What if Stinger beat Chaos 2?
this may have been done before but i Do Not Care, i have Brainthoughts
I always thought that Stinger had won that fight against Chaos 2. Even before I became the massive Stinger fan I now am (second fav of all time woooo), I had felt that damage being a draw was a stupid conclusion to come to, and that Stinger were the more dominant machine throughout. So what if they had won? Well, I'm bored and have nothing better to do, so let's find out.
- 1 Series 4
- 1.1 Stinger vs. Pussycat
- 2 Series 5
- 2.1 Seedings
- 2.2 Stinger vs. Storm Force
- 2.3 Stinger vs. Steel Avenger
- 2.4 Smidsy vs. Steel Avenger
- 2.5 Chaos 2 vs. Black Widow
- 2.6 Chaos 2 vs. Atomic
- 2.7 Chaos 2 vs. Bulldog Breed
- 2.8 Razer vs. Hippobotamus
- 2.9 Razer vs. General Carnage 2
- 2.10 Razer vs. S3
- 2.11 Hypnodisc vs. Big Nipp…
Robot Wars The Alternate Wars Series 3
One of my more popular ideas is that of Robot Wats The Alternate Wars in which it's a competition where we see an alternate set of events, or at least another run of the mill fictional competition. The first series used Arenas of Destruction for a unique but short competition, then Series 2 used Resetti Replicas and this third series will be using the "Robot Wars 2004 Mod" which has tons of competitors as well as some bots carried over from other Robot Arena mods out there. Here, the competition will be increased from 12 Heats to a much better 16 Heat structure and for the first time include Seeds (based on previous performance AND if they're available to use). In fact, there's over 298 potential competitors to choose from. Maybe you may wa…
Ragnabot 4 Side Brackets
Who wouldn't want a third Ragnabot 4 related side blog?? This will be of most use after the heats have concluded and we have a full Top 112 which will allow for off-the-cuff ideas like "what if all the Heat Final losers moved on", and maybe some other ideas once the tournament is fully complete. But we'll see!
Although we can't say with certainty since the Top 112 format of Ragnabot 4 hasn't even taken place yet, I think the Ragnabot 3 format which used the Melees to narrow 96 robots down to the standard Top 64 of the previous two Ragnabots is my favourite of all the formats we've ever used. For one round only, we had Ragnabot with more than just head-to-heads, but also everyone at this stage was a near-guaranteed high standard, so it made …
Series 3 Research and Observations
OK, so, in the past two and a bit years, I've been watching Robot Wars on Mech+ on a loop, beginning with Series 2 and finishing with Extreme 2, ie the seven series I actually watched when they first aired. I finished my second run a few weeks ago, and began again with Series 2. While watching said series, I noticed a few things I hadn't before, such as how light Caliban is, which really has changed my view on how it would fare in combat, and also, during Mace's heat, I noticed that Brian Fountain has a very small... (gag) ponytail! (vomits everywhere)
Anyway, I'm on to Series 3 now, and there are a few things I've discovered during random Googling sessions in the past about said series that I'd like to take the opportunity of watching it a…
In Search of Good Robot Wars Names on BAMZOOKi
OK, so, if you're of a similar age to myself, you might remember a CBBC show called BAMZOOKi. A similar show to Robot Wars in many ways, it involved teams of kids creating virtual creatures known as 'Zooks' via, what would probably be called nowadays, an app on the CBBC website, an then competing in a series of games, some of them similar to the RW Trials. It was hosted by Jake Humphrey, nowadays better known for his football presenting work, while Richie Webb provided commentary very similar to that of JP on RW.
It ran for three series from 2004-06, with a less successful revival at the end of the decade with new hosts and a new format; I never saw that as I didn't watch CBBC after 2006, and then pretty much gave up on it after it stopped …
robots i like for some reason
ok so im bored so im just gonna compile a list of random robots i have a fascination with for some reason even if they weren't actually all that good, this will be updated down the line
- 1 Splendid!
- 1.1 Schumey
- 1.2 Rick
- 1.3 Wel-Dor
- 1.4 Kan Opener
- 1.5 Ewe 2
- 1.6 Psychosprout
- 1.7 Corkscrew
- 1.8 Eric
- 1.9 GBH
- 1.10 Killer Carrot 2
the name always makes me laugh for some reason
again, funny name, i don't know why but giving robots human names just sends me shoutout to derek my goat
maybe its the irish pride but other than that i have no idea. i like the paint job ig
i saw and liked the season 7 annihilator before i saw any of its heat attempts so i have a bit of bias
the name is funny if i forget its a u2 pun (i hate u2)
fucking look at it its the best thing ever made
they wer…
FightFest 2024
A quick update to let you all know about FightFest 2024, which will be happening later this month over the August bank holiday weekend (Aug 24-26) in Rotherham, Sheffield!
FightFest is a yearly Featherweight competition, filling the role of the FRA Championship 2024, and is open to the public for the first time as a spectator event. There will be on-site commentators, including our very own NJGW while the action unfolds in the full combat arena at Magna Science Centre.
I'll be among the competing robots with my featherweight Euphoria and will be throwing hands with Robot Wars veterans and featherweight circuit legends alike. Robots from the likes of Team Shock, Team Toon and even Team Terror Turtle will be competing, while modern-day legends l…
Let me re-introduce myself
OK, so, for the past 17 years and two months, I've been known to the online Robot Wars community, firstly on YouTube and nowadays on here, as hogwild94, a moniker I came up with for myself when I was 13. In case you are wondering, it derives from the first Laurel and Hardy film I ever owned on VHS.
Well, I turn 31 next March and I barely use it anywhere anymore. Aside from here, the only other sites I still use it on are the Deal or No Deal forum (where almost everyone knows my real name anyway, so just call me by it instead) and my old YouTube channel, which has been sitting idle for over 10 years now.
And so, with regret, I've decided it's time to leave my old moniker behind. I'm not going to change my account name completely so as not to …
Tornado - All 44 Fights Ranked
Hello, everyone. Ragnabot 4's recent activity has piqued the interest of more than a few Wiki members. Members of limited - or straight-up no - recent activity have returned. It's not only been Ragnabot votes that these people have branched back out to, but blog posts as well, with Toast, Raz3r amongst others delivering some quality reading content.
For my take on things, I'll be delving into an individual machine's fights. Toast's Behemoth specific blog is a notable look into these type of blogs, and I will be taking the turn of Tornado today.
Tornado? Why Tornado? The boring box that professionally grinded down opponents without much flamboyancy or visual flair? Yeah, that box.
My own tag towards Tornado mainly cropped up during the The Ult…
My BEST Lego Replica Yet!
Welp, it seems I've REALLY out-done myself this time. I didn't think it would be possible to get the shape of this guy down AND make it durable, but I did it nonetheless, and have MUCH brighter prospects for similarly angular, polygonal robot designs. Ladies and gentlemen, I pesent to you Bigger Brother, Robot Wars Series 4 edition:
MOAR Lego Robots
Here's some more bots!
I've upgraded my Hypnodisc replica and added a replica of Mortis to my collection. The rest of my recent works are Battlebots, and I'm not sure if this is the right place to post them. Most importantly, I created a replica of Panic Attack I, which you can download the instructions and parts list for on Rebrickable.com for free! (Same goes for WYSIWYG)
Here's the links:
https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-185118/TommyProductionsInc/robot-wars-wysiwyg/#details
https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-186123/TommyProductionsInc/panic-attack-i/#details
Lego Robots
Oops, somehow I didn't get notifications for my previous post and didn't see the positive feedback from you guys until now XD
I'm glad ya'll like my collection. I've added more bots since then, and for now I'll show you what I got done by the end of last month:
My Stud.io Lego Robot Collection!
Here's some bots I made in a free Lego CAD software called Stud.io. TGhey're all 1/10 scale based on whatever measurements I could find of them. Needless to say, the majority of the robots I can replica will be from classic Robot Wars...but I dunno how many people would be interested.
Euro 2024 Discussion page
So, another season is over, and its nearly Euros time again!
If you're wondering why I'm setting a page up for this, but didn't for the World Cup 18 months ago, there are two reasons: 1. There was barely anyone else on here at the time, so there wouldn't be much discussion to be had. 2. I was boycotting talking about that tournament online until it was over because of its hosts and time of year.
So, anyway, here's a page for the forthcoming Euros. I don't plan on running any games on here this time as I have no idea how often I'll be able to come on here during the tournament, but feel free to talk about all things Euro 2024 in the comments section below. I'll be putting any thoughts I may have on this page itself, I hope.
- 1 Sweep
- 1.1 End of Gro…
Ragnabot 4 Competitors Ranked
Last Ragnabot season, I put a blog together towards the end, ranking the 16 robots that reached the second round of each Ragnabot 3 heat, by overall quality. The point here was to see whether the four best robots actually got through, or see where a surprise qualifier compares in the grand scheme. You can find the original Ragnabot 3 version of the blog here.
But I'd honestly forgotten I ever did this, and I ended up finding it again through the Ragnabot 3 Awards and spent a whole plane ride reading it back, so I'm happy to do it again for Ragnabot 4! Like before, the Round 1 losers are excluded for brevity, but this time the two strongest round one losers of each heat will be included, making for a Top 18 in each heat. This accommodates fo…
Ranking Every Title Fight across all Robot Wars Competitions
My, my, how long it has been. Over 4 years since the last blog I created, and having popped back over to the Wiki after been made aware of Ragnabot 4, I thought I'd dip my hand into the pool of Robot Wars Wiki blogs for old times sake.
Initially, I planned for this blog to simply rank all 16 Championship title fights across the UK, US, Dutch and German Series. But then I thought, "We can be a bit more ambitious than that, can't we?", so I will be expanding to cover near enough every single Final of every single competition across these series that was featured in full. Every All Stars, every Annihilator, every Tag-Team, every World Championship, and many, many more. Other weight categories will also be included in this rank, with the except…
Revisiting Ragnabot
Now that we're firmly underway with Ragnabot 4, it's almost hard to believe that the wiki's original Ragnabot - a celebration of five years of wiki Arena forums - is now over eleven years old!! The initial discussions got started in January 2013, and having checked the Discussion logs, apparently both myself and CrashBash were initially against it, lmao. How little we knew! Without a doubt, this tournament is the wiki's golden child, we certainly wouldn't be on a fourth one otherwise!
But a significant amount of time has passed since we did Ragnabot 1, so I've decided to give it a re-read and jot down any notes about anything I found interesting heat-by-heat. This can be anything from matches that don't sell the story of future successes, p…
Ragnabot 4 RIP in Pieces award
Once again we must keep tack of the biggest losses in each round of a Ragnabot tournament. Ragnabot 4 has the added spanner in the works with the RNG method of determining a winner meaning even a massively agree upon outclassed robot always has a chance to go through, as this is no longer the popular vote that decides a battle winner. Therefore we could have plenty of early losses not purely relying on an unfortunate draw.
I will keep track of two things here. The RIP in Pieces award will run as normal, collecting a list of nominated "big" robots to have gone out early. We will then have a list of the 10%ers, for robots going through with 10% or fewer points scored in that battle, so the biggest upsets. By the end we can mathematically anno…
Robot Wars '99
Robot Wars '99 was the official name given to a proposed US Robot Wars event scheduled for August 20-22 1999. Expected to be the sixth such event planned, following on from the live competitions run between 1994 and 1997, it was to have provisionally taken place at the Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, No further live events would be held in the US under the Robot Wars name, with Robot Wars LLC switching focus to bring versions of the televised UK show to North American broadcasters.
Robot Rebellion 2023 Results
- 1 Heat A ("Goldeneye")
- 1.1 Round 1
- 1.2 Round 2
- 1.3 Round 3
- 1.4 Final Table
- 1.5 Lockdown Rumble
- 2 Heat B ("Doom")
- 2.1 Round 1
- 2.2 Round 2
- 2.3 Round 3
- 2.4 Final Table
- 3 Heat C ("Farming Simulator")
- 3.1 Round 1
- 3.2 Round 2
- 3.3 Round 3
- 3.4 Final Table
- 4 Heat D ("Happy Wheels")
- 4.1 Round 1
- 4.2 Round 2
- 4.3 Round 3
- 4.4 Final Table
- 5 Heat E ("Castlevania")
- 5.1 Round 1
- 5.2 Round 2
- 5.3 Round 3
- 5.4 Final Table
- 6 Heat F ("Big Mutha Truckers")
- 6.1 Round 1
- 6.2 Round 2
- 6.3 Round 3
- 6.4 Final Table
- 7 Heat G ("Shrek The Video Game (for XBOX)")
- 7.1 Round 1
- 7.2 Round 2
- 7.3 Round 3
- 7.4 Final Table
- 7.5 Lockdown Rumble
- 7.6 Play-Ins
- 7.7 Round of 16
- 8 The Grand Final ("Super Smash Bros. Ultimate")
- 8.1 Round of 8
- 8.2 Semi-Finals
- 8.3 Playoff
- 8.4 Final
- 9 Annihilator ("Special 1 - Total Annihilation")
- 9.1 Group Battles
- 9.2 Annihilator
- 10 Tag Team ("Special 2 - …
Robot Wars Unveiled
A project that I wanted to do for some time, serving as a sister show to my "Did you Know Doctor Who" series is a basic fact file on every Robot Wars episode. Admittingly this idea was meant to pop up much earlier but I have been busy and thus unable to contribute to this series (for example the epically long Aerith vs Tifa script (completed and with video), Mechanical Madness Season 2.0 (done now) and well working) but as I type this the first two episodes are done, only one has been uploaded and is already up on the wiki. I've used trivia points, websites, the show and even had a few conversations with Roboteers about the upcoming episodes to give a fact file for, some have more than others and some like Series 6 Heat A or Series 7 Heat …
Robot Wars 1998 (proposed US events)
Following the conclusion of the 1997 US Robot Wars competition, a fifth US event of this kind was originally planned to take place in San Francisco on August 14-16 1998. Due to a legal dispute between founder Marc Thorpe and event partner Profile Records - the original co-owners of the Robot Wars Inc. joint venture - the event would ultimately not materialize. The ramifications of the dispute also lead to a televised replacement event, to have been produced by Mentorn and the BBC, being canceled during the planning stages.
The original event proposed by Thorpe, commonly titled Robot Wars 1998 or Robot Wars '98
It would not be until 1999 when Mentorn and the BBC began hosting, recording and releasing similar events featuring US teams, as part of fil…
Kronos
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- 'The Kronos Project' on Joseph W. Partlow's website (archived October 9 1999)
Fuzzy
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- 1 Wins/Losses
- 2 Series Record
- 3 References
- 4 Navigation
- Wins: 1
- Losses: 3
The above record reflects that of Cassidy Wright only.
Black Widow (1997)
{{robot |robot_name=Black Widow |image=Blackwidow97.jpg |us_live=1997 |team=Brandon Park Technical College The Judges first asked for signs of mobility from Black Widow, then Carnivore. Only Carnivore, which had parked close by, responded, effectively marking a second straight defeat for Phillip Hoskins' machine. Black Widow was therefore eliminated from the Lightweight Face-Off.
X7
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- 1 Wins/Losses
- 2 Series Record
- 2.1 1994-1997 US Competitions
- 2.2 UK Series
- 3 References
- 4 External Links
- 5 Navigation
- Wins: 2
- Losses: 2
- Draws: 1
NOTE: X7's draw in the Lightweight Face-Off, in which it progressed alongside Defiant, is not considered an outright win.
The records above reflect those of team members Mike Winter and/or Dennis Adams only.
- 'RobotX' page, Robot Action League website (archived)
Ragnabot 4 Preparation
Ragnabot 4 is on the way, and we have quite a few decisions to make regarding format and entry lists. Use this blog's comments to ask or answer questions, to debate the viability of certain robots and formats or make any other suggestions to make Ragnabot 4 worthy of being a thing.
- 1 Format
- 2 Robot list
- 3 Binned robots
- 4 Multiple Versions
- 5 US Wars robots
Ragnabot 3 took place with 24 heats of 32 robots, with 34 qualifier battles (should have been 36). This included all robots from Featherweight upwards, while Rantnabot was held sperately with the Antweights.
Ragnabot 4 will be run slightly differently. RNG will be involved in some way (changes to the current system are still TBD), which is already a strong change from previous versions of the format.…
Alexander
- 1 Results
- 1.1 Wins/Losses
- 2 Series Record
- 2.1 1994-1997 US Competitions
- 2.2 UK Series
- 2.3 US Series
- 3 Trivia
- 4 References
- 5 External Links
- 6 Navigation
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- Wins: 5
- Losses: 1
NOTE: Alexander's forfeit from the Middleweight Face-Off is considered to be a loss. Alexander's Melee, where it survived the full duration, is also treated as a win.
The UK and US Series records are reflective of team captain Dan Danknick only.
- According to the Team Delta website, Alexander was at one point considered as a invitational entry for Robot Wars: The First Wars. Had this gone ahead, this would have made it one of the few US Robot Wars competitors to have competed in the UK television show. Ultimately, the 'opportunity' for Alexander to compete would not materialize.
- Alexander on the Tea…
Autonomous Robots
While the majority of Robot Wars robots were operated by humans using radio control systems, autonomous systems and technologies were occasionally implemented by competitors in earlier events.
The 1995-1997 US competitions - predating the televised show - featured its own classes and events for fully-autonomous machines. Usually, the latter consisted of a single battle involving no more than two robots. Robots to achieve success in these included Gladiator Rodney (1996) and Thumper (1997). | |}
Red-Green
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- 1 Wins/Losses
- 2 Series Record
- 3 References
- 4 Navigation
- Wins: 6
- Losses: 2
The above record reflects that of builder Jim Sellers.
Thumper
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- 1 Wins/Losses
- 2 Series Record
- 3 References
- 4 External Links
- 5 Navigation
- Wins: 1
- Losses: 1
- Thumper on Joseph W. Partlow's website (archived)
Bubba
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- 1 Wins/Losses
- 2 Series Record
- 3 References
- 4 Navigation
- Wins (Heavyweight): 0
- Losses (Heavyweight): 1
- Wins (Middleweight): 0
- Losses (Middleweight): 1
- Total Wins: 0
- Total Losses: 2
TallyWhacker
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- 1 Wins/Losses
- 2 Series Record
- 3 References
- 4 External Links
- 5 Navigation
- Wins: 1
- Losses: 3
NOTE: This record reflects that of Distraction Laboratories.
- TallyWhacker Diary, Distraction Laboratories website (archived)
- Distraction Laboratories website (archived)
Grand Final Runts
Back in 2018, I was trying to make a series about Robot Wars called Robot Wars Hot Takes, which was just me talking about things pertaining to robot combat that I liked or disliked. I made one episode about Chaos 2 and then didn't make anything RW related for nearly four years. I still have the script for what would have been the 2nd episode (and I might still make it into a video), but here's the (mostly unchanged) script, in fandom form. Beautiful.The Grand Final is a very tense moment of any series of classic Robot Wars, after a bunch of heats, two Series Semi Finals, we're left with the final four. But if there's once thing that I've noticed in nearly every perentheses classic series, there's always one robot out of the four that you j…
Vicious-1
With the 1997 event proving to be the last to take place in the US, this marked the end of Vicious-1's short, yet extremely successful Robot Wars career.
- 1 Results
- 1.1 Wins/Losses
- 2 Series Record
- 2.1 1994-1997 US Competitions
- 2.2 US Series
- 3 Outside Robot Wars
- 4 Trivia
- 5 References
- 6 External Links
- 7 Navigation
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- Wins: 6
- Losses: 2
Following Vicious-1's 1997 run, Mike Regan built and entered several more robots for other events in various weight classes. For more information, see The Brute.
- Of the 1997 Face-Off champions, Vicious-1 was the only one to have lost, then fought through the Loser's Bracket.
- Due to the 'double elimination' format of the 1997 Face-Offs, Vicious-1 was the only champion from the pre-televised era to have incurred a loss in its championship ru…
Cheltenham 2023
Once again another year, another tournament. Sure I went to see AWS earlier and even met CombatWombat in real life, which was all fun, but these are big nasty heavyweights! Admittingly, I didn't get much sleep the night prior and had the worst headache while watching this show (Gabriel's swinging sword didn't make things better!) There was also an annoying child behind who never stopped kicking my chair, however, that did not take away from what was a much better tournament than the year prior. Last year was kinda meh and disappointing, this year, a massive improvement! The spinner battles were brutal with Donal Thump getting scalped (literally!) and probably my personal favourite hightlight, KING B! King B fought Ripper and did very well,…