User blog comment:RA2/Robot Wars Rankdown: Extreme 1 & Series 5/@comment-6123787-20180717084946

Nuclear Meltdown: I'm going to have to eliminate Atomic 2 here. They're a great robot with a great flipper and they could have won the Annihilator but here's the thing. They got knocked out in Round 2 of their heats and I find it mighty frivolous to eliminate a Semi-Finalist before a Round 2 faller no matter how better the robot may be. (Yes going by this logic, if Razer got knocked out in Round 2 and Granny's Revenge reached the Semi Finals I would've rated GR over Razer.) And all the other robots were either finalists or reached a round higher. If Atomic's heat went the way every other heat I would've knocked out Fluffy in a heartbeat but as the only robot not to reach a heat final in S5 or to reach a final in X1, sorry Atomic, I love you goodbye.

I mean if we're going by luck...: I'm going to pool Pussycat, if we're eliminating Diotoir then we've gotta pool The Millstone of the Diotoir team. Not only that but they were only semi-finalists by luck. At least the other semifinalists won their heat by defeating their opponents, Pussycat only reached the Semis because Fluffy beat Fluffy. Not only that but their two opponents were The Executioner and Clawed Hopper. Panic Attack was legit the only good robot in S5 that Pussycat beat so yeah, I'm gonna have to pool Pussycat. Yes they won The Annihilator in X1 but the margins are so finite now, they are practically no bad robots left anymore.

Pool: Dominator 2, Drillzilla, Fluffy, Hypno-Disc, Panic Attack, Pussycat, Spawn Again, Tornado, Wild Thing