Turns out APTYX isn't the only team that has issues with the contracts that Battlebots writes for the show, bots are expensive and teams aren't getting paid enough to build them and take time out of their lives to film. Battlebots is supposedly saying that teams that build expensive, time consuming bots could be replaced by the teams that are willing to be on the show for less. Now that the show is established as a Discovery staple, we've been able to move past just getting the show renewed for another season and move on to greater "sustainability" as Paul Ventimiglia called it.
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