User blog comment:CaliforniaKingsnake/Top 10 Least Favourite robots in all of Robot Wars/@comment-2118191-20170227113402

OK, I'm sorry, but I need...absolutely need to counter your first part of the Tornado hatrid, because frankly, it's all completely wrong.


 * 1) The claim that the Tornado team were being "such babies". By that logic, wouldn't that make Cassius a "big baby" for having a srimech? Or any robots that fought Hypno-Disc "big babies" for adding extra armour plating, which they did fairly frequently? Not really.
 * 2) That's completely wrong. The producers knew about Tornado's frame way before Series 6...no, Extreme Warriors Season 2, which was months beforehand...even started. I'll explain why in the third statement, but the fact of the matter is this...if Tornado truly did hide the cage as you say they did, they would not have been allowed to use it.
 * 3) Tornado's cage was perfectly allowable within the rules. The maximum size of any robot, including any extensions, is 2 metres long by 1.4 metres wide. Tornado, with the cage on, came in at 1.93m long by 1.38m wide, which is completely within the maximum size of any robot...which, unfortunately, is larger than the pit. And besides, both The Morgue and Major Tom have been larger than the pit at some point during their career, the former of which resulted in a controversial decision, and I don't hear you claiming that they cheated.

So, no, Tornado did not cheat, and everything you've said about the cage is completely wrong. If you don't like the cage, that's fine, but at least consider the facts.