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I've been adding A LOT of battlebots photos and pages to Wikipedia (Ziggo, Toro, Megabyte, Super Megabyte, and all the photos for these bots as well as Blendo, Hazard, Biohazard, and Deadblow). Except A LOT more battlebot pages from me on the different battlebots in Battlebots.

This article could really benefit from some images!


I have been in the high-school compitition for Battlebots. My team entered a verticle spinner based on one that our technical advisor entered into Robotwars. --AJF

I noticed that the combat robots link is just a redirect to Battlebots. Since there are several of these competitions, though, including the older Robot Wars franchise, I think it would be better if there was a separate combat robots article. If anyone's feeling ambitious, they could go ahead and start that, possibly using some of the information about general types of combat robots, from the Robot Wars article. --4.246.3.203 18:50, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I've redirected combat robots to robot combat, which is a more generic page that references the various competitions.

I think this page should be reorganized. I think the discussion of the ring and hazards should be before the discussion of robot design. --ALM

It makes sense to me to have the description of matches before the description of the arena - as it is now. The 'robot design' link can go anywhere. Run Amok 18:07, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

"one major criticism of the show was that it focused far too much on the wacky reporters and the robot builders' backstories, and not nearly enough on the actual robot combat" - this sounds like "Tomorrow's World Syndrome", from something first noticed with the BBC's Tomorrow's World science/technology series. It and others like it tended to develop over time in a media culture, and eventually production got dominated by "people persons" as opposed to task oriented or information oriented people. These could only connect to the subject matter through its effect on people, its social impact, as they had a blind spot for the appeal of the subject matter itself for other types of people. They started going on and on ad nauseam about what all sorts of things meant for people's lives, not showing things and how they worked at all. They completely missed what the appeal was for the niche market; if they had been making a programme to appeal to stamp collectors, say, they would have made a programme about stamp collectors without anything much about stamps. I remember how once, when I was a little boy, I asked how a Church organ worked, and instead of answering the question the organist in all innocence told me how he played it! And then the poor dears get confused when audiences drop off... 203.194.51.151 11:10, 13 October 2007 (UTC) P.M.Lawrence.

[edit] CSI

Wasn't there an episode of CSI that featured some battlebots? --Xiahou 02:22, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes there was Zomic_13 03:23, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
ok I'll have to look that up to add unless someone can ahead of time for the article --Xiahou 03:24, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
The episode was called "Precious Metal" and it aired on April 3, 2003. Zomic_13 11:23, 2 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Episodes

Does anybody have a list of episodes that were aired on Comedy Central? I'm sure that the show did not follow the tournament structure that closely, but I am still interested in at least how many episodes were produced for each season.--SkiDragon 18:41, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Official site hacked

You cannot see matches nor videos on the official site since a Turkish hacker has hacked the script page for that functionality. Hope this guy gets caught by INTERPOL, seriously. --Jack Zhang (talk) 06:49, 24 January 2008 (UTC)