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BattleBots. Season 4. BattleBotsfeatures the biggest, baddest, strongest, and fastest next-generation robots from all over the world as they duke it out for supremacy in the rapidly exploding world of Robot Combat Sports. 195 2019 16 episodes. 16+. Documentary. Subscribe to discovery+ or Max. Watch with discovery+. Start your 7-day free trial.
- Overview
- Reveals and Trailers
- Rule Changes
- Fight Night Schedules
- BattleBots: Fight Night
- Top 16
- Top 8
- See Also
World Championship IV, also known as Discovery Season 4 and the 2019 season, was the fourth season of BattleBots since its return to television in 2015, and the second since Discovery picked the show up from ABC.
Similar to the previous season, the 2019 season of BattleBots aired Fridays on Discovery, with an 'encore episode' the following Wednesday on the Science Channel, often featuring a bonus fight. The show kept its Fight Night format throughout the season, with the majority of the field of 68 competitors being guaranteed four fights. From then, the Selection Committee would pick the majority of the Top 16, who fought a single-elimination knockout tournament until a winner was found.
The Desperado Tournament made its return, with the mid-season tournament format remaining the same. This was ultimately won by Team Uai!rrior and Black Dragon, who defeated Captain Shrederator, WAR Hawk and fellow Brazilian competitor Minotaur in the Desperado final to win the Giant Bolt trophy and earn a guaranteed spot in the Top 16. Ironically, their 8th seeding put them up against the 2018 Desperado Tournament winner Donald Hutson and Lock-Jaw, but Black Dragon fell at this hurdle and were eliminated from the competition.
Chris Rose, Kenny Florian and Faruq Tauheed once again kept their roles on the show, but FOX Sports broadcaster and sideline reporter Jenny Taft took over pit reporting duties. Neither Alison Haislip nor Jessica Chobot returned to BattleBots.
Changes were made to not only the judging criteria ahead of World Championship IV, but also the personnel. There were no guest judges for the 2019 season, with the panel being made up of three former BattleBots competitors of both the classic and reboot eras: Derek Young of Complete Control, Pressure Drop and Son of Smashy, Jason Bardis of Dr. Inferno Jr., Towering Inferno and The Disk O' Inferno, as well as Lisa Winter of Tentoumushi, Plan X and Mega Tento. Each of the three judges were provided with a Judges' Guide, explaining the format as well as a brief FAQ of likely circumstances they would have to mutually rule upon. The criteria saw a 7 point system split between three categories - 3 points for Damage; 2 points for Aggression; and 2 points for Control.
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A thirty second trailer was launched to the BattleBots YouTube channel in May 2019, showcasing hero shots of several robots, including End Game and Kraken, as Chris Rose hyped up the season to include the largest field of competitors to date.
The later snippets of battles focused on different Fight Night battles including SawBlaze vs. ROTATOR, End Game vs. DeathRoll and Quantum vs. Blacksmith as various commentary lines played. Faruq Tauheed closed the trailer with his iconic "It's Robot Fighting Time!" catchphrase as a couple more fights were teased, before the trailed announced June 7 as the date for the first episode of World Championship IV.
Amidst the rule changes for the 2019 season was the way in which referees would count out a robot they thought to be immobile. Whereas the referees would initiate a 20 second countdown from the moment they thought a robot was immobile, the last ten seconds of which were called out loud, the wording was now changed to read 'counts' rather than seconds. This was changed to account for unintentional inconsistencies between a referee's ten-count and the total seconds a robot is immobilized for. This also reflects ten-counts seen in combat sports such as boxing, which are not exactly ten seconds in length.
Concerning robot design, one new rule was the enforcement of batteries being removed after a match and only reinstalled just ahead of the next match in order to ensure accessibility at all times. Another concerned flamethrowers, which could now operate for a maximum of 60 seconds at maximum gas flow.
* This robot did not receive any more Fight Night battles during the season.
** This robot was featured in the 2019 season roster, but had to withdraw.
Episode 1: That's What You Call a KO!
"The season begins as bots compete to be the 2019 BattleBots World Champion." — Official description for Episode 1. *Aired as the Main Event of Episode 1 of the ITV4 version. Matches highlighted in red were aired in Episode 1 of the ITV4 UK version (That's What You Call A KO! - Part One). Matches highlighted in blue were aired in Episode 2 of the ITV4 UK version (That's What You Call A KO! - Part Two).
Episode 2: You Mess with the Bull, You Get the Drum
"Minotaur goes against Whiplash as a new group of 14 bots make their debut." — Official description for Episode 2. *Aired as the Main Event of Episode 3 of the ITV4 version. Matches highlighted in red were aired in Episode 3 of the ITV4 UK version (Voodoo You Think You Are?). Matches highlighted in blue were aired in Episode 4 of the ITV4 UK version (You Mess With The Bull, You Get The Drum).
Episode 3: Don't FLIP OUT!
"BattleBots Champion Bite Force squares off against famed bot Yeti." — Official description for Episode 3. *Aired as the Main Event of Episode 5 of the ITV4 version. Matches highlighted in red were aired in Episode 5 of the ITV4 UK version (Don't Flip Out!). Matches highlighted in blue were aired in Episode 6 of the ITV4 UK version (The Champ Returns).
Episode 15: My Super Sweet 16
"The 2019 BattleBots World Championship kicks off a Sweet 16 competition!" — Official description for Episode 15. *Aired as the Main Event of Episode 27 of the ITV4 version. Matches highlighted in red were aired in Episode 27 of the ITV4 UK version (2019 World Championship - Top 16 Part One). Matches highlighted in blue were aired in Episode 28 of the ITV4 UK version (2019 World Championship - Top 16 Part Two).
Episode 16: 2019 BattleBots World Championship
"The final eight bots face off for the 2019 BattleBots World Championship!" — Official description for Episode 16. Matches highlighted in red were aired in Episode 29 of the ITV4 UK version (2019 World Championship - The Quarterfinals). Matches highlighted in blue were aired in Episode 30 of the ITV4 UK version (The 2019 World Championship Finals).
Season 4.0 was the fourth televised season of BattleBots on Comedy Central. It was the second of three seasons filmed at Treasure Island in San Francisco. It proved to be the most influential season to date concerning weight rules, as shuffling robots, also known as "shufflebots", no longer received the same weight advantage as before. [1] .
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S9 E4 10/26/23. Champions: Sin City: Slug Me. The Slugfest continues: eight more teams risk it all for the fourth spot. Watch on. or Use your tv provider. S9 E5 11/2/23. Champion:SinCity:FinalSlugfest. Vegas means war for BattleBots Champions - the Golden Bolt is their prize! Watch on. or Use your tv provider. S9 E6 11/9/23.
A ninth season of BattleBots premiered on Discovery Channel on June 7, 2019, the tenth season premiered on December 3, 2020, the eleventh season on January 6, 2022, and the twelfth season on January 5, 2023.
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Jun 6, 2019 · 1 h 23 min. TV-PG. As the tournament heats up, the field of vicious robots gear up to guarantee their spot in the Top 16, and in the Main Event bout, Tombstone and Rotator look to settle a year-long feud once and for all. Subscribe to discovery+ or Max.
Jun 7, 2019 · Season 4 episodes (17) 1 That's What you Call a KO! The season of BattleBots kicks off with 67 epic bots as they face off to become the 2019 BattleBots World Champion. BattleBots 2018...
