Robot Wars Series 4 Heat A

[@smallwaves]

"Hi. We're back. We won the last war. We changed nothing on the robot." Good call, George.

[@Knightblade64]

I know this comment is random but when the need to rewatch some RobotWars overtakes you this channel has been a goddess send. Thank you for the uploads!

[@bensvault9149]

You've got no idea how much this took me back to being a kid in the late 90s early 00s thank you!

[@tetsumonchi]

I remember I had a wall poster for this series, with the names of all the robots arranged into the heats they appeared in. The first round pairings were already filled it, but after that there were columns of empty boxes going all the way to the grand final, and you had to fill in the pairings and winners as the competition progressed. Good times!

[@debut71]

good times indeed

[@Johnzobeams]

the evolution of robots from 2000-2021 is insane

[@IambiguousSegment]

Devolution

[@Matt-cn2nn]

@@IambiguousSegment Cap. Chaos 2 wouldn't last a second against End Game. Robots have moved significantly far forward.

[@tmntleo]

Indefatigable means "To persist tirelessly", in case anyone was interested.

[@ZakRC_]

I don’t think they persisted long enough to be considered tired 😂

[@TheShadowBlackheart]

Craig Charles always made hyped up for the show when he hosted. 😎

[@Tokyodrift5000]

Agree 100%. He was the voice of Robot Wars and nobody could replace him

[@cr10001]

That first heat, it was striking how much smaller Chaos 2 was, than the other two bots. But also, how it just kept on flipping and flipping and flipping... :)

[@CrowMaiden]

JP: razer beat chaos 2 in the world championship also JP, like ten seconds later: chaos 2 is seemingly unbeatable.

[@PredictedCyborg]

The one he hit the camera with. Ah... the first acknowledge of George Francis' long history of breaking bits of the studio... ^^

[@ryanpeters6937]

The beginning of my personal favourite wars

[@crystalheart9]

Thank you for this I don't know much about robots but I love this show. I use to catch it now and then on tv years ago. That little Chaos 2 robot is fast and efficient!

[@pianoman1396]

George Francis stated in this episode that Chaos 2 was unchanged. This was ultimately its downfall as it remained unchanged until its retirement at the end of Series 6. I seem to remember George later said that it was too expensive to modify and upgrade all the time.

[@mummygiraffepresentsclassi8722]

Ade “Lack of time, effort and money”-George Francis xx

[@tombardsley3081]

They made a couple of minor tweaks. Bigger gas bottle and more power in the flipper

[@samfarrow348]

14:00 The boy’s face was like: “Mission failed! We’ll get them next time.”

[@debut71]

haha he was heartbroken

[@Diotoir]

Series 4 my favourite series and in good quality Thank you!

[@WillyWarby]

nice my favourite series is the Third Wars

[@thomashewitt2713]

yes it is series 4 but where is he pit release button

[@Diotoir]

@@thomashewitt2713 It didn't appear until Extreme 1...

[@brainspider]

@@WillyWarby Series 3 is my favourite as well, it;s where we see the inovations that shaped robot battles in general up to this very day.

[@SophieCrane-o7v]

I Remember This 1st Heat of Robot Wars Series 4 with fondness as it aired the day before my 12th Birthday so seeing Chaos 2 in the Series 4 opener before I turned 12 was a Treat!

[@samuelkirkwood6702]

Okay, this is almost certainly the series I first remember, look at how improved that set looks!

[@Klayking]

8:41 - Ah, the good old awkward interviews.

[@brainspider]

Wouldn't be Robot Wars without them.

[@njgw1465]

So, here's the first heat of the Fourth Wars. My apologies for the slight delay, but I've been experimenting with 16:9 aspect ratio for videos, and only Movie Studio Platinum seems to be a reliable source of being able to convert the file into that size, followed by very, very slow render times (i.e. 2 hours for a 15 minute section). If anybody has any tips on either another programme that can make videos 16:9 or simply have any tips on making Movie Studio's rendering times quicker, then feel free to give me advice. I'm a bit of a novice on both in the aforementioned areas afterall. Also, feel free to tell me if you actually like the aspect ratio like this. H2 - the channel which broadcast the repeats - broadcast the show in 4:3, just as a side note, so that would be the default upload size if not. Also, the random black pauses for a second or two are where H2 cut off for an advert break. Yes, they were very incompetent in that regard, because they tended to cut off the last part of an interview that Julia was carrying out.

[@samuelgiles7571]

NJGW Once you've uploaded every classic Robot Wars TV series episode, you might consider uploading the 2016 Robot Wars episodes.

[@ETXellen]

The 2016 series of Robot Wars will most likely end up getting region-locked to UK only if he uploads them.

[@TaleOfTheToaster]

I would say that for Series 4, you didn't need to make it 16:9. Widescreen kicked in for Extreme and S5

[@ETXellen]

TaleOfTheToaster I agree with Toaster.

[@alexthehunted]

if you need any help with editing i'm an editor i use studio platinum so i can help

[@mr8I7]

The original Free Shipping! Upside down and on fire :)

[@floydjohnson7888]

Was that a cross-reference to the current "Battlebots"?

[@rob_4227]

Those Indefatigable kids are adorable. The wee one was just stunned when they lost hahaha. Good for him, it builds character.

[@tamhewitt-baker5602]

I think this is my favorite thing craig charles did. and i really like red dwarf

[@brainspider]

He was excellent in this, plus it kept him in work between series of Red Dwarf.

[@debut71]

strange thing is alot of these robots in series 4 would go pretty far in series 3. There was a massive improvement with robot development between those 2 series

[@katytinder593]

Amy's bunny mascot that brings everywhere she goes is like my wolf mascot Dawn "Little D" Jr. That I bring everywhere I go.

[@thomashewitt2713]

this is new the mini flame pit

[@mothtolias]

aww. bless the pair of you.

[@masterchief1992HHQ]

I was surprised Attila the drum went out in the first round the way it did I think Medusa 2000 stayed out of trouble too long. Not that it really mattered with Chaos 2 destroying everyone

[@jackrabbit1704]

Why do I feel a growing resentment from my computer as I watch these?

[@lbanana322]

This is brilliant to watch on the bus home from school

[@mansamutd]

I'm a guy with way too much time on his hands. That's why I've taken the time to redo the seeding for series 4. I love the 32 seed structure, but how robots were seeding in this war, was a bit dumb. So below this comment I'll lay down a few ground rules, then present what I think the seeding for S4 should've looked like...

[@mansamutd]

Okay, first of all, I am NOT taking any international robot wars into account, this is based solely of the robots performance in series 3. I WILL however, take into account, the 1st world championship and to a certain extent, the robots experience. 1 final ground rule. If a robot exited series 3 in ROUND 1, they WILL NOT BE SEEDED. Stinger, Plunderbird, Killerhurtz. Yes, Killerhurtz did great v Choas 2 in the world championship, but that was still ROUND 1 there too. Enough rambling, onto my seeding.

[@mansamutd]

1. Choas2 2. Hypnodisc 3. Firestorm 4. Steg2 5. Razer 6. Panic Attack 7. Gemini 8. 101 9. Gravedigger 10. Wild Thing 11. Bigger Brother 12. Evil Weevil 13. Spawn of Scutter 14. Behemoth 15. Pussycat 16. Wheely Big Cheese 17. King Buxton 18. Diotor 19. X-Terminator 20. Berserk II 21. Aggrobot 22. Invertabrat 23. Shadow of Napalm 24. Dreadnaught XP-1 25. Cerberus 26. Suicidal Tendencies 27. Darke Destroyer II 28. Mortis 29. Weld-Dor 30. Raizor Blade 31. Onslaught 32. Sir Chromalot

[@Xithinar]

Atomic without its flipping blade is basically a Series 1 Robot.

[@dasbanhammer]

And so it is with its flipping blade.

[@williammcdermott8692]

I am so many good memories watching the show when I was young the memories stay in my head

[@Headbanger142]

Eventually I'll be getting a hold of the Grand Champions series and given that it's VHS quality, I doubt it will look this good.

[@josephilsley3028]

Atomic had quite an eventful run during the Robot Mayhem qualifiers prior to its TV appearance. It won its first fight against fellow debutant Reactor, involving several flips and self-righting rollovers before Atomic managed to toss Reactor over the arena wall, which the team claimed what happened. I find that hard to believe, judging by Reactor's awkward shape and the amount of force in Atomic's flip on King B3, followed by the breaking of the lifter which from a first glance looked a bit fragile. Plus the OOTA rule was apparently banned in the qualifiers, but Atomic still advanced to the 4th wars based on the strength of that performance. Regardless, Atomic had a second fight, this time with NataPataBot (AKA Short Circuit, future Series 6 competitor). Atomic surprisingly had mobility issues and took a dive into the pit, but not before getting its polycarbonate side panels punctured by the opponent. Those panels were to be removed anyway for Atomic to keep within the weight limit. Not a bad first attempt by the way.

[@CarlAdams-m7k]

What i describe to Julia Reed? Energetic.

[@TDBTylerable]

I liked the exchange here: 29:15 Craig's gentle wisdom of "Realism, there's nothing wrong with that"

[@MrIngy22]

PROPER ROBOT WARS!!

[@XCAltoona]

JP Matilda's tusks are not both hydraulic and pneumatic get your head in the game man.

[@thomashewitt2713]

if matilda gets pireced by razer will she be able to get a new weapon called a flywheel which weighs 27 kilograms

[@StFidjnr]

36:31 that tactic was a good idea at the time

[@carribob1992]

King B3 has some blue on it. I bet it identified the shade of it to become a King in the first place.

[@madcowlive1081]

darn, really liked that pit girl, but that exchange was pretty nice, hope the new pit girl did well.

[@blerst7066]

The thumbnail is hilarious.

[@teiganteiggystkinsterry1141]

I think that George Francis is the Team Captain of Chaos 2 he is going up against his brother Paul Francis of Atomic 2 😜😜

[@katytinder593]

You mean like a sibling rivalry kinda stuff?

[@thomashewitt2713]

this is refbot's first time on robot wars

[@BambiTrout]

I don't think they're related at all. They would have mentioned it for the drama. Plus, Worcester and Ipswich are pretty far apart and Paul looks a lot younger than George and also nothing like him.

[@Lain3695]

nice quality !

[@brokenscart7989]

This is the fourth series bjt during the opening he talks about the fourth series in the past tense? Wha?

[@93MANIAC]

Does anyone else think that Julia Reed was a way better pit reporter then Philippa Forrester was 3:33

[@StFidjnr]

19:35 the RW judges for series 4

[@madbanana2495]

the 2nd first round battle. i saw the pit open.

[@LeoGiusti]

Who is the voice heard between Julia and before Jonathan Pearce starts reading out the seads?

[@njgw1465]

Do you mean Craig Charles or the team member?

[@LeoGiusti]

NJGW Neither. The voice heard at 4:39.

[@njgw1465]

Yeah, that's Craig's voice

[@squeakyelbows]

That's not Craig.

[@LuckyLucyHi]

Yes it is. He's just in a recording booth rather than an echoy warehouse.

[@thomashewitt2713]

hello if matilda has enough of that chainsaw will she have a flywheel in extreme and the pit release button to be introduced

[@josephilsley3028]

I remember reading through either an early issue of RW magazine or a RW Club newsletter around that period. There were brief articles about Matilda planning to have the chainsaw changed for a flywheel in time for the 4th wars. However, Refbot's design and construction became the main priority, and so Matilda's upgrade had to be put aside for a year.

[@RobbieHatley]

Series 4 was in... 2001? Wait, no, the copyright at 43:39 says "©BBC MM" so this has to be 2000. I find it amazing how much not only robotics technology has improved in the 22 years since this was made (Carbide or Eruption would make mincemeat of most of these robots), but even more so how much television technology has improved (Robot Wars serieses 1-7 look blurry compared to serieses 8-10). I'm sad the show got cancelled, and I hope it eventually gets restarted. I have to wonder what Series 11 (2025?) would look like. What robotic technologies will be available by then we can only guess. And, I'm surprised no one has made a shredbot yet. Imagine an SSI shredder, but scaled down to about 110kg. Imagine it grabbing robots and giving them a slow shred, turning them to metal confetti. Ya, someone should build that.

[@alexthehunted]

so how regular will the forth wars episodes be uploaded?

[@njgw1465]

I replied in another comment, but currently three times a week. It's likely I'll get help soon though, so it will no doubt be more than that in the near future

[@dspencer8827]

I did like the series 3 1 vs 1 setup but series 4 was ok

[@visionist7]

So what did y'all think of Julia?

[@rob_4227]

Felice Graziano she's fit

[@Klayking]

8:41

[@floydjohnson7888]

Holds my attention

[@ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers]

I liked her better even back then

[@karlrudd8914]

101's driving was questionable during that pinball run. Fuck the house robots right?

[@ETXellen]

The quality is great as always however it does look a little blury and I think that's due to something else I've noticed. In the top corner you can see text which appears to be cut off, meaning that it's possibly cropped the original version when you changed it to the 16:9 resolution in Movie Studio Platinum. Maybe do a test with with the aspect ration you used for Series 7 because it looked just as good even with the black bars. And keep em coming too!

[@njgw1465]

The text being cut off is actually to do with H2 - it overlapped onto the black borders. I just manually cropped out all of the black borders as apposed to simply making it 16:9. For the next episode, I'll simply upload the H2 version and we'll see how people like it. I can always upload Heat A/B into the format that people prefer afterwards

[@ETXellen]

NJGW Sounds like a decent way to test things. Also, what's your schedule for uploading the episodes? is it one Heat every few days or something? I assume it takes several hours to edit and render the whole thing. I say this because I wish they came quicker xD

[@njgw1465]

Yep, sadly it's just whenever I can, but I plan to upload three heats a week, with Heat B being uploaded right now

[@ETXellen]

Three heats a week is a decent pace, but it'd be nice if we could get more than that. I'm happy to help when it comes to editing & rendering. I use Aiseesoft Total Video Converter Platinum so if you need some support get in touch and we can tackle this together.

[@cdname47]

Based on what was shown on TV, Atilla the drum should've gone though the first round But if that'd happened, Chaos 2 would've been SCREWED :-p

[@asdfghyter]

Atilla couldn't really do damage to Chaos anyways, so even if both survived, chaos would probably still win based on agression.

[@burzaburza2970]

Are u the creator of Attila? Well i can agree, but they had no chances with Chaos 2. I'd say Even Atomic + Medusa + Atilla 3v1 vs Chaos would have little chances

[@samfm5244]

@@burzaburza2970 they had a very very small chance. Use the pick axe and hit the co2 cannester. Unlikely but possible

[@StFidjnr]

23:54 they hit the jackpot target 75 points

[@soulglitched5041]

Atomic was immobilized before indefatigable

[@tylervielie5767]

Enter Atomic!

[@wolfielps4411]

Robot wars with no forester doesn't seem wright

[@burzaburza2970]

Medusa 2000 out of the action, goes to next round xd

[@aarontedham9833]

hello

[@rbear1231]

i think this was the first show that actually explained why the change in interviewer julia was 8/10 where i like Philippa best still sad as i never heard why she left after 6 Middlemiss was ok another 8/10 for 7 and i liked angela. but Philippa was always my fav

[@procta2343]

never saw julia reed after she did her stint, she was just as tasty. Shame they never brought her back

[@pictureframes7694]

That new girl seems ok

[@procta2343]

julia reed vanished after she did her stint on robot wars,

[@greggreg2458]

@@procta2343 Vanished? You mean from tv?

[@procta2343]

@@greggreg2458 yeah from TV, never saw her on anything else at all after robot wars

[@greggreg2458]

@@procta2343 That's strange, i'm re-watching series 4 and i find her capable and entertaining.

[@brainspider]

IIRC she didn't go down all that well, neither did the other girl that took on the role while Philippa was absent (I forget her name though). Points of View was full of letters complaining about Julia.

[@razvanstan9295]

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[@MansMan42069]

Indefatigable's team are so goddamn awkward wtf

[@ghouliethousandtrouser2905]

Smartphones didn't exist dude. 90s kids weren't on camera 24/7. And the younger one has to be what, six? Memorizing lines and sh!t. Think about it.

[@MansMan42069]

@@ghouliethousandtrouser2905 Does it change anything about what I said?

[@ghouliethousandtrouser2905]

@@MansMan42069 No, they're still a couple of weirdo posh kids, but what the fuck kinda loser has to shit-talk little kids on the internet? You're not makin yaself look good, mate.

[@brandonbuckmaster3077]

This whole show is cringey with the wwe wrestling acting and drama...and you pick the little kids out of all that cringey material to bash? Speaks volumes on your low IQ and lack of character. If I were you...I wouldn't draw attention to myself bud.

[@razvanstan9295]

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[@garyproffitt5941]

The very famous and intelligent Craig Charles with Robot Wars, Coronation Street, Red Dwarf and many more hits with Fan base 😊👍

[@liviustan5438]

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[@achillesheelys5139]

Kinda bullshit the 17 seed has to go against the 1 seed. You would think the 1 seed would go against the 32 seed

[@AndreaSzabo7171]

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[@kinagrill]

Urgh, the children interviews are always cringe.

[@bevannamagicalraggybear8727]

Where's the personalities of these people??? Its like drawing teeth getting simple sentences out of them. I remember this series, I really enjoyed it the first time round. Now the robots seem really dated and stayed.

[@310smoker]

I did not get my girl pregnant but she still got fat

[@stevetone3686]

I just just tired of all the commercials every two seconds

[@internetpolification]

Gawd the commentator is so irritating, it's unbelievable. Totally ruins it

[@Loghanwolfesin]

Better than the american commentator

[@MRR19]

internetpolification Noseygoò You ruined the comments section with your shitty comment

[@spongebabe27]

Whoever's idea it was to put three robots in the initial heats... I hope they got a raise.

[@razvanstan9295]

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