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  Ryan, 26 Sep 2000 @ 3:09pm

  
  

  England's people are undercapitalised

  Yep, the show your talking about is Robot Wars. It was one of those programs that everyone made jokes about until they started watching it. It seems to appeal to anyone that likes tech toys (most men) and has been a hit for the channel that produced it.
  
  There are some brilliant people here in England but they just seem so under capitalised. I'm working on a little plan to change that ;) I'm looking into setting up a student tech fund and I've had some interested people don't worry I'll keep you updated :)

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    Mike (profile), 26 Sep 2000 @ 5:36pm

    
    

    Scrapheap challenge?

    Hmm... the article indicates that the British version is called Scrapheap Challenge. Are there *two* British versions of the show?

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  UKWatcher, 27 Sep 2000 @ 3:27am

  
  

  UK Program

  The UK program *is* Scrapheap Challenge. Robot Wars is an entirely different program and has nothing to do with scrapyards - it consists of
  specially built robots beating the crap out of each other. Both good shows though.

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    Anonymous Coward, 27 Sep 2000 @ 3:49am

    
    

    Re: UK Program

    Oops... sorry made a mistake, your right but I got confused with robot wars but both are good (and use the similar motifs). I guess you guys in the US will probably see a rip-off of robot wars soon.

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      Mike (profile), 27 Sep 2000 @ 3:53am

      
      

      Re: UK Program

      Battlebots has been on comedy central for a few weeks now...

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        mhh5, 27 Sep 2000 @ 1:47pm

        
        

        Re: UK Program

        Yeah, Battlebots is the same as Robot Wars. I went to a "tournament" in SF a few years ago. I think these two guys founded it, but then split up and Robot Wars turned into Battlebots. I don't know what happened to the other half. It's not as exciting as you'd think. The robots that win usually stick with KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) philosophies, and the really wacked designs get trashed.

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    Ryan, 27 Sep 2000 @ 3:50am

    
    

    Re: UK Program

    sorry, forgot to put my name in the above post ;)

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