He is an absolute legend, I cannot find this anywhere else

@@chazzer7564 Ik😔 if you found it please lmk

Same here. This was my first season too. ^^

@@georgemiser i seen it since the very first Series and i will say that Series 3 will always be one of the best series

yes first in series 1 and 2 you became nemesis and now your name has been changed to diotoir

The trials were ok but the gauntlet got boring pretty quickly

but diotoir what if you catch fire by sgt bash or the flame pit

Me too

Damn dude me too, I'm on the same path as you were!

What's the active weapon rule ?

@@florix7889 It states that all robots had to have a weapon that moved or was powered in some way. So Stinger's club-mace tail while surprisingly effective at thumping, was unfortunately NOT considered an active weapon as it had no power that was independent from its drive system. Which is how Gabriel, a modern (and very TALL!) competitor was able to satisfy the active weapon rule - it has the ability to use its weapon from a standstill and independent of its drive.

@@PredictedCyborg why did they add this rule ?

@@florix7889 One word: Tornado. Tornado was a low-to-the-ground, boxy, little pushbot. It DOMINATED and it was amazing, won Series Six... but the producers thought it was boring, so added the active weapon rule.

@@PredictedCyborg OK thks ! I'm still far series 6 rn X)

Sayeth Vexus yes scuicidal tendencies appears to be the first drum spinner (on record) and its closer to modern drums than the next two (in fact it reminds me of diablos drum, back when they didnt entirely get the teeth on drums in battlebots)

Sayeth Vexus also thats one of the reasons why id rather have the hazards of battlebots than the house robots, the hazards are something you had to prepare for (until build quality improved, and even then you still had to keep the killsaws in mind) but typically wont end your day (except in the lightweight division), the house robots could easily end you in one go, and can shove you around.

D.A.R 1, lack of knowledge, 2 money

Have you seen Matilda and the work she does in series 1 and 2?

@@LostBeaver Basically like no work

@@LostBeaver Nothing?

Back then it could work since the some robots didn’t have much in terms of armor. But fight the wrong bot and it will break

Yeh that was a bad decision :(

@@bradXshuffle At least the judges learned from it, though, when Suicidal Tendencies was in the exact same predicament with Wheely Big Cheese in the next series. As indicated by Craig Charles when the team were baffled that their predicament was now treated differently, once the rule was made for Gemini that it could lose with just one of the clusterbots being immobile, that made the judges wake up seeing that half of Suicidal Tendencies was immobile too.

It mostly came down to the rules surrounding the pit and "immobilization" not being fixed. Seeing as Firestorm had issues years later with Morgue, and the highly controversial Tornado vs Razor, the rules surrounding what qualified as immobilized weren't fully formed yet.

@@Tempest-jc3me They were pretty clear with the pit. Raizer Blade was classed as pitted for being stuck on the edge, and the pit's meant to trap robots in place for an instant loss. And the incident with The Morgue and Firestorm (which was the following year, not "years" later) was handled properly by the judges as they pointed out that the former was caught by the pit with no escape. They just should've done the same with Tornado, when it was in a blatant dead spot over the pit that it wouldn't have escaped from whether held there or not by Razer (not Razor - not to be pedantic, but I find that mispelling baffling when there are five keys between the E and O keys). Probophobia didn't have to detach from Snake Bite when pitting it - neither should Razer have had to do so with Tornado. With immobilisation in general, yeah, the officials took longer than they probably should've to update the rules on it as robots evolved to having srimechs and the ability to run both ways up. Maybe the officials genuinely did need something to make them see that a robot dead on one side should be classed as out of it. Still, like I said, the Raizer Blade team were the ones who took an unnecessary risk when all they had to do was back away and win for certain, so that's their fault.

@@ryanodonovan9497 You can definitely tell from it's first match against Red Dragon that Razor Blades drivers were pretty reckless. Due to the fact that it spent the entire fight pinned between Killalot and Bash, it's likely Red Dragon would have progressed had it not broken down.

Ah nuts. I really like stinger too

Or a sawblade, or a pickaxe

If you look closely at 24:32, you can just about make out Dominator bumping off the target worth 50 points that Sergeant Bash was guarding. It's just not so easy to tell when it was obscured by Bash firing his flamethrower, and Jonathan Pearce (presumably) was just more focused on how the multi-ball release was activated (not that I blame him too much on that since I personally think it was rather cool) to also mention the target being hit.

Raizer really should've just left Tendencies alone, they would've won by time out

Give Mace its due, it was a very good Series 3 robot. Maybe fortunate with its Heat draw but I don't think there's many heats this series where it wouldn't have at least reached the heat final. Agree that overall this heat wasn't a great one, not sure why they led off the series with it.

I think once a house robot was allowed to move, it could go anywhere. The rules were probably pretty loose. I'm not a fan of it either. lol

Red Dragon is on eBay if you're interested! still in one piece too!

yeah, in the case of clarkson, somebody acting like a smarmy dickhead doesn't really work for a series like robot wars, where ordinary people spend months and their wage to make machines that may get absolutely trashed on their first appearance. craig manages to come across understanding and encouraging, without seeming patronising.

What’s wrong with it?

@@jonahabenhaim1223 No really outstanding bots in this heat. Mace was probably the best.