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Jul 16, 2021 · GREG ANTHONY MUNSON, aged 32 and of Verwood Road, Three Legged Cross, admits driving a Vauxhall Astra in Verwood Road, Wimborne, on June 26 with 91 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of...
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Greg Munson is one of the co-founders of BattleBots alongside cousin and fellow executive producer, Trey Roski.
Before the creation of BattleBots, he, Trey Roski and Gage Cauchois competed in the last three US Robot Wars events with the very successful La Machine. With several competitions under his belt, Munson had asked Trey Roski if he wanted to drive the robot for the 1995 UK event, and this got his cousin on board. After a legal divide, the event's name would remain within the United Kingdom and the first series of Robot Wars on the BBC was produced in 1998.
"...in 1994, at the behest of my friends, I attended a small event called Robot Wars in San Francisco (created by Marc Thorpe). It was there that I experienced the wonderful world of remote control machines made for the express purpose of beating the crap out of each other."
— Greg Munson explains his introduction to robot combat in an April 2020 interview
A year later, Greg Munson and Trey Roski organized two events of their own to facilitate the new wave of American robot builders, under the name BattleBots. These were held in Las Vegas and Long Beach respectively in 1999, testing the waters for how big these events could become. After much communication between networks, Comedy Central got in touch with Greg Munson and Season 1.0 of BattleBots was given the green light.
Throughout the five season run on Comedy Central, Greg Munson was rarely seen on camera. He would often communicate online, notably conducting a question and answer style piece with The Washington Post ahead of Season 2.0's premiere. However, he upgraded Ginsu for various exhibition matches and built different sized variations of it too - notably Mini-Ginsu and Super Ginsu.
Greg Munson served as vice president and executive producer for four years with Gamecaster, an eSports television show which also specialized in gaming technology. He consulted on the design and development of the Gamecaster Cybercam, and oversaw the company's 2007 eSports event concerning Battlefield 2142, which was sponsored by EA Sports.
•Greg Munson was vocally critical of Comedy Central's insistence upon hiring Playboy models in favor of pit reporters with legitimate interest in the STEM aspect of BattleBots.
•Although his suggestion was ignored throughout the entirety of its five season run, this was remedied ahead of the ABC BattleBots revival in 2015, and in future seasons on Discovery.
•Greg Munson owns a custom LEGO Spinner inspired by the film Blade Runner as well as two replica lightsabers from Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back respectively.
•He also owns several custom electric guitars, painted by former BattleBots competitor, judge and behind the scenes crew member Mark Setrakian.
BattleBots: Created by Greg Munson, Ed Roski. With Chris Rose, Kenny Florian, Faruq Tauheed, Derek Young. BattleBots is a robot combat competition that takes place in an elimination style tournament. Designers build, operate and battle their destructive robots until a champion is crowned.
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Sep 14, 2022 · This week on the podcast, we’re diving deep into the just-revealed Season 7 of the show — which will film in Las Vegas Oct. 18 through Oct. 30 — with BattleBots cofounder and friend of the pod Greg Munson!
Feb 25, 2022 · Greg Munson — one of the early pioneers of robot combat — summed up the popularity of the sport in a simple, accurate way during an online question and answer session with fans hosted by The Washington Post in 2000. "The appeal of the sport is universal — People like to see things get destroyed," he said.
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Aug 4, 2021 · Discovery will air 80 hours of robot combat competition 'BattleBots,' which is moving the action to Las Vegas for the next two years.
Jan 3, 2023 · It is finally time for World Championship VII of Battlebots and I sat down with Greg Munson to talk about an array of things including the rule changes, some...
