User blog:ToastUltimatum/ToastUltimatum's Robot Wars: The Eighth Wars

Hey guys. So I've decided to design what I think Series 8 of Robot Wars could well turn out like. I'll start by listing my regulations;


 * Unlike some users here, I only like to involve robots that would participate in the real thing, so no Razer, Chaos 2 or anything like that. This isn't a fantasy tournament, it tries to be realistic. Note that Hypno-Disc missing Series 7 was a one-off, due to priorities that only happened that year, so I have involved Hypno-Disc in this tournament.
 * The Heat Finalists from the Seventh Wars have been arranged in a fashion as if they were seeded. Each Heat Finalist will be in the same heat as its parallel seed. By this, I mean that (e.g.) the robot that lost to the 16th seed (JudgeShred 3.0) will go into the Heat with the 1st seed (Swarm).
 * The rules in Series 7 regarding moving weapons has been withdrawn, allowing robots such as Stinger to enter the wars.
 * Actual mesh is still prohibited, but fur is now allowed, permitting the return of Diotoir.
 * The only semi-finalist from Series 7 I have chosen to exclude is X-Terminator. X-Terminator's team currently live in Australia, and making it to the UK for potentially three episodes would be difficult. I'm unsure as to whether or not Team Atomic would be able to get a robot up and running in time for the series, but I have chosen to include Atomic II anyway.
 * The Top 16 Seeds are as follows;
 * 1) Swarm
 * 2) Storm II
 * 3) Tornado
 * 4) Firestorm
 * 5) Hypno-Disc
 * 6) Gravity 5.1
 * 7) Bulldog Breed
 * 8) Atomic II
 * 9) Dantomkia
 * 10) Thermidor 2
 * 11) Tough As Nails
 * 12) Knightmare
 * 13) Maelstrom
 * 14) The Grim Reaper
 * 15) M2XT
 * 16) Mute

The reason Hypno-Disc takes the 5th seed is that when I was planning the tournament layout (i.e. Which seed fights which heat finalist), I had included X-Terminator. After choosing to remove X-Terminator, I just gave Hypno-Disc the No. 5 seed to avoid having to redo all of my progress.

Personally, I did not feel Seed No. 12 Knightmare, and all seeds below it would be able to host their own heat individually, so I have added an extra five seeds, which would go in one of these robot's heats.

The extra seeds are as follows;


 * 1) Terrorhurtz    (The Grim Reaper's heat)
 * 2) Dominator 3    (M2XT's heat)
 * 3) Panic Attack   (Mute's heat)
 * 4) Pussycat       (Maelstrom's heat)
 * 5) Bigger Brother (Knightmare's heat)

With all that read, now you can finally check how the tournament turned out, with the link below. Sometimes the results were obvious, other times, not so much. But feel free to comment.

http://www.slideshare.net/ToastUltimatum/robot-wars-the-eighth-wars