Talk:Rotraktor

Sir Chromalot?
I'm not convinced that Rotraktor fought Sir Chromalot in the qualifiers. For a start, seeded robots didn't need to go through the qualifiers, apart from Series 5, and in Series 4, all 32 of the seeds (apart from possibly Centurion and Suicidal Tendencies, but that's because they were given late seedings) were decided before the qualifiers, as you can see in the article from Robot Wars Magazine I scanned in.

Looking at the Rotraktor website (http://web.archive.org/web/20010424092453/http://www.psi-design.co.uk/ideas/Rotraktor/), it says that it lost to Steel Avenger, and dosen't mention Sir Chromalot.

The source where we heard that Rotraktor fought Chromalot was the email (http://robotwars.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Barber-Ous) ToonGanondorg got from Simon Rafferty, and I think he misremembered, and got the names of Sir Chromalot and Steel Avenger mixed up. No disrespect intended to him, it is hard for him to remember something from twelve years ago (at the time the email was written), but in the same email he says that Rotraktor fought Sir Chromalot at the Series 3 qualifiers, when we know for a fact Rotraktor wasn't built then.

I don't mean any disrespect to him, but in cases like this where there are two conflicting sources, we should go with the more reliable source. It's just like Banana-R Armour, who we thought had battled Bigger Brother at the Series 4 qualifiers, based on a comment from John Findlay, only to find the archived Roaming Robots website from 2002, which proved it fought some unknown aluminium square with a spike.

If there are no objections, I will remove the bit about Rotraktor fighting Sir Chromalot from this page, the list of known qualifiers and the Qualifiers article. Drop Zone mk2 (talk) 11:06, February 4, 2016 (UTC)