User blog comment:ClassAct/Robot Wars 2016: Apprehensive/@comment-3412412-20160507174029/@comment-4700688-20160509145823

I admit that Kat 3 and Bulldog Breed appearing in the same heat three times is quite curious, but otherwise, I don't really see evidence of fixed draws in the later series. In fact, you'd expect the heats with top seeds to have the weakest selection of unseeded robots, but in the Seventh Wars, I'd say that it was Thermidor and SMIDSY's heats that had the least impressive selections, which if anything shows that the draws WERE random. But we'll never know for sure.