User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 1: Finding machines that are genuinely overrated/@comment-25770073-20180204181430

I know we touched upon it on Facebook but I may as well share it with the rest of the wiki. Cassius. Since doing the Series 2 HD remakes I've come to the discovery that Cassius...isn't that great and it losing in the Grand Final was no "Rex Garrod being a good sportsman" but rather Cassius being a rather poor robot. Don't get me wrong it's a "pioneer" of the flipper for Robot Wars and it's certainly iconic, but like Behemoth being iconic means nothing. Having to watch Series 2 for screenshots, I noticed Cassius has major problems in a lot of its battles: Firstly, it tens to bop up and down in battle to get the flipper in action but unlike robots such as Dantomkia, it's almost constant. Cassius' heat was (whether people agree or not) filled with "cannon fodder" robots that all had skyscrapper high ground clearances and were begging to be flipped. In the Grand Final it won its battle against Roadblock (who may I say DOMINATED Cassius throughout despite have little weaponry) after Roadblock drove into the dreaded PPZ, I bet had it not done that Cassius would have lost. Speaking of terrible driving, Cassius had awful control in both Series 2 and Series 3 it would turn almost uncontrollably, drive into House Robots or most infamously the pit...on more than one occasion.

I find it funny that other flipperbots (e.g. Wheely Big Cheese, Steg 2, Eruption, TR2, Thermidor etc). get harped on for these (or similar) reasons yet Cassius from what I've seen always gets away. I believe Cassius is so beloved because of what it achieved, however even now I've seen fantasy tournaments throughout the internet where Cassius has beaten far superior (and sometimes up to date) robots. Cassius is a robot that looking back hasn't aged well, it iconic and an "allstar" but I feel that if one were to watch the battles (like I did for the HD rips) you'll notice how it wasn't all that great in the end and struggled against almost all of its opponents. There's a reason why it lost so early on in Series 3 and lost the Grand Final to Panic Attack.