Reinstated Robots

Occasionally throughout Robot Wars, the winners of a battle were unable or unwilling to proceed. In these cases, the robot they defeated would be ‘’’Reinstated’’’. The reasons for winners being replaced varied. The first instance was after the Heat Final of Heat D in Series 3, after Ultor handed victory over to Big Brother.

Also, in each Series of the Dutch Robot Wars, the judges would pick robots that had been eliminated in the Heats to be reinstated, and go through to the Heat Final. These were referred to as Wild Cards. Originally, only one lucky robot was given a Wild Card, but this was increased to three in the Second Series

Note: Reinstated Robots should not be confused with Substitute Robots. Substitute Robots are robots that were not originally intended to be in a tournament, and only brought in when a competitor in that event had to pull out. Reinstated Robots were already part of a tournament, fought at least one battle before being knocked out, but were given a second chance.