User:ToastUltimatum

Hello all, this is ToastUltimatum, resident Yorkshireman of the wiki. I'm one of the two active bureaucrats in the community.

Subpages

 * Lists - A compilation of my favourite robots, battles, among other lists and writing pieces, including a write-up of my experience seeing Robot Wars live at filming!
 * Collection - A list of each piece of Robot Wars merchandise I own, and which major items I'm missing, as well as sections on the authentic pieces of real robots that I own!
 * My Robots - A look at some robots I built, as part of an educational course run by John Findlay
 * Seeing Robot Wars Live - A blog on my experiences at filming for all of the rebooted series of Robot Wars!
 * Audited Wars - A re-randomised version of each series of Robot Wars, and who I think would win each battle
 * Audited Wars Debate - A chance to vote on a select few matches from the Audited Wars that were tough to decide
 * BattleBots Season 2 Audited - A redo of BattleBots Season 2, using better Judging criteria and seeds
 * Ragnabot - One of my favourite Robot Wars hobbies, my versions of the wiki's famous Ragnabot tournament.
 * Ragnabot Pt. II - The second page of Ragnabot, containing Series 10 competitors.
 * Ragnabot Success Rate - An archive of which robots have done well in my Ragnabots, and how often they did so.
 * Miscellaneous Tournaments - A handful of other Robot Wars tournaments I've run for my own entertainment.
 * Robot Wars: The Eighth Wars - One of the first things I did after getting Internet at home, I ran a hypothetical Robot Wars: The Eighth Wars, as if it were held in 2004. Very outdated; read for irony.
 * Completely Genuine Live Reactions - In contrast "live reactions" from NJGW and I as we pretend to watch Series 7 for the first time.
 * Top 18 Series of Robot Wars - A project ranking all eighteen series of Robot Wars from worst-to-best, run in conjunction with an identical blog by NJGW.

For some blogs written by other users which I contributed to, or was the central focus of, have a look at these.
 * The Best and Worst of Robot Wars Names - Written by Toon Ganondorf, where he, NJGW and myself all rank the best and worst robot names from each individual episode of Robot Wars.
 * Top 10 most obscure Robot Wars items that only Toast Ultimatum is somehow capable of owning - A satirical blog written by NJGW, running with the concept of me owning Scar's weapon motor and blowing it completely out of proportion.

History
Despite me being among the newer portion of the community, I've actually had somewhat of a connection with this site since its beginnings.

When Robot Wars Wiki was first being created, Christophee asked two fellow Robot Wars fans he know on Wikipedian, CBFan and Izzy259, to help out with this task. CBFan got in there pretty quickly, but Izzy259 didn't. As you may have figured by now, Izzy259 was indeed me, at just 10 years of age. Contrary to belief, I was not a girl, my young age made me think Izzy was a shorthand for Isaac ¬_¬

But no matter. If asked why I never joined this place, I honestly have no idea at all. I now know that I ought to have, this site would have been a great learning opportunity, as well as one to help the wiki as much as a 10-year-old could, and it would kick-start me into full-on wiki editing, which I now enjoy committing to.

Eventually, I did join the site under the poor username of Torngentleman2, where I added a quote from S3's team captain as to why S3 didn't compete in Series 7, and made the Robot Wars: The Sixth Wars/Heat G article. After that, I disappeared once more.

In September 2012, I finally committed myself to Robot Wars Wiki, with the ToastUltimatum account. You might have heard of it.

Task List
My current aims for how to contribute to the wiki. People are of course welcome to help, but these are the things I've personally put my focus on. I can think of other jobs that need doing, such as taking more images from Dutch and German Robot Wars, but I can't give myself too much to work on at once.

Many of these are on the backburner while my larger focus is on the King of Bots Wiki, so feel free to take any of these jobs for yourself!

Suggested tasks for volunteers: take more images of Razer/Hypno-Disc fights from Extreme and the second Antweight Championship, rewrite Robot Histories for Forces Special competitors

Top 15 Robots
''Honourable mentions: Blade, Blue, Chip, Chopper, Dantomkia, DisConstructor, General Chompsalot, Impact, NEATer Machine, Ninjitsu, Panzer Mk 4, Philipper II, Pressure, Probophobia, Raging Knightmare, Ripper, Robochicken, The Revolutionist, Trazmaniac, Tsunami

For more lists like this, see User:ToastUltimatum/Lists

Personal Trivia

 * The first episode of Robot Wars I ever saw was quite a unique choice - it was Heat D of the New Blood Championship. I can't remember anything about watching it, but I know that I spent the week waiting for the Grand Final, so that must've been my first.
 * Therefore the first battle I have any memory of watching was Storm II vs. Thor. 13 Black and Gravity are both in my Top 20 Robots, but it was the return of Thor had had me most excited for Heat D of Series 7!
 * On July 26th 2016, I was called by BBC Radio 5 Live to talk about the new series of Robot Wars on air! I talked to Sarah Brett and Adrian Goldberg and another caller about the modern advancements, the live circuit, and called out The Mirror on Dara Ó Briain's "near-death experience". It's no longer active but it used to be found here.
 * Until 2016, I never saw a series of Robot Wars without knowing in advance which robot would become the champion. It was very unlucky in the case of Series 7 because I had to go round to my Mam's new boyfriend's house, and he didn't have Five. I went to school the next day, and someone told me "Spin Doctor" won.
 * My name was clearly visible in a televised shot, near the tooth of PP3D's disc. I've also appeared in the audience as a hardly-visible silhouette.
 * The closest I ever came to talking to a roboteer for years was receiving a YouTube comment from the Kia of Dantomkia, Kiara. Naturally, with the rise of Facebook groups, the wiki and Roaming Robots educational courses, I've spoken to a lot of real roboteers now, including three different owners of Dantomkia!
 * Back when I was 11, I'd draw robots from Series 7 and the video games when I visited my Grandparents, and eight years later, I shared the results on Facebook. The best doodle of the bunch, of Storm II, was noticed by Team Storm themselves, and shared on their own Facebook page.
 * In an effort to raise a friend's interest in Robot Wars, the first battle I ever showed her was Kronic the Wedgehog vs. Mighty Mouse. Her favourite robot would later become Thermidor II, and she's seen the shell of Mighty Mouse at a Robot Wars live event, creating the ultimate setup for watching Heat J of Series 7.
 * The next time I introduced somebody to Robot Wars, I used Terrorpin vs. Vercingetorix as the gateway battle, due to the relevance of terrapins at our workplace. Now I wish more than ever that Terrorpin scraped the win against Inverterbrat in the following fight.
 * I applied for a job as a runner in Series 8 of Robot Wars. Naturally, my Diploma in Creative Media meant nothing, and I didn't even get a reply.
 * Robot Wars did, however, lead to my first graduate job. The potential for Robot Wars jokes meant I couldn't ignore a marketing position at "Apollo Inception", where I now work. I absolutely mentioned the show in my interview. Too bad the job was absolutely awful and I left within two weeks!
 * In mid-2016, I was retweeted by the official Robot Wars Twitter.
 * In late 2017, I was quoted by the official Robot Wars Twitter.
 * After receiving over 800 views on Twitter in my video of walking up to the new Robot Wars merchandise in my local Smyths, HEXBUG UK used the video in a promotional tweet.
 * One of my favourite playthroughs of a Pokémon game was my 2013 run of Pokémon Y, where I named every single Pokémon I caught after a Robot Wars competitor, which included hundreds of different names. My team consisted of Firestorm the Delphox, Daisy-Cutter the Florges, Groundhog the Watchog, Pressure the Avalugg, and Drillzilla the Rhyperior.
 * I was quite proud of the names I was able to offer to the elemental monkeys on my first day of playing; Pansage, Pansear and Panpour got to become PanzerWraith, Panzer Mk 2 and Panzer Mk 4 respectively.
 * When I played through Pokémon X in 2017, I named the Pokémon on my team after competitors from Series 8 and Battle of the Stars, including Arena Cleaner the Greninja, Robo Savage the Haxorus and Soldier Ant the Escavalier.
 * I have entered Banter Wars, a brilliant Robot Arena 2 tournament on YouTube with my robot Chasm. Check out the series on A Heap of Games!
 * I have also appeared on Robot Wars History Podcast on the NJGW channel, starting with Plunderbird and King Buxton.

YouTube content
On YouTube, I go by the name of TaleOfTheToaster, where I make Let's Plays. If you don't know what one of those is, it's a playthrough of a video game while commentating over the top of it. While I mainly make Let's Plays of Inazuma Eleven games, an anime soccer RPG on Nintendo handheld consoles, I previously made Let's Plays of both Robot Wars: Metal Mayhem and Robot Wars: Advanced Destruction.

I have also made a stop-motion TV Ident using Robot Wars toys, which you can see here

Let's Play Robot Wars: Metal Mayhem

 * Part 1 -
 * Part 2 -

Let's Play Robot Wars: Advanced Destruction

 * Part 1 -
 * Part 2 -

Robot Wars Podcasts

 * Playlist -

''Podcasts largely on the NJGW channel about Robot Wars, not including NJGW podcasts that don't feature me as a guest. If you follow NJGW's Robot Wars Turd series, then the Snail's Pace meme was my fault''

Primary

 * Robot Wars Wiki (bureaucrat)

Secondary

 * SmashWiki (rollbacker)
 * Icaruspedia (administrator)
 * F-Zero Wiki (bureaucrat)
 * Lylat Wiki (administrator)

Occasional

 * Inazuma Eleven Wiki (standard user)
 * Nintendo Wiki (ambassador)
 * Super Mario Wiki (standard user)

Series Record
NOTE: ToastUltimatum was to apply for Series 10's proposed Featherweight Championship with The Tragic Roundabout before the event was cancelled