User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner and Golden Wrench of the Decade (2010s)/@comment-979907-20191215000633

3. The selection process: The production crew had some questionable choices for selection. Whilst I applaud their excluding TR2 from a series with plenty more interesting wedge flippers, and Ironside from a series with plenty of spinners, I was less than thrilled to see repeat qualifications for Hobgoblin, Draven, Chimera, Foxic, Push to Exit, Crackers 'n' Smash and Coyote, none of whom did much to upgrade and performed just as poorly the second time around. Meanwhile, High-5, Frostbite, Rusty, Trolley Rage, Ms Nightshade and Wyrm all got a go denied to so many robots like Gabriel (series 9), Beast/Harpy (Series 9-10), Dantomkia (s9), Or Te (s9-10) and Tough as Nails (s9) all get the shaft. However, perhaps those aforementioned robots suffered because of...

2. Too many spinners: The Head to Head format was largely blamed for bad repeat battles, but I have chosen instead to give this vote to the format that really did cause the problem, the abundance of spinners, particularly in Series 9. A few heats in Series 8-9 reflected that this format could be fun - 8D and 8E, for example. But what ruined the other heats is that almost all of them had an overabundance of spinners (Pulsar and Ironside, Concussion and M.R. Speed Squared, Carbide and Aftershock, etc). The worst offender was putting Crushtacean in a fight with Pulsar, Ironside and Apex. I'd far prefer to drop MRSS or Apex for some non spinners.

Iron Awe 6 v Tauron Mk 2 decision. Still the worst thing I've ever seen in Robot Wars history. Both robots immobilised a second apart, despite Tauron being dominant the whole time. It's not that Tauron was immobilised and Iron Awe wasn't. The decision is made so much worse by the fact that Tauron is taken out of the competition early on and Iron Awe gets all the way through to the blasted 10 Robot Rumble. Tauron and Iron Awe would both have been better off had this gone to the judges and the right robot won.