User blog comment:RA2/Robot Wars Rankdown: Extreme 1 & Series 5/@comment-2118191-20180716142252

10 is a better number than 6 or 7 - both ways: Wheely Big Cheese. This is going to raise a lot of eyebrows. Yes, Wheely Big Cheese made it to the semi-finals. Yes, it performed that spectacular flip on Axe-Awe. And yet it broke down after just a few seconds in the Flipper Frenzy, failed to do anything to Chaos 2 in the All-Stars, broke down after bossing Dominator 2 in the semi-final and then broke down again after BEING bossed around by Firestorm 3 in the loser's melee. But that's not what really killed Wheely Big Cheese this season - it was the hype. In all but the FF, it was somehow considered to be the favourite going into the fight. This was despite the fact that Chaos 2 was the then-reigning champion, Dominator had technically been more successful and both Firestorm AND Panic Attack were not only more successful in previous wars, but seeded HIGHER. And only against Dominator did it put up any fight. So, why am I not voting for Spawn Again, who also broke down continually? Well, Spawn Again simply put was never hyped. Certainly not to the degree Wheely Big Cheese was.

If one goes in, the other follows: Hypno-Disc. A really solid run in Series 5, which I'll give it that, was let down by a terrible run in Extreme 1 where it ended up losing to a wooden robot and lost to another robot in such a humiliating way that TPTB just decided NOPE.AVI and kicked it out. Not to mention limping through the annihilator. Controversial again, but hey, we already have Tornado sitting in the pool, and Hypno-Disc is basically the reverse Tornado here.

In the pool: Atomic 2, Behemoth, Drillzilla, Fluffy, Hypno-Disc, Panic Attack, Spawn Again, Tornado, Wild Thing