Season 1 of the American competitive television series BattleBots premiered on Comedy Central on August 23, 2000.

Donna D'Errico, along with twins Randy and Jason Sklar were the arena-side correspondents.

[1] The pilot, known as episode one was originally aired as a Pay-per-view event before being pitched to network executives.

Robots in season 1 competed in four separate weight classes: Only one match in the lightweight category was aired during the qualifying round.

The winner of each battle moved on to the Round of 16 along with twelve teams that were automatically qualified.