How does the BattleBots scoring system work?
BattleBots judges score a match only if the fight did not end in a Knockout. If the outcome was a Knockout (the other bot was incapacitated and unable to move by the end of the referee countdown), then the last bot moving is the winner. If, however, the match goes the full 3 minutes and both bots are still moving, the judges score each robot according to 3 categories: Aggression, Damage, and Strategy. Each judge distributes 5 points between the 2 bots for each of these categories. For example, ‘Bot 1’ might have done most of the damage during the fight, but not all, so the judge might award ‘Bot 1’ with 4 points, and give 1 point to ‘Bot 2’ for damage. The totals for all categories and all 3 judges are added up, and the total always equals 45, so the score you might hear on BattleBots will be something like 30-15, or 22-23, or 45-0. The bot with the higher number is declared the winner.
