Blast from the Past! Flashback to 2015 when BattleBots returned to TV with a thrilling shrapnel-filled showdown between Icewave and Razorback. #battlebots #robots | BattleBots

And then there was “Net Gate” Former Giant Nut winner Derek Young took advantage of a poorly written rule in our newly minted 2015 rule set. Prior to that, there had been a 10-year precedent that entanglement devices were anti-competitive and thus forbidden. But the 2015 rules took this for granted and weren’t explicit enough in their language. Derek exploited this, and here you see the results. The fight sent shockwaves across BattleBots fandom, with one faction calling for Derek’s immediate ex