User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner and Golden Wrench of the Decade (2010s)/@comment-9751413-20191216000845

3: The Series 10 format: Series 6 and 7 had nailed the format of a knockout tournament, but Series 10 nailed it for giving everyone a second chance. I think we need to do another Audited Series 4 with the Series 10 format because it was so cool, and who doesn't want to judge a 32 robot rumble to find two winners to give us three Semi-Finals. xD
 * Golden Wrenches:

2: Series 8 old vs new. Through luck with withdrawals, Series 8 managed to have a perfect balance of 4 robots from the classic series (OK, some like Sabretooth and The General were completely different robots, but still) and 4 brand new robots, sometimes from preboot teams. This was just what was needed for reviving a show. Names and robots we know like Razer, Behemoth, Dantomkia, Thermidor 2 and Tough as Nails appeared upgraded but almost exactly the same as we remembered them from the preboot which gave some perspective against the new builds which appeared.

1: The fact that it happened. A Robot Wars reboot was never expected, and it took so long to actually believe the news when it came out. Add to that it was filming in Glasgow while I was living in Edinburgh and it was just a perfect storm. I saw 25 battles over 4 days in all three series being filmed and loved every second. The first battle I was at, Dantomkia was in it! I then fell in love with Carbide after it utterly dominated the strong spinner-killer Behemoth in 7 extremely violent hits that truly introduced me to what a spinner can do. I watched the Series 9 final with the TR2 team and then some of the greatest Robot Wars battles and moments ever with Toast in Series 10! Carbide vs Gabriel feat. Big Nipper. My first OotA with Rapid vs Track-tion feat. Bucky. Big Nipper sending Smash to space, Apex exploding and the tense Androne 4000 vs Tauron Mk 2. A truly wonderful experience I will never forget.

3: The Doom Dial. Rogue House Robot was alright and Fog of War was terrible, but both could have been good, if only the Doom Dial was split into multiple buttons, like in Series 6 with the Floor Spinner. It turned from being a tactical button into a lucky dip which almost inevitably didn't give robots the thing they wanted. It made the pit such an obsolete item when it is supposed to be the shining light of the arena and a target for robots good or bad to aim for. Would Hypno-Disc vs Bigger Brother been so epic if the Fog of War went off instead of the pit descending?
 * Rusty Spanners:

2: 6 episodes. Robot Wars was epic in the fact that there was so many episodes and heats to get stuck into, with new robots every week and building up to an epic Semi-Finals and Grand-Final setting. 40 and 30 really wasn't enough of a pool of robots to pick from, especially as quite a lot broke down so easily, mostly the new builds for the show. With so many experienced roboteers with live circuit legends, being so restrictive really hurt the show.

1: Cancelling it just as it got good. Yes, leaving on a high with Series 10 may be a good thing, but it wasn't enough. Because they'd got it right, it was time to expand. The Series 10 format was brilliant as I've already explained, so a Series 11 with more heats and that format would have been fantastic.