Robot Wars Series 5 Heat I

[@MalWave]

"what do you have against Shunt?" "he was there." I fucking love it XD

[@joeandrews7329]

Bigger Brother flipped him!. From Joe. X

[@Frosty_tha_Snowman]

I always thought Onslaught was a really cool looking robot with a lot of potential. Their inability to self right was what did them in - they should have made a small self righting system like the one Panick attack had, but smaller, like the one on Tantrum or Quantum. Would have made a world of difference, perhaps even put them up there with Hypnodisc and Chaos 2.

[@joeandrews7329]

Onslaught's Alan Wood appeared in the 2nd Dutch wars heat 4 with the Tough As Nails team. But the future veteran lost to the heat winner Scraptosaur in round 1 when electrical problems shut them down.

[@madbanana2495]

Onslaught did have a self lighter. It just didn't work

[@joeandrews7329]

@@madbanana2495 Tetanus pinned Onslaught down, that's why it was not working. From Joe. X

[@Headbanger142]

Petrol? In this arena? BOOM?

[@joeandrews7329]

Technophobic suffered an engine fire in it's series 3 heat b 2nd round fight v Pitbull when it was shoved onto the flame pit. From Joe. X

[@tainted_bread]

I love how Bigger Brother attempted to lift Killalot twice, even though he clearly couldn't, like he was taunting Killalot.

[@joeandrews7329]

He was the extreme 2 minor meltdown winner bigger brother. From Joe. X

[@tyreesetjjoyner1995]

Bigger Brother ruin the dream match of Hypno-disc vs Razer in the grand final of the 5th wars.

[@MrGriser]

I would have loved to have seen Bigger Brother against Pussycat but Firestorm ruined that!

[@MrGriser]

@Leon Knight But we got to see that in the 2nd All Stars tournament and believe it or not Firestorm won!

[@joeandrews7329]

Bigger Brother and Firestorm 4 won major trophies in extreme 2.

[@challenger2031]

Bigger brother is one of my favourite robots of all time. Wonderfully designed. Amazing skill and very experienced. YEEESSS!! Thats all I got to say

[@BluThundr]

Is 3 Stegs to Heaven the worst sequel to a great robot ever? Maybe, either that or Wild Thing in series 6.

[@TheRoboteer]

Blue Thunder >When you like both of those machines :'(

[@Loghanwolfesin]

its cos the team split up so they had to make a new robot

[@TheGood888]

I would argue that 3 Stegs to Heaven was actually a step up over Steg 2.

[@anduril38]

I'll give this version of 3 Stegs credit, that spinner was quite nasty.

[@robotwars666]

Wild things series 6 defintly at least we can see 3 stegs doing damage

[@gregoryatkin1509]

31:13 That 'doinnnng noise, I don't think there's a better one in the history of Robot Wars. I can play that on repeat endlessly and not get bored 36:27 I wish my sisters played that game with me and backed me up. Damn it. I think this is probably the worst heat in S5, and even then it's better than anything from S2 or S9 (downvotes incoming). People are quick to mock 3 Stegs and... eh, you can kinda see it. It's a nasty spinner, better than the little propellor they had in Extreme, but it just wasn't backed up by a decent enough machine. Splinter must have been suffering from radio issues or the like, and Tetanus, which I think was the second best machine in the heat, was still undergoing teething problems. One thing that this episode did have in spades though was the Robot Wars banter and sportsmanship I think it became famous for. Joe and Ellie aren't just 'token kids' and actually contribute something to the team's presence, we had the kids from Tetanus who drive pretty well as their dad orders them about - reminds me of Soldier Ant from Battle Of The Stars, where the Olivers worked pretty well as a family. Not only that, pretty much after every fight you had people being good sports, shaking hands, being generally good people. I get the distinct feeling Eleven shouldn't have been there (it would have made a fantastic set piece for Techno Games) but they took it very well. Battle wise this was pretty meh, and MrSyko will likely say some pretty nasty things about it if he gets to it, but it's the little things that I think make it a decent episode. Also I got here before TheRoboteer. Ha ha ha.

[@TheRoboteer]

Gregory Atkin You did indeed. Downsides of having college first thing the morning after this uploaded :P Still thing 3 Stegs is way better than most people make it out to be though :D

[@killdozer7792]

To be fair, Eleven's team did compete in Techno Games, and their machines usually did very well. Evidently that was their calling, rather than Robot Wars. And good, someone else who thinks Series 2 was bad. It's probably my least favourite.

[@anduril38]

House Robots being trigger-happy as fuck kinda killed Series 2 for me :(

[@joeandrews7329]

Bigger Brother was awesome.

[@carribob1992]

Tip Top is a rather interesting robot as its movement is due to the gyroscopic forces caused by the disc. Theres actuators on board that tilt the machine in order to move. Also, they beat Cerberus in a qualifier before the series.

[@joeandrews7329]

Incredible that they beat cerberus in qualifying. From Joe. X

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

Living for this “little Joe and Ellie” content ❤️

[@MathsYknow]

Can't stand Little Joe and Ellie. :p

[@joeandrews7329]

​@@MathsYknowthey're like the 2 rescuers mice in the shots. From Joe. X

[@MathsYknow]

@@joeandrews7329 I guess that would make me Mr Snoops. Where's my broom?

[@joeandrews7329]

@MathsYknow I built my machine on PC Mulan from 2012 to 2013 during my final throne years, and she did as she was told mostly. It was a middleweight robot at 52kg in the maximum restriction limit for weight. From Joe. X

[@burzaburza2970]

Steg, Bigger Brother, Splinter and uderrated Onslaught in one heat, wow

[@joeandrews7329]

Bigger Brother was 2nd in series 5. From Joe. X

[@burzaburza2970]

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME heat for Bigger Brother!

[@joeandrews7329]

2nd in series 5 for the Brighton team. From Joe. X

[@madbanana2495]

Btw for your information the seeds of the heat was 3 stegs 2 heaven (seed 8) and splinter (seed 17)

[@joeandrews7329]

Bigger Brother beat them both!. From Joe. X

[@tainted_bread]

"The Onslaught team seem worried!" You don't say

[@joeandrews7329]

From Bedfordshire. From Joe. X

[@KimFareseed]

14:54, *the* one time the Jet knocks out a competitor.

[@StFidjnr]

17:00 Craig Charles is telling the new arena hazard was the reason why the judges was brought in

[@joeandrews7329]

@@StFidjnr Onslaught was the victim.

[@cr10001]

Well obviously all the good bots were used up last week. Only one I rate in this lot is Bigger Brother. Maybe 3 Stegs. Bigger Brother lost no time in lifting TipTop over the barrier. 3 Stegs (or any other bot you like to name) against Eleven was the most uneven battle I've seen. Eleven, a complicated array of plastic tubes and exposed mechanism,slowly plonking its way around the floor while 3 Stegs attacked at leisure. The only thing that gave 3 Stegs trouble was slipping on Eleven's hydraulic fluid and getting tangled in Eleven's tubes - a walking entanglement device. Philippa trying to get the teams to make threats against each other is kind of pathetic, I'm pleased to see. Bigger Brother turfed Splinter over the barrier in short order, to follow Tip Top. BB is mightily impressive this time round. Tetanus is a very unusual bot. It controlled 3 Stegs quite well until they scored a lucky hit on one of Tetanus' prongs. And what a performance by Bigger Brother on the rampage. Repeatedly flipping 3 Stegs, failed to tip it over the barrier a couple of times, ended up stranding 3 Stegs on its side, and in between flipping Shunt (YAY!) and having a number of slightly ill-advised goes at Killalot - one of the most entertaining performances I've seen.

[@joeandrews7329]

3 Stegs was from Hampshire.

[@visionist7]

I notice how Bash's weight behind John is listed as 150KG whereas on the on-screen blurb it's 120KG

[@joeandrews7329]

Faulty monitors. From Joe. X

[@samuelgiles7571]

Sir Killalot's pipe below his head was damaged in the heat final

[@joeandrews7329]

Bigger Brother v 3 Stegs To Heaven. From Joe. X

[@MaasdfgcQwerty]

Invincible... yeah, right.

[@StFidjnr]

17:00 the steam vents are a new arena hazard

[@joeandrews7329]

To catch robots out. From Joe. X

[@93MANIAC]

We all clearly know who really won this heat Sir Killalot

[@joeandrews7329]

Bigger Brother. From Joe. X

[@xtheamazingax]

31:13... crikey... that sound...

[@joeandrews7329]

Grating.

[@joeandrews7329]

The flame pit and jets are powered by propane gas. From Joe. X

[@TheRoboteer]

Gregory Atkin beat me to the review this time so I'll keep it brief. Still personally think that 3 Stegs is a terrifically underrated machine. Yes it was probably a step down from Steg 2, but that disc was very powerful by series 5 standards. Ripped straight through the metal of Tetanus' lifter. I think the amount of hate it gets is a bit unjustified personally, especially when you consider the background of why the bot was the way it was.

[@umxmarky]

Also that Steg 2 was taken by Rob Heaseman when he left the team. I feel that 3STH was simply a little disappointing when compared to Steg 2

[@burzaburza2970]

Well the best one Was original Stegosaurus, it needed just a scrimech or flipper like Steg 2 and that's all. The further they go with machines the less reliable they become...

[@joeandrews7329]

Steg-O-Saw-Us was 4th in series 3.

[@josephilsley3028]

Viper 01 was originally planned to enter the Series 4 qualifiers against eventual winners Ming 2. But due to technical difficulties the team chose to withdraw and replace the robot for Hard Cheese (either the Series 3 or Extreme 1 design, not too sure), which easily got flipped over by Ming 2 and lost. This choice would've been pointless since Hard Cheese was a middleweight entry, and the main series consisted of heavyweight robots which obviously had a minimum weight limit that Hard Cheese exceeded, and was not eligible to compete. Furthermore, Series 4 didn't stage any side competitions for lighter weight categories.

[@joeandrews7329]

Real pity. From Joe. X

[@josephilsley3028]

@joeandrews7329 Maybe for that series only a rare exception was made on the minimum heavyweight limit. When it comes to clusterbots (e.g. Gemini) one machine alone is virtually classed as a middleweight. Therefore, Hard Cheese could still have qualified, required by needing to win more than one fight to be certain, and be selected for the reserves bench at best.

[@joeandrews7329]

@@josephilsley3028 Gemini was the series 4 pinball winner.

[@TheRogueAdventurers]

Eleven had such awesome engineering. But it wasn't a combat robot, it shouldn't really have gone into the arena lmao

[@leefisher6366]

By now, and watching these sequentially, it's painfully obvious that many of the shots involving the audience are just repeated stock footage. Couldn't they have used genuine shots from each competition? Would that really have been too much trouble?

[@debut71]

i know i never understood that

[@joeandrews7329]

@@debut71 Bigger Brother was 2nd in series 5.

[@StFidjnr]

21:25 he knows Eleven the walking robot are out via a judges decision and it's a unanimous one at that

[@joeandrews7329]

3 stegs to heaven damaged a fluid pipe.

[@johndasalty111]

Imagine how old the little kids from Bigger Brother are now...

[@joeandrews7329]

Joe was 30, and Ellie was 28 in 2023. From Joe. X

[@sensibydissociative]

waiting for more HD heats :D

[@joeandrews7329]

Razer won series 5. From Joe. X

[@arcengal]

Walkers look beautiful and are an impressive engineering feat but they were really too slow for the standard of the show at this time.

[@bradXshuffle]

They failed from series 1 lol

[@joeandrews7329]

@@bradXshuffle Series 3 was their debut.

[@madcowlive1081]

always hope for a good walker

[@joeandrews7329]

Miss Struts won the 3rd wars walker battle.

[@burzaburza2970]

Dunno why Steg team decided to build machine worse than two previous ones

[@Humanafterall8580]

One of the team members left and took steg 2 away, so they had to make a new robot.

[@joeandrews7329]

@@Humanafterall8580 Rob Heasman.

[@woollster00]

why would you even bother bringing a walker like that in........

[@challenger2031]

Fair to the engineering. It was very brave bringing that into a robot wars arena. I love their ambition and their finished piece. Everyone team should give themselves credit whenever they enter the arena. The engineering is just always great to see

[@loralaibarometer]

Just to prove it can be done. This was what 18 years ago?

[@joeandrews7329]

Eleven.

[@StFidjnr]

Viper-01 are from aintree Craig Charles hometown

[@joeandrews7329]

His saw was like Pussycat's. From Joe. X

[@joeandrews7329]

Liverpool.

[@botbuster8841]

wait how come viper started the fight closer to splinter rather than in the other side of the arena

[@joeandrews7329]

Bad move!.

[@burzaburza2970]

Dont tell me there is any qualifications, cause these walkers cant do shit to ANY other robot

[@joeandrews7329]

Wheels use more grip.

[@PeterBrookF1]

Go I hate Bigger Brother.

[@umxmarky]

why ?

[@PeterBrookF1]

The kids were really annoying and they beat Chaos 2 and Hypno-Disc. Without them we'd have had my dream of Hypno-Disc facing Chaos 2 for the second time, and then hopefully facing Razer.

[@umxmarky]

so they beat you fave bot....... weak !!!!! Also they were like 6 and 9 I bet you were really annoying at the age, i bet i was and TBH i think it was great as it showed a good way for kids to spend time with the parents and learn Science

[@umxmarky]

@Pope Leo X compared to who?

[@joeandrews7329]

Bigger Brother was from Brighton in east Sussex. From Joe. X

[@Dead25m]

Tetanus is probably the most annoyingly built robot ever

[@joeandrews7329]

Best incarnation Tetanus Booster in series 7.

[@cqnzr-clipsgameplay5706]

Splinter was a garbage robot.

[@Keurgui1]

No, it wasn't a lot of good robots were in this heat