User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 1: Finding machines that are genuinely overrated/@comment-24393094-20171221221225/@comment-25109076-20171221222505

I love Major Tom precisely because I didn't expect to see it win, but to go out in a variety of the funniest and/or most spectacular ways possible. It's a terrible robot, but that's part of the charm.