User:AtomicDugong

Hi, I'm AtomicDugong. I play too many video games and I love Robotic Combat. Everything else is classified information.

Me and Robot Wars
My first exposure to Robot Wars was Extreme 2. It was Heat B of the All-Stars, so the first thing I ever saw was Chaos 2 getting trashed by 13 Black, Razer and Mr Psycho. To my childlike mind, it was the most awesome thing I'd ever seen. I was rooting for Razer in the final, as I'd never seen Firestorm before in my life, and I was over the moon when it won. After this, the next episode I remember seeing was Storm II's heat of the New Blood competition. Oddly enough, I don't even remember seeing Storm in the entire episode (My brain is dumb like that). I caught a couple of one-off battles on TV from time to time, including the Typhoon gang-up, but other than that, nothing. So for a while, I forgot the show. That is, until I somehow got my hands on a bunch of the pullbacks and some VHS tapes containing episodes of Series 5 and Series 6. I watched these to death. My favourite episode that I had was Heat G of Series 6, Tornado's heat. I especially remember Anarchy. It was so cool to see a robot that didn't use wheels for once, and I was severely disappointed when Tornado beat it. So for a while, I forgot about Robot Wars. And by a while, I mean 10 years.

For some reason, I don't remember things by hearing about them or getting some kind of visual reminder. They just sort of pop up in my head (Again, my brain is dumb). I was just sitting around when I just thought "Oh hey, Robot Wars. That was a show. It was awesome. Go watch it." So I immediately went on to Youtube, where I found BBCRobotwarsUk's awesome channel and proceeded to binge-watch as many episodes as I could. I gained a new appreciation for many robots I'd seen before, and even found some new robots that I fell in love with. Through Robot Wars, I discovered Battlebots, which I also fell in love with, albeit on a smaller scale than Robot Wars. I just couldn't stop watching. After I ran out of episodes, I went back to my normal business. But now, I knew whenever I wanted to watch stuff get utterly destroyed, I had a solution: Robot Wars.

Favourite Robots
1: Terrorhurtz There are so many reasons why Terrorhurtz is my favourite robot. I can't find a single thing about this robot that I dislike. The name is awesome and really well thought out. The axe is without a doubt the best axe ever seen on Robot Wars. It set the grounds for all axes you see today with it's speed and power. While it was hugely unimpressive in Series 5, it was an absolute monster in Series 6. I had no idea axes could be so effective until I saw Terrorhurtz destroy Panic Attack. It only got more impressive from there, trashing Spawn Again and Bigger Brother, before it's disappointing loss to Razer. After that, it had an awesome Extreme 2. I was fired up for Series 7 just because of Terrorhurtz. Imagine how gutted I was...

2: X-Terminator (Series 7) I'll openly admit that I didn't like X-Terminator from Series 3-6. I dunno, it just seemed weak to me. The axe was either too slow to cause an impact (Series 3, 5 and 6) or just plain sucked (Series 4). So when I heard it was going to be seeded for Series 7, I wasn't optimistic about it's chances, especially in "The Year Of The Flipper". Imagine my surprise when it exploded on to the scene with a vertical flywheel capable of throwing machines out of the arena. My mind was blown. I was rooting for it in the final, but I knew that it had no chance against Typhoon 2. This was one that really deserved a title.

3: Gravity In case you weren't aware, Series 7 had a lot of flippers. Like... a lot. With all these new flippers one the scene, we were guaranteed some fantastic flippers. And we did. Indeed, there were a lot of great flippers in Series 7, but if I had to choose one that outshines all others, it had to be Gravity. Let's face it, any robot that can get an OOtA in 6 seconds deserves recognition.

4: Storm II And the robot the producers love to hate makes my list. I can't help it, I love Storm II. As Nick Adams said, it's not just about smashing the opponent to bits. I'm not even a fan of rambots in general, because most of them relied on pushing power only. Storm II was all about speed and slamming. There's no doubt in my mind that it beat Typhoon 2 by a mile, so I was happy to see them win the world championship, as it definitely deserved a title win in Series 7.

5: Anarchy The first walkerbot I ever saw, and without a doubt the best true walker ever. As I love Terrorhurtz so much, you can probably imagine that axes are my favourite weapons. And... you'd be right. So when a walker comes on to the scene with an absurdly fast axe and a powerful flipper to boot, you knew it was something special. It's too bad that it was in the heat it was, as I think it could have won most of the other heats in Series 6.