User blog comment:Hogwild94/Original Series Rusty Spanners/@comment-979907-20180119204238

HEAT C: 3. Arena spikes. Once again, they killed Binky and almost took out Blade in round 2. 2. Robot reliability. Obviously Razer, but also Max Damage who never started moving, Agent Orange who broke down, Aggrobot who barely showed up in the heat final, and Daisy, an interesting looking design, who broke down before entering the arena! 1. No contingency plan for Razer. The fact that the heat came down to Blade v Aggrobot spoke volumes once Razer was out. I mean, Razer had never won a combat fight at this point so I guess that's why they did it, but it's not like Razer lost from poor ability, just more reliability. If you have a robot with poor reliability, why on earth would you stick it with weaklings? Surely including Haardvark, Plunderstorm, Thermador, Dreadnaut, or Big Brother would've filled the heat with some colourful characters and veterans that could take up the flag if/when Razer broke down again. It would've made Blade's victory more satisfying too.