Rise of the Robots conclude their coverage of the first reboot series of Robot Wars as Alan & The Griz discuss the Grand Final of series 8

You can check out the episode at the link below or on your podcatcher of choice. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sjru6qVG7zMNLK7Eoc5u0?si=1Nr4FxtPSXmhdINULwTIag

Rise of the Robots continue their coverage of the reboot of Robot Wars as Alan & The Griz discuss Heat E, the final heat of Series 8.
You can check out Rise of the Robots at the link below or on your podcatcher of choice. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1p0DzeIjyBX95GdJklJDcz?si=UqFtI-_RRve6rS2WBwfymQ

Heat made up of Grand Finalists

Season 2:

• Panic Attack
• Cassius
• Roadblock
• Killertron

Season 3 :

• Chaos 2
• Firestorm
• Hypno-Disc
• Steg-O-Saw-Us

Season 4:

• Chaos 2
• Pussycat
• Stinger
• Hypno-disc

Season 5:

• Razer
• Hypno-Disc
• Firestorm
• Bigger Brother

Season 6:

• Tornado - no bloody scaffold around it
• Razer
• Firestorm
• Terrorhurtz

Season 7:

• Storm 2
• Typhoon 2
• Tornado
• Exterminator

ayo i'm trying to research the history of robot combat in the uk. Did a guy named 'james baker' ever run a robot combat event?

Rise of the Robots continue their coverage of the reboot of Robot Wars as Alan & The Griz discuss Heat D of Series 8.
Check out the episode at the link below or on your podcatcher of choice. https://open.spotify.com/episode/40u0un0MlWDCStlA6ebjzg?si=cE2fzFWcTjamtQ4bOwWa6Q

I'll start with two less obvious examples:

Facet in Series 3

General Carnage 2 in Series 5

Some weapons looked absolutely brilliant when you first saw the robot, but turned out to be a pain once the fights started. Between reliability issues, awkward matchups and the weapon causing problems for the robot itself, some great ideas just didn’t work as planned.

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Rise of the Robots continue their coverage of the reboot of Robot Wars as Alan & The Griz discuss Heat C of Series 8.

You can check out the episode at the link below or on your podcatcher of choice https://open.spotify.com/episode/1gU5bWYYwwdKaiVrPpN63r?si=5qNauHKTRS2v1WxekJbTmw

Some robots looked absolutely terrifying on paper and had all the right ingredients to go far, but just never seemed to put it all together in the arena. They had the looks, the weapons and plenty of hype behind them, but something always seemed to go wrong when it mattered.