Revolution

Revolution is the name given to two robots with rotating weapons that were entered by the same team in Robot Wars.

Revolution 2 was entered in Series 6 and Extreme Series 2, driven on two wheels, had two casters on top to run inverted and was armed with three large 36' spinning blades which the team claimed would spin at just under 200MPH. However, in order to accommodate what they called "the fastest and biggest weapon in Robot Wars", the robot had very thin polycarbonate armour and a tubular plate steel frame and was not reliable. Most of the combat issues were due to the blades not having a reverse gear, so every time they impaled the opponent robot, they would get stuck.

Revolution 3 was a completely different invertible design, with much improved armour and interchangeable 2500RPM 8-toothed flywheel and scoop weapons, very similar to those of Tornado. This could travel at 12 mph, could pull a car and had a hard aluminium, polycarbonate and polyprope bodyshell. The team lost in the first round of Series 6, but reached the second round of the New Blood Championship and Series 7. "Has had lots of fights - it's lost most of them!"

- Jonathan Pearce on Revolution 3

Series 6


"A real design Revolution, this"

- Jonathan Pearce

Revolution 2 faced problems in the qualifers for Series 6, being overweight and forced to remove two casters ontop of the machine that allowed it to run inverted. Revolution 2 then faced Thor, Anarchy and Judge Shred 2½ in its first round battle. It attacked Judge Shred at the start, but got stuck. Both machines were separated by Anarchy and Thor, before Revolution 2 was flipped by Judge Shred. It then got stuck on Judge Shred's armour and was dragged around the arena. The two machines were stuck on the angle grinders, before Dead Metal attacked Revolution, releasing it. Revolution's blades then got stuck on the arena floor due to the missing top casters, and it was counted out and eliminated.

Extreme 2
"Well, in Series 6 you made fun of our blades, so we went home and rebuilt them. They're bigger, they're faster, they're heavier and they're stronger!"

- Roger Webb on the improved weaponry

Revolution 2 returned for the New Blood tournament, with stronger blades that were now thicker and modified so that the top casters could be fitted without pushing the robot over the weight limit. It fought Storm 2 and Direct Action in its first round battle. Revolution 2 started the battle by staying out of the way, before hitting Storm 2. It was then attacked by Direct Action, and stopped spinning. Then both Storm 2 and Direct Action struck Revolution, but no damage was caused. Revolution avoided further damage as it evaded its opposition. Direct Action was eliminated after driving down the pit, so Revolution 2 went through to Round 2.

There, it was drawn against ICU. ICU drove straight into the blades and merely bounced off, before pushing Revolution into the angle grinders. Revolution had control problems, and drove straight into the opposite arena wall, which dislodge a cog, and its wheels stopped moving. ICU attacked with its axe, dragging it into the CPZ, where it was attacked by Dead Metal, before being placed on the floor flipper, landing on Sergeant Bash, and being pitted. "The revolution has been quashed. Long live the King, the King is ICU!"

- Craig Charles

Series 7
"We've seen our machine run, and we know what it can do, so we're just going to go out there, and we'll show you what it can do!"

- Pre-fight confidence from Roger Webb

Revolution 3 faced St. Agro, Mega Hurts LT and newcomers The Scrapper in Round 1. It started by using its drum on The Scrapper, immobilising it on one side, before pushing Mega Hurts LT over the flames. Just after The Scrapper was thrown out of the arena, Revolution 3 and Mega Hurts both broke down. However, as Mega Hurts was immobile first it was eliminated, meaning Revolution 3 progressed to round two.

There, it fought Ceros. It avoided Ceros and reversed into the pit release button at the start, but broke down after the first flip from Ceros. Ceros continued to flip the immobile Revolution around, and it was attacked by the Shunt and Sergeant Bash, who placed it onto the drop zone. A television was dropped, but it broke apart when it hit Revolution 3. "They wanted to be on telly, and the telly ended up on them!"

- Craig Charles after the fight.

After the battle, it was revealed the robot had stopped working because the link had fallen out. Roger Webb admitted the link had not been put in properly.

Results

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Wins/Losses

 * Wins: 2
 * Losses: 3

Series Record

 * Series 1-5: Did not enter
 * Series 6: Heat, Round 1
 * Series 7: Heat, Round 2

Outside Robot Wars
After Robot Wars, Revolution 3 was entered into the 2004 UK Championships hosted by Roaming Robots. The robot was relatively unchanged from its Series 7 appearance and it was granted the 3rd seed placing, but was unable to actually participate in any of the qualifying rounds, and subsequently didn't qualify for the Finals.