User blog:Diotoir the son of nemesis/2016 hopefuls

With the first episode out of the way here are some of the new competitors I'm looking forward to seeing in the future episodes.

Honorable mentions: Nuts (already seen), Draven, Gabriel, Ironside, TR2 and Eruption

Carbide
The successor to Tiberius and quickly becoming one of my favourites is Carbide. The weapon is awesome it tore apart Nuts, The General and Behemoth like they were paper and in my opinion could go all the way, seriously, looking at the competition in the upcoming episodes I don't think any of them could stop this monster of a machine, unless of course it's...

Shockwave
SHOCKWAVE!!! In the Live events I hated this machine. It never got going, its weapon didn't work and it was like a huge brick in the arena wall, it just got in the way. But as the trailers have shown us, it is Tornado/Storm 2 MK 2 it looks powerful and seems like something that will give Carbide a run for its money that is if it survives. However using Live event logic Shockwave wasn't reliable and I dread to imagine if it's just as unreliable... Hopefully not.

Crazy Coup 88
I will admit I don't see it going past Round 2 as it has some tough competition but I as well as many admire the robot a lot. I've seen quite a few roboteers say some great about this robot and even the BBC have listed it as one of the "most destructive" robots this series. Invertable and with two different blades I hope this machine does well even with its high ground clearence.

MR Speed Squared
Will this be team Trouble & Strife's breakthrough? A robot that's invertiable and has a mean looking weapon as seen in the trailer when it tears into Draven. This Robot I can see becoming a Grand Finalist or even a wild card (pretty much the same this!) because of its awesome weaponry.

Beast
Beast has always been one of my favourite Live Event robots and from all the battles it's been in it has done well which I'm hoping will happen this series, though it is against two bladed robots and a sword welding machine and it has no armour so...

PP3D
One could argue the reigning champions and despite its slightly bizarre shape it looks the killing machine as noted by the trailers and it is high destructive as noted (without spoiling too much) when it tears one half of a machine off! Will the "reigning champs" keep their title?

Apollo
Kronic's back! I mean. Apollo's back, well okay this their first time despite entering Kronic but they didn't enter Kronic they entered Merlin before it's a debated history. Now this robot I want to see do well and I certainly believe it will get past Round 1 with who it's fighting but after that is a bit different as Chronic didn't do well it it's qualifying round in Battlebots. That aside Kronic 4/Apollo looks like it has a mean weapon and, judging from the trailers, quite speedy meaning it will offer some trouble to the competition.