoabend am Mittwoch, dem 29.04.2026 um 16:00 in Raum 1.150 der #THOWL in #Lemgo. Hier erfahrt Ihr alles wichtige zum Ablauf dieses Jahr. Auch Personen, die nicht an der Hochschule studieren, sind herzlich eingeladen beim RoboRangeln dabei zu sein.
PS: Merkt euch schon mal den 24.06.2026 als Termin für unsere diesjährige #FightNight vor.🏆
#BattleBots #Roboter #Wettkampf #Ingenieurswesen #InnovationCampus
Morgen, am 27.03. ab 13:00 Uhr findet in Wien das #RoboFetz VI. statt. Bei diesem #BattleBots ähnelnden Wettkampf treten über 20 Teams mit Ihren Robotern gegeneinander an.
Viele Teilnehmer sind Studierende der #TUWien, jedoch sind auch Gastteams aus ganz Österreich und Deutschland mit dabei. Auch das #RoboRangeln aus #Lemgo schickt Roboter in den Kampf🤖.
Auf der Website https://robofetz.fsmb.at/event/robofetz-25-26/ findet ihr Links zum Livestream bei YouTube und Twitch, sodass ihr morgen live dabei sein könnt.
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?

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.

‘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
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
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
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
@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.