- "Over 8000 spectators attended the Cisco Networkers conference held at the Thomas and Mac Center [sic] in Las Vegas Nevada. BattleBots was the main attraction staging a sudden-death, middleweight tournament featuring robots from all over the country."
- — Official BattleBots press statement on the Cisco Party event[2]
The Cisco Party was a private event organized by BattleBots at the Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas, in June 2006. Held to entertain Cisco employees at the company's Networkers conference, it was an invitation-only competition featuring eight middleweight (120lb) robots, including an additional robot which fought a grudge match prior to the event final.[3]
Very little information on the Cisco Party event is publicly available, other than for spectator numbers (around 3,000 according to Jim Smentowski, out of a total of 8,000 conference visitors) and the 'scaled-down' version of the BattleBox which was created specially for it. This differed from other versions of the arena in having a rectangular base (16ft x 24ft) and only two pulverizers located in the arena corners, as well as a prominent 'interior wall' section which reportedly made it more difficult for certain robots to maneuver around.[1]
The event was won by Team Hammertime and SubZero, who defeated Icewave in the final after both advanced through the bracket.
Comedian and actor Michael Meehan served as the event's announcer, having previously held the role for the first four US Robot Wars events held between 1994 and 1997.[3]
Competitors[3][]
| Robot | Team | Image |
|---|---|---|
| SubZero | Team Hammertime |  |
| Breaker Box | Team Nightmare |  |
| Pro-Pain | Mutant Robots |  |
| Icewave | Team Icewave |  |
| Green Wave | Team Demolition |  |
| Falcon | Team Whyachi |  |
| Fork | American Performance Robotics |  |
| WarSaw | Pandora's Bots |  |
| Bling Bling | Gary Cole, Dustin Cole, Chad New |  |
| Round 1 |
|---|
| Icewave vs. Pro-Pain |
| Fork vs. Falcon |
| SubZero vs. WarSaw |
| Green Wave vs. Breaker Box |
| Semi-Finals |
| Icewave vs. Falcon |
| Breaker Box vs. SubZero |
| Grudge Match |
| WarSaw vs. Bling Bling |
| Final |
| SubZero vs. Icewave |
Trivia[]
- The Cisco Party is the only known event to use a specially-designed BattleBox for a one-off event.
- SubZero vs. Icewave would become a rematch in the final of the following year's JavaOne event, which SubZero also won.
See Also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 'Team Nightmare - Breaker Box', robotcombat.com (Team Nightmare website)
- ↑ 'Vegas Baby -- BattleBots Stages Competition for Cisco Systems, June 28, 2006, Battlebots.com (archived October 4, 2007)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Public messages from Jon Durand in the BattleBots Wiki Discord server