User blog comment:Toon Ganondorf/Ranking Robot Wars Upsets by whether they affected a tournament/@comment-2118191-20190127143209/@comment-25770073-20190128070711

I agree with Toon here, it only took one hit (and let's be honest wasn't a big one nor one that was too damaging) from Ironside3 to that kill Pulsar, meanwhile Thermidor 2 was smacked up a lot more and still moved (as did, Chompalot, Gabriel and even BEAST! If you really think about it) it wasn't until Chompalot pushed it towards Shunt where it pretty much got finished off. Pulsar's reliability was very poor, the grand final fight was just another example where it died under little pressure. And lest we forget Series 9...