User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner of the Series: Series 10/@comment-979907-20180108085708

3. Foreshadowing. I deliberately never watched "next week" on Robot Wars so I didn't feel the same way as Crash, but I reiterate that the foreshadowing was pretty heavy handed in Series 10, drawing our attention to things that would inevitably backfire or setting up decisions with very on the nose dialogue. Perhaps its because I'm a writer, and set up/pay off is a key to rewarding plot. I don't know. But there was barely a surprise in that for me.

2. The best vs the rest Speaking of no surprises, I had no surprises whatsoever that Team UK would beat down the ROTW competitors. I was surprised by how ineffectual the two BOTS champions ended up being, and I still enjoyed things like the Cobra/Sabretooth fight but honestly this was a terrible idea. I remember when side competitions were for robots like Atilla the Drum and Onslaught and Spikasaurus and Disc-O-Inferno and Arnold A. Terminegger and Kan-Opener(!) to make names for themselves, not for the UK Champions to add another trophy to their cabinets.

1. The stupid rule that cost Tauron Mk 2 in Round 1 Here we are again. I'm still not convinced everyone understands just why I hate this so much. It isn't that I think the rules weren't followed, I think the rule is stupid. If Iron-Awe had survived the battle, I'd be fine. But when two robots break down literally 3 seconds apart and one of them hasn't even used its weapon while the other has beaten all three other machines to submission, having it decided on "that one stopped moving first" is dumb. It should have gone to a judges decision, which Tauron would have won by a bigger margin than Uk v ROTW Part 2. Instead, we were stuck with Iron-Awe 6 for the rest of the series, because who knows if Androne would've lost if it fought it in the second fight instead of the fourth? It took away one of the most impressive yet balanced spinners in the competition. Maybe Tauron wouldn't have won the heat, but I'd have given it darn good odds on Nuts 2, and a rematch with Concussion would've been great. This travesty is the worst moment of Series 10 and gets my top votes by a huge margin.