Robot Wars Series 7 Heat C

Competing machines:
Dantomkia, Rick, King B Powerworks, Hassocks Hog 2, Scorpion, Tomahawk, IG-88, The Stag

[@stuartgibson6357]

What a coincidence that Dantomkia and King B would be in the same heat here and again 12 years later.

[@davidvasey5065]

You mean in Series 8? I like to forget that awful thing ever happened I mean Razer went out in the first round!

[@carribob1992]

And I saw that fight when I went up to see Series 8 getting filmed. It was filmed after Carbide Vs Nuts.

[@dspencer8827]

Quite ironic yes

[@Dredgmonkey]

well in the new series they only had about three heats, that was one of the disappointing things about it

[@Dredgmonkey]

@StarSoupMan You forgot the 4th heat which they called the hyper bole.

[@Phantom_x20]

Have to admit this set design was the best one so far. Cant beat it! Craig Charles will always be my fav!

[@jay-p9r6m]

The Stag had too much to drink and drove down the pit!. From Joe. X

[@dspencer8827]

That bloke from the stag team ,I love his tech hat

[@jay-p9r6m]

He is Mark Pepper. From Joe. X

[@tyreesetjjoyner1995]

DAMN! 9 seconds is how long the HEAT C FINAL lasted. That was amazing.

[@jay-p9r6m]

Unfortunately gravity threw dantomkia out of the arena in six seconds. From Joe. X

[@anduril38]

Ironically, IG-88 did the most damage to Dantomkia, based off this comment from Mike Lambert: Mind you, out of all the spinners that I have fought (inc battlebots) IG-88 is the one that caused the worst damage. As it went over the arena wall its disk hit the tip of Dantomkias flipper and sent a surge through the radio interface electronics and fried a load of relays and their driver ccts. This plagued us for the rest of that RobotWars series. The weapon often wouldnt work, relays would jam or refuse to operate and even the Radio Control deadband would drift. Unfortunately I didnt have a spare set of electronics with me so I had to use what I had.

[@theonethatdoesnotknow9014]

Now that's a neat fun fact Ig88 the most powerful spinner that gets knocked out in a few seconds but completely knocks out the the one that killed it

[@tylervielie5767]

Are you one of the team members of Vader and IG-88?

[@MrThetjf]

Dantomkia trying to dodge that flaying axe of IG - 88 ohh it's all over. The full sentence of the heat final.

[@unapologeticallylizzy]

"They're gonna give them a real fight here," he said.

[@xtheamazingax]

They dodged it, they thrust it… they squeezed it, they flipped it! They’ve won it.

[@brainstorm9560]

Oh, IG-88. I just got that refference! :D

[@fromfin90]

can you explain it? i didnt

[@brainstorm9560]

@@fromfin90 The team' last robot was called Vader, right? IG-88 is another Star Wars character. He was one of the bounty hunters in Empire Strikes Back.

[@fromfin90]

@@brainstorm9560 i see, thank you

[@gregoryatkin1509]

3:25 Oh, Jonathan, never change. DTK might have been the one to watch in this fight but there was no shame at all in either Rick or King B - I think it's fair that King B went through but Rick's one of those plucky machines that you have to respect. Other than that, a strangely underwhelming fight. IG-88 making up for its' brother Vader's poor performance earlier in the series, with a horrendous vertical spinner. They may not be at Aftershock levels yet, but it's scary enough for S7 standards. Scorpion's disc barely looked like it was working after the single hit to TMHWK though, and at the end - it looked like IG-88 was spinning down to not continue the fight once they realised The Stag was in the pit - so it's all on Scorpion trying to pick a fight with them and getting the front shattered off. I think at the very least Team Vader decided not to do more damage to them than necessary. Fair play. Spin City! Hoo boy, so this was a nightmare of a fight for the producers, I'm certain. In some cases, Barber-Ous 2 would have been said to have been pitted unfairly, and they'd have stopped the fight there - but this was clearly a whiteboard match to entertain the crowd and damned if the producers weren't going to let the crowd go disappointed. Problem was at that point, Infernal Contraption was only semi-mobile, without a spinner, and Shredder's weapons didn't look like they worked either. Hence you can see Refbot counting out Infernal Contraption while the cameras don't really look at it, trying to give you the impression it's immobile rather than merely struggling to move. Then the House Robots do the damage. I get why they did it, but it doesn't mean I agree. Jesus fuck. Your HD uploads reveal something I don't think I saw before and that's the gashes in DTK's armour. It didn't look like Scorpion's weapon was working properly last heat, but here it is and hooooooly shit. DTK had some of the better armouring especially for flippers in this day and age and that was gashed right through. It's not even ripped away, that's cutting, more like Mechavore in the US or Carbide more recently. People have been saying not to mock Scorpion in S4 because it became a beast - this is the fight that proves it. Simon from King B admits that it was made in a 'tamer era' and keeping the same design is something of a liability in an arena filled with nasty spinners - he's not wrong, but it is always nice to see them coming back, these RW veterans not giving up. Impressive work on repairing the damage from the side in time for the All Stars though when a good deal of other robots couldn't make it in time. No wonder they have such a fanbase today. Very little to say about this heat final, but DTK, those who live by the sword, die by the sword...

[@cr10001]

Yes I noticed the exact same thing about Shredder and Infernal Contraption - the Refbot started counting (I wasn't even sure which one) while both of them were still driving, both their weapons had virtually stopped but that didn't make them immobile. B&^*&^ y House Robots! I would love to see a superheavyweight 200kg version of Carbide or Aftershock let loose on the house robots and give them a taste of their own medicine.

[@pepethefrog357]

The boxing robot does nothing

[@StanleyV64]

Pepe the frog I know right?

[@tylervielie6474]

I don't care. I liked Cassius Chrome.

[@warhawk3972]

That's what makes it a good house robots. They shouldn't be able to do that much to change the outcome of a battle.

[@Dead25m]

Yea, i think Cassius, Doctor Psycho and Growler were kind of a waste of money, especially Cassius. Doctor Psycho was kind of just replacing Sir Killalot which wasn't necessary, Growler was cool and unique though. I'd have accepted them taking in Growler but leaving out Psycho and Cassius. It's the same with the drop zone and the spinning disk, useless features and waste of money.

[@jordan9415]

Dead25m it’s Mr Psycho, not Doctor.

[@samuelgiles7571]

8:04 Mr Pyscho's first and only OOTA attempt

[@tyreesetjjoyner1995]

did it just like Sir Killalot

[@1993bahamut]

Clearly vegetarian 😂😂😂

[@davidfearis7335]

12:56 Jayne Middlemiss now realizes what Philippa Forrester had to put up with!

[@jay-p9r6m]

She was just as good though!. From Joe. X

[@Blagger3000]

If IG-88 beefed up that spinner with a heavy duty flywheel it would be great.

[@jay-p9r6m]

Reconstructed from team vader ig-88 was. From Joe. X

[@sorcererCermet]

in that final, it would appear as if dantomkia's sole purpose was to embarrass ig-88. spinner coudnt even touch it head on :P

[@jay-p9r6m]

He got him with a good flip, and it was game over. From Joe. X

[@joshkenovan7876]

@23:00 "a spinner has never won Robot Wars"..... Meanwhile, in the Grand Final of this War & the 9th Wars.....

[@jay-p9r6m]

This episode had the battle of the spinners in it. From Joe. X

[@StFidjnr]

16:10 the drop zone item is a heavy metal ocean buoy

[@jay-p9r6m]

The only ex champion who ended up there in the 6th series was Panic Attack. From Joe. X

[@dspencer8827]

Battle of the spinners and no hypnodisc

[@jay-p9r6m]

He was unfit to fight on. From Joe. X

[@tylervielie6474]

First time I saw Mr. Psycho in this series I asked myself why isn't his hammer not going 60 mph like it did in series 6?

[@PokeGuy6]

They reduced the power in it because it was causing damage to the arena floor

[@jay-p9r6m]

@@PokeGuy6 Cheers for the info.

[@PokeGuy6]

@@jay-p9r6m No worries

[@Yamislittleangel55]

44:02 Top 10 Anime Battles

[@PinkiePieBITW]

Last one was over in a flash, bummer.

[@jay-p9r6m]

Like a sumo wrestling match really. From Joe. X

[@AlolaMasked]

44:06 Dantomkia

[@johnn278]

Ig88, love it

[@jay-p9r6m]

He was originally vader. From Joe. X

[@TheGood888]

As a Barber-Ous fan, the Spin City battle makes me so frustrated. If there is any consolation, it is that Barber-Ous' reliability problems are greatly exaggerated by most people. After all, it did survive direct hits from Shredder Evolution's discs, and a hammer blow from Mr. Pyscho.

[@YT-er3zx]

Poor IG-88.... He Was Doing Well In Heat Round 1 And Round 2.... The Heat Final Enemy Was Too Strong...

[@jay-p9r6m]

He was flipped out of the arena in 6 seconds. From Joe. X

[@tylervielie5767]

Now these days The Stag is owned by Team GlitterBomb and is a static display.

[@jay-p9r6m]

He was from Newcastle. From Joe. X

[@rob_4227]

Rick taking the piss out of every robot with a ridiculous name.

[@jay-p9r6m]

He fell foul of bigger brother in the extreme 2 minor meltdown in round 2. From Joe. X

[@xtremegaming1837]

36:11 to 36:30 I’m dead 🤣 IG-88 the troll

[@jay-p9r6m]

He went out in 5 seconds v Dantomkia in the heat final!. From Joe. X

[@StFidjnr]

16:51 oh buoy

[@jay-p9r6m]

Tomahawk in the nasty drop zone. From Joe. X

[@leefisher6366]

Don't they trust Jayne with Phillipa's DamageCam? Where is Ms Forrester, by the way - not up the duff again, surely?

[@jay-p9r6m]

A change of host. From Joe. X

[@imbadateverything8095]

Why do so many people put fur on their robots? THERES FLAMES YOU KNOW!

[@brainstorm9560]

Because its fun to see 'em burn!!

[@emilypeck6929]

Because we like fire and flames on Robot Wars!

[@tyreesetjjoyner1995]

Dantomkia beaten 2-time UK champion, Chaos 2 in the 6th wars on heat C

[@jay-p9r6m]

He got his own back on the 2 time king. From Joe. X

[@tyreesetjjoyner1995]

Dantomkia who won the best newcomer of the 6th wars by flipping Chaos 2 out of the arena.

[@jay-p9r6m]

I saw that on TV and I thought "wake me up!, wake me up!". From Joe. X

[@bobbybrummett7384]

I'd like to see someone drop a headache ball a big one from a crane

[@bobbybrummett7384]

Damn ref bot took out the only bot will the working weapon bad choice house robot

[@cr10001]

But Shredder and Infernal were BOTH fully mobile when the Refbot started counting down. Their weapons had stopped but they weren't immobile. Wtf??

[@emilypeck6929]

Spinning on a spot or going around in a circle isn't considered as fully mobile, that's why Infernal Contraption were counted out.

[@jay-p9r6m]

​@emilypeck6929 your evidence is clear. From Joe. X

[@jay-p9r6m]

The buoy punctured tomahawk like a human pimple. From Joe. X

[@JDLupus]

I'm looking for a gift for my aunt.

[@JDLupus]

That's very much appreciated~! The sort of thing I'm looking for is something that if it were a quote, it would be apposite. Cheers ^^

[@camilryder6455]

How about this woolen dog?

[@JDLupus]

That's perfect, it's like you've met my aunt!

[@camilryder6455]

Yes, she's my aunt too!

[@JDLupus]

Daddy!

[@imbadateverything8095]

Ig88 looks like vader

[@OskarCzechowicz-OmniMusician]

Its previous incarnation in series 5 and 6 was actually called Vader.

[@uncle_creepy2743]

please somebody make this into a video game...

[@roboticunclephil]

robot arena 2

[@fromfin90]

@@roboticunclephil there's one for GAmeboy ADvance, real fun, dodgy as hek but fun

[@roboticunclephil]

@@fromfin90 Lol ive seen gameplay. i wanted it so bad as a kid. you like it? i always thought it looked pretty bad

[@fromfin90]

@@roboticunclephil oh its not good. But enjoyable in ita roughness :D

[@user-a6k9i6n9o6M]

Weakness: none just the driver XD

[@user-a6k9i6n9o6M]

Chaos and destruction is the best XD

[@loriwilson2617]

hassocks hog 2 got no luck - rick didn't get any flips at all

[@Rebellion90s]

Gotta say after watched some of Battlebots series. Arena (elevated control room for contestants) goes to Robot Wars and so does hazards (built-in hazards, referee bots), but satisfaction goes to Battlebots thanks to more destructive factor likes Tombstone, Bronco, Minotaur, Complete Control, etc. Looking for more chaotic battle, Robot Wars is better, on the other hand Battlebots is more intense.

[@233Deadman]

Have you been comparing them fairly? If your comparing with modern Battlebots with the machines you mentioned, then fairness is to compare with the modern Robot Wars.

[@Rebellion90s]

You're right, I watched the modern era recently and I says Battlebots is better.

[@TequilaToothpick]

Rick was robbed!

[@jay-p9r6m]

Not aggressive enough Rick was really. From Joe. X

[@imnotgoodbye5910]

Aaaayyyyy first comment

[@cj-valentine]

Dantomkia is easily the most overrated robot ever. It's not even as good as series 3 Chaos 2.

[@jay-p9r6m]

He flipped him out of the arena in series 6. From Joe. X

[@calwere]

Flippers are boring.

[@Rebellion90s]

Search for Bronco from Battlebots :)

[@233Deadman]

they got boring in this series, but they can be entertaining in the modern era. Like Bronco, who doesn't like to see 250lbs of robot get sent 12 feet into the air?

[@urielbudy2498]

*cough* no ootas *cough*

[@unapologeticallylizzy]

I mean, they definitely do the job. My favourite type of robots are spinners, though. At least flippers are better than those robots that have no weapons and are... literally just a box that can push stuff around a bit...