BattleBots

BattleBots is an American robot combat television series. Competitors design and operate remote-controlled armed and armored machines designed to fight in an arena combat elimination tournament. For five seasons, BattleBots aired on the American Comedy Central and was hosted by Bil Dwyer, Sean Salisbury, and Tim Green. Comedy Central's first season premiered on August 23, 2000, and its fifth and last season ended on December 21, 2002.

BattleBots
Genre	Robot competition
Created by	Greg Munson Edward P. Roski (Trey)
Directed by	Dan McDowell (2000–02) Ryan Polito (2015–16)
Presented by	Tim Green (2001–02) Sean Salisbury (2000–01) Bil Dwyer (2000–02) Molly McGrath (2015) Samantha Ponder (2016)
Starring	Mark Beiro (2000–02) Bill Nye (2000-02) Donna D'Errico (2000) Traci Bingham (2001) Randy Sklar (2001) Jason Sklar (2001) Heidi Mark (2001-2002) Arj Barker (2002) Carmen Electra (2002) Alison Haislip (2015–16) Faruq Tauheed (2015–16; 2018–present) Jessica Chobot (2018) Jenny Taft (2019)
Narrated by	Chris Rose (2015–16; 2018–present) Kenny Florian (2015–16; 2018–present)
Composer(s)	Vanacore Music
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	9
No. of episodes	144 + 1 special (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mack Anderson (2000–02) Bradley Anderson (2000–02) Debbie Liebling (2000–02) Lloyd Braun (2015–16) Chris Cowan (2015–16) Edward P. Roski (Trey) (2000–02; 2015–16; 2018–present) Greg Munson (2000–02; 2015–16; 2018–present) Aaron Catling (2015–16)
Editor(s)	Jonathan Siegel (2015–16)
Running time	30–60 minutes
Production company(s)	Whalerock Industries BattleBots Productions
Release
Original network	Comedy Central (2000–02) ABC (2015–16) Discovery Channel (2018–present)
Original release	August 23, 2000 (2000-08-23) – present (present)
External links
Website

A six-episode revival series premiered on ABC on June 21, 2015, to generally favorable reviews and ratings. Additionally, ABC renewed BattleBots for a seventh season, which premiered on June 23, 2016.

In February 2018, Discovery Channel and Science picked up the show for BattleBots' eighth season, which began airing on May 11, 2018.[1] A ninth season of BattleBots premiered on Discovery Channel on June 7, 2019.[2]

Discovery Channel has renewed the series for a tenth season and it was originally set to premiere May 15, 2020, but was postponed to a later date due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.[3][4]

History

BattleBots is an offshoot of the original version Robot Wars, the brainchild of Marc Thorpe. Robot Wars had financial backing from e communications, a New York record company. The Thorpe partnership broke up in 1997, starting many years of legal wrangling between Thorpe and Profile Records (the former Sm:)e-communications). Profile licensed Robot Wars to a UK production company and Robot Wars ran for seven years as a popular television program in the UK, before being revived for 2016.

The robot builders left behind in San Francisco formed BattleBots, Inc. and began a series of competitions. The first was held in Long Beach, California in August 1999 and streamed online, attracting 40,000 streams. Lenny Stucker, a television producer known for his work on telecasts of professional boxing, was in attendance and showed interest in being involved with BattleBots—believing the concept of robot combat was "hip" and have shown an interest in technology. Stucker made changes to the competition's format and presentation to make it more suitable for television, including elements reminiscent of boxing (such as a red and blue corner) and shifting to a single-elimination format. The creators tried selling the competition as a television series to networks such as CBS, NBC, HBO, and Showtime—but they failed to understand the concept of the program or take it seriously. A second event was held as a pay-per-view in Las Vegas in 1999, the PPV was in turn, used as a pilot to pitch the show again, with a higher rate of success.[5]

Among the networks interested was Comedy Central, who would ultimately pick up the program. Debbie Liebling, the network's Senior Vice President of original programming and development, felt that the concept would appeal to the network's young adult demographic, explaining that "it was really funny and really nerdy. The Internet was not a big thing yet, so the nerd culture wasn't so celebrated. It was sports for the nerdy person, I guess."[5] Co-creator Greg Munson viewed the deal as a double-edged sword; it gave BattleBots an outlet and a larger budget, but the network insisted on the addition of comedic aspects to BattleBots as a program, such as sketches involving contestants. However, the competition itself was not affected by this mandate; Liebling described the final product as being "a parody of a sports show without being a parody". Munson lamented that the network had also ignored his suggestion for the co-host role to be filled by "attractive geek girls" with sufficient knowledge to speak with builders, having elected to "[keep] throwing bigger and better hot babes at it", such as Carmen Electra.[5]

Despite this, viewership and awareness of BattleBots grew progressively over time; contestants Christian Carlberg and Lisa Winter would be invited to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, BattleBots beat South Park as Comedy Central's highest-rated program for a period during Season 3, competitor interest grew and licensing deals also emerged.[5] The success of BattleBots, however, resulted in competition from other broadcasters; TLC introduced a competing program, Robotica, while other channels imported episodes of the British Robot Wars series.[5] By 2002, the program had begun to face further difficulties; Munson felt that the bouts had become "homogenized" because the participants had "perfected" the sport of robot fighting, leading to a lack of innovation in robot designs and strategies.[5] Furthermore, BattleBots had sued Anheuser-Busch and its advertising agency for producing and airing a commercial during Super Bowl XXXVII that parodied the program and featured a robot greatly resembling one from BattleBots (this lawsuit, however, would be dismissed in 2004, after a judge ruled that the ad was a parody protected by fair use).[6] In September 2002, Comedy Central cancelled BattleBots after its fifth season, BattleBots 5.0. Viacom would acquire full control of the network in April 2003;[5][7] Stucker believed that Comedy Central had become "tired" of the program, and Roski stated that Viacom had wanted to shift Comedy Central back towards traditional comedy programming.[5]

In December 2014, ABC announced that it had picked up a six-episode revival of BattleBots, produced by Whalerock Industries, to premiere in June 2015. Roski and Munson served as executive producers, joined by Lloyd Braun.[8] The revival drew an average viewership of 5.4 million in its Sunday-night timeslot, with a 1.9 share in the 18-49 demographic. In November 2015, ABC announced that it had renewed the BattleBots revival for a second season, which expanded the competition to a 56-team field.[9][10]

After ABC declined to renew the revival for a third season, the series was picked up by Discovery Channel and sister network Science.[11] On April 18, 2018, Discovery and Science channels announced that a new season would begin on Friday, May 11, 2018, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on Discovery Channel and Wednesday, May 16, 2018, at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on Science Channel.[12] The announcement reported that amongst the bots would be returning favorites Tombstone, Minotaur, Chomp, Witch Doctor, Bronco, Bombshell, Bite Force, and Yeti. Chris Rose and Kenny Florian return to call the action, provide background information about the bots and teams, and offer commentary. Jessica Chobot served again as the sideline reporter. Faruq Tauheed returned as the ring announcer. BattleBots was then brought back for another season on June 5, 2019, on Discovery and Science Channel. Chris Rose and Kenny Florian returned as hosts with a new sideline reporter, Jenny Taft, interviewing all of the BattleBots competitors in the workshop. A tenth season will premiere on Discovery on May 15, 2020, however, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it has been posted to a later date.[13]

Personalities

For the first five seasons, BattleBots was hosted by Bil Dwyer, Sean Salisbury, and Tim Green. Correspondents included former Baywatch actresses Donna D'Errico, Carmen Electra, and Traci Bingham, former Playboy Playmate Heidi Mark, comedian Arj Barker and identical twins Randy and Jason Sklar. Bill Nye was the show's "technical expert". The show's match announcer was longtime boxing ring announcer Mark Beiro.

The 2015 edition was hosted by Molly McGrath, with Chris Rose and former UFC fighter Kenny Florian as commentators. The battle arena announcer was Faruq Tauheed, and Alison Haislip conducted interviews on the sidelines and behind the scenes. The judges were engineer and NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, Nerdist News anchor Jessica Chobot and visual effects artist Fon Davis.

For the 2016 season, Samantha Ponder was added as host, replacing Molly McGrath. The returning judges were Fon Davis, Jessica Chobot, and Leland Melvin, as well as celebrity guest judges actor Clark Gregg, MythBusters host and former Battlebots builder Adam Savage, NFL tightend Vernon Davis, and YouTube star Michael Stevens a.k.a. Vsauce.

For the 2018 season, Rose, Florian, and Tauheed all returned in their roles, with Rose and Florian taking over as the primary hosts of the show. Chobot and Haislip switched their roles, with Chobot becoming the new sideline reporter and Haislip one of the rotating judges.[14] Other judges include former Battlebots competitors Lisa Winter, Derek Young, Grant Imahara and Mark Setrakian.[14]

For the 2019 season, Chobot was replaced with Jenny Taft as a sideline reporter, and the judging panel was fixed to Winter, Young, and former competitor Jason Bardis instead of rotating as it had done in previous seasons.

• Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage (creators of heavyweight Blendo), and Grant Imahara (creator of middleweight Deadblow) of Discovery Channel's MythBusters are former competitors. Deadblow sometimes appeared as a "guest MythBuster", assisting Grant with various experiments including "Driving In The Dark".
• Will Wright, the creator of SimCity and other Sim games, as well as Spore, was a long-time contestant. He competed with middleweight Chiabot in Seasons 1 - 5, multibot RACC along with Mike Winter in Long Beach 1999, and lightweight The Aggressive Polygon in Season 1. His daughter Cassidy competed with middleweight Misty the WonderBot in Seasons 4 - 5.
• Michael Loren Mauldin, founder of Lycos, entered multiple bots over the series, competing with Team Toad.
• One of the founders of BattleBots, Trey Roski, is the son of Edward Roski Jr., one of the owners of the STAPLES Center sports arena in Los Angeles.
• Jay Leno appeared with a novelty BattleBot, Chinkilla – a lift type robot, Chinkilla did not comply with the competition rules and only competed in special exhibition matches at BattleBots events.
• Mark Setrakian, builder/creator of the fighting robots and control suits used on Robot Combat League, is known for his visually appealing robots such as Mechadon and Snake. He has also worked on control technology used for films like Men In Black, The Grinch, and Hellboy. Whilst Setrakian did not compete in the ABC revival series, he built Axis, a claw-like podium that would rotate the Giant Nut on top of it while it was on display.
• Gary Coleman, in promotion with UGO.com, joined Jim Smentowski on Team Nightmare for BattleBots Season 5. In that season, he competed with middleweight Psyche.
• Dan Barry, retired NASA astronaut and Survivor: Panama contestant, competed in BattleBots Season 7 with Black Ice.
• Andrew Norton worked on the show from its first event until season 4 as a member of the technical and arena safety crew, while simultaneously holding the UK Robot Wars Middleweight title.

Gameplay

Weight classes

Robots at BattleBots tournaments were separated into four weight classes in seasons 1-5. The weight limits increased slightly over time. At the final tournaments the classes were:

• Lightweight – 60 pounds (27 kilograms)
• Middleweight – 120 pounds (54 kilograms)
• Heavyweight – 220 pounds (100 kilograms)
• Superheavyweight – 340 pounds (154 kilograms)

"Walking" robots ("StompBots") propelled by means other than wheels were initially given a 50% weight bonus. The rules changed following the victory of a heavyweight StompBot (Son of Whyachi) at BattleBots 3.0. For BattleBots 4.0 and beyond only a 20% weight bonus was given to walkers and the technical rules specified that walking mechanisms do not use cam operated walking mechanisms as they were functionally too similar to wheel operation. Since the rules change, walking robots have entered the competition, but none has achieved any success beyond preliminary rounds.

Starting in season 6, there were no longer separate weight classes while the weight limit for heavyweights was increased from 220 to 250 pounds.

Matches

Matches are three minutes long. During a match, two robots do their best to destroy or disable each other using whatever means available. The match begins with a series of lights that flash from yellow to green. The original Comedy Central version used a standard Christmas tree as seen in the sport of drag racing; the ABC revival uses just one box of lights that flash yellow three times, and then flash green.

There are only two events that cause the match to be paused resulting in people entering the BattleBox. One is the event that the robots are stuck together and cannot separate or that both have simultaneously become immobilized. The other scenario is that one or both 'bots have caught on fire. In that case, the people entering the BattleBox are equipped with fire extinguishers.

If a robot is unable to move for ten seconds, because it is too badly damaged or it is stuck in some manner (e.g. ensnared in an arena-trap), it is declared knocked out. In the Comedy Central version, the driver could also call a "tap-out" to forfeit the match if his or her robot is about to be destroyed. This ends the match ten seconds later; the opposing driver is "asked" (but not instructed) not to attack during the ten-second count.

If both robots survive the three minutes, three judges distribute a total of 45 points (15 points a judge, 5 points per judge per category) over three categories. The robot with the higher score wins. The judging categories are Aggression, Strategy, and Damage. In Season 6 (June/July 2015), the judging categories were Aggression, Damage, Strategy, and Control. A robot who hangs back safely from its opponent will not get many Aggression points; one in there fighting the whole time, however, will. The Strategy category is about how well a robot exploits its opponent's weaknesses, protects its own, and handles the hazards. A robot driving over the kill saws will lose points here unless it had good reason to do so, while a robot that is able to attack its opponent's weak areas will gain points. The Damage category is for how much damage the bot can deal to its opponent while remaining intact itself.

At the end of the tournament, a series of 'rumbles' or 'melee rounds' is typically held in each weight class, allowing robots that survived the main tournament to fight in a 'free for all' in a 5-minute match. Occasionally there are too many robots for one rumble, and multiple rumbles are held with the top surviving bots competing in a final event. During the Season 5 Heavyweight rumble (the first rumble of that competition), a sheared-off robot part went through the Lexan arena roof and fell (harmlessly) into the audience. Because of this, the rest of the rumbles were canceled due to safety concerns.[15]

Arena

The BattleBox is a 48' x 48' square arena designed to protect the drivers, officials, and audience from flying debris and charging bots. It was originally designed by Pete Lampertson. As of the 2015 season, Pete was still overseeing the box with the help of Matt Neubauer. It has a steel floor and steel-framed walls and roof paneled with thick, bulletproof polycarbonate plastic. The teams bring their robots in through doorways, which are sealed after all humans have exited. The drivers control their machines from outside the sealed arena.

Arena booby-traps are intended to make fights more interesting and unpredictable and to reward drivers who can avoid the traps while pushing or carrying their opponent into them. Traps from the first five seasons include (and where noted, omitted for the later ABC/Discovery/Science Channel-shown seasons):

• Pulverizers: Originally pneumatic powered standard sledgehammers that did minimal damage, the Pulverizers were first upgraded to 50-pound aluminum mallets for season 2, and were again upgraded to 150-pound mallets for season 3 and beyond, now with one near each corner. The pulverizers were capable of causing serious damage to the lighter weight class robots.
• Spike Strips: The lower walls of the arena are lined with inward-pointing 6-inch long sharpened steel spikes. Pushing an opponent hard into a wall can sometimes lodge it in the spikes, immobilizing it.
• Spinners: Large, rapidly spinning discs embedded in the arena floor, Not intended to damage a robot, but rather to interfere with navigation. The spinners could fling lighter class robots across the arena, but the impact on heavier robots was minimal. Omitted for the ABC/Discovery/Science Channel-shown seasons.
• Kill Saws: Spinning circular saw saw-blades comprising eight twin-blade hazards, that rise out of slots in the arena floor that was originally under the control of "Pulverizer Pete". These carbide-tipped saw blades can damage a robot's tires or chassis. In later seasons, red 'throwing blades' were added to increase the chance of a bot being thrown across the arena.
• Pistons: Introduced in Season 3, the Pistons are steel columns that raise and lower from the floor without warning. They can stop a charging robot or tip a slow-moving robot onto its side. The Pistons were removed for Seasons 4 and 5, and likewise omitted for the ABC/Discovery/Science Channel-shown seasons.
• Ramrods: Sharpened steel spikes that rise up out of the arena floor in groups of six, serving either to lift a robot off the ground or damage vulnerable portions of the undercarriage. Omitted for the ABC/Discovery/Science Channel-shown seasons.
• Hell Raisers: A pneumatic ram that can tilt up specific sections of the arena floor. The 15-degree tilt may become a launching ramp, or may abruptly block passage. The Hell Raisers were removed for Season 5 onwards, to allow more uncluttered room for the robots.
• Screws: Introduced for season 3, these devices were a modification to the static spike strips. The screws were continually rotating augers placed horizontally along the edges of the arena floor. The Screws were intended to scrape up a bot, and possibly drag it closer to the Pulverizers due to the corkscrew design. Much like the Spinners, the Screws had a greater effect on the lighter weight classes—although their impact on all weight classes was small. For Season 5 onwards, the screws were upgraded with biting 'teeth' to better catch onto robots. Their rotation was also modified so that instead of 'pushing' in one direction, they converged in the center of themselves from opposite directions and created a 'V' that could damage or turn over robots.

Episodes

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	15		August 23, 2000 (2000-08-23)	November 29, 2000 (2000-11-29)	Comedy Central
	2	17		December 12, 2000 (2000-12-12)	March 13, 2001 (2001-03-13)
	3	20		July 10, 2001 (2001-07-10)	September 11, 2001 (2001-09-11)
	4	20		January 8, 2002 (2002-01-08)	March 12, 2002 (2002-03-12)
	5	20		August 20, 2002 (2002-08-20)	December 21, 2002 (2002-12-21)
	6	6		June 21, 2015 (2015-06-21)	July 26, 2015 (2015-07-26)	ABC
	7	10		June 23, 2016 (2016-06-23)	September 1, 2016 (2016-09-01)
	8	20		May 11, 2018 (2018-05-11)	October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05)	Discovery Channel
	9	16		June 7, 2019 (2019-06-07)	September 27, 2019 (2019-09-27)

Season 1 (2000)

Main article: BattleBots (season 1)

Tournament Winners:

• Super heavyweight Winner – Minion (defeated Gray Matter, Grendal, Rammstein, and DooAll)
• Heavyweight Winner – Vlad the Impaler (defeated GoldDigger., Tazbot, Overkill, Punjar and Voltarc)
• Middleweight Winner – Hazard (defeated Pegleg, Turtle Roadkill, Spin Orbiting Force, and Deadblow)
• Lightweight Winner – Backlash (defeated Disposable Hero, Endotherm, The Crusher, Das Bot, and Alpha Raptor)

No. in season	Title	Original air date
1	"Backlash vs. Disposable Hero; Tentoumushi vs. Sallad"	August 23, 2000 (2000-08-23)
2	"Ziggo vs. The Missing Link; Mauler vs. Nightmare; OverKill vs. frenZy"	August 30, 2000 (2000-08-30)
3	"Voltarc vs. Bender; KillerHurtz vs. Knome II; Minion vs. Gray Matter"	September 6, 2000 (2000-09-06)
4	"Pressure Drop vs. Subject to Change Without Reason; Mouser Mecha-Catbot vs. Shaft; Vlad the Impaler vs. Tazbot"	September 13, 2000 (2000-09-13)
5	"Backlash vs. The Crusher; Blade Runner vs. Bad Attitude; Grendel vs. Diesector"	September 20, 2000 (2000-09-20)
6	"DooAll vs. S.L.A.M.; BioHazard vs. Mjollnir; Lightweight Rumble"	September 27, 2000 (2000-09-27)
7	"Voltarc vs. BioHazard; Rammstein vs. Mechadon; Alpha Raptor vs. Tentoumushi"	October 4, 2000 (2000-10-04)
8	"Deadblow vs. Alien Gladiator; Pressure Drop vs. Ankle Biter; Minion vs. Grendel"	October 11, 2000 (2000-10-11)
9	"Alpha Raptor vs. Mouser Mecha-Catbot; Backlash vs. Das Bot; Backlash vs. Alpha Raptor"	October 18, 2000 (2000-10-18)
10	"Spin Orbiting Force vs. Blade Runner; Hazard vs. Turtle Road Kill; Ronin vs. Ginsu"	October 25, 2000 (2000-10-25)
11	"Vlad the Impaler vs. OverKill; Punjar vs. Gammatron; KillerHurtz vs. Mauler"	November 1, 2000 (2000-11-01)
12	"Vlad the Impaler vs. Punjar; Deadblow vs. Pressure Drop; Minion vs. Rammstein"	November 8, 2000 (2000-11-08)
13	"Spin Orbiting Force vs. Hazard; KillerHurtz vs. Voltarc; Ronin vs. DooAll"	November 15, 2000 (2000-11-15)
14	"All Finals: Hazard vs. Deadblow; Vlad the Impaler vs. Voltarc; Minion vs. DooAll"	November 22, 2000 (2000-11-22)
15	"Remaining rumbles"	November 29, 2000 (2000-11-29)

Season 2 (2000-01)

Tournament Winners: November 2000, Las Vegas: (Winners shown in bold)

• Super heavyweight Winner – Diesector (defeated Hamunaptra, World Peace, Rammstein, War Machine, and Atomic Wedgie)
• Heavyweight Winner – BioHazard (defeated M.O.E., Suicidal Tendencies, Nightmare, frenZy and Vlad the Impaler)
• Middleweight Winner – Spaz (defeated Tobor Rabies, Blue Streak, Buddy Lee Don't Play In The Street, Bad Attitude, and El Diablo)
• Lightweight Winner – Ziggo (defeated Scrap Metal, Scrap Daddy LW55, Afterthought 2.0, Beta Raptor, and Backlash)

No. overall	No. in season	Original air date	Battle 1	Battle 2	Battle 3
16	1	December 12, 2000 (2000-12-12)	Mecha Tentoumushi vs. Evil Fish Tank (Lightweight round of 16)	N/A
17	2	December 19, 2000 (2000-12-19)	Mauler 51-50 vs. Bigger Brother (Heavyweight round of 32)	Snake vs. War Machine (Super heavyweight round of 16)	Toe-Crusher vs. No Tolerance III (Lightweight round of 16)
18	3	December 19, 2000 (2000-12-19)	Vlad the Impaler vs. Mjollnir (Heavyweight round of 16)	Turbo vs. Buddy Lee Don't Play in the Street (Middleweight round of 16)	Chinkilla vs. Ginsu (Exhibition match)
19	4	December 26, 2000 (2000-12-26)	frenZy vs. Panic Attack (Heavyweight round of 16)	BioHazard vs. Suicidal Tendencies (Heavyweight round of 16)	GoldDigger vs. KillerHurtz (Heavyweight round of 16)
20	5	January 2, 2001 (2001-01-02)	Scrap Daddy LW55 vs. Ziggo (Lightweight round of 16)	OverKill vs. FrostBite (Heavyweight round of 16)	Sallad vs. Mouser Mecha-Catbot (Lightweight round of 16)
21	6	January 9, 2001 (2001-01-09)	Voltronic vs. Bigger Brother (Heavyweight round of 16)	Complete Control vs. Super Chiabot (Middleweight round of 16)	Atomic Wedgie vs. Minion (Super heavyweight round of 16)
Battle 4: Tripulta Raptor vs. Toro (Super heavyweight round of 16)
22	7	January 16, 2001 (2001-01-16)	Deadblow vs. Kegger (Middleweight round of 16)	Blade Runner vs. Scrap Daddy MW110 (Middleweight round of 16)	Subject to Change Without Reason vs. The Master (Middleweight round of 16) Quarter-Finals intro
23	8	January 23, 2001 (2001-01-23)	Ziggo vs. Afterthought 2.0 (Lightweight Quarter-Finals)	Tazbot vs. Vlad the Impaler (Heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Nightmare vs. BioHazard (Heavyweight Quarter-Finals)
24	9	January 30, 2001 (2001-01-30)	Revision Z vs. Ronin (Super heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Spaz vs. Buddy Lee Don't Play in the Street (Middleweight Quarter-Finals)	Blade Runner vs. The Master (Middleweight Quarter-Finals)
25	10	February 6, 2001 (2001-02-06)	Diesector vs. Rammstein (Super heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Toe-Crusher vs. Evil Fish Tank (Lightweight Quarter-Finals)	Deadblow vs. Bad Attitude (Middleweight Quarter-Finals)
26	11	February 13, 2001 (2001-02-13)	Atomic Wedgie vs. Toro (Superheavyweight Quarter-Finals)	El Diablo vs. Complete Control (Middleweight Quarter-Finals)	GoldDigger vs frenZy (Heavyweight Quarter-Finals)
27	12	February 13, 2001 (2001-02-13)	Backlash vs. Sallad (Lightweight Quarter-Finals)	FrostBite vs. Voltronic (Heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	War Machine vs. DooAll (Superheavyweight Quarter-Finals)
Battle 4: The Crusher vs. Beta Raptor (Lightweight Quarter-Finals)
28	13	February 20, 2001 (2001-02-20)	Ziggo vs. Beta Raptor (Lightweight Semi-Finals)	Backlash vs. Toe-Crusher (Lightweight Semi-Finals )	Backlash vs. Ziggo (Lightweight Finals)
29	14	February 20, 2001 (2001-02-20)	Vlad the Impaler vs. Voltronic (Heavyweight Semi-Finals)	frenZy vs. BioHazard (Heavyweight Semi-Finals)	Vlad the Impaler vs. BioHazard (Heavyweight Finals)
30	15	February 27, 2001 (2001-02-27)	Revision Z vs. Gray Matter (Super heavyweight round of 16)	Revision Z vs. Atomic Wedgie (Super heavyweight Semi-Finals) Heavyweight Rumble 1	Diesector vs. War Machine (Super heavyweight Semi-Finals)
Battle 4: Diesector vs. Atomic Wedgie (Super heavyweight Finals)
31	16	March 6, 2001 (2001-03-06)	Bad Attitude vs. SABotage (Middleweight round of 16) Middleweight Rumble	Bad Attitude vs. Spaz (Middleweight Semi-Finals) Super heavyweight Rumble	Ankle Biter vs. El Diablo (Middleweight round of 16)
Battle 4: El Diablo vs. Spaz (Middleweight Finals)
32	17	March 13, 2001 (2001-03-13)	Remaining Rumbles	Recap Show

Season 3 (2001)

Tournament Winners: May 2001, Treasure Island (Winners shown in bold)

• Super heavyweight Winner – Vladiator (defeated JuggerBot, Hammertime, Revision Z, Techno Destructo, Diesector, and Minion)
• Heavyweight Winner – Son of Whyachi (defeated Shaka, Crab Meat, Kill-O-Amp, Nightmare, MechaVore, HexaDecimator, and BioHazard)
• Middleweight Winner – Hazard (defeated Fusion, Zion, F5, T-Wrex, and Little Drummer Boy)
• Lightweight Winner – Dr. Inferno Jr. (defeated Blood Dragon, Toe-Crusher, Bad Habit, Herr Gepoünden, Sallad, and Gamma Raptor)

No. overall	No. in season	Original air date	Battle 1	Battle 2	Battle 3
33	1	July 10, 2001 (2001-07-10)	Nightmare vs. Slam Job (Heavyweight round of 32)	Shish-ka-bot 1.1 vs. Trilobot (Lightweight round of 64)	Minion vs. Ogre (Super heavyweight round of 16)
34	2	July 10, 2001 (2001-07-10)	Double Agent vs. Turbo (Middleweight round of 32)	Toro vs. World Peace (Super heavyweight round of 16)	N/A
35	3	July 17, 2001 (2001-07-17)	Hammertime vs. Vladiator (Super heavyweight round of 32)	Toe-Crusher vs. Dr. Inferno Jr. (Lightweight round of 32)	Little Sister vs. Gammatron (Heavyweight round of 64)
36	4	July 17, 2001 (2001-07-17)	Subject to Change Without Reason vs. Complete Control (Middleweight round of 32)	Bad Attitude vs. T-Wrex (Middleweight round of 16)	HexaDecimator vs. Fork-N-Stein (Heavyweight round of 64)
37	5	July 24, 2001 (2001-07-24)	Ziggo vs. Wacker (Lightweight round of 32)	Vlad the Impaler vs. MechaVore (Heavyweight round of 16)	CUAD the Crusher vs. Techno Destructo (Super heavyweight round of 32)
38	6	July 24, 2001 (2001-07-24)	BattleRat vs. Crash Test Dummy (Heavyweight round of 64)	Little Sister vs. BioHazard (Heavyweight round of 32)	Little Drummer Boy vs. Blade Runner (Middleweight round of 16)
39	7	July 31, 2001 (2001-07-31)	Rim Tin Tin vs. HammerHead (Lightweight round of 64)	Son of Whyachi vs. Nightmare (Heavyweight round of 16)	Omega-13 vs. KillerHurtz (Heavyweight round of 16)
Battle 4: Chinkilla vs. Nibbler, Reactore, SMD, Mordicus, Gungnire, and General Gau (Exhibition match, no winner)
40	8	July 31, 2001 (2001-07-31)	Sallad vs. Carnage Raptor (Lightweight round of 32)	Ankle Biter vs. F5 (Middleweight round of 32)	Blood Moon vs. Shaft (Lightweight round of 64)
41	9	August 7, 2001 (2001-08-07)	Rammstein vs. The Judge (Super heavyweight round of 16)	Twin Paradox vs. Deadblow (Middleweight round of 16)	I-Beam vs. Greenspan (Heavyweight round of 64)
Battle 4: Sisyphus vs. Death By Monkeys (Lightweight round of 32)
42	10	August 7, 2001 (2001-08-07)	Tazbot vs. GoldDigger (Heavyweight round of 16)	OverKill vs. M.O.E. (Heavyweight round of 64)	Voltronic vs. Bacchus (Heavyweight round of 16)
43	11	August 14, 2001 (2001-08-14)	Blood Moon vs. Mouser Super Mecha-Catbot (Lightweight round of 32)	Zion vs. Hazard (Middleweight round of 16)	SABotage vs. Double Agent (Middleweight round of 16)
44	12	August 14, 2001 (2001-08-14)	T-Minus vs. Sunshine Lollibot (Middleweight round of 16)	Dawn of Destruction vs. Diesector (Super heavyweight round of 16)	Wedge of Doom vs. The Wacky Compass (Lightweight round of 64)
45	13	August 21, 2001 (2001-08-21)	Ziggo vs. Shrike (Lightweight round of 16)	Tazbot vs. BioHazard (Heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Phere vs. Toro (Super heavyweight Quarter-Finals)
46	14	August 21, 2001 (2001-08-21)	Diesector vs. Rammstein (Super heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Techno Destructo vs. Vladiator (Super heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Chinkilla vs. La Machine, Dreadnought, and Ginsu (Exhibition match)
47	15	August 28, 2001 (2001-08-28)	KillerHurtz vs. HexaDecimator (Heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Electric Lunch vs. Minion (Super heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	MechaVore vs. Son of Whyachi (Heavyweight Quarter-Finals)
48	16	August 28, 2001 (2001-08-28)	Son of Whyachi vs. HexaDecimator (Heavyweight Semi-Finals)	OverKill vs. BioHazard (Heavyweight Semi-Finals)	Son of Whyachi vs. BioHazard (Heavyweight Finals)
49	17	September 4, 2001 (2001-09-04)	Herr Gepoünden vs. Dr. Inferno Jr. (Lightweight Quarter-Finals)	T-Minus vs. T-Wrex (Middleweight Quarter-Finals)	Gamma Raptor vs. Mouser Super Mecha-Catbot (Lightweight Quarter-Finals)
50	18	September 4, 2001 (2001-09-04)	Vladiator vs. Diesector (Super heavyweight Semi-Finals)	Minion vs. Toro (Super heavyweight Semi-Finals)	Minion vs. Vladiator (Super heavyweight Finals)
51	19	September 11, 2001 (2001-09-11)	T-Wrex vs. Hazard (Middleweight Semi-Finals)	Little Drummer Boy vs. SABotage (Middleweight Semi-Finals)	Little Drummer Boy vs. Hazard (Middleweight Finals)
52	20	September 11, 2001 (2001-09-11)	Sallad vs. Dr. Inferno Jr. (Lightweight Semi-Finals)	Gamma Raptor vs. Wedge of Doom (Lightweight Semi-Finals)	Dr. Inferno Jr. vs. Gamma Raptor (Lightweight Finals)

Season 4 (2001)

Tournament Winners: November 2001, Treasure Island: (Winners shown in bold)

• Super heavyweight Winner – Toro (defeated Maximus, The Judge, Vladiator, Little Blue Engine, and New Cruelty)
• Heavyweight Winner – BioHazard (defeated Stealth Terminator, Jabberwock, Nightmare, Tazbot, and OverKill)
• Middleweight Winner – Hazard (defeated Timmy, SABotage, El Diablo, Heavy Metal Noise and Complete Control)
• Lightweight Winner – Ziggo (defeated SnowFlake, Serial Box Killer, Wedge of Doom, Death By Monkeys, and The Big B)

No. overall	No. in season	Original air date	Battle 1	Battle 2	Battle 3	Battle 4
53	1	January 8, 2002 (2002-01-08)	Phrizbee vs. Deathstar (Heavyweight round of 64)	Ravager vs. T-Minus (Middleweight round of 64)	Fantom Thrust vs. The Probe (Super heavyweight round of 64)	Scrap Daddy Surplus vs. Wedge of Doom (Lightweight round of 32)
54	2	January 8, 2002 (2002-01-08)	TriMangle vs. Vladiator (Super heavyweight round of 32)	Sharkbyte vs. KillerB (Heavyweight round of 32)	Ziggo vs. SnowFlake (Lightweight round of 32)	N/A
55	3	January 15, 2002 (2002-01-15)	Ziggo vs. Serial Box Killer (Lightweight round of 16)	Eradicator vs. Swirlee (Super heavyweight round of 64)	Maximus vs. Pharmapac (Super heavyweight round of 64)	Toe-Crusher vs. Low Blow (Lightweight round of 32)
56	4	January 15, 2002 (2002-01-15)	Malvolio vs. Bad Attitude (Middleweight round of 32)	Bender vs. Little Sister (Heavyweight round of 64)	Tentoumushi 7.0 vs. Wedge of Doom (Lightweight round of 16)	N/A
57	5	January 22, 2002 (2002-01-22)	Surgeon General vs. FrostBite (Heavyweight round of 32)	Hazard vs. Timmy (Middleweight round of 32)	Short Order Chef vs. T-Minus (Middleweight round of 32)	Slap 'Em Silly vs. Mouser Classic Mecha-Catbot (Lightweight round of 32)
58	6	January 22, 2002 (2002-01-22)	El Diablo Grande vs. SlamJob (Heavyweight round of 64)	M.O.E. vs. PyRAMidroid (Heavyweight round of 64)	El Diablo vs. Turtle Road Kill (Middleweight round of 16)	N/A
59	7	January 29, 2002 (2002-01-29)	Son of Whyachi vs. Swirlee (Super heavyweight round of 32)	MechaVore vs. Towering Inferno (Heavyweight round of 32)	Afterthought vs. Slap 'Em Silly (Lightweight round of 16)	Carnage Raptor vs. Whirligig (Lightweight round of 32)
60	8	January 29, 2002 (2002-01-29)	Atomic Wedgie vs. Ogre (Super heavyweight round of 32)	Phrizbee vs. HexaDecimator (Heavyweight round of 32)	The Matador vs. Omega-13 (Heavyweight round of 32)	N/A
61	9	February 5, 2002 (2002-02-05)	Heavy Metal Noise vs. T-Minus (Middleweight round of 16)	Ziggo vs. Wedge of Doom (Lightweight Quarter-Finals)	Toro vs. Maximus (Super heavyweight round of 32)	N/A
62	10	February 5, 2002 (2002-02-05)	Ziggo vs. Death By Monkeys (Lightweight Semi-Finals)	Minion vs. No Apologies (Super heavyweight round of 32)	Hammertime vs. The Judge (Super heavyweight round of 32)	Ziggo vs. The Big B (Lightweight Finals)
63	11	February 12, 2002 (2002-02-12)	Toro vs. The Judge (Super heavyweight round of 16)	Ogre vs. Techno Destructo (Super heavyweight round of 16)	Junkyard Offspring vs. Nightmare (Heavyweight round of 32)	Ronin vs. Diesector (Super heavyweight round of 16)
64	12	February 12, 2002 (2002-02-12)	New Cruelty vs. Odin II (Super heavyweight round of 32)	Toro vs. Vladiator (Super heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Techno Destructo vs. Diesector (Super heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	N/A
65	13	February 19, 2002 (2002-02-19)	Little Blue Engine vs. Toro (Super heavyweight Semi-Finals)	Stealth Terminator vs. Center Punch (Heavyweight round of 64)	Diesector vs. New Cruelty (Super heavyweight Semi-Finals)	N/A
66	14	February 19, 2002 (2002-02-19)	Toro vs. New Cruelty (Super heavyweight Finals)	Silverback vs. Agitator (Heavyweight round of 64)	Pack Raptors vs. SABotage (Middleweight round of 32)	N/A
67	15	February 26, 2002 (2002-02-26)	SABotage vs. Hazard (Middleweight round of 16)	Huggy Bear vs. Double Agent (Middleweight round of 32)	Mauler 51-50 vs. Jabberwock (Heavyweight round of 32)	Silverback vs. Tazbot (Heavyweight round of 32)
68	16	February 26, 2002 (2002-02-26)	Complete Control vs. Psychotron (Middleweight round of 16)	BattleRat vs. Nightmare (Heavyweight round of 16)	Bad Attitude vs. Complete Control (Middleweight Quarter-Finals)	N/A
69	17	March 5, 2002 (2002-03-05)	The Matador vs. M.O.E. (Heavyweight round of 16)	Hazard vs. El Diablo (Middleweight Quarter-Finals)	OverKill vs MechaVore (Heavyweight round of 16)	BioHazard vs. Nightmare (Heavyweight Quarter-Finals)
70	18	March 5, 2002 (2002-03-05)	KillerHurtz vs Little Sister (Heavyweight round of 32)	Sharkbyte vs HexaDecimator (Heavyweight round of 16)	SlamJob vs. frenZy (Heavyweight round of 32)	KillerHurtz vs. Surgeon General (Heavyweight round of 16)
71	19	March 12, 2002 (2002-03-12)	Heavy Metal Noise vs. Hazard (Middleweight Semi-Finals)	Complete Control vs. Zion (Middleweight Semi-Finals)	Surgeon General vs. HexaDecimator (Heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Hazard vs. Complete Control (Middleweight Finals)
72	20	March 12, 2002 (2002-03-12)	Surgeon General vs. OverKill (Heavyweight Semi-Finals)	BioHazard vs. Tazbot (Heavyweight Semi-Finals)	BioHazard vs. OverKill (Heavyweight Finals)	N/A

Season 5 (2002)

Tournament Winners: May 2002, Treasure Island: (Winners shown in bold)

• Super heavyweight Winner – Diesector (defeated Final Destiny, Dreadnought, Hammertime, New Cruelty, and Vladiator)
• Heavyweight Winner – BioHazard (defeated Center Punch, Greenspan, MechaVore, Aces and Eights, and Voltronic)
• Middleweight Winner – T-Minus (defeated TriDent, Double Agent, Huggy Bear, previously undefeated Hazard, and S.O.B.)
• Lightweight Winner – Dr. Inferno Jr. (defeated Afterburner, Tentoumushi 8.0, Death By Monkeys, Gamma Raptor, and Wedge of Doom)

No. overall	No. in season	Original air date	Battle 1	Battle 2	Battle 3
73	1	August 20, 2002 (2002-08-20)	Warhead vs. Darkstar-2J (Heavyweight round of 64)	Ziggo vs. Code:BLACK (Lightweight round of 32)	Son of Whyachi vs. Steel Reign (Super heavyweight round of 32)
Battle 4: Moebius vs. Ankle Biter (Middleweight round of 64)
74	2	August 27, 2002 (2002-08-27)	Backlash vs. Burning Metal (Lightweight round of 32)	Wee Willy Wedgy vs. Little Drummer Boy (Middleweight round of 32)	M.O.E. vs. Stealth Terminator (Heavyweight round of 32)
Battle 4: Slap 'Em Silly vs. Rambite 2.0 (Lightweight round of 32)
75	3	September 3, 2002 (2002-09-03)	Wedge of Doom vs. Wireless Wonder (Lightweight round of 32)	Twin Paradox vs. S.O.B. (Middleweight round of 32)	Codebreaker vs. Techno Destructo (Super heavyweight round of 32)
Battle 4: Nightmare vs. Warhead (Heavyweight round of 32)
76	4	September 10, 2002 (2002-09-10)	Hazard vs. Misty the WonderBot (Middleweight round of 32)	Patriot vs. Sallad (Lightweight round of 32)	The Matador vs. frenZy (Heavyweight round of 32)
Battle 4: No Apologies vs. The Judge (Super heavyweight round of 32)
77	5	September 21, 2002 (2002-09-21)	Wrath Jr. vs. Complete Control (Middleweight round of 32)	Toro vs. Phrizbee-Ultimate (Super heavyweight round of 32)	Vladiator vs. Pro-AM (Super heavyweight round of 32)
78	6	September 28, 2002 (2002-09-28)	Gammacide vs. Dreadnought (Super heavyweight round of 32)	Sublime vs. Death By Monkeys (Lightweight round of 32)	Final Destiny vs. Gray Matter (Super heavyweight round of 64)
79	7	October 5, 2002 (2002-10-05)	Vlad the Impaler II vs. Spitfire (Heavyweight round of 64)	T-Minus vs. TriDent (Middleweight round of 32)	Tazbot vs. Ringmaster (Heavyweight round of 32)
80	8	October 12, 2002 (2002-10-12)	Phrizbee-Ultimate vs. IceBerg (Super heavyweight round of 16)	Diesector vs. Final Destiny (Super heavyweight round of 32)	Ankle Biter vs. El Diablo (Middleweight round of 32)
81	9	October 19, 2002 (2002-10-19)	Codebreaker vs. Minion (Super heavyweight round of 16)	The Master vs. Ankle Biter (Middleweight round of 16)	Hazard vs. Blade Runner (Middleweight round of 16)
82	10	October 26, 2002 (2002-10-26)	Sallad vs. Hexy Jr. (Lightweight round of 16)	Atomic Wedgie vs. Maximus (Super heavyweight round of 16)	BioHazard vs. Greenspan (Heavyweight round of 16)
83	11	November 2, 2002 (2002-11-02)	T-Wrex vs. S.O.B. (Middleweight round of 16)	Double Agent vs. T-Minus (Middleweight round of 16)	BattleRat vs. OverKill (Heavyweight round of 16)
84	12	November 9, 2002 (2002-11-09)	Warhead vs. The Matador (Heavyweight round of 16)	Dreadnought vs. Diesector (Super heavyweight round of 16)	MechaVore vs. Mauler 51-50 (Heavyweight round of 16)
85	13	November 16, 2002 (2002-11-16)	Dr. Inferno Jr. vs. Tentoumushi 8.0 (Lightweight round of 16)	Son of Whyachi vs. No Apologies (Super heavyweight round of 16)	Bad Attitude vs. Huggy Bear (Middleweight round of 16)
86	14	November 23, 2002 (2002-11-23)	Zion vs. SABotage (Middleweight round of 16)	Slap 'Em Silly vs. Wedge of Doom (Lightweight round of 16)	N/A
87	15	November 30, 2002 (2002-11-30)	Turtle vs. Ankle Biter (Middleweight Quarter-Finals)	Huggy Bear vs. T-Minus (Middleweight Quarter-Finals)	Zion vs. Hazard (Middleweight Quarter-Finals)
88	16	December 7, 2002 (2002-12-07)	S.O.B. vs. Turtle (Middleweight Semi-Finals)	Hazard vs. T-Minus (Middleweight Semi-Finals)	T-Minus vs. S.O.B. (Middleweight Finals)
89	17	December 14, 2002 (2002-12-14)	MechaVore vs. BioHazard (Heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Warhead vs. OverKill (Heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Aces and Eights vs. HexaDecimator (Heavyweight Quarter-Finals)
Battle 4: BioHazard vs. Voltronic (Heavyweight Finals)
90	18	December 14, 2002 (2002-12-14)	Codebreaker vs. Vladiator (Super heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Diesector vs. Hammertime (Super heavyweight Quarter-Finals)	Maximus vs. IceBerg (Super heavyweight Quarter-Finals)
91	19	December 21, 2002 (2002-12-21)	Wedge of Doom vs. Code:BLACK (Lightweight Semi-Finals)	Dr. Inferno Jr. vs. Gamma Raptor (Lightweight Semi-Finals)	Dr. Inferno Jr. vs. Wedge of Doom (Lightweight Finals)
92	20	December 21, 2002 (2002-12-21)	Vladiator vs. Maximus (Super heavyweight Semi-Finals)	Diesector vs. New Cruelty (Super heavyweight Semi-Finals)	Diesector vs. Vladiator (Super heavyweight Finals)

Season 6 (2015)

Main article: BattleBots (season 6)

Winner: Bite Force

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
93	1	"The Battle Begins: Qualifiers, Part 1"	June 21, 2015 (2015-06-21)	5.44[16]
94	2	"Crunch Time: Qualifiers, Part 2"	June 28, 2015 (2015-06-28)	4.84[17]
95	3	"Full Metal Bracket: Round of 16 Part 1"	July 5, 2015 (2015-07-05)	4.15[18]
96	4	"Last Chance to Advance: Round of 16 Part 2"	July 12, 2015 (2015-07-12)	4.07[19]
97	5	"The Great 8: Quarterfinals"	July 19, 2015 (2015-07-19)	4.45[20]
98	6	"One Bot Rules Them All: Final 4/Finals"	July 26, 2015 (2015-07-26)	4.62[21]

Season 7 (2016)

Main article: BattleBots (season 7)

Winner: Tombstone

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
99	1	"The Gears Awaken"	May 10, 2016 (2016-05-10)	1.97[22]
100	2	"Robots Activate: Qualifying Round Begins"	June 23, 2016 (2016-06-23)	3.91[23]
101	3	"There Will Be Bot Blood: The Qualifying Round Concludes"	June 30, 2016 (2016-06-30)	3.59[24]
102	4	"We're Gonna Need a Bigger Bracket: The Round of 32, Part 1"	July 7, 2016 (2016-07-07)	3.45[25]
103	5	"Shake, Battle and Roll: The Round of 32, Part 2"	July 21, 2016 (2016-07-21)	2.96[26]
104	6	"The Good, the Bot, and the Ugly: The Round of 32 Concludes"	July 28, 2016 (2016-07-28)	3.24[27]
105	7	"Not So Sweet 16: The Round of 16 Part 1"	August 4, 2016 (2016-08-04)	3.32[28]
106	8	"Rise of the Machines: The Round of 16 Part 2"	August 25, 2016 (2016-08-25)	3.43[29]
107	9	"Gr8 Expectations: The Quarterfinals"	September 1, 2016 (2016-09-01)	5.61[30]
108	10	"One Shining Bot: The Championship"	September 1, 2016 (2016-09-01)	5.61[30]

Season 8 (2018)

Main article: BattleBots (season 8)

Winner: Bite Force

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
109	1	"It's Robot Fighting Time!"	May 11, 2018 (2018-05-11)	1.03[31]
110	2	"Are You Yeti to Rumble?"	May 18, 2018 (2018-05-18)	1.02[32]
111	3	"Everyone Wants to Be the Hotshot"	May 25, 2018 (2018-05-25)	0.94[33]
112	4	"There's No Tapping Out in BattleBots!"	June 1, 2018 (2018-06-01)	1.01[34]
113	5	"Just Keep Spinning"	June 8, 2018 (2018-06-08)	0.96[35]
114	6	"It's a Flippin' Robot Party!"	June 15, 2018 (2018-06-15)	1.00[36]
115	7	"It's Fork Lifting Time!"	June 22, 2018 (2018-06-22)	0.92[37]
116	8	"I'm Here to Kick Some Bot"	June 29, 2018 (2018-06-29)	0.93[38]
117	9	"Ice, Ice, Baby"	July 6, 2018 (2018-07-06)	0.84[39]
118	10	"A Smashing Good Time"	July 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)	0.90[40]
119	11	"The Desperado Tournament"	August 3, 2018 (2018-08-03)	0.72[41]
120	12	"This Is BattleBots!"	August 10, 2018 (2018-08-10)	0.74[42]
121	13	"The Rematch"	August 17, 2018 (2018-08-17)	0.83[43]
122	14	"It's Going to Be a Flippin' Blast!"	August 24, 2018 (2018-08-24)	0.84[44]
123	15	"USA vs. the World"	August 31, 2018 (2018-08-31)	0.76[45]
124	16	"A Bull in a Bot Shop"	September 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)	1.03[46]
125	17	"Last Chance Rumble"	September 14, 2018 (2018-09-14)	0.83[47]
126	18	"It's Tournament Time"	September 21, 2018 (2018-09-21)	0.98[48]
127	19	"The Tournament"	September 28, 2018 (2018-09-28)	0.76[49]
128	20	"Championship Night"	October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05)	0.81[50]

Season 9 (2019)

Main article: BattleBots (season 9)

Winner: Bite Force

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
129	1	"That's What You Call a KO!"	May 31, 2019 (2019-05-31) (online) June 7, 2019 (2019-06-07) (Discovery Channel)	0.741[51]
130	2	"You Mess with the Bull, You Get the Drum"	June 14, 2019 (2019-06-14)	0.849[52]
131	3	"Don't FLIP OUT!"	June 21, 2019 (2019-06-21)	0.842[53]
132	4	"A Duck Only a Mother Could Love"	June 28, 2019 (2019-06-28)	0.997[54]
133	5	"A Family Affair"	July 5, 2019 (2019-07-05)	0.872[55]
134	6	"Buckers and Brawlers"	July 12, 2019 (2019-07-12)	0.817[56]
135	7	"The Most Destructive Robot"	July 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)	0.911[57]
136	8	"The Desperado Tournament II"	July 26, 2019 (2019-07-26)	0.872[58]
137	9	"Eyes on the Prize"	August 9, 2019 (2019-08-09)	0.897[59]
138	10	"Flips, Fires, and Flinches"	August 16, 2019 (2019-08-16)	0.802[60]
139	11	"Like a Bot to a Flame"	August 23, 2019 (2019-08-23)	0.881[61]
140	12	"This Is Gonna Be Huge"	August 30, 2019 (2019-08-30)	0.796[62]
141	13	"One Flipper to Rule Them All"	September 6, 2019 (2019-09-06)	0.846[63]
142	14	"Live to Die Another Day"	September 13, 2019 (2019-09-13)	0.860[64]
143	15	"My Super Sweet 16"	September 20, 2019 (2019-09-20)	0.806[65]
144	16	"2019 BattleBots World Championship"	September 27, 2019 (2019-09-27)	0.914[66]

Season 10 (2020?)

See also

• Robot Fighting League
• Survival Research Laboratories
• RoboGames
• Robot Wars (TV series)

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External links

• Official website
• (Comedy Central version)
• (ABC version)
• (Science Channel version)
• Full results of major robotic competitions including Robot Wars, BattleBots and Robotica
• 2000 Series on IMDb
• 2015 Series on IMDb