User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner and Golden Wrench of the Decade (2010s)/@comment-2118191-20191216142005

Golden Wrenches for Robot Wars

3: A significant jump in improvement. Series 8 and 9 certainly had their flaws, but the good thing about this is that they were recognised. What we got from it was perhaps one of the best robot combat tournament set-ups I've seen in a long time, tied perhaps with only BattleBots' Fight Night system (and yes, I will be doing a BattleBots GW/RS vote...and maybe a King of Bots one too). This guaranateed that every robot got two fights and could show what exactly they were capable of. If Mentorn can find someone else to take Robot Wars on, I hope they try this format again.

2: Once upon a time.... BattleBots had already tried this to a degree, but I really liked the narrative Robot Wars bought. Robot Wars has always been about the robots (obvs) but very rarely did we ever get to know the people behind the controls. Suddenly, you had a reason for supporting these people, knowing how invested they were...and this narrative got better and better across the three series.

1: The final final!. Series 10 Final is one of THE best episodes of Robot Wars, any series, period. It starts with the 10 Robot Rumble, a fight that could have gone in many different directions of wrong and yet was just glorious from start to finish. We then had a series of great fights where only Behemoth vs Magnetar felt like a let down, and then we got what I can comfortably say is THE single best Title Fight Robot Wars has ever had. Actually, all three of the reboot title fights were good (Series 8 was down to the wire, and Series 9 felt extremely satisfying, actually), but Series 10 trumps them all. And everyone said it'd be boring just because it was Carbide and Eruption again....