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Ming was the name given to a series of robots across the history of Robot Wars. The team featured four robots during its time. Ming was named after a villain from Flash Gordon, and the team wore outfits in later seasons to fit the theme. A pattern was detected amongst the Ming robots' performance - in the odd numbered series (Series 3, 5 and 7) Ming lost in the first round, but in the even numbered series (Series 4 and 6), it passed the first round convincingly and lost in the second. With only two exceptions in Hypno-Disc and Ceros, every robot to defeat Ming fell in the next battle it fought in.

The original Ming, known also as Ming the Merciless, was very slow, featuring a spinning disc on a box shape. Ming 2 was a long wedge with a flipper. Ming 3 was the same wedge as Ming 2, but had a large piercing claw added on top, very similar to Razer. The team's final robot was named Ming Dienasty, a box-wedge shape with a drill pointed at an angle, mounted on a movable arm for self-righting.

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