BattleBots
American robot combat television series
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| October 5 2023 | Second season of BattleBots: Champions, titled BattleBots II: Sin City, begins airing on Discovery Channel and MAX, running until November 9, 2023. |
| May 2023 | 'BattleBots Proving Ground' live show started, featuring fights between newly designed or untested bots from newcomers or unproven teams. |
| May 25 2023 | Twelfth season of BattleBots, 'World Championship VII', concluded. |
| February 2023 | 'BattleBots: Destruct-A-Thon' live show began, presenting unscripted fights between replica bots four days a week until May. |
| January 5 2023 | Twelfth season of BattleBots premieres. |
| 2022 | BattleBots: Champions tournament held, with Golden Bolt Qualifiers in each episode. End Game ultimately won the Golden Bolt Tournament, defeating Witch Doctor in the final. |
| August 5 2022 | Second BattleBots spin-off, BattleBots: Champions, premieres on Discovery+. |
| August 4 2022 | BattleBots: Champions streaming series begins airing on Discovery+, running until September 8, 2022. |
| July 19 2022 | BattleBots: Champions spin-off series is officially announced. |
| June 23 2022 | HyperShock won the re:MARS minor tournament in Las Vegas, competing against eight other robots. |
| January 6 2022 | Eleventh season of BattleBots premieres. |
| March 18 2021 | The BattleBots: Bounty Hunters series concluded on Discovery+, completing its run of six episodes featuring bounty matches against veteran bots like Bronco, Icewave, Tombstone, Beta, Witch Doctor, and Son of Whyachi. |
| January 4 2021 | First BattleBots spin-off, BattleBots: Bounty Hunters, premieres on Discovery+. |
| 2020 | Following Grant Imahara's death, the Best Designer award was renamed to the Grant Imahara Award for Best Design in his honor. |
| 2020 | Peter Abrahamson was added as a ringside 'bot whisperer' providing technical details and in-depth analysis of robot matchups |
| December 3 2020 | BattleBots announced a new spin-off streaming series called BattleBots: Bounty Hunters, which would feature 48 bots in a unique tournament format with six veteran bots as bounty targets. |
| December 3 2020 | Tenth season of BattleBots premieres. |
| June 7 2019 | Ninth season of BattleBots premieres on Discovery Channel. |
| June 6 2019 | Witch Doctor won the re:MARS minor tournament in Las Vegas, competing against ten other robots. |
| June 5 2019 | BattleBots returned for a season on Discovery and Science Channel, with Chris Rose and Kenny Florian hosting and Jenny Taft as the new sideline reporter. |
| 2018 | Chris Rose and Kenny Florian became primary hosts, with Jessica Chobot switching to sideline reporter and Alison Haislip becoming a rotating judge. New judges included former BattleBots competitors Lisa Winter, Derek Young, Grant Imahara, and Mark Setrakian |
| May 11 2018 | Discovery Channel and Science pick up BattleBots for its eighth season, which premieres on this date. |
| April 2018 | Discovery Channel and Science Channel announced a new season of BattleBots, premiering May 11 and May 16 respectively. |
| 2016 | Samantha Ponder replaced Molly McGrath as host, with returning judges Fon Davis, Jessica Chobot, and Leland Melvin, plus celebrity guest judges including Clark Gregg, Adam Savage, Vernon Davis, and Michael Stevens |
| June 23 2016 | ABC renews BattleBots for a seventh season, which premieres on this date. |
| 2015 | Pete Lampertson continued overseeing the BattleBox arena design, now assisted by Matt Neubauer. |
| 2015 | BattleBots was hosted by Molly McGrath, with Chris Rose and Kenny Florian as commentators, and Faruq Tauheed as battle arena announcer |
| November 2015 | ABC announced renewal of BattleBots for its seventh overall season, with the 2016 competition expanding to a 56-team field. |
| June 21 2015 | BattleBots is revived on ABC with a six-episode series, receiving favorable reviews and ratings. |
| December 2014 | ABC announced a six-episode revival of BattleBots, produced by Whalerock Industries, set to premiere in June 2015. |
| September 17 2010 | Pilot episode of the Collegiate Championship released on the official BattleBots YouTube Channel. |
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