User blog comment:Hogwild94/Original Series Rusty Spanners/@comment-24393094-20180116214548


 * 3: Max Damage's team. Sure, I was not expecting Major Damage to stand a chance against Agent Orange, but I did want it to at least move. That mistake no doubt deserves a spot here.


 * 2: Daisy and Binky's claim of 50mph. I honestly do not know what was worse, so I am grouping both together, as they relate to the same battle. At least Major Damage theoretically could work if its removable link was in place. Daisy was so beyond repair that it could not even get to the arena. Then, there is Binky's claim of it having a top speed of 50mph. I'm sorry, the robot did look quite quick, but it was nowhere near that claimed speed to say the least. Plus, neither robot stood a chance against Aggrobot.


 * 1: A weak heat. The two Rusty Spanner nominations above have a clear theme: the robots in the heat generally were not up to scratch. Sure, we had Razer, and yes, Agent Orange and Blade did show flashes of brilliance. But really, when one considers the facts that Agent Orange and Razer both broke down, the quality goes down even further. In a way, this sums up the issue with Razer heats from Series 3 onwards. Sure, the crusher is an exceptional machine, but apart from Pussycat, were there really any robots that could carry the heat onwards? Suicidal Tendencies and Raging Reality are the only ones I can think of, which is a shame, since I would rather have Razer defeating more competitive robots in its heats, in my opinion. Its Series 3 heat was the worst simply because of the lack of great robots to take over once it suffered mechanical issues.