User blog:CrashBash/Crash's Top 5 potential Series 5 heat winners

Within, hopefully, a few short months, Robot Wars will have aired its tenth series. It's amazing the series has gone on for this long, even with a massive hiatus in the middle of it. It's changed format many a time, but the rule is always the same...make it through to the Grand Final, or the Semi-Final at least for Series 2-7. And whilst we've seen many many robots reach that stage, one thing probably stands out more than anything, or at least it would if you're like me and you have no life...not one of those grand or semi-finalists comes from a team who debuted in Robot Wars: The Fifth Wars.

It seems a little strange when you think about it...why exactly has no Series 5 newcomer ever actually won its heat? Well....to be fair, looking at the quality of newcomers for Series 5, that's kinda self-explanatory. Most of them were extremely sub-standard. But even after Series 5 and the chance came to improve, not one of them managed to pass the heats. Were they just doomed to fail? Well...not entirely. To be honest, there were quite a few debutantes who were good, but honestly, most of them were just below the quality of many other robots. Robots like Barber-Ous, Beast and Corkscrew were certainly potent robots, but even in heats that they could have done well in, there was always someone who could have easily outclassed them. But were there any robots who could have won their heat, or any heat, since their first appearance in the Fifth Wars? Well, we're about to find out.

''Note: To be clear, when I say Series 5 newcomers, I mean teams, not individual robots. So S3 and 13 Black, who had previously had Sting and Limpet respectively as far back as Series 2, don't count.''