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Hey guys. Anderson9132 here and this is my lists page. On this page you will find all sorts of lists based off of my opinions on certain topics of the show Robot Wars. So lets let the lists begin shall we?

My top ten most favourite Robot Wars Robots
Now everyone has their favourite robots and many users have made lists on their preferred robots. This is my list of the ten best robots in my opinion. Note, I do not like robots because of their respective teams. Nor do I like them for beating certain robots. I like them for their design, Engineering, Entertainment value and Defectiveness. With that being said, let us begin shall we?

10. Arnold A. Terminegger - Many people reading this will probably be wondering why I have included this robot as one of my favourites. Well it is simple really. This robot is almost indestructible! It only ever lost two fights, one against Exterminator 2 and the other against Pussycat and both times it only lost on a judges decision. Now this doesn't make it seem indestructible at first, but when you think that it's loss against Pussycat was after four rounds of constant battling in an Annihilator, of which consisted of Hypnodisc, Splinter, Thermador 2, Exterminator and, of course Pussycat, then yes it does seem rather indestructible. Now for a robot of this strength, you would expect it to be a greatly engineered robot that cost extreme amounts of money and would have one of the most unique designs in history but it didn't. It was basically a box with a lifter and axe on it. So then you have to think maybe it was lucky, but no, it wasn't. It got stuck into it's fights and gave everyone a good battle, despite being the underdog of the entire competition. It even got severe internal damage throughout the Annihilator and yet it STILL wouldn't go down. For such a simple, weak looking robot, Arnold A. was strong and tough and deserves this place on the list.

9. Stinger - When I look at Robot Wars competitors I look for unique robots with effective designs. And Stinger just slots right into this category. Sure, it may seem like a long spike with wheels attached but it was very unique in it's own right. Now, I know the The Master from the early 90's American Robot Wars was the originator of the design where the robot's components were kept inside the wheels, however that is not why this robot is unique. This robot is unique for it's weapon. Now it may not be as deadly as some of the other weapons on the show however it did something that not many others could and that was bludgeon it's opponents the death. Instead of flipping or crushing robots it span and hit robots with a lot of force, causing damage to the electronics of the machines and eventually beating them into submission. It was this tactic that got them a default third place in series four, which was well deserved in my opinion. Also it's design was very effective as it was very difficult to get a hold of. Sure the tyres were exposed but only three times did this prove to be a downfall for Stinger when it was taken out by Killerhutz, Pussycat and S3 respectively and even then, only two of those bouts were won by KO, with it's fight against Pussycat being lost via the judges. Stinger, in my opinion was tough, durable and unique in it's own right and it was just a shame and criminal that it wasn't allowed in series 7.

8. Onslaught - Another thing I love about certain robots is how they look like they wont last long, yet they somehow prove to be effective robots. Onslaught is an obvious case here and whilst it never did well in the main competition it is on this list because of how it performed in the Southern Annihilator. In this special everyone sighted Razer as the odds on favourite to win and, whilst it did go on to win, Onslaught gave it one hell of a fight and proved tough throughout the entire episode. In the first fight it gave Behemoth a few near misses and nearly toppled it and in the second fight it helped Behemoth nearly beat Razer. However, Onslaught really shone in the third battle where it showed no fear to Attila the Drums spinning power and continuously drove on and attacked it whilst Razer was cowardly and didn't attempt to attack it, choosing instead to chase onslaught around, only to fail to do so.And in the final it proved strong and resilient against Razer and it wasn't even Razer who beat them. It was in fact Matilda who ruined Onslaught's chances of a claim to fame and what really didn't help was the obviously staged Razer/Matilda moment. Still Onslaught makes this list for basically being a radio controlled car yet still being able to hold off Razer.

7. Chaos 2 - What can't be said about this robot? It is the only robot to win more than one series (and two in a row at that), the first robot to flip another out of the arena and it had a greatly effective design, with a powerful weapon. This will be rather short because not much can be said that isn't already known but I can't just leave it at that so I will say this. Chaos 2 was a masterpiece of engineering. An Icon of sorts. It was a god among robots. The only reason it is so low is it's deterioration and the fact that I think other robots are just better then it for their respective reasons.

6. Behemoth - Behemoth was beautiful. It was big, strong, it had an effective weapon and always gave a good fight. Now I know it didn't get very far in the main competition however it shone greatly in several matches. Two of these matches were against Razer, which it lost wrongly both times via the judges. Another was against Hypnodisc, in which it controlled entire match and won via KO. However, it's best moment in my opinion was its fight against Stinger in Extreme One. In this fight it used its new axe weapon and it's powerful scoop to grapple up Stinger and carry it to the pit. This is one of the greatest performances I have ever seen in the show and one of the greatest displays of control and weapon use. These few battles have proved to show how brilliant Behemoth could really be.

5. Cerberus - Now Cerberus never really proved much in Robot Wars but the robot was a thing of beauty. It was gleaming and pretty and it also had a bit of power behind it. But the main reason it is on this list is that it was capable of getting the fasted Immobilisation against Griffon in Series 3 and it held this spot until series 7. That alone is worth a high spot, especially how everyone bad mouths it. If only it had a reliable srimech. It could have done better.

4. Plunderbird - Now this is a very interesting robot to be placed on this list for two reasons. One, they rarely did well and Two, because there were five different versions so you must be wondering which one my favourite was. Well the answer to that is actually all of them, but for different reasons each which I will now discuss.

• Plunderbird 1: This robot was unique for the time as it had interchangeable weaponry. It's just a shame it was so unlucky in the gauntlet, especially when it got screwed over by stock robot WYSIWYG.

• Plunderbird 2: This version of Plunderbird is my joint favourite along with Number Five. The reason for this is because of it's immense strength and power. It pushed it's opponents around with ease and made it through to the semi finals without any hassle, but against fell victim to bad luck in the gauntlet.

• Plunderstorm: Despite not moving, it at least looked cool and sleek, unlike many robots in series 3.

• Plunderbird 4: This version was the first to have a claw and whilst it did not do much, it still looked vastly improved and actually moved. However, it was relatively weaker then it's brothers.

• Plunderbird 5: This version of Plunderbird is my joint favourite along with Number Two. It was quick and agile, plus it had a new shape, giving it a new improved look and it was four wheel drive, which was nice to see in a Plunderbird machine. If only it hadn't met S3, it may have done well, especially when most of the robots in series 5 moved two feet forward before breaking down.

In my opinion each of the Plunderbird machines was good in it's own right, with Numbers Two and Five being fantastic and underrated robots. If only they had come back with Plunderbird 2's Power and Plunderbird 5's speed. It could have been a fantastic robot.

3. X-terminator - Again this is a very interesting robot to be placed onto this list as it falls under the same predicament as the Plunderbird robots. I just loved each version of this robot for different reasons. So, once again lets take a look at each version individually.

•X-terminator 1: This version of X-terminator has been, and always will be my favourite version of the X-terminator robots. Now I know many of you will be calling me a blasphemer for not selecting Version 5 but here me out. Yes, Version 5 was extremely destructive how ever it had a lot of faults, which I will go through later. This Version however, was brilliant and unique, especially for it's time. It was fast, powerful, had a unique self righter and a powerful weapon. This is shown in all three of it's matches. In it's first match, the axe not only penetrates Hefty's body shell, it also has the strength to lift it up off the ground and tip it over. That's strength and power! It then easily disposed of judge shred buy swiftly pitting it and then put up one hell of a fight against the then champions Panic Attack. It only lost due to Panic Attack getting a lucky slam in that cause the CO2 canister to burst, thus rendering the srimech useless. If this hadn't of happened, would X-terminator had won? It certainly seems possible. And that is why I love this version of X-terminator.

•X-terminator 2: Now whilst looking almost the same as it's predecessor, apart from the paint job obviously, this robot was actually inferior to the first version. The Axe was horrible to say the least. However, despite this we still saw a great performance from this machine. It was faster, at 25 MPH, and had a nice new interchangeable weapon. A lifting arm. Also in this series we got to see the srimech work. I do like this machine, however it definitely was not as good as version 1, but still impressive over all.

•X-terminator Version 3: Now this version was probably the biggest let down of all the Exterminators. It was slower then the previous two and did very little in series 5, losing out to Corkscrew in the second round, A pathetic performance. However I liked the look of this robot and the axe was very big and much more punishing then that of the second version. It's because of this that this version gets a mention on this list. Definitely the worst version of the lot.

•X-terminator Version 4: Now this version was a much improved design of the third version. It was the same speed but the axe was much more powerful and deadly and it seemed much tougher then before. Again it looked nice too, with a sleek design and paint job. However, an unreliable srimech let it down. It really hurts to say that but it's the truth. And if you have a high-ish ground clearance and a bad srimech what hope do you have, especially against Firestorm? Still, it's in my good books as it was a nice and improved design.

•X-terminator Version 5: And now we get to this, the fifth and final version of the X-terminator machines. What can I say about it? It was destructive. VERY Destructive. Such a small blade doing so much damage and even being capable of chucking robots out of the arena! It seems like a master of engineering and should surely be my favourite of all the X-terminators, if not favourite robot of all time! Sadly, no. This robot is not either of those. Why? Because it has some HUGE faults. The first is the ground clearance. Oh good grief it was a HUGE! Now this might not have been a big fault with the robot, IF it could self right from all angles. But it couldn't. If it landed on it's back, it would have been history. And it was only thanks to Tsunami getting a little too overconfident that actually allowed this robot to make the grand finals. If it wasn't for that, Exterminator would have once again lost at a heat final stage. Also when you take into consideration that it was much, much slower at just 9 MPH and was one of the most hideous looking machines in the seventh wars of Robot Wars then you can see why it might not be so high on my list. However, at least it was damaging and when it was in a position to self right, it did so without any issue. So what I'm saying is yes it's a good robot, but definitely not the best of the X-terminator machines.

I still love all the robots though and X-terminator is definitely a worthy third placer, especially the first version.

2. Hypnodsic - Wow. Just wow. What a robot this was. Do I even need to explain why I love this robot so much? It's was HUGELY destructive! It destroyed most of it's opponents and had them leaving in bin bags. But unfortunately Hypnodisc was eventually made to big for it's own good. The team decided to focus more on the power of the disc then on the strength of the robot. Now this seemed to be a great idea, however because the disc was so powerful it actually did more damage to itself then it's opponents. It would do very little damage to others and after a few hits it would knock itself out. A real shame to see such a great robot do more harm to itself then other machines in it's later years. Still it was a machine of dominance and therefore gets this second place spot.

So we are now down to this. The number one robot in my eyes. But who could it be? I've got such a vast love for different designs that it could be anyone. My list has consisted of indestructible boxes, remote control cars, robot dog gods, robots that do well, robots that don't do well, robots that beat others into submission, robot gods and robots too powerful for their own good. So what else is there? Well you will now find out. It is time to announce my favourite Robot Wars robot of all time. So my number number one robot is......

1. Firestorm - The robot was the best. It just was. It has a great drive system, effective weaponry, great speed, power and efficiency. It was the only front hinged flipper to flip a robot out of the arena and beat chaos 2's record of out of the arena flips, placing second on the list behind Dantomkia. It was revolutionary in my eyes because of this. It also never failed to make a semi final and made three grand finals coming third three separate times. It's design was really effective and it showed this by dominating the majority of matches it was in. It also gave Razer a huge run for it's money in the series 5 grand finals and wrongly lost it to the judges. Firestorm could have and SHOULD have been the champion of at least one one series and it could have been series 5 if not for this wrong decision. Still, at least it won the commonwealth carnage. At least that makes it a champion over some parts of the world I guess.

My top 10 least favourite Robot Wars Robots
Now of course, I could not write a list about my favourite robots without writing a list of my least favourite. Again I would like to stress the fact that these opinions are not based on the robot's teams or the robots that the machine in question has beaten. With that being said, I shall begin my list.

10. Juggernot 2 - Oh dear, this machine was just utter garbage. If you take into consideration that a lot of the robot had to be disposed of in order for it to make the weight allowance, which is a bad sign straight away, along with a slow, top-heavy, narrow, unbalanced machine with a ridiculously high ground clearance to make it even more unbalanced then you can see why I am using such a harsh description. Heck, even the flipper, that needs to GET UNDERNEATH other machines in order to be effective was as far off the ground and the rest of the body. Now I know weight restrictions can be horrible, but you can't tell me at 97kg that you can't add an extension to your flipper so it can reach the floor and become a useful weapon. How did this robot qualify, yet Arnold A. Terminegger and Disc-O-Inferno fail to?!

9. Purple Predator - Now I'm giving this one a little slack because I'm almost sure it was a joke entry. BUT, many joke entries, such as Robochicken and Diotior have proven to be effective. This however was no such thing. I give praise for adding fur to the machine in hopes of an entertaining fire and I also give praise for having what looked like a great weapon, a huge front hinged flipper. Sadly though, it all goes downhill from here. Like Juggernot 2, this machine suffered from a problem that is so ridiculous, you would have be a Muppet to not realise it. And that ladies and gentlemen is having such a high ground clearance it makes your weapon useless. In order for this robots good looking weapon to work, it needs to get underneath it's opponents and it can't do that when it has a ground clearance is so high that even Juggernot 2 could probably get underneath it and that suffered from the same problems! This robot looked like it could do well, but was let down by it's awful design.

8. Henry - Ah Henry 2, what can I say about it? In honesty? Nothing. In it's only appearance it lasted about 5 seconds before being killed by one axe blow from Dominator 2. So what is there to say? Well I have to admit I liked the looks of it and I think it did have potential but with so little to go on, I can't really offer a proper opinion on it. However there is one good thing to say about it. It looked like one heck of an improvement over Henry. How did henry qualify for this series, yet robot's like Inquisitor Mk2 and Six pack didn't? It's weapon was a spike which prohibited it free movement and did nothing but dig into the arena floor. It had no srimech, no power and no hope really. I honestly think the most dangerous part of this robot was the picture of the teams Gran on the back of the robot. At least it didn't get in the way of Henry moving forward. And whilst I really hate the fact this robot won and not Haardvark, I can't use that as a reason to hate Henry as it wasn't the machines fault. What else can I say? A rubbish robot that didn't deserve the chances it got.

7. Hippobotamus - It's a plastic sandpit......huh?! What were the team thinking when making this pike of junk? "Oh I know, we have entered powerful, strong, durable, fast machines in the past so lets enter a plastic robot with a weapon that has no control and makes the robot wobble around so much you would swear it was on a rodeo bull." Why?!?! What is the logic behind this?! Seriously? a team with this much experience surely would have know better! But it gets worse, because at least this machine wasn't top-heavy, unbalanced and easy to be flipped, unlike....

6. Bot out of Hell - Oh dear lord, why oh why did Team Torque enter this abomination? The team entered All Torque in series 2 and 3 yet THIS THING is what they entered into series 5? Where do I begin? A huge ground clearance, exposed wheels, a weapon so thin and with so little power behind it I doubt it could do damage to ARAKNIA, no srimech and a top-heavy design. Bravo guys, you made the best recipe for disaster. What was so hard about using the extra weight allowance of Series 5 to make a stronger, tougher Small Torque? It utterly baffles me.

5.  Doctor Fist  - Wow, this machine was just plain awful wasn't it? It's weapon was petrol driven. That alone is a bad sign. The fact that the weapon's engine wasn't working when it entered the arena was even more silly. Also the design looked awful, the wheels were exposed and it broke down almost immediately in both of it's battles. But the thing that really drives me nuts is some good machines that could have qualified, didn't because of this machine. If your weapon is not working before you enter don't enter at all. Now, some robots may get away with this because they are good enough without the weapon. A great example of this is Storm 2. However, did Dr Fist even LOOK like it could put up a fight WITH it's weapon working, let alone without? No, it didn't and it showed it by being defeated easily in both it's matches. And utter waste of space that should not have even bothered.

4.  Dantomkia - As soon as I wrote this I could just feel the amount of people wanting to chase me off the planet for putting this robot on the list. But hear me out. Ok I will admit that it had a great first run and did well in it's second series also but there were some things about this machine that just irritated me. One of which was how overrated it is. Now I will admit flipping Chaos 2 out of the arena is a good feat but for goodness sake that does not make Dantomkia a god among robots! Yet everyone says it is a great machine and the only thing they really have to back it up is that. Now I will admit and give credit for their other achievements, such as Flipping Hypnodisc and panic Attack OOTA, being the only machine to accomplish this, beating IG 88 in eight seconds and it did eventually become the robot to hold the crown for most OOTA flips. But the problem is, no one ever remembers Dantomkia for these moments, and only use it's defeat of Chaos 2 as an excuse to like it. Another problem I had with Dantomkia is just how obvious it's matches became. Dantomkia had a thing for wanting to be the king of OOTAs and it did become that. One problem. You could predict how it was going to win every match because of this. Also, OOTAs by this time, in my opinion, had gotten to usual and boring for me to even care slightly about them. It also didn't help that the aim was off so many times that most of it's fights just had it flipping robots against the side wall until finally one went OOTA. Dantomkia also had a horrible design. It's ground clearance was HUGE and the flipper was a quarter of the way up there wedge. Why? It's not like they ever used the ramming spike tactic in the first place and this led to many a machine being able to get away with being flipped. It's these things that just make me dislike this robot. And why is it above Dr fist? because Dr Fist only appeared in two matches and thus did not annoy me as much as the other machines on this list.

3.  Typhoon 2  - Now, I love the RAF. My Dad was in the RAF for several years. And they made a great machine in anvil that showed the most basic design was good and strong. However, the Air Cadets just had to ruin the RAF's reputation with Typhoon 2. Now to be perfectly honest, I dislike all versions of Typhoon, and all for the same reasons. The first, of many reasons was the fact that it had to run away from it's opponents to spin up to speed. I consider this cowardly and personally find it a bit dull. All it's matches started with 15-20 seconds of it just running away. It also disappointed me. I thought it looked like it could cause some serious external damage, however, when it comes down to it, it rather lacked in this area. Don't get me wrong of course, it did well against Hammerhead 2 and Iron Awe but against Thermador 2 and X-Terminator it just seemed to do internal damage, which didn't feed my want for mayhem and destruction. And the main reason I dislike it is that it is the most undeserving champion of the lot. Yes, I give it praise for it's damage again Iron Awe and Hammerhead 2 and if it had kept up with this destruction then I can't see why it wouldn't be deserving of the title, but look at some of it's other battles. in it's first fight it was flipped over and was lucky that Colossus wasn't righted first. Then look at it in the Semi Finals against Atomic. They were lucky that Atomic malfunctioned because it looked like game over for Typhoon. And finally I have to bring up the Storm 2 controversy. Yes I know that this was not Typhoons fault and I don't dislike the machine because of this, but I do still think they were undeserving of the championship due to it being rigged against Storm 2's favour. Still, it wasn't the robots fault so I can cut it some slack if I'm honest. What else can I say. I didn't like it, and I don't think I ever will.

2. Tornado - Now before anyone says it, no I do not think that Tornado cheated in the series 6 grand final. It was a great, unique design and showed that the team had some interesting ideas. And above all, it was within the size limit.....Wait, I'm going off topic here. I shall return to this later. Where was I? Oh yes, I don't like Tornado. At first I was impressed by it's power and strength, but then I realised a huge problem with this machine. It was a brick pushing robots around. That's it. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but to like a robot it had to be ENTERTAINING. This is something that Tornado wasn't. It was bland and obvious and did very little to interest me. I found myself being bored with this robot very quickly and it just more and more dull as it went on. If there is one thing I cannot stand in robot combat, it's a dull, boring pusher. However, whilst this is one of my biggest pet peeves towards robot combat, it is only second on the list because the next robot on this list is just that AND has a lot more to dislike about it as well.

So who could it be? In the list I've covered useless robots, dull robots, overrated robots and robots that had too much promise and did not live up to it. So what could possibly be at number one on this list? Well you're about to find out. At number one, and my least favourite robot is.......

1. Razer - Oh dear god there is so much about this robot that makes me despise it! I hate this little machine! I hate it! Hate it, hate it, hate it! There is too much about this machine that I dislike for me to put it all into one paragraph, so, if you don't mind I shall write several paragraphs as to why I dislike this robot.

The first reason of why I detest this robot is because of how overrated it is. Again, there is more then one reason why this machine is overrated, so I will have to split it into parts. First off is the fact that everybody claims it to be "The most destructive robot one robot wars" and to have caused "Immense damage", however I will always disagree, mainly due to the fact that I can back up my reasoning. Now they may seem correct, after all it has a record of 40 UK victories. That there seems like a good reason to believe that Razer is a very destructive robot. However, after looking at the list of victories Razer has I came to stunning realisation. Only about 11-15 of them were won via K.O (This may vary depending on what you consider a K.O/immobilisation). I'm pretty certain Chaos 2, Hypnodisc and Firestorm have won via more K.O's than this, yet for some reason, everyone finds it vastly superior. Really? I'm sorry but I can't see how that is destructive. Anyway, upon looking over the list again I came to realise that out of this 40 win record, a reasonable amount of these were via pitting. So let me get this straight. Razer tried to finish off it's opponents but can't, so therefore pits them. How can a robot be destructive if it can't finish off it's opponent?! Again, some of these pittings were AFTER the opponent was immobilised, but I still think more were pitted BEFORE hand, not after. And this also means that roughly 15 of it's wins were via the judges. So Razer fans, please tell me how a robot is destructive when A LOT OF IT'S VICTORIES ARE WON ON JUDGES DECISIONS?! It boggles my mind! For a robot to be classed as destructive, surely it will have to have won the majority of it's matches via KO. I mean how does winning via judges decisions make you a destructive robot? It basically means that they couldn't finish off their opponent so three guys put them through. If you want destruction, look at Hypnodisc. There is a robot that left it's opponents in pieces. THAT'S destruction. All Razer did was put three or four holes in a robot and win via the judges. I don't care how you look at it, that is NOT destructive.

Another reason why it is overrated is due to the infamous Matilda fiasco. Now, for those who don't know, at the end of series four, the southern annihilator was filmed. At the end of said annihilator, Razer came in and crushed Matilda to death. This led to Razer praise and everyone went on to say silly things like "Razer should replace Matilda as house robot" and even came up with the dumbest excuse to like a robot the went along the lines of "Razer is great because it took on the house robots. just look at what it did to Matilda!". Now, I could understand why many a person may say that this is a good reason to think the robot has a decent weapon, IF it wasn't OBVIOUS that it was FIXED! You would have to be an idiot to not realise that this was fixed! I watched this when it first aired and I was SIX at the time and STILL could tell it was fixed! Now you may be asking, why was this fixed? And why would the producers let that purposefully happen? Well it's simple really. What was the main change that Matilda had when returning back for extreme 1? If you said the huge destructive flywheel on the back then, no duh. Basically, at the end of series for the producers decided to change Matilda's weaponry to a flywheel rather than a chainsaw. One problem was they needed to make a new chassis for her. And what better way to say goodbye to the old one then letting Razer destroy it at the end of the annihilator if it won? So of course Matilda was destroyed and the old chassis went out in style. Now you will probably want reasonable explanations to back this up. Well let me ask you this. Would the producers let Razer destroy a robot that cost them thousands of pounds to build without giving them permission? Surely if that was the case they would simply have Sir Killalot, Dead Metal and Sgt Bash get it off Matilda, rather then make them TEAM UP WITH IT AGAINST MATILDA. Honestly, this has fixed all over it and people STILL thought it was real? Really? How could anyone POSSIBLY think that this was real? It boggles my mind! It really does!

And the final reason as to why it is overrated is because of the fact that it won the best design award in series 5. Now I can actually understand How it won in both series 2 and 3. In series 2 it was a unique design that worked and in series 3, designs were still a little bellow par. In series 4, Razer wasn't nominated for the award and I can see why as a huge breakthrough of better designs were entering the warzone, so naturally it was time for Razer to be pushed back as the best designed machine. However, in series 5 not only was it nominated again, but it also won, AGAIN. WHAT?! Are you telling that a robot that doesn't even get NOMINATED for the best design award for the previous series, WINS said award the series after? How?! For that to be possible you would have to be saying that the the designs of robots would have downgraded from series 4 to series 5, which was NOT the case! It just shows how blatantly biased towards Razer the producers were! Speaking of which, that leads me to the next reason why I dislike this robot so much.

And that reason is the obvious bias towards Razer. Now I actually disagree with what some people have said on this wiki as they have said Razer was put against robots that "Never stood a chance of winning" which I think is highly unfair. However, I do agree that a slight bit of bias was being put on Razer by the producers as it was, let's be honest, their cash cow. I have already stated that it was spoiled when it came to the best design award but what about it's heat layout? Now whilst I disagree with the fact that some people on here have claimed that most of it's opponents "Had no chance of winning" I will go on to say that there was a lack of pedigree in most of Razer's heats, especially in series 3. Now series two can slide because that was early on Robot Wars and it was Razer's first war. But in series 3 we saw a major lack of pedigree in it's heat. Of all the other seven robots in said heat, only ONE of them had experience, that of which was the Agent Orange team, who had Spin Doctor in series 2, which to be honest was not a justifiable experienced robot. It's reasons like this where I wish they seeded robots for series 3, because some heats would have been evened out a bit. Series four I can't really complain about since it was put in a heat with a very experienced Pussycat team who knew what they were doing, but in series five, again, it just seemed to not have robots with any pedigree. Ok so you had Suicidal Tendencies, a former two time heat finalist, but then you had Sumpthing, which had only won one fight prior and Destructabubble and Rick, both of which lost in the first round of the previous wars. I'm not saying that has no chance, I'm saying that they lacked pedigree and the fact that all other entrants were new comers, that automatically lacked it as well. I also think that giving it a top four seeding two series in a row when it failed to reach the semis in the series before is a little unfair. Now ok I do think being world champion does justify being a seed, but number 3 and 4? No! even 5-6 would be pushing it! I would put it at around 10-16, but not 3-4! Then again, that's bias for you.

And finally the main reason why I dislike this robot. It's boring. I'm sorry but it is. All it would do is slowly drive under a robot and slowly crush down....through....thei...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz- Ahem sorry. but even talking about this machine's fights bored me to tears. What's so entertaining about seeing a slow paced match where a VERY slow claw puts about 3-5 holes in a robot, misses all the electronics and then wins on a judges decision. It is simply a dull robot and I don't know how so many can find it entertaining. Then again, people enjoy snail racing so I guess that can like a Razer match too. It's only entertaining battles were when Firestorm, Behemoth and Pussycat fought it, and that's only because all three actually controlled parts of the fight. Heck, even in those fights the parts where Razer was on top were dull as all hell. Razer was and always shall be a dull, uninteresting waste of space, materials and robotic combat. If you want to see a high impact match with near misses, entertaining attacks and frantic battling that will keep you on the edge of your seat, go and watch Chaos 2 vs Wild thing. If you want a match with non-stop destruction and a hell of a lot of damage and mayhem, do and watch a Hypnodisc match. If you want to see a match where godd driving skill, partnered with an effective weapon make a great battle of endurance, skill, determination and back and forth close action, then go and watch a Firestorm or Panic Attack match, or even one of the two fighting each other. if you want to see a match where a dull, boring, ugly robot claws slowly through a robot's armour four or five times, thus making your mind slowly shut down and your passion for robot combat to wither and die, only to then win on a judges' decision, then go and watch a Razer battle, because you will not be disappointed.

My top six most anti-climactic battles
Ah yes, there was always that one battle. That one battle in which you expected to see a brilliant match of epic proportions, only to have said match turn out to be utter, utter tripe. Yes, the were always that one battle, or, in this case, six. Yes this is my top six battles that I thought would be great, but turned out to be one big let down.

''Just a quick note. This is not a list of boring battles, although my main complaint about many of them is that they are boring for what they were anticipated to be. For example, many dull matches such as Firestorm vs Bolt From The Blue will not be put on this list because we never expected much of the battle in the first place. I would also like to say that whilst it may seem like, I don't hate all the battles bellow, i just feel that they could have been better.''

6. Plunderbird 5, Stinger and Scorpion vs Dead Metal, Shunt and Matilda Extreme 1, House Robot Rebellion - This was a dream match for many of us wasn't it? The House Robots let of the lead as it were. The competitors vs the House Robots was finally here in the House Robot Rebellion of Extreme series 1. I was excited! And the best thing about it was that the robots were announced later on in the show to add more tension! Unfortunately however this excitement soon left. Why? Well out of all the robots that could the give the House Robots a good battle, they ended up choosing three robots that has no chance what so ever of doing well against them. Think about it. They had Chaos 2, Dominator 2, Thermador 2, Panic Attack, Pussycat, hypnodisc, Razer, Firestorm, Wheely Big Cheese and many more they could have chosen, but no, instead they chose Plunderbird 5, a robot I love to bits but was never going to do well, Scorpion, a big bulky robot that was an easy target, and Stinger, a fantastic machine yes, but could you honestly see it doing anything to the House Robots? Nope, didn't think so. And as a result, the match was obvious with neither machine even putting up a fight. Even worse still, the House Robots didn't do much to the competitor machines. Shunt just pitted Plunderbird and Scorpion, whilst Dead Metal just clutches Stinger and sliced aimlessly at the wheel hubs. Nothing much in this one. Matilda as a reserve wasn't even needed. So much potential, so little entertainment.

5. Mute vs Storm 2 Extreme 2, New Blood Final - Mute and Storm 2, two machines that have proved formidable as new machines. They dominated their heats and did well in the finals. But this is it, the final battle. A battle between two future titans. A battle of strength, wits and durability. Right? WRONG! I remember being so pumped up for this fight when I was younger. Two brilliant new machines paving the way for the newer generation of robot combat and what do we get? Three minutes of nothing! Well I say nothing, we see two great flips from Mute but that doesn't save this one. Storm 2's front wedge bends, meaning they have little traction and Mute's wedge is too steep to get underneath Storm 2, resulting in three minutes of two great machines nagging at each other. Wooo.......

4. Panic Attack vs Cassius & Chaos 2 vs Hypnodisc Series 2 & 3 Grand Final battles - Yes I can imagine your anger but hear me out. These battles were the Grand Final matches of their respective series and what did we get? Not much. let us first look at Panic Attack vs Cassius. Both teams are great sports and both Robots are great machines. But both start tentatively, with neither doing much. JP himself says "Go on! Kill each other!" in a way that is more exciting then the actual battle. Finally something happens as Panic Attack drives up Cassius' wedge, causing it to fly over the top. "Finally" I think to myself, "the action is finally going to happen". However, to my dismay, this is just a feeble hope. The two robots nudge each other two more times, before Panic Attack, mercifully shoves Cassius down the pit. Yes it was an upset but this whole fight is rather overrated if you ask me. Nothing really happened! In fact, I shall sum it up for you. The two machines only came into contact SEVEN TIMES. Well that's just plain rubbish isn't it? Then again, the Series Three Grand Final battle wasn't much better. Again, there was a lot of hype for this one. Two brilliant machines way ahead of their time about to battle it out! The best flipper of all time vs the best spinner of all time. We expect mayhem. But what do we get? The complete opposite. Chaos 2 flies over to the other side of the arena but Hypnodisc barely moves away. In fact, it spends 99% of the battle against the side wall it started at, moving only every now and then, probably due to a bad reception. Great. The most destructive robot at the time reduced to barely moving. The disc isn't spinning much either. Chaos 2 meanwhile nudges it a few times before flipping it over and winning the fight. Well that was a bit dull wasn't it? Yes I know Chaos 2 attacked the House Robots in fun and entertaining style at the end but this was not the actual fight between it and Hypnodisc so that doesn't count. I was going to put the Series Five grand Final battle on here too, but let's be honest, who thought that that match would ever be good?

3. Thermador 2 vs Typhoon 2 Series 7, Semi Final B, Round 1 - Now this battle took place when I still had high expectations of Typhoon 2. It looked like it could do some serious damage and seeing that Thermador 2 had exposed wheels, flimsy claws and some good break off bits, I was expecting to see the lobster get destroyed. Also, if this was not to be the case, we would have gotten to see Thermador flip Typhoon 2 around the arena and do some very aggressive driving. However, instead of this battle allowing me to like Typhoon 2 even more, it instead sealed the coffin of dislike for it. As I said above, I dislike Typhoon 2 due to it being called "destructive" and "the king of spinners" when it was no such thing. And this can be shown in this very battle. The battle consists of Typhoon 2 running away for 15 seconds, Thermador catching up with it and then BANG! One hit and it's over. Yep, one lousy hit turns a battle of high energy into a quick, dull and anti-climactic battle, if you can call it a battle. Was this one hit something that did serious damage to the outer shell? No. Did it rip off one of the wheels? No. What did it actually do? It probably knocked a wire loose. Brilliant. And yes I know the whole point of spinners is to immobilise the opponent but we didn't even get ANYTHING pleasing to the eye, nor anything entertaining, which is what the show was all about in the first place!

2. Hypnodisc vs Dominator 2 Series Five, Semi Final B, Round 2 - Oh Christ it's this match. Many people consider this to be the most boring fight in the history of Robot Wars and I can see why. It pained me to have to watch this again just in order to put it on this list. The only other time I have viewed it was when it first aired, all those years ago. I had high expectations, what with it being the Semi Finals and all. Add to that an amazing spinner and a fantastic axe and you get a recipe for bliss. But what did we get? Hypnodisc immobilising one of Dominator 2's wheels in the opening minute of the battle. After this is done, Hypnodisc backs off and does nothing. And with Dominator 2 unable to move across the arena, the refbot comes in to count it out and let the house robots have fun with it - oh wait no that would be fun, instead he just LEAVES IT THERE IMMOBILE until the time runs out! So basically we get about a minute of action and then nothing.....that's what I call entertainment! (I love sarcasm).

1. Ellie's Little Pink Bot vs Typhoon Thunder Extreme 2, Lightweight Final - Oh man the word anti-climactic just isn't enough to describe this one. This was just one big disappointment. I myself am a huge admirer of robots from different weight classes and if there is one thing I wished, it would be that we got to see more lightweights in Robot Wars. But as you well know we didn't. In Series Two the lightweight championship battle was just shown in a ten second long clips video. In Series Three the event, along with many others, was cancelled and in Extreme 1 it was cancelled again. The finally in Extreme 2 we had another Lightweight championship battle! Typhoon Thunder, a machine fro the same team who bought us the two time middleweight champions (at the time) Typhoon was set to go up against Ellie's Little Pink Bot. It looked a bit small and it seemed an easy win for the Typhoon machine but we can't jump to conclusions, after all, Ellie's Little Pink Bot doesn't look that bad. So here we are, for the first time ever a full lightweight battle! And what happens? Ellie's Little Pink Bot does SOD ALL! Why? The robot weighs too much for the motors to turn the wheels, thus not allowing it to move...... yes you read that correctly. And from that moment onwards I utterly utterly hated this machine's team! They robbed us of ANOTHER lightweight battle. I mean it was good to see it get destroyed and to be fair they did sacrifice their robot for entertainment but seriously, how did they even have this as a problem?! They could have easily given it better motors seen as though the robot only weighed 14kg, leaving a full 13kg to work with. Why was this the only other lightweight robot that could have entered this battle? Surely there was another one! I know I am going on a lot about this but I personally feel robbed and cheated! All I wanted was a good, clean and proper battle between two great lightweight machines and instead I get....this!

Top ten best examples of "What the hell were you thinking"
On Robot Wars many a robot was built to fight. Many of them were great and many were not so great. however, no matter how good or bad a robot was, it still had it's faults. Many faults could be ironed out, but a fault would still be there, albeit a smaller one, whilst other machines' faults were just not taken care of, leaving me to think to myself "what the hell were you thinking". Other times, teams would just enter a robot full of faults to begin with, again, leading me to think the same thing. And there were even experienced roboteers with good knowledge of the sport who would either enter with bad robot after bad robot, or, even worse, come back with worse robots then before. In this list I will the top 10 occasions which led me to say "What the hell were you thinking". Lets begin.

10. Chaos 2 - Now before you start a riot and hunt me down to boil my body into a fine toothpaste, let me just say I loved this robot. Heck it's on my top 10 favourite robots list. George Francis was a genius who knew what he was doing and was able to create a robot way before it's time. BUT there was one factor that let Choas 2 down and in turn, made it worse then what it once was, therefore making me wonder what the hell George was thinking. And that was improving the robot to better suit the evolution of the show. Beginning with Series 5 the weight limit for heavyweight robots was increased to 100kg. Now George Francis knew very well that because of this, Chaos 2's flipper would not be as brilliant as it once was and therefore used the new weight limit to his advantage and added some much bigger rams on board the robot. However, when it came to using the new weight limit to his advantage, he pretty much stopped there. What I want to know is, with this extra weight allowance, why did he not add some better back protection to his machine? I know that this never let the robot down as such but it was still a big enough risk for him to constantly worry about it. Now after he added the new rams into his machine, Chaos 2 weighed in at 84kg. That leaves an extra 16kg to work with. He could have easily added some armour to the back of his robot and would probably have some more weight left over, which leads me to my next concern. Chaos 2's flipper became to powerful for it's own good from series 5 onwards. You can tell this because it kept flipping itself over. Now in series 5 George may have only just noticed this problem and therefore didn't have the time to correct it, but for series 6 surely he could have added a bit more weight to the front of the robot. Let's look at it like this. The metal used to protect the back of Chaos 2 would probably weigh about 5-10kg. That leaves 10kg to add more weight to the front of his machine. These two little adaptations may have stopped Chaos 2 from falling badly in it's final two series. George, you're a genius but what the hell were you thinking by not updating these problems?

9. Killerhurtz - This one is low on the list as it really has nothing to do with the design of the robot. No no, this is more to do with the person driving the robot. John Reid, what the hell were you thinking when you drove into the pit? He claims he forgot about it because he had been fighting at Battlebots shortly beforehand, but that is no excuse. Surely you would have remembered it after SEEING the big black square hole in the floor?! Sorry John but there is just no excuse sometimes....

8. Cruella - This is basic Robot Combat 101. Make sure all electrics on your machine are covered. Cruella entered series 2 with it's weapon motor out in the open. That's right, it's main form of attack was vulnerable because the team didn't think to cover up the poxy motor for it. Why?! Surely they could fit it under the shell with the rest of it's components. But that's not all. The team also managed to ruin their other weapon too. This said weapon is the wedge at the front of the machine, which let's be honest here, is WAY too high to get under anything. How do they expect it to work when it can't get underneath it's opponents? This one is rather short because it is simple bone idleness and there isn't much more that can be said, other than, what the hell were you thinking?

7. Gravedigger - What happened to gravedigger? In series 3 it was a fantastic machine. In series 4 it was highly unlucky. And in series 5 they messed up big time. Instead of using the extra 20kg weight advantage to make the flipper more powerful and the drive better, they instead turned their fierce flipper into an awful axe. Now I wouldn't mind so much as axes are difficult to make a good weapon out of but then I noticed that they only used up 9kg of the extra weight allowance. Why not just pack some extra CO2 on bored? As we saw in it's fight with Tornado it's axe started getting slow and eventually stopped working so the extra CO2 would have been helpful. Also lets take a look at Mute. 4kg of their robot was the CO2 to power the flipper and look how powerful that was. This again proves that the extra CO2 would have been helpful. Imagine the power of an axe that used several kg of CO2 to power it. Or better yet, they could have just stuck with the flipper weapon and improved it. Either way it would have been a lot better then seeing it's dismal final appearance in series 5. Guys, what the hell were you thinking?

6. Spam - Spam is on here for two very good reasons. First is the obvious blunder that is the machine driving into the pit after practically dominating Spawn Again. But the second reason is the use of their weaponry. Spam was armed with two flywheels that would spin at a very high speed, transferring kinetic energy into a prong like thing on the front. Now this is a huge issue. You see, like many long spinning weapons, such as drills, it takes a lot of effort to aim the weapon correctly so it can cause reasonable damage. And even then, that's with a weapon that spins very very fast. This "Tin opener" style weapon was just far to slow to cause any realistic or effective damage and coupled with the said lack of aim, I highly doubt this weapon would have been any use if it had ever worked. So here's my big question. Why not just add teeth to the two flywheels and have an invertible machine with two deadly discs on the top and bottom of the machine. Think about it. This would allow the machine to have a 360 degree attack range (may I remind you who won the following series) and with it being invertible, they would have ironed out all the issues with robots that have this style of weapon. Now there would have to be some changes to the over all design, such as more wheels that aren't exposed and better driving, but let's be honest, these changes would have helped the robot out anyway. Imagine it, a robot with two flywheels one the top and bottom to cause double the damage. But no. It was wasted on a pathetic little poky thing that couldn't scratch paint. What the hell were they thinking?

5. Doom/Doom Too - The middleweights were always a little rusty weren't they. Most were just boxes. Others were just cheats. And then you get the utterly useless ones due to the teams lack of logic. Enter Doom. Now in Extreme 1 it entered the Middleweight tournament as an upside down wheel barrow with a plastic lunch box holding all the electrics together. Riiiiggghhhttttt......Why? It only weight 29kg, meaning they had an extra 25kg to work with. Why not give it better armour, or a weapon other then just a wedge, or maybe some better inner protection. In fact, they could have had all three and still been under the 54kg weight limit. There was no excuse for this and as a result, the robot got smashed to pieces by typhoon. Ah well, surely they will have learnt their lesson for Doom Too right? Right? Well it's heavier at 39kg so that's a start and I guess it's due to them adding some better motors so it's looking god so far. But then it goes down hill again. No weapon and wooden armour. Are you kidding me? There is an extra 15kg of weight and they use wood as an armour? Why?! With 15kg they could easily add some better armor and probably a weapon too. But no, they kept the robot 15kg lighter then it should be and made it out of wood. What the hell were they thinking?!?!

4. The Tartan Terror - Ah The Tartan Terror. One of the "Honourable" (if you can call it that) mentions if you will that could have been entered onto my worst robots list bellow. However, it has not been added due it actually withstanding the majority of the punishment given to it. Still this robot was plagued with issues that left me wondering what the hell there thinking. Now lets breeze past the useless wooden armour and focus on the weaponry. It was said to be an Axe along with a ball and chain but, no matter how you look at it, it just wasn't either of these. No no, it was a polearm, which is basically a pole with some sharp bits on the end. It was also static, not really a good sign either. But the main issue with this "weapon" if you can call it that, was where it was placed. It was mounted on the base of the robot at wheel hight. And let that sink in just for a while. It was said to be a sit and spin robot, but how could they damage anything with such a low, and small range of attack? They seriously needed to re-evaluate this machine but it had just too many issues. What the hell were they thinking?

3. Project One & The Spider - Now these two robots get joint place because both messed up in the same area, but also in very different ways. I'll start with Project One. WJ Dijkstra is, let's be honest, a genius. He made some brilliant machines, including the Gravity machines, two of which featured in separate series of Robot Wars (Gravity 1 in Dutch series 2 and Gravity 3 in UK Series 7) and he also made V3, the only clusterbot in Robot Wars history to be made up of more than two parts. With these machine he never failed to reach a heat final. However, he unfortunately had to start somewhere, and that somewhere was Project One. Now, in all fairness, I can't be too mean to Project One. It had good weaponry, a lot of money and engineering went into it and it was a favourite to win the first Dutch Wars. So far then, it seems like a good robot, and it would have been, if for the fact the team hadn't sacrificed the robot's armour, favouring to keep both the axe and flipper weaponry. Yes, you read that correctly. They sacrificed their armour, the thing that they need to protect their electrics, so they could keep both weapons. Why?! Let's look at it from their perspective shall we? Let's see, we have a robot that is a favourite to win, two deadly weapons and some good armour for protection, but oh no!, we are over weight. So what will it be? Get rid of the drive? No, that would be even more stupid. So that pretty much leaves either the armour or the weaponry. Now, the machine has two very good weapons so removing one of them shouldn't be too much of a problem. Then we can have good armour and one very good weapon - oh wait that would be the clever thing to do, instead we should go into the arena with two great weapons, but nothing stopping another robot from easily destroying the components that fire these weapons, along with other internal vitals. Again, why?!

And now onto The Spider. Again, this machine entered the wars over weight so they had to remove the robot's armour. Now I understand removing the armour this time because they only had one weapon. But what I can't understand is how this robot came in over weight in the first place. The team entered previously in series three with Robocow, a robot that (big shocker) came in overweight. Now tell me, HOW DID THEY NOT LEARN FROM THIS?!?!?! Surely they should have learnt their lesson. But no, they made the same mistake and had to sacrifice the armour, leaving their robot very vulnerable. What the hell were these two thinking?!

2. Team Torque - Will someone please tell me what happened to Team Torque.? In Series Two, they entered A brilliant machine in All Torque. It was so good, it was the only robot to beat Matilda in the Joust trial. Then is Series Three they entered with a new and improved All Torque. And then in Series Four they enter with Small Torque, a new robot with a small spinning disc on the front. Whilst not as good as the first two robots, it is still a good machine. But then Series Five comes along and it just goes down from there on. Enter Hippobotamus, a robot made from a child's plastic sandpit. Huh? You have a team that has made three fantastic machines in the past and they turn up with this heap of garbage?! Why?! Why not just use the weight limit to improve Small Torque, or make a bigger and better All Torque? Why enter a plastic robot with a terrible weapon that rocks the robot off balance? What the hell were they thinking?

I'd also like to mention Bot out of Hell here as well, due to the fact that, whilst Martyn Sloss has left Team Torque to join his Wife and Son, he still made those three previous machines too, making this machine inexcusable. It's ground clearance was huge, it was unbalanced, it was top heavy, it had exposed wheels and it's weapon looked too thin to have any power behind it. Again, YOU MADE THREE TERRIFIC MACHINES BEFORE THIS, so what is your excuse for this pile of rubbish?! What the hell were you thinking Martyn?!

So here we are at number one. I was going to add some suspense but if I'm honest, I don't feel too well and this robot isn't worth it anyway. So here it is, the biggest case of What the hell were they thinking.....

1. Ellie's Little Pink Bot - Yes, this horrible lightweight robot. This machine ruined our one chance to see a full Lightweight battle in the UK. I'm sure if you have read CrashBash's lits page, you will know by now that this robot had a horrible flaw. It was too heavy for the motors to turn, meaning the wheels couldn't move the machine around the arena......Yeah. That's right. Where do I begin? First off, how did they not notice this problem before? Honestly, did they not give it a test run? Surely they would have figured it out upon trying to drive it into the arena, but then again, that would lead to another cancelled event, so I guess they just sacrificed themselves, which I guess is better than nothing. But my main beef with this robot is that, once again, they looked and the weight limit and said "forget it, what's the point" You see, Ellie's Little Pink Bot weighed in at a mere 14kg. That's 13kg LIGHTER then the major weight allowance, meaning they had an extra 13kg to work with. With this much, they could have EASILY put some bigger motors in the robot to make it drive and probably have some weight left over to improve the robot's armour and weaponry. Honestly, it doesn't take much to change such a stupid problem, and when you think they had A LOT of weight to work with, it makes you think What the hell were the thinking?!

Top ten House Robot Attacks
Ok, the House Robots were mean and merciless! They were big, evil and destructive. But just like every other machine on the show, they were not perfect and quite often we were reminded of this fact when competitors would try to take then down and often succeed in doing so. But what are the best examples? What are the ultimate House Robot humiliations? Well lets find out. Here is the Top 10 House Robot attacks!

10. Supernova/Storm 2 vs Sir Killalot Series 7, Heat I, Round 1 - This one is rather low on the list because it wasn't as entertaining or as effective as the others on this list, but it's still worth a good mention. This was the only time we really saw Sir Killalot get beaten. Think about it. In series 2 it fell over after picking up Groundhog, but that was hardly Groundhog's work. Also in series 2 he drove in the pit, but this isn't thanks to another robot is it? And despite catching fire all the time, that again was not thanks to any of the competitor robots and more just thanks to Sir Killalot for getting to close. But then along came this moment. Storm 2 gets behind Supernova, gives it the mightiest of pushes and slams it into Sir Killaot and Supernova's disc not only rips off Sir Killalot's track, but also does severe damage to the track mechanism as well! And finally, Sir Killalot is beaten! It's also worth mentioning that this was the most expensive damage ever given to a house robot so that gets it some points too.

9. Panic Attack vs Shunt Rivalry Most series - This again is low on the list because when it comes down to it, Panic Attack's attacks on Shunt were, most of the time, not that much to look at. But it makes the list due to the fact what it is really the only rivalry between a competitor and a house robot. Panic Attack loves taking on Shunt and always came out on top. All it would have to simply do it get underneath Shunt and lift him up. Easy. One of the few robots to literally have an answer for Shunt. Panic Attack even beat Shunt TWICE in the Sumo trial, you know, the trial that Shunt was made to win. Heck Kim Davies himself often stated in pre-match interviews that he would probably "take on Shunt" after defeating their opponent. What else can I say. It was fun and entertaining, just how it should be.

8. Razer vs Matilda Series 4, Southern Annihilator Final - No there is nothing wrong with your monitors and yes I have in fact put Razer's destruction of Matilda on this list. Yes I know it was rigged and yes I could always tell it was rigged and yes I do still hate Razer with all my strength, HOWEVER, even I have to admit this was entertaining! Matilda getting demolished, exploding inside because of her gas tanks and even the other house robots joining in made this a very funny and very entertaining moment in my Robot Wars nostalgia. I remember laughing my head off as I saw Matilda get ganged up on. I remember my eyes twinkling at the sight of her on fire. And I remember my Mother and I laughing at Matilda entering the arena in bandages! But it is only at the number eight spot because of the fact that it was rigged. So yeah, it was rigged but very fun.

7. Chaos 2 vs Shunt and Matilda Series 3, Grand Final - Oh how amazing Chaos 2 once was. And I really mean that. Just look at it's run in series 3. It fought seven machines and didn't even break a sweat. All of it's matches were nothing. Even The Big Cheese and Mace 2 couldn't do anything about it. And then came the Grand Final. Hypnodisc was surely the favourite of many. And let's be honest here, Chaos 2 didn't even break a sweat in this fight. Hypnodisc just simply did not do a thing. And there they were, Chaos 2, a robot years before it's time, the new reigning Robot Wars grand Champion. And after effortlessly winning all of it's battles, it then went on to show just how strong it was by flipping not one but TWO house robots in one battle! Who else can say that they won the Robot Wars series with no difficulty and then easily dispatches of two house robots in one battle. No one, that's who. Chaos 2 first went for Matilda and flipped her with ease. Then Shunt came along in an attempt to help out his friend, but to no avail as once again Chaos 2 reigned triumphant. This makes the list because it was the first time a robot flipped two house robots in one battle and due to the shear entertainment bought out by it. Chaos 2 proving itself a worthy champion.

6. Gravity vs Shunt and Dead Metal Series 7, Heat D Final - Ah Gravity, what a machine this robot was. And the match that made me love it was the series 7 heat D final. After easily dispatching of Lightning, Gravity then turned it's attention to the house robots. First up was Shunt. Gravity very sneakily drove underneath Shunt and flipped it over. Now this is usually no big deal, but Shunt wasn't just flipped over, it was THROWN over. How often do you see a house robot do a barrel roll? But then it's gets better. Gravity then take son Dead Metal and, in a moment of disbelief, flips it over as well, a feat that many considered impossible due to it's design and width. Now Dead Metal is my favourite house robot so seeing it get defeated is always a win in my book and the robot capable of doing it is worthy of praise. This is probably the most underrated house robot attack of them all and my goodness is it great!

5. The Big Cheese vs Sgt. Bash Series 3, heat E Final - This in my opinion is another VERY underrated example of a house robot being attacked. You see The Big Cheese had perhaps the biggest and most powerful lifter in Robot Wars history. I've seen people call it overrated. HA! Overrated? Make a robot with a lifter so powerful it can lift it's opponent into the air and carry it around the arena. Go on, I dare you. In fact, do one better. make a robot with lifter so powerful that it can lift a 120kg house robot into the air and carry it. Because that's what The Big Cheese did. After a hard fort battle and and unfortunate loss, The Big Cheese showed us it was still a formidable and deadly machine and used it's lifter to get underneath, lift and PICK UP Sgt. bash. This was the first and only time that a robot has ever picked up and held a house robot in the air. But to make it that little bit sweeter, Sgt. Bash's back panel came loose and it's gas bottle fell out! So not only did The Big Cheese pick him up, he also broke his weapon! Now that is power!

4. Firestorm, Bigger Brother, Kat 3 and Panic Attack vs Shunt and Cassius Chrome Series 7, All Star Tournament, Round 1 - My that was a mouthful, anyway onto number four on our list. Now many people consider this to be the ultimate house robot attack and for good reason. Fist of all, it was just pure chaos. Shunt flipped in a matter of seconds, the floor flipper and drop zone both firing prematurely and, of course, Cassius Chrome being beaten to death. What isn't fun about seeing a house robot get immobilised? Nothing, that's what. "So Anderson" I hear you screaming, "Why isn't this at number one?!" Well it's quite simple really, I just don't think it was as fun or as entertaining as the next three on my list. Sure I loved it and it was brilliant but it just wasn't as good. Sorry to disappoint, but it just wasn't.

3. Chaos 2, Bigger Brother, Thermador 2 and Wheely Big Cheese vs Sgt. Bash and Matilda - Extreme Series 1, Flipper Frenzy - Phew, another mouthful. Once again we have what many consider to be the best attack on a house robot. And again I can see why. On the word activate all four competitors immediately go for the house robots. Wheely Big Cheese goes straight for Matilda and is immobilised almost immediately. Meanwhile, The other three attack Bash, with Thermador getting the first flip in. It fails, but Bigger Brother soon follows up with a KO flip. But this isn't enough. Chaos 2 then decided to flip Bash a few more time, causing it's back panel to fall off before eventually flipping it against the side wall, breaking it's flame thrower in the process. Unfortunately they are unsuccessful in flipping the beaten house robot out of the arena. Chaos 2 and Bigger Brother then break down leaving Thermador to try and beat Matilda with no success. Wow! Just wow. What a fantastic war! Yet it STILL doesn't get the number one space on my list. WHY?! Well if I'm honest, Matilda survived and, in my opinion, won the battle. Nobody could defeat her, meaning that whilst this was one entertaining moment, it wasn't a full win for the competitors. Still great fun though!

2. Firestorm vs Sgt. Bash and Mr Psycho  Extreme Series 2, Commonwealth Carnage, Semi Final - Oh where do I begin with this one? What we had here was shear brilliance! First of all lets get to how it happened. Whilst Mr Psycho was dealing with a very battered and beaten Panic Attack, Firestorm got bored and flipped Bash over. All is good so far. bit it's what happens next that brings the big smile to my face. Mr Psycho, upon pitting Panic Attack, reverses onto Firestorm's wedge! And, after what seems like an eternity, Mr Psycho proves top heavy enough to be toppled over by the force of Firestorm's flipper! And there it is, the unthinkable has been done! The biggest and most heavy house robot has been flipped! And of all robots to do it, it is my favourite robot of them all! This had me jumping around the living room at the time I first saw it, and even to this day I scream and shout yes whenever I see it again. What more could I ask for? my favourite robot beating my least favourite house robot! Pure and utter brilliance!

So here it, the number one spot. But what shall take it? After all we have seen so far, it seems almost impossible for there to be anything else. But there is. You see, out of the previous nine events, there has been one thing missing. What is it? Well you're about to find out because here it is, the number one best house robot attack of them all!

1. Gravity and Behemoth vs Mr Psycho, Cassius Chrome and Growler Series 7, House Robot Rebellion - Why? Well let me give you the run down of the match. Gravity almost immediately flips Growler over. He doesn't just flip it over though, he chucks it over! Then, not much later, it flips Cassius Chrome into the pit! Meanwhile Behemoth is having trouble getting to grips with Mr Psycho. Gravity attempts to help but all of a sudden gets immobilised! Behemoth is left to fend for itself! it looks like once again the competitors have failed, but they don't give up. behemoth uses Gravity as a shield in a valiant effort but to no effect. Then behemoth tries to use it's axe on Mr Psycho, but it ends up being snapped off. It looks like it's all over, but then, for some reason, Mr Psycho breaks down. At that moment though Cassius Chrome comes back having been righted by Refbot, however it is too late and cease is called. So what makes this the best of all the house robot attacks. Well let me break it down for you. First of all, this is the first and only time that Growler and Cassius Chrome are flipped. Secondly this is the only time where THREE house robots are beaten at one time! And the said house robots are also the most recent house robots! And to top it off, they were beaten by a team of competitor robots that were handicapped due to having one team member less! And finally, this is the only one of all the house robot rebellions in which I personally believe the Competitor robots are the actual winner. And against my three least favourite house robots as well. All of the above reasons are why this, in my eyes, is the best house robot attack in Robot Wars history.

Judges Decisions
Ok, I've decided to do something a bit different. As we all know there were a lot of judges decisions over the course of Robot Wars and, for the most part, they have been seen as correct. However, there is always that one decision that we don't quite agree with. Further more, there are quite a few that most disagree with yet a select few of us do agree with. I was originally going to make a list for each of these cases, but after a long thought, I decided against it because there were only a select few I could think of. Instead, I'm just going to talk about several decisions that fit the above criteria and give my two cents on them. Because of the nature of this list, it will be one of those lists that may "never be completed" as such, due to it depending on me remembering said judges decisions that are worth mentioning. So keep a look out as this list will be updated every so often, even if new lists have been started. If you think I should mention one that I haven't, let me know and I shall look into it.

Mortis vs Recyclopse: Series 1, Heat B Final

Winner: Recyclopse

Well why not start with a difficult one hey? And you can't get much more difficult then a decision that Noel Sharkey claimed to be so tight that they attempted to call it a draw, but that kind of ruling wasn't allowed at the time. I don't care what you say, that's very VERY close. Such a close and brilliant battle between two great titans of Series 1 and I'm shocked that it wasn't even nominated a place on the "Top 10 Robot Wars battles according to the wiki" list by CrashBash. Ah well, enough about the battle, onto the decision.

This decision, despite being very close, has been considered very controversial. We shall skip past the Mortis team's protest against the decision, mainly because we all know that it happened, but also because many people agree with them. However, many others also disagree with them. I've always seen this decision as a bit of a Marmite one, due to it being either loved or hated by so many different people. And, if I'm honest I can see both sides points. Many believe Mortis won due to it getting more attacks in and appearing more aggressive, whilst also claiming that Mortis was only in trouble due to it's own lack of control. However, others believe that because of it's lack of control and the fact that it was impaled on two arena hazards for a very long time were enough to sway the decision towards Recyclopse. Myself? Well I have to be on the side of Mortis. However, let's look at this as if I were a judge shall we?

Style - Recyclopse: Recyclopse looked nicer than Mortis, it has to be said and without it's axe, Mortis wasn't that exciting to watch.

Control - Recyclopse: This one speaks for itself. Mortis drove into the CPZ a few times, twice getting caught on the spike and arena side rails respectively.

Damage - Mortis: Hard to call this one, but I believe that Mortis just scrapped it, due to Recyclopse's armour bending every now and then. Plus I can't see any damage being caused to Mortis' tough armour.

Aggression - Mortis: Mortis did most of the attacking, with Recyclopse mainly just waiting for them to attack. Therefore, I believe Mortis was the more Aggressive.

Overall view - Well, as I said earlier, I personally believe this match to be Mortis', just because it won the two stronger criteria. But, like I said, I can see both sides points and agree that it was a very close, very good battle.

The Darke Destroyer vs T II: Series 3, Heat F Semi Final

Winner: The Darke Destroyer

Oh wow is this one was controversial. Many believe this to be one of, if not THE worst decision ever made in the history of Robot Wars. If I'm honest, I only ever saw this battle years later on Challenge and remember thinking the exact same thing when I saw it then, however, I do remember finding it a very dull battle with not much happening. Upon watching it again recently, my thoughts on it's entertainment factor haven't changed much, but my thoughts on the decision have.

Many believe that T II dominated this battle and at first glance I can see why. T II was shown pushing The Darke Destroyer around for the majority of the fight, with the latter not really doing much in the way of fighting back, or at least that's how it looks. But, if you put yourself into the mind of a judge, it comes clear. Before I get onto how I would mark it though, I would just like to remind you all that the use of an active weapon can count for points towards aggression. For example, if I was to threaten you with a knife (which I would never do, nor recommend doing) but not actually do serious harm to you with it, you would say I was being rather aggressive wouldn't you? With that said, let's take a look shall we?

Style - Draw: It's hard to really tell if I'm honest. Both robots are rather dull, grey and boring. Like I said, I think the match itself was quite monotone. The only thing I can say is that pushing a robot is stylish, as is a spinning weapon so it's equal for me.

Control - The Darke Destroyer: Let's be honest here, you can't say that a robot that drives into the CPZ several times is a well controlled machine. Meanwhile, The Darke Destroyer was well controlled in getting itself out of danger quickly.

Damage - The Darke Destroyer: You may find this odd, but watch the match again. Pay attention to the front right hand corner of T II. The armour is bent and buckled. It may not seem like much, but it's way more than any damage T II did.

Aggression - Draw: Again, it's a draw for me. As I said earlier, The Darke Destroyer's blade was spinning a lot and that counts towards aggression points. However, T II was also very aggressive, shoving their opponent around the arena. Too close to call, so it's a draw.

Overall view - The Darke Destroyer did deserve it's win, mainly due to it winning two of the four criteria and then being equal with T II on the other two. Also, it won on the most important of the lot; damage.

Firestorm 2 vs Bolt From The Blue, Series 4, heat C Semi Final

Winner: Firestorm

Well this is a bit of a dull one as well I'm afraid. It's a shame really, seen as though my favourite robot is Firestorm, but it's heat in this series was pathetic. It was dull battle after dull battle and one of which was this. Craig Charles went on to say it was more like a dancing competition due neither of the robots really having a go at each other, and due to the all round dullness of the fight. Ah well, less about that and more about the decision from the three wise people in the plastic box.

Many people, despite it being a dull battle, claim the decision to be wrong and I shall always disagree with this statement. Not because Firestorm is my favourite robot, but just because it won fairly on the criteria involved. Many people believe however, that the decision is wrong due to Firestorm not really getting a hold of Bolt From The Blue and Bolt From The Blue getting underneath the former a lot during the fight. Hmm, very odd points I have to say, especially when a lot of them claim Recyclopse to have beaten Mortis yet it did the same thing as Firestorm here. Ah well, to the point scoring.

Style - Firestorm: Whilst Bolt From The Blue got a "flip", if you can call it that, Firestorm was the faster of the two robots and was more stylish because of this.

Control - Bolt From The Blue: Firestorm, whilst being aggressive, did go up their wedge a few times. However, Bolt From The Blue don't win by much, as they were only more controlled due to just sitting there really.

Damage Draw: Two flippers? Yeah, because "damage" is what you think of when you hear a battle like that.

Aggression - Firestorm: Firestorm constantly on the attack whilst bolt From The Blue just sits there? This is an easy one if you ask me.

Overall view - Firestorm wins this one on aggression and style. Sorry everybody but a robot that sits down and just allows itself to get attacked can't win a fight just because it's opposition can't get underneath it. Firestorm wins two criteria, one of which is higher then the one that Bolt From The Blue won. Firestorm is the winner of this.

Panic Attack vs Mortis, Series 4 War of Independence Semi Final

Winner: Mortis

Oh boy am I glad to be writing about this match. You see, before I write about any of the battles that take place in this, I first watch it a few times to make sure that I am looking at it as if a judge were to do so. And after watching the previous two dull battles more than once each, I'm glad that I can finally watch a great battle more than once! What makes it so good? Well first of all it's a vengeance crunch between two very experienced machines, that have been highly improved since their first battle against each other back in Series 2. That, along with it being a very close, very fast paced battle make it a personal favourite of mine.

However, like all decisions on this list, this one is known for being rather unfavourable. As soon as Mortis was revealed as the winners of this battle, you could here streams of Boos from the audience, and I'm almost certain that it wasn't only because of their dislike of Mortis in the first place. Many believed that Panic Attack deserved the win in the match and I can see why. It did nearly flip Mortis at the start of the battle and they also managed to push Mortis into the CPZ where Sir Killalot then plucked up Mortis and carried it through the air. However, I can also see why Mortis won this one. It's axe was very aggressive and caused some good damage. I personally believe this one to be a lot like Mortis' battle with Recyclopse, a very close battle with a controversial judges decision. Unlike that battle however, almost everyone disagrees with the decision. The one exception is me. Why? Let's look at the criteria shall we?

Style - Draw: Very close this one. Mortis was very good looking with it's axe flailing around and hitting Panic Attack with quick, repetitive strikes, whilst Panic Attack was able to lift up Mortis and shove them around a lot. It's hard to call this one so it's a draw.

Control - Panic Attack: Panic Attack was definitely more controlled in this, driving Mortis around a lot and pushing it into the CPZ.

Damage - Mortis: Mortis made a few holes in the front of Panic Attack and bent some armour as well. Plus, can you see Panic Attack's forks doing any damage to Mortis. It's not too high on points however, due to the damage not being much.

Aggression - Mortis: Yes Mortis wins this one, although it is very very close. only a mere point or two in it. Panic Attack were aggressive with their drving, but I have to say that the axe of Mortis was just a little more on the aggressive side. But like I said, not much in it at all.

Overall view - Mortis literally scrapes this battle by the skin of it's teeth. Both robots draw on Style and Panic Attack blows it out of the water on Control. However, in Damage Mortis wins by some amount of points, but it doesn't get many either due to the damage not being too much. And Aggression is won by Mortis with just one point in it. And because both of the highest ranking criteria were won by Mortis, despite only just winning them, are enough to carry it over the points scored by Panic Attack in all previous criteria. Such a close battle between two great robots!

Ewe 2 vs Tetanus Booster, Series 7, Heat E Semi Final

Winner: Tetanus Booster

Well, we are back to another dull one I'm afraid. I'd like to thank ToastUltimatium for requesting this one. There isn't much to say about the battle as it was rather weak if I'm honest. The only good thing about it were JP's U2 puns. So yeah, not much to say about this one as a battle, so lets move on shall we?

This one is one of the less famous "unfavoured" judges decisions, but Toast (If I may call him that) did say it was the only one he had ever disagreed with and considering what we already have on this list, that's gotta mean something. I also remember my Dad believing this one to be wrong all those years ago so I took it among myself to watch the battle again closely and what did I find? Well apart from deciding to never watch the fight again, I decided that I disagree with this one. Not that there is much to go on, seen as though not much happened in the fight, but I think that looking at the criteria and how it was judged, I can't see how they came up with the decision they made. Shall we take a look?

Style - Draw: Neither robot did ANYTHING remotely stylish. Instead of having a deadly spinner or a powerful flipper, we had a spinner that didn't do much and a flipper that didn't work, resulting in a pathetic pushing match. Neither did anything to win this one.

Control - Ewe 2: Ewe 2 seemed more controlled in this fight if I'm honest, pushing Tetanus Booster around and into the side walls and CPZ.

Damage - Tetanus Booster: Ok so it wasn't anything compared to what it did to Leveller 2, but it still did slightly buckle the front of Ewe 2, plus it also ripped....something off the front. However, not many points awarded due to the shear lack of my damage inflicted.

Aggression - Ewe 2: Ewe 2 did most, if not ALL the ramming, pushing and slamming, even if it was rather boring to watch. Ewe 2 for me.

Overall view - Ewe 2 wins this one in my eyes, mainly because it won two criteria and drew with Tetanus Booster on a third. Whilst Tetanus Booster did win on Damage, the criteria that carries most weight of the four, it didn't win many points for it and the few points that it did win were easily out shadowed by the points that Ewe 2 won on Control and Aggression. So yeah, Ewe 2 are the victors.

Gravedigger vs Steg-O-Saw-Us, Series 3, Semi Final B, Round 1

Winner: Steg-O-Saw-Us

Whilst this is a well known controversial judges decision, unfortunately it is one of the most forgotten about battles. I don't understand why either. It was a good fight between two great newcomers who were battling their way through the veterans to prove themselves to be top dogs. And they were just that. Gravedigger, with it's great flipping arm and Steg-O-Saw-Us with it's formidable power that was, at the time, the most power anyone had ever seen. So why is is it so hated? Well, it's most likely to be the decision that I was talking about a moment ago. About that decision? Well lets take a look.

Ok, this one is VERY controversial. It's more controversial than a Jim Davidson stand-up. Many people believe this to be the worst decision of all time. Why? Well unlike me, they don't consider it to be a great battle between two formidable machines. Instead they see it as Gravedigger completely dominating Steg-O-Saw-Us, whilst Steg-O-Saw-Us "did nothing" and "got owned". Do I agree with these claims? Well I can understand where they are coming from. I mean at first glance it could be seen as just this and I do remember when I first watched this battle as a wee lad, I thought something along the lines of "hmmm, I thought Gravedigger won" BUT, upon re-watching the battle in recent years I can completely understand why the judges made this decision. Remember that what you see is not always what you get. What do I mean by this? Well, as with other decisions on this list that were considered wrong, people are looking too much at what each robot is doing in a non-effective way, instead of looking at the little things that DO matter. Want proof? Well let's take a look at the criteria shall we?

Style Steg-O-Saw-Us: Steg-O-Saw-Us was fast and looked more eye pleasing than Gravedigger, who was ponderous and a bit dull to watch.

Control Draw: Both robots were very well controlled in this battle, with both managing to secure good attack on each other. It's a tie for me.

Damage Steg-O-Saw-Us: Just look at the front of Gravedigger at the beginning of the fight and then look at it at the end. You that MASSIVE bend that was caused by Steg-O-Saw-Us' tail? That pretty much put the wedge out of commission, meaning that they couldn't get their flipper into good effect. The two times it did manage to get a flip in where only due to using extra leverage from Sir Killalot and the side wall. Tell me, if a robot's weapon is mast almost useless, isn't that serious damage? Also, you can see the baseplate of Gravedigger was being peeled off in some shots.

Aggression Steg-O-Saw-Us: Whilst it may seem like Gravedigger is the one chasing after Steg-O-Saw-Us who seems to be running away, it is in fact not the case. Steg-O-Saw-Us is in fact, trying to get into a position where they can get a good attack in, whilst Gravedigger just turns around a lot on the spot. I hardly call turning around on the spot aggressive driving. Also, apart from those two flips, we mainly see Steg-O-Saw-Us hitting Gravedigger in the side and pushing them around a bit, which counts towards aggression.

Overall view - This is the best example of "it's the little things that count". It may not have looked like much, but Steg-O-Saw-Us definitely did more in this match than Gravedigger did, winning three criteria and tying with Gravedigger on the fourth one.

Wild Thing 2 vs 259, Series 6, Heat E Semi Final

Winner: Wild Thing 2

Oh this match. Where do I begin? This one is rather controversial. In fact, it's VERY controversial. Almost everyone out there who has watched Robot Wars knows exactly why this match is so controversial. For those who don't, I shall explain. You see, 259 dominated in the opening of the fight, easily flicking Wild Thing around the arena (and nearly out of the arena) with it's beg flywheel weapon. However, this weapon then broke, leaving 259 rather exposed. And then, in the dying seconds, 259 broke down. The judges were called upon and went for Wild Thing. Fans were outraged, claiming that 259 was robbed. The main reason for such beliefs? Well, they believed that 259 did so much in the match that the only possible reason for it losing to the judges was due to it being dead for the final few seconds. I can honestly say that if you were to view this bout on Youtube, you will see comment upon comment of viewers saying that 269 deserved the win. It is this reason why it pains me to say that they are 100% wrong.

Actually, you know what? It doesn't pain me. It makes me happy that I can finally voice my opinion on this decision that everyone hates for the complete wrong reasons. Like I said previously, the main reason for everyone viewing this decision as wrong is because they believed the only reason the decision was made was because 259 were immobile at the end of the battle. Now I can sympathise slightly here because the judges themselves said that this was the only reason without going into too much detail. But then again, if people were to use those things called eyes they would see that this was clearly not the only reason. To help you understand, I have decided to break this one down for you.

many claim that 259 deserved the win due to it "dominating most of the match". And it is true that 259 did dominated Wild Thing.....for sixteen seconds. Yes that's right I counted it. I also counted how long this match lasted. two minutes and forty two seconds. That's right. This "Domination" by 259 lasted sixteen seconds of a two minutes and forty two second match. But wait, it gets better. Wild Thing BREAKS 259's weapon FORTY FOUR SECONDS INTO THE MATCH. Yes, you read that correctly, 259's weapon only worked for forty four seconds of the two minute plus match. I hardly call that dominating the majority of the battle. But wait, there's more! People claim the damage caused by 259 was enough to get it the win, after all, damage does carry the most weight off all four criteria. I could agree with this, IF ANY DAMAGE WAS CAUSED! Watch the battle again. 259 caused no internal, nor external, from what I could see at least, damage to 259 what so ever. And even if it did, Wild Thing BROKE 259's weapon, which is more serious damage if you ask me. Oh and how could I forget that from this moment onwards Wild Thing dominated the fight, constantly ramming and pushing 259 around the arena. So that means that for one minute and fifty eight seconds of this fight Wild Thing was on top. Yeah, 259 were robbed..... Oh and 259 were immobile for TWENTY FOUR SECONDS! That's only six second less the limit of immobilisation. And robots lose points for every second they are dead. Proof? Armadrillo in heat D were immobile and came back to life, only for the judges to say it lost a lot of points due to being immobile for too long. So there you have, the reasons why this decision is correct. Still not convinced? Lets have a gander at the criteria shall we?

Style 259: Ok, I admit 259 was more stylish. Even after the flywheel broke, they looked better than the arrow on wheels.

Control Wild Thing: Wild Thing, after the faff at the beginning of the battle, was able to come back and use great control to steer and push 259 around.

Damage Wild Thing: All 259 did was flick Wild Thing over a few times. Wild Thing BROKE 259's weapon, which was much more important, considering 259 became useless without it.

Aggression Wild Thing: A robot that only gets in sixteen seconds of offence can't win on aggression. A robot that gets pushed all around the arena can't win on aggression. A robot that is dead for twenty four seconds of a thirty second time limit can't win on aggression. It's rather simple really.

Overall view - I really don't get why this decision gets so much hate when it is quite clearly one of the easiest and most correct decisions of the show. Wild Thing DOMINATED this fight and the only people who disagree are 259 fans who are sad one of their favourite robots lost. And for the record, despite loving the original Wild Thing robots, I hated Wild Thing 2 and wanted 259 to win. I just don;t let favouritism get in the way of logic.

Top 14 robots we should have seen more of
There was always that one robot that we wished we saw more of. That one robot that looked like it could do so well, yet we unfortunately saw it lose too early, only to never return. I'm sure we all have that one robot in mind, but I'm guessing that it won't be the same. So for the sake of fairness, here is the top 14 Robots we should have seen more of.

14. Max Damage - Now this might seem like an odd choice at first, considering it's dismal performance in Series 3, but there are some good reasons as to why I put this on the list. First of all is just how good it looks. It looks absolutely fantastic and rivals some of the House Robots when it comes to giving a robot some personality. It would have also been nice to see just how well this robot could have done. If I'm honest, I can't see it getting very far with no srimech, a relatively high ground clearance and not very effective looking weaponry, but who knows, it could have been good at pushing or ramming machines. I think it could have at least given Agent Orange a better fight. But the main reason that this machine is on the list is because we LITERALLY should have seen more of it. The reason it failed so badly was the team forgot to put in the safety link, rendering the robot useless. One small mistake cost us from seeing what this robot could have achieve and that is why it's on the list, albeit very low.

13. Scarab - Again this is an odd one due to it's poor performance in Series 3, but again I have my reasons for including it. Firstly it was the first ever machine to have a horizontal crushing device. It was also invertible. Now tell me, what robot does that design sound familiar to? Can-Opener perhaps? I know Can-opener was never successful in the main competition, but it won two annihilators. Also, I think it would have given the rest of the robots in the heat a good run for there money. Seriously, what would you rather watch? Victor 2 fall into the pit after a pathetic battle, or Scarab give Trident a decent, hard fought battle. I can even see it beating both Trident and Dreadnaut. Can you really see their weak armour putting up a fight against those jaws? I didn't think so. And who knows what it could have done against Chaos 2, with it being invertible and all. We should have seen so much more from this machine and all of that was lost thanks to those horrible arena spikes.

12. Facet - My my, there are a LOT of series 3 machines appearing on this list aren't there? What was one thing that was a major problem with series 3? The lack of seeds. Many users and others have speculated that the use of seeds would have made the layout of Series 3 better, mainly because the heats would be more even and spread out. Thanks to no seeds, some heats were filled with brilliant machines, such as Heats D and M, whilst some fell flat, Like heats L and P. And so many great robots lost so early. Enter Facet. Facet, along with Chaos 2, was the most powerful flipper in Series 3 in my opinion. The robot was fast and had great power. Sure it was riddled with issues, such as a lack of a srimech from almost all positions, a huge ground clearance and the fact that the flipper opened a bit too wide sometimes, leaving the interior exposed. But it was a dominant force in it's first battle, flipping Terminal Ferocity over in a matter of seconds, and giving Firestorm a good battle too. And if I'm honest, I could see it easily making a heat final and most likely even a Semi Final if the layout of Series 3 was more even, which it wasn't thanks to a lack of seeds. Such a shame, they could have done so well.

11. Inquisitor Mk 2 What's this? ANOTHER Series 3 machine?! Gosh darn, Series 3 machines were underused weren't they? And I genuinely mean that. First of all there is the fact it was full teams who turned up, had there chance and then left never to return. Great robots like Pitbull and Hammerhead are perfect examples of this. And then there were the robots who weren't given the chance at all. However, some of these robots were at least given some screen time in side events, and one of the ones that we really should have seen more of was Inquisitor Mk 2. It looks bright, had an effective weapon and proved strong enough to be able to lift Matilda over. I would have rather of seen this in Series 3 then the likes of Brimhur, Panzer and Robocow. In fact, the two previous machines were obviously built to take part in such events, so why weren't they entered into the Pinball and Inquisitor Mk 2 added to each of there respected heats? I'm sure Evil Weevil and Mace 2 would have liked some better challenges.

Honourable Mention: Eye of Newt - I have one main rule when it comes to Robot Wars and that is that the robot and the team are different. You shouldn't dislike a robot for it's team and vies versa. However, I have to ignore this rule in this case as it isn't Eye of Newt I we should have seen more of, but the team. Why? Well they just seemed like great sportsmen. How? Well they dressed up like wizards for fun for a start. Great teams like the Plunderbird boys and the Sir Chromealot team have dressed up for fun many times. Also, outside of Robot Wars they have raised a lot of money for charity with their machine and have also shown off the robot at schools in an attempt to educate children. If that doesn't scream "sportsmen" then I don't know what does. I would have loved to have seen more of these guys, but for that to happen, we would have to see more of the robot as well, hence it's place here.

10. Rambot - Oh my lord! A robot that's NOT from Series 3! I can't believe it! *Ahem* anyway, I loved this machine! It was fast, exciting and looked durable and powerful too. And all that aside it was in, what I consider the best first round three way melee in Series 4. However, whilst I love that match there is a part of me that wishes the battle never took place just so we could see more of this machine. Now I agree with the judges' decision, but I can't help but think that if it was in a different heat it would have gotten further. Let's be honest here, they could have easily gotten through the first round against robots like Dreadnaut, The Darke Destroyer 2, Banshee and Destruct-A-Bubble without it even having to go to the judges. It would just easily slam into them until one of them broke down or got flipped. I also have to give the machine credit for being capable of puncturing the titanium sides of Behemoth, a force that for the time, was pretty impressive. So yeah, Rambot, it was in a great fights, but I would have loved to see more of it.

9. Anorakaphobia - Well that lasted long didn't it? Anyway, back to what we are here for. Anorakaphobia. What can I say about it? Well, I liked it. It was quick, looked nice and had a great design. In fact, I think it was one of the more unfortunately never designs of the lot. What was it's design. Well along with it's fantastic speed and good pushing power it also had a VERY fast hammer, which could hit four times a second! That's twice as fast as Mortis' Axe! But this thing that got me mostly interested was the two chainsaw chains running around the outer body shell. These were strong enough to lift robots up and over the front wedge. Also, once the opponent was on top of them, the axe could also come into use as a front hinged flipper! Now that's cool! We really should have seen more of this design in this series of Robot Wars and ONCE AGAIN we didn't because of the lack of seeds. It was placed in a heat with a lot of strong and good looking robots whilst heat P had dismal machines like Twn Trwn, Rattus Rattus and Victor 2. Imagine Anorakaphobia in heat P instead of Twn Twrn. It would have beaten everything in it's path! This is why I wish they had seeds in Series 3 because the heats would have been laid out so much better. Ah well, I guess it's just not meant to be.

8. Little Fly - This robot should have been a Semi Finalist! There I said it! You heard me and most likely find me a little crazy right now. But before you call your local loony bin allow me to explain why I think this and why we should have seen more of it. First off, it was a great little robot. Ok it had a huge ground clearance, it was slow, it had no srimech and it's armour was rather weak. But did it ever die? Nope. Did it ever struggle? No more than any other robots did. Was it a bad robot? Not by a long shot. So many people are harsh on this machine and I don't get why. Has everyone forgotten that this machine immobilised Wel'dor, a seeded robot, in the first round of it's heat? That shows some strength if you ask me. And in the second round, it may have been rather lucky against Tiberius, but here's the thing. Tiberius was never in any trouble and broke down due to bad reliability. Little Fly, who had been bashed about during the fight and even had some severe damage caused to it's rear end was still able to move and fight strong, proving it was very reliable. And then we have the heat final where it was robbed my Mouse Trap. I'm sorry, but it was. Little Fly tore chunks out of Mouse Trap's sides and also cut and broke the chain that powered their weapon. This damage also proved to cause it difficulties in there next match against Stinger. What did Mouse Trap do? Well they pushed it into the CPZ and eerr that's about it. Mouse Trap even still have there control issues in that it was starting and stopping every now and then. Little Fly should have won this decision and was robbed. How well would it do in the Semi Finals? Well I can see it ripping up those tired on Stinger no problem, however I fail to see it beating panic Attack. We should have seen more of this robot but because of a poor judges decision we were robbed of such a thing. Poor Little Fly, such a good robot.

7. Draven - Ok I can't even begin to explain my anger about Draven failing to to qualify for Series 4 and 5 of Robot Wars, yet so many awful robots managed to. How did it fail to qualify? Well it proved to be unreliable enough to not be chosen to qualify. Yeah and I'm sure that Katerkiller, The Creature, Dreadnaut, Hammer & Tong, Juggernot 2, The Tartan Terror, Monad and Hippobotamus were far more reliable right? Ha! Honestly I don't see where they got their logic from sometimes. What also annoys me is that some robots, such as Scorpion and Destruct-A-Bubble, were chosen to compete because of their looks yet Draven, well the Series 5 version anyway, looked better than ALL the Series 5 robots mentioned above and still got snubbed! Why?! I'd much rather see Bulldog Breed, The Steel Avenger, Stinger or Tiberius 3 go against Draven. Also Draven had a really cool design and a great looking weapon. A crushing beak mounted onto a lifting arm. Pure brilliance and pure beauty. And we hardly saw it. Still at least we got to see it fight in the Extreme 1 Wildcard Warrior against King B Powerworks, even if it did lose. Although if I'm honest, this just made us want to see more of it surely.

6. Warhog - This might seem a bit odd since we saw it over three different series, but when you think that it lost all three battles it competed in then you can see where I'm coming from. The real annoying this is that we REALLY should have seen more of this robot. Let's have a look shall we. It's first fight was against Dreanaut, a robot with a weak fibreglass shell that had proved to be one of history's most unreliable robots ever and The Darke Destroyer 2, which had waggling sticks as weapons. Warhog had a pretty easy first battle and showed itself to be a great robot at first, shattering Dreadnaut's armour and spinning both of it's opponents away with the force of their weapon. But then one fatal hit and they break down. Well that sucks. They had the match won and then conk out after probably knocking a wire lose. Ah well, it should do better in Series 5 right? Wrong! Again it has a battle that should be a walk over as it's opponent was Napalm. yet the entire fight consists of it being pushed around. Why? Because they forgot to plug their weapon in. NNNNNGGGGGAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Ok! ok. Now that I've got that out of my system lets look at it's final battle. It's Series 6 battle once again looks quite easy. St Agro had exposed wheels, S.M.I.D.S.Y has proven to be unreliable and comengetorix has had a terrible win/loss ratio. So will this finally be the series we see more of this machine? If only. In all fairness the match was great but once again we see it fall rather unfortunately. It's a real shame too because that spinner looked very strong this series, destroying the side wall at one point. Let's face it here, Warhog had two very easy matches and one relatively easy match that it should have won, yet it failed on all three occasions. Such a shame.

Honourable Mention: Vector - Again this is a bit of an odd one due to it's terrible performance. In fact there's not much to say really. I guess I just liked the look of it. It looked quite compact and well designed, compared many of the dull, uninteresting designs that entered in the same series. I also liked the look of the lifting blade. It just looked cool, but we never got to see it! If I'm honest this is just a robot that looked cool but didn't perform as well as I had hoped, hence why it's only a honourable mention.

5. Bash Gordon - I liked Bash Gordon. And what really sucks is that we didn't get to see it do very much. Why did I like it so much? Well first of all, it had a great name and looked very nice. And with cool names and puns aside it was also very unique. Why? Well it had an Axe that doubled as a flipper. I honestly don't get how JP and Phillipa didn't see how this weapon worked. It's simple. It's an axe that has a spike on the top and when the axe it retracted backwards, the spike glides across the arena floor, meaning that in can get underneath other robots and flip them if they were to fire the axe. How is that so hard to understand? The robot was also fast and exciting and was, along with Cedric Slammer, the only good looking machine in Heat D of the New Blood Championships. Let's see, we have a quick, exciting robot that looks good with a unique weapon, Dr Fist who is awful in every possible way, Fatal Traction which wasn't overly impressive and Piranha whose weaponry was overrated. I would have loved to have Seen Bash Gordon and Cedric in the Heat D Final but alas is was never to be. Why? Well they got unlucky. They, along with Cedric were winning the first round melee and Pressure, who did nothing anyway, were immobilised by Cedric Slammer's spinning disc. Bash Gordon, had taken damage however, but it was only superficial. However, disaster struck as Bash Gordon's drive chain broke, leaving it spinning in circles. No matter though, pressure were immobile first and Bash Gordon was the more impressive of the two anyway. But then, to my dismay, Bash Gordon spun too close to the pit allowing it to be pushed in by Cedric Slammer, allowing the pathetic Pressure to go through with them. Well darn! I'd also like to mention that Bash Gordon somehow failed to qualify for Series 6, yet robots like Dr Fist and Demolition Man did. I don;t get how this happened but let's just say I rather it didn't. We really should have seen more of Bash Gordon, after all, it was the only Robot that had a flipper/axe weapon that actually looked like it could work, unlike Hammer & Tong's for example.

4. V-Max - It's an abomination that this robot originally failed to qualify for Series 4. We could have seen this beautiful robot and instead we get Humphrey and Fat Boy Tin? Well that sucks! What's even more annoying is that it was a reserve after Onslaught broke down. Well that's just great, one great robot is brought in to replace another great robot. Brilliant. Not! But at least it got into the main competition so we can at least be happy about that right? Well sort of, after all it proved itself a magnificent machine, easily beating the number 18 seeds Cerberus in the first round. But then it gets drawn against Hypnodisc. Oh dear. Well it at least put up a good fight, ramming Hypnodisc into the side wall even though it's CO2 canister had been burst, and managed to withstand most of the pressure. So why should we have seen more of it? Well, like I said earlier, it was a fantastic robot, easily beating a seed and giving Hypnodisc a pretty good fight. It looked good too and had a strong weapon. You could tell the team had built a good contender here. And the main reason why we should have seen more of it is that it should have qualified in the first place. I personally believe that in 95% of the heats in Series 4, V-Max would have made at least the heat final, and probably could have won a couple of them too. but no, it was a reserve robot that got bought into probably the worst heat be bought into. Poor guys, they looked so great too!

3. Mad Dog - Mad Dog is another robot that unfortunately failed to qualify for a series when so many other terrible robots did. Honestly lets look at some of the robots that qualified for Series 6 shall we? W.A.S.P., Doctor Fist, Infinity, Demolition Man, A Kill, 4x4 and Tridentate. HOW DID THE ROBOTS QUALIFY AND NOT MAD DOG?! Mad Dog had a great looking weapon, a big flipper that could flip with 1400lbs of thrust and was capable of flipping several 100kg V6 engine blocks 3ft in the air and 5-6ft forwards. Yet W.A.S.P., with it's pathetic little disc, useless spike and thin armour got through instead. Huh?! So once again, like many robots that failed to qualify for series 6, it entered the New Blood Championship in Extreme 2 and, in all fairness, it had what looked to be an easy heat, with the exception of Storm 2. In it's first fight it's against ICU, a robot that we know has very limited self righting capabilities and Chopper, which, let's be honest, fell apart in it's first round battle and had no srimech. an easy battle then surely. Nope. Despite Chopper falling apart and catching fire, Mad Dog's removable link fell out rather early on in the fight and was therefore counted out, only to then have Phillipa be rude to them. Great. Another promising machine robbed of showing us what it could do thanks to qualifiers making no sense.

2 - Shear Khan - This is an odd one because for once I didn't want it to have qualified for the series we saw it in. Shear Khan was bought into Extreme 1 to take part in one of the Mayhem qualifiers for the Annihilator at the end of Extreme 1. And, it did quite poorly really, getting flipped over by Panic Attack almost immediately and with no srimech, failed to recover. By this you can see why I am glad that it never bothered to qualify for Series 5 as it would have lost very early on. So how could I possibly want to see more of it? Well you see it didn't fail to qualify for Series 5, because it never entered in the first place. It failed to qualify for Series 4. So what we basically saw was a series 4 robot in a Series 5 environment. Now lets look at Shear Khan. It had a brilliant looking weapon, a spinning drum as well as in interesting looking Rock Chisel at the front. It looked quite sturdy too. All it lacked was a srimech, but in Series 4 many robots still didn't have them and flippers weren't quite there yet. I think it could have done rather well in Series 4 if I'm honest. Lets look at some of the robots that it could have replaced. First up Humphrey. In this round 1 battle I can;t see Steel Avenger winning, as it was dominated by Wild Thing and I think that the spinning drum could cause some issues to Steel Avenger also. In the second round Sir Chromealot would lose easily and in the heat final I think it was give Wild Thing a tough fight. How about Fat Boy Tin? Well it's first fight would be easy. Plunderbird 4 would be tipped over by Vercingetorix and then the Spinning Drum would cause damage. In round 2 I can;t see it getting flipped my Knightmare, and would probably win on damage. And in the heat final I think it would lose, but only just. Is anyone starting to notice a pattern here? The thing is that Shear Khan was easily capable of reaching a heat final in series 4 and I think would have if they had been allowed entry. and then maybe, just maybe they would have made more improvements so they could enter Series 5. What else can I say? Well they also had Kim Davies quaking in his boots, so that gets them some more points I guess.

Honourable Mention: Hellbent - One more honourable mention before we get onto the number one robot we should have seen more of, and I've given it to Hellbent. Why? Well I think all of us can say that it's début fight in Series 7 was very impressive, pretty much dominating the entire fight, only to have to face Atomic in an unlucky draw. If I'm honest though, whilst it was very impressive, it doesn't make the main list because I don't think it would have done much better if placed in any other heat. It was proved to be vulnerable against flippers, which pretty much dominated Series 7 and, let's be honest here, all three of it's first round opponents weren't exactly what you would call a challenge, with them being unreliable and having very weak armour. I personally believe that in almost every heat of Series 7, it would still fail to make a heat final, so it's only an honourable mention.

1. Sic Pac - Oh come on, how could this one NOT be on this list? This is easily the best robot to fail to qualify for any wars, yet still get a TV appearance. Why? Well lets take a look shall we? First of all, it was only one of three robots that actually put up a decent performance in the pinball, the others being Dominator and, of course, Razer. Now that is rather good. It was also shown to be a well driven machine, and appeared to be entertaining. The weapon looked strong too and if I'm honest, I think it could have performed well in Series 3, if placed in the right heat. Going back to what I said about Inquisitor Mk 2 earlier in this list, Six Pac looked like a robot that was put into a tournament that it wasn't invented for, yet other robots that were built for the Pinball were allowed to compete. Brimhur and Panzer come to mind. Why weren't they in the Pinball and Six Pac and Inquisitor Mk 2 in the main competition. Or better yet, get rid of some of the more, for lack of a better word, rubbish robots in Series 3, such as Shark Attack, The Iron mask, Death Warmed Up, Henry, Flipper and Abaddon, and instead enter the two more exciting and powerful robots into the series. Six Pac was a fantastic robot and because of poor choices, we didn't see nearly of much of it as we should.

Top ten worst robots in Robot Wars
Ok, so there are always robots that we dislike for one reason or another. However, in some cases our least favourite machines tend to be pretty good concerning what makes a robot good. For example, despite my utter hatred of Razer or Tornado, they did prove that they were good robots and had a lot of success. This is a list for all the robots that were just downright awful and should never have been made. So here goes nothing. The top 10 worst robots in Robot Wars.

10. Twn Twrn - I find it Ironic that the name for this robot means "The Ring". Why? Well the ring was a terrible American remake of a great Japanese horror film and this.....whatever it was was a terrible robot. It looked beautiful but honestly what did they hope to achieve with this machine. Slow, high ground clearance, awful armour, and a pathetic attempt of a robot. I will give them some slack though, seen as though they had to remove their weapon as the robot was overweight. Still not much of an excuse though. They should have put more effort into the robot's performance then into the robot's artwork.

9. Broot - Not much to really say about this one. A box on wooden wheels. A lack of potent weaponry and a high ground clearance didn't help either. It shows how bad a robot is when you can't think of much to say about it.

8. Cobra - Why oh why and HOW did this robot qualify for series 7? I fail to see any reason why this box with a spike weapon that can only fire seven times a match could possible win a qualifying battle. I can't even see it qualifying because it was entertaining or looked good. This robot was a disgrace to Robot Wars and as far as I'm concerned robbed a lot of robots a good chance in the series.

7. Angel of Death - Angel of Death is quite low on this list due to it being a series two robot. Still, as far as series two robots go, it's still pretty damn bad. It looked promising, being invertible with two discs and looked sleek. Sadly, it all ended here. Angel of Death was one of the classic examples of a machine that wasn't built for the gauntlet. It would have done well in some of the trials and may have won a fight in the arena but in the gauntlet it simply was never going to do well. The gauntlet is about speed, manoeuvrability and being agile enough to defeat the obstacles, neither of which this robot has. It's a shame really as I liked the look of it when I first saw it. A real shame and it just goes to show that preperation is everything.

6. Hippobotamus - As I have mentioned above in previous lists, this robot was horrible. An utter waste of space. HOW did THIS qualify and Cerberus fail to do so? Just to go over it again in case you haven't heard it enough. The weapon was awful, the armour was plastic, the robot was unbalanced, the weapon made the robot jump around the place and it was just a pathetic attempt from such an experienced team. You can't even say the robot was a joke entry because the team took the loss seriously! God damn this machine was not worth scrap it was reduced to.

5. Doctor Fist - Again this machine has been mentioned above so I shall try to keep this brief. What do you get when you put a petrol powered weapon that doesn't work and spins the wrong way round together with a bulky, clunky, ugly robot with exposed wheels? A disaster AKA Doctor Fist.

4. Henry - Oh dear, we are in deep trouble now because this robot was utter, utter garbage! It was slow, had a weapon that was pathetic by series one standards that also impeded it's driving ability, had weak armour and just about anything else wrong with it! Sorry to sound so harsh but what were they thinking with this....this THING! You can hardly call it a robot!

3. Monad - As stated by CrashBash, Monad was built by a team who had no idea how to make a robot that could actually fight in a battle. What was wrong with it? Well it's armour was peeled of. not ripped off or crushed off but peeled off after a glancing blow with Tiberius' claw.....Wow! It's weaponry was a small set of pincers that would have trouble crushing through Brutus Maximus! It's ground clearance was so high that Purple Predator would have been able to get underneath it and it also hindered the robots driving because it would wheely every time it moved forward, rendering the claws even MORE useless in the process! It was weak, Vulnerable and a horrible attempt at a robot. It would have been pathetic in series one. Bugs could have beaten this thing!

2. Juggernot 2 - It's been mentioned before and here it is again. This robot literally should have NEVER been made. Top heavy, high ground clearance, no srimech, a flipper too high off the ground and weak armour equal utter garbage. Hell it was so badly built that it fell apart by being flipped! How did they ever expect to do well?!?! How did this qualify?! how?!?!?!

1. Death Warmed Up - Obviously a team Death robot had to appear on this list, however I decided to only include one of them because otherwise this list would be full of them. So which one to include? Well as you can tell, I chose Death Warmed Up from Series Three. Why? Well to explain I must go over how the others compared against it. piece De Resistance, whilst being badly made and utterly lacking of power, did make it past the gauntlet (just) and I can give them SOME slack as it was their first attempt. Immortalis was terrible but it lost to the much fancied and very experienced X-Terminator so it's loss wasn't such a shocker, plus it looked like it could do something and had some nice break off bits. And finally we have Metalis, which was the best of team Death's machines, not that that's saying much. Death Warmed Up meanwhile had nothing going for it. In fact, it was a pile of utter [Insert rude expletives here]. What made it worse then the others? Well let's first look at how frail it was. It lost to Stealth which, let's be honest here, was a mediocre robot in itself. How did it lose? It conked out after being easily pushed onto the flame pit. That's right. The FLAME PIT. The only other robot to do this was The Spider and that was only due to it having no armour yet this abomination did! To make things worse it had two weapons that never came into play (although I doubt they would have even worked in the first place) and the machine was also 20kg UNDER the weight limit. Why not use this 20kg to their advantage?! In fact to show just how utterly naff this robot was I've decided to take the design back down to the basics and see just what could be done to make it half decent.

Step 1 - Burn the original machine to the ground.

Only joking. Well first of all, I'd make the robot sturdy. Death Warmed Up looked so weak that it could have probably been damaged by Flipper's axe. Perhaps use some tougher armour for the square base. The armour used looked so weak that wind could have bent it. Next I would add some motors with some power behind them so the robot could actually push back. Thirdly I would concentrate on ONE good weapon, rather then two naff ones that probably would never work. Death Warmed Up looks like a big set of lifting forks, similar to that of a forklift truck, would fit nicely on the front of the machine. And then to the decoration. Well that humanoid thing has to go. Even THE DECORATION was horrible! Instead I'd replace it with a smaller figurine representing the grim reaper or the devil. I would also maybe paint the robot red and orange to represent the "warmed Up" part of the name. And there we have it. A simple, yet half decent design is born. Sorry for all the Art Attack: Robot Wars edition talk but I just wanted to show how utterly bad this heap of junk was.

Top 10 comebacks
If I'm honest, and I am most of the time, one of my favourite parts or Robot Wars was the comebacks. A robot that looks as if it's been beaten into the ground, fighting back and giving it's opponent the battle of all battles. Even if it still lost they have me on the edge of my seat. So, of course it only seems natural to have a top 10 list of the best comebacks in Robot Wars. Shall we begin? (Note: to save time and to stop my fingers from bleeding, I shall list the robot that came back first in each battle)

10. Iron-Awe vs Bigger Brother Series Seven, Heat O Semi Final - This one is so low on the list because it was only a very short comeback, for a very short battle. But it was a good one! The battle starts with Bigger Brother as the hot favourites and why not? They are the fourth seeds after all. The match goes as one would expect at first. Bigger brother flips Iron-Awe over in no time, but it self rights and escapes. The action, which is so far frantic and action packed, moved to the side of the arena where Bigger brother is chasing down Iron-Awe. However, in a turn of events, Iron-Awe turns onto bigger Brother's side and flips it clean out of the arena! The audience is stunned, the teams are stunned and just about everyone else is stunned too! A great comeback in such a great little fight!

9. Wild Thing vs 259 Series Six, Heat E Semi Final - Now I agree with the judges on this one, but that is for a different list. This is about Wild Thing's Comeback. You see, this just shows hows dogged and determined Wild Thing was, even if it was the awful series six version. The match starts with the number nine seeds getting hit, smashed and bashed around the arena and nearly flicked over the side wall by 259's spinning flywheel. But then, 259 hits Wild Thing too hard and the weapon belt comes off. This leaves 259 as an open target and Wild Thing spends the rest of the battle pushing, ramming and attacking 259 until it breaks down in the final seconds of the battle. Wild Thing wins via the judges due to it's dominance in the majority of the fight. What a comeback!

8. Diotior vs Tornado Series Five, Heat G Semi Final - And who said all comedy robots were bad? Now I've seen people actually claim Diotior to be lucky here, due to it only winning after Tornado lost drive on one side just before it was pushed down the pit. Now this IS true, but er, did you not see the rest of the fight? Tornado starts as the favourite and at first dominates. Diotior just gets pushed around easily. But then, it pushed back. Then, it pushes back a little bit more. Repeat this a few times and before we know it, Diotior is pushing Tornado all over the place, including the CPZs. Now I know that Diotior pushed Tornado down after it lost drive on one side, but it could have easily done it before as well. And as I just mentioned, after a hard fought tug of war between these two machines, Diotior picks up the surprise victory, by pitting Tornado! Great comeback this one.

7. Wild Thing vs Prizephita Series Five, Heat E Final - Poor old Prizephita, they finally get past the first round, make it all the way to the heat finals and then lose to Wild Thing in what many consider (myself included) a wrong judges decision. But you still have to hand it to them. They nearly had Wild Thing out via a K.O. You also have to hand it to Wild Thing for pulling off a great comeback here. It was a close judges decision in all fairness, and I can see why Wild Thing was given the win. But let's look at the battle. Prizephita starts as the surprisingly stronger robot. It flips Wild Thing over and over again, but Wild Thing self rights each time. But then Wild Thing is flipped on it's side, and it's wheel can gain enough purchase to count it as mobile. Refbot comes in to make the count, but Wild Thing topples down just before the count starts. And then from here it's all Wild Thing. Wild Thing has so much stamina that it has no problem pushing around the battle hardened and worn out Prizephita. After nearly getting them down the pit twice, they ram the tired machine into the angle grinder as the final few seconds count down. Like I said, I don't agree with the decision, but it was a close one and a great comeback on the part of Wild Thing.

6. Panic Attack vs X-Terminator Series Three, Heat K Final - This battle was a sign that robots were improving in the wars. For the first time, the champions were nearly defeated in the heats. However, this battle also shows that a big part of being a champion is durability. Enter Panic Attack. They went into this battle as the obvious favourites. They were the reigning champions, of course they were! Yet, as the battle starts, it is X-Terminator getting all the good attacks in, using it's Axe to hit and pin down Panic Attack and drag it into the CPZs. It uses it's speed and push to slam the champions all around the arena. It looks like X-Terminator's battle, but then, out of no where, Panic Attack hits back and hits hard. In one swift movement, Panic Attack slams X-Terminator into the side wall and bursts it's gas cannister. And from then on, it's Panic Attack's fight, with the champions eventually lifting the worthy challengers onto their sides where they cannot self right. And after a worthy battle and a worthy comeback, Panic Attack are victorious!

5. Pussycat vs Thermador 2 Series Four, Semi Final A, Round 1 - Why do cats always need to have fights and rivalries with other animals? They hate Dogs, Birds, Mice and now, thanks to this fight, lobsters. A truly brutal and gruelling battle this one, so lets get our claws stuck in! (Yay for puns!). This battle starts with Thermador 2 getting the upper hand, which is shocking considering it is battling against the 19th seed. It flips Pussycat into the air with ease three times! but then, it's flips start getting weaker and weaker until it can barely flick Pussycat. And then the cat sticks it's claws in. It cuts up the flipper, the tail, the claws, the tires, the top armour, reducing Thermador to a limping, hobbling mess. Pussycat win an easy judges decision, but t didn't look like it was going to win so well at first did it? Still, well done Pussycat, you get the cream.

4. Bigger Brother vs Behemoth Series Six, Heat L Semi Final - This is another short but sweet comeback another short but sweet battle. So why is it higher than a lot of others on this list. because it was more fast paced and had more of an impact on me. So onto the match. bigger Brother, the number two seeds and favourites are almost immediately flipped over in the CPZ and fail to self right at on first attempt. They eventually do self right however, only to be flipper over again by Behemoth. But Bigger Brother self right better this time and don't take long to take advantage of Behemoth's huge, unprotected sides, flipping the bigger machine over. behemoth's srimech is not as effect as bigger brother's and fails to self right. Bigger Brother then slams Behemoth into the pit release button, righting the machine at the same time. No matter though as one swift flip and a unique clamp technique later, Behemoth is pitted, meaning they fall in the heats again. What a shame for them but what a comeback for the seeds Bigger Brother!

3. Wild Thing vs Hypnodisc Series Four, Semi Final B, Round 2 - My my Wild Thing have appeared a lot on this list haven't they? Well here they are again. Now this one is unique as it is the only comeback on this list where the robot that comes back STILL loses the battle. Now this may make it seem like it's not worth mentioning, but oh boy is it ever! Hypnodisc are the obvous favourites for this one and start the strongest, tearing into Wild Things side and wheel hub, buckling the wheel making it hobble around the arena. A couple more hits crumple and deform the side and wedge of Wild Thing. It looks to be all over, but Wild Thing, the robot that runs on what can only be called SteDroids, fights back! It pushes Hypnodisc into Dead Metal in a brave attempt. And then, just to make it all that bit sweeter, it drives underneath the disc and rams it into the side wall, stopping the disc in the process as the final second tick down! Hypnodisc gets the decision, but Wild Thing gets the respect it deserves! I still do not know what powered the machine! It just would not die!

2. Bigger Brother vs Hypnodisc Series Five, Grand Final - "WHAT?!?!" I hear you shout from behind your monitors, "HOW DARE YOU NOT PUT THIS AT NUMBER ONE!!!" Sorry guys, but it isn't number one for a reason and I shall get to that later. But for now, the match. We all know this one surely. Bigger brother, the underdogs, get absolutely battered. Their armour is ripped to pieces, they have bits hanging off their machine and even their flipper has become dislodged. It all looks like Hypnodisc are heading through here until Bigger Brother start fighting back! They push hypnodisc around the arena and then attempt to open the pit. Hypnodisc in an attempt to prevent this from happening, open it themselves. And then, in one big mother of all upsets, Hypnodisc drive too close to the pit allowing Bigger Brother to push them down it! The crowd goes wild, the teams are stunned and cheering and I'm jumping around my room in shock and enthusiasm! So why is this not number one? Well if I'm honest here, Bigger Brother got won this one by a fluke. If Hypnodisc han't of driven so badly at the end, it would never have happened. Still a brilliant battle and a fantastic comeback!

So what is at number one on my list of ultimate comebacks? Well what else could it be? I'll give you some clues. It was in the final series. It featured a flipper. And it was a fast and exciting conclusion! I hope you get it from that. Here is my ultimate comeback!

1. M2 vs Tiberius 3 Series Seven, Heat A Final - And here we are, several minutes and bloody fingertips later, wee have arrived to my number one comeback in Robot Wars, and boy was it a good one! The favourite for this battle is Tiberius due to it's experience, plus it has also won a trophy. And at first, it all seems to go well for the favourites. They crush into M2's side with ease and drag around the arena, eventually hitting the pit release button. However, M2's outer wheel is still on the ground, meaning it can steer Tiberius where it wants. This means Tiberius cant pit M2. Both robots end up in the CPZ where Growler and Sir Killalot end up nudging the robots enough to loosen the grip on the claw. And then M2 strikes back, speedily driving out of the CPZ. It then gets a huge flip on Tiberius before attempting to flip it out of the arena in a failed effort. No matter though as they flip the experienced machine over again, this time right next to the open pit and one more well aimed flip sends Tiberius, the robot who were favourites to win and had dominated 80% of the fight, down the pit in very convincing style! All the way through this comeback I was on the edge of my seat and it is to this day my favourite of the lot! Well done M2, Tiberius hit the road!

The Top 25 Robot Wars battles in my opinion
This list is going to take up A LOT of space and considering that this page is getting VERY crowded as it is, I've decided to post this list as a blog instead.

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