User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Series 9 Sweepstake/@comment-9751413-20170301164757

Just hand them all out and leave the ones unpicked as unpicked. 1 each, no robots withdrawn or anything. I'm detecting a lot more negativity abut the new series than positivity, with an awful lot of people badmouthing certain robots while not praising others. The wiki is already not held with great regard within the roboteering community, and it's this negative attitude and general writing off of and insulting peopke's robots that oputs people off joining. Rather than moaning about the choice, why not be really happy and thankful that Robot Wars has returned, for a second series after a 12 year break. I really don't like that a lot of people are making blogs about "The worst looking robots" for example and expanding on them. We don't even know how they'll perform, you can't already massively dislike and verbally destroy someone's bot that they've worked hard on for a long time until you've seen it.

Sorry, rant over. Basically, don't remove robots from the draw and just allocate everyone one robot each.