In Series 5 and 6, the losing robots from the first round of each Semi-Final would fight in a three-way In Series 8-9, the first-round battles were referred to as For Series 10, the format was changed again, with only one winner from each three-way Group Battle progressing to the Semi-Finals of each heat.

had spent the whole Trial The other 5 competitors in the Annihilator were Chaos 2 (the reigning champions), Dominator 2, Killerhurtz, Suicidal Tendencies 2 and Stinger (one of the robots that had knocked Spikasaurus out of the main competition), leaving them looking Another minor related fail came when the production crew still listed it as having a flipper on its stat card, which commentator Stefan Frank also mentioned in its introduction despite its absence.This was likely also down to them working out the timings as they went on - at the pilot recording they had to skip battles because they were so far behind, but by later recordings they were finishing early and started doing the exhibition bouts to fill timeThe above damage was, perhaps unsurprisingly, inflicted by Hypno-Disc during their first round bout, which Raizer Blade only survived because The Predator was disemboweled more thoroughly, and Raizer Blade limped through the second round solely because their opponent (who was nervous at the prospect of facing Hypno-Disc) accidentally immobilized Chaos 2's flipper had a curved panel on the top of it to make it tip more towards its rear, making it easier for it to right itself, but SMIDSY dented it in so it was lying flat on the flipper and couldn't make it back overwhich would in the long-run have made Team Chaos the first of only two teams to reach five semi-finals; in the end only Firestorm achieved this featPanic Attack and Mace had come joint-last in the Gauntlet, with Panic Attack winning the race-off; this in itself could qualify, for if Panic Attack had covered only a few centimetres less then it would have gone outwhich would have made Team Chaos the only team to reach four Grand FinalsSupernova and Ming Dienasty would also have fit the bill, but are thought to have been left out due to poor performance as they had both been eliminated in round 1 that year, although Supernova's team also said university exams affected their All Stars involvementStrictly speaking it should have been the vocative form "Julie", but that also spells a modern female name and so could have been confusing.and Carbide absolutely destroyed everyone to win the entire series without even breaking a sweatThey failed; Matilda immobilized Wheely Big Cheese but the other three managed to pin Bash against the arena wall and immobilize himVincent Blood had joined the team in Series 3 after Ian Lewis and Simon Scott had built it for Series 2 and he'd made their website for themwere uncannily reminiscent of the series 3 finals, pitting the respective Wars' most powerful flipper (Chaos 2 and Apollo) against the most destructive spinner (Hypno-Disc and Carbide). http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/RobotWarsDuring the height of its fame, the show had two seasons and a Nickelodeon Kids' Series involving mainly US robots (called Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors and Nickelodeon Robot Wars respectively), two seasons involving robots from the Netherlands and Belgium (called Robot Wars: The Dutch Battles), and a German language single Series (named Robot Wars: The German Struggles) involving 12 robots from Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, which were broadcast in their native languages and used local Presenters and pit reporters.
There's a Plunderstorm coming! Watch the official BattleBots online at ABC.com. In early 1994, Thorpe sent a promotional package for the inaugural US The first competition was held in 1994 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, attracting 1,200 attendees.In 1995, Profile Records partnered with production company Mentorn to produce and televise a Mentorn used Marc Thorpe as a consultant on the show and the first series of By March 2011, Gutteridge was preparing a proposal of reviving the show, submitting it to In February 2013, it was announced that Roaming Robots Ltd. had agreed a deal with On October 11th 2016, a second series of the rebooted Forrester's role as pit reporter consisted mainly of speaking to contestants about their robots in the pits before and after battles, although she was also seen introducing the Gauntlet in the first two series. In the First Wars, the six heat winners fought each other in a single six-way battle to determine the series champion. The four losing robots from the Group Battles then fight again in the In each arena battle, there were many ways in which a competitor robot could lose a battle: Carbide had which had, admittedly, been overturned by Matilda and immobilizedIronically she said this after interviewing Team Vader, whose robot though for different reasons: Robot the Bruce lacked a SRIMECH; Chaos' SRIMECH didn't work due to a design flaw; and Chaos 2's SRIMECH was highly inefficient and tended to failboth teams had friends and family in the audience who had come to see them fight that day and asked if the first round of the tournament could be rejigged when the filming started getting behind scheduleostensibly this was to try and jolt their drive system back to life, but they were probably also wary of the crowd getting bored In fact Team Saint/Gabriel generally try to avert this in their battles, not believing in causing more damage than necessaryChimera, another 2016 entrant, was a torque-reaction axlebot that had no such system, so how it managed to bypass the moving weapons rule is unknownThe winner of this battle, Eruption, would then go on to become the championThe unfortunate part is that Vulture's internals packed in just before the fight, forcing them to forfeit.In Flipper's defence though, it was stylized after a except for one time in Sumpthing's 4th Wars melee where Jonathan called him by his full name and Sumo was also planned for Series 3, but cancelled due to a health & safety incidentJohn Reid, the Dee team's mentor, had given the advice to try and break Kadeena Machina's blade on their armour.


Heat winners would then progress to the Semi-Finals, with two robots from each going through to the Grand Final of each respective series.

Even after beating Panic Attack during the Commonwealth Carnage, Firestorm proves it's strength by flipping the heaviest house robot, Mr Psycho. Most of the episodes are available on YouTube and if you live in the UK Challenge is currently showing reruns of all series bar 1, 3 and 4, with H2 showing Series 3 and 4.