User blog comment:RA2/Robot Wars Rankdown: Extreme 1 & Series 5/@comment-2118191-20180712051307

I must admit, I was really intending to pool The Steel Avenger here, because I do agree it has gotten itself a bit too high up and it does have its flaws. But now I gotta figure out someone else, so....

Sorry Mate, I Binned You: S.M.I.D.S.Y. I suppose we've now got to start being critical of the robot's appearances in both Series 5 and Extreme 1 from here on out, and for me, that really puts S.M.I.D.S.Y. in a lot of trouble. Five battles, three breakdowns, didn't exactly beat the best robots....yeah, that doesn't really bode well. Supernova technically did worse with zero wins, but I wouldn't say it randomly broke down - Behemoth had to work hard to force it into Matilda to break down. That's why I'm not eliminating it....yet.

Speaking of: Stinger. If we wanna talk about being critical, then Stinger's decent run in Series 5 is hampered by a pretty poor run in Extreme 1. For a robot that was supposed to be "one of the greatest of its time", the fact that it barely beat Ajjay and Hippobotomus, of all robots, worries me. Also, against the actual all-stars, it seemed to struggle, not to mention I noticed during Extreme in particular (specifically, the fights held after Series 5) it tended to lose mobility a little too easily.

Pool: Arnold A. Terminegger, Diotior, Drillzilla, Panzer Mk2, Stinger, Suicidal Tendencies, Supernova, Terrorhurtz, Thermidor 2