Talk:Robot Wars: Series 9/Heat 5

Removing the Newcomers/Veterans Split
I think that for Series 8 and 9, we don't need to distinguish a split between newcomers and veterans. For very little benefit that I can think of, the split creates much confusion, e.g. THMWK being a veteran despite belonging to a brand new team, Draven being a newcomer despite appearing on TV fifteen years beforehand, breakaway teams like Coyote and Jellyfish, even PP3D being up in the air, live circuit veterans of many years such as TR2 and Eruption being classed as newcomers in the same way as brand new robots like Pulsar and Overdozer etc. I don't have any problem with keeping it for Series 2-7, but for the reboot, I don't see the point. What do you all think? T OAS  T  20:36, March 3, 2017 (UTC)