User blog comment:CrashBash/Top Five Robot Wars controversies that made no difference/@comment-1532710-20180619205231

Good blog, but there is something I disagree with you on. In your point about Barry, you claim that there was wasn't much that Grunt or Eubank the Mouse could do to do worse than Barry or Elvis. However, I think there were some ways they could have "done even worse". I was thinking about this whilst reading the through the "If a small thing had changed" forum, where stock robots throwing the Gauntlet was one of the topics raised.

Remember how Shunt pinned Uglybot and Plunderbird 2 against the wall? Shunt could have done that to Grunt or Eubank. Matilda or Sergeant Bash could have pushed Barry and Elvis respectively off the ramp, like how Shunt helped Detonator off the turntable, then pushed them onto the grille so as to not make it look suspicious, which would have made it easier for Grunt and Eubank to "come last". Grunt's low shape means it could get stuck on the railings like Wharthog did. Matilda could have tipped Eubank over and pushed it back to the start, like Sir Killalot did to Caliban. Or, the producers could have just claimed that Grunt/Eubank broke down before the Gauntlet, and staged a Pain/Parthian Shot-style disqualification.

Also, whilst your theory about WYSIWYG deliberately trying to throw the Gauntlet is plausible, the problem is, why did Shunt go in to help it when it got stuck on the ramp?