BattleBots: Champions

...with the reviewers who have gotten more and more disappointed with the formats that have evolved .. Giant Nut, Silver Bolt, Bounty Hunter, etc. I can't keep track. I still record three hours or so of content every Thursday but would never watch it live. With a max of four fights an hour, that makes 12 minutes of action, less with knockouts, and the efforts to fill the remaining time with a million commercials and stupid " fight, fight, fight,'" screaming from the "fans" makes it worse.

Are these teams competing to win money? Who sponsors them? A little backstory on competitors would be interesting. More time showing working on repairs in the pits. How much does it cost to field a bot? Other human interest things to break up the show. And get rid of the interminable announcements. From the minute Farouk gets the mike to the start of the fight is 3-4 minutes, plus 6 more minutes of commercial time. And always the same. Makes it easy to fast forward and i guess the sponsors are aware nobody will ever see their stuff.