Robot Wars Wiki:Old Facts

This page lists facts that have been removed from the Did you know template.


 * ...that in Heat B of the Sixth Wars, all three robots to fall into the pit in Round 1 progressed to Round 2?


 * ...that in Heat F of the Fifth Wars, Shunt appeared in all seven battles, and Sergeant Bash and Sir Killalot were the only other house robots to appear?


 * ...that Thermidor 2 reached the series semi-finals whenever Philippa Forrester wasn't the pit reporter, whilst Team Big Brother made the semi-finals only when she was?


 * ...that Henry had a team member named Tom, and Major Tom had a team member named Henry, and both machines lost to 101 in Series 4?


 * ...that when Shunt destroyed Major Tom's head, the pieces flew out of the arena, but when Tsunami threw Major Tom out, the head was knocked off beforehand and remained inside the arena?


 * ...that only three robots with Overhead Weapons reached a Grand Final (Bodyhammer, Killertron and Terrorhurtz), but Bodyhammer did not use that overhead weapon?


 * ...that Killertron was the first robot to push another robot into the Pit of Oblivion?


 * ...that of the sixty Out of the Arena flips seen in the history of Robot Wars, half of them took place in Series 7 alone?


 * ...that in five UK championships and two Extreme series, Firestorm has only needed to use its flipper as a self-righting mechanism twice?


 * ...that Heat A of the Fifth Wars was the only time that both seeds made the heat final, and both had dominated their second round matches against an axe-wielding robot to get there?


 * ...that Scorpion had a very interesting qualifying history? In Series 4, it was allowed in without a qualifier because the judges felt it would look good on camera, it lost its qualifier for Series 5, qualified for Series 6 by beating King B Powerworks in a grudge match from the Series 4 Tag Team Final (and with whom it was in the same heat in Series 7), and to qualify for Series 7, it beat Sir Chromalot in a grudge match from its very first fight in Series 4.