First of all, there are seemingly no rules in this "contest". You are free to have a second bot or drone or even drastically change your bot during the season and there is never an explanation as to why any of it is allowed. And believe it or not, that's the best thing about this show. The announcers are terrible. They never say anything that's true and always act like they are surprised by the outcome of a battle. They spew lies about the judges credibility and then say they have such a tough job, constantly. The judges literally never have any type of knowledge that would make them a good judge of anything and claiming that them making a decision is hard is a total lie. A small child could easily see who the winner is in every battle. To top it off they had the nerve to take a week off(unannounced) before the finals. They Gilliganed us. Remember when that idiot cut the last season of Breaking Bad in half and AMC NEVER mentioned it?? If you are reasonably intelligent you will hate this show.

What's not to love? Robots destroying other robots! Fun commentary and lots of mechanical carnage.

Years ago I wanted so desperately to watch Battle Bots but there is no way to catch copies of the old comedy central show.... I was so excited to learn that Battle Bots came back. Despite the fact that the talking heads are not exactly techies I actually find them entertaining especially since you can tell they genuinely get into it. The show really keeps the focus on the 2 robots that are fighting and they keep the "house hazards" to a minimum and organized in a way that a robot driver can use them for strategy but yet not be in the way. I really don't have a bad things to say about this show other than maybe I'd like to see a longer season that goes back a bracket... I was glad they did this for the second season by starting the coverage at 32 rather than 16 but I'd like to see them start the coverage maybe a little further back.... My biggest hope is that they don't start getting greedy for drama and go the way of the UK's Robot Wars where there is so much crap in the arena that the robot drivers don't have any option for strategy and we start seeing bots that aren't designed to do anything but push the opponent.

Although it's been almost 15 years since it was last on TV, it has proved that it still has what it takes to be a show. What's nice about it is that some of the original builders have returned, like Reason Bradly and Christian Carlberg and that's enough to offset the new people that do the robot intros and commentary. I kinda miss the "drag racing Christmas tree" from the original but the new version follows that pretty closely and Faruq does a pretty decent job introducing the robots in a manner that Mark Beiro would've done. Even the arena has maintained at least some of its charm from the 2000s version with the Killsaws, Pulverizers and the Screws all returning. I have yet to see the new "pinball flippers" do anything yet and since the hazards are now controlled via computer, it's less likely that there will be as much damage, especially since the Killsaws have only recently appeared.