User blog comment:Jimlaad43/Ragnabot 3 preparation/@comment-9751413-20190606235739

My nominations for the qualifiers. As it stands with 796 robots, that's 28 qualifiers required, so 28 robots which we need to find a good justification to "remove" in the qualifiers. Here's my votes.

Definite reason to exclude.
 * 1) Reckless Endangerment: We only have a small part of the robot visible in a screenshot, and never saw enough of it.
 * 2) Damacles: See Shadow Fiend
 * 3) Shadow Fiend: We don't know which of these is which, so judging them seems pointless.
 * 4) Ellie's Little Pink-Bot: A robot which failed to move because of a design flaw, so was never going to move.
 * 5) Pain: Never even made it into the arena.
 * 6) The Parthian Shot: Two failed attempts to enter.
 * 7) Daisy: Never entered the arena.
 * 8) Terror Australis: Well, the actual one at least.
 * 9) Stomp: Never actually moved off the start, and probably wouldn't
 * 10) Mauler: Never actually fought on TV in Robot Wars.
 * 11) Spike (MTV): Episode never broadcast. (Not listed in the first place)

Reasonable reason to exclude
 * 1) Max Damage: It never moved, but that was more unlucky on the team's part.
 * 2) Ramrombit: Never intended as a combat robot.
 * 3) Thunderpants: We do have the qualifier footage now, which is the only reason it's in this category and not the first.
 * 4) Flippa: Had two attempts to do something and never did.

I need to scour the Foreign Series' too, but I'll do that tomorrow.

If we don't come up with 28 robots, I'll work my way up the Ultimate Free Pass order to find the robots to be eliminated in the qualifiers. There's 48 there, so it'll be enough.