Grant was, in fact, a competitor on an earlier incarnation of BattleBots. His robot, Deadblow, appears a few times on MythBusters. (For that matter, Adam and Jamie also competed at least once. IIRC, their robot was called Blendo.)
Though a fan of the BBC's Robot Wars back when it aired on... whatever US channel it aired on, I've always been a little disappointed with robot battle shows, if only because none of them actually feature robots. I suppose BattleFreakyRemoteControlledCars doesn't have quite the same marketing cachet, though. :)
Robot Wars was TLC, IIRC...back when TLC ever showed anything I was interested in. And yes, I know about Deadblow, hence namechecking Grant. :) Deadblow was one of my faves, although I also have the Blendo toy.
Aha, heh. See, I wasn't sure whether you knew, or were just reacting to the fact that, whatever the testing challenge happens to be on MythBusters, Grant's answer is to build a robot. :)
Deadblow has even shown up a couple of times on Mythbusters.
I like that the ESPN version is going to use the environment of the arena to evolutionarily select against wedge designs, rather than simply trying to ban 'em and then get into arguments over what is and isn't a wedge.
Robot Wars was on TechTV, before the ComCast goliath "bought the Red Car so it could dismantle it," i. e. eliminate the only competing network against its own G4 Network.
I liked G4, back before it became another Spike TV.
(bows his head in memory of The Glow)
But I liked Tech TV too. They had stuff G4 didn't. And vicey-versey. And now the remains of their combination has almost nothing I consider worth watching.
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Though a fan of the BBC's Robot Wars back when it aired on... whatever US channel it aired on, I've always been a little disappointed with robot battle shows, if only because none of them actually feature robots. I suppose BattleFreakyRemoteControlledCars doesn't have quite the same marketing cachet, though. :)
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I like that the ESPN version is going to use the environment of the arena to evolutionarily select against wedge designs, rather than simply trying to ban 'em and then get into arguments over what is and isn't a wedge.
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Yes, I'm bitter.
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(bows his head in memory of The Glow)
But I liked Tech TV too. They had stuff G4 didn't. And vicey-versey. And now the remains of their combination has almost nothing I consider worth watching.
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