User blog comment:CrashBash/Format Switches - Series 9 as Series 10/@comment-979907-20180407042455/@comment-2118191-20180407135627

Yes, but Series 8 round 1 was on a judges decision, you originally said "knockout", so I don't count it. I wouldn't count it either way, because that was a melee....Pulsar evidently wasn't focused on Ironside. It clearly wouldn't be fair.

Meanwhile, their head-to-head clashes speak a different story. In their first clash (Series 8), Pulsar won by convincing KO, and it only delved into controversy because Killalot righted Ironside. In the first Series 9 clash, Pulsar initially won a judges decision that was "unanimous". I know there was the whole confusion regarding the countdown and whatnot, but if the original decision was unanimous without Ironside attacking, then what would Ironside have pulled off if it HAD been attacking? I'd argue it'd be close at best, but Pulsar would probably still have taken it. The other Series 9 clash, yes, Ironside won, but you have to admit Pulsar wasn't at its best, and hadn't been since its clash with Supernova, I think the team said specifically.

With all this in mind, if Pulsar had beaten Ironside in Round 1, and then hadn't had to have faced Supernova (which in my version it didn't), then it'd be in a far better state to face Ironside again, and would probably have beaten it.