You wouldn’t know it now that I am an incredibly charming, incredibly good-looking, wealthy car journalistbut I was a huge nerd growing up. We’re talking “I had a Palm Pilot in middle school and started reading Tom Clancy in sixth grade” levels of nerdiness. Unsurprisingly, one of my favorite shows as a kid was BattleBots. They are robots? And they fight? How could I not fall in love? So imagine how delighted I was when I found out that BattleBots is still going strong after all these years.
If you’re a diehard BattleBots fan, you probably think I’m an idiot for noticing this until now. And maybe I am. In my defense, though, I eventually learned how to talk to girls and have more or less forgotten about BattleBots to this day. What can I say? I don’t regularly check back for old shows to see if they’re back on. From what I understand, Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb brought back X-Play, and I miss that too. I think I vaguely heard that ABC revived the show nearly a decade ago, but I don’t have cable and there were more important things to pay attention to in the fall of 2015.
And yet, it turns out, BattleBots is still going strong after all these years, with or without television coverage. And who would have thought, they are also will hold their Destruct-A-Thon on August 30th in Las Vegas. I already have plans with my family this weekend, so I can’t go this year, but I’m already looking at my options for next year. Maybe we can make it a family trip? My oldest niece and nephew would love to go to a robot fight. Either way, I want to make my younger self proud and finally see the competition in person.
If you were also a BattleBots fan as a kid and are worried that it doesn’t feel as great anymore, I’m also happy to tell you that it doesn’t. BattleBots is still awesome even as an adult. Just watch the highlights from Vengeance in Vegas a few months ago. Like I said, it’s still as awesome as ever. If you can make it, definitely go and see it. You might regret some of the things you do in Vegas, but watching the BattleBots Destruct-A-Thon won’t be one of them.
