User blog comment:Hogwild94/Original Series Rusty Spanners/@comment-35435623-20180109005804

3. Rogue House Robot

I know Forklift's Revenge was rubbish, but picking it up and taking it all the way across the arena to Pit it? That's too far, Sir Killalot.

2. As your series opener, it's the All-Star: Mace!

Yeah, this is just a strange Heat opener. A nothing Heat with average battles and little in the way of entertainment. It gets the non-Gauntlet-and-trial era of Robot Wars off too a questionable start.

1. '''Pit! Pit! Pit! Wait... it's not there.'''

Robots were hardly capable of consistently entertaining battles by the turn of Series 3, and taking away an extra dimension of versatility in the form of the Pit makes that even worse. Why the latter battles of the tournament needed no Pit action was bizarre.