User blog:VulcansHowl/Vulcan's Audited Series 9

With the most recent series of Robot Wars coming to a close, I have decided to start my own take on an audited Series 9, featuring a revised format combining elements of the original and rebooted series.

Format
The format for the heats will remain unchanged, while the Grand Final follows a new format based on the heats of Dutch Series 1. The Grand Final consists of three first-round battles, two Semi-Finals and a Final, along with a Losers' Melee to determine the fourth Semi-Finalist, and an additional playoff for third place.

Head-to-Heads Points Structure

 * Win by KO – 3 points
 * Win by Judges' Decision – 2 points
 * Loss – 0 points

Entry List
The entry list will remain largely unchanged, although I am replacing Frostbite and Rusty with Gabriel and TR2. Aside from the seeds, all robots will be randomly drawn into their heats through random.org, before being manually assigned into their Group Battles in alphabetical order.

For the Grand Final, the draws for the first round will be done at random, using the same method used for the Group Battles.

Seeding
Seeds will be entirely determined by performances from the real Series 8.


 * 1) Apollo
 * 2) Carbide
 * TR2
 * 1) Thor
 * 2) Aftershock
 * 3) Pulsar
 * 4) Behemoth
 * 5) Gabriel
 * 6) Push to Exit
 * 7) Terrorhurtz

NOTE 1: Aftershock and Push to Exit receive seedings based on the performances of their predecessors, Shockwave and Dantomkia.

NOTE 2: As Storm 2 did not compete in Series 9, Terrorhurtz also receives a seeding due to it being the joint-best performing robot in the Series 8 Head-to-Heads - along with Ironside3 - and an original series Grand Finalist.

Wildcards
As in real life, the wildcard will be awarded to one of the five Heat Finalists, taking into consideration their performances in the Head-to-Head stage.

Heat 1
Round 1

Head-to-Heads

Heat Final

Heat 2
Round 1

Head-to-Heads

Heat Final

Heat 3
Round 1

Head-to-Heads

Heat Final

Heat 4
Round 1

Head-to-Heads

Heat Final

Heat 5
Round 1

Head-to-Heads

Heat Final

Grand Final
Wildcard choices:

Round 1

Losers' Melee

Semi-Finals

Playoff

Grand Final