Wharthog

Wharthog was a middleweight wedge shaped robot that competed in Series 1 of Robot Wars. Its weapon was a pair of angle-mounted spikes designed to look like the horns of a warthog. Its only appearance in the main competition was in Series 1, but it appeared again in the middleweight championship of Series 2.

The team returned for Series 3 with Crusher, and failed to qualify for Series 6 and 7 with Cruncher.

Series 1
In the gauntlet Wharthog took the maze route, but an uncontrolable start forced the robot straight into the railing where they got caught due to one of its spikes getting impaled there. Unfortunately, this meant that when cease was called Wharthog had only covered a pitiful 3.92m. This was 1m behind the next lowest finisher in the heat Torque of the Devil, this meant that Wharthog could not progress far enough to make it to the next round.

"I stand corrected, the Torque of the Devil's performance IS good enough, Wharthog now worried"

- Jonathan Pearce after Wharthog's result was confirmed

Series 2
Wharthog appeared in the middleweight championship in the grudge match special at the end of the main series, where it faced Hard Cheese and Doodlebug. After Doodlebug became quickly immobile after a few knocks by Hard Cheese and Wharthog, Hard Cheese then started ramming Wharthog using its wedge shape to scoop up Wharthog and shove it away. Trying to steer away, Wharthog was facing the wrong way and was being blocked by the house robots. Due to still being hacked away at by Hard Cheese, Wharthog eventually lost all power and stopped. This meant Hard Cheese was the first ever Middleweight Champion.

Results

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Wins/Losses

 * Wins: 0
 * Losses: 2

Series Record

 * Series 1: Heat, Gauntlet
 * Series 2: Middleweight Championship
 * Series 3: Entered with Crusher
 * Series 4-5: Did not enter
 * Series 6: Failed to qualify with Cruncher
 * Series 7: Failed to qualify with Cruncher 2