User blog:ThatRedOtter/Robot Wars with Random Draws! AKA: What happens when you try to make The Arena happen on Reddit

Well hello Wiki, it's good to finally be part of this, and with my first post here, I'm introducing a bit of cross-internet Robot Wars fandom stuff.

See on the Robot Wars subreddit, I needed to think of something to bring to it. Before I had discovered this side of the wiki, I didn't really have anything to go on in terms of "Alternate series" so I decided to make one! I randomized all the competitors in the third wars and pitted them against eachother... For the Robot Wars Subreddit to vote on. So how did it go? What are my thoughts on each battle? Well let's see.

In the third wars, there were no seeds and no bot replacements. Just like the actual Third wars but with much more stupid semi-finalists and some of the worst heats you will ever see (Yes, even worse than Heat P)

Heat A:

Sonic VS Plunderstorm

Fire Storm VS Beast of Bodmin ''And this is where I knew I had something special on my hands. A previous champion and IRL Top 8 taken out in round 1? This really had potential to be good.''

X-Terminator VS Stinger But alas, nothing could save Stinger from still losing.

Griffon VS Hammertron Damn, this looked like such a promising heat too.

Round 2:

X-Terminator VS Sonic

Firestorm VS Griffon And Firestorm just can't stop taking out previous Grand Finalists.

Heat Final:

Firestorm VS X-Terminator ''Kind of a shame really, X-Terminator really is a robot that I would have liked to see in a Semi final. Still at least it did better here than it would in Series 4 later...''

Heat B:

Steg-O-Saw-Us VS Wild Willy ''Only thing to note here is that one of the voters said that they're sad that Wild Wily was eliminated so early. Almost like it would have done something important.''

Prizephita VS The Witch Insert Timber joke somewhere around here.

Darke Destroyer VS All Torque

Thermador VS Zeus

Round 2:

Steg-O-Saw-Us VS All Torque Why did I put the winner of the first and third battles against eachother?

Thermador VS Prizephita Although it was nice to see the Thermador team get to a final

Heat Final:

Steg-O-Saw-Us VS Thermador Kind of a foregone conclusion this one.

Heat C:

Flipper VS Rattus Rattus ''I almost disagree with this one. Not that it would make any difference in the long run.''

Aggrobot VS Purple Predator I'm pretending that PP actually caught fire this time.

The Iron Mask VS Thing 2 Seemed like a weak heat before this thing came along (Yes that was intentional)

Daisy Chopper VS Panic Attack ''Then all of a sudden here comes the reigning champions! Although I felt like I should have just skipped Round 2, because it was gonna be a foregone conclusion, the heat final I mean. ''

Round 2:

Thing 2 VS Rattus Rattus But on the other hand, having the first victor VS Third victor could be a blessing.

Panic Attack VS Aggrobot

Heat Final: Thing 2 VS Panic Attack ''Yes you read that right, in this timeline Thing 2 won the match. The votes were unanimous too! 5-0 for Thing 2! In the end, after their explanations, I had to agree as we lost our second canon semi-finalist. ''

Heat D

Ally Gator VS Henry ''And now we arrive at the first weak heat. The heat winner here was obvious from the get-go.''

Milly-Ann-Bug VS Invertebrat ''Interestingly, this was actually a draw. I think I decided on Inertebrat simply because it was a heat finalist and Milly wasn't. My voting style has improved since then. I promise.''

General Carnage VS Shell Shock ''In hindsight I wish Shell Shock did better. I've come to like that grin.''

Death Warmed Up VS Facet And here's the Obvious Heat Winner, Facet.

Round 2:

Ally Gator VS General Carnage I guess this was more a heat of unsung heroes, the real weak heats came later.

Facet VS Invertebrat

Heat Final:

Facet VS Ally Gator I mean who would actually foresee Ally Gator being a Heat finalist?

Heat E:

Vercingetorix VS Victor For example this was a pretty terrible heat, again the winner being obvious from the get go.

Raizer Blade VS T2 I think everyone was happy with this one.

ORAC's Revenge VS Mace 2 And there is that obvious Heat Winner.

Undertaker VS Kater Killer

Round 2:

Mace 2 VS Vercingetorix

Raizer Blade VS Undertaker Getting the heat final that I think some people would have preferred.

Heat Final:

Mace 2 VS Razier Blade ''Shocking absolutley no one, Mace 2 went on to the semis. Next!''

Heat F: Crasha Gnasha VS Centurion ''This in my opinion was the second worst heat of this wars. The worst by far was the next one.''

The Steel Avenger VS Sir Chromalot ''Steely here was my personal pick. Probably because I'm incredibly biased towards axe bots.''

Corporal Punishment VS Sting 2 Nice to see Adam Clark winning a battle over 3 series before he actually did.

Anorakaphobia VS Flip Flop Fly

Round 2:

Centurion VS Corporal Punishment And Adam's run comes to an end sadly.

The Steel Avenger VS Anorakaphoia ''And Steely is a heat finalist! Made me happy at least.''

Heat Final:

Centurion VS The Steel Avenger ''Incredibly close battle this. Centurion won with 4-3 votes, I was sad. But Centurion is a semi finalist! And that's not the weirdest one yet!''

Heat G:

Axios VS Excalibur ''Yes this is the worst heat in this series by far. Only one robot in this heat made it past the first round. This was horrible to reveal to the sub.''

Terminal Ferocity VS Toe Cutter Watermelon cutting reigns supreme.

Miss Ile VS Crippler I mean Miss Ile won a bloody battle!

Eric VS Overkill But at least the meme did something.

Round 2:

Axios VS Miss Ile I have no idea what to put for this battle.

Eric VS Toe Cutter Clearly Memes are more powerful than Watermelons.

Heat Final:

Eric VS Axios ''Yes this happened. Eric is now a semi-finalist. I would make a meme joke but I don't know what to say.''

Heat H:

Weeliwako VS Red Dragon ''Happy to report that this heat was much better. Just wait.''

Challenger 2 VS Onslaught Everyone's favourite toy car wins a nice and easy match.

Killerhurtz VS Mr Punch This was one of the liberaties I decided to take, allowing John Reid to have driving skill and this time, not wait for a good pit.

Suicidal Tendencies VS Triterobot ''I had a stupid moment when I typed this and thought this was the American Triterobot. I'm a dumb.''

Round 2:

Killerhurtz VS Weeliwako And the raid of Reid continues.

Suicidal Tendencies VS Onslaught When it was clear which way it was going to go, this became the heat final I was looking most forward to.

Heat Final:

Killerhurtz VS Suicidal Tendencies ''This match actually had Suicidal Tendencies winning to begin with, but then a delayed vote swung the battle in Killerhurtz's favour. Easily the closest battle on the series so far. But the battle going on right now is looking to beat that. (It's Series 5 Hypno VS Splinter by the way) (Update, Hypno won by one vote)''

Heat I:

Armour Geddon VS The Big Cheese ''This was a heat that needed to get out of the first round to be genuinely good. Four decent robots that all stood a decent chance of getting out of the heat. I was looking forward to this one. On the subject of the fight, this would be amazing watching TBC trying to scoop up AG and watching it squirm out of TBC's grip.''

Crocodilotron VS Cassius 2 ''...Of course, I was completely underestimating Cassisus here, not factoring in the spike failure. If I had created this now, I would have made a Tag Team Terror... Maybe for another post.''

101 VS Abaddon ''Nice win for my childhood Favourites. Superbunny is best bunny.''

Blade VS Terrorpin

Round 2

The Big Cheese VS 101 ''Down goes my childhood favourites... sad times for Superbunny. ''

Cassius 2 VS Blade ''And we lose two canon semi-finalists in one heat. Felt weird honestly.''

Heat Final:

Cassius 2 VS The Big Cheese ''And they say that The Big Cheese could have won another heat huh? Cassius 2 has something to say about that.''

Heat J

Victor 2 VS Behemoth Easy first match for my favourite robot.

Max Damage VS Psychokiller ''I let Max Damage move this time and that changed nothing. That almost amuses me.''

Forklift's Revenge VS Cerberus ''You know I kind of like Cerberus. Probably because it was in the First World Championship and that entire episode is forever seared into my mind.''

Technophobic VS Ultor ''Nice easy match for the Semi-finalists that should have been. If only they booked more nights at their hotel...''

Round 2:

Behemoth vs Cerberus I can imagine that watching Cerberus topple over here would have been so satisfying.

Psychokiller VS Ultor

Heat Final

Behemoth VS Ultor Behemoth gets an easy heat final and I get very happy.

Heat K

Gravedigger VS Big Brother This heat could have looked so much better if one of these two was in the third match...

Robocow VS Pitbull Battle of the Black and white robots, Pitbull easily won, good.

Grim Reaper VS Judge Shred ''I have nothing to say about this fight. Other than it must have been really boring to watch. Would have been better in Series 7 though.''

Berserk 2 VS Crusher ''Was nice to see Berserk 2 do well though. Again.''

Round 2:

Gravedigger VS Judge Shred And not Cassius gets a comfortable win.

Pitbull VS Berserk 2 I can only imagine how dumb this would have looked in real life.

Heat Final:

Gravedigger VS Berserk 2 Much like Cerberus, I can imagine that Berserk 2 toppling over must be really satisfying.

Heat L

Brimhur VS Shark Attack ''This was a pretty terrible heat too in retrospect. It's basically Heat C 2.0''

Dundee VS Hammerhead

Sgt. Meikle VS Backstabber I mean flipping Backstabber wins a fight!

Pussycat VS Robopig ''Say hello to the heats only saving grace. And yes someone voted Robopig because "lol blade shatters.''

Round 2:

Backstabber vs Shark Attack ''Backstabber was a heat finalist. Just no. Although actually looking at it did give me a slightly better appreciation for the robot.''

Dundee VS Pussycat Although it's nice to see Pussycat being in a deserving Heat final this time.

Heat Final:

Backstabber VS Pussycat ''As pretty much everyone was assuming that Pussycat was using the normal blade, Pussycat won and went through... Although I was considering trolling everyone and letting Backstabber through anyway due to the blade shattering.''

Heat M

Robogeddon VS Spike This was quite easily the second worst heat

Atlas VS Panzer But we had some IRL Heat Finalists here, shame they were some of the worst ones.

Binky VS Diotoir And we got the furry boys too.

Dreadnaut VS Manic Mutant And no one cared for the veterans.

Round 2

Diotoir VS Spike Diotior is still a heat finalist and is very possibly a semi finalist!

Panzer VS Manic Mutant ''And Panzer is a heat finalist again too. Better than something like Backstabber I guess.''

Heat Final:

Panzer VS Ditior ''Yes rub your eyes all you want, but Diotior is a semi-finalist. Made me happy in any case.''

Heat N: *laughs cruelly* Oh you have no idea what's in store for you here.

Shrapnel VS Weld-Dor Seems fairly innocent to begin with...

Chaos 2 VS Scutter's Revenge Then here's the canon champion suddenly!

Hypno-Disc VS Napalm ''AND HERE'S THE RUNNER UP AGAINST NAPALM. You have no idea how hard I laughed when I realised this match up was a thing. Also the top 2 are in the same heat. Nice.''

Ming VS Stealth ''And then there's just this match. Eh.''

Round 2:

Hypno-Disc VS Weld-Dor For some reason I really wish I could have seen this fight.

Chaos 2 VS Stealth Nice to see Stealth going out with dignity this time I have to say.

Heat Final:

Hypno-Disc VS Chaos 2 ''I wanted Hypno to win this, you have no idea. But Chaos 2 won so dominantly in real life that there is no way you can swing this around.''

Heat O:

Bulldog Breed VS Haardvark ''Haardark wins the battle of the mammals. That's all I got. Sorry.''

Bumblebot VS Tut's Revenge

King Buxton VS Sumpthing Looks like Buxton has a chance to be a semi-finalist again.

Mortis VS Scarab ''...Apart from this dude. Also Scarab out in the first round again. Damn.''

Round 2:

Haardvark VS King Buxton ''This is another case where I'm so happy for the round 2 order I did. Made for a much better Heat Final.''

Mortis VS Bumblebot It ain't about the size of the axe I guess...

Heat Final:

King Buxton VS Mortis ''I would have put Mortis through personally. I just can't see Buxton beating them, especially with the pit closed.''

Heat P

Hefty VS Agent Orange Kind of wish Hefty fought Mortis in hindsight, battle of the overpriced robots.

Schumey Too VS Evil Weevil I imagine this would be fun to watch for some reason.

Trident VS S.M.I.D.S.Y This may be Season 3, but the idea of Trident winning against S.M.I.S.D.Y just saddens me.

Twn Trwn VS Razer ''Now this is an opportunity heat and how it should be done. Sure Razer's there against easy looking bots, but some of them have something at least resembling quality.''

Round 2:

Razer VS Evil Weevil I can imagine this being an oddly satisfying battle too.

Trident VS Agent Orange ''I have to say, this whole thing gave me a new appreciation for Agent Orange. Still a missed opportunity that it was never put against Napalm.''

Heat Final:

Razer VS Agent Orange And 2 years early the Opportunity heat works and Razer is sent to the semis!

Semi Final 1: (This used the IRL Semi final draws, so Heat O winner fights Heat B winner and so forth.)

King Buxton (Heat O) VS Steg-O-Saw-Us (Heat B) I always do like matches between two pushers, this could have been pretty good I think.

Gravedigger (Heat K) VS Chaos 2 (Heat N) ''Chaos 2 showing us why Rear hinged flippers are superior. In this one case. That didn't actually happen. Just ignore me please.''

Firestorm (Heat A) VS Facet (Heat D) Battles which are just "seen it" genuinely make me despair in these alternate tourneys.

Razer (Heat P) VS Mace 2 (Heat E) ''This match was so close I had to go onto the Robot Wars OOTA Discord server to get a final winner. So to everyone who's mad that Razer lost, blame the Discord.''

Round 2:

Chaos 2 VS Steg-O-Saw-Us I can imagine this being a decent battle, but Chaos 2 would certainly come out on top.

Mace 2 VS Firestorm So we have 2 of the 4 IRL Semi finalists, what will happen now?

Semi final 2:

Behemoth (Heat J) VS Diotior (Heat M) ''Damn. It's another "seen it."''

Centurion (Heat F) VS Eric (Heat G) That awkward moment when Eric places higher than Hypno-Disc.

Cassius 2 (Heat I) VS Thing 2 I'm just imagining Thing 2 falling down wedge first and that amuses me way too much.

Killerhurtz (Heat H) VS Pussycat (Heat L) ''Can I see Killerhurtz winning? I honestly don't know, I can't imagine Pussycat doing much to it in their Season 3 form, but I don't see Killerhutz getting many axe blows in either. Honestly I'm still on the fence about this, maybe one of you lot can convince me.''

Round 2:

'Behemoth VS Centurion That awkward moment when Centurion places equal with Steg-O-Saw-Us and Mace 2, and places better than 101, Mortis, Razer, King Buxton, Hypno-Disc, Panic Attack, Thing 2 and Pussycat.

Cassius 2 VS Killerhurtz ''And sadly, we have an all-flipper final. Damn.''

Grand Final:

Chaos 2 VS Firestorm Hey it's my old friend "Seen it" again!

Behemoth VS Cassius 2 ''Not that it wasn't nice seeing my favourite robot in a Grand final 7 series before it would actually happen, but I just dislike a large number of flippers in a given part of a series. Sorry Series 7.''

Play off:

Firestorm VS Behemoth I have nothing wrong with this.

Grand Final:

Chaos 2 VS Cassius 2 ''I am honestly really happy with how the final turned out. The stil favourites for the title against the new-old guard, while we got the same winner, the series was well recived. So I decided to keep on going...''

First World Championship: (Only change here is that Mauler is allowed to fight.)

Techno-Lease (NED) VS All Torque (SCO) Nice to see All Torque shine again.

101 (ENG) VS Depoppesaurus Rex (BEL) A match I can imagine would have been quite dull.

Diotoir (IRE) VS Panic Attack (WAL) I can see the Diotior team doing the Panic Attack pciture thing they did in Extreme a few series earlier here.

Weld-Dor (NIR) VS Prometheus (USA) ''The randomizer gave me a "seen it" in the first round. I was not happy.''

Mauler (USA) VS Chaos 2 (ENG) ''Did I agree with this? Honestly no.''

Cerberus (CYP) VS Killerhurtz (CZE) ''Yay Killerhurtz is useful again. Also was did Cerberus represent Cyprus? I never found out.''

Mortis (UK) VS Razer (ENG) ''And we lose the champion in the first round! Was anyone's game by this point.''

Terror Australis (AUS) VS Behemoth (ENG) A win so easy it's pathetic.

Round 2:

Behemoth (ENG) VS All Torque (SCO) R.I.P The Mascot.

Mortis (ENG) VS 101 (ENG) This would have been immensely satisfying to watch I feel.

Killerhurtz (CZE) VS Panic Attack (WAL) Yay Axebot win!

Weld-Dor (NIR) VS Mauler (USA) ''Anyone else thinking of Spin Doctor VS Matilda? I sure was.''

Semi final:

Behemoth (ENG) VS Killerhurtz (CZE) ''Not sure I can agree with this either way. Again I'm on the fence.''

Mortis (UK) VS Mauler (USA) This I can just about imagine Mortis winning, well done.

Final:

Behemoth (ENG) VS Mortis (UK) Yep, Mortis wins, without the pit, Behemoth is forced to fight all 5 minutes and Mortis just outdoes them, I understand the sub's logic here.

So that was Series 3, as decided by Reddit. What did you all think? What battles would you have ruled differently? And what battles do you think the Sub would have ruled differently to the wiki? (If any existed) See Y'all next time, when I cover what happened in Series 4! Without seedings! Heat E was an amazing one. See you next time!