User:Datovidny

We are Team Datovidny, David and Tony, hence the name. We are brothers based in Cornwall and have been a part of the Robot Wars Wiki since 7th September 2010. We started watching Robot Wars during the airing of the beginning of the Third Wars, just missing the first heat, and we've videoed the vast majority of episodes that followed, and we can still play these videos, thanks to our really old VCR that somehow still works. We have also bought a huge percentage of the merchandise too, not that any of it is in good shape, after several years of use, whatever it is. We were also fortunate enough to watch Robot Wars live to watch the whole All-Stars Tournament during the second series of Extreme, whilst there, we received autographs from Team Razer and Ellie Watts of Team Big Brother, also having a lengthy chat and receiving some Pussycat posters from Alan Gribble of Team Kat (you can see these at the Pussycat bench during the Iron Maidens competition).

This user has also done work on both Wookieepedia (Star Wars Wiki) and Brickipedia (LEGO Wiki), we have also done work on the Roaming Robots Wiki. This user has also set up another account for doing work on the Roaming Robots Wiki, with the name Wikia Veteran, this was set up in the beginning of October 2010, before continuing with the Datovidny name in December 2011.

Of the two of us, David is much more readily on the Wiki, any uses of the words I and me used on this userpage or any messages to other users will usually be referring to David, unless listed otherwise.

Background
Having watched Robot Wars from the beginning (live on occasions) we have learnt a lot. However, we are only just entering the practical side of Robotics, therefore we have only begun building robots very recently.

Our Robots
With being such fans of Robot Wars, we have designed dozens of robots, and built some as featherweights, all of which have been tested and modified for greater efficiency as they can practice on a homemade arena that we built purposely for these robots, below is a list of those robots already built. As even the first of our machines was built and completed only very recently, we have not competed with them in any Robotic fighting events or shows yet.

Hopefully we will have photographs of these machines on this userpage in the near future.

Slightly Blighty
Largely resembling the original Killertron, its chassis is a rectangular cuboid shape with a domed top. The weaponry is an overhead axe, but that's where the similarities end. Since orginally designing the robot, the axe has adopted a much smaller shape, and is only able to hit anything at one end of the robot, due to the motor not being powerful enough to swing an axe any bigger. The robot is painted completely in the colours of the Union Jack.

Scraptosaur
A basic box-wedge design, the design on the body-shell is loosely based around Raizer Blade. It is armed with a fierce, 2-bladed spinning disc on the front, spinning at almost 3000rpm, which has been proven to slice fingers (accidentally of course)! The robot was originally designed with a static spike on the back and coned wheels to avoid being flipped, it has since lost these features, and is now very vulnerable to flippers. The robot shows a very large resemblance now to Weld-Dor 3, only without the rear spinning blade and having a spinning disc instead of a flipping arm on the front.

Peril Penguin
A small wedge shape robot with a spherical head towards the back to resemble a penguin's head, it has no proper self-righting mechanism but does have a rear support behind the head and side and rear skirts to make it harder to flip. It is armed with a circular saw blade at the front but its outer shell is made of wood! It is also garbed in miniature Union Jack Flags with an extra Union Jack top hat for the figure head. It was originally inspired by Mighty Mouse, although it shows a bit more of a resemblance to the Series 5 version of Velocirippa.

Favourite Robots
Despite only beginning to watch Robot Wars during Series 3, we videoed the vast majority of them as they were being aired, we can still watch them now (as we are probably one of the only families that have a VCR still working in their house) and we've watched several Youtube clips of the previous two series and the odd episodes that we missed. So we've seen every robot that has qualified for a series, and many others that didn't, but even out of every single one we each have our Top 10 favourite robots from Robot Wars!

Some of these may appear as a little surprising after you've looked at the favourites lists of other users. If you can, try to spot some similarities between the two lists of favourites.

David
1. Wheely Big Cheese

I definitely won't force everyone on this wiki to believe that Wheely Big Cheese is their favourite robot, but if you HATE Wheely Big Cheese, then if you ask me, you are a little strange. Team Big Cheese always used to make me chuckle in pre and post-match interviews, and whenever Wheely Big Cheese was preparing for a battle I always got excited as I knew I would be in for a good and entertaining battle. I found the design intreging and inspiring as the design at least made Wheely Big Cheese seem invincible. I also felt sorry for the team a lot of the time as they regularly suffered very bad luck in Robot Wars, particularly towards the end of Wheely Big Cheese's Robot Wars career. I knew that Wheely Big Cheese was my favourite robot as soon as I realised that I was more disappointed than usual when they went out of any competition. When the winners of the Robot Wars awards for Series 5 were being announced on the show, I had high hopes that Wheely Big Cheese would AT LEAST be a nomination for the Best Engineered award, after the impressive OotA flip on Axe Awe, with the OotA flip on Wolverine as an extra nudge, but no. Instead, the winner was a robot that broke down in the first round fairly quickly that was armed with a pathetic lifter (Derek). In addition, what a shame it was that Team Big Cheese had to fall out with the Robot Wars producers, I would've been intrigued to see how Wheely Big Cheese would've fared in the Sixth Wars, or even in the Seventh Wars. Thankfully, both models of Wheely Big Cheese have been brought out of retirement and are back in fine fighting form, I've recently seen Wheely Big Cheese a few times in certain live events, unfortunately not when he was aloud to use his flipper, not doing too badly. Also, like many other Robot Wars fans around the country, I am actually quite intrigued by the possibility that both Wheely Big Cheese models could end up fighting each other one day, and I would kill to watch the battle! Naturally, because I really liked Wheely Big Cheese, I also found myself quite fond of Wheely Big Cheese's predecessor, The Big Cheese, as both of these machines were very similar in design and stance, and they both came from Team Big Cheese. Also, to be honest, I also quite liked The Mule as well, but not at all as much as Team Big Cheese's second and third (and technically fourth) machines. But even so, I still strongly believe that The Big Cheese didn't have anywhere near as much charisma as it's much more famous and much more successful successor, and to be honest, still not quite enough charisma in my opinion to make it into my Top 10 shortlist either.

2. Pussycat

Why do so many Users on this wiki hate Pussycat so much? Seriously, as I explained above with Wheely Big Cheese, I won't force anyone to make Pussycat one of their favourite robots, but for the 50 or so% of users who find Pussycat to be one of their least favourite robots, if not their least favourite, I would love to hear your reasons for this, as I see it as almost impossible to hate Pussycat at all, let alone to hate them more than robots like Typhoon 2 and Tornado! I will be honest, that I myself often find that most robots that regularly performed extremely well in Robot Wars up until the end of its televised career (such as Razer and Storm 2) have little to no charisma at all, but for me, Pussycat is one of very few exceptions, as I find it very difficult to hate Pussycat. When we went to see Robot Wars live during the second series of Extreme, we had seats to watch both heats and the grand final of the All-Stars Tournament, on our way to our seats for the first heat we walked past the pit area, where we received autographs from Ian Lewis of Team Razer and Ellie Watts of Team Big Brother, but we also ran into the newly revamped Team Cold Fusion, taking Pussycat back to its bench, just after they were flipped out of the arena by Bulldog Breed in the Tag Team Terror competition. My brother and I chatted for a rather large extent to Alan Gribble, and as the team were about to leave and return to their bench, he gave my brother and I Pussycat posters that he said were unavailable as merchandise, whether he was telling the truth or not I'm not sure, and not surprisingly, we both still have these posters. To save me the trouble of having to describe these posters to you, just for those people who are still bothering to read this far down our userpage, you can see them pinned up at the Pussycat bench during the pre-first round interview with Ann Gribble in the Iron Maidens competition. Don't ask us why we didn't ask for an autograph from the team in the process of chatting to Alan Gribble.

Despite many changes in the team, such as completely different team members and a recent change in the team's name (Team Kat), Team Cold Fusion had been with Robot Wars at Day 1 (as Bodyhammer to begin with) and continued to enter Robot Wars with the moderate success that they deserved, therefore I was solely routing for Pussycat in Series 7, I was disappointed when they lost to M2 but I was elated when they won the All-Stars tournament the same year, as they should've done anyway for technically being the most dedicated Robot Wars team, also as they defeated Dantomkia, the robot that I think didn't even deserve to participate in the All-Stars tournament, which also managed to take out such old favourites as Behemoth, King B Powerworks and Panic Attack, annoyingly with relative ease. Even though Pussycat has retired from competitive battles, at least they still fight in demonstration battles, meaning Pussycat has battled on whereas most other robots from Robot Wars have all retired to be locked away behind a pane of glass, or on a shelf in a shed for eternity. When I first set up this section of our user page, I knew it would be incredibly difficult to find my Top 10 favourite robots of all time, however, I knew that Pussycat would make the Top 2, along with Wheely Big Cheese.

3. Behemoth

Perhaps is wasn't number one, but certainly Behemoth was one of the unluckiest robots in the history of Robot Wars. Behemoth was another robot that I greatly cheered on during the Seventh Wars, but more so than anyone else, except for Pussycat, obviously. In my opinion, Behemoth could've beaten Mute in its second round battle, if the aerial wasn't so tall, and I also believe that Behemoth could've done so much better in every competition that it took part in towards the end of its Robot Wars career...but only if reliability was out of the equation. No matter how quickly it went out in any series, Behemoth was rightly always a robot feared by the other robots in its heat. The design was very complete towards the end of Robot Wars in my opinion, and if the House Robot Rebellion in the Seventh Wars is anything to go by, Behemoth was a very impressive robot when it worked properly, and as I've seen at several live events such as in the Roaming Robots circuit, it still is compared to such robots as Iron Awe 5 and Kronic 3. I definitely admire Behemoth for its persistance in robotic combat, as despite the very old design, it still fights in robotic combat battles today, even though Behemoth has undergone 4 new transformations since its first Robot Wars appearance in Series 2. Although the same thing is to be said for Pussycat, Behemoth still competes competitively in tournaments and competitions, whereas Pussycat sadly doesn't anymore. Also, I'm happy to know that Behemoth won the Winter trophy in the 2006 Roaming Robots competition, just so that it had something to show for its many years in fighting.

4. The Steel Avenger

As I started watching Robot Wars in Series 3, naturally, most of the robots from that series stood out for me, even if there was no particular reason for it. Since its made the Top 3 of my Favourites list, you can probably tell that The Steel Avenger was one of these. As the years of Robot Wars went by I always noticed The Steel Avenger was still there fighting in the same form where others had either stopped competing or switched to completely different machines. In the Seventh Wars, it astonished me how such an old robot with such an old design could still work really well in Robot Wars, even though it had borrowed a few internal components from the unfinished SA2. It was a big shame that Boring but fortunate box on wheels 2 (Storm 2) had to knock The Steel Avenger out with relative ease in the heat final, especially by flinging it out of the arena, making the situation more embarrassing for the aging machine. It saddens me that the robot was eventually retired for good, after seeing the concept for SA2, which didn't really look that much more impressive. It was also a shame that the feather duster was eventually taken off it too, even if it did make the robot look more civilised. I don't really care what Craig Charles said in the post-match interviews during the Seventh Wars, it doesn't matter if the robot is really old, it's how good the robot is, and, as was evident that it reached the heat final of Series 7, The Steel Avenger was a brilliant robot right to the very end of its Robot Wars career, that I believe should've been seeded for a series at least ONCE!!!

5. Cerberus

Another robot that stood out for me in the third series of Robot Wars was the Cyprian representitive Cerberus, this is probably the first of the many surprising choices in my favourites list. To be fair, Cerberus did reasonably well in its debut series, reaching the heat final of the main competition and also reaching the Quarter-Finals of the First World Championship (by default, but that doesn't matter to me). Unfortunately, very quickly, every other robot caught up with it and/or overtook it in terms of robot standard. The clamp weapon design was very unique and innovative but sadly it wasn't allowed to be used for the Fourth Wars, and it wasn't used to its full potential when it was eventually allowed to be installed in the first series of Extreme, only in it's first round battle in the Tag Team Terror tournament when it merely scratched the side of S.M.I.D.S.Y.'s bodywork, and that hardly counts as doing any proper damage. Admittedly, I really liked the looks of Cerberus, even in the second series of Extreme when the shiny bodywork and chrome etc. was taken off it, I still found Cerberus quite an appealing robot to look at. I find it a great shame that we could've seen Cerberus in both the Fifth Wars and the Sixth Wars, but sadly, it failed to qualify for both of them! I also find it a great shame that by Extreme Series 2, when Cerberus finally featured on the televised show again for the first time since Extreme Series 1, that it was so outdated and so old that Crushtacean managed to dispose of it with great ease in its last ever Robot Wars battle after just 49 seconds of fighting (don't judge me on that statistic, I watched the battle on Youtube and calculated Cerberus' time of survival), quite a number of robots have been eliminated from battles quicker than this though, some a lot quicker, but that doesn't matter to me, as losing within just one minute is still pretty poor for any robot.

6. Major Tom

It must be made perfectly clear that it is the 1970s Bumper Car version of Major Tom only that has won it this 6th seed placing, though I did quite like the Series 4 version of the machine, but not enough to make it into the Top 10 favourite robots shortlist. Major Tom was one of few robots that flew the flag, badly, but nevertheless, it may have been a robot that always underachieved but also a robot that I always backed due to this, with little much in the way of success in return obviously. If you ask me, the Annihilator in the second series of Extreme was Major Tom's finest hour, and I remember cheering madly as each round passed where they survived, however, in the fourth round, I really knew what was coming, well, the result of the battle, not the state of Major Tom at the end. Even now, I still struggle to watch the whole of the fourth round battle, as for me, it is like watching a close friend slowly die, where there's nothing that you can do to help, I know, that is quite sad. I really think that Major Tom would've done so much better in the Seventh Wars if the bumper car Major Tom wasn't shredded into millions of pieces at the end of its annihilator run by the bloodthirsty Matilda, this way the team wouldn't have needed to transfer over to Major Tom 3, which was quite literally just a 4mph box with two little saws that couldn't actually touch any opponents unless they drove right up the wedge. Major Tom 3 also had a ground clearance that made it just as easy, if not easier to get underneath and flip around as the previous version of Major Tom, it also couldn't even touch another robot without making its head fall off. Also, it wasn't even the third incarnation of the machine, for those of you that can remember the version that failed to qualify for the Third Wars. The bumper car version of Major Tom would certainly have qualified for the Seventh Wars main competition, even if it didn't win its battle, the producers surely would've given it a discretionary place. Additionally, for various reasons, it wouldn't have been flipped out of the arena by Tsunami in the opening seconds of the first round battle, nor would it have lost its head straight away after just being bumped into by Diabolus.

7. Bodmin Community College

Somewhere in the Top 10, there had to be a Cornish machine, as I am from Cornwall, but unlike my brother, I doubt I felt quite the same way about St. Agro as I do with the two robots from the Bodmin Community College. If you ask me, Beast of Bodmin and Roadblock, the two robots from the Bodmin Community College, were pretty much the same machine, with only a few differing details, such as the colours and decorations of the bodywork and the additions of a little lifting weapon and blinking/winking eyes on the Beast of Bodmin. Although to be honest, the main reason that I have merged these two robots into one for this shortlist is because I needed to make the task of my cracking down my Top 10 favourite robots a little bit easier! The designs for these two robots were rather simplistic and not too ambitious, even back in the series of Robot Wars that they were competing in. However, they were designs that were worked well on; the robots never failed to reach the Series Semi-Finals, the final eight to be specific, and Roadblock even managed to win the First Wars altogether! Despite these great achievements, as explained with Pussycat above, this is an exception for needing to like a really successful robot, but I'm not being stereo-typical about that at all. Before we even saw Robot Wars itself live in the second series of Extreme, I have vivid memories of seeing the Beast of Bodmin on display at a South West Steam Fair only about a year or two after Beast of Bodmin featured on Robot Wars, but for me, that was my first proper Robot Wars experience. To be honest, I couldn't believe how effective the Bodmin Community College made just a little lifter, the Beast of Bodmin managed to flip over 2 of its opponents, even though it was the wedge shape of the machine that really defeated Onslaught in the heats. I really do believe that the team shouldn't have retired from Robot Wars after the Third Wars, even though they may have had little more to give in terms of a new robot and improvements etc. but the team may still have done fairly well. In addition, my brother and I wouldn't have had to wait until the end of the Sixth Wars to just see another Cornish machine on Robot Wars (St. Agro), and until the Seventh Wars to see another Cornish machine perform even anywhere near as successfully as either Roadblock or Beast of Bodmin (St. Agro again).

8. Ming Dienasty



To be honest, I don't care how many people on this wiki say anybody else would've been better suited to the 15th Seed placing for the Seventh Wars, but if your chances for winning or at least doing well in the Fifth Wars were ruined by foul play by the house robots, you at least deserve something as an apology! It must also be made clear that it is Ming Dienasty only out of the series of Ming robots that has won this number 8 seed placing, although I did quite like Ming 2 and Ming 3 as well, just not as much. I personally felt that the originality of Ming Dienasty's design deserved credit, things like the drill coupled with the lifting arm to act as a weapon/self-righting mechanism, I don't think that Zorro created that same effect. It was a very efficient machine, it was very agile and very reliable, and if you've ever been at a Robogeddon live event, good fun to control too. I believe that the judges' decision involving Ming Dienasty could've gone either way and that they could've gone through to the second round on a certain level, and that is not just me being fanboyish. I'm saying this as Ceros stayed out of the action towards the end of the battle and did struggle to be ready in time for the second round due to the damage it took in the first round. Also, Scraptosaur had only minor flips on Ming Dienasty that were greatly limited in quantity, and, Ming Dienasty did do a fair amount of damage to both machines, particularly Ceros' flipper, and was easily the most aggressive machine in the final third of the battle. Ming Dienasty had the potential to go much further in the competition, Team Ming just needed some way to stabilise the robot vertically whenever it was flipped over and it would've been fine, this problem had been countered on the standard Robogeddon unit, but the drill weapon added bulk to just the middle of Ming Dienasty. I was heavily disheartened when Ming Dienasty lost its only battle on the televised show, and if losing in the first round of the main competition was the only reason for leaving Ming Dienasty out of the Seventh Wars All-Stars Tournament (and that is the rumour), then I am disgusted!

9. Stinger

The case with Stinger is that it was always out for a laugh in the arena, as was the team, I still remember chuckling away as I watched Stinger on TV sail through the Fourth Wars by acting like a complete looney, mind you I was only about 4 years old and I probably would've laughed at anything at that time. Additionally, it's fair to be said that Stinger only really lost to the very best of opponents, robots like Chaos 2, Pussycat and S3, but try to forget about the Series 4 Northern Annihilator. Certainly, Stinger is up there for one of the best designs of all time, despite being fairly simplistic is comparison. Despite doing extremely well in Series 4, it's a big shame that Stinger didn't truly do very well anytime else. I would've liked to have to seen Stinger try its luck in Series 7, so naturally, I find it baffling that a new regulation for the Seventh Wars was brought in that meant all robots required a moving weapon to compete, the Stinger team intended to at least attempt to qualify for Series 7 but wasn't allowed due to this new rule. If the Robot Wars producers were so worried about boring robots qualifying for the main competition, they needn't bother banning them from trying because every single one of them wouldn't even qualify for the main series anyway! If they can qualify they can't be boring can they? This is what qualifiers are for!

10. Onslaught

My final seed in the Top 10 is Onslaught. Onslaught was one of very few robots, along with the likes of Chaos 2 and Mute, that proved that size isn't everything, it was also always a robot that couldn't perform and show for its efficiency as a robot. All Onslaught really has to show for is a second place in the Southern Annihilator when they only truly lost on its own accord by driving into Matilda's CPZ, and reaching the heat final in the Second Wars, where it was immobilised right from the very start of the battle. Like Behemoth above, Onslaught in many ways was a complete machine, paticularly towards the end of its fighting career, apart from the fact that it couldn't self-right if it landed on its side. I enjoyed watching the Southern Annihilator during the Fourth Wars, until Onslaught went out in the final, obviously. I was also quite disappointed when Tetanus beat it in the first round of the Fifth Wars via bad luck for Onslaught. Seeing it in Series 5 makes me think that Onslaught should've been in the first series of Extreme, that would've been good to watch, for me anyway, and if it didn't suffer from the technical problems that made it withdraw from Series 4, it probably would've featured in the first series of Extreme. Since its time on Robot Wars and a also brief spell in the Roaming Robots live circuit, Onslaught has been retired from combat, how disappointing that this is so. Mind you, the machine that replaced Onslaught, Ka Pow! is a corker! Just think of a british Tsunami, it's like that. This robot, was actually named after the new team name.

Narrow Misses


Choosing a Top 10 shortlist of your favourite ever robots isn't at all easy when you adore Robot Wars and you've seen every single robot that has competed on the televised show, and dozens of others that didn't. These are some of the robots that were considered for the Top 10 but were then discarded right at the end, the ones which were most worthy out of them. Of course there were much more robots than just these robots listed here considered for the final Top 10. Many of these may also appear as surprises, looking at other user's choices.

As well as the Top 10 robots, these robots also are in order of favourite to least favourite, they list from 11-20.

11. Sumpthing

12. Plunderbird 5

13. Chaos 2

14. The Big Cheese

15. Hypno-Disc

16. St. Agro

17. Six Pac

18. Diotoir

19. King B Powerworks

20. Sir Chromalot

This list could go on...

Favourite House Robot
Shove

I bet you didn't see that coming!



Shove had a very simplistic design, but it was still awesome. If I'm honest, before I even knew of Shove, I bet I speak for everyone when I say I thought Shunt did all of the cleaning and sweeping before Refbot came onto the scene. Shove was easily the greatest house robot of them all, for being the only house robot that didn't lose anything of its dignity, the only Series 1 robot to go unmodified to the very end of Robot Wars and for being the only robot with only charismatic characteristics. Never being shown on TV and being replaced by Refbot were obviously bad things but they also made Shove just who he was: an inexalted legend!

Tony
1.St. Agro

2.Gemini

3.Firestorm

4.Bigger Brother

5.Roadblock/Beast of Bodmin

6.Dantomkia

7.Stinger

8.13 Black

9.Thermidor 2

10.Pitbull

Top 5 Least Favourite Robots
Along with favourites, we had our least favourites, robots that annoyed us for every victory they took and the robots that they often defeated. Like the favourites above, try to spot some similarities between our two lists.

David
1. Tornado



Let's face it, Tornado is one of those robots like Razer and Storm 2 that's either at the very top or the very bottom of everybody's favourites list.

Team Tornado were the most boastful team ever to compete, except for maybe Random Violence Technologies. The boring red box on wheels defeated Wheely Big Cheese, Pussycat, Behemoth, Stinger, to be honest, nearly all of my favourites, except for The Steel Avenger and King B who gave it what it deserved in the Extreme 1 mayhem. It won the majority of tournaments like they were pieces of cake, the competitions were no longer open to anyone else. Although I dislike the Series 7 regulation that every robot had to have a moving weapon, at least it largely stopped the invasion of boring little boxes on wheels like Tornado, it was only Storm 2 that slipped through the net. Since Robot Wars ended in 2004, the team has seperated and the robot is now retired from combat...good.

2. Mortis

"This is the most impressive weapon here, I don't think you'll see anything else here this impressive"

- Arthur Chillcot on the axe in Series 2

That one quote alone almost somes up everything wrong with Mortis and the team. Their big heads and extremely expensive equipment made them think they could win everything, thankfully, they didn't as they only reached one semi-final, and even then, they got further than they shouldv'e done because they were sore-losers. I applauded Gravedigger when Mortis went down the pit in Series 3 and I also applauded Steg 2 when Mortis went down the pit again in Series 4. Mortis could've been so much more, after spending £100,000 on it, luckily...they weren't.

3. Dantomkia



Praise Pussycat for beating Dantomkia in the All-Stars final, I know by my polls that most people disagree with me when I say Dantomkia shouldn't have been in the tournament, but I believe this for two reasons: It ruined the tournament by being such a better robot than everyone else, it flipped out Behemoth and King B Powerworks in Round 1, that alone was enough to sicken me, as I like both of these robots. But also I hate Dantomkia for proving Chaos 2 had had its day, and Hypno-Disc too.
 * It wasn't in Robot Wars for anywhere near five series
 * It ruined the chances of more deserving robots

4. Storm 2



Despite beating Tornado twice, Storm 2 never stopped there. Storm 2 won every one of their battles, excluding the very conversial grand final with Typhoon 2, which they were very sore-losers about, especially when Typhoon couldn't enter The Third World Championship. If you can't beat it, what's the point in trying to do so, and why should we pretend to get excited over a battle that it's in. Also, Storm 2 beat The Steel Avenger, one of my personal favourites, this makes things worse. Nobody can actually tell me that they liked Storm 2 whilst watching Robot Wars, unless they just supported the best to not be disappointed (Glory supporters, they sicken me!). There was also no sense of drama about the robot, it was Tornado with more power, it didn't have the characteristics that make a robot look interesting, it's all well and good aiming for the prize money, but perhaps they were forgetting that Robot Wars was a TV show, TV practically means "for the audience". Next time team, build a robot with a proper weapon and an interesting theme, then I may be intrigued.

5. Dominator 2

Watching Dominator 2 on TV, I always thought that the axe, when it stood proudly in the air, represented the smirking face of Dominator as it always did really well. Dominator 2 was another robot that consistently did very well in the main competition, this meant that Dominator 2 had little charisma anyway. Dominator was actually quite a show-off itself as it humiliated several amateur robots like Eye of Newt and Inquisitor, Dominator 2 was no better. Plus, losing to Tornado so stupidly is one thing but beating robots like Wheely Big Cheese and Sumpthing without really doing the crucial damage really sumed up my hatred for Dominator 2. However, if I'm honest, I'm a little intrigued into how Dominator 2 may have done in Series 7 if it hadn't had the mechanical problems, but then how would've Ming Dienasty been given the 15th seed?

Tony
1.Tornado

2.Gravity

3.Typhoon 2

4.Dominator 2

5.Mortis

Dream Competitions
Admittedly, there are some competitions that I believe Robot Wars could've put into their shows as side competitions or even create as specials. Here are a few competitions that I've made up that I would've enjoyed to watch during Robot Wars' time on air.

Football League



A selection of robots are entered into a competition where two robots go into the arena at one time to play a one on one game of football, both robots aiming for the golden goal. The robot to score the goal would get 3 points, the loser would get no points, and each would get 1 point if neither robot had scored. Each robot would play a number of games against different robots in the competition until everybody has played the maximum amount of games. In goal would be Dead Metal with either Matilda or Sergeant Bash defending outfield. The number of robots competing could vary but obviously would need to be a multiple of two and at least four for the system to even work.

Second Flipper Frenzy



This would be formatted the same as the Extreme Series 2 Challenge Belt competition. 8 robots armed with flippers would fight against each other in a Robot Wars special, beginning with two four-way melees where two robots would go through in each, followed by two head to head semi-finals and one final head to head battle. The last surviving robot of the original 8 competitor robots would then fight the reigning Flipper Frenzy champion Thermidor 2 at the end of the program, the winner of that would be the new champion.

No robots with mere lifting shovels such as Behemoth or Piece De Resistance or robots with thin lifting arms such as Chaos or the original Diotoir would be allowed to compete in the competition for not having proper flippers, however those robots like Mute and Firestorm with front hinged flippers would of course be allowed into the competition. Also, robots with flippers that also have any additional weapons would be allowed to take part in the competition, but then wouldn't be allowed to use their additional weapons in any of the battles.

Creativity Special



Give all joke robots like Granny's Revenge and Fat Boy Tin a purpose and something to fight for (no team that enters Robot Wars with a joke robot can possibly believe that they could win or even get past Round 1!). Enter a number of joke robots into their own competition in a quest to find the best of the worst! House robot Sergeant Bash would require to be in the arena at all times in the event of it being time for a flammable robot to enter the arena. No robot would be able to enter this competition if they'd ever at least reached the heat final of the main competition, for they would then be serious or successful robots (therefore not joke robots), whether they targeted to get that far in the competition or not.

Old vs New



An entire special could be created for this dream competition but I believe that after Round 1 of certain heats, organise a head to head battle between a brand new robot/team for the series in question up against a legend of a much earlier series. These legends would have to be unchanged from the state in the earlier series to participate. There could be robots like Chaos 2, Steg-O-Saw-Us, Mortis or even Cassius against robots like Hydra, Dantomkia, Tough As Nails or even Typhoon 2. There will be a score running through the series to see which is best: Old or New. These battles would've had to take place during a later series such as Series 6 or 7 for the system to work properly.

Annual Reserve Rumbles

At the end of the Second Wars, during the Grudge Matches Special, there was a Reserve Rumble battle for a number of those robots who were used as reserve robots for the series, that weren't used, to battle it out between them. If you ask me, Robot Wars should've held a Reserve Rumble for each and every series, this way we could've seen many robots such as the clusterbot Share + Destroy, Dantomkia 1.0, the Xenomorph machine from Series 3 and 4, the only victorious Wild Card Warrior TX-108 and the original Major Tom, and many more robots that we didn't get to see on the televised show, ever. Not to mention many other robots that we did see on the televised show, that just failed to qualify for another series, that would've been fantastic to see just one more time, robots such as Agent Orange, Orac's Revenge, Sir Chromalot, King B Powerworks or even Mortis! I admit that even in Series 3, there would've been 472 robots to choose from to allow to fight, but robots could still be picked at random, and there would've been nothing wrong with turning it into a Special episode, to allow even more robots to take part, or fill up some of the Special Event slots with them. I also seem to remember that there were no special events at the end of Round 1 during each heat of the Sixth Wars!

For the Series 3 competition, there would be no need to include the robots that failed to qualify for the main competition but then did enter either the Robotic Soccer Tournament or the Pinball Warrior Tournament already during that series, robots like Velocirippa or Inquisitor, as they'd have already appeared on the televised show that series. This would also make narrowing down the choices for who to allow to participate in the competition to be an easier job.

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Top 5 Worst Events to Occur in Robot Wars History
5. The cancelled airing of TX-108 vs Hypno-Disc I know that it would've looked a bit shaky for Hypno-Disc's reputation, but this is just another example of Robot Wars censorship for the show to keep its glamourous image. There are many examples of this across Robot Wars' history, however, this is the one that is on my list as it strikes me as the worst of the lot. Why, because it means that only the most impressive and popular robots could prosper, if the producers could get away with altering the shows. Mind you, I would only want the result to come out like it did, as these sorts of results only make people realise that the competition is anybody's to win, encouraging more competitors to take part in Robot Wars. TX-108 had recently failed to qualify for the Fifth Wars during this time, and then later failed to qualify for Series 6 and 7, mainly due to it being up against some pretty stiff opposition, such as S3. It subsequently never appeared in the television show, and for why was this great robot denied its deserved fame? So that Hypno-Disc didn't look a bit vulnerable after losing to a clear underdog, even though it lost Nasty Warrior anyway.

4. The 16th Seed Placing Robot Wars fans, every single one of them, including YOU, sees the late awarding of the 15th seed placing to Ming Dienasty as a bit controversial and a bit unfair for many other deserving robots. However, it's the awarding of the 16th seed placing to Storm 2 that actually was a big deal. The producers were fearful that Storm 2, another boring box on wheels, may have a shot at causing a few upsets. However, instead of trying to pick them off, by eliminating one of the top contenders (the boxes on wheels, Tornado and Storm 2), by putting them in the same heat, the producers decided that it would be better to award Storm 2 with a seeding rather than just give them an automatic place in the Seventh Wars. Sadly, the only robots that stood a chance at keeping Storm 2 away from Semi-Finals just had weaknesses that were just too convenient, subsequently, Storm 2 finished them off with relative ease. If Storm 2 was just not given a seeding, and put in the same heat as Tornado (which still could've worked as being quite fitting, as long as that was Heat A), then at least one of them would've been eliminated before the Semi-Finals has even begun, making it less likely for a boring rambot to win the series, and who knows, it may have been the number 1 seed who came out on top. But no, instead, both featured in the Grand Final, great.

3. Tornado and the Challenge Belt To begin with, the challenge belt seemed like a good idea, and Behemoth was ideal as a primary holder of the belt, a force to be reckoned with on paper, but still had its weaknesses. Things were going well, it had already defeated The Steel Avenger and Stinger, but then, Tornado just HAD to compete, didn't it? Effectively still in its prime, Tornado was an almost invincible machine, just Thank God for Razer and Diotoir, and its sudden breakdown in the mayhem. After Tornado defeated Behemoth with such ease, it was then when it was clear that the Challenge Belt was a competition that nobody else could win, almost defeating the object of it all. Soon enough, it was confirmed that Tornado could keep the belt. However, rightly so, the producers decided to keep the tournament going, as it wasn't on for very long. However, they made the fatal error of allowing Tornado to remain the holders. This subsequently meant that they were to win that one as well. For anopther good idea, the producers decided to open the tournament up again, when the second series of Extreme was introduced. However, once again, it would be decided that Tornado was to be the holder again, let's face it, we all knew what was coming. So there we are, the Challenge Belt, a complete Robot Wars failure, that was more of the play-write of the imagination of a Tornado fan, that took up all of that show time, that could've been taken up with another Robot Wars event, like one of those that I have in my Dream Competitons section of my userpage.

2. The Decision to "Improve" the Intros - a.k.a. Spoilers Series 1-4 of Robot Wars had intros that featured only a strict sequence, with a brief clip of the previous heats if it was a certain episode, this was good. Series 5 and Extreme Series 1 featured intros that had just the same sequence over and over again, featuring no clips of previous heats, this was also just fine. However, when the Sixth Wars came about, the title sequences featured clips of the coming episode, and more often than not, featured clips from the second and third rounds. This is a good idea in the same way that telling someone who was voted off X-Factor, right before they watch it on ITV Player, is a good idea. Just to clarify now, I don't watch X-Factor. These Spoilers made the shows that bit less exciting to watch, the same thing happened during Extreme Series 2. One prime example that I can think of is Heat C of the Sixth Wars, for those of you who have recorded or can remember the whole title sequence, will know that the title sequence consists of the highlights of each and every battle in the heat, including Dantomkia throwing Mighty Mouse out of the arena, there's only one word that sums up, and I believe that I may get banned from the wiki for saying it. At least they decided to pick up their act by Series 7, as they did the same thing then, however, it still featured clips of later rounds, and the pre-match clips, when they featured the very start of the battle, implied that there was a quick finish.

1. Dantomkia's entry to the Series 7 All-Stars

I really admire the producers for coming up with this tournament, no show-offs or cocky new boys or unknowns or robots that reached the grand final, just robots that have been around since the early days of Robot Wars, as a final farewell for all of the them, before the show was cancelled just one episode later. The tournament featured some of my favourite robots of all time, and remains to this day, my favourite ever episode of Robot Wars.

Unfortunately, it was all ruined by the decision to allow Dantomkia the final slot in the tournament. Okay, fine, maybe there were several robots that had competed in 5 wars that couldn't make it due to damage, but I find it hard to believe that all of them were unable to enter, especially ones such as Ming Dienasty, that suffered next to no damage in its heat, and Supernova, which featured in the Third World Championship, the next episode in line. Besides, even if they couldn't make it, why fill in the 8th slot with a robot that has only competed in 2 wars? There were several robots that had competed in 4 wars that were able to compete, this was proven by the fact that a number of these featured in the other extra shows at the end of the series, such as Robochicken, great example, ideal candidate.

Aside from the fact that Dantomkia had only fought in 2 wars, it was also clearly far more impressive than all of the other robots in the competition (well, Firestorm 5 may have stood a chance), this was proven as it flipped both Behemoth and King B Powerworks out of the arena very quickly in the first round, and very quickly disposed of Panic Attack in the second round too, just Thank God for Pussycat. Just imagine, how much more entertaining and more drawn-out that these battles would've been, if a "better" robot was selected for the replacement spot, even the final, as Dantomkia mysteriously broke down almost right after the first onslaught.

How much more amazing would (arguably) the spiritual finale to Robot Wars have been......if Dantomkia would just go away?

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