User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 1: Finding machines that are genuinely overrated/@comment-6279140-20171221180339/@comment-979907-20171221191911

Carbide? Seriously? It's lost to a grand total of four robots in history, and two of those (both UK Champions might I add) its pummelled to death in three other versions of the same fight. TR2 I think we can pretty much throw in with Apollo and Eruption as well, since I don't see that as a pattern. That leaves Terrorhurtz as the one "reliable opponent", and should I point out that Terrorhurtz won when its weapon wasn't working?

Let's list some of the "relatively weak opponents" by your criteria - Behemoth (twice) - Nuts (twice) - Shockwave - Thor - Apollo (three times) - Concussion - Ironside 3 - Aftershock (twice) - Eruption (three times) - Gabriel 2 - Rapid

Now granted, Carbide has beaten Trolley Rage, The General, Bonk, Meggamouse, Coyote and Crackers 'n' Smash, but look at that list in comparison. That's eleven Grand Finalists - in fact, its every single grand finalist save for TR2, Pulsar and Magnetar!