BattleBots Scheduled For Comback Next Month (Maybe)
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 11 of March , 2009 at 6:01 am
After a long wait, BattleBots is finally heading back to TV. Maybe. From April 21 – 26, BattleBots will be holding (and taping) Pro, College, and High School events here in San Francisco. While the high school and college events will be 120 pound middleweights, the pros will be fighting with gigantic 220 pound heavyweights, all of which are required to have active weapons systems (i.e. no more wedges).
Beyond a place and time for the competition itself, nobody seems sure exactly what the deal is going to be, especially when it comes to getting BattleBots on TV. When we first reported that the show was going to be resurrected, it was supposed to be coming back to ESPN (according to Popular Mechanics). Now, BattleBots is “currently finalizing negotiations” with an unspecified network, which makes me think that whatever they had going with ESPN probably fell through to some extent. So, although all of the matches are going to be taped for TV, it remains to be seen whether or not you and I are going to be able to actually watch any of them.
Meantime, if you’re looking for combat robots, RoboGames 2009 is open to the public and taking place in San Francisco June 12 – 14. We’ll be bringing you live coverage of the event (of course!), and you can check out our videos from last year here.
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Comment by Chris L
Made Thursday, 19 of March , 2009 at 10:19 am
I wondered when they’d resurrect this show. It seems tailor made for Spike. SciFi (erm i mean SyFy…) would probably take it as well.