If you do business in Las Vegas long enough, you come to appreciate how potentially lethal is the term “hiatus.” We know what a Vegas hiatus can look like. It can take the form of a blonde icon taking an indefinite break for a makeover, never to return.
Or a band of magicians halting as the NFR comes to town, not to share the stage again. Or a lounge show featuring retired sports stars spinning yarns taking a hiatus to shore up funding, promising a comeback that never materializes. So when “BattleBots – Destruct-A-Thon” announced in-house it would be on hiatus after its Aug.
10 performance, it seemed the show, like its famous Bots, had crashed and burned. The Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix had pushed “BattleBots” off the stage for five weeks in ‘23. Tickets have been slow for this show — and most Vegas shows — this summer.
The F1 is again looming on the horizon, ready to overtake BattleBots’ neighborhood just off the Strip. But the Bots’ creator has announced the show will be back, with a new robot fighting competition, scheduled for Sept. 6 at BattleBots Arena at Caesars Entertainment Studios next to the Horseshoe on the corner of Flamingo and Koval.
We emphasize “scheduled” in this update. Specifics are always subject to change in such restarts. Nonetheless, BattleBots co-creator and CEO Trey Roski has announced that tickets would be on sale “in the next couple of weeks” for production in a “thrilling new format.
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