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Bulldog Breed vs Prizephita - In looking back at Series 5 Audited, I realized that I didn't give this battle a lot of thought. So I went back and rewatched some of their battles, and I did end up changing my mind from what I'd originally said. I do give the 'Phita a lot of grief for its "dessert spoon" but at the end of the day, it's a really effective robot. Flippers like Thermy and Wild Thing have most of their weight concentrated at the back. This makes for remarkably good leverage when Prizephita tries to flip them while touching a relatively small surface area. As Toast said, Prizephita is devilishly impossible to flip, and its ground clearance is quite low. A decent flipper could get underneath by barreling into the side and slipping its flipper underneath when the robots collide. Bulldog Breed in Series 5 showed neither the speed nor precision that this manuever would require. Fortunately this wouldn't have had an enormous impact on our audited series 5, Phita would have faced Stinger next and probably lost.

Stinger vs Fluffy - Fluffy's reliability was better when they met in Series 6. I do believe it was a design advantage and not just luck that saw Stinger take the victory - flat sheets of polycarb on a metal chassis don't absorb shocks that well.