User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 1: Finding machines that are genuinely overrated/@comment-2118191-20171221213741

Another bot to consider - Cerberus.

This isn't so much for the robot itself, because I think most people are inclined to agree that Cerberus...really isn't that good. However, I've seen many people legitimately overhype it for one particular battle - namely, its clash with Griffon. For years, this held the record of the shortest fight in Robot Wars history. But people seem to forget about the context of the fight and overhype it, and by extension Cerberus, as a result. Here's exactly what happened in that battle.


 * Griffon starts on the side of the arena closest to the pit.
 * Griffon moves forward, roughly parallel to the pit, then stops.
 * Cerberus gets around the side of the paused Griffon and pushes it.
 * Griffon fails to start up again and is pushed down the pit.

This was ten seconds of Cerberus, essentially, pitting a dead robot. A robot that "died" right across from the pit. That really isn't exciting - nobody praises Agent Orange for pitting a non-starting Max Damage, after all. Cerberus only pulled that off due to luck and convenience. And yet people keep praising it, and this fight, on a technicality. When people are voting this fight, where a robot managed to push a static robot into the pit that it happened to stop right next to, over battles where both robots were legitimately giving it their all, then there's a problem.