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by **Ghost of PBells** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 2:15 pm

Mr Meow wrote:
Ghost of PBells wrote:Anyone else watch BattleBots? I never knew I enjoyed seeing fighting robots get smashed to pieces and set on fire. Can't see that in MMA (yet)!

Plus Kenny Florian is on commentary

I have several takeaways from battlebots

1. Its fun
2. Kenny is better here than mma commentary but is solid at both
3. Ray Billings has a massive pecker.

Tombstone is definitely the Fedor of BattleBots. I also like how pants-fillingly nervous Uppercut's team looks despite how destructive it is

by **willis** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 3:53 pm

Ghost of PBells wrote:Anyone else watch BattleBots? I never knew I enjoyed seeing fighting robots get smashed to pieces and set on fire. Can't see that in MMA (yet)!

Plus Kenny Florian is on commentary

Building and destroying bots is also very satisfying through the digital avenue.

by **philphan** » Thu Oct 13, 2022 10:32 pm

by **philphan** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:22 am

philphan wrote:You want to see entertainment????

Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyon were considered the winners of Friday's Lake Erie Walleye Trail Championship event. That was until a tournament official realized they cheated.

Cominsky and Runyon were caught stuffing their fish with weights and other debris. They were trying to increase the weight of each catch.

Once the truth came out, the others competitors from this event started firing off rants filled with explicit language.

Lake Erie Walleye Trail director Jason Fischer released a statement on this scandal.

"Disgusted guys and gals, I’m sorry for letting you down for so long and I’m glad I caught cheating taking place in YOUR LEWT at the same time," Fischer said. "I hope you know now that when I say 'you built this LEWT and I will defend its integrity at all costs,' I mean it. You all deserve the best."

A video of this incident went viral on Twitter.

All of Cominsky and Runyon's accolades have been brought into question because of this discovery.

It's worth noting that Cominsky and Runyon were disqualified from the Fall Brawl fishing event in 2021. That's because one of them failed a polygraph test.

2 men accused of cheating in an Ohio fishing tournament scandal have been indicted, prosecutors say
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/sport/oh ... index.html
Two anglers accused of stuffing fish in an attempt to win thousands of dollars at an Ohio fishing tournament last month have been charged, authorities announced Wednesday.

The would-be tournament winners, Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky, were indicted by a Cuyahoga County grand jury on one charge each of cheating, attempted grand theft, possessing criminal tools, and the unlawful ownership of wild animals, prosecutors said.

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Winner of fishing tournament rocked by cheating scandal hopes alleged cheaters 'get the max' penalty
“I take all crime very seriously, and I believe what these two individuals attempted to do was not only dishonorable but also criminal,” Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley said in a news release.

Runyan and Cominsky were disqualified from the Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament after it was discovered their fish were stuffed with lead weights and fish fillets – a moment documented in several videos shared on social media. If they had been declared the winners of the event, they would have received nearly $29,000.

The tournament’s director found 10 weights inside the fish – eight 12-ounce weights and two 8-ounce weights – in addition to several walleye filets, prosecutors allege.

Jason Fischer, the director, previously told CNN he was immediately suspicious when one team’s fish weighed almost twice what he expected they would at the Cleveland championship weigh-in.

After hearing the crowd grumbling and questioning the numbers himself, Fischer felt the fish and then sliced one open with a knife, only to find what he said was a lead ball.

Video of the discovery went viral, and the cheating scandal has rocked the competitive fishing world.

On Tuesday, authorities seized Cominsky’s boat used in the fishing tournament as well as his boat trailer, according to prosecutors.

Neither Runyan nor Cominsky responded to CNN’s previous requests for comment, and it wasn’t immediately clear if either man had legal representation.