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I’m giving away a pair of tickets to what amounts to the World Series of fighting robots.  Wanna win?  Enter by emailing contests@brokeassstuart.com with “Fighting Robots” in the subject line. Winner will be randomly selected tomorrow, so be sure to email by midnight tonight! We’ll email you back if you’ve won. (And we’ll also add you to our mailing list unless you specifically ask us not to.)

Do you like robots?  Do you wanna see robots fuck each other up live and in person?  Well, wait no more!  This year’s ComBots Cup takes place 2-7pm, October 29-30th, 2011 at the San Mateo County Event Center in beautiful San Mateo, California, a mere fifteen minutes south of SF.

Teams from all over the US, Canada and Brazil will be coming to California to fight for The ComBots Cup – the annual international robot combat championship, now in its sixth year. The ComBots Cup is to fighting robots what the World Series is to baseball! It’s what The Stanley Cup is to hockey, only more METAL.

The two-day event features robots weighing up to 220 pounds fighting to be crowned the world heavyweight champion. While the recent movie “Real Steel” thrills audiences with CGI robots, the ComBots Cup promises the real thing.

You can can a preview of all the contestants here

At stake for competitors is not just honor and glory, but the ComBots Cup itself, a 100lb, three-foot-high trophy that comes with the biggest cash prize purse in the sport. As seen on Discovery Science Channel’s “Killer Robots: RoboGames 2011” hosted by MythBuster Grant Imahara, robot combat is enjoying a renaissance due to the burgeoning DIY culture in the US and beyond. Watch the video from this spring’s Discovery special.

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Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, is a travel writer, poet, TV host, activist, and general shit-stirrer. His website BrokeAssStuart.com is one of the most influential arts & culture sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and his freelance writing has been featured in Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveler, The Bold Italic, Geek.com and too many other outlets to remember. His weekly column, Broke-Ass City, appears every other Thursday in the San Francisco Examiner. Stuart’s writing has been translated into four languages. In 2011 Stuart created and hosted the travel show Young, Broke, and Beautiful on IFC and in 2015 he ran for Mayor of San Francisco and got nearly 20k votes.

He's been called "an Underground legend": SF Chronicle, "an SF cult hero":SF Bay Guardian, and "the chief of cheap": Time Out New York.