Saw the next episode tonight (recorded). Must admit I find it borderline painful to watch. No idea what the rules are. Looks like very broad weight classes and obvious the "producers" (fingers desparately avoiding disparaging remarks about their education) value appearance over function.
Gotta be tough for those old-timers who still want to participate and need to submit crap-bots to be included. They like spinners due to their random nature so Team Whyachi is largely unneutered. Watching Christian Carlberg and his daughter compete with dual crap-bots really hurt. The one surprise was the combo grabber flamebot that actually used its flame successfully (opponent was garbage, but points for being the first flame-bot to do something.)
Am trying to forget the final cyborg-control useless-bot (yes, string burns and thin pastic melts-- that doesn't count-- very impressive engineering and completely stupid in a combat robot contest.)
Half the battles reminded me of politicians competiting for votes-- sad and pathetic. Replace them with cockroaches and have a proper battle!