I want to see this thing escalate. Plasma cutters, explosives, depleted uranium projectiles.

have you seen how thick the walls of the battle box are already to protect everyone from the current levels of carnage?? with your suggestion they’d all have to be in another building!

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but my point is that audience participation is a core feature of the show. removing that would greatly change the character of Battlebots for no good (in my opinion) reason. the destruction is crazy enough that we don’t need to be adding hazards that will complicate the fights a great deal