Jason Bardis

*Note: This page was created as a backup from the original on the BattleBots Wiki.*
*For the fictional versions of Jason, see Jason Bardis (anime) , Mirai Bardis, or Itsuki Bardis.*

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> "*Ready to sway.*"
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## Personal Information

### Inspired Personality

* Dante Ryuzaki
* Yuji Ryuzaki (older timeskip)
* Jason Bardis
* Mirai Bardis
* Itsuki Bardis

## BattleBots Information

### Role

* Bot Builder / Competitor (retired)
* Judge (retired)

### Seasons

* Comedy Central season 1.0 - 5.0
* ABC Season 2
* Discovery Season 4 - 6

**Jason Dante Bardis** *(ジェイソンダンテバルディス Jeison Dante Barudisu)* lit. **Dr. Inferno** was a long-time robotic combat competitor, best known for winning the Season 3.0 and 5.0 lightweight championships with Dr. Inferno Jr., as well as providing entertainment with Towering Inferno and The Disk O' Inferno. After ABC season 2, he was appointed as judge from *Discovery Season 4* until the end of *BattleBots: Champions*. He's known to be Dante Ryuzaki's role model and awe inspiring fan.

In 2016, when Jason's two young children had gotten older, he and Richard Loehnig put together a team for the BattleBots reboot. They built The Disk O’ Inferno, a 250lb disk and lifter robot based on his 120lb robot Disko Inferno, which had a very similar design. Realizing that competing required more time, money and energy than he could invest into competing, Jason would not compete again after ABC Season 2. He was initially asked about the possibility of judging ahead of the 2018 season, but Jason was too busy. He instead took up a judging role ahead of the 2019 season, where he remained for three full seasons and both spin-off series.

However, as of *World Championship VII*, Jason Bardis will no longer be a judge for *BattleBots*. In September 2022, he stated that it was a decision made by Discovery themselves, though the details of this are not confirmed.

*> "I won't be attending after all. Discovery decided they didn't want to invite me back, & they'll replace me. Oh well. That's show business. It was good while it lasted. At least I'll have lots of time with my family, time to work on projects, catch up on chores, etc." - Jason Bardis via email.
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When *World Championship VII* aired on Discovery+, Former builder of Mouser Mecha Catbot, the trendy Fon Davis replaced Jason Bardis in the judging panel. Jason continues to watch *BattleBots* in his spare time, albeit retiring as bot builder and judge. All of his robots are either scrapped or sold to other BB fans.

## Profile

Jason Bardis was born and raised in Ottawa Hills near Toledo, Ohio in the 1970s, where he mostly grew up with Lincoln Logs, Hot Wheels, LEGO, Zoids, and Erector Sets. His parents and older brother, Byron Galen Bardis were in Florence, Italy, visiting the house of the famous poet, Dante Alighieri. His brother, three years old at the time, hit upon the idea that it would be neat if his forthcoming baby brother were named Dante. His parents were obviously paying attention.

23ish years later with mechanical engineering degrees from Cornell University, Jason struck out into the "real world." He stumbled upon a Project Analyst position at PTCG, a Boston company that wrote big huge software that trucking companies used to schedule and route their trucks. While in Boston, he read of a strange new event called "Robot Wars" in San Francisco, but that was way over on the other side of the country, and he didn't have a machine shop or much time on his hands...

Having had enough of the "real world" and "snow," he traversed across the country to escape back to college for more degrees, this time at UCSB (the "SB" stands for "Santa Barbara"). Little did he know that tempting distractions would abound on this coast.

Brushed up on his French, he landed a job in Capellen, Luxembourg, employed at *Les Laboratoires Des Spécialités Du Dr. Ernst's Tisanes* where he taught employees how to use these strange things called "computers" and set in motion the automated revamping of their manufacturing line of medicinal herbal teas.

Christian Carlberg helped him with a couple of movie special effects jobs over his school breaks. Bardis designed a fiber optic lighting system for those mean and nasty Borgs in *Star Trek: First Contact* and he machined a mountain of internal parts for those mean and nasty mutated cockroaches in *Mimic*. Despite his handiwork, he doesn't recommend either movie...

His first Battlebot, Rampage, was constructed on a shoestring budget in collaboration with his fellow classmates from UCSB's Mechanical Engineering department. It performed poorly in a featherweight rumble during Robot Wars 1996 where the bot was later upgraded and renamed to "Bot will Eat Itself." It performed better than it's previous predecessor during Robot Wars 1997, save for some minor damage.

His 1997 Summer job related directly to his research as a lab technician in McDonnell Douglas' Long Beach composites prototyping area.

Christian collaborated on several bot projects with Jason such as the completion and performance of Slugger during the Las Vegas 1999 event. Following through the year of 1999 during a LEGO Mindstorms event, the two lacked sleep, creating a short promo video to document their fighting LEGO bots: the Infernolab's 2A & Coolrobots' Dreadnaught.

More bots were built singlehandedly by Jason throughout 1999, The Missing Link and Dr. Inferno following right after. After several wins and losses took record, an assembled team made up of his brother Byron, his girlfriend Lauren Herold, and other members took the pits of season 1.0 - 3.0, supporting Dr. Inferno Jr. and the Missing Link.

The majority of the bots made public TV appearances such as UPN's Grown Ups sitcom, the KCAL news with The Missing Link and Slugger, and *Movies for Guys who like Movies* with Dr. Inferno Jr. and Towering Inferno.

He was also a brief competitor on Season 1 of Robotica with Mini Inferno, which had much less success.

During the phase of Dr. Inferno Jr.'s season 3.0 victories and Towering Inferno's win / loss attempts, the team stayed the same minus Christian who continued to lead Cool Robots with his friends. More and more sponsors were pitched in support of the Infernolab, until Season 5.0 where Dr. Inferno Jr. won the Lightweight championship and a Lightweight rumble.

14 years later, he has returned to robotic combat on the ABC Reboot of BattleBots with The Disk O' Inferno, which hasn't had much success either. Jason has since been confirmed to be a judge for the duration of BattleBots Season 4 on Discovery. He lives in Irvine, CA with his wife: Michelle, his kids: Alex and Katherine, and his bots: Dr. Inferno ]I[, Dr. Inferno IV, and The Disk O' Inferno.

### RobotCombat.com Bio

*jasonbar (JASONBAR)*

Howdy

I'm Jason Bardis. I'm a 4th year and counting grad student at UCSB (Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara), working on the ol' PhD in Mechanical Engineering. At this rate, I'll be here for a looooong time yet. I'm studying composite materials and had an internship with McDonnell Douglas/Boeing in their composite materials prototyping lab last Summer, so I've got some really hot materials to work with for RW98. I've also done some movie effects work and other engineering junk. My other main hobby is collecting and restoring coin-operated video arcade games (yes, the big 300#, 6' tall ones that eat quarters).

I also TA the machine shop classes and am a student supervisor in the engineering shop--that is, I open up the shop on some evenings and weekends so we engineers can build our race cars, submarines, dune buggies, amphibious vehicles, solar-powered boats, killer robots, etc. Having a set of keys to an extensive machine shop is oh so handy.

I've advised our UCSB Robot Wars teams for the last 3 years. In 96, we brought Rampage (featherweight, mine, obscenely underpowered, blew out the R/C car drive motor), The General (middleweight, made of a car tire, blew its Tekin Titan speed controllers), and P.A.T.
(featherweight, mighty tough wedge, but we forgot to recharge batteries between matches...D'oh!).
In 97, we brought Webster (lightweight wedge with saws, did ok, had battery problems & got stuck in a wall), and Bot Will Eat Itself (mine, rework of Rampage, with beefier drivetrain and crazy airbrush paint job, drivetrain was still hokey, but it had a cool independent suspension).

In 98, I said "to hell with the limited school budget" (generally, $1000 to split amongst several robots), started shortly after my weak RW97 showing, and, now, $2500 later, I've got a competitive lightweight and a fun featherweight ready to roll for RW98.
Working names are Dr.Inferno and The Titanic Weiner.

If you actually made it this far, you can check out my weak (and infrequently-updated) web pages at: www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~jasonbar I have pages on Rampage & BWEI. I took a whole roll of film to document the construction of the new lightweight, then found that my camera was broken and all the pictures are solid gray blobs...

-Jason

### Reddit AMA Bio

Jason Bardis’ first robot combat event was Robot Wars 1996, in which he entered Rampage, an awkward double-saw, double-wedge sheet metal box filled with the guts from his Tamiya Frog RC buggy that he got in junior high. (In grade school, he used to use Tomy Rascal & Acrobot wind-up robots to knock down towers of dominoes with his best friend.) It stopped working the first time it bumped into another robot. Jason was in graduate school at the time, where he had convinced the Mechanical Engineering department to give him keys to the machine shop to be an after-hours supervisor (“I’ll build robots, I’ll keep an eye on the undergrads building their projects, & the staff won’t have to work evenings & weekends! Everybody wins!”) & to give him & other students a small budget for that competition.

After that modest beginning, and after a few only-slightly-less-modest years of building bots, he realized that his path to bot stardom would not lie in actually winning fights, so he dressed up his team in flashy outfits & built the cute Dr. Inferno Jr., figuring he could appeal to kids & gain audience sympathy when he lost.

That plan didn’t work. Dr. Inferno Jr. won 2 seasons & won the rumbles in another season.

In the dark times between Comedy Central & ABC, Jason (now “Dr. Jason”) leveraged the invaluable network of bot builder colleagues to take turns working with each other in various interesting jobs, where he contributed to: 2 robotic arms & 2 cameras for Mars exploration missions, dancing multimedia fountains for Vegas casinos, antennas on passenger aircraft that let you read reddit on your flights, a mobility scooter for the elderly or disabled, high efficiency brush & brushless motors, movie special effects, & creative development for The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius TV show.

In 2016, when Jason’s 2 young children had squeaked past the so-young-that-they-need-so-much-care-that-bulding-a-bot-is-out-of-the-question age, he & Richard Loehnig put together a team. They built The Disk O’ Inferno, a 250-pound disk + lifter bot whose disk weapon stopped working after 1 hit, based on Jason’s 2005 Disko Inferno 120-pound disk + lifter bot whose disk weapon stopped working after 2 hits.

Realizing that competing today is slightly more challenging than doing so when single, in your 20s, with no job, with keys to the school machine shop, & being able to more easily secure sponsorship by employing poor-grad-student-with-sad-puppy-dog-eyes, Jason finally accepted BattleBots’ request to judge.

How does judging compare to competing? I’m petitioning BattleBots to start holding 2-week events once a month indefinitely.

In between BattleBots events, Jason likes taking his safer, littler robots to schools, daycares, libraries, & scout meetings to give talks & demos to youth to get them interested in Mechanical Engineering. “Yeah, coding is cool and all, but come on & torque this 10-24 socket head cap screw with this Bondus. Doesn’t that feel great? See, somebody needs to design & build the robotic platforms that everybody wants to program!”

## Outside of BB

"*Wow, that is a lot of detail & writing. You really pour a lot of effort into your projects.*"
— Bardis' reaction towards his fictional description from a Gmail conversation with Robin Ward.

Unrelated to BattleBots, a fictional version of Jason Bardis appears in the *Dragoma Inferno* anime where he's part of a secretive yazuka clan, donning a *Ryuzaki Daira* hooded robe. When revealed, he wears an Infernolab polo layered over his Flaming Gear shirt. Maroon red cargo pants, and Onitsuka Dragon shoes completes his profile. Mainly an older version of Dante, Jason resides in Shirakawa while spying on The Infernolab, bidding work on Tohjo’s behalf. He later befriends Dante as a temporary ally before disappearing at random intervals during the story. Inferno Dragonis Daira Mugen Blaze is his partner draguz.

Two new incantations of Jason Bardis appear in *Dragoma Inferno: The Bardis Chronicles*, where both timeskips of the real Jason Bardis are codenamed "Mirai" and "Itsuki". After the Infernolab discover their presence in Zenin, Dante learns about the mysterious Fusion Nut that took form of a Giant Nut trophy they won during their glory days from *BattleBots.* Dante and Jason assign them with weapons and powers blessed by a Ryujin Shrine in Okinawa. Mirai is known to be a lower ranked blademaster known to wield the Hakase katana while Itsuki is a Grandmaster Tactician / Sorcerer, possessing the powers of the Mystic arts to open Flaming Gear portals across the Infernoverse and summon the Royal Dragons through various spells in Japanese.

### Quotes

*See Jason Bardis / 7th Level of Heck special.*

Here is a list of Jason's notable lines ever said from all 5 seasons of *BattleBots*.

* "I'm missing a whole lot of parts. Examples?" *- BB season 1.0 against Ziggo.*
* "I ruined the shrubbery." *- BB Season 1.0 against Chia Bot.*
* "Stylish." *- During fashion segment, Season 3.0.*
* "I think I won by a smigen, we'll see." *- BB season 3.0 against Toe-Crusher.*
* "It stopped working. I dunno... pounded a lot. Can't see what happened." *- BB Season 4.0 against Frenzy.*
* "Excuse me for a second. Back in the Box." *- Jason shooing the cameraman away. BB Season 4.0.*
* "Pound him from above. He's got a soft chop, I think." *- Jason elaborates his strategy.*
* "That's what I get for makin a showbot." *- Aftermath of the fight. Jason chuckles.*
* "Tactics? Scoop and push him around into every hazard around the arena. At least twice." *- BB Season 3.0 against Sallad.*
* "Oh what an ending. That was weird." *- BB Season 5.0 against Tentoumushi.*
* "Oh man, that was close. Close. Too close to call." *- BB Season 3.0 against Gamma Raptor.*

### Memes

*See Jason Bardis / memes for the gallery.*

## Trivia

* Jason came up with the name "Dr. Inferno" while being a grad student at UCSB. His first name, Jason, is greek for Doctor while his middle name "Dante" derives from italian poet and critic, Dante Aligheiri, who wrote about the Divine Comedy, which includes a trip to the Inferno. "Bardis" is an Italian variant for "Lombardo" meaning "small" or "junior".
* Dr. Inferno was Jason's radio DJ title during his college days.
* Bardis used inspiration from the toys he played with during his childhood to build more robots.
* At a young age, he would construct model cars & planes & then melt them after he got bored with them. His brother taught him how to just soften up the parts with a match instead of burning them, so he could deform the car doors & hoods & such and make them look all dented up.
* Then there was the time that Jason emptied the remnants of gas from the lawnmower for winter storage (his parents told him to do this) and decided to empty it on the driveway then light it. He was surprised by how much fire & smoke so little gas can produce...
* As a novice skater, Jason used to own a *Powell Peralta Skull & Sword* deck before it was stolen from his car during a rock concert. He later bought a used board from a friend but it turned out to be too big for him.
* Besides skating, Jason is also a novice SCUBA diver. He took a class, trained at a Scuba school, & got his certification for fun, diving once or twice at Catalina Island in southern California with his friends.
* During his journey to obtaining his PhD for 7 years, Jason worked with many different companies focusing on composite materials and project designs, one of them being the Mars Phoenix rover arm for NASA.
* Jason's other hobbies besides robotic combat include: Swing dancing, Playing classic video games & pinball machines, Racing go-karts, Working on his cars & his home, Tinkering with electronic & mechanical stuff (putting them back together is the hard part), Attempting to keep in practice with his French (the language, that is...) and playing with LEGO.
* Followed by one of his hobbies, he has a huge desire for arcade and pinball machines, one of them earning his title as an internationally ranked pinball player from Orange County, CA.
* Besides the Infernolab, he was also on Heisenberg Racing, an autocross team in 2009 that championed 13th place from a major event with Erwin, an upbeat 1991 BMW 318is.
* According to his recent Instagram account, Jason has a special talent for balancing objects on his forehead.
* Jason's faviourite *Marvel* Avenger is Capitan America, according to his 2016 San Diego Comic Con album where he posed with Cap's shield while standing in a replicated LEGENDS box.
* His favourite fruit are bananas, as he is seen snacking on them once in a while during a *BattleBots* reboot match.
* Besides his personal robot music playlist, he also favours Japanese music, bands such as Shonen Knife, Pizzicato Five, and Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.

* Featured on the thumbnail of a Battlebots special.
* Another view of Jason on the BB Special.
* Jason demonstrating Tesseract
* Tesseract control 00.jpgClose up of Jason's controls on Tesseract.
* Jason as Dr. Inferno Jr. (BB Magazine Vol 1)
* Backyard demo with Dr. Inferno Jr.
* Another shot of the doctor in Jason's Goleta apartment patio.
* Jason demonstrates a backyard demo in his Goleta apartment.
* Jason meets up with Chuck Pitzer.
* Jason and Christian Carlberg at Bot Bash.
* Close up of Jason's silly face.
* "Can I help you?"
* Jason and Christian during the KCAL news interview.
* Jason and Christian during a photoshoot with Slugger.
* Another view of Jason and Christian with Slugger.
* Dante gives out a helping hand.
* Jason demonstrates 2A for an upcoming LEGO Mindstorms event.
* Jason holding the RCX receivers to his LEGO bot.
* Jason peeks through the table cloth in search of more tools.
* The Infernolab table at Botbash 2000.
* Jason poses with Dr. Inferno at Botbash 2000.
* "Aren't they best friends?"
* Jason guides Dr. Inferno during Botbash 2000.
* Jason checks on one of his robots while Christian Carlberg chills out.
* Jason gets Overpowered Box ready at BotBash 2000.
* Jason gets Overpowered Box ready at BotBash 2000. (Note the Japanese flag in the background.)
* With the Missing Link...
* Overpowered Box again...
* Jason seals his cut with a band aid. Ouchies!
* Among the shadows...
* Jason at Bot Bash!
* Ditto...
* Jason's drunk face at BB 2000.
* Jason and Christian at Soz Botz 2003.
* Ditto...
* Jason marks his breath on the Giant Nut.
* Jason polishes the Giant Nut with a small napkin.
* "Cardboard Rots....Robots."
* "I'm officially the new BB lightweight champion.... Yes!"
* Jason poses with Dr. Inferno Jr. for UCSB's Daily Nexus.
* "Look devious. Come on, give me your devious face."
* "More devious!"
* Jason prepares the doctor for BB Season 5.0
* Jason with Hell on Wheels during a fancy photoshoot.
* The cool thing about 12lb bots is that you can pose with them.
* Aerial view of Hell on Wheels & Dante.
* The constipated yell in Glory of the Giant Nut.
* Jason and his LEGO bots in the background.
* Jason and Lauren clad in their Infernolab shirts.
* "Never mess with the Infernolab."
* "Abandon all hope ye robots who enter."
* "Will you be mine?"
* Jason and Lauren! 2.PNGJason and Lauren decide wardrobe selections before season 3.0.
* "Looking Swanky!"
* "Lauren, you're looking Swanky today!"
* Jason and Lauren 5.jpgReady to roll for season 3.0!
* Jason and Mini Inferno during Robotica Season 1.0
* Dante stands with Mini Inferno.
* Ditto...
* Jason lookin swanky sober during Robotica.
* Jason's concerned expression during Robotica.
* Jason uses a PC.
* Preperations before Battlebots season 5.0.
* Almost there....
* This is the Infernolab.
* Driving to BB Season 3 in his Toyota Rav4.
* Towering Inferno stuffed in Jason's Toyota Rav4.
* Towering Inferno relaxes outside in the parking lot.
* Jason shows off Towering Inferno clad with Nike Airs.
* "The sneakers are the real kicker!"
* Towering Inferno's intro for Season 4.0.
* Yup.
* Ditto.
* Jason and Towering Inferno on the cover of the Design News magazine April 2001
* Jason clad with shades and lighters, standing next to Towering Inferno (season 3.0)
* "I'm so awesome, I can merge right through my bots!"
* My brother Byron Bardis & sporting the team t-shirts.
* Sponsor! Professional!
* Jason holding the Missing Link's wheels after it's fight with Ziggo.
* Jason holds Dr. Inferno during BB Season 1.0
* Sparks! Sparks!
* Ditto!
* Jason poses with the doctor (BB Season 1.0)
* Jason disappointed at Dr. Inferno Jr. immobilized against Alpha Raptor (BB Season 1.0)
* Jason with Dr. Inferno Jr. at BB Season 2.0
* Jason relaxes with a space heater and back massager.
* Tazbot ft. Dante!
* Jason holds up his radio during BB Season 2.0 Lightweight rumble.
* Jason among a sea of bot builders at Steel Conflict.
* Tired judge Jason Bardis asks "Is it over yet?"
* Jason at Sozbots 1.2 right before a match.
* Jason fiddles with his radio controller during Sozbots 1.2
* Bardis seated among the group watching Sozbots 1.2.
* Jason at Target, holding the RCs.
* Jason basks in the glow of 6 Dr. Inferno Jrs.
* Jason's mean game face before season 3.0
* Jason and Lauren during a fashion segment (Season 3.0)
* "Ready as ever for Season 3.0!"
* Jason's 'drunk' expression.
* Jason and Dr. Inferno Jr. (BB Season 3.0)
* Interview with Jason Bardis (BB Magazine Vol. 3)
* Jason hoists the Giant Nut during the Season 3.0 Lightweight Finals.
* Jason flexing his bot arms during a Battlebots special.
* "RRRGGGHH!"
* Those flames sure look hot!
* Flaming hot!
* Jason eats food out of an ice cream bucket.
* "Oh yeah! That's how we do it!"
* "Right on!"
* Jason on his apartment patio, looking hopeful as ever.
* Jason pours wine (bonus burnt oven glove in background.)
* Jason's balance with the Giant Nut.
* Jason sits on the ground, tying his shoes.
* Jason shares a kiss with Lauren.
* Jason's Season 4.0 interview.
* Jason watches the doctor behind the lexan wall.
* Jason's intro with Dr. Inferno Jr. (BB Season 5.0)
* Dat flashy entrance during Season 5.0.
* Jason smiles on camera.
* Jason smiling before facing Gamma Raptor (BB Season 5.0)
* That smile tho....
* Jason gives out a thumbs up before going up against Wedge of Doom.
* Jason concerned at a vaping Wedge of Doom after it's defeat from Dr. Inferno Jr.
* During his lightweight victory..... Ditto.
* Dante celebrates with Dr. Inferno Jr. during BB Season 5.0.
* Jason hoists the Giant Nut during BB Season 5.0.
* "Thanks to all of my sponsors."
* "And my friends."
* Jason holds the Giant Nut after his Season 5.0 win.
* On the long drive back--note sleepiness & parts piled literally to the roof of the car.
* A view of the Season 1.0 pits!
* Another view of the pits!
* Jason and his team maintain The Missing Link during BB Season 1.0
* Jason revs the ML's chainsaw in preparation for Battlebots season 1.0.
* The doctor ready as ever!
* Jason on Movie for Guys who Like Movies.
* Ditto.
* Haha.
* \*cue slo mo evil laugh\*
* "You serious?"
* Phil Putman and Jason Bardis with Air Burial and Dr. Inferno.
* Lookin cute!
* Jason holding a crushed Dr. Inferno during BB season 1.0
* Poor Dr. Inferno got Ziggo'ed.
* Jason relaxes outside the pyramid where BB 1999 was held at.
* Jason poses with the Missing Link during a fancy photoshoot.
* Jason Bardis on the cover story for SBNP.
* Jason and his bots on the cover story for SBNP.
* Jason during a interview for Independent Magazine.
* Dr. Inferno Jr. and Towering Inferno in the background. Cute!
* "Yep, that's my derpy duck face."
* Jason at Gameworks Las Vegas during his Bachelor Party.
* Jason visits a Military museum. Bombs away!
* "I autocrossed this Eagle Talon A LOT. Don't ask."
* "Beat that, Byron! Who's the new champ in Botnopoly!?"
* Gotta get those bot muscles!
* 3D CAD of Towering Inferno on Jason's laptop.
* Jason ready for season 5.0!
* During his lightweight victory #2 ..... Ditto.
* Jason clad with some power drills.
* Battlebots 2002 Calendar featuring Tazbot and Decimator.
* An autographed page of Dr. Inferno Jr. and Gamma Raptor.
* Jason as a judge at FIRST Robotics regional competition.
* Let's go Devil Ducks!
* My passport picture from when I was 7. My head is huge!
* 12 year old me as a monkey, naughtily climbing doorframes.
* Jason posing with Rampage (Robot Wars 1996)
* Looking grumpy with my weak robot from Robot Wars 97.
* Jason and Christian at Robot Wars 1997.
* Ditto...
* Jason at Robot Wars with his friends.
* Jason and Donna with Bot will Eat Itself.
* Halloween '92 costume: cyberpunk (before the prefix "cyber" was cool and trendy)
* Halloween '97 costume: Computer Surplus Man, a.k.a., MacHead, a.k.a. Borg v1.0
* Mike Wrobleski is "Clean Suit Radioactive Man," and Christian is just plain old Satan.
* Me with one of my close friends at the new Tomorrowland at Disneyland.
* Christian the buddy & I amongst very heavy machinery.
* With Amber at the 1999 Dinosaur Ball at the LA Museum of Natural History.(swanky!).
* Suckered into Laurie's Texas 10th anniv. high school reunion.
* The composite materials lab crew: Hyonny (left), Greg (middle), me (right)
* Y2K New Year's party @ DisneyLand. We are so cool.
* Lauren's 25th and Mike's 27th birthday party.
* Jason and Donna at BB Season 5.0.
* Jason with tons of LEGO in his parent's basement.
* Prototype bot & controller & original working model of Towering Inferno (on left)
* Ditto for 2A.
* Jason at LEGO Mindstorms 1999.
* My new best friend!
* Pretty short remote control range required contortions.
* The nimbler Donkey trying to turn off 2A from behind.
* Jason at a UCSB Game Show on TV.
* How ironic....
* Jason demonstrates Dr. Inferno at SORC.
* Jason at SORC Show and Tell with Dr. Inferno
* "That's one of it's main weapons."
* "Apart from the Harpoon Gun."
* Introduction slide to Jason's UCSB Mechanical Engineering presentation.
* Page 2 of the flyer for the RoboChallenge BattleBots & Robotics Seminar.
* Jason guides the doctor during Robo challenge.
* Jason kneels while driving the doctor around.
* Jason shakes hands with a student during a LEGO Tug O War event.
* Jason gives out one of his presentations at USCB.
* Jason demonstrates Itchy & Scratchy at UCSB.
* Jason at a LEGO Tug O War event.
* They beat me! The kids went wild! I've never been so happy to lose in my life. It was great!
* Jason at Robogames 2005.
* Jason at a high school robot event.
* Jason's birthday cake.
* Including a small round of rock'em, sock em with a couple of friends.
* Infernolab pit during a 2009 event.
* Lookin hot!
* Jason fixes Vlad the Impaler 2.0
* Feeling stumped.
* Jason with another unknown bot during a 2009 bot event.
* Jason squints.
* Jason being cute.
* Jason at a 2010 BattleBots Tournament
* "Go Christian! Go Team Cool Robots!"
* Ditto.
* Jason squints.
* Jason creates finger puppets.
* Jason smiles.
* Ditto.
* Dante as a LEGO Minifig.
* LEGO Dante and Dr. Inferno Jr.
* Christian and Jason at a friend's wedding.
* Jason at the casino, scoring in Cash Inferno.
* Jason goes through boxes of classic video games.
* Jason returns from his 2 week trip from Japan and South Korea.
* Jason's autographed novel from author William Gibson.
* Thanks Mr. Gibson!
* The blur though...
* Jason holds a Ballot ticket between his teeth.
* Jason at the Ballot booth, voting.
* Jason snacking on ice cream while waiting for the results.
* Jason signing in for the votes.
* Jason in the shadows, celebrating the results.
* "Attention all politicians. I voted. Stop sending me texts and postcards now."
* This one's for a HUGE finish!
* Disk O'Inferno profile with Jason.
* Jason's intro during Battlebots ABC season 2.
* Jason dancing swanky right before the results.
* Jason after the battle with Chomp.
* Disk O' Inferno's fight showcased on a Korean video site.
* So close....
* Jason contemplates his loss against Chomp.
* Jason's lanyard to the event.
* Jason with Peppa Pig.
* Can't get enough of pinball... classy.
* Jason Bardis joins the Avengers!
* Jason poses as Capitan America in the Legends line.
* "With some friends."
* "Found another friend!"
* So close!
* Hangin out with a Stormtrooper.
* Bardis poses next to a Star Wars Hot Wheels car.
* With LEGO Batman.
* And another stormtrooper.
* With Pacman!
* Swanky blocks!
* Got to meet some neat people!
* Gah! An alien!
* Jason poses with The Disk O' Inferno at Solid Works 2018.
* Jason presenting at SolidWorks 2018.
* Jason's presentation cover.
* The Disk O'Inferno poster with Jason Bardis flaming a disco ball.
* Jason shows off DoI's results on his I-Pad.
* Jason's portrait during BB Season 6 in 2021.
* Jason's Inferno during BB Season 4.
* "What do you mean the banana was for reference?"
* Judge Jason loses his banana.
* Jason memes himself as Yoda.
* Jason's profile pic on Facebook.
* Jason's NEW profile pic on Facebook. Lookin Dapper!
* "I look cute, don't I?"
* "I really do look cute."
* Jason stands beside his personal trailer at BB Season 4.
* Judge Jason at BattleBots in 2020.
* Jason's official judge profile for BattleBots.
* "Lmao, winner's gonna be Black Dragon, k?"
* Jason writes down his score for HUGE vs Kraken.
* Jason's announcement for a Reddit AMA with the other BattleBots judges.
* "I still look fancy in my G-Star jacket and 3 nuts beside me."
* "Still the same sign but I crossed out the date, lol."
* "Reddit and Dr. Inferno, you got it."
* Jason at a bot get together at Jerry's Wood Fired Dogs.
* "Nuts & Dr. Inferno!" "You got it!"
* Jason's Daddy Dadder hat.
* Jason's fashion statement (Yee haw)
* Jason's fashion statement (Star Wars)
* Jason in his cow onesie.
* Jason's badge for Edwards Lifesciences.
* Present day Jason and Christian Carlberg meet up just like the old times.
* Christian, Christine, and Jason during a BB podcast.
* This how the Thumbnail should have looked like, lol.
* Jason's silly story posted on FB.
* Extra mail...
* "BEST FIGHT EVER!" from a 2020 Battlebots match judged by Dante himself.
* Jason's Infernolab coat (Season 3.0)
* Jason's Infernolab coat (Season 5.0)
* Jason's wallet (Outer flaps)
* Jason's wallet (Inner flaps)
* A whole collection of Lanyards....
* Jason's official BB Judge card for the reboot seasons.
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## External Links

* Team Infernolab website
* Infernolab's Youtube channel
* Infernolab Facebook Page
* His UCSB Engineering site (archived)
* Jason's profile on Heisenberg Racing

## References

1. ↑ https://youtu.be/6PkThuoAeec?t=595
2. ↑ Private Gmail conversation between Falco276 and Jason Bardis.
3. ↑ http://www.robotcombat.com/whoswho.html#JASONBAR