User blog:CaliforniaKingsnake/CaliforniaKingsnake's Realm of Praise

I don't mean to sound rude when I say this, but I feel that there was been a lot of negativity in recent blog posts on the Wiki, focusing on the worst bits of episodes and such. Thus, I wanted to make this blog to praise robots for any reason I've found across the Wiki/my own experiences with the hobby. Hope you all enjoy

Entry 1: Robo Savage
Praised for: FIXING THE FLIPPERS OF THE WIKI

Long before I had even gotten back into Robot Wars there had been much debate back when the Wiki had flippers and flipping arms as separate pages. Was Dantomkia too thin to be considered a "true flipper"? Was Bigger Brother a flipping arm? The arguments as to what qualified as an arm were numerous. But somehow, it was this machine, this loanerbot that ended the whole debate. Not a genuine competitor really, but a bot designed to be toyed with. Now as for the actual robot, well, it's a loanerbot. I can't really be mad with a loanerbot, especially a flipper that looks like a British Matador. Is it a good version, absolutely not, it had the weakest flipper I've ever seen and it was a shame Soldier Ant lost to it so that Robo Savage could be in the final. But the team were honestly so much to watch even when they were losing, to the point where they felt like they were in the main competition they were taking it so seriously. It's such a bizarre and interesting loanerbot, but as the robot that fused the flipper pages on our Wiki, it deserves at least some praise

Entry 2: Cobra (reboot)
Praised for: MAKING A RAMBOT GOOD

To anyone who has ever been near me it should come as no surprise to hear that rambots are my absolute least favourite type of machine in the universe. In my personal opinion they're boring, they look so bland and they do nothing of real interest. While I'll admit the Storm 2 OOTA made me nod a bit in approval, that's about as much praise I ever gave rambots... ...until Cobra came to our screens. I praised the crusher's cute appearance before during the Series 9 rankings of looks, but Cobra does more than look the part now. The World Series showed me what was truly missing from rambots: very good tactical fights with opponents. In the Tag Team, in the Head-to-Head, in both fights Cobra wasn't anything like past rambots, which just did the random rammings into wall after wall which made things boring. Cobra is a surprisingly good machine. While I do still fear for those tyres should they enter the main competition again, it is honestly such a delight to watch. Cobra vs Sabretooth is actually among my favourite fights now since I don't think I've been so on the edge of my seat. In fact, Cobra is the ONLY rambot I want to see currently. Unless rambots can pull off interesting, tactical fights; then I'll just stick to the beautiful Cobra which doesn't need the silly crusher to have venomous strikes