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Battle Bots - RAMTECH?
Posted by Splash.

Student on team #53, Team Inferno, from Eleanor Roosevelt High School and NASA GSFC.

Posted on 8/24/2000 12:25 PM MST


In Reply to: Couple comments on Battle Bots posted by Justin on 8/24/2000 9:07 AM MST:



I make a point of watching BattleBots and I for one think it was great. There definately could have been a lot more coverage of matches, but I guess it was just a preview show. Comedy Central did a great presentation. It looked like an NBA game with people commentating in a set, and then they had Donna D'Errico talking to people, and Bill Nye. But like I said in an earlier post, if you notice, all the robots that seem to get onto tv are excellent. The first robot that got flipped and then destroyed ovbiously wasn't that great, but for not being great it got ripped apart. I think that's the best part of it. I think FIRST is much more fun for us, but watching hours of work get ripped apart is great tv.

I'm not positive BattleBots taking off will do anything to help FIRST. It's on cable, it's on the best channel it could be on, and they've got celebs like Donna D'Errico and Bill Nye. There aren't that many networks that are competing for the same audience as Comedy Central. Maybe MTV and FX. If MTV did a True Life on FIRST that would spread all kinds of attention. I think you can send in a tape about an issue to get on the show. And while I could see FIRST on FX, it'd be much more likely to show up on the Discovery Channel or the Leanrning Channel first, and without all the extra effects. And if it did, not as a series, but just a one-time show because the elimination matches are the only guarantee of non-stop action.

Did anyone else notice that in a preview for the next show it said below the picture 'RAMTECH: Team 59?' That's a FIRST team right?
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