Interview with Battlebots Champion

Scoop writes "With the fifth season of BattleBots debuting a few days ago on Comedy Central, UGO.com chatted up contestant Jim Smentowski, creator of champion BattleBot, Nightmare. Jim shared his views on the hit show, his experience with Gary Coleman and robotics in general. No word yet on the rumored love-child between Smentowski and BB host, Carmen Electra."

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Love-child

[T-Kir]

No word yet on the rumored love-child between Smentowski and BB host, Carmen Electra.

Hmm, I wonder what Dave Navarro would have to say about that.

Question

[Hilleh]

Are they allowed to go suicidal and have the bots detonate an EMP bomb in the middle of the ring? That would be pretty hilarious. What would Carmen Electra do then?

"Ok....they're sitting there. It doesn't look like...OH WAIT!!.... No, no, nothings moving. False alarm. Our ratings are plummeting and...(listens into headset...No! I will not do that! (listens some more) Oh, fine. (loudly) My shirt! I believe that my shirt is falling off! Oh no!"

*Prepares for REAL ULTIMATE offtopic moderation ;)*

Re:Slashdot Karma HOWTO

[jukal]

Ok, let's try. I heard that the MIT BattleBots team is looking for new members. Here's an article about the TuxBot - the Linux based Battlebot. It would be nice to see Linux based bot beating a Microsoft based one to hell and back.

By the way, have you noticed the privacy statement at Battlebots. Have you noticed that they reserve the right to supply 3rd party companies with your info??

I haven't heard about any BSD based bots yet - have you?.

I would also like to whine about "the lack of jobs where you get paid to fire foam darts at colleagues". </test>

But who won the award for...

[SporkKnight]

"Most Lame Opening Line"?

And in this corner! He puts the "evil" in "weevil", he will make you cry, and he is not your father's can of corn....The Human Robot!

Announcer Guy 1: That was quite a match!
Announcer Guy 2: Thats right Guy#1! Lets go to the floor with our large chested eye-candy!

Carmen Elektra: Hi Guys! I'm here with the winner of this match, Middle-aged car shop guy! So tell me, how were you able to pull off this exciting and lucrative win?
Middle-aged Car Shop Guy: Uhhhhhh, I like, ran into the other guy, and the hammer thing hit it. A lot.
Close-up of Carmen's Breasts
Announcer Guy 1: Join us next time for another exciting edition... of Battle Breasts! uhh Bots!

Gary Coleman is a robot?

[yulek]

...his experience with Gary Coleman and robotics in general.

Gary Coleman is a robot?