The 2020 regular season kicks off as 62 teams from all over the world converge for an all-out tournament.
The steel-on-steel action, hard-hitting combat of BattleBots: Fight Night returns. ‡ These bots fought in less than 3 fights in the regular season, or some of their 3 regular-season fights are unknown. † These bots, while listed on the official website, did not compete in the actual season (but instead competed in BattleBots: Bounty Hunters). * These bots participated in untelevised fights. Due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions during the recording of the episodes, the in-studio audience consisted only of the competing teams, with significant separation between the teams. In previous seasons, an in-studio audience from the general population was present around the BattleBox to watch the event and add crowd reactions for the broadcast program. Their goal is to earn a top 32 ranking and qualify for the post-season where there will be knockout rounds until a winner-take-all fight to crown the 2020 BattleBots World Champion. The lineup features 62 of the best heavyweight robots to fight head-to-head in the Battle Arena. This season marked the 21st year of the BattleBots competition. The current judges are: former BattleBots contenders, Derek Young, Lisa Winter, and Jason Bardis. Learning more from the likes of Danby, who brings a love of robotics into households across the world each Battlebots season, just ignited a bigger passion for exciting 2021-2022 season.This season, the judges score on a 11 point scale: 5 points for damage 3 points for aggression and 3 points for control. With North Carolina House lawmakers looking to add a policy provision into the budget recognizing competitive robotics programs as interscholastic athletic activities regulated by the State Board of Education, students of f(x) Robotics at Smithfield Selma Senior High School have known the importance of robotics and STEM education for many years. Team Danby’s robot, Slammo, hopes to advance into final rounds of competition this season, but fans will not know the results till the show airs later this year. He also talked to the team about competition strategy, and shared some personal insights competing against popular teams such as Witch Doctor, Huge and End Game. Danby showed the high school team one of his early battle robots, talked robot build, competition strategy and took a myriad of questions.ĭanby, a mechanical design engineer with a focus in robotics, talked to the team about his design and builds over nearly three decades in competitive robotics. Craig Danby, a well-known Discovery Channel Battlebot’s competitor, stopped by a meeting for FIRST Robotics Competition Team 6004 f(x) Robotics on Aug. While Danby will start filming a new Battlebots season early next week, members of f(x) Robotics are in off-season with their competition season starting in January 2022. Nearly two dozen students from across Johnston County’s public, charter, private and homeschool communities make up the f(x) Robotics team.
Danby visited the team in mid-August prior to leaving for Las Vegas to film a new season of Battlebots.Ĭraig Danby, a premier competitor on Discovery Channel’s Battlebots, visited a Johnston County high school robotics team on August 18th prior to leaving for Las Vegas to film the new season of the popular show.ĭanby talked with students from FIRST Robotics Competition Team 6004 hosted at Smithfield Selma Senior High School. Students from FIRST Robotics Competition Team 6004 f(x) Robotics hosted at Smithfield Selma Senior High School check out one of Craig Danby’s original Battlebots, Foxic.