For five seasons we were treated to some hot robot-on-robot action courtesy of Comedy Central’s BattleBots. Now, six years after the shows 3-year run ended, and to the excitement of robot-loving, engineering nerds everywhere, ESPN2 is bringing the show back to the airwaves.

That’s right, BattleBots is back!

First, American Gladiators, now this? Life (at least the part of it that involves sitting on my couch, drinking beer and watching stupid tv shows when I don’t have anything else to do and am not playing Call of Duty 4) is good.

BattleBots CEO (not sure how he got this title) Trey Roski has announced that the show will most likely be airing this November on ESPN 8 “The Ocho” ESPN2. It was slated to begin in June, but thanks to the massive amount of interest from college campuses around the US (possibly up to 150 schools participating), the show looks to be much bigger than originally anticipated.

As a fan of the original show, I’ll be the first to admit that it could drag at times thanks, mainly, to the boring, albeit clever “wedge” bots. The “wedge” bots would usually avoid the destructive/cool aspect of the show (chainsaws, pneumatic spikes, sledgehammers, etc) and would simply focus on (lamely) wedging itself between the other (tougher, more rad) robot and the ground and flipping it on its back. Who wants to see that? No one. And thankfully, it sounds like Mr. Roski got the hint: “I’m not going to allow wedgers,” he says. Thank God. By removing the lame-o wedgers, the show can focus more on what makes BattleBots awesome: Robots destroying other robots with various implements of destruction.

Awesome.

In addition to doing away with “wedge” bots, the show is going to focus more on the engineering aspect of the competition. In other words, after a match is over they will show the teams racing the clock in order to repair their bot for the next match. This will show us just what it takes to keep a bot up and running after taking a beating from, say, a 250 lb. bot with a chainsaw. The move should serve to add an extra layer of drama to the mix.

I’m really looking forward to the return of BattleBots. If you haven’t had the good fortune to watch the show in the past, you’re in for a real treat come November.

On a sidenote: I’d like to see these guys duke it out on the show.