User:Obi-Have

About Me
Hi, I’m Obi-Have. I’m a schoolboy living in England, and I absolutely ADORE Robot Wars. I first remember watching this show when I was very little, sitting down on a Friday and watching Robot Wars. I particularly remember Series 3, and because it is the only series I clearly remember, I became fond of the format and the robots in it. I remember as a kid being creeped out by Backstabber and being very happy when Razer pitted it. I owned the video of the First World Championship for many years, and I watched it very frequently. I went to the Grand Final of Series 7, and I remember that we got Noel Sharkey to sign our foam finger, but we didn’t have a permanent marker, so he just went over his signature over and over again in ballpoint pen! What I mostly remember about my time in the audience was Typhoon 2 breaking the arena wall, looked to me very deliberate, and the booing as Storm 2 was denied the title it deserved. I really felt sorry for Craig Charles having to go through that final interview, the crowd were booing, the Storm 2 team felt cheated, the Typhoon team were the only ones who felt they deserved to win. It was not a pleasant bow-out for the UK wars. I have a large collection of (largely broken) Robot Wars merchandise, in particular the minibots and minibot arena, which I couldn’t bring myself to give away or throw away. Sure Razer’s srimech is missing, Chaos 2’s flipper won’t stay down, nearly all of the paint on Killalot’s lance is nearly all gone and the less said about Bash’s flamethrower the better, but I won’t throw them out full stop. I also own a copy of Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction and Extreme Destruction which I play on from time to time, but I think there isn’t enough Competitor Robots to fight, so the game becomes too easy quickly. I think my proudest achievement was managing to flip Killalot out of the arena with Behemoth. I do owe plenty to the legend behind BBCRobotwarsUK, on who’s channel I am now watching every episode of Robot Wars he has uploaded

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My Least Favorite Robots

 * 1) Typhoon 2, and the Typhoon Team in general – Well, for one you have the middleweight fiasco, but the less said about that the better. I found the Grand Final of the Seventh Wars borderline disgusting in the way that Typhoon were allowed to repair their damage and that wasn’t even considered in the judge’s decision. I found the way that they dominated the middleweight scene boring, and overall found them rather irritating, regardless what their robots could do.
 * 2) Granny’s Revenge- Now normally I don’t mind joke robots, they liven up the place a bit, but Granny’s Revenge got on my wick a little bit. It wasn’t as much a robot, I thought, than just a mobility scooter that was radio controlled, which it essentially what it was. That for me, is not what Robot Wars is all about.
 * 3) Mortis – Mortis was doomed from the start. Any competition that can be entered for a pound and a penny (101) should NOT be entered for 100 grand. Mortis was permanently unreliable, despite having a 100kg lifter, an axe that could fire 3 times a second, and was in effect diamond coated, and yet it still lost, four times, going in as the favourite. Everybody regarded them as fierce competitors, when really they only ever won the War of Independence, against second-rate American robots.

Top 10 Underachievers
10.Diotoir- I know these guys were having fun, but their potential was high, as proved with a semi-final in the World Championship, but bad luck prevented a repeat in the UK wars. The luck of the Irish was never with the Dublin boys, in fact, the opposite is true 9.Behemoth- Constantly being eliminated quietly, never in the spotlight, a World Championship final the highlight 8.Plunderbird- Plunderbird 2 was a beast, but the team never got lucky again, constantly breaking down, until S3 delivered the killing blow to these guys, always great fun. 7.Barry- These guys are right to feel aggrieved that Grunt knocked them out, especially considering the suicide on the Sumo, but they really should’ve done better. Their 15 minutes of fame went horribly wrong 6.Griffon- Tipping Bash over is no mean feat in Series 2, but Griffon managed it, but never replicated this in the wars. Oliver Steeples has the pedigree, he was a Grand Finalist in Series 1, but this was never followed up 5.Warhog- A great robot with great potential for damage, but it ALWAYS BROKE DOWN! 4.Bodyhammer- The unofficial runner-up of Series 1, Bodyhammer fell in the Gauntlet, a miserable failure for the team. At least they came back stronger with Pussycat 3.Velocirippa- The perennial bad luck team, Velocirippa was the unluckiest of all, with a constant stream of bad luck, the name seemed to be cursed 2.Razer- As they’re my favourites, I’m pained to put Razer so far up the list, but really, it belongs here. Razer could’ve won so much more than it did, but the reliability was never there when it was needed 1.Mortis- I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Mortis could’ve breezed the first two wars, but it was never good enough when it needed to be, and the less said about the Pinball, the better I’m afraid.