Scrape. Build. Destroy - Bring a Laptop, Not a Robot. BattleBots Hack Night
⚠️ Read this first: this is a SOFTWARE hack. There will be no robots or hardware (Unless you want to bring your own and build your own)
Grand Prize: Return tickets + hotel to Las Vegas to watch Battle Bots (VIP Tickets).
📍 New Venue: Civo Navigate at Old Street, 32-37 Cowper St, London EC2A 4AW, London
🗓️ Tuesday 28 July
🕔 5:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Expect:
🍕 Pizza
🥤 Drinks
🤖 AI & robotics challenges
💡 Great people
🏅 Live demos & prizes
🥇 The person with the most successful referrals (Referring this event to a friend through the share button) will win a special prize bundle, including a goodie bag and other surprises, which we'll announce on the night.
No soldering, no metal, no wiring, nothing that spins. BattleBots Pro League has a full season of fight records, robot stats and fan chatter scattered across the web you're grabbing that data with Bright Data's tools and building something with it on a laptop. If you can prompt an AI, you can finish something tonight.
Five things you could realistically ship by 9pm:
Robot power rankings , pull the season's fight results, rank all 24 bots by win rate and margin, put it on a page. A table and a chart is a valid demo.
"Who wins?" predictor , pick two bots, feed their stats and past fights to an LLM, get a prediction plus a reason. One prompt, one form, done.
Fan sentiment dashboard , scrape comments and posts about the season, run sentiment on them, show which robots the internet actually loves vs. which ones just win.
Weapon meta breakdown , group bots by weapon type (spinner, flipper, crusher…) and show which style is dominating this season and against whom.
Trash-talk generator , build a bot-vs-bot smack talk generator grounded in real fight history, so the insults are factually accurate. Stupid, fun, demos brilliantly.
Robots fight. You build. The data decides. 🤖
This is a data hack, not a hardware one. No soldering, no shrapnel. BattleBots Pro League powered by Bright Data has 24 robots and a season of fight records, robot stats and fan chatter scattered across the web. Your job tonight is to grab that data with Bright Data's tools and build something cool with it.
The Vegas bit. Everything built tonight can be entered into Bright Data's global #battlebotsdev hackathon. The grand prize there is a VIP BattleBots weekend in Las Vegas. Return flights and a 2-night hotel for you plus a guest, VIP arena passes, behind-the-scenes pit access, and a Bright Data swag kit. The global deadline is 31 July, three days after this event, so tonight is build it here, submit it this week. To be clear, the Vegas prize is won through the global hack, not handed out on the night.
On the night: $100 in Bright Data credits for every attendee (claim link at the event), snacks and drinks, a watch party of a BattleBots Pro League episode mid-evening, and a room full of builders.
Ideas to steal: a robot win-rate tracker, a fan sentiment dashboard, a head-to-head prediction engine, a meta analysis of which weapons dominate the season, an agent-vs-agent battle fed by real fight data. Or anything weird, fun and demoable by 9pm.
The evening: doors and kickoff at 17:00 (theme and constraints), open build time solo or in small teams, watch party break, lightweight demos around 21:00, betworking then out by 22:00.
Who this is for. Everyone from vibe coders to senior engineers. If you can prompt an AI or write a for loop, you can build something tonight. Founders, designers, students and builders all welcome. The global hack judges on substance over polish, they're engineers, nobody cares about your pitch deck.
About Bright Data. The web data infrastructure company trusted by 20,000+ organizations, with 600+ scraper APIs, a dataset marketplace and AI-agent tools including an MCP server with a free tier. Headline sponsor of the new BattleBots Pro League.
⚖️ Meet the Judges
Gabriele Musella — CEO & Founder of Coinrule (Y Combinator S21), Google Mentor, and repeat founder with 15+ years building AI and fintech products for the likes of PayPal, HSBC, IBM, and the NHS.
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Nasima Ahmed — CRM and retention strategist with 17+ years across fintech, fashion, and luxury, driving up to 40% CRM revenue uplifts and rebuilding loyalty programmes for Sephora UK, Debenhams, and Capital.com.
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Tanin Rojanapiansatith — Founder building real-estate scanner intelligence for property managers and landlords, turning raw property data into an unfair advantage.
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Theo Bailey — Founder of Steggo, a stealth defence-tech startup unlocking battlefield data, and 5x hackathon winner. He knows exactly what a winning build looks like.
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Ahmed Sulaiman — Two-time founder with two exits and 10+ years across product, engineering, and applied AI. Now Product Lead in London.
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Kateryna Golushko — Founder of MomentumMill, GTM strategist to early-stage startups, ex-Amazon and RBC, and builder of a 300-strong founder & investor community at Launch Club Capital.
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Himanshu Agarwal — Building Tilt ($50M raised from Balderton, TQ Ventures, Earlybird & more), ex-Google, and winner of 6 hackathons since 2025. He's been on both sides of the demo table.
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Tiffany Wang — Tiffany is Head of EMEA at FLock, where she leads regional growth. She also serves as Programme Manager at the Blockchain for Good Alliance, which includes an incubation program for blockchain startups. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffany-wang1998
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Jake Henderson — Learning research company (Raised) at the intersection of operating systems and autonomous agents, developing novel techniques for analyzing program execution, runtime security, and categorizing actions that take place on an OS.
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Oscar Falemara
swe @ coloop (yc s21), events & community in London
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Speaker
Arvin Shafiei will be in the room to show you how BrightData works and help you get setup. He started university at 16, led a project that won a £100K grant at 17, and now builds the AI and data infrastructure for the commercial team behind the Sidemen, running Bright Data-powered campaigns for the likes of Formula E.
🙌 The Team Making It Happen
Huge thanks to our volunteer crew keeping the night running smoothly:
Chloe Cai · LinkedIn
Zoe Yan · LinkedIn
Wanlin Guo · LinkedIn
Sadia Malik · LinkedIn
Hosted by Builders Collective / HackerSquad.
Big thank you to Civio, A worldwide tech event focused on navigating and succeeding within the cloud native landscape.
https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/civo-navigate/
📍1 minute from Old Street Tube Station, 32-37 Cowper St, London EC2A 4AW, UK
Note: this date is tentative pending final host schedule confirmation.