The 2000 Las Vegas BattleBots was held at the All-American Sport Park at the south end of the "Strip" in Las Vegas. This is the same venue where the 2000 BattleBots PayPerView was filmed.

A pretty decent spot with fair seating and room for everyone involved.

This is Tent City. Three huge tents for the pits this time, contestants scattered far and wide between the 3 tents.

Some tents had no heat at all, which was a big pain for those handling near-freezing temperature metal with bare fingers. Las Vegas can get pretty cold in November!!

The pits were always bustling with activity. Crowded and loud, it was definitely one of the coolest places to be, walking around talking with people involved.

There were over 130 robots competing this time, so there was need for LOTS of pit area!

Robots were not allowed to be turned on in the pits, so many builders opted to test and activate their bots outside the tents, where everyone else was protected by that thin layer of canvas and plastic.

High speed carts shuttled the robots between the venue and the pit areas.

One tent had the robot photo areas, in the far left is the 3D turntable where each robot got captured in 3D space for future posting on the web.

On the right side is the standard 2D photo area, this was always a popular and long line, this is a rare shot of no robots in line.

On the opposite end of the park, a professional film crew had a turntable setup of their own, built to take some cool 'teaser' shots of the bots for future commercials on Comedy Central.

This is when Backlash was getting filmed. (Note the screen in the lower right)

Since cameras weren't allowed in the arena area during the event, I didn't get to snap any shots of the area until it was getting torn down afterwards.

Here you can see the sets and arena coming down, this gives you an idea of the seating arrangements and space available.