There were a dota2 bot match events before. Dota2 had a great bots moment like the go, when open ai's dota2 bots beat human players, and showcased different meta strategy of winning the game.

I believe the bot ti was no longer hosted because there seems no strong monetizing channels. Even that a lot of people enjoy them.

[1] https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Bot_TI/2019

This reminds me of the Ghost in the Shell anime (IIRC second season) where Batou, one of the characters mentions he represented Japan on the Paralympics in boxing in the past.

The thing is that he is a full body cyborg ex JSDF soldier with with Ranger training that can literally bend steel bars with bare hands and jump between buildings. And for historical reasons all cyborgs in the near future cyberpunk world of GitS compete on the Paralympics, making them much more interesting than the "normal" Olympic games where only non-augmented humans presumably still compete with each other, with all the limitations of a standard human body.

They did this in the UK in the early 00s it was called Technogames

https://youtu.be/nOB5FtD7nnw

Yeah, something like those soccer robot games seems fun.