User blog comment:Asbestosstar/Robot wars 2016 Bracket Format/@comment-33147466-20161020183022

The format is exactly the same as the 2016 Series from what I've heard. In case you don't know, that's 5 heats, 40 robots, two four-way melees for round 1 in which four robots qualify, three head-to-head battles for each robot (basically everyone fights everyone) and a heat final for the two highest scorers. The winner of that advances to the Grand Final. Then it's the same all over again with a wildcard picked from the losing heat finalists to create two melees of three in the grand final, with four going through. Then it's three more head-to-heads per robot and the two highest scorers go through to the Final.