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GREG: One simple rule - you have to have a robust, active weapons system.

You cannot just be a "pusher bot."

TREY: And we had a new raisers to the arena floor - so there are pistons that come out of the arena floor to stop the wedges. So we really made an effort to mix it up. And you'll see more of that in season 2,3 and beyond.

GREG: Like we said before, we are going to keep perfecting the rules and arena to minimize the dominance of any single kind of robot - whether it be a wedge, a spinner, or something new that comes around.

GREG: Jamie was the same back then as he is now!

TREY: He's the one guy in the world that hasn't changed. We love him for it. His robot, "Blendo," was the reason we had to build BattleBox. That is the arena the robots fight in. It is a bomb-proof space that contains every bit of shrapnel that these robots can put out. Jamie and Adam's robot was so dangerous the arena could not handle it back in the old days.

GREG: Yes, practice driving. It's one thing to design and build an awesome robot. But it's an entirely different thing to drive it, and drive it with gusto and aggression. You have to spend as much time practicing as you did building. And we'll be looking forward to seeing you in a future competition.

GREG: Interesting story. While we were filming this latest 6 episodes for the ABC show, I would get on Facebook, and I'm friends with Carlo on Facebook, and I would see these happy little family photos from some trip he's taking in the Bahamas or something like that. And I was thinking the same thing that /u/HomeJosey is thinking - which is why aren't you here?! We want you back!

So I think when Carlos sees the new series, he is going to get the itch that all robot builders get. And that is that they have to be a part of this. So everyone on reddit, collectively start chanting Biohazard! Biohazard! Biohazard!

TREY: He's not going to do very well against the new robots in the new arenas. I think he'd be lucky to win one fight.

GREG: We recently started to allow untethered projectiles. We have to be really careful with that, because we don't want projectiles to pierce the lexan barrier that protects the audience - but that said, it would be awesome to see somebody do something REALLY interesting, cool, and destructive with projectiles. Haven't seen that yet. And we are waiting!

TREY: We allow flying weapons, and flying robots now. So one of the ideas that we heard about was a drone with a flamethrower. It could also be a drone with a projectile-launcher of some sort - that sounds pretty cool to me. But the idea of flying robots competing - even if they're multi-bots - to the untrained person, it's multiple robots for your one robot, so there'd be 2,3,4 robots on your team, fighting - technically you could have as many drones as you want and one main robot, or something like that. That sounds very exciting to me. I like seeing new ideas, and I think the audience likes to see new ideas. With new ideas, come new strategies.

GREG: I want the audience to see new means of locomotion. You see a lot of wheeled robots, not a lot of walking robots, and no flying robots. And as this sport grows into the future, that's the kind of direction we'd like to take things into.