User blog:CrashBash/Format Switches - Series 9 as Series 10

I don't have the creativity to create elaborate April Fools Day jokes (and besides, it's too late now....you're not meant to make a joke after midday). So instead, I'm going to get on with something I said I'd do ages ago....Series 9 in the format of Series 10. Might as well seeing as I already did Series 8.

How this works
I will be taking the line-up for Series 9 and basically converting it into a Series 10 style format. The results of Round 1 will always be the same, but they will be invariably extended to imagine what would have happened had the fight continued, so that there is a designated 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place. The robots that finish in first automatically go through to the heat-semis, whilst the robots in second and third will face off in the Redemption Round. Robots in fourth place will automatically be eliminated.

Robots listed in bold are classed to have won their battle, whilst robots in italics will fight for redemption.

Round 1
Had the fight continued, I suspect that a very similar scenario to what happened in Series 10 might play out. And why not? We know Terrorhurtz had a lot of axe problems in Series 9.
 * Jellyfish vs Nuts 2 vs Rapid vs Terrorhurtz

I had to look this battle over again to see who was immobilised first between Crank-E and TMHWK. It's hard to tell, but to be honest, given the positions Crank-E was put into, I don't think anyone would begrudge me if I said it went out first. Luckily enough for Sabretooth, Aftershock's disc failing spares it so much damage....
 * Aftershock vs Crank-E vs Sabretooth vs TMHWK

Redemption Round
We saw it.
 * Terrorhurtz vs TMHWK

Lets be honest here, a working Sabretooth would win. It was a dead robot rolling by the time they actually fought, so to say "happened" wouldn't be fair.
 * Sabretooth vs Jellyfish

Heat-Semis
Eh, it's hard to tell, but I just don't think it's Aftershock levels of destruction. Rapid could probably tank the blows, and eventually score the vital flips. Or if not play tactical.
 * Rapid vs Sabretooth

We saw this one too.
 * Aftershock vs Terrorhurtz

Playoff
If Terrorhurtz is in ANY state to even fight this battle, then it's still in trouble anyway.
 * Sabretooth vs Terrorhurtz

Heat Final
Happened. At least Rapid will have goodness knows how much time to fix its problems.
 * Rapid vs Aftershock