Robot combat is not just for television. It is global - from the US to the UK, from Brazil to India, from Tunisia to Australia, with events into triple figures held annually all over the world.

This is the place for celebrating this sport and hobby, for the latest news, for showing off your robots, for event reports and for questions and discussions.

Let the wars begin!

Rules

1. Follow standard reddiquette.

2. Posts should be about robot combat (as in the sport, rather than war technology) with the exception of special cases.

3. Please use text and post spoilers (see below)

4. Please don't spam lots of similar posts. If you want to post a number of fights or a whole competition, just post the first part or a full playlist.

5. Feel free to post anything else, including old battles, new battles, competition predictions, building questions, rule discussions and (relevant!) memes.

Spoiler Flair

To show that a post contains spoilers, you can now set a spoiler flair.

• Submit your post

• Click 'Flair' underneath your post and select 'Spoiler'

This will set the post flair and replace the thumbnail with a spoiler warning.

Text Spoilers

• Type your comment in square brackets []

• Type (/spoiler) at the end of the spoiler

• It will appear like this and you can hover over it to reveal it

For example:

• [example]_(/spoiler) would appear as example without the underscore

List of event organisers

• SPARC (USA)

• National Robotics League (USA)

• Battlebots (USA)

• Robogames/Combots (USA)

• Saskatoon Combat Robotics Club (Canada)

• Fighting Robot Association (UK)

• Robot Wars (UK)

• Robots Live (UK)

• RoboChallenge (UK)

• Antweight World Series/Robot Wars 101 (UK)

• RoboWars (Australia)

• German Roboteers Association (Germany)

• Mad Metal Machines (Germany)

• Dutch Robot Games (Netherlands)

• RoboSota (Finland)

• RoboCore (Brazil)

...and many more local clubs

If I've missed any country-wide EOs off the list, please tell me. There are too many state-specific clubs to list here.

Related Subreddits

/r/BringBackRobotWars - For other robot combat things, especially nostalgia for the old series

/r/robotwars - For the BBC show, both original and the reboot

/r/battlebots - To discuss robot combat with special focus on the US and the show BattleBots

/r/minorbattlebots - The minors league of BattleBots

Other stuff

The Builders Database - A great place for information on upcoming events and on robots

BotRank.com - A database of battles and a cross-competition ranking system for robots

The Robot Combat Hall of Fame - A running list of the greatest robots the sport has ever seen.

Robot Wars Wiki - Everything you ever wanted to know about the Robot Wars TV series

BattleBots Wiki - Home to the home of robotic combat