User blog comment:Toon Ganondorf/The Best and Worst of Robot Wars Names/@comment-24393094-20180905124807/@comment-4700688-20180905135054

Given that we held our call months ago, TG has forgotten the majority of the reasonings we used at the time. I remember that Track-tion was argued as the worst for the tripple-whammy of:


 * 1) Awkward spelling/punctuation
 * 2) Awkward capitalisation
 * 3) Comprised entirely of a word previously seen in Fatal Traction

Bucky the Robot is extremely awkward for feeling the need to specify that a Robot Wars competitor was, indeed, a robot, but I at least acknowledge that "Bucky the Mascot" is a separate part of their team, and the joke is derived from buck teeth.

To go over the other things I remember which TG didn't, Nick was the one who tried to defend Big Nipper as the not-worst name in Heat 2 (I love Crackers 'n' Smash as a name), Magnetar was supposed to be an all-timer, and Iron-Awe 6 was Nick's admittedly respectable choice for worst name in Heat 4. I would have voted for Gabriel to beat Aftershock in Heat 2 if not for the awkward "2" thrown on the end of a visually near-identical version of the Series 8 machine.