User blog comment:ToastUltimatum/Top 18 Series of Robot Wars/@comment-124.169.30.219-20180320125531/@comment-29558956-20180320202303

In spite of the fantastic battles and unpredictable outcomes throughout, I honestly feel that there were a few elements in Series 7 which seemed to mark a major downgrade from Series 6 in my opinion. My main bugbears with the series are that the rules on House Robots interfering with competitors seemed to be relaxed or non-existent on occasions (see their rampant crusades against featherweights or Refbot taking the Axe Attack into his own hands) and that the general lack of post-Round 1 interviews made it much harder for me to learn more about the losing robots and their teams. Nowhere near as bad as the near-complete lack of Round 1 interviews in Series 5, mind you, but the latter change from Series 6/Extreme 2 still seemed like an unfortunate sacrifice to make. Also, regardless of what others think of Cassius Chrome, I find it a crying shame that he didn't get a proper introduction whatsoever...