User:Hogwild94/Ragnabot

OK, time to start my attempt at Ragnabot.

As I stated before, I will only be using UK robots from the original series, as A) I am not as familiar with overseas robots that never appeared in the UK series and robots from the revival, and B) as, as Ragnabot 2 proved, robots from the revival tend to have an advantage over their forefathers.

Thus, we will only be using robots that competed in the original UK series, and they will be fighting in the Series 7 arena. Same format as Ragnabot 2: sixteen heats of 32 robots, with four progressing to the QFs, then SFs and then the final.

I have compiled an entrants list, that runs to 552 robots in all. For a format the same as Ragnabot 2, I need to whittle that down to 512. So, forty need to be unqualify, so we need forty qualifier battles. I will publish these in batches of ten, and then do the draw for the actual series.

Qualifiers

 * All Torque (S3) vs Eric (S4) - All Torque from S3 is basically Tornado before Tornado became a thing (apologies as I think I may have quoted that from somewhere), so, unfortunately, Eric becomes the first robots to unqualify.
 * Vader vs Night Raider - No need to justify this I should think.
 * Snake Bite vs Storm 2 (S7) - Or this.
 * Nasty Humphrey vs T2 - Another controversial judges decision on minor damage sees T2 very unluckily unqualified.
 * The General vs Weeliwako - Routine victory for the more controlled robot.
 * Purple Predator vs Thermidor 2 (Ex1 onwards) - He he he!
 * Anvil vs Spawn of Scutter - Another very close judges decision results in Spawn of Scutter narrowly being thrown out of the tournament.
 * Judge Shred 3 vs Millennium Bug - Yep.
 * Suicidal Tendencies (S4) vs Barbaric Response - Another potent S4 entrant unluckily gets the boot.
 * Spectre vs Zeus (Italy) - One flip should do it here.
 * Zorro vs Chompalot - Chompalot won't be able to get a grip on Zorro due to the spinning blades, which will cause damage until the opponent stops.
 * Mute vs Raging Reality - Now why did this have to happen?! Mute wins due to its less penetrable group clearance.
 * Ming (S3) vs Guzunderbot - Another very tough battle to call, didn't see enough of either of these robots. Ming's blade looks damaging enough to just win out here.
 * Shear Khan vs Behemoth (S2) - The most successful Behemoth (thus far) not strong enough to topple the one time losers.
 * Cassius (S2) vs Lateral Thought - Yeah, moving on.
 * X-Terminator (S3) vs Stinger - Another very unfortunate match up here! This X-Terminator is just too relentless and aggressive for Stinger IMO unfortunately.
 * Scarab (S3) vs Ivanhoe - With no spikes to interfere, Scarab can easily do a Tough as Nails style grab and pit here.
 * Killerhurtz vs Araknia - Finally Killerhurtz gets an opponent its axe can go to town on!
 * The Darke Destroyer vs The Alien - More potent weapon and more sturdy robot go through here.
 * Crushtacean vs Penetrator - Just what exactly was Penetrator's weapon? Whatever it was, it won't beat Crushtacean.

(to be continued)