User blog:Rammingspeed/Top Ten Favourite Battles in Robot Combat History

The idea of robot combat is genius. People love watching conflict unfold - it's why action movies, boxing and Phil Mitchell exist. In robot combat, we get conflict without any of the added injuries, bad feelings and general stuff people don't want anything to do with? What's not to love? Nothing, that's what.

When put into practice... it doesn't always seem like such a great idea. I did wonder what was on ITV while watching Foxic vs MR Speed Squared. But when you get the intended result, you say "f*** off ITV, I bloody love Robot Wars/Battlebots/Robotica/Who Do You Think You Are with Steven Hawking". Here's ten times it really delivered, the times I really loved the fact that I'm the only one in my entire friendship circle who actually likes this stuff.

10. ICU vs Chopper vs Mad Dog - Robot Wars, New Blood Championship, Heat C, Round One

This was just so much fun. What a disaster of a battle, but that's what makes it so brilliant. Chopper's absolute recklessness and yet somehow not losing was one of the funniest things the BBC has ever shown. The New Blood was a bit of a disaster really, there just wasn't many good robots in it at all bar Mute and Storm 2. But this battle proved good robots aren't necessary for entertainment.

It's topped off by Jonathan Pearce's commentary and ICU almost backing into the pit at the end of it all - there literally wasn't a sane soul in the control booths on that day.

9. Apollo vs Storm2 - Robot Wars, Series 8, Episode 4, Group Battle

The reboot, initially, was great and I was bloody loving it. I remember watching this episode, I'd recently asked a girl out and she'd turned me down - but now she's got chlamydia and I'm with someone who doesn't look like crazy frog, so who's the real winner here?

That aside, (bitter? I'm not bitter, who are you calling bitter) it'd been ages since we'd seen an OOTA, which we got in a previous battle, and even longer since we'd seen a house robot be flipped - surely these new house robots were invincible though, surely it couldn't happen?

It did. Twice.

Apollo captured the hearts of everyone here. Throwing Storm2 around, dethroning both Dead Metal and Matilda, not to mention that heart-in-your-mouth moment where it nearly went down the pit - this fight was great. The pickup attempt, not so much. Oh well. Always use a condom, fellas.

8. - To be continued