User blog comment:Nweston8/Top 18 Series of Robot Wars/@comment-24393094-20180301200357

To be honest, I think the first two Grand Final battles generally helped to make Series 5 immensely popular. Not to mention, that popularity was boosted by the fact that the Robot Wars "Gold Dust Trio" (Chaos 2, Hypno-Disc and perhaps most importantly Razer), all successfully made the Semi-Finals. Indeed, seeing how Razer has one of the biggest casual fanbases of any robot, no wonder this series is held in high regard by most, since it finally ascended to the top in the main competition, after three series of failures.