User blog:CrashBash/Celebrity Robot Wars (draft)

Celebrity Robot Wars was a type of competition held separately from the main championship which involved celebrities driving robots. It first featured during Robot Wars: The Fourth Wars, where it was also known simply as the Celebrity Special, but the concept would not be revisited again until the 2017 series, now called Battle of the Stars.

Format
Although the format for the two celebrity specials differed, both of them featured eight celebrities, or teams of celebrities, in total.

In the original Celebrity Special, the celebrities joined up with veteran teams as temporary captains and took control of their pre-existing robots, which were heavily re-decorated to represent them. In battle, the Celebrity had to drive their given robot for at least a minute before they were given the option to hand control back to the original team. The teams fought in a standard knock-out tournament to determine the champion.

For Battle of the Stars, the celebrities competed with robots they had designed themselves and were each paired up with a veteran competitor of the series, or "mentor", to help build them. The event was split into two shows, each featuring four robots.