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For the BattleBots reboot in 2015, the BattleBox received a significant update to its aesthetics and hazard line-up. As in the Cisco Party, JavaOne and 2009 incarnations, competitors also had the ability to throw opponents out of the arena into spaces between the inner and outer walls, usually in between the spiked bumpers and entry/exit doors. Alongside the existing red and blue squares, a third starting area named the 'green square' was added to enable an additional robot to fight in three-way Rumbles. This was marked out in introductions and warm-up sequences by green spotlights, in the absence of a separately-painted zone. On July 19, 2022, a second spin-off, titled BattleBots: Champions, was announced. The streaming series premiered on August 4, 2022 on Discovery+. BattleBots: Champions is a sequel to BattleBots: Bounty Hunters, filmed concurrently with the 2022 season. The first Golden Bolt winner: End Game. Contemporary BattleBots robots have to fit inside an 8’ x 8’ square and weigh less than 250 lbs. While an array of other rules exist to keep the battles fair, the 250 lb death machines can be pretty liberal with destruction. BattleBots: Champions is a six-episode series involving 48 bots in total. In each of the first five episodes, eight bots fight through a single-elimination tournament, called the "Sin City Slugfest". Each winner of the Sin City Slugfest then battles a winner of a BattleBots: Bounty Hunters bounty match. The victor progresses to the Golden Bolt tournament. The sixth episode is the Golden Bolt tournament, where the five surviving bots face off against each other and three current or former BattleBots champions (Tombstone, End Game, and Tantrum). The overall winner of BattleBots: Champions is awarded the Golden Bolt.

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Updates to the hazards were also evident in the Pulverizers, which retired their classic mallet-shaped heads for a newer, denser design with a rhomboid shape. Lights at the bottom that previously only signalled the activation of Killsaws now also follow the sequence for starting a match. A further change was the apparent removal of the panel-based hellraisers from the center of the arena. In their place, an additional set of upward-firing spikes were added to the same area identified by the updated BattleBots logo, rising from small unmarked holes. [29] In a first for BattleBots events, the Cisco Party arena contained an 'interior wall' section across the top-right corner, alongside a more prominent gap between the inner spiked bumpers and outer enclosure. Through these, competitors could now throw opponents out of the arena, in a similar tactic to that available in Robot Wars. The 'interior wall', along with the significantly smaller dimensions in general, reportedly made it more difficult for certain robots to maneuver across this arena incarnation. [20] [21]

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This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Another compact variant of the BattleBox was used for the 2007 JavaOne competition in San Francisco. This differed in having an octagonal-shaped fighting arena, with only the spiked bumper and two Pulverizers (both on the right-hand side) as hazards. The red and blue squares reverted to their classic solid patterns which remained for subsequent events, though their positioning remained similar to the Cisco Party variant. Though the JavaOne event was primarily host to middleweight robots, one battle is also known to have taken place there between the superheavyweight Ginsu and heavyweight Sewer Snake. [22] The BattleBots Arena was released as part of HEXBUG's introductory line of BattleBots toys in 2016, coinciding with the debut of their remote control line of toys.

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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. 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. [17] Other judges include former Battlebots competitors Lisa Winter, Derek Young, Grant Imahara and Mark Setrakian. [17] a b "discovery+ Announces Exclusive Original Series Debuting in January 2021". The Futon Critic. December 3, 2020. 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.

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