A nearly oota complition pls

A compilation of competitors attacking house robots would be good!

It’s gotta be Axe-Awe, with the OG Chaos 2 Firestorm a close second

A compilation of Robots set on fire 🔥

@@Razer-el1eg Was gonna suggest, times that House Robots have been toppled over...

Just for George Francis' reaction

George never imagined it to be possible and was more shocked than anyone that it happened

Ironic for the robot with the most Oota flips to be the inaugural bot to be flipped out themselves. Funny how that works lol

Gravity's 2 flips nearly damaged the plexiglass walls!. From Joe. X

"Wow that's out!"

The spin to take the one that stays in the arena to bounce into the pit is just absolutely amazing. One of my favourite Robot Wars moments ever.

Yeah pretty good flipper, forgot out that bot

Some guys were rough though!. From Joe. X

Hexbug Heroes or maybe SkySports can pick it up if BBC keeps fucking us over

@@ErikZarins agree

Wait how do you know?

@@bossboymarroquin5775 it was mentioned on Facebook a little while ago now. Very saddening news

@@Jb33124 oh wow. That is so sad i hope his kids are ok 😭

@@bossboymarroquin5775 I believe they are. Bear in mind that the final episode of robot wars' original run was in 2004, meaning that his children are 17 years older than shown in this video.

Same

Typhoon would have been knocked out

Building onto you're idea: My entire soul died

One of robot wars best 'holy shit!' moments for sure.

I think a large part of that is the width of the flipper. Chaos 2 has a wide flipper, which is great for easily getting under a robot with little trouble, but Stinger has those two big wheels and a pretty narrow gap between them. Chaos 2's wide flipper is just wide enough to be able to get under without catching the wheels. Thermidor 2, however, has a pretty narrow flipper, allowing it to get to the body between Stinger's wheels, letting them flip Stinger out rather more successfully

WOW!

Sounds about right. (For the UK.)

They're also less dangerous than spinners whilst still being impressive, which is why they were the absolute foundation of the touring arena shows.

@@shinydavidhowell Touring arena shows? I'm not familiar with that.

What about storm and Matilda

Adam H it’s more of a league than battle bots I’d say, I’m not saying it better, but there’s more to discover for sure

@@jacobwigley I'd actually argue the later classic years of Robot Wars were the best years of any robot combat on a rounded level. There were multiple types of machine that thrived (spinners, flippers, Razer was arguably off-meta but it won one series and should have had another), and there were plenty of more amateur hobbyist roboteers who came in with all sorts of designs from the silly to the solid. And the storylines were embraced and done very well, IMO the Extreme series helped out for this even though they were basically exhibition fights. Battlebots is a succession of big-money beast machines, and I find it less enjoyable as a show whilst also seeing it as the top level of roboteering. In fact, my biggest problem with the Robot Wars revival was that it just felt like a Battlebots second division at times, as the balance tipped far enough towards well-funded professionalism to lose some charm.

Lol

Chaos 2 was like a fixed point in time for UK Robot Combat.

Surely being the first robot out is kind of an honour?

It all came down to just how good a driver Chaos 2 had. Similar to Razer and Pussycat both having among the best drivers in the whole of Robot Wars.

@Pope Leo X Exactly. Good drivers are what make good bots.

Oh my God. I was like just like Johnathan Pearce when that happened. I could not stop laughing! The featherweight are so much fun!

what are the odds of that ever happening again?

No i came to see all of them

19:38

20:20 🤔

Yeah that would be a awesome fght

@Pope Leo X pretty sure he was joking

Sadly I think they canceled

We sort-of saw that with the post-Series 4 special episode War Of Independence. Both Rammstein and FrenZy made appearances, but while Rammstein crashed out in the first round due to weight and battery issues, FrenZy made it all the way to the final... ... only to be felled by, of all machines, Mortis!

No completly diffrent bots

TimDragonKid he put them after Series 7

@@TaleOfTheToaster Like I said that's what I thought... but still. And i completely forgot how fast some of the OOTAs were.

No, Sergeant Bash wasn't flipped out in the Flipper Frenzy. Chaos 2, Bigger Brother and Thermidor 2 (Wheely Big Cheese was already immobilised down the other end of the arena) tried, but they couldn't use a combined attack from the right angle. Still, Bash's flamethrower did get all but broken off upon hitting the top of the wall, to the point it was hanging by a thread.

Ahh, I remember now. Too bad he didn't go out though...

There is a compilation somewhere. you just have to find it

Dantomkia currently holds the record at 9. Eruption is at 7 same as firestorm, chaos 2 sits at 6.

Ask Sir Kill-A-Lot Who Has 14 OOTA's.

They were, they just weren't insanely meta like they are now, Hypno Disk was arguably the best spinner bot during the early series, both UK & US, but they didn't have the success that Firestorm & Chaos 2 did Now you have bots like Carbide that show just how devastating the spinners have become But back in the early wars, they weren't as powerful, even Chaos 2 & Wheely Big Cheese compared to modern bots seems anemic. Flippers were the best, and make up 3 of my top 5 favourite bots, Chaos 2, Firestorm, and Behemoth

Vertical spinners seem to be the most destructive weapons at least in battlebots now, especially endgame

@@TARDISES IIRC Roaming Robots actually banned spinners at some point when they resurrected Robot Wars for the live circuit. This will likely only have given flippers further space to dominate the UK robotic combat meta