User blog comment:Gutripper/Gutripper's Definitive Ranking of UK Heat Finalists/@comment-4700688-20160924020800

This'll be my weirdest and most controversial response yet... but I actually think Storm2 WOULD have matched the performance of Apollo. Yes, that means I think they'd win the series. We only need to consider three opponents. Thor died immediately in its battle against Apollo, that's not a worry. Against Carbide, Storm2 has even more defence than it did in Series 7, and it can quite comfortably take the hits until the spinner stops - if two Hardox flippers can stop it, quite literally a titanium brick will have the same ease. And finally against TR2, let it be reminded that Pulsar ruined TR2's front wedge, and that's the reason they couldn't go into its fight against Apollo with their usual ground clearance. That pretty much confirms Storm2's superior ground clearance, and Eruption is better than TR2, while being similar enough for me to say it would be a repeat battle. Maybe TR2 would fix its wedge and win the Grand Final? But Eruption's wedge wasn't having a bad day to begin with, Storm2 is the safer choice in my books.

Next time on "who could've won the 2016 series had it not been for one small mishap", Terrorhurtz