User blog comment:Toon Ganondorf/The Best and Worst of Robot Wars Names/@comment-1011118-20180210234151

Fascinating read.


 * Favourite winner: Tie for Kronic the Wedgehog and Evil Weevil, who both used very pleasing rhymes, and justified the names with their robots' designs
 * Worst Winner: Pussycat - I don't get it. Ignoring what it means in America, its name is just a synonym for "cat" isn't it?
 * Best Loser: Anto. The etymology was not "ant with an o" it was a pun on his heavyweight Tanto.
 * Worst Loser: S3. It's like they tried to hedge their bets between legacy and rebranding and fumbled on both counts.

And since I wasn't part of this, I'll add these two bullet points:


 * Best Unmentioned Name: Tip-Top. It's funny and works on multiple levels
 * Worst Unmentioned Name: Hard. Boring in its own right, but the team were billingual, meaning their dictionary was twice as big as the average team's.  There's got to be a cooler word in at least one of the two languages.