Robot Combat League

It's a cute concept poorly executed. For example, on BattleBots the participants designed their 'bots and brought them to the competition; on this, the producers provide the designs and implementations and they're assigned to the participants (the fighters don't get to choose anything). The 'bots come at each other from opposite ends of the arena (tethered by square bars), and that's basically it...very limiting. The CGI in the promos is more exciting than the actual competition.

The players are from diverse fields/backgrounds, many from robotics and programming backgrounds, but the robots were not created by them but one man, so how can there really be competition? They try to script in drama where there is none, because the players don't even know which robot they are "assigned" until the show starts. Non-actors trying to act out drama makes for a pretty lame series. They should have let the players create their own robot designs- that would be real competition.

Everything starts somewhere... Like Daytona beach. Kinda hard to get a show like this going with BYOB (bring your own bot) not to mention a canceled fights because the bot doesn't work. Love the show and hope next season they get teams to design and build and not just pilot and "repair" the bots.