Tsunami

Tsunami was a German robot which competed in Series 7 of Robot Wars. It was a wedge-shaped robot with titanium armour and a full-pressure flipper. Just like Scraptosaur it had a snarling mouth full of teeth painted onto the battery that could be seen when its flipper was fired. During its appearance in the UK Series, Tsunami flipped all three of its opponents out of the arena on the way to the heat final, where it was ironically thrown out of the arena by X-Terminator's flywheel. Prior to its entry in the UK series, Tsunami had finished as runner-up in German Robot Wars, losing out to Black Hole.

Series 7
"Perhaps the only thing that could stop this machine — over-confidence?"

- Jonathan Pearce's prophetic warning to Tsunami after the second round.

Tsunami breezed through the first two rounds, flipping Major Tom 3 out of the arena, and quickly following this up with Diabolus after the 11th seeds X-Terminator had ripped off both of its discs. The second round saw Constrictor sail out of the arena as well, proving Tsunami to be one of the most impressive robots of the series. However, up against X-Terminator, it flipped it over, but in an attempt to get it out of the arena, caused X-Terminator to land back on its wheels. This allowed X-Terminator to land several blows with its flywheel, and it eventually ran out of CO2 gas and broke down. X-Terminator charged the back of Tsunami, simultaneously causing external damage and throwing it out of the arena. It was a vicious and ironic end for Tsunami.

Results

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Wins/Losses

 * UK Wins: 2
 * UK Losses: 1
 * German Wins: 3
 * German Losses: 1

UK Series

 * Series 1-6: Did not enter
 * Series 7: Heat Final

German Series

 * Series 1: Runner-up

Trivia

 * At 36 seconds, Tsunami's battle against X-Terminator, Major Tom 3 and Diabolus is the shortest battle in UK Robot wars to require two immobilisations. However, it did not make the top 30 list.
 * Had Tsunami defeated X-Terminator, along with St. Agro and Bulldog Breed, the four competitors from Robot Wars: The Seventh Wars/Grand Final would all have been named after natural disasters (Typhoon, Storm and Tornado).
 * Due to the nature of foreign editions of the show, Tsunami and Lizzard are the only runners-up in history to have fought the Grand Champion earlier in the same competition.
 * Tsunami broke the record of most consecutive OotAs. Thermidor 2 and Chaos 2 previously held the record with two, whilst Tsunami flipped three out. Its record was later broken by Atomic.
 * Tsunami was the fourth robot to flip two robots out of the Arena in one battle.