BattleBots

in the 25 year history of the sport,

Excellence at battlebots has been measured in hardwar

The pride of the giant bolts

what a destructive robot!

the glory of the desperado and bounty hunter

they have run the gauntlet.

and the ultimate prize,

For those seeking battlebots immortality.

The giant nut.

world champion!

now, a new quest for greatness begins.

This is battlebots champi

The race for the golden bolt

robots, activate.

Hey, everybody, and welcome to battlebots,

The only sport currently under investigation

In the deaths of wall-e, c-3po

And that robot that plays chess against the russians.

I'm chris rose and I'm joined, as always, by ufc legend,

The best darn robot-fighting analyst of his generation,

Say hello to kenny florian.

thanks, chris, it's great to be here.

How we feeling, vegas?

tonight, we continu on with battlebots champio

An explosive new event,

Featuring five qualifying tournaments

And a boss bot around every corner.

Waiting for the winner at the top of the mountain,

A brand-new battlebots tro

The golden bolt!

Now, if you wanna get your hands

On that beautiful new piece of hardware,

You must first gain entry

Into the exclusive golden bolt tournament, kenn

that's right, chris already set to answer the be

Are giant nut winners, tombstone,

End game,

2021 champion, tantrum,

And the two teams that made

Out of our first couple of qualifiers alive,

Ribbot and hypershock.

Now, only three precious spo in the field remain.

tonight, eight new combatants

Have thrown their processin chips onto the table

To try to run the gauntlet

In hopes of claiming one of them.

And standing in their way, at the end of the night,

A battle-tested gatekeeper

Looking to claim the glory for itself,

Rotator.

the mad scientist, victor soto, is known

As one of the most gifted tacticians in the sport,

And he's made quite a name for himself in the five year

Since he stormed onto the scene with rotator

oh!

This is battlebots!

-Whoo! - 2018's

Most destructive award winne

Added another notch to its belt

When it demolished four bots in one night

To claim a bounty hunter cro

In another gruesome standalone event.

This perennial contender has no qualms

Undercutting any bot that gets in its way.

will victor soto's rotator

Be a big bad gatekeeper

And clinch a spot in a field of champions?

Or will the glory go to one of our fearless contenders?

Let's check out the tourney bracket.

Looking to gas up their chances

Of bringing the big chill, are icewave.

As they take on the team who delivers pain

To your front door, free shipping.

fiery rough stuff of gruff takes on a bot

That wants to have an error-free fight in glitc

the mercury will be rising as retrograd

Takes on the maryland monster, mammoth.

but to kick things off,

It's a showdown of medieval proportions,

As jordan neal's dragon slay

Looks to grab the attention of the battlebots univer

By making some noise in tonight's bracket.

Standing in its way, quite possibly

The most terrifying weapon in the entire field,

It's alex hattori's haymaking uppercut.

I'm ready. You ready?

I'm very ready.

You guys ready?

Faruq, take it away.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Are you ready?

It's robot fighting time!

in the red square,

From denton, texas, what happens in vegas,

Slays in vegas.

It's dragon slayer!

Come on, people!

captain jordan neal pumping up the crowd

As team dragon slayer makes its way out to the bo

For our first bout of the night.

Still a lot to prove for this young team, kenny.

What do they bring into the fight here?

well, they learnt a lot

From their rookie campaign

And they're excited to put in on display here.

Jordan has opted for a scaled down

31-pound weapon bar tonight

In order to put less stress dragon slayers weapon motors

A system that failed several times last season.

So keep an eye on that vertical spinner,

In this opening fight.

in the blue square,

From cambridge, massachusetts,

Everyone has a plan

Till they get punched in the mouth

By uppercut!

team uppercut

Bringing their devastating bot into the arena.

Hey, is that a new weapon on uppercut, kenny?

it is. Alex has been careful

About letting people see his bot all day

And now we know why.

The team calls that wheel-shaped weapon "the hoo

Which is 30 pounds heavier than their other two bars.

Alex told us, one of his main goals in this tournamen

Is to get some additional r& with uppercut.

Excited to see how it pays off.

you know, I never trusted that kid.

Anybody that nice who isn't canadian,

Has to be hiding something.

Oh, look at that, extra mean bot,

It's got a great big spinner on it,

That's real freaking scary.

I think we're gonna get in there

And use their bad gyro effect to our advantage.

Hopefully get at those tires, get around the back.

We want anything but to go at that, uh,

Yeah, go weapon to weapon.

Uh, haven't really gotten a good chance

To take a look at their bot,

They've been keeping secrets from me all day.

They got a tarp over it even while they're working on it.

Uppercut, there ain't no keeping secrets from us.

You're next.

No, we don't have any sec-- any major secrets,

We're just running a new weapon

That nobody's seen before so

We're just sort of playing around with that.

So the new weapon should be more powerful,

Uh, it depends on how much contact

It can make with an opponent

And how hard the other surface is

But, we'll have to see.

Anything can happen in the battlebox so.

robots, activate.

alright, for more o uppercut's new weapon,

Let's throw it on over to ou

Bot whisperer, pete abrahamson.

Pete, what do you got on this one?

well, they've been wanting

Tor try out this weapon since their rookie year.

They believe it hits a lot harder

But they've avoided it because the extra 30 pounds

Vastly increases the gyro effect.

This makes it very difficul to stay balanced.

Guys, we'll see if the extra power

Is worth the trade off and control.

thanks, pete.

Anything for a little extra pop.

Here we go, folks.

One team left to win three consecutive fights

To earn a date with tonight's gatekeeper, rotato

Where a berth in the golden bolt tournamen

Will be on the line.

- - fight! Fight! Fight!

let the bot battle begin!

- oh! - nice scissor shot.

Mitigated. Another one by uppercut.

I like that new weapon, kenn

yeah, nice start, but check out dragon slayer

Ripped off one of those ballast bars on uppercut.

It's alex hattori.

Dragon slayer driving inverted.

oh, geez.

you don't suggest that against uppercut.

no, but you see that gyro effect

Alex was fearful of.

Uppercut a little out of control.

and dragon slayer willing to go

Weapon to weapon.

What do you think of that strategy?

man, let's only hope oh, big shock from uppercut

You see, uppercut's still dealing

With that gyroscopic effect

well, the jury's sti out on that new weapon

Uppercut is debuting.

Uh-oh, dragon slayer not moving, kenny.

it's been eating a ton of shocks out there.

if I don't see any movement,

I'm gonna have to count you out.