User blog:CrashBash/Top Five Robot Wars controversies that made no difference

It may be a competition to see which robot out of a group from 30 to 128 is the best in the United Kingdom, but Robot Wars is still first and foremost a TV show. The whole premise is that it's meant to be entertaining to the viewers at home. As both a competition and a TV show, Robot Wars did its job very well, and in many aspects does this better than BattleBots, its next biggest rival. But of course, with any big competition and TV show, there are bound to be controversies. Moments that cause massive amounts of debate amongst fans, moments that completely change, and to some fans, completely ruin parts of a series.

Or do they?

I know a big talk about Robot Wars is "What Could Have Been" - for example, what if Razer hadn't fallen into the pit with Kill-E-Crank-E during Series 8, or what if Atomic and Bulldog Breed hadn't withdrawn from the annihilator in Extreme 1 - but sometimes what could have been really isn't that different. When you think about it really, would anything have changed? Not in the above scenarios as far as I'm concerned - Razer would have had its butt kicked at the hands of Carbide and Disc-O-Inferno would still have largely romped the annihilator. However, those things are just occurrences that happened, you can't really pin the blame on anyone.

However, if you take a step back and apply this means of thinking to some of Robot Wars' most controversial moments, what does this achieve? In some cases, whole outcomes could have been changed, that much is true. I can understand why they would be seen as controversial. But sometimes, when you really think about...something bad happening really doesn't affect the big picture at all. In fact sometimes it's a blessing in disguise. You may think the following five moments in Robot Wars are terrible, and you may absolutely hate them, but even if I can't change your mind, I do encourage you to think about them from another angle.