User:BBCRobotwarsUK

Yes, it's true! The individual known as BBCRobotwarsUK has finally joined Robot Wars wiki. This profile page is a work in progress, I'll update it when I get a bit more time.

My real name is surprisingly not BBCRobotwarsUK (the name of my extremely successful Youtube channel) but Matthew and I'm from Kent, England. I am 24 years old and am a university graduate with degrees in History and Psychology. I have always been intrigued by robotics and technology, but never had the brains to put it into practice. I got into Robotwars when I was 11 years old and me and my brother stumbled across the show completely by accident. I could be seen as a true crusader for Robotwars, but my knowledge on the robots is probably trumped by many of you here on the Robot Wars Wiki. Of course, now I'm going to be thinking back nearly 15 years so my memory won't be too good on the event of my discovery of Robot Wars. I remember my brother was watching TV and was playing the old channel hopping game. He came across a new show called Robotwars, it was the first showing of Heat A and he thought it was amazing. I wasn't around at that time, for the first episode I saw was Heat B, closely followed by the opening Heat A repeat a few days day afterwards. I watched the show and instantly loved the originality and creativity of the designs expressed by the roboteers. I remember watching the Recyclopse/Mortis final bout and having no idea who was going to win. After that bout, I just wanted Recyclopse to win the entire contest... which it didn't, but I was well and truly hooked. I wasn't the only one, the tales of robotic conflict spread to the playground at school and I vividly remember the week before the final of Series 2, there was a colossal discussion in my class as to who would win. The money was on Cassius, with Roadblock in a close second place. Killertron had third place, nobody gave Panic Attack a chance, how wrong we were. The week after, once the dust had settled and Panic Attack was victorious, everyone was shouting about a conspiracy theory, with Cassius deliberately throwing the fight so Panic Attack would get more money for charity. Unfortunately, this false belief led to some not watching the programme again, yet there were still plenty of people I could talk to about the third series, which saw the debut of the unstoppable Chaos 2, whom I greatly respected since George Francis' debut with Robot The Bruce. However, as time passed, people around me stopped watching Robotwars and got more interested in other things. I had religiously recorded every episode (barring Series 5 Heat H) and would sometimes go home and watch one of the earlier episodes, just to re-live the nostalgia. I was heartbroken when the BBC announced that Robotwars was moving to Channel 5. I didn't have Channel 5 back then and I was so sad that I would never be able to see it. But then my Aunt and Uncle surprised us by giving our family their satelite dish so we could watch Series 7. For some reason my Video Recorder refused to record channel 5, but I was content with just being able to watch the wars. After Series 7, time passed and my recordings of Robot Wars were put into storage, but every so often my dad would say, 'Do you really still want these thirty odd tapes of Robot Wars?' I was adamant they stayed and that one day, I would be able to somehow restore them on to a DVD following the death of video tapes. Christmas 2009 arrived and my dad recieved a DVD recorder for Christmas. I was ecstatic, we hooked up the VCR to the DVD player and suddenly, Robot Wars was alive again! After about a month of copying over every episode I owned onto DVD, my collection was complete. The video tapes, although they had been a formidable ally in my task were destroyed and their ashes cast into the dustbin. It was at this point that I consolted Youtube and was shocked to see that there was no Series 1 of RobotWars on Youtube. I decided to share my love of Robotwars and created a channel celebrating the BBC series of Robotwars. My channel has been running for 2 years and has over 2,000 subscribers. I was glad to be keeping the classic show alive. Getting back into Robotwars was amazing and I discovered Roaming Robots in 2010 and visited my first Robotic event in Maidstone 2010. I also went the following year in 2011, which brings us to the present day. I was invited to join Robot Wars wiki some time ago, when my channel was thriving, yet I declined at that time due to other commitments. But now that I am unemployed... again, I have free time to aid in the articles of Robot Wars Wiki.

Finally, if anyone wants to ask me anything about Robot Wars, feel free to contact me, it's great to hear from fellow Robot Wars fans.