Robot Wars Series 3 Heat A

[@Whoami691]

Modern Robot wars: We have a 20kg Bar spinner going at 3000 RPM capable of knocking small tanks into orbit. 20 years ago: We put a spike on the front that will really mess them up. :D God i love classic robot wars.

[@Diotoir]

Series 3 holds a special place in my heart for being the Series to introduce me to Robot Wars, thrilled to see it in HD.

[@georgemiser]

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

[@TyMarshall007]

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

[@thomashewitt2713]

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

[@AmaanStorm]

This for me is the golden age of RW! I adored RW, but series 3 is where I truly fell in love. I remember also remember having a little crush on Paul Hart of Raizer Blade! Thanks for these uploads. You're an absolute legend.

[@xDave]

You're a bit of a hero for uploading all these

[@chazzer7564]

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

[@victorc4_1234]

@@chazzer7564 Ik😔 if you found it please lmk

[@jdgannonable]

just got through series 1 & 2 and already i am so relieved that they changed the format for the third wars.

[@1992rstanley]

The trials were ok but the gauntlet got boring pretty quickly

[@thomashewitt2713]

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

[@dspencer8827]

Me too

[@harrywhite4255]

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

[@sayethvexus8332]

It's pretty amazing that Stinger put up such a pathetic fight against Mace but still got a seeding in series 4. Then again it had by far the most improved performance ever next year! Was Suicidal Tendencies an early attempt at a drum spinner? It's certainly no Pulsar, but what was at this point? Weeliwako was a pretty interesting take on the axlebot in that its default position was upright. Can't help wondering if that might have ended up limiting its damage output. I believe Red Dragon might be the first competitor seen that ever has a dedicated self-righting mechanism (as opposed to Cassius's flipper which worked as one). About all that's notable about it! Speaking of first appearances, first appearance of Dominator in the pinball. They'd become a lot more notable in later series with Dominator 2. Raizer Blade's a seriously unlucky team. Beaten by house robot interference in series 2 with Killdozer, lost a judge's decision that probably would have gone its way in a later series... and fought Hypno Disc twice in series 4!

[@datguy8805]

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)

[@datguy8805]

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.

[@PredictedCyborg]

Ah Stinger. One of my favourite robots. Man I'm so glad they traded that cutting wheel for the mace. NO ONE could smack and hammer a robot like Stinger could. The 'active weapon' rule really did kill off a great competitor in that one... despite the performance of the original version. xD

[@florix7889]

What's the active weapon rule ?

[@PredictedCyborg]

@@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.

[@florix7889]

@@PredictedCyborg why did they add this rule ?

[@PredictedCyborg]

@@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.

[@florix7889]

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

[@Verminator4]

I had a bit of a soft spot for the non-combat events in the first and second wars but relegating them to side events was probably the right choice. Feels like the real robot wars started here

[@AshArnoldEditing]

My childhood was watching Robot Wars and Time commanders.

[@scumroyalsgaming]

Thank you for uploading. You saved me from a boring, rainy thursday.

[@rebeccatdr2793]

For some reason robot wars has stoped now and I'M SO ANNOYED I LOVE THIS SHOW

[@nivmizzet2022]

Just watching Sir Kill-a-lot toasting Wheeliewacko like it is a bleedin' marshmallow

[@doger944]

I had toys of the whole pinball setup when I was a kid.😅

[@colbygleason2955]

HE UPLOADED IT! SERIES 3 IS OFF TO THE RACES! THANKS A LOT DUDE!

[@JspoonG]

Mace II did really well for its potential. Good driver

[@samuelgiles7571]

The floor flipper hazard made its debut in this series but wasn’t used as often as it was in later series.

[@martinhodgson8290]

0:47 Great Jaws Reference Craig

[@arcengal]

Wait... is this a version without the awful overdubbed crowd noise that Mentorn threw onto almost every fight? o_o It's beautiful.

[@StutterBoyECFC]

I think Sirkillalot would actually be scared of Dave Lister's laundry basket!

[@kinagrill]

Stinger is just an amaxing concept of protected build. big tires and just solid all round.

[@joeandrews7329]

4th in series 4.

[@StFidjnr]

23:25 the menton Powers that Be have giving the new multi ball release a surprise JP will tell on where the scoring works when we come to it

[@jacknorman9141]

Thank you for these 😊

[@ryanodonovan9497]

If it was up to me, Suicidal Tendencies wouldn't have been given the win against Raizer Blade since the former was in a dead zone first. I get that the Raizer Blade team were foolish to needlessly endanger themselves by trying to dump Suicidal Tendencies into the pit when all they had to do was back off, leave it running in circles and they would've won for certain. So their loss kind of serves them right. However, it doesn't change the fact that Suicidal Tendencies was already unable to continue the battle with one side of it being immobile. I'd understand it being given the win if it managed to push Raizer Blade into the pit in spite of its predicament (like when Behemoth immobilised Magnetar in Series 10), but it didn't. Suicidal Tendencies was out of it first, therefore Raizer Blade's blunder shouldn't have mattered. But oh well, you live and learn, I guess.

[@bradXshuffle]

Yeh that was a bad decision :(

[@ryanodonovan9497]

@@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.

[@Tempest-jc3me]

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.

[@ryanodonovan9497]

@@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.

[@Tempest-jc3me]

@@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.

[@rngfootball759]

Love the theme song

[@darklife5091]

I will never understand why anyone attempted to use a chainsaw as a weapon.

[@datguy8805]

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

[@LostBeaver]

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

[@burzaburza2970]

@@LostBeaver Basically like no work

[@decadunce9205]

@@LostBeaver Nothing?

[@BGpilot419]

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

[@ДмитрийМачулин-ч3т]

Stinger made it to the finals of s4. Hard to belive he lost the first round here.

[@karlrudd8914]

Ah nuts. I really like stinger too

[@r543Blitzsonic]

It's nice that you uploaded this, but why stretch it to 16:9 if the original was 4:3?

[@njgw1465]

Happy new year, guys! (Well, later on, but y'know)

[@joshlongbottom2213]

suicidal tendency's victory on razor blade was due to suicide coincidence i think not

[@colleenflattery4755]

3:30 that's Rex Garrod!

[@DevilboyScooby]

17:03 Mace thinks so? Mace isn't even fighting!

[@SophieCrane-o7v]

Robot Wars: The Third Wars Began 25 years ago today, What are Your Memories of this landmark series of Robot Wars?!

[@joeandrews7329]

Razer won that, plus he won the international league championship also that series in 1999!.

[@tylervielie5767]

2:01 That's Medi-Junk Dead Metal and Sgt. Bash are destroying.

[@joeandrews7329]

2 nasty sentients.

[@Phoenixwill293]

I’m watching this after series 10 and I’m laughing at anyone with a chainsaw

[@decadunce9205]

Or a sawblade, or a pickaxe

[@Bakerstreetgaming]

I do miss the trials

[@wolfielps4411]

I always hated season 3 because they not only got rid of the gauntlet at the start but also the roll out roll call of the robots at the start

[@thomashewitt2713]

is this the first appearance of the arena floor flipper

[@josephilsley3028]

Dominator's score tally in the pinball appears to be incorrect. 25 points from the barrels, plus 10 points from the multi-ball, plus 75 points from Dead Metal's target equals 110 points in total. So where do the 50 extra points come into it?

[@ryanodonovan9497]

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.

[@434444334]

Personally I think it should have been razor blade vs mace 2 just cause it drove into pit but recovered ST literally couldn’t drive

[@deadeye_john]

I do wonder, how come Panic Attack wasn't in Heat A?

[@joeandrews7329]

Mace 2 was from St Leonard's on sea.

[@joeandrews7329]

They became Gemini which won the series 4 pinball warrior competition.

[@kono5933]

So glad they removed all the BS before the fights

[@burzaburza2970]

16:35 can somebody explain why killalot went out of his area? Wtf

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

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

[@thesmithersy]

Poor decision in that Raizer Blade match

[@tylervielie5767]

Enter Stinger and Suicidal Tendencies.

[@jasonrowberry1134]

i don't know what happen to red dragon rest in pice red dragon never seen again :c

[@SFCJack]

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

[@samuelkirkwood6702]

Not the best heat , Raizer Blade was probably the best robot but made a cataclysmic error that cost them dear.

[@decadunce9205]

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

[@akjackson9326]

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.

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

34:33 facepalm :D

[@PokeGuy6]

At least Weeliwacko was more interesting than Flip Flop Fly

[@decadunce9205]

Nah Raizer Blade should've won wth

[@YT-er3zx]

Suicidal Tendencies is my favorite robot!

[@Ma-long9]

Raizerblade got robbed

[@oldwobble916]

Wrong aspect ratio !

[@Cykelpump33]

Suicidal Tendencies was ass. The only way they made to the final in the heat was because their robot could drive up side down. Mace 2 dominated them.

[@bazookallamaproductions5280]

house robots absolutely ruin the impartiality of the fight.

[@headintheshedable]

Craig Charles, far better than Clarkson.

[@Headspr0uter]

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.

[@burzaburza2970]

Killalot stealing tha show again...

[@guardian1977]

this episode was quit boring.....sorry.

[@jonahabenhaim1223]

What’s wrong with it?

[@cr10001]

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

[@Zessiahchoice]

Always loved the show just hated the female host. She always seemed annoying to me.