User blog comment:ToastUltimatum/The unprecedented heat winner that Series 7 nearly had/@comment-24393094-20180903164751

On another note, however, something really bugs me regarding the controversy surrounding Bulldog Breed. Tony Somerfield I believe would never intentionally cheat on Robot Wars. But on the other hand, surely he would have known after being on the show since Series 3 that netting, even protected deep within a robot, could potentially escape and entangle another machine?

In addition, it should be noted that Brutus Maximus lost its qualifying melee to Mean Streak after entangling it with a net. If the producers disqualified it on the basis of using a net to immobilise another opponent, why was it that Brutus Maximus still qualified through a discretionary place?

To be fair, I do think that the "no entanglement" rule was hardly enforced. 4x4 in Series 6 was a great example of this, where Team Monad clearly stated to Philippa Forrester that they were going to use the cloth to entangle both Hypno-Disc and Barber-Ous 2. And yet the cloth remained on the robot.