I agree, I don't think mimicking human sports with robots will ever be as interesting as using the strengths that bots have against each other like Battlebots does. Humans are good at human stuff already, and it won't be exciting to watch bots do the same stuff worse.
I wonder if it'll be as great as the"all AI car race": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feTxamTHQAA (spoiler: It suuuuucked)
I agree, I don't think mimicking human sports with robots will ever be as interesting as using the strengths that bots have against each other like Battlebots does. Humans are good at human stuff already, and it won't be exciting to watch bots do the same stuff worse.