User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner of the Series: Series 10/@comment-35435623-20180108062315

- 3. A, B, C - it's, too, many

The Fog of War was new, and the Fog of War was rubbish. However, it wasn't bad in the sense that it killed fights. It just did nothing. Instead, the sin is that it took up a third option on the Dial of Doom - and with the Arena Tyre only 'allowing' one push per robot, it means that we tend to go fights without one option on the Dial of Doom activating. Sadly, with what seemed like a need to promote the recent additions of the Fog of War and Rogue House Robot, it felt like the Pit was neglected as a result. Back in Series 8 the Pit was rather boring, admittedly. We had some rather archaic robots, and drab battles were often drawn out by two poor robots desperately trying to nudge something into the Pit in a cheap way of victory. However, in Series 10 we typically have fast-paced action from largely competent machines, and when there's is competent machines the Pit only makes fights more exciting. With the opening Group Battle of the series it created tension as Sabretooth charged across it, in Apollo vs. Behemoth it added the emphasis on no mistakes being made - a mistake which Apollo made and paid for in dramatic fashion. These are battles which only get added to the drama due to the Pit, and I felt like so many more close/tense/back-and-forth fights would've had even more drama with the Pit dropping. Then, the one time it inevitably goes down is in the Rumble, and that's when we see limp, drab pittings like in Series 8.

- 2. The godfather of wedges

Yeah, sorry the Grimm's, but as I said in the Rusty Spanner for Heat 4 - you're right up there for Rusty Spanner of the Series...

- 1. Next time on Robot Wars: all the machines that'll do well!

...but ultimately, that goes to this. There's a reason I never watch the intros or outros of every episode, and when I saw the Next Time previews when looking back at the episode after its broadcast, I was stunned. It even got to the stage that in Heat 5 we were told how half of the Heat would do. That's just not acceptable, and although I could have a massive rant, this silly, silly thing talks for itself, and takes the place as my number 1 spot for the Rusty Spanner of Series 10.