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Hey guys. Anderson9132 here and this is my lists page. On this page you will find all sorts of lists based off of my opinions on certain topics of the show Robot Wars. So lets let the lists begin shall we?

My top ten most favourite Robot Wars Robots
Now everyone has their favourite robots and many users have made lists on their preferred robots. This is my list of the ten best robots in my opinion. Note, I do not like robots because of their respective teams. Nor do I like them for beating certain robots. I like them for their design, Engineering, Entertainment value and Defectiveness. With that being said, let us begin shall we?

10. Arnold A. Terminegger - Many people reading this will probably be wondering why I have included this robot as one of my favourites. Well it is simple really. This robot is almost indestructible! It only ever lost two fights, one against Exterminator 2 and the other against Pussycat and both times it only lost on a judges decision. Now this doesn't make it seem indestructible at first, but when you think that it's loss against Pussycat was after four rounds of constant battling in an Annihilator, of which consisted of Hypnodisc, Splinter, Thermador 2, Exterminator and, of course Pussycat, then yes it does seem rather indestructible. Now for a robot of this strength, you would expect it to be a greatly engineered robot that cost extreme amounts of money and would have one of the most unique designs in history but it didn't. It was basically a box with a lifter and axe on it. So then you have to think maybe it was lucky, but no, it wasn't. It got stuck into it's fights and gave everyone a good battle, despite being the underdog of the entire competition. It even got severe internal damage throughout the Annihilator and yet it STILL wouldn't go down. For such a simple, weak looking robot, Arnold A. was strong and tough and deserves this place on the list.

9. Stinger - When I look at Robot Wars competitors I look for unique robots with effective designs. And Stinger just slots right into this category. Sure, it may seem like a long spike with wheels attached but it was very unique in it's own right. Now, I know the The Master from the early 90's American Robot Wars was the originator of the design where the robot's components were kept inside the wheels, however that is not why this robot is unique. This robot is unique for it's weapon. Now it may not be as deadly as some of the other weapons on the show however it did something that not many others could and that was bludgeon it's opponents the death. Instead of flipping or crushing robots it span and hit robots with a lot of force, causing damage to the electronics of the machines and eventually beating them into submission. It was this tactic that got them a default third place in series four, which was well deserved in my opinion. Also it's design was very effective as it was very difficult to get a hold of. Sure the tyres were exposed but only three times did this prove to be a downfall for Stinger when it was taken out by Killerhutz, Pussycat and S3 respectively and even then, only two of those bouts were won by KO, with it's fight against Pussycat being lost via the judges. Stinger, in my opinion was tough, durable and unique in it's own right and it was just a shame and criminal that it wasn't allowed in series 7.

8. Onslaught - Another thing I love about certain robots is how they look like they wont last long, yet they somehow prove to be effective robots. Onslaught is an obvious case here and whilst it never did well in the main competition it is on this list because of how it performed in the Southern Annihilator. In this special everyone sighted Razer as the odds on favourite to win and, whilst it did go on to win, Onslaught gave it one hell of a fight and proved tough throughout the entire episode. In the first fight it gave Behemoth a few near misses and nearly toppled it and in the second fight it helped Behemoth nearly beat Razer. However, Onslaught really shone in the third battle where it showed no fear to Attila the Drums spinning power and continuously drove on and attacked it whilst Razer was cowardly and didn't attempt to attack it, choosing instead to chase onslaught around, only to fail to do so.And in the final it proved strong and resilient against Razer and it wasn't even Razer who beat them. It was in fact Matilda who ruined Onslaught's chances of a claim to fame and what really didn't help was the obviously staged Razer/Matilda moment. Still Onslaught makes this list for basically being a radio controlled car yet still being able to hold off Razer.

7. Chaos 2 - What can't be said about this robot? It is the only robot to win more than one series (and two in a row at that), the first robot to flip another out of the arena and it had a greatly effective design, with a powerful weapon. This will be rather short because not much can be said that isn't already known but I can't just leave it at that so I will say this. Chaos 2 was a masterpiece of engineering. An Icon of sorts. It was a god among robots. The only reason it is so low is it's deterioration and the fact that I think other robots are just better then it for their respective reasons.

6. Behemoth - Behemoth was beautiful. It was big, strong, it had an effective weapon and always gave a good fight. Now I know it didn't get very far in the main competition however it shone greatly in several matches. Two of these matches were against Razer, which it lost wrongly both times via the judges. Another was against Hypnodisc, in which it controlled entire match and won via KO. However, it's best moment in my opinion was its fight against Stinger in Extreme One. In this fight it used its new axe weapon and it's powerful scoop to grapple up Stinger and carry it to the pit. This is one of the greatest performances I have ever seen in the show and one of the greatest displays of control and weapon use. These few battles have proved to show how brilliant Behemoth could really be.

5. Cerberus - Now Cerberus never really proved much in Robot Wars but the robot was a thing of beauty. It was gleaming and pretty and it also had a bit of power behind it. But the main reason it is on this list is that it was capable of getting the fasted Immobilisation against Griffon in Series 3 and it held this spot until series 7. That alone is worth a high spot, especially how everyone bad mouths it. If only it had a reliable srimech. It could have done better.

4. Plunderbird - Now this is a very interesting robot to be placed on this list for two reasons. One, they rarely did well and Two, because there were five different versions so you must be wondering which one my favourite was. Well the answer to that is actually all of them, but for different reasons each which I will now discuss.

• Plunderbird 1: This robot was unique for the time as it had interchangeable weaponry. It's just a shame it was so unlucky in the gauntlet, especially when it got screwed over by stock robot WYSIWYG.

• Plunderbird 2: This version of Plunderbird is my joint favourite along with Number Five. The reason for this is because of it's immense strength and power. It pushed it's opponents around with ease and made it through to the semi finals without any hassle, but against fell victim to bad luck in the gauntlet.

• Plunderstorm: Despite not moving, it at least looked cool and sleek, unlike many robots in series 3.

• Plunderbird 4: This version was the first to have a claw and whilst it did not do much, it still looked vastly improved and actually moved. However, it was relatively weaker then it's brothers.

• Plunderbird 5: This version of Plunderbird is my joint favourite along with Number Two. It was quick and agile, plus it had a new shape, giving it a new improved look and it was four wheel drive, which was nice to see in a Plunderbird machine. If only it hadn't met S3, it may have done well, especially when most of the robots in series 5 moved two feet forward before breaking down.

In my opinion each of the Plunderbird machines was good in it's own right, with Numbers Two and Five being fantastic and underrated robots. If only they had come back with Plunderbird 2's Power and Plunderbird 5's speed. It could have been a fantastic robot.

3. X-terminator - Again this is a very interesting robot to be placed onto this list as it falls under the same predicament as the Plunderbird robots. I just loved each version of this robot for different reasons. So, once again lets take a look at each version individually.

•X-terminator 1: This version of X-terminator has been, and always will be my favourite version of the X-terminator robots. Now I know many of you will be calling me a blasphemer for not selecting Version 5 but here me out. Yes, Version 5 was extremely destructive how ever it had a lot of faults, which I will go through later. This Version however, was brilliant and unique, especially for it's time. It was fast, powerful, had a unique self righter and a powerful weapon. This is shown in all three of it's matches. In it's first match, the axe not only penetrates Hefty's body shell, it also has the strength to lift it up off the ground and tip it over. That's strength and power! It then easily disposed of judge shred buy swiftly pitting it and then put up one hell of a fight against the then champions Panic Attack. It only lost due to Panic Attack getting a lucky slam in that cause the CO2 canister to burst, thus rendering the srimech useless. If this hadn't of happened, would X-terminator had won? It certainly seems possible. And that is why I love this version of X-terminator.

•X-terminator 2: Now whilst looking almost the same as it's predecessor, apart from the paint job obviously, this robot was actually inferior to the first version. The Axe was horrible to say the least. However, despite this we still saw a great performance from this machine. It was faster, at 25 MPH, and had a nice new interchangeable weapon. A lifting arm. Also in this series we got to see the srimech work. I do like this machine, however it definitely was not as good as version 1, but still impressive over all.

•X-terminator Version 3: Now this version was probably the biggest let down of all the Exterminators. It was slower then the previous two and did very little in series 5, losing out to Corkscrew in the second round, A pathetic performance. However I liked the look of this robot and the axe was very big and much more punishing then that of the second version. It's because of this that this version gets a mention on this list. Definitely the worst version of the lot.

•X-terminator Version 4: Now this version was a much improved design of the third version. It was the same speed but the axe was much more powerful and deadly and it seemed much tougher then before. Again it looked nice too, with a sleek design and paint job. However, an unreliable srimech let it down. It really hurts to say that but it's the truth. And if you have a high-ish ground clearance and a bad srimech what hope do you have, especially against Firestorm? Still, it's in my good books as it was a nice and improved design.

•X-terminator Version 5: And now we get to this, the fifth and final version of the X-terminator machines. What can I say about it? It was destructive. VERY Destructive. Such a small blade doing so much damage and even being capable of chucking robots out of the arena! It seems like a master of engineering and should surely be my favourite of all the X-terminators, if not favourite robot of all time! Sadly, no. This robot is not either of those. Why? Because it has some HUGE faults. The first is the ground clearance. Oh good grief it was a HUGE! Now this might not have been a big fault with the robot, IF it could self right from all angles. But it couldn't. If it landed on it's back, it would have been history. And it was only thanks to Tsunami getting a little too overconfident that actually allowed this robot to make the grand finals. If it wasn't for that, Exterminator would have once again lost at a heat final stage. Also when you take into consideration that it was much, much slower at just 9 MPH and was one of the most hideous looking machines in the seventh wars of Robot Wars then you can see why it might not be so high on my list. However, at least it was damaging and when it was in a position to self right, it did so without any issue. So what I'm saying is yes it's a good robot, but definitely not the best of the X-terminator machines.

I still love all the robots though and X-terminator is definitely a worthy third placer, especially the first version.

2. Hypnodsic - Wow. Just wow. What a robot this was. Do I even need to explain why I love this robot so much? It's was HUGELY destructive! It destroyed most of it's opponents and had them leaving in bin bags. But unfortunately Hypnodisc was eventually made to big for it's own good. The team decided to focus more on the power of the disc then on the strength of the robot. Now this seemed to be a great idea, however because the disc was so powerful it actually did more damage to itself then it's opponents. It would do very little damage to others and after a few hits it would knock itself out. A real shame to see such a great robot do more harm to itself then other machines in it's later years. Still it was a machine of dominance and therefore gets this second place spot.

So we are now down to this. The number one robot in my eyes. But who could it be? I've got such a vast love for different designs that it could be anyone. My list has consisted of indestructible boxes, remote control cars, robot dog gods, robots that do well, robots that don't do well, robots that beat others into submission, robot gods and robots too powerful for their own good. So what else is there? Well you will now find out. It is time to announce my favourite Robot Wars robot of all time. So my number number one robot is......

1. Firestorm - The robot was the best. It just was. It has a great drive system, effective weaponry, great speed, power and efficiency. It was the only front hinged flipper to flip a robot out of the arena and beat chaos 2's record of out of the arena flips, placing second on the list behind Dantomkia. It was revolutionary in my eyes because of this. It also never failed to make a semi final and made three grand finals coming third three separate times. It's design was really effective and it showed this by dominating the majority of matches it was in. It also gave Razer a huge run for it's money in the series 5 grand finals and wrongly lost it to the judges. Firestorm could have and SHOULD have been the champion of at least one one series and it could have been series 5 if not for this wrong decision. Still, at least it won the commonwealth carnage. At least that makes it a champion over some parts of the world I guess.

My top 10 least favourite Robot Wars Robots
Now of course, I could not write a list about my favourite robots without writing a list of my least favourite. Again I would like to stress the fact that these opinions are not based on the robot's teams or the robots that the machine in question has beaten. With that being said, I shall begin my list. Note that I can only think of five for the time being, but I may have more to add another day.

10. Juggernot 2 - Oh dear, this machine was just utter garbage. If you take into consideration that a lot of the robot had to be disposed of in order for it to make the weight allowance, which is a bad sign straight away, along with a slow, top-heavy, narrow, unbalanced machine with a ridiculously high ground clearance to make it even more unbalanced then you can see why I am using such a harsh description. Heck, even the flipper, that needs to GET UNDERNEATH other machines in order to be effective was as far off the ground and the rest of the body. Now I know weight restrictions can be horrible, but you can't tell me at 97kg that you can't add an extension to your flipper so it can reach the floor and become a useful weapon. How did this robot qualify, yet Arnold A. Terminegger and Disc-O-Inferno fail to?!

9. Purple Predator - Now I'm giving this one a little slack because I'm almost sure it was a joke entry. BUT, many joke entries, such as Robochicken and Diotior have proven to be effective. This however was no such thing. I give praise for adding fur to the machine in hopes of an entertaining fire and I also give praise for having what looked like a great weapon, a huge front hinged flipper. Sadly though, it all goes downhill from here. Like Juggernot 2, this machine suffered from a problem that is so ridiculous, you would have be a Muppet to not realise it. And that ladies and gentlemen is having such a high ground clearance it makes your weapon useless. In order for this robots good looking weapon to work, it needs to get underneath it's opponents and it can't do that when it has a ground clearance is so high that even Juggernot 2 could probably get underneath it and that suffered from the same problems! This robot looked like it could do well, but was let down by it's awful design.

8. Henry - Ah Henry 2, what can I say about it? In honesty? Nothing. In it's only appearance it lasted about 5 seconds before being killed by one axe blow from Dominator 2. So what is there to say? Well I have to admit I liked the looks of it and I think it did have potential but with so little to go on, I can't really offer a proper opinion on it. However there is one good thing to say about it. It looked like one heck of an improvement over Henry. How did henry qualify for this series, yet robot's like Inquisitor Mk2 and Six pack didn't? It's weapon was a spike which prohibited it free movement and did nothing but dig into the arena floor. It had no srimech, no power and no hope really. I honestly think the most dangerous part of this robot was the picture of the teams Gran on the back of the robot. At least it didn't get in the way of Henry moving forward. And whilst I really hate the fact this robot won and not Haardvark, I can't use that as a reason to hate Henry as it wasn't the machines fault. What else can I say? A rubbish robot that didn't deserve the chances it got.

7. Hippobotamus - It's a plastic sandpit......huh?! What were the team thinking when making this pike of junk? "Oh I know, we have entered powerful, strong, durable, fast machines in the past so lets enter a plastic robot with a weapon that has no control and makes the robot wobble around so much you would swear it was on a rodeo bull." Why?!?! What is the logic behind this?! Seriously? a team with this much experience surely would have know better! But it gets worse, because at least this machine wasn't top-heavy, unbalanced and easy to be flipped, unlike....

6. Bot out of Hell - Oh dear lord, why oh why did Team Torque enter this abomination? The team entered All Torque in series 2 and 3 yet THIS THING is what they entered into series 5? Where do I begin? A huge ground clearance, exposed wheels, a weapon so thin and with so little power behind it I doubt it could do damage to ARAKNIA, no srimech and a top-heavy design. Bravo guys, you made the best recipe for disaster. What was so hard about using the extra weight allowance of Series 5 to make a stronger, tougher Small Torque? It utterly baffles me.

5.  Doctor Fist  - Wow, this machine was just plain awful wasn't it? It's weapon was petrol driven. That alone is a bad sign. The fact that the weapon's engine wasn't working when it entered the arena was even more silly. Also the design looked awful, the wheels were exposed and it broke down almost immediately in both of it's battles. But the thing that really drives me nuts is some good machines that could have qualified, didn't because of this machine. If your weapon is not working before you enter don't enter at all. Now, some robots may get away with this because they are good enough without the weapon. A great example of this is Storm 2. However, did Dr Fist even LOOK like it could put up a fight WITH it's weapon working, let alone without? No, it didn't and it showed it by being defeated easily in both it's matches. And utter waste of space that should not have even bothered.

4.  Dantomkia - As soon as I wrote this I could just feel the amount of people wanting to chase me off the planet for putting this robot on the list. But here me out. Ok I will admit that it had a great first run and did well in it's second series also but there were some things about this machine that just irritated me. One of which was how overrated it is. Now I will admit flipping Chaos 2 out of the arena is a good feat but for goodness sake that does not make Dantomkia a god among robots! Yet everyone says it is a great machine and the only thing they really have to back it up is that. Another problem I had with Dantomkia is just how obvious it's matches became. Dantomkia had a thing for wanting to be the king of OOTAs and it did become that. One problem. You could predict how it was going to win every match because of this. Also, OOTAs by this time, in my opinion, had gotten to usual and boring for me to even care slightly about them. It also didn't help that the aim was off so many times that most of it's fights just had it flipping robots against the side wall until finally one went OOTA. Dantomkia also had a horrible design. It's ground clearance was HUGE and the flipper was a quarter of the way up there wedge. Why? It's not like they ever used the ramming spike tactic in the first place and this led to many a machine being able to get away with being flipped. It's these things that just make me dislike this robot. And why is it above Dr fist? because Dr Fist only appeared in two matches and thus did not annoy me as much as the other machines on this list.

3.  Typhoon 2  - Now, I love the RAF. My Dad was in the RAF for several years. And they made a great machine in anvil that showed the most basic design was good and strong. However, the Air Cadets just had to ruin the RAF's reputation with Typhoon 2. Now to be perfectly honest, I dislike all versions of Typhoon, and all for the same reasons. One of the main reasons is it disappointed me. It looked like it could do some amazing damage and yet the only match where it did any proper damage was against Iron Awe. All other matches were dull, one hit knockouts or getting darn lucky *cough* Atomic *cough*. Another thing I dislike about them is the fact that they rely on running away to win a match. So their battles would be them running away for 20-30 seconds and them hitting the opponent once and killing it. YAWN. It led to some really dull matches and anti climaxes too. I would include the series 7 scandal in this paragraph too, however it wasn't the actual robot's fault that that happened, so I will let that slide....for now.

2. Tornado - Now before anyone says it, no I do not think that Tornado cheated in the series 6 grand final. It was a great, unique design and showed that the team had some interesting ideas. And above all, it was within the size limit.....Wait, I'm going off topic here. I shall return to this later. Where was I? Oh yes, I don't like Tornado. At first I was impressed by it's power and strength, but then I realised a huge problem with this machine. It was a brick pushing robots around. That's it. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but to like a robot it had to be ENTERTAINING. This is something that Tornado wasn't. It was bland and obvious and did very little to interest me. I found myself being bored with this robot very quickly and it just more and more dull as it went on. If there is one thing I cannot stand in robot combat, it's a dull, boring pusher. However, whilst this is one of my biggest pet peeves towards robot combat, it is only second on the list because the next robot on this list is just that AND has a lot more to dislike about it as well.

So who could it be? In the list I've covered useless robots, dull robots, overrated robots and robots that had too much promise and did not live up to it. So what could possibly be at number one on this list? Well you're about to find out. At number one, and my least favourite robot is.......

1. Razer - Oh dear god there is so much about this robot that makes me despise it! I hate this little machine! I hate it! Hate it, hate it, hate it! There is too much about this machine that I dislike for me to put it all into one paragraph, so, if you don't mind I shall write several paragraphs as to why I dislike this robot.

The first reason of why I detest this robot is because of how overrated it is. Again, there is more then one reason why this machine is overrated, so I will have to split it into parts. First off is the fact that everybody claims it to be "The most destructive robot one robot wars" and to have caused "Immense damage", however I will always disagree, mainly due to the fact that I can back up my reasoning. Now they may seem correct, after all it has a record of 40 UK victories. That there seems like a good reason to believe that Razer is a very destructive robot. However, after looking at the list of victories Razer has I came to stunning realisation. Only nine of those victories were via KO. Are you kidding me? Only nine?! NINE?! That's less than Hypnodisc, Chaos 2, And Firestorm, yet apparently it is vastly superior and more destructive then them. Really? I'm sorry but I can't see how that is destructive. Anyway, upon looking over the list again I came to realise that out of this 40 win record, eleven of these were via pitting. So let me get this straight. Razer tried to finish off it's opponents but can't, so therefore pits them. How can a robot be destructive if it can't finish off it's opponent?! This is even more annoying when you realise that it had to resort to pitting a robot because it couldn't finish it off MORE times then it could finish it off! And this also means that twenty of it's win were via the judges. So Razer fans, please tell me how a robot is destructive when HALF OF IT'S VICTORIES ARE WON ON JUDGES DECISIONS?! It boggles my mind! For a robot to be classed as destructive, surely it will have to have won the majority of it's matches via KO. I mean how does winning via judges decisions make you a destructive robot? It basically means that they couldn't finish off their opponent so three guys put them through. If you want destruction, look at Hypnodisc. There is a robot that left it's opponents in pieces. THAT'S destruction. All Razer did was put three or four holes in a robot and win via the judges. I don't care how you look at it, that is NOT destructive.

Another reason why it is overrated is due to the infamous Matilda fiasco. Now, for those who don't know, at the end of series four, the southern annihilator was filmed. At the end of said annihilator, Razer came in and crushed Matilda to death. This led to Razer praise and everyone went on to say silly things like "Razer should replace Matilda as house robot" and even came up with the dumbest excuse to like a robot the went along the lines of "Razer is great because it took on the house robots. just look at what it did to Matilda!". Now, I could understand why many a person may say that this is a good reason to think the robot has a decent weapon, IF it wasn't OBVIOUS that it was FIXED! You would have to be an idiot to not realise that this was fixed! I watched this when it first aired and I was SIX at the time and STILL could tell it was fixed! Now you may be asking, why was this fixed? And why would the producers let that purposefully happen? Well it's simple really. What was the main change that Matilda had when returning back for extreme 1? If you said the huge destructive flywheel on the back then, no duh. Basically, at the end of series for the producers decided to change Matilda's weaponry to a flywheel rather than a chainsaw. One problem was they needed to make a new chassis for her. And what better way to say goodbye to the old one then letting Razer destroy it at the end of the annihilator if it won? So of course Matilda was destroyed and the old chassis went out in style. Now you will probably want reasonable explanations to back this up. Well let me ask you this. Would the producers let Razer destroy a robot that cost them thousands of pounds to build without giving them permission? Surely if that was the case they would simply have Sir Killalot, Dead Metal and Sgt Bash get it off Matilda, rather then make them TEAM UP WITH IT AGAINST MATILDA. Honestly, this has fixed all over it and people STILL thought it was real? Really? How could anyone POSSIBLY think that this was real? It boggles my mind! It really does!

And the final reason as to why it is overrated is because of the fact that it won the best design award in series 5. Now I can actually understand How it won in both series 2 and 3. In series 2 it was a unique design that worked and in series 3, designs were still a little bellow par. In series 4, Razer wasn't nominated for the award and I can see why as a huge breakthrough of better designs were entering the warzone, so naturally it was time for Razer to be pushed back as the best designed machine. However, in series 5 not only was it nominated again, but it also won, AGAIN. WHAT?! Are you telling that a robot that doesn't even get NOMINATED for the best design award for the previous series, WINS said award the series after? How?! For that to be possible you would have to be saying that the the designs of robots would have downgraded from series 4 to series 5, which was NOT the case! It just shows how blatantly biased towards Razer the producers were! Speaking of which, that leads me to the next reason why I dislike this robot so much.

And that reason is the obvious bias towards Razer. Now I actually disagree with what some people have said on this wiki as they have said Razer was put against robots that "Never stood a chance of winning" which I think is highly unfair. However, I do agree that a slight bit of bias was being put on Razer by the producers as it was, let's be honest, their cash cow. I have already stated that it was spoiled when it came to the best design award but what about it's heat layout? Now whilst I disagree with the fact that some people on here have claimed that most of it's opponents "Had no chance of winning" I will go on to say that there was a lack of pedigree in most of Razer's heats, especially in series 3. Now series two can slide because that was early on Robot Wars and it was Razer's first war. But in series 3 we saw a major lack of pedigree in it's heat. Of all the other seven robots in said heat, only ONE of them had experience, that of which was the Agent Orange team, who had Spin Doctor in series 2, which to be honest was not a justifiable experienced robot. It's reasons like this where I wish they seeded robots for series 3, because some heats would have been evened out a bit. Series four I can't really complain about since it was put in a heat with a very experienced Pussycat team who knew what they were doing, but in series five, again, it just seemed to not have robots with any pedigree. Ok so you had Suicidal Tendencies, a former two time heat finalist, but then you had Sumpthing, which had only won one fight prior and Destructabubble and Rick, both of which lost in the first round of the previous wars. I'm not saying that has no chance, I'm saying that they lacked pedigree and the fact that all other entrants were new comers, that automatically lacked it as well. I also think that giving it a top four seeding two series in a row when it failed to reach the semis in the series before is a little unfair. Now ok I do think being world champion does justify being a seed, but number 3 and 4? No! even 5-6 would be pushing it! I would put it at around 10-16, but not 3-4! Then again, that's bias for you.

And finally the main reason why I dislike this robot. It's boring. I'm sorry but it is. All it would do is slowly drive under a robot and slowly crush down....through....thei...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz- Ahem sorry. but even talking about this machine's fights bored me to tears. What's so entertaining about seeing a slow paced match where a VERY slow claw puts about 3-5 holes in a robot, misses all the electronics and then wins on a judges decision. It is simply a dull robot and I don't know how so many can find it entertaining. Then again, people enjoy snail racing so I guess that can like a Razer match too. It's only entertaining battles were when Firestorm, Behemoth and Pussycat fought it, and that's only because all three actually controlled parts of the fight. Heck, even in those fights the parts where Razer was on top were dull as all hell. Razer was and always shall be a dull, uninteresting waste of space, materials and robotic combat. If you want to see a high impact match with near misses, entertaining attacks and frantic battling that will keep you on the edge of your seat, go and watch Chaos 2 vs Wild thing. If you want a match with non-stop destruction and a hell of a lot of damage and mayhem, do and watch a Hypnodisc match. If you want to see a match where godd driving skill, partnered with an effective weapon make a great battle of endurance, skill, determination and back and forth close action, then go and watch a Firestorm or Panic Attack match, or even one of the two fighting each other. if you want to see a match where a dull, boring, ugly robot claws slowly through a robot's armour four or five times, thus making your mind slowly shut down and your passion for robot combat to wither and die, only to then win on a judges' decision, then go and watch a Razer battle, because you will not be disappointed.

Top ten best examples of "What the hell were you thinking"
On Robot Wars many a robot was built to fight. Many of them were great and many were not so great. however, no matter how good or bad a robot was, it still had it's faults. Many faults could be ironed out, but a fault would still be there, albeit a smaller one, whilst other machines' faults were just not taken care of, leaving me to think to myself "what the hell were you thinking". Other times, teams would just enter a robot full of faults to begin with, again, leading me to think the same thing. And there were even experienced roboteers with good knowledge of the sport who would either enter with bad robot after bad robot, or, even worse, come back with worse robots then before. In this list I will the top 10 occasions which led me to say "What the hell were you thinking". Lets begin.

10. Chaos 2 - Now before you start a riot and hunt me down to boil my body into a fine toothpaste, let me just say I loved this robot. Heck it's on my top 10 favourite robots list. George Francis was a genius who knew what he was doing and was able to create a robot way before it's time. BUT there was one factor that let Choas 2 down and in turn, made it worse then what it once was, therefore making me wonder what the hell George was thinking. And that was improving the robot to better suit the evolution of the show. Beginning with Series 5 the weight limit for heavyweight robots was increased to 100kg. Now George Francis knew very well that because of this, Chaos 2's flipper would not be as brilliant as it once was and therefore used the new weight limit to his advantage and added some much bigger rams on board the robot. However, when it came to using the new weight limit to his advantage, he pretty much stopped there. What I want to know is, with this extra weight allowance, why did he not add some better back protection to his machine? I know that this never let the robot down as such but it was still a big enough risk for him to constantly worry about it. Now after he added the new rams into his machine, Chaos 2 weighed in at 84kg. That leaves an extra 16kg to work with. He could have easily added some armour to the back of his robot and would probably have some more weight left over, which leads me to my next concern. Chaos 2's flipper became to powerful for it's own good from series 5 onwards. You can tell this because it kept flipping itself over. Now in series 5 George may have only just noticed this problem and therefore didn't have the time to correct it, but for series 6 surely he could have added a bit more weight to the front of the robot. Let's look at it like this. The metal used to protect the back of Chaos 2 would probably weigh about 5-10kg. That leaves 10kg to add more weight to the front of his machine. These two little adaptations may have stopped Chaos 2 from falling badly in it's final two series. George, you're a genius but what the hell were you thinking by not updating these problems?

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Top ten House Robot Attacks
Ok, the House Robots were mean and merciless! They were big, evil and destructive. But just like every other machine on the show, they were not perfect and quite often we were reminded of this fact when competitors would try to take then down and often succeed in doing so. But what are the best examples? What are the ultimate House Robot humiliations? Well lets find out. Here is the Top 10 House Robot attacks!

10. Supernova vs Sir Killalot Series 7, Heat I, Round 1 - This one is rather low on the list because it isn't as much as an attack as it was a complete coincidence, still it worth a good mention. This was the only time we really saw Sir Killalot get beaten. Think about it. In series 2 it fell over after picking up Groundhog, but that was hardly Groundhog's work. Also in series 2 he drove in the pit, but this isn't thanks to another robot is it? And despite catching fire all the time, that again was not thanks to any of the competitor robots and more just thanks to Sir Killalot for getting to close. But then along came this moment. Storm 2 gets behind Supernova, gives it the mightiest of pushes and slams it into Sir Killaot, most likely on accident, and Supernova's disc not only rips off Sir Killalot's track, but also does severe damage to the track mechanism as well! And finally, Sir Killalot is beaten....by an utter fluke! It's also worth mentioning that this was the most expensive damage ever given to a house robot so that gets it some points too. And I know that it was Storm 2 driving Supernova into the track which made the damage possible, but due to it being Supernova's blade that did the damage, Supernova gets the nod in my books.

9. Panic Attack vs Shunt Rivalry Most series - This again is low on the list because when it comes down to it, Panic Attack's attacks on Shunt were, most of the time, not that much to look at. But it makes the list due to the fact what it is really the only rivalry between a competitor and a house robot. Panic Attack loves taking on Shunt and always came out on top. All it would have to simply do it get underneath Shunt and lift him up. Easy. One of the few robots to literally have an answer for Shunt. Panic Attack even beat Shunt TWICE in the Sumo trial, you know, the trial that Shunt was made to win. Heck Kim Davies himself often stated in pre-match interviews that he would probably "take on Shunt" after defeating their opponent. What else can I say. It was fun and entertaining, just how it should be.

8. Razer vs Matilda Series 4, Southern Annihilator Final - No there is nothing wrong with your monitors and yes I have in fact put Razer's destruction of Matilda on this list. Yes I know it was rigged and yes I could always tell it was rigged and yes I do still hate Razer with all my strength, HOWEVER, even I have to admit this was entertaining! Matilda getting demolished, exploding inside because of her gas tanks and even the other house robots joining in made this a very funny and very entertaining moment in my Robot Wars nostalgia. I remember laughing my head off as I saw Matilda get ganged up on. I remember my eyes twinkling at the sight of her on fire. And I remember my Mother and I laughing at Matilda entering the arena in bandages! But it is only at the number eight spot because of the fact that it was rigged. So yeah, it was rigged but very fun.

7. Chaos 2 vs Shunt and Matilda Series 3, Grand Final - Oh how amazing Chaos 2 once was. And I really mean that. Just look at it's run in series 3. It fought seven machines and didn't even break a sweat. All of it's matches were nothing. Even The Big Cheese and Mace 2 couldn't do anything about it. And then came the Grand Final. Hypnodisc was surely the favourite of many. And let's be honest here, Chaos 2 didn't even break a sweat in this fight. Hypnodisc just simply did not do a thing. And there they were, Chaos 2, a robot years before it's time, the new reigning Robot Wars grand Champion. And after effortlessly winning all of it's battles, it then went on to show just how strong it was by flipping not one but TWO house robots in one battle! Who else can say that they won the Robot Wars series with no difficulty and then easily dispatches of two house robots in one battle. No one, that's who. Chaos 2 first went for Matilda and flipped her with ease. Then Shunt came along in an attempt to help out his friend, but to no avail as once again Chaos 2 reigned triumphant. This makes the list because it was the first time a robot flipped two house robots in one battle and due to the shear entertainment bought out by it. Chaos 2 proving itself a worthy champion.

6. Gravity vs Shunt and Dead Metal Series 7, Heat D Final - Ah Gravity, what a machine this robot was. And the match that made me love it was the series 7 heat D final. After easily dispatching of Lightning, Gravity then turned it's attention to the house robots. First up was Shunt. Gravity very sneakily drove underneath Shunt and flipped it over. Now this is usually no big deal, but Shunt wasn't just flipped over, it was THROWN over. How often do you see a house robot do a barrel roll? But then it's gets better. Gravity then take son Dead Metal and, in a moment of disbelief, flips it over as well, a feat that many considered impossible due to it's design and width. Now Dead Metal is my favourite house robot so seeing it get defeated is always a win in my book and the robot capable of doing it is worthy of praise. This is probably the most underrated house robot attack of them all and my goodness is it great!

5. The Big Cheese vs Sgt. Bash Series 3, heat E Final - This in my opinion is another VERY underrated example of a house robot being attacked. You see The Big Cheese had perhaps the biggest and most powerful lifter in Robot Wars history. I've seen people call it overrated. HA! Overrated? Make a robot with a lifter so powerful it can lift it's opponent into the air and carry it around the arena. Go on, I dare you. In fact, do one better. make a robot with lifter so powerful that it can lift a 120kg house robot into the air and carry it. Because that's what The Big Cheese did. After a hard fort battle and and unfortunate loss, The Big Cheese showed us it was still a formidable and deadly machine and used it's lifter to get underneath, lift and PICK UP Sgt. bash. This was the first and only time that a robot has ever picked up and held a house robot in the air. But to make it that little bit sweeter, Sgt. Bash's back panel came loose and it's gas bottle fell out! So not only did The Big Cheese pick him up, he also broke his weapon! Now that is power!

4. Firestorm, Bigger Brother, Kat 3 and Panic Attack vs Shunt and Cassius Chrome Series 7, All Star Tournament, Round 1 - My that was a mouthful, anyway onto number four on our list. Now many people consider this to be the ultimate house robot attack and for good reason. Fist of all, it was just pure chaos. Shunt flipped in a matter of seconds, the floor flipper and drop zone both firing prematurely and, of course, Cassius Chrome being beaten to death. What isn't fun about seeing a house robot get immobilised? Nothing, that's what. "So Anderson" I hear you screaming, "Why isn't this at number one?!" Well it's quite simple really, I just don't think it was as fun or as entertaining as the next three on my list. Sure I loved it and it was brilliant but it just wasn't as good. Sorry to disappoint, but it just wasn't.

3. Chaos 2, Bigger Brother, Thermador 2 and Wheely Big Cheese vs Sgt. Bash and Matilda - Extreme Series 1, Flipper Frenzy - Phew, another mouthful. Once again we have what many consider to be the best attack on a house robot. And again I can see why. On the word activate all four competitors immediately go for the house robots. Wheely Big Cheese goes straight for Matilda and is immobilised almost immediately. Meanwhile, The other three attack Bash, with Thermador getting the first flip in. It fails, but Bigger Brother soon follows up with a KO flip. But this isn't enough. Chaos 2 then decided to flip Bash a few more time, causing it's back panel to fall off before eventually flipping it against the side wall, breaking it's flame thrower in the process. Unfortunately they are unsuccessful in flipping the beaten house robot out of the arena. Chaos 2 and Bigger Brother then break down leaving Thermador to try and beat Matilda with no success. Wow! Just wow. What a fantastic war! Yet it STILL doesn't get the number one space on my list. WHY?! Well if I'm honest, Matilda survived and, in my opinion, won the battle. Nobody could defeat her, meaning that whilst this was one entertaining moment, it wasn't a full win for the competitors. Still great fun though!

2. Firestorm vs Sgt. Bash and Mr Psycho  Extreme Series 2, Commonwealth Carnage, Semi Final - Oh where do I begin with this one? What we had here was shear brilliance! First of all lets get to how it happened. Whilst Mr Psycho was dealing with a very battered and beaten Panic Attack, Firestorm got bored and flipped Bash over. All is good so far. bit it's what happens next that brings the big smile to my face. Mr Psycho, upon pitting Panic Attack, reverses onto Firestorm's wedge! And, after what seems like an eternity, Mr Psycho proves top heavy enough to be toppled over by the force of Firestorm's flipper! And there it is, the unthinkable has been done! The biggest and most heavy house robot has been flipped! And of all robots to do it, it is my favourite robot of them all! This had me jumping around the living room at the time I first saw it, and even to this day I scream and shout yes whenever I see it again. What more could I ask for? my favourite robot beating my least favourite house robot! Pure and utter brilliance!

So here it, the number one spot. But what shall take it? After all we have seen so far, it seems almost impossible for there to be anything else. But there is. You see, out of the previous nine events, there has been one thing missing. What is it? Well you're about to find out because here it is, the number one best house robot attack of them all!

1. Gravity and Behemoth vs Mr Psycho, Cassius Chrome and Growler Series 7, House Robot Rebellion - Why? Well let me give you the run down of the match. Gravity almost immediately flips Growler over. He doesn't just flip it over though, he chucks it over! Then, not much later, it flips Cassius Chrome into the pit! Meanwhile Behemoth is having trouble getting to grips with Mr Psycho. Gravity attempts to help but all of a sudden gets immobilised! Behemoth is left to fend for itself! it looks like once again the competitors have failed, but they don't give up. behemoth uses Gravity as a shield in a valiant effort but to no effect. Then behemoth tries to use it's axe on Mr Psycho, but it ends up being snapped off. It looks like it's all over, but then, for some reason, Mr Psycho breaks down. At that moment though Cassius Chrome comes back having been righted by Refbot, however it is too late and cease is called. So what makes this the best of all the house robot attacks. Well let me break it down for you. First of all, this is the first and only time that Growler and Cassius Chrome are flipped. Secondly this is the only time where THREE house robots are beaten at one time! And the said house robots are also the most recent house robots! And to top it off, they were beaten by a team of competitor robots that were handicapped due to having one team member less! And finally, this is the only one of all the house robot rebellions in which I personally believe the Competitor robots are the actual winner. And against my three least favourite house robots as well. All of the above reasons are why this, in my eyes, is the best house robot attack in Robot Wars history.

Top ten worst robots in Robot Wars
Ok, so there are always robots that we dislike for one reason or another. However, in some cases our least favourite machines tend to be pretty good concerning what makes a robot good. For example, despite my utter hatred of Razer or Tornado, they did prove that they were good robots and had a lot of success. This is a list for all the robots that were just downright awful and should never have been made. So here goes nothing. The top 10 worst robots in Robot Wars.

10. Twn Twrn - I find it Ironic that the name for this robot means "The Ring". Why? Well the ring was a terrible American remake of a great Japanese horror film and this.....whatever it was was a terrible robot. It looked beautiful but honestly what did they hope to achieve with this machine. Slow, high ground clearance, awful armour, and a pathetic attempt of a robot. I will give them some slack though, seen as though they had to remove their weapon as the robot was overweight. Still not much of an excuse though.

9. Broot - Not much to really say about this one. A box on wooden wheels. A lack of potent weaponry and a high ground clearance didn't help either. It shows how bad a robot is when you can't think of much to say about it.

8. Cobra - Why oh why and HOW did this robot qualify for series 7? I fail to see any reason why this box with a spike weapon that can only fire seven times a match could possible win a qualifying battle. I can't even see it qualifying because it was entertaining or looked good. This robot was a disgrace to Robot Wars and as far as I'm concerned robbed a lot of robots a good chance in the series.

7. Angel of Death - Angel of Death is quite low on this list due to it being a series two robot. Still, as far as series two robots go, it's still pretty damn bad. It looked promising, being invertible with two discs and looked sleek. Sadly, it all ended here. Angel of Death was one of the classic examples of a machine that wasn't built for the gauntlet. It would have done well in some of the trials and may have won a fight in the arena but in the gauntlet it simply was never going to do well. The gauntlet is about speed, manoeuvrability and being agile enough to defeat the obstacles, neither of which this robot has. It's a shame really as I liked the look of it when I first saw it. A real shame and it just goes to show that preperation is everything.

6. Hippobotamus - As I have mentioned above in previous lists, this robot was horrible. An utter waste of space. HOW did THIS qualify and Cerberus fail to do so? Just to go over it again in case you haven't heard it enough. The weapon was awful, the armour was plastic, the robot was unbalanced, the weapon made the robot jump around the place and it was just a pathetic attempt from such an experienced team. You can't even say the robot was a joke entry because the team took the loss seriously! God damn this machine was not worth scrap it was reduced to.

5. Doctor Fist - Again this machine has been mentioned above so I shall try to keep this brief. What do you get when you put a petrol powered weapon that doesn't work and spins the wrong way round together with a bulky, clunky, ugly robot with exposed wheels? A disaster AKA Doctor Fist.

4. Henry - Oh dear, we are in deep trouble now because this robot was utter, utter garbage! It was slow, had a weapon that was pathetic by series one standards that also impeded it's driving ability, had weak armour and just about anything else wrong with it! Sorry to sound so harsh but what were they thinking with this....this THING! You can hardly call it a robot!

3. Monad - As stated by CrashBash, Monad was built by a team who had no idea how to make a robot that could actually fight in a battle. What was wrong with it? Well it's armour was peeled of. not ripped off or crushed off but peeled off after a glancing blow with Tiberius' claw.....Wow! It's weaponry was a small set of pincers that would have trouble crushing through Brutus Maximus! It's ground clearance was so high that Purple Predator would have been able to get underneath it and it also hindered the robots driving because it would wheely every time it moved forward, rendering the claws even MORE useless! It was weak, Vulnerable and a horrible attempt at a robot. It would have been pathetic in series one. Bugsy could have beaten this thing!

2. Juggernaught - It's been mentioned before and here it is again. This robot literally should have NEVER been made. Top heavy, high ground clearance, no srimech, a flipper too high off the ground and weak armour equal utter garbage. Hell it was so badly built that it fell apart by being flipped! How did they ever expect to do well?!?! How did this qualify?! how?!?!?!

1. Death Warmed Up - Obviously a team Death robot had to appear on this list, however I decided to only include one of them because otherwise this list would be full of them. So which one to include? Well as you can tell, I chose Death Warmed Up from Series Three. Why? Well to explain I must go over how the others compared against it. piece De Resistance, whilst being badly made and utterly lacking of power, did make it past the gauntlet (just) and I can give them SOME slack as it was their first attempt. Immortalis was terrible but it lost to the much fancied and very experienced X-Terminator so it's loss wasn't such a shocker, plus it looked like it could do something and had some nice break off bits. And finally we have Metalis, which was the best of team Death's machines, not that that's saying much. Death Warmed Up meanwhile had nothing going for it. In fact, it was a pile of utter [Insert rude expletives here]. What made it worse then the others? Well let's first look at how frail it was. It lost to Stealth which, let's be honest here, was a mediocre robot in itself. How did it lose? It conked out after being easily pushed onto the flame pit. That's right. The FLAME PIT. The only other robot to do this was The Spider and that was only due to it having no armour yet this abomination did! To make things worse it had two weapons that never came into play (although I doubt they would have even worked in the first place) and the machine was also 20kg UNDER the weight limit. Why not use this 20kg to their advantage?! In fact to show just how utterly naff this robot was I've decided to take the design back down to the basics and see just what could be done to make it half decent.

Step 1 - Burn the original machine to the ground.

Only joking. Well first of all, I'd make the robot sturdy. Death Warmed Up looked so weak that it could have probably been damaged by Flipper's axe. Perhaps use some tougher armour for the square base. Next I would add some motors with some power behind them. Thirdly I would concentrate on ONE good weapon. Death Warmed Up looks like a big set of lifting forks, similar to that of a forklift truck, would fit nicely on the front of the machine. And then to the decoration. Well that humanoid thing has to go. Even THE DECORATION was horrible! Instead I'd replace it with a smaller figurine representing the grim reaper or the devil. I would also maybe paint the robot red and orange to represent the "warmed Up" part of the name. And there we have it. A simple, yet half decent design is born. Sorry for all the Art Attack: Robot Wars edition talk but I just wanted to show how utterly bad this heap of junk was.