Road to the Semi-Finals
- Heat, Round 1: Beat Infernal Contraption (12-0)
- Heat, Round 2: Beat The Tartan Terror (12-0)
- Heat, Round 3: Beat Mechadroid (9-0)
- Melees: Qualified over Botwork with Wild Thing (0-0-12)
- Quarter-Final, Round 1: Beat The Swarm (13-0)
- Quarter-Final, Round 2: Beat Cedric Slammer (13-0)
- Semi-Final, Round 1: Beat Magnetar (7-6)
- Semi-Final, Round 2: Beat Big Nipper (9-4)
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Road to the Semi-Finals
- Heat, Round 1: Beat Or Te (9-0)
- Heat, Round 2: Beat Tornado (12-1)
- Heat, Round 3: Beat Robochicken (13-0)
- Melees: Qualified over Hard (Loanerbot) with Twister (Series 7) (0-0-13)
- Quarter-Final, Round 1: Beat M.R. Speed Squared (13-0)
- Quarter-Final, Round 2: Beat Gabriel 2 (12-1)
- Semi-Final, Round 1: Beat Tough As Nails (11-1)
- Semi-Final, Round 2: Beat Apollo (11-1)
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Votes for Carbide
- Yes Eruption may have taken the Series 10 title, but 1 win out of 4 against the Series 9 champions doesn't make for good reading. A fully-functioning Carbide has Eruption covered easily, the Series 10 final was unfortunately just a blip on the record in terms of judging the two. A few minutes into the fight and Eruption will take one knock too many from the blade and conk out from the constant onslaught. Jimlaad43(talk) 11:02, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
- Unlucky for Eruption, they've drawn Carbide at the semi-final stage yet again, for another third place finish. While we all know Eruption is the second-best robot to ever compete on the show, it seems to be a consistent pattern that Eruption falls one step short of the final, just as Apollo consistently finishes fifth. Eruption is at least in a better spot than last time, as Eruption does have its famous victory over Carbide to its credit, but much as I adore that fight and regard it as one of the best battles in the show's history, we are forced to accept that Carbide wasn't running at 100% in that bout. Now, if Ragnabot 3 followed the rules of a conventional tournament (i.e. robots taking progressive damage over the course of a tournament), I would happily vote for Eruption. By this stage of a large tournament, Carbide would be limping, and we'd be more likely to see the Series 10 final than any of the other three bouts. I daresay that if this were one of my personal Ragnabot tournaments, I'd follow this logic and make Eruption the winner. However, the wiki Ragnabot 3 rules out lasting damage in the interest of fairness, so with Carbide on full form, I think we know what's coming. Eruption can only launch flips if Carbide's bar is slowed or stopped, and that won't be happening on a fresh Carbide. TOAST 12:16, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
- Good attempt by Combatwombat. He is right that if Eruption achieves a flawless performance like it did in the Series 10 Grand Final, it will win. Thing is, while Eruption's control is excellent, remember that Carbide's control was also very good, there is a reason it won all those battles aside from having a BFW as Diotoir would call it. This is a battle of tactics, and nine times out of ten Carbide will achieve that one hit that takes out Eruption's drives. SpaceManiac888 (Talk) 12:19, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
- The moment Magnetar lost to Carbide was the moment where Carbide won the tournament. I could try to give a vote to Eruption, but it has to play a 100% perfect game whereas Carbide only has to get one hit in to start messing Eruption up and dealing damage. If that hit gets landed and it will, then Eruption will start limping and will eventually die off after too many hits from Carbide's spinning bar. Shame that the last few fights are gonna be total curbstomps, though I think that's to be expected when the best of the best have fought each other... --TheyCallMeDoot (*doot doot*) 14:28, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
- I've been debating this in my head almost since the start of the tournament, and whether I go for Eruption because it won most recently, or whether I go for Carbide, as it won more times. I'm choosing Carbide, Eruption needs to play this perfectly here, and whilst that is possible, I think Carbide will eventually do enough damage to knock out Eruption. Adster1005 15:51, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
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Votes for Eruption
- The Series 10 final cannot be discounted here. Yes, Eruption lost twice relatively easily in Series 9- but Series 10 Eruption had better armour designed specifically for facing Carbide. Yes, Eruption lost relatively quickly in the Series 10 heat final after taking that hit to the side, and I'm not denying that could very easily happen here- but Michale Oates did seem to learn from that, and we know that Eruption can weather the hits provided he keeps the heavily armoured front pointed at Carbide. Yes, Eruption needs to be driven pretty flawlessly to win this, but we've seen it happen, and I believe Eruption's capable of a repeat performance. Combatwombat555 (talk) 12:06, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
- Look, lets be realistic here. Do we all remember Ragnabot 1? The final there was between Razer and Tornado, and the latter had its anti-Razer cage. If I recall, Razer won that vote quite comfortably, with votes to spare, because the general consensus was that as time went on, Razer had shown it was able to counter the weapon Tornado had specifically built to counter it - countering the counter. Surely, therefore, the same logic should apply to Eruption too. Eruption learnt from all of its losses to Carbide, including their Heat Final clash of Series 10, and then used that against Carbide in the single-best title fight ever. The fact is, Eruption learnt how to counter Carbide. And there's also the fact of course that if Carbide can't kill its opponent quickly it starts to get into all sorts of problems, which Eruption will capitalise on. TL:DR, if we accept that Razer would beat Tornado, ARC included, based on how its performance improved each time they thought, surely the same can be said for Eruption. CrashBash (talk) 14:42, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
- Sorry, but Chaos 2 vs Pussycat and Panic Attack vs Cassius take the crown. SpaceManiac888 (Talk) 15:45, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
- Eh, Chaos 2 vs Pussycat was too much of a foregone conclusion and Panic Attack vs Cassius felt a little too short. CrashBash (talk) 15:58, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
- lol I wouldn't have either of those two in my top five title fights! The standout best for me are Eruption vs Carbide and Tornado vs Razer, with personal favourites being Typhoon 2 vs Storm II and Panzer Mk4 vs Tricerabot. TOAST 16:19, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
- Funnily enough, my top four. CrashBash (talk) 16:26, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
- Pussycat vs Chaos 2 is definitely the best :P.Diotoir the son of nemesis (talk) 16:30, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
- A lot gets made of Carbide not being at full fitness or being worn down as the competition progressed, but honestly, did its weapon have a stressful fight apart from the very first battle in the competition? The first fight against Nuts 2 also doesn't affect the fundamentals of the weapon for future fights either - it simply lost a chain. And really, Carbide just had multiple fights in a row where its weapon simply overpowered the opposition without resistance. Nevertheless, in the title fight itself, Michael Oates did learn. In previous fights against Carbide he was too eager to get in its face, to charge into it, or to get at its sides which opened up Eruption's own side panels. But here, Michael Oates just parked himself infront of Carbide for the first minute, and only slightly twitched left and right. Playing things so slowly and rigidly meant Carbide couldn't get as much engagement with its hits, but when it did get good engagement it would only hit Eruption's bulky front because Michael Oates wasn't opening up his sides to Carbide. He wasn't eager to get around the sides of Carbide. He simply played the stern, solid waiting game with his thick front end. Ultimately, I think Carbide being worn out going into the title fight gets given too much weight. And Michael Oates now knows the optimal way for his machine to attack Carbide isn't to charge into Carbide and put it on the backfoot like a Terrorhurtz is capable of. Eruption just isn't setup to counter Carbide that way, and he now knows that. But it is capable of countering Carbide in his own way, with the reinforced left side panel, with a less aggressive, patient approach, and by trusting his machine to withstand the hits with its front end without needing to attack straight away himself. Michael Oates to do it again. NJGW (talk) 16:43, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
- I'm all for an Eruption win here. Michael absolutely learned from his Series 9 title fight defeat to take the Series 10 crown, and we never would have known how the Carbide team would have responded for a theoretical Series 11 tie-breaker. However I'm inclined to believe Michael's strategy would work again here. I have no doubt in my mind that Carbide will get the damage in, but Eruption will be the more controlled and strategically driven bot throughout and take this on a JD again. SFCJack (talk) 16:52, February 3, 2020 (UTC)
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