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BattleBots & ESPN Strike TV Deal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hope-the-hosts-are-good dept.

NMajik writes "Although BattleBots has been largely removed from the public eye since episodes stopped airing years ago, a new deal has recently been struck with ESPN to return combat robots to the living room. Episodes will be broadcast as a series on ESPNU and ESPN2 after filmed at the competition in June 2008. This is the first notable progress towards televised combat robotics in years."

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  1. Re:Umm... Grammar? Spelling? by Rocketship+Underpant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hear the same robots that post Slashdot articles are competing in BattleBots!

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  2. Re:pretty sure by VirusEqualsVeryYes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    we're way past stirke three with the editors [sic] inability to edit
    You should send in your résumé.
  3. I knew it was Zonk without looking by fritzk3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    With Zonk, it seems like there is no upper limit on "stirkes" allowed. Nearly every story that he publishes is flawed in some way.

    In fact, as soon as I saw the misspelled title in my RSS feed, I thought to myself, "It's gotta be a Zonk story." Jackpot!

    As I have said many times before, I've seen more screwed-up stories on Slashdot from Zonk than any other editor BY FAR. It's almost sad.

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