Robot Wars: Series 9/Heat 1

Episode 1 wAS the first of five qualification episodes which will determine the Grand Finalists of Series 9 of Robot Wars. It aired on March 5th, 2017 at 7pm

Jellyfish vs Nuts 2 vs Rapid vs Terrorhurtz
"Immediately, Jellyfish is up in the air!"

- Jonathan Pearceas Rapid starts attacking rapidly.

As activate was called, Nuts 2 started spinning on the spot. Terrorhurtz chased Rapid, who moved straight underneath Jellyfish and flipped them high into the air. Jellyfish landed and was pushed by Terrorhurtz as Rapid moved away, only to be shoved by Terrorhurtz themselves.

Nuts 2, meanwhile, was being flipped by Matilda's tusks as it was nowhere near any other robot. Rapid pushed Jellyfish without flipping, straight into Terrorhurtz, who slipped underneath the white robot and slammed it with its axe. Jellyfish moved away as Terrorhurtz skulked around, trying to hit Terorrhurtz, only to be carried across the arena on top of Rapid, who had slipped under Jellyfish. Terrorhurtz had a go at axing the Nuts 2 minibots, while Rapid slid underneath Jellyfish again, and tried to flip it out of the Arena. Jellyfish landed hard still in the Arena, having been placed at the wrong angle on the flipper. Terrorhurtz came in and slammed its axe onto Jellyfish again. Rapid moved in on Nuts 2 with its flipper still raised from a previous attack. As the flipper closed, one of the flails from Nuts 2 was caught in the flipper, clamping it down. Nuts 2 was carried around the arena, until Rapid lifted its flipper, sending Nuts 2 sliding into Matilda. Matilda attacked with the tusks, but turned around and hit Nuts 2 with her flywheel. Nuts 2 went soaring through the air, and landed outside of the Arena, and was eliminated.

Rapid pushed Jellyfish around the Arena, while being pursued by Terrorhurtz. Jellyfish was left writhing in the corner, as Terrorhurtz chased Rapid until Cease was called.

Qualified: Rapid & Terrorhurtz

Aftershock vs Crank-E vs Sabretooth vs TMHWK
Qualified: Aftershock & Sabretooth

Final Table
NOTE: Rapid withdrew on 0 points, and are not included in the final table.

Trivia

 * According to audience reports, this episode was treated as Episode 2 during filming, suggesting that the decision to air this episode first was made at a later point.
 * Terrorhurtz, Nuts and Team Kill-E-Crank-E also appeared in the first episode of Series 8.
 * This is also the second time that Terrorhurtz and Sabretooth have been in the same episode, though this time they are not in the same melee.