User:ToastUltimatum

Hello all, this is ToastUltimatum, resident Yorkshireman of the wiki. I'm one of the two active bureaucrats in the community.

Subpages

 * Lists - A compilation of my favourite robots, battles, among other lists and writing pieces!
 * Collection - A list of each piece of Robot Wars merchandise I own, and which major items I'm missing, as well as sections on the authentic pieces of real robots that I own!
 * The Tragic Roundabout - A seemingly genuine wiki article for my featherweight flail spinner, which "qualified for Series 10" before entering live battles.
 * Prince's Trust Robots - Working cardboard robots that I had put together on an educational course run by John Findlay, including the prototype for The Tragic Roundabout.
 * Seeing Robot Wars Live - A blog on my experiences at filming for all of the rebooted series of Robot Wars!
 * Audited Wars - A re-randomised version of each series of Robot Wars, and who I thought would win each battle.
 * Audited Wars Debate - A chance to vote on a select few matches from the Audited Wars that were tough to decide.
 * BattleBots Season 2 Audited - A redo of BattleBots Season 2, using better Judging criteria and improved seeds.
 * Ragnabot - One of my favourite Robot Wars hobbies, my versions of the wiki's famous Ragnabot tournament.
 * Ragnabot Pt. II - The second page of Ragnabot, containing Series 10 competitors.
 * Ragnabot Success Rate - An archive of which robots have done well in my Ragnabot tournaments, and how often they did so.
 * Miscellaneous Tournaments - A handful of other Robot Wars tournaments I've run for my own entertainment.
 * Robot Wars: The Eighth Wars - One of the first things I did after getting Internet at home, I ran a hypothetical Robot Wars: The Eighth Wars, as if it were held in 2004. Very outdated; read for irony.

For the periodical series blogs and one-off blogs that I've written, see this list.
 * Completely Genuine Live Reactions - “Genuine” live “reactions” from NJGW and I as we pretend to watch Series 7 for the first time, featuring some special guests along the way!
 * Top 18 Series of Robot Wars - A project ranking all eighteen series of Robot Wars from worst-to-best, run in conjunction with an identical blog by NJGW.
 * The unprecedented heat winner that Series 7 nearly had - An out-there theory which reveals what surely would've been Series 7's most unexpected heat winner, had one small change taken place.
 * Top 50 Behemoth Fights - Out of all robots to compete on the show, Behemoth had by far the most fights, so I took it upon myself to rate them from my least-favourite to favourite.

For some blogs written by other users which I contributed to, or was the central focus of, have a look at these.
 * The Best and Worst of Robot Wars Names - Written by Toon Ganondorf, where he, NJGW and I all rank the best and worst robot names from each individual episode of Robot Wars.
 * The Robot Wars Forgetmebots - Written by NJGW, where he, Toon Ganondorf and I try to remember the most forgettable robots in every UK classic series heat.
 * Robot Wars Forgeta-bouts - Written by Toon Ganondorf, where I'm among the many panellists selecting the most forgettable fights from every episode of UK Robot Wars.
 * Top 10 most obscure Robot Wars items that only Toast Ultimatum is somehow capable of owning - A satirical blog written by NJGW, running with the concept of me owning Scar's weapon motor and blowing it completely out of proportion.

History
Despite me only joining the wiki in 2012, where it was founded in 2008 I've actually had somewhat of a connection with this site since its beginnings.

When Robot Wars Wiki was first being created, Christophee asked two fellow Robot Wars fans he knew on Wikipedia, CBFan and Izzy259, to help out with this task. CBFan got in there pretty quickly, but Izzy259 didn't. As you may have figured by now, Izzy259 was indeed me, at just 10 years of age. Contrary to belief, I was not a girl, my young age made me think Izzy was a shorthand for Isaac ¬_¬

But no matter. If asked why I never joined this place, I honestly have no idea at all. I now know that I ought to have, this site would have been a great learning opportunity, as well as one to help the wiki as much as a 10-year-old could, and it would kick-start me into full-on wiki editing, which I now enjoy committing to.

Eventually, I did join the site under the poor username of Torngentleman2, where I added a quote from S3's team captain as to why S3 didn't compete in Series 7, and made the Robot Wars: The Sixth Wars/Heat G article. After that, I disappeared once more.

In September 2012, I finally committed myself to Robot Wars Wiki, with the ToastUltimatum account. You might have heard of it.

Task List
My current aims for how to contribute to the wiki. People are of course welcome to help, but these are the things I've personally put my focus on. I can think of other jobs that need doing, such as taking more images from Dutch and German Robot Wars, but I can't give myself too much to work on at once.

Suggested tasks for volunteers: take more images of Razer/Hypno-Disc fights from Extreme and the second Antweight Championship, rewrite Robot Histories for Forces Special competitors

Top 15 Robots
Honourable mentions: Blade, Blue, Chip, DisConstructor, General Chompsalot, Hyperactive, Impact, Infinity, Mega Morg, NEATer Machine, Ninjitsu, Panzer Mk4, Philipper II, Pressure, Probophobia, Raging Knightmare, Ripper, Robochicken, Tetanus, Trazmaniac, Tsunami, Vulture

For more lists like this, see User:ToastUltimatum/Lists

Personal Trivia

 * The first episode of Robot Wars I ever saw was quite a unique choice - it was Heat D of the New Blood Championship. I can't remember anything about watching it, but I know that I spent the week waiting for the Grand Final, so that must've been my first.
 * Therefore the first battle I have any memory of watching was Storm II vs. Thor. 13 Black and Gravity are both in my Top 20 Robots, but it was the return of Thor had had me most excited for Heat D of Series 7!
 * On July 26th 2016, I was called by BBC Radio 5 Live to talk about the new series of Robot Wars on air! I talked to Sarah Brett and Adrian Goldberg and another caller about the modern advancements, the live circuit, and called out The Mirror on Dara Ó Briain's "near-death experience". It's no longer active but it used to be found here.
 * Until 2016, I never saw a series of Robot Wars without knowing in advance which robot would become the champion. It was very unlucky in the case of Series 7 because I had to go round to the house Mum's boyfriend lived in, and he didn't have Five. I went to school the next day, and someone told me "Spin Doctor" won. The other champions were revealed by the show during Series 7's heats, the competitor DVD's, or on the Run Amok website.
 * My name was clearly visible in a televised shot, near the tooth of PP3D's disc. I've also appeared in the audience as a hardly-visible silhouette.
 * The closest I ever came to talking to a roboteer for years was receiving a YouTube comment from the Kia of Dantomkia, Kiara. Naturally, with the rise of Facebook groups, the wiki and Roaming Robots educational courses, I've spoken to a lot of real roboteers now, including three different owners of Dantomkia!
 * Back when I was 11, I'd draw robots from Series 7 and the video games when I visited my Grandparents, and eight years later, I shared the results on Facebook. The best doodle of the bunch, of Storm II, was noticed by Team Storm themselves, and shared on their own Facebook page.
 * In an effort to raise a friend's interest in Robot Wars, the first battle I ever showed her was Kronic the Wedgehog vs. Mighty Mouse. Her favourite robot would later become Thermidor II, and she's seen the shell of Mighty Mouse at a Robot Wars live event, creating the ultimate setup for watching Heat J of Series 7.
 * The next time I introduced somebody to Robot Wars, I used Terrorpin vs. Vercingetorix as the gateway battle, due to the relevance of terrapins at our workplace. Now I wish more than ever that Terrorpin scraped the win against Inverterbrat in the following fight.
 * I applied for a job as a runner in Series 8 of Robot Wars. Naturally, my Diploma in Creative Media meant nothing, and I didn't even get a reply.
 * Robot Wars did, however, lead to my first graduate job. The potential for Robot Wars jokes meant I couldn't ignore a marketing position at "Apollo Inception". I absolutely mentioned the show in my interview. Too bad the job was absolutely awful and I left within two weeks! There are less Robot Wars jokes to be made with my current position at Forrest Digital.
 * In mid-2016, I was retweeted by the official Robot Wars Twitter.
 * In late 2017, I was quoted by the official Robot Wars Twitter.
 * After receiving over 800 views on Twitter in my video of walking up to the new Robot Wars merchandise in my local Smyths, HEXBUG UK used the video in a promotional tweet.
 * One of my favourite playthroughs of a Pokémon game was my 2013 run of Pokémon Y, where I named every single Pokémon I caught after a Robot Wars competitor, which included hundreds of different names. My team consisted of Firestorm the Delphox, Daisy-Cutter the Florges, Groundhog the Watchog, Pressure the Avalugg, and Drillzilla the Rhyperior.
 * I was quite proud of the names I was able to offer to the elemental monkeys on my first day of playing; Pansage, Pansear and Panpour got to become PanzerWraith, Panzer Mk 2 and Panzer Mk 4 respectively.
 * When I played through Pokémon X in 2017, I named the Pokémon on my team after competitors from Series 8 and Battle of the Stars, including Arena Cleaner the Greninja, Robo Savage the Haxorus and Soldier Ant the Escavalier.
 * I have entered Banter Wars, a brilliant Robot Arena 2 tournament on YouTube with my robot Chasm. Check out the series on Steam Driven!
 * I am the owner of the Out of the Arena Discord sever, after being chosen for the position when its founders stepped down. Featuring fans and roboteers alike, Out of the Arena is one of the best ways to talk robotic combat online!

YouTube content
On YouTube, I go by the name of TaleOfTheToaster, where I make Let's Plays. If you don't know what one of those is, it's a playthrough of a video game while commentating over the top of it. While I mainly make Let's Plays of Inazuma Eleven games, an anime soccer RPG on Nintendo handheld consoles, I previously made Let's Plays of both Robot Wars: Metal Mayhem and Robot Wars: Advanced Destruction.

I have also made a stop-motion TV Ident using Robot Wars toys, which you can see here

Let's Play Robot Wars: Metal Mayhem

 * Part 1 -
 * Part 2 -

Let's Play Robot Wars: Advanced Destruction

 * Part 1 -
 * Part 2 -

Robot Wars Podcasts

 * Playlist -

''Podcasts are mostly on the NJGW channel about Robot Wars, while not including NJGW podcasts that don't feature me as a guest. If you follow NJGW's Robot Wars Turd series, then the Snail's Pace meme was my fault''

Other Interests

 * BattleBots and more - Naturally if I love Robot Wars, then I also love BattleBots, right? This is of course a huge interest, mainly the reboot, where my favourite robot is The Disk O' Inferno, followed by a few others such as HUGE, Red Devil, Petunia, and Escape Velocity. I watched King of Bots and This is Fighting Robots intently, updating the King of Bots Wiki as I went along, and my favourite competitor is easily Chiyung Jinlun and its successor Xiake, followed by Saber, with a soft spot for Blade Gyro. Robotica is a great show, and Clash Bots... well I definitely watched it...
 * Super Smash Bros. - Having followed the series since 2008, I completely immersed myself in the online and competitive scenes for the Super Smash Bros. series. I don't pretend to be especially good at it, with my peak ranking being a fluke #26 in the North of England based almost entirely off a single lucky bracket run, but the main point for me is attending tournaments across the country to meet friends and new people alike, and not only compete, but also spectate. I've spent many a night staying up to watch a US major tournament, and I even managed to implement it into my Marketing dissertation! I main Sonic in Smash 4, so watch the timer...
 * Inazuma Eleven - After growing up playing Mario Power Tennis on the Game Boy Advance, an RPG containing original characters who rose through the ranks of the Tennis Academy, I saw a new series called Inazuma Eleven in 2012 which was the same concept, but with football, and I absolutely bit its hand off. Inazuma Eleven went on to have yearly game releases, with an anime season for each, giving me PLENTY of content to enjoy. To add to that, as America aren't too bothered about 'soccer', the series never got off the ground outside of Europe and Japan, which means that the localisation is extremely British in a way that only Brits would write - how many games can you name with characters who speak with Liverpudlian and Geordie accents? The lack of popularity outside of Europe means I also spotted an open market on YouTube. I'm now the primary source of Inazuma Eleven content on YouTube, with an active audience who genuinely enjoy my videos. The Inazuma Eleven series is still producing new games and anime seasons to this day, so this should carry on into the foreseeable future!
 * Other video games - This isn't a gaming wiki so I won't detail my favourite video games in any further detail, but if you are a gamer, I suggest you have a look at my Top 130+ Games List on SmashWiki, which I'm constantly updating to feature pretty much all of the video games I've ever enjoyed. I greatly enjoy well-known series such as Mario and Pokémon, and also get a real kick out of lesser-known series such as Zero Escape and Danganronpa.
 * Eurovision - Always a recurring source of enjoyment every year, Eurovision was a big part of growing up, as I'd always watch it with my Dad every year, participate in the sweepstake, and then listen to the album on repeat while we were in the car. In more recent times, Eurovision turned into a major part of my free time, as my best friend seems to know every piece of trivia under the sun, and we'll talk about it frequently. Beyond that, I now play a Eurovision game with NJGW and his sister, where we watch an old Eurovision Song Contest over an online call, rate each song out of ten, and then try to predict the final results of the table, with the most accurate prediction winning the game. I'm easily the worst player of the three, but it's all good fun! One day I fully intend to see a Eurovision Song Contest live in person.
 * US travel - In the summer of 2017, I worked a two-month teaching job at a summer camp in Maryland, USA. This was one of the best periods of my whole life, teaching 7-10 year old kids how to film and edit their own video productions, alongside other responsibilities such as taking care of the kids while they were zip-lining or swimming in the lake, and generally just being their mate. Being in the USA for over two months in the peak of summer ignited my passion for being in the country, and I was able to do a full month of travel across various states after the job was finished, for Super Smash Bros. tournaments, meeting friends I knew online, and sightseeing. Between this 3-month visit, a previous holiday in 2014, and a follow-up holiday in summer 2018, I've been to an ever-growing list of states: Delaware, Illinois (Chicago), Maryland, Massachusetts (Boston), Nevada (Las Vegas), New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington D.C. There are a few other states I've entered purely through transit (e.g. three hours in an Ohio bus station), but those are the ones I can truly consider 'visited'.
 * Miscellaneous - Less major but nevertheless important interests of mine include exterior home design, the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship, Britain's Got Talent and Coronation Street wait what I didn't say anything

Primary

 * Robot Wars Wiki (bureaucrat)
 * King of Bots Wiki (bureaucrat)

Secondary

 * SmashWiki (rollbacker)
 * Icaruspedia (administrator)
 * F-Zero Wiki (bureaucrat)
 * Lylat Wiki (administrator)

Occasional

 * Inazuma Eleven Wiki (standard user)
 * Nintendo Wiki (ambassador)
 * Super Mario Wiki (standard user)

Series Record
NOTE: ToastUltimatum was to apply for Series 10's proposed Featherweight Championship with The Tragic Roundabout before the event was cancelled