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Naah, they'd never recapture the magic. Bring back similar shows like junkyard wars and battlebots.
Battle bots is still going on. They have new seasons every year. There is a large break in between for rebuilds and try outs.
I'm personally addicted to the smaller battle bot leagues like NHRL.
I love how creative ant and beetle weight battles are. Folks show up with literal pieces of trash attached to a motor and make havoc.
Did you see Dutch Oven? Holy fuck that's the scariest robot I've ever seen!
You mean the tiny robot that MELTED the arena??
Yes, yes I have.
I'd really like to see a BattleBot league with a lower budget.
For example there are car racing leagues with a strict spending limit of $2,500 or so. This is enforced by allowing any racer at any time to request trading vehicles and the other driver must oblige.
Yeah would be sick if I could pay $100 and be equally matched. Ant League is certainly cheaper, but then it gets silly because you have people with kits or plastic bots, against custom titanium bots.
Like this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E5ckRtBJ4c
First match is against a really nifty bot that has a really large plastic pushing wedge, and it did really good with its pins and control, and hits on its wedge did jack all because it just bounced around and didn't transfer the force to the main body. Like its wedge just worked as a great crumple zone.
But against a super optimized metal bot it still was a doomed battle.
Then the bot Temper probably costs as much as a car. That thing is sick, but oh boy does it look expensive.
Scrapheap Challenge! Found some of it on youtube :D
Unfortunately they can't bring Grant Imahara back :'(
Isn't there a current bot-fighting league? NHRL or something like that? They keep popping up in my YouTube recommendations, but I haven't done a deep dive into them.