The seventh BattleBots tournament was to be the final event in the partnership with the Comedy Central cable network. BattleBots season 5.0 was filmed May 22 - 27, 2002 at Treasure Island - San Francisco, California. Comedy Central replaced BattleBots in their programming schedule with a puppet show.
This event expanded on the practice of allowing veteran ranked competitors to gain an advantage by sitting out the early rounds of the tournament. A scant 8 or 9 slots were available in each 'round of 32' for unranked 'bots. A "Giant Nut" trophy was awarded to the winners of each weight class tournament. An additional Giant Nut was awarded to a robot in one category:
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Lightweight
Middleweight
Heavyweight
Superheavyweight