User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 2: Finding machines that are genuinely underrated/@comment-6023653-20180118205652

Possibly controversial, but I nominate 3 Stegs to Heaven. People rag on 3 Stegs for unreliability and for not living up to the standards of its predecessor(s). Unreliability- well, discounting its All-Stars appearance because it was clearly unfinished and that's never the form we use in tournaments, it lost drive on one side once in three appearances. Ok, that's not great, but that's not catastrophic. Predecessor- you've already covered Steg 2 and how its flaws are pointed out, and I feel 3 Stegs was a step to try to rectify some of them. It was a lot more manoeuvrable than either of the previous Stegs, and the weapon was moved to the front so attacks could actually be lined up. And then there's the disc itself; a surprisingly powerful weapon that was capable of real damage, ripping off one of Tetanus' prongs in a single blow and tearing apart the bracket surrounding the wheel easily (which seemed to surprise even the team, you can see one of the team members saying 'that's awesome' when the camera cuts to the booth). I'm not saying 3 Stegs is a world-beater, the ground clearance is too high and it didn't seem the best controlled machine, but it deserves more credit than some give it credit for. It certainly deserves better than losing to Overkill in Ragnabot 2, for example.