User blog comment:RA2/Robot Wars Rankdown: Series 4/@comment-9751413-20180513153820/@comment-4700688-20180514101643

Toast feels strongly about this one too - that's why I'm using The Pit to save MAZAKARI. Living 30 minutes from Darlington, it's basically my responsibility. For starters, let's compare it to Disc-O-Inferno directly. Disc-O-Inferno had a good start, then broke down inexplicably against Major Tom and Shadow of Napalm. This dreadful statistic COULD still be forgiven... until it lost a SECOND match to SIR CHROMALOT. Mazakari on the other hand, remained functional for five minutes, only fell foul of a very specific weapon type almost tailored to beat it, and was utterly cheated to leave the competition. Even ignoring the rule that Mortis and Mazakari should have been separated, Iron-Awe straight up died (which it would do in two other matches, again making it worse than Mazakari) and should've lost the battle. Mazakari was a Round 2 robot minimum purely on that basis, and beyond that, it was an invertible, reliable machine with good weapon range, and while it may not be powerful, it could use it to gain aggression and minor damage points which would put it above other robots still in the rankdown such as The Creature, Medusa 2000 and Humphrey. I'm quite happy to blow my one and only Doom Dial press to save poor old Mazakari.