User blog:Hogwild94/Series 4 First Round Format - Flawed?

OK, time for me to try one of these.

Back in this Wiki's early days, I loved reading the lists of TG, RA2 and, later, CrashBash, to the extent that I would print them out and memorise them. I can still recite large portions of many of them by heart. I haven't done the same with TG's new lists which he has been doing lately, but I've still read them numerous times.

Well, I was reading his 'Top 10 Battles That Don't Accurately Reflect A Robot's Contribution', and a couple of things point out, namely his pointing out that King B immobilised Tornado in the Mayhem, and his thought's on Hypno-Disc's Series 4 first round match.

And that got me thinking: how many first round matches in Series 4 simply involved one robot beating another by itself, and the third going through by virtue of not being the 'another'? Quite a few, I think.

So, let's have a look shall we?

Chaos 2 vs Indefatigable vs Atomic - Great example here; Chaos 2 flips both opponents, flips one OotA, and the other, which incidentally broke down after it was flipped, goes through by default, before beating King B by a fluke and getting PWND in the heat final.

King B3 vs Attila the Drum vs Medusa 2000 - Normally judges decisions are hard to argue with, but, let’s be honest, what did Medusa do to deserve a ‘win’ here?

Razer vs Velocirippa vs Robochicken - See TG's original post.

Pussycat vs Milly-Ann Bug vs Reptirron - Again, Pussycat singlehandedly takes Reptirron out, while Milly-Ann Bug watches, goes through without doing anything really, and then gets wrecked by Razer.

Firestorm 2 vs Scar vs The Morgue - Scar may have be one of few undefeated robots, but, let’s face it, it did nothing in its fight to deserve a ‘win’, with Firestorm taking Morgue out by itself.

Diotoir vs Bolt from the Blue vs Ming 2 - Again, Ming 2 takes out Diotoir, and BftB gets a ‘win’ without doing anything. Say what you will about that judges decision in Round 2, but you can't argue that BftB only got through the first round due to Diotoir being an easy target for Ming.

Steg 2 vs Cronos vs Crusader 2 - I think most of us are in agreement that Steg 2 would’ve lost if this fight had been a one-on-one with Crusader 2, but Steg 2 did get a good flip in on Cronos, so I think we can probably say Steg earned a 'win' here.

Mortis vs Mazakari vs Iron-Awe - Iron-Awe was pretty much dead at the end of this match, yet it gets through via the judges despite having done little while Mazakari was involved throughout. Didn't think much of it at the time, my six year old mind only really remembering knockout blows, floor flipper flips and pittings as far as fight content went (hence my not remembering Crusader's owning of Steg in the previous match), but I'd definitely give Mazakari the win here having seen it again.

to be continued