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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
So if ESPN can't make it work what makes James Cameron think he's going to succeed? I think we're in for another false start on this again.
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Three things:
1) Mark Burnett is behind a metric ton of successful TV shows. Survivor, The Apprentice, The Voice, etc. Clearly he's figured something out.
2) James Cameron is very much a figure-out-a-new-way-to-show-this kind of guy.
3) Discovery has shown occasional one-off combat robot shows already, and they've already seen the returns on tapping that community. (Consider that 60% of the cast of Mythbusters had notable combat robots.)
If anything is going to jump-start the genre, it's this group.
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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
Battlebots is so last century. The idea needs an upgrade.
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I'm inclined to agree; the format has gone basically unchanged: get too low to be wedged, avoid the hazards, out-push your opponent, and have something capable of spinning up a wallop or flipping your opponent. Even different terrain would make it more interesting--imagine an arena covered in driveway gravel and what it would do to our mental image of a combat robot. Very different game then.
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Originally Posted by JohnBoucher
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This is something that would be fun to explore, if there were enough teams in an area to get a proper event together. It's interesting to note that all the folks I talked with before you posted were in Florida. Parking lot showdown after next year's Orlando Regional?