User blog comment:CrashBash/Top 10 Mistakes Robot Wars made that made the UK Championships less enjoyable/@comment-9751413-20171207144544

The floor flipper is serving the purpose of the spikes in the reboot, as it is there to flip anyone over who gets unlucky. However, the major difference is that the flipper is very obvious, which is why it works as a hazard. Everyone has to have a srimech or be invertible nowadays anyway. Yeah, it might suck when a battle is decided by the flipper, but it's a lot fairer than the old invisi-spikes.