The Excellence in Sportsmanship Award, also known as the Best Sportsmanship and Outstanding Sportsmanship Award is a best in show award presented to the individual or team which showcased the best display of sportsmanship during a BattleBots competition.
Originally awarded during BattleBots IQ to encourage fair and generous treatment of opponent teams, BattleBots gave out the inaugural Outstanding Sportsmanship Award in the 2002 event, and it became a constant part of the best in show awards in every year that followed.
While absent for every televised BattleBots season, it was announced that the award made a return as the Excellence in Sportsmanship Award following World Championship VII, and during the first episode of BattleBots: Champions II. Rather than being presented to an entire team, it was instead awarded to a specific team member, that being Rory Mangles of Monsoon, who was presented with one of the pulverizer hammers, for his assistance with various teams' VESC systems throughout the competition.
| "Best Sportsmanship" / "Excellence in Sportsmanship" Award Winners | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Robot/Team/Individual | Year | Event | Image |
| Accelerator | 2002 | BattleBots IQ 2002 |  |
| HammerRoyd |  | ||
| Happy Scrappy Hero Pup |  | ||
| Metal Fury |  | ||
| Wee Willy Wedgy |  | ||
| The Edge | 2003 | BattleBots IQ 2003 |  |
| Maximum Destruction |  | ||
| Royd Rage |  | ||
| PlasticBot |  | ||
| Plymouth North High School Robot | | ||
| ODDNOTT | 2004 | BattleBots IQ 2004 |  |
| 3 Blind Mice | 2005 | BattleBots IQ 2005 | |
| Sword | | ||
| Palmetto | | ||
| Checkmate | 2006 | BattleBots IQ 2006 |  |
| Rugburn | | ||
| Hell Raiser |  | ||
| X-Contamination |  | ||
| Copperhead 2 | 2007 | BotsIQ 2007 |  |
| Alakran |  | ||
| Shockwave | | ||
| ? | 2008 | BotsIQ 2008 | |
| ? | 2009 | BotsIQ 2009 | |
| Fluffy II | 2010 | BotsIQ 2010 |  |
| Fluffy DeLarge | 2011 | BotsIQ 2011 |  |
| El Cholo |  | ||
| Rhino |  | ||
| Witch Doctor |  | ||
| Mr. BOOMbastic | | ||
| Brobot |  | ||
| Rory Mangles (Monsoon) | 2022 | World Championship VII BattleBots: Champions II |
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