In a message dated 8/30/2000 11:02:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
spike66@ibm.net writes:
>
> This show has it all: destruction of property, gonzo engineering, fight
to the death, power, speed, mayhem, total guy stuff. Ahhhhh bliss. {8^D
>spike
Sexist, Spike, sexist -- wake up and smell the millennium. Actually the
winner of last year's Battlebots was a young girl of about ten or eleven. She
had some kind of ladybug thing made out of a toilet seat with a rotor saw
inside that ate everyone's bot for breakfast and spit it out.
Actually Battlebots was kinda lame. The "bots" are just various sized remote
control tanks with saws, hammers, hooks, traps, etc. I am not going to go
again, though I was very excited when I saw the posters (the graphics made it
look way cooler than it was) What is was was "cute". And really
white-trash.Cool, heheHEHheh.
We saw it at the big Pyramid in Long Beach and they make you sign some kind
of waver saying if you die, it's not their fault. I guess they meant by
shrapnel, or boredom, not sure which.
The audience looked like The Cure meets World Wrestling Federation.
I recommend large quantities of beer if you want to endure more than about
fifteen minutes of it.
Nadia
PS
They did have some cool robot stuff for sale at the concession stands.
PSS One hopes that it will evolve into something really truly interesting,
and that someday they'll use actual robots, programmed ones.
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