User blog comment:CrashBash/Top Five Robot Wars controversies that made no difference/@comment-27162079-20180504054545

This might be considered a bit of a wildcard: but the whole thing with Mauler in the First World Championship. A lot of people say that Mauler could've easily romped its way to the First World Championship crown, so that's why they stopped it fighting. A) I think it would've self destructed against Cerberus anyway, but even if it didn't, it absolutely would've lost to the likes of Diotoir, or Razer.

B) This little thing about safety gave BattleBots fans ammo for years, about how this incident proves that their spinners are overpowered, and that Robot Wars' spinners all suck. Guess what? One series later, when the show had a revamped polycarbonate box, Mauler was allowed to compete. It wasn't that Mauler was overpowered, it was that it was one of few machines that had violent enough flails that could hurl debris in a Series 3 arena which wasn't set up to properly contain debris. That doesn't make it good though.