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Cruncher was a robot from Team Wharthog that failed to qualify for Series 6 and 7 of Robot Wars. It originally failed to qualify for Series 6, after losing radio signal very quickly in its qualifier battle. For the Seventh Wars, Cruncher was given minor upgrades and renamed Cruncher 2, but failed to qualify again.

The team had previously competed on Robot Wars with Wharthog in Series 1 and the Series 2 Middleweight Championship, and Crusher in Series 3. Neither Wharthog or Crusher won a battle or progressed beyond the first round in any competition.

Design[]

Cruncher was an invertible, four-wheeled, rectangular box shaped robot armed with a set of large horizontal pincers at the front. However, these pincers proved very unreliable and unstable, and remained relatively ineffective when the robot fought at live events.

Series Record[]

Series Cruncher Series Record
The First Wars Entered with Wharthog
The Second Wars Middleweight Championship with Wharthog
The Third Wars Entered with Crusher
The Fourth Wars Did not enter
The Fifth Wars Did not enter
The Sixth Wars Failed to qualify
The Seventh Wars Failed to qualify
Series 8 Did not enter
Series 9 Did not enter
Series 10 Did not enter

Outside Robot Wars[]

Cruncher2003

Cruncher 2 in 2003 fighting Dantomkia and M2

CruncherLive

Cruncher 2 (centre, left side), in the pits at a live event at Folkestone in 2004

Cruncher 2 fought at a few live events after Robot Wars ended, with little to no success, before retiring from combat all together. One such event it competed in was Roaming Robots in Folkestone in 2004, also previously fighting a battle against M2 and Dantomkia in 2003.

Trivia[]

  • If Cruncher 2 had qualified, that would have made Team Wharthog the only team to fight in Series 1 and 7 with any of the same team members. Cold Fusion Team are the only team to fight in Series 1 and 7, but with completely different robots and team members.

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