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Classic Robot Wars had two spin-off 'Extreme' series involving wrestling-style side events rather than a single main championship. If BattleBots ever took on this idea (I think it would be excellent), what might an episode schedule look like?

Historical events included:

• Vengence: head-to-head grudge match

• Challenge Belt: head-to-head belt title, the winner of each fight taking or keeping the belt

• Tag Team Terror: two-vs-two tag-team fights, traditionally breaking down into four-way madness

• Wild Card Warriors: head-to-head novice-versus-veteran fights

• Mayhem: three-way qualifier match for an Annihilator

• Annihilator: multi-round six-way competition in which multiple bots fight at once and each round ends as soon as one competitor is elimated (immobilised, OOTA'd etc); the remaining combatants fight in the next round, onwards until one remains

• World Championship: side championship involving international representatives

... and assorted one-off fights and championships, such as:

• 'Championships' for other weightclasses (usually big rumbles)

• New Blood: side championship for novice competitors, the prize being qualification for the next main season

• All-Stars: side championship involving seasoned veterans

• Themed melees: rumbles where all participants have the same weapon type, are from the same country, have similar jobs (e.g. armed forces, universities) etc.

RETROBOTS is my upcoming game that brings high intensity, arcade chaos to robot combat. Consider this the Mario Kart of Robot Fighting! RETROBOTS is in early development. Stay tuned for more news coming soon, and get ready to Kick Some Bot in RETROBOTS! 🥊 🤖

Personally I have two, the first is that the arena hazards are a net negative for the competition and should be removed. My second is that I believe that Magnitude has the greatest potential out of all the Battlebots. If team magnitude can find a way to keep that bot from bouncing around after weapon hits (look at the manta fight to see what I mean), with some better driving I think it becomes a dominant force. I can’t wait to see more of it in Pro League, Ray Billings was impressed by it in his video too.

After being a fan of robot wars for ages and finally watching battlebots (discovery series) at the end of last year, I decided to give bot building a go and made a pincer & axe beetleweight named Dr Valverde

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some of you have probably noticed that rusty has had a really tough schedule. Lock Jaw. Witch Doctor, Beta. I believe, that this is because BattleBots knows that we love him, and wants rusty to have as many televised fights as possible.

The Critter Crunch was one of the first if not the first robot combat event in history. Sources differ on the exact start date, (1986, 87, and 89 have all been claimed) but it ended in 2022.

Unfortunately, not much information exists about the Critter Crunch, so to make it easier for people to research the Critter Crunch online, I have put together a list of all the sources I can find about the Critter Crunch.

If you want to research the critter crunch, my list of sources is here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UekESSDzZirGdJREXpZTx2-CDPFh35iDlvftiuYWhRA/edit?usp=drivesdk

If there are any sources I missed then tell me, and I will update the list.

edit: I initially linked the sources list on the internet archive, but for some reason the links didn't work so I changed it to Google docs.