User blog comment:RA2/Robot Wars Rankdown: Extreme 1 & Series 5/@comment-34860197-20180714183836

Not made of wood, but...:Splinter was becoming outdated in X1/S5 (Using Timothy's abbreviation because it's good), seeinf as it was still missing a srimech (at least on its back), and for a gripper/control bot, it wasn't very fast, so most of the robots left would get an easy win.

Pooled: A surprise for some, but I think Wheely Big Cheese was one of the worst semi-finalists of S5. Not forgetting that it had only one win in Extreme, to Diotoir of all bots, and that it struggled in the first round of S5 against Wolverine, which is 24 places behind this cut/pooling, till it got a lucky flip.