Thread: Beating that RobotWars dead horse again...
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Beating that RobotWars dead horse again...
I was in Chicago over the Memorial Day Weekend. What should I see on WTTW (the public TV channel) on Sunday night but RobotWars.

It was an import from the BBC. It seemed to me to be a mix of BattleBots and Robotica. They had some preliminary competions to eliminate robots and then got to the one on one destructo competitions for the semi-finals and finals.

The show was pretty campie. The robots were pathetically bad. I would have guessed that 9 out of 10 FIRST robots could have beaten any of the robots there with about 10 minutes of modifications to add a bit of armor.

The thing that kills me is that these guys are getting on TV... ...ON PBS NO LESS!

How can we get to the right people in TV-Land and show them that we could be every bit as entertaining as these folks?

Ah well.

RobotWars, BattleBots, Robotica, ...

Maybe 2002 will be the year FIRST gets its break.

Joe J.
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