User blog comment:Madlooney6/Models Tournament: Annihilator/@comment-5687742-20141201174030/@comment-2118191-20141201183839

I'm pretty sure no self-respecting roboteer would ever do that. It just feels unnatural, even in the chaos that is the annihilator.

If you'll listen to me blather on a bit, I'll give you an example: One annihilator I had featured my robots Egresser (your every-day front-hindged flipper-wedge robot), Flip Flop (invertible with a saw-on-an-arm), Hatchet (high ground clearance, massive plough), Scallywag (basically a renamed Panic Attack pullback) and Y-Front (two wheels set wide on a front shaped wedge). It was a Nickelodeon annihilator, OK?

Well, anyway, Egresser and Scallywag, at least in my eyes, were the favourites to win, more or less because they had the best weapons. However, Egresser lost in the second round after all the other robots ganged up on it. That I can see as being realistic, because that's what happens in Annihilators. HOWEVER, Scallywag ultimately went on to win because the remaining robots just weren't in the same ballpark, quality-wise, so to speak. They still put up a good fight, though, and never once tried to throw it.

THAT is the sort of thing I expect to see in an Annihilator. I expect to see a few surprises, but not complete drop-outs.