User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner of the Series: Series 10/@comment-2118191-20180107223642/@comment-2118191-20180107225825

The problem is, I've seen this many many times, not only in Robot Wars but also in other sports competitions. World's Strongest Man, for example, loves to hype up Hafthor Bjornnson every single time he competes, saying "will this year be his year" and as of now he has yet to win a single WSM title. An obscure example I know, but considering even in previous RW, I've heard competitors who've dreamt about winning Robot Wars lose (Iron-Awe) and competitors who talk about retiring their robots win (Mortis), so I really can't take stock in that. Heck, it's even present in the original series - sometimes Craig would ask the kids of a team if they thought they'd won the judges decision, but it was never guaranteed that they'd win (Crushtacean in Series 5) or lose (Eleven in the very next episode).