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Re: BattleBots Return - And They're Powered by VEXpro!

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Originally Posted by Koko Ed View Post
For the next season they should do an open casting call for teams to qualify for the big show in regional tournaments. Kind of what American Idol does. It'll weed out any potential lemons and give the audience the best bots on display.
Third downside to this is that the (reasonably successful) show didn't appear to select entrants based solely on expected performance in the matches.

IMO the show was about entertainment, as much or more as it was about effective robots. I assume that any follow-up show will be too. When those two notions overlapped, that was good for the show; but when they didn't, eye candy seemed to be just as important as the likelihood that a bot would win matches.
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