

Tombstone vs End Game Five robots to watch out for The full fight card for the first episode is as follows: Other bots due to compete in the opening episode include SawBlaze, Whiplash, Lock-Jaw, Skorpios and Captain Shrederator. The first episode of the new season will feature former Giant Nut winner Ray Billings and his robot Tombstone take on New Zealand machine End Game. ET with a 2-hour episode on Discovery Channel in the U.S., with subsequent episodes due to be broadcast on Thursdays. The new season of Battlebots premieres on December 3 at 8 p.m. Trey Roski, creator of BattleBots, said in a press release, "We're delighted that, despite COVID-19, we were able to film such an amazing new season for our millions of BattleBots fans around the world." Battlebots 2020 return date, fight card

Filming managed to go ahead later in the year, without a live audience, and with various health and safety protocols in place.

The show airs months on from its usual summer slot due to production in California being halted due to the coronavirus pandemic. The program, which sees homemade fighting machines duel in an arena, will in its fifth season feature sixty teams from around the world fight it out to receive robot combat's most coveted trophy, the Giant Nut. It's robot fighting time! Robot combat show Battlebots is once again returning to our screens for a new season on Discovery.
