Definitive answer, simply taking too much time and money, not seeing a return - I heard about this a few weeks ago, but was only just announced.

The arena takes considerable time to build btw, it takes days (literally) to set the thing up, it's a by-product of the robots that fight in them (full on heavy spinners), because we have taken a step back from all-out combat the shows are more frequent, meaning more revenue and the arenas lighter-weight so less venue/crew costs in setting them up and taking them down. One reason that we did that with XFM was around ensuring we can run frequent profitable shows.

Sadly that's not what a one-off event once a year like RoboGames had become and it was taking it's toll.

I can assure people it's not Plotniki doing anything, and it will certainly be interesting to see if anything fills the void, it's like Robots Live and Robot Roaming Wars both giving up at the same time......

Very sad for our US friends

Ed