User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner and Golden Wrench of the Decade (2010s)/@comment-27162079-20191215015524

These are only off the top of my head, so I might think of others, but for now:

Golden Wrench:

3. Everything about Apollo: absolutely loved their whole philosophy. Make a great robot with a massive flipper, but have fun in the arena and out the arena, attack the house bots, have a notable rivalry, and more. They were an absolutely vital connecting point from the classic series to the reboot series in terms of charm and identity.

2. Angela Scanlon: fantastic personality and presenter. She wouldn't have been out of place whatever series she was on the show.

1. Series 10 Title Fight: literally a perfect tournament ender. The two greatest, most consistent bots in the reboot dishing out the punishment for 3 minutes, and then machine that got curbstomped in the previous matches between the two prevailing - helping complete Michael Oates' story too. Beautiful.

Rusty Spanner:

3. Putting Heat D of Series 8 slap bang in the middle of the Olympics: this Heat is a perfect one to grab new viewers and prove to them that Robot Wars has turned a corner. Instead, it gets scheduled behind Heats with two rather archaic bots in terms of wow factor, and then Apollo's Heat itself gets swept aside by the Olympics. Trainwreck.

2. Removable links costing us so many fights: I know they're a vital safety feature, but removable links just aren't consistently durable enough for us to not to have a ton of dud fights overall, and they still feel archaic. After about Episode 3 of the reboot, I genuinely went into every single fight desperately hoping a link wasn't about to pop out and kill off a fun fight. I shouldn't have had to feel that way.

1. The way Razer lost: Razer was the big name in Heat A. Lots of people tuned in purely to see it, and what we were given was so disappointing. It's not the fact that Razer lost that sucked. If it got wrecked by Carbide (as much as I'd hate to see it) or lost in a terrific duel with Behemoth/Terrorhurtz, it would have at least been a legendary departure for it. But instead, it fell in a slab in the floor, and we didn't even have Pit pyros so the moment was even more limp. And if that was the way the best robot in Robot Wars history was going to exit the show, you can't blame any casual viewer who switched off afterwards thinking that Robot Wars was still a bit lame, when the reboot was anything but.