I hadn't thought about BattleBots in 20(?) years, until I recently showed the current season (the Golden Bolt tournament, aka "BattleBots 2015 Season 7" for some reason) to my son. It's good entertainment and a pretty solid show: the robot fighting is good, the whole thing is deliberately set up in the style of a boxing match (which works really well), everything is accessible to a younger or casual fan, and the robots and robot teams are the stars of it all. It's way better than I remembered. It's still got plenty of filler, but they only have so many minutes of robots fighting to fill the timeslot, so what can you do?
Wow cool to hear about battle bots after a long while for me too.
Interesting to hear about filler content - I’ve felt from watching in the past the battles seem to be either short (with one bot dominating) or long (with both bots fairly equally match and a sort of “war of attrition” happening) without much in between. Would be curious if folks have seen the same (filler content in this context being relevant for shorter battles)
