User blog comment:Madlooney6/Models Tournament: Heat E/@comment-3048006-20140922193344

I'll be honest, I commend you guys for carrying on the tournament, but I have to agree with CrashBash that this idea for a tournament seems like a brilliant one when first devised, but I bet many of us beforehand have thought of it, and dismissed it because it is so flawed. Apart from the fact that we can't be completely sold on dimensions, build quality etc. of other people's robots, the votes are going to be skewed when certain people's robots come up, because they are their creations, so will likely defend them to the hills if they are at all competent. The main problem being that I can't really tell how the performances of them are being judged, if the models are kinetic, then how are the battles being played out? With our own hands? It's just not feasible for a tournament idea. All of this is made worse by the fact that some in this tournament are just drawings, which leaves nothing for the rest of us to work with. The fact that they are just designs, people can make up any stats they like, so you can't reason. For example, my Slightly Blighty is RC, but the fact I had the constraints of making it work meant it fell foul to a made-up design in Round 1.

I may persevere with the tournament to argue my robots' cases, but ultimately this is why the tournament votes have rapidly declined, sorry guys.

As for these battles, in my opinion, the designs likely to reach the final will be Nausea and Captain TriMangle.