BattleBots: Champions 2

BattleBots: Champions I was the name given to the sequel spin-off series to BattleBots: Bounty Hunters. It premiered on August 4, 2022 at 8pm ET on Discovery and discovery+.
The five Bounty winners from 2020 returned in an attempt to defend their crowns in a similar knockout format to Bounty Hunters - Gigabyte, Lock-Jaw, ROTATOR, Skorpios and Witch Doctor. These made up five of the six confirmed episodes, dubbed Sin City Slugfest. In the final episode, the five winners of their respective qualifier episodes were joined by former Giant Nut winners Tantrum, End Game and Tombstone to form an eight robot tournament, with the overall winner taking home the Golden Bolt trophy.https://battlebots.com/event/battlebots-champions-episode-06-discovery/
In January 2022, the Perfect Phoenix team stated they would be exclusively competing in the spin-off competition due to conflicting schedule with team captain and driver Tyler Nguyen's school.https://www.facebook.com/TylerNguyen09/photos/a.1918548935112385/2774776459489624/ Notably, Big Dill and Double Jeopardy also returned for the spin-off, having been absent from the main season.
In June 2022, BattleBots confirmed on social media that Sin City Slugfest episodes would begin airing in August that year.https://twitter.com/BattleBots/status/1541540919312121856 Each episode was two hours in length and will air immediately on the main Discovery network as well as its streaming service, discovery+. Gigabyte's episode kicked off the summer series, which concluded with the hunt for the Golden Bolt on September 8, 2022.https://battlebots.com/event/battlebots-champions-episode-01-discovery/ Its bracket was revealed to Facebook Supporters on June 28, and each subsequent bracket was revealed to Supporters each week.
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The official 30 second trailer for BattleBots: Champions I was revealed on July 20, 2022. It did not reveal any Sin City Slugfest fights, but showed past trophies preceding the Golden Bolt, with narration from Faruq Tauheed. This was followed by hits from various World Championship VI battles and the BattleBots: Champions I premiere date before the most recent Giant Nut winner Tantrum was shown with an animated face to end the trailer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhIa7F4Ng1U
Unlike in BattleBots: Bounty Hunters, the following week's bracket was publicly revealed in the closing minutes of each episode. The final Golden Bolt tournament bracket was the only exception, which was instead revealed via social media soon after the episode had aired.https://twitter.com/BattleBots/status/1565519968925392896/photo/1
The Golden Bolt Tournament was ultimately won by End Game, who entered the final episode as a former Giant Nut winner from World Championship V. Knocking out the second bracket winner Ribbot in Round 1, End Game handed a first loss to Tantrum since its 2021 season title win before getting the better of Witch Doctor in the final. 
BattleBots: Champions I also saw the best in show awards being handed out to teams from the 2021 season. Rookie of the Year was split between Riptide and Glitch, both of which had stellar debut seasons and took home retired pulverizer hammers as trophies. The Most Destructive Robot Award was given to HyperShock after its destructive campaign, which continued into its Sin City Slugfest episode win. The Founder's Award went to Jamison Go and SawBlaze, and the Grant Imahara Award for Best Design was won by Aren Hill's flywheel flipper Blip.
==HyperShock Bracket==
====Episode #1: The Slugfest Started!====
Sin City Slugfest Quarter-Finals
Lock-Jaw vs. Mammoth
Riptide vs. Valkyrie
Monsoon vs. JackPot
RIPperoni vs. Triton
Sin City Slugfest Semi-Finals
TBA vs. TBA
TBA vs. TBA
Sin City Slugfest Final
TBA vs. TBA
Golden Bolt Qualifier
TBA vs. HyperShock