User blog:Anderson9132/The Series 2 seeds: How it should have been.

I think we can all agree on one thing when it comes to Robot Wars. The seeds were, more often than not, rather wrong in some aspect. Series 4 and 5 get a lot of grief due to their seedings and we all know too much about Ming's number 15 seeding in Series 7. And then you get Series 3 that had no seeds at all. In other words, the seedings at one point or another, were bad and it's something I have been thinking about for a while now. How would I have done it? Well first of all I need to understand how the seedings work.

Many people think it is a kind of "placing". For example if a robot is seeded 7th, it must have come 7th in the previous series. Obviously this is not the case, as this "placing" system was never fully applied *Cough* Razer being seeded 3rd and 4th *cough*. So how do the seedings work then?

Well, I'm pretty sure most of you know, considering this is the Robot Wars wiki after all. But in the interest of buildup, I'm going to explain it anyway. Basically, the seedings were used as a guideline of a robots past success and how far they were expected to get in that series. A perfect example is behemoth in Series 4. Due to its past as a semi finalist, heat finalist and runner up in the world championships, it was expected to do really well and finish 6th over all. So there is logic to the madness. However, i still personally think it was done wrong.

Now to make my own seedings for each series, I first have to establish a few ground rules which will be apparent in all series. First of all, the top 3 seeds will always be podium finishers. I will more than likely always give the 4th seed to the robot that came fourth the previous series, but I may not due to experience etc. I will also never seed a heat finalist higher than a semi finalist, mainly because I believe the Semi Finals are where the big dogs get and to get to that stage of the tournament, you have to be a strong robot. And finally, I will take into consideration previous performances. Former grand finalists and consistent semi finalists may be seeded higher than a brand new robot that reached the semi finals in previous series for example. Anyway, enough twaddle, onto the seeds and first up, its Series 2.

Series 2 seeds
For the sake of ease, I'm going to give you four robots at a time, and then explain why I have seeded them the way I have. Let's get going.

1. Roadblock 2. Bodyhammer 3. Cassius 4. Chaos

- To be honest, these seeds go without saying really. It is rather difficult to gauge how to seed the grand finalists from Series 1, mainly because it was one big six-way battle. However, Cassius was easily fancied higher than Chaos. Meanwhile, I feel that Chaos was more fancied than Griffon. As for Roadblock and Bodyhammer, do I really need to explain? Didn't think so.

5. Griffon 6. Mortis 7. Killertron 8. Ramesis the Second

- It may be a little odd that I have given Griffon a seeding, considering it was only a reserve, but let's face it, they should have been given entry into series 2. They were finalists in the last series for goodness sake. I gave Mortis the 6th seed because it was a huge favourite to win and was a strong heat finalist in Series 1. You may also be scratching your head as to why I have included a 7th and 8th seed. Well as i said, this is how I would personally do it and I think only having seeds fill up half of the series is just daft. Due to Killertron and Ramesis the Second being the only two returning heat finalists left, I seeded them accordingly to their performances.

9. Nemesis 10. G.B.H 11. Cruella 12. Plunderbird 2

- Nemesis nabbed the 9th seed due to them winning the Sportsmanship award, being a popular team and for a strong heat semi final run in Series 1, whilst G.B.H got 10th because they were a very improved successor to a heat semi finalist from the previous series. I'll be honest, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel with the last two, but Cruella were heat semi finalists in series 1 and Plunderbird 2 won the Best Design award so I believe they both deserve their places.

And there you have it, how I would have handled the seedings for series 2. Do you agree or think I'm a moron? Feel free to let me know down below!