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Solely for the purpose of continuing the timeline, I've added RoboGames to the History section so that readers can understand that Robot Combat is alive and well (as of 2011). Brant Fetter (talk)

Unverified Claims?

The 'unverified claims' tag added to the Robot Combat page says to look to the 'talk' section for guidance, but there is no guidance here. I would appreciate either guidance or the removal of the tag.Run Amok (talk) 23:24, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, nine new references are in place to support the alleged unverified claims. I'm removing the tags based on these new references. If teh support is inadequate, I would appreciate some guidance rather than just the return of the flags, please.Run Amok (talk) 16:56, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A sport?

Can robot combat be considered a sport?

--Fixuture (talk) 05:03, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose it could be classified as either an e-sport or a motorsport, battlebots.com calls it a 'Robot Fighting Sport' JeffUK (talk) 21:19, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Most people involved consider it a sport. I don't know how much weight that carries, though. ShadowLeopardBeetleweightGuy (talk) 16:31, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Link not broken but content no longer present at the destination

The link present for the following text leads to an orphaned article. Yes I could just remove it but I thought I'd raise it via here instead in case anyone had a better link or disagreed.

The sixth season of BattleBots in 2015 failed to explicitly exclude entanglement devices, which resulted in at least one controversial decision.

DNSLOC (talk) 07:54, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed it. Discussing a single fight is too specific for the general page on the sport. This could be placed on the Battlebots page. LukeSurl^{t c} 11:47, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hyper Heavyweights and above

Including these weight classes kind of raises questions that aren't really addressed anywhere in the article. I know that Chinkilla is an Ultra Heavyweight which should at least be mentioned in that sub-article, but has there been an existence of robots or competitions that involve the Hyper Heavyweight / Tonweight and Super Tonweight classes? If not I strongly feel it should be noted. 2603:7000:6A00:23F7:74C6:380D:50B2:4FBE (talk) 18:08, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]