User blog comment:CrashBash/Top Five Robot Wars controversies that made no difference/@comment-979907-20180505004803

I also feel that whilst having a pro Firestorm opinion is a valid one, it can’t really be said that it made no difference. Firestorm being a heat finalist and Mini Mega the Morg being a semi finalist changes the course of their entire histories, but it does change the s5 seeds considerably too. 3 Stegs to Heaven probably becomes the 7th seed and that blows Heat D wide open, whilst we lose Wild Thing who now fights Bigger Brother in the heat, which potentially means Chaos 2 losing a round earlier and being in the losers melee with S3 and who knows by now because we don’t know who is 13th seed in place of Spawn Again who moves up to 12th (plausibly). No idea where Mini Morg and Firestorm now rank.

I’m stretching a bit but I’m trying to demonstrate how there is a huge effect from the winner of this heat - and any heat