Today, Bigger Brother's best wins against the best bots get the spotlight. Which machine would you like highlighted next?

Bigger Brother wins wasn't so much weaponry, but grade A driving skills.

That sense of catharsis seeing Tornado go out to Bigger Brother, after their highly dubious winning of the UK championship against Razer, makes me content.

I don't think Bigger Brother's ever had a more impressive victory than its win over Hypno-Disc. I don't even think winning the Minor Meltdown Championship was on the same level or defeating Chaos 2. It's great that the Watts family won at least one trophy and were the ones to end Chaos 2's winning streak in the UK Championships, but here they were against the toughest opposition they'd faced; they were getting the shit smashed out of them, their flipper broke, they looked like they were fucked, and yet they kept alive and fighting on long enough to get a push from behind Hypno-Disc to shove it down into the pit. How the innards still held up through all of that punishment is beyond me. Of course Hypno-Disc could've just backed away from that end of the arena and just left Bigger Brother going in all directions (good thing Team Razer were smart enough to realise that), but it's not like Hypno-Disc clumsily drove onto the edge and got a nudge - Bigger Brother still had to push the latter down, which it did in spite of all the damage it sustained. It unfortunately sucks that because of this we couldn't see the battle between Razer and Hypno-Disc that many wanted, but I give credit where it's due.

I cannot think of a bigger comeback in robot combat than Bigger Brother vs Hypnodisc. Bigger Brother was so smashed up you couldn't even tell which way was forwarded, yet they still clawed back and somehow stole the win from nowhere. Ellie only makes this fight better, showing the roller coaster of emotions that the team felt. Despite watching this fight so many times that I mutter the JP commentary in my sleep (that's an exaggeration... I hope), the fight never gets old and I still feel all the same emotions I did when I first watched it.

Sweet memories brought back of Bigger Brother vs Tornado as I was among the crowd when that battle was filmed 😌

What most people don't mention here is that Bigger Brother not only held their own against Razer in the final but made it incredibly hard for the judges to decide a winner. Truly an awesome run in season 5.

Bigger brother pulled a rocky balboa tactics with hypnodisc. He really going the distance! Kudos to the pilot skill

Ah, yes, bigger brother. True fans know that the main weapon was the "steadly spikes"

God it was such an intelligent strategy against hypno disc to kill the momentum of the blade before it starts doing real damage

Is the Bigger Brother win vs Hypno-Disc the first "let a spinner hit you until they wear themselves out" win in Robot Wars?

Ian Watts is such an incredible driver and strategist some of the ways he found to pull out a win where just brilliant

They've always been a underdog favorite that's always fun to watch

My second favourite flipper bot ever next to Wheely Big Cheese. They could put up a really good fight. That match against Hypnodisc was incredible. His disc could cut through everything and I mean EVERYTHING.

It was luck, brains and sheer will to not die that gave BB that win over hypnodisc. The only enemy of hypno was its confidence which quickly went to arrogance. BB played it beautifully from the start. Using the toughest part to absorb the energy of the disc with minimal damage I think was their plan and wait till the disc has to charge again then strike. BB had the strats and the will to continue. Much respect.

Wow! Those are heavyweights of Robot Wars and Bigger Brother managed to beat all three. Well done!

Even though bigger brother was beat up by hypno disc it was still intact, no panels were missing, it still ran fine

0:33 "Chaos 2 has a 10 mm ground clearance" 0:47 "Chaos 2 has zero ground clearance"

I was (still am) a massive Hypno Disc fan, but I couldn't be mad at it losing to Bigger Brother. What a robot, and what a crew.

The hypnodisc fight was incredible. As Hypno has to cut its drive motors to restart the disc spin after a hit, BB going in backwards so the disc rotates BB forward on hit to capitalise on Hypnos cut engines was a great innovative strategy.

One of my favourite robots of all time. ♥️

That thing was durable!

Wow that was at gd battle at the end.. great driving

People often talk about the Series 4 iteration of Hypno-Disc being most likely to win if not for David Gribble's driving. For my money, I'll always look back and see the Series 5 version as having had the best chances of winning. In an age where armour was only getting tougher, it was still able to dish out some serious damage (such as ripping Atomic's flipper clean off) or doing crucial damage to the innards of another robot to stop them dead (such as chopping out Bulldog Breed's safety link or one-punching Firestorm). By all accounts Hypno-Disc should have won that fight against Bigger Brother, if not for that greatest of Robot Wars equalizers, the Pit Of Oblivion. Even though I know the result I *still* watch that fight and marvel at how quickly the tide turned for a machine that looked set to finally win the tournament, and give the fans the match everyone wanted to see (Hypno-Disc vs Razer). That Bigger Brother still had full range of movement and could push Hypno-Disc down the pit with a broken flipper is a real testament to the supremely sturdy construction of that machine. It could take the most brutal of punishments and pull quite possibly the biggest upset in the show's history. If a Series 5 Campaigns/Episodes video is done, the Grand FInal and Bigger Brother's campaign surely have to place in the top 3.

I remember being so angry at that Hypno-Disc result because it robbed us all of that Razer vs Hypno-Disc Final we all wanted. But now you can appreciate how well made Bigger Brother was to survive all that punishment.

As an aspiring presenter, I really want a TV station like BBC to take on Robot Wars again and bring it back. It deserves screentime. Maybe even trial a Robot Wars: Champions Of Champions series where finalists, semi finalists and champions from the last 10 series is brought back to compete to be the best of all time. The return of Chaos and Bigger Brother and Razer and Hypno-Disc, competing with Carbide and Apollo, etc.

It s so strange that strong robots like firestorm and hypnodisc didn t defeat tornado and bigger Brother did...

gotta give bigger brother props for just absorbing damage like its nothing lol

I’ll maintain it to this very day: Bigger Brother didn’t beat Hypno-Disc, Hypno-Disc beat itself. Fight me.

Holy shit the hypnodisk win

Both Chaos 2 and Hypnodisk seem to have serious stamina issues. You can see them getting weaker as the battle dragged on.

Very impressive that Bigger Brother can outpush Tornados four wheel drive, isnt that what Tornados supposed to be good at?

Hypnodisc's weapon broke before big brother did.

They beat Hypno-disk? Respect

Has there been a best Tornado moments compilation yet?

Could you do one with the walking robots, i know they weren't very good but the comedic factor would be worth it

The best fight for me has to be Bigger Brother vs Hypno-Disc for how much of a beating it took.

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Was a good show when it was kids and dad not some collage kids or mid life crisis folk

who flips the flipper?

Hate the pit in RW.

I still don't think that battle against the tornado was fair because they shouldn't have been able to have gotten stuck under the flame pit if they hadn't of done they might not have gotten flipped and lost and I was also gutted when Hypno-disc got pushed into the pit because if they had won that battle they would have been fighting Razer in the final of the 5th wars and what a battle that would have been

As a kid I just thought BB got lucky. As a more expert combat robot fan, I now say that HD had a good start but was poorly driven halfway into the match. How can you keep hitting the back when it clearly does not affect the internals? Especially when you are clearly the more manoeuvrable bot.

Those stupid house bots, they ruin everything, agh

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God Bigger Brother looks like a massive pile of garbage. I can't imagine it standing up to some of the other champs.

Hypno-Disk, The most Smartest and Advance Designed Bot Ever! Period.

To many adds

It only won against hypodisc because it lost power. the disc stops spinning. Plus bigger brother was absolutely mangled by the end. Literally luck that won them that fight

Anyone else find flippers really boring

Grrr, I still can't accept the result vs Hypno Disc. Bigger Brother did not deserve to win that fight at all.....Hypno would've won the title that year in my mind. Also never liked the kids on the BB team.

Hypno-Disk, The most Smartest and Advance Designed Bot Ever! Period.