Gotta give the lesser experienced bots a chance to show off, though I'm sure there was another reason. Besides, Razer only won, what, 90% of their battles? What's a small exhibition match, against 3 rather unimpressive bots, compared to their 3 major series titles
@@dingbat3440 or ian and simon got production jobs actually working for RW as did george francis, david gribble and kim davis. They couldnt have fallen out that badly because they were in the US filming battlebots with warhead a few months after RW series 6 filmed.
@TheStrongestBaka That's true, however you can be disappointed by the poor quality of Robots(breaking down, not being able to do stuff) and be put off by the whole commentary and whatnot they did to aim for a certain viewers.
The team that entered such glorious hits as Piece De Resistance, Death Warmed Up and Immortalis enter with Metalis, finally getting a robot that doesn't look entirely like a joke. The sieve on the top is pretty much the only nod to the hilarious messes that Team Death's robots of all had, especially looking at the Crusher-Crunch-Up later in this episode, it really doesn't look all that bad. That said, was the entire body a lifter? Difficult to tell if it was that or if the self righter was so ineffectual it pushed the actual chassis away. Anyway, I'll stop with the mockery - they get enough of that from a certain ponytailed youtuber. Team Death are active on the FRA forums and posted a really interesting breakdown of their experiences in previous wars, so that's worth a fan if you care about the old series. The closest thing I had to a home team in the Bath boys, Ming is back and awkwardly rubbish as ever (except for Ming 2, that was awesome). It's difficult to hide the feeling like the Cotterell boys didn't want to be there on the show as much as their dad did, especially with the silly outfits. Alex and Oliver seem to have grown past mocking Arthur Chilcott's beard in S3. Fair play for them to be moving at the end - the cameras suspiciously stopped filming a lot of Ceros towards the end... was it limping? I had to check again if The Scrapper was entered by the original Scrapper team who then entered with the two G.B.H. machines and Facet in Series 3, but nope, original entry. Very little to say about this one, but this wasn't a heat of shining robots for the most part. Same for Mega-Hurtz. The robot that's meaning John Reid needs to jump to GigaHertz for his next machine, it's an interesting design but just... not all that great when you get down to it? Oh well. It's the other two machines there's more to talk about. Pinser, Mantis, and R.O.C.S. Because including Tiberius, the only robot to successfully copy Razer's crushing power (if not the dominance that robot had) would have utterly creamed everyone else in this match. Pinser was the only one that did any damage - as someone who doesn't like crusher bots much, that is a fantastic shot of the damage to ROCS, followed by dragging the machine, bleeding hydraulic fluid, across the arena. Mantis is my favourite of the three, it looks awesome in a very junkyard style, or Russian as the case may be. I doubt that was a real crusher as such, but the lifter-pincher is a good combo, as Complete Control has proved. I think Pinser was just slipping on hydraulic fluid there at the end, rather than being immobile, but again, this is a whiteboard match, it's not worth getting worked up over. Scraptosaur is probably my favourite machine from the Dutch Wars and if the fight had gone on longer or it had been able to self right, it almost certainly would have won. St Agro isn't nearly as well driven as a lot of the other flippers in Series 7, but it's powerful and well designed. It took one lucky shot to put Scraptosaur on its' back, and they just didn't have the kick that a box flipper needs to get back on its' wheels. Funnily enough, both it and TMHWK were hit by the buoy, and the Scraptosaur team would later buy TMHWK to let their wives drive it in S9. Revolution 2 is an immensely mocked machine here on youtube but lets' be honest, it was memorable compared to Revolution 3. And R3 worked! That first round was a pretty good indication of its' ability, but again, the link... it's tough to put in (I've tried!) but the boys from Kilbride have always been good sports and accepted they made a mistake. Excellent sportsmanship too - some roboteers would have seen an easy victory after their robot had needed a complete stripdown and just let the House Robots do the dirty work, but Ceros wanted a fight, and a fight they god damn got. For all the 'uselessness' of the House Robots, they add to the spectacle, the pantomime of the show and that's worth keeping them around for. I think Ceros' problem was radio distance - notice how in the past two fights they've seemed to struggle at the far end of the arena more than when they're close to the control pods. A shame - the box flipper that Inertia Labs pioneered in the States never came to be a big thing over here. Ceros was the best attempt we had of a T-Minus/Toro/Matador/Bronco clone and arguably still is - all we have to rival it is Robo Savage after all. A worthy heat finalist and had they kept going, I think they'd have deserved a judges' decision. If it seems like I'm harsh on St Agro, consider it tough love. St Agro is one of my favourite robots of all time, design wise. The double flipper is something I remember drawing on the back of my maths books in school, and I was hyped to see someone finally put it into action. The huge exposed wheels seem like a threat but arguably it's easier to lose a chunk of it and keep spinning rather than lose the whole thing or have it jammed up (reminds me of spinner killers in the states like Sewer Snake). My only problem is that it's not driven nearly as well as it needs to be to be a threat. A lucky semi-finalist, but such a good design. It's in good hands too now, as Maelstrom under Team Shock. Definitely a robot I want to fight on the live event if only to say I've done it.
Man, this episode could have a whole History Podcast about it, the Mediocrebots of Series 7 Heat H. Seems to be a bunch of OK to good bots, but not elite bots or shitbots either. You've got -St. Agro, lost in the first round of their heat in Series 6, failed to qualify in 4 and 5 -Revolution 3, the first iteration failed to qualify for Series 5, second iteration lost in the first round of 6 and made it to round 2 of the Extreme 2 New Blood Championship -Scraptosaur, which had experience in 2 Dutch series and the 3rd World Championship as well -Mega Hurts LT, which had some funny bots in Series 2, 3, 6, and now 7 -Ming Dienasty, which probably deserves an episode all to itself -Metalis, which Team Death also probably deserves an episode all to itself The only real newcomer that didn't have a mediocre history was Ceros, which I could have sworn I saw somewhere else, but the wiki proves me wrong.
The biggest problem with Mantis and ROCS are the bodywork is too thin and the armour almost non-existent. The weaponry seems OK, not the most destructive but not as bad as the defensive side of the bots.
Andrew Cotterell, the team captain of Ming, founded the Robogeddon brand alongside Ian Lewis and Simon Scott of Razer. Ming Dienasty and Zorro were his way of promoting the RCV kits without doing it by name as that wasn't permitted on the show.
I mean, I know the main reason, which was that Dominator 2 had to pull out. But why did they chose Ming as the replacement seed over better performing robots like Supernova or Raging Knightmare?
The Crusher Crunch Up All of those weren't really that good, but I liked Mantis the most, then Pinser, ROCS never was any good and the arms they added for self righting were just a, at least in my view, awful workaround... would've loved to see them rebuild that bot into something proper. Mantis seemed to lack control at times, did well against ROCS which was pretty much screwed then, but later got messed up by Pinser. If Pinser didn't break down, looked like the Flames caused damage? It probably would've won this. The Hydraulic Fluid on Pinser's Tip was from ROCS, yet JP of course fails to get that... Of course JP talks down Mantis by the end...
How was Ming Dienasty's elimination controversial? It was armed with an absolutely rubbish weapon and did absolutely nothing in the entire bout. It should have been obvious that Ceros and Scraptosaur were the most obvious candidates to go through on a Judge's Decision. Also, that Crusher special couldn't have picked less functional robots for it. Like, were Crushtacean and Tiberius 3 not available?
Main reason was that twice Ming 3 got hit by Matilda when it shouldn't have, this was a consolation seed in the same way Mega Morg got a higher seeding than Mousetrap in Series 5.
I struggle to see why Ming was seeded. With the likes of the above robots and Disc-O-Inferno, I struggle to see what Ming did in the UK Wars to deserve it. I know it did well in something in Robot Wars Extreme Warriors (I think) but still... I think that there were other more eligible robots for that seeding that would have done better with it.
No idea why they did that, any good "deals" with Team Ming who were trying to sell those bots(plus the other one that's up later)? They did do some kind of own robot minigame with RC Robots, so those are essentially stock bots with some extra stuff attached to them. Looking stuff up shows it won the Tag Team Terror in the Nickelodeon Robot Wars, does that count for anything?
Ming was seeded because Dominator 2, who was originally seeded, had to pull out. I can only assume that this heat was meant to be Dominator's heat and when it pulled out, they seeded the only logical choice left.
@@killdozer7792 it’s still silly how they got a seeding even though they never reached a heat final . Fluffy was a more deserving machine of a seed given they did more in 2 series of robot wars than Ming did in 4. Hell even Aggrobot bettered Ming’s record when it came to the UK championships
You can’t diss Jonathan Pearce . He was a great commentator for the show. Exactly the sort of person they needed for when the show was out at the time between 1997-2003
I love how St. Agro works
So do I :)
Quite similar to Wheely Big Cheese in a sense
@@digitaldeathsquid3448 makes st aggro mild cheddar
If they can protect those wheels it could’ve been a sleeper of a robot
"Floats like a butterfly, stings like a....uh....midge."
Cassius Chrome. From Joe. X
Ming 2 remains its best iteration. Should have just fixed whatever caused it to malfunction in series 4.
Ming 3 would have been ok if they protected the wheels
Yeah I still like Ming 3, even if it was kind of a blatant Razer copy, it was cool in its own way.
@@tombardsley3081 Ming 3 won the Nickelodeon tag team with Rick which was something to cheer about. From Joe. X
@@Frosty_tha_SnowmanMing 3 and Rick were the nickelodeon tag team winners. From Joe. X
The flame spout during the crusher fight was great.
The house robots rule the arena. From Joe. X
We definitely see a lot of Bigger Brother influence in this heat.
I'd argue Ceros was inspired by Toro from Battlebots.
Anyone noticed that Refbot's counter was a missing a zero when he was counting out Metalis?
Sam Giles do you mean missing a 1?
Kobi Jenkins what he was missing was his left or 'tens' number
Yes.
Funny how Matilda ended up being a punching bag / food for Razer to now arguably the most destructive house robot on the show series 5 and after.
That was the series 4 southern annihilator. From Joe. X
I know they didn’t compete in Series 7 but how the hell can you have a crusher crunch-up without Razer!
Gotta give the lesser experienced bots a chance to show off, though I'm sure there was another reason. Besides, Razer only won, what, 90% of their battles? What's a small exhibition match, against 3 rather unimpressive bots, compared to their 3 major series titles
The team had a fallout with Ian after the fight with Tornado in the Second World Wars. Razer didn't compete in Series 7 entirely because.
@@dingbat3440 or ian and simon got production jobs actually working for RW as did george francis, david gribble and kim davis. They couldnt have fallen out that badly because they were in the US filming battlebots with warhead a few months after RW series 6 filmed.
Thanks for posting these up. I loved this show back when Mick Foley was the host and I'm glad to see they kept it going.
PanzerElite25 i believe youre thinking of extreme warriprs
@ibisbill2335 correct sir!. From Joe. X
Thanks for uploading these
Robot wars was roughened up by series 7. From Joe. X
Thanks so much for uploading this show :)
Cassius Chrome was a mean new house robot!. From Joe. X
Thanks for the info, I wish this show was still on regular tv.@@joeandrews7329
Aw, I liked Mega Hurts.
The lack of well known bots makes me glad I hardly watch Series 7.
At least when you don't know the machines, you can't predict who's gonna win.
@TheStrongestBaka
That's true, however you can be disappointed by the poor quality of Robots(breaking down, not being able to do stuff) and be put off by the whole commentary and whatnot they did to aim for a certain viewers.
St Agro definitely won Best Dressed
but the only opponent we could find a fight against was a vacuum cleaner and we beat it. pmsfl
Andrew Cotterell lied!. From Joe. X
You're cranking these out too quickly for me to leave my overly-lengthy essays on them :P
There's still time to catch up ;)
NJGW I'm loving the regular uploads!
Amateur. :P
14:21 the life of the scrapper is limited (& lost)
He got thrown out of the arena by St Agro. From Joe. X
If Razer was in the Crusher Crunch Up, I don't the other three crusher bots would stand a chance.
He would have won easily. From Joe. X
The team that entered such glorious hits as Piece De Resistance, Death Warmed Up and Immortalis enter with Metalis, finally getting a robot that doesn't look entirely like a joke. The sieve on the top is pretty much the only nod to the hilarious messes that Team Death's robots of all had, especially looking at the Crusher-Crunch-Up later in this episode, it really doesn't look all that bad. That said, was the entire body a lifter? Difficult to tell if it was that or if the self righter was so ineffectual it pushed the actual chassis away. Anyway, I'll stop with the mockery - they get enough of that from a certain ponytailed youtuber. Team Death are active on the FRA forums and posted a really interesting breakdown of their experiences in previous wars, so that's worth a fan if you care about the old series.
The closest thing I had to a home team in the Bath boys, Ming is back and awkwardly rubbish as ever (except for Ming 2, that was awesome). It's difficult to hide the feeling like the Cotterell boys didn't want to be there on the show as much as their dad did, especially with the silly outfits. Alex and Oliver seem to have grown past mocking Arthur Chilcott's beard in S3. Fair play for them to be moving at the end - the cameras suspiciously stopped filming a lot of Ceros towards the end... was it limping?
I had to check again if The Scrapper was entered by the original Scrapper team who then entered with the two G.B.H. machines and Facet in Series 3, but nope, original entry. Very little to say about this one, but this wasn't a heat of shining robots for the most part. Same for Mega-Hurtz. The robot that's meaning John Reid needs to jump to GigaHertz for his next machine, it's an interesting design but just... not all that great when you get down to it? Oh well. It's the other two machines there's more to talk about.
Pinser, Mantis, and R.O.C.S. Because including Tiberius, the only robot to successfully copy Razer's crushing power (if not the dominance that robot had) would have utterly creamed everyone else in this match. Pinser was the only one that did any damage - as someone who doesn't like crusher bots much, that is a fantastic shot of the damage to ROCS, followed by dragging the machine, bleeding hydraulic fluid, across the arena. Mantis is my favourite of the three, it looks awesome in a very junkyard style, or Russian as the case may be. I doubt that was a real crusher as such, but the lifter-pincher is a good combo, as Complete Control has proved. I think Pinser was just slipping on hydraulic fluid there at the end, rather than being immobile, but again, this is a whiteboard match, it's not worth getting worked up over.
Scraptosaur is probably my favourite machine from the Dutch Wars and if the fight had gone on longer or it had been able to self right, it almost certainly would have won. St Agro isn't nearly as well driven as a lot of the other flippers in Series 7, but it's powerful and well designed. It took one lucky shot to put Scraptosaur on its' back, and they just didn't have the kick that a box flipper needs to get back on its' wheels. Funnily enough, both it and TMHWK were hit by the buoy, and the Scraptosaur team would later buy TMHWK to let their wives drive it in S9.
Revolution 2 is an immensely mocked machine here on youtube but lets' be honest, it was memorable compared to Revolution 3. And R3 worked! That first round was a pretty good indication of its' ability, but again, the link... it's tough to put in (I've tried!) but the boys from Kilbride have always been good sports and accepted they made a mistake. Excellent sportsmanship too - some roboteers would have seen an easy victory after their robot had needed a complete stripdown and just let the House Robots do the dirty work, but Ceros wanted a fight, and a fight they god damn got. For all the 'uselessness' of the House Robots, they add to the spectacle, the pantomime of the show and that's worth keeping them around for.
I think Ceros' problem was radio distance - notice how in the past two fights they've seemed to struggle at the far end of the arena more than when they're close to the control pods. A shame - the box flipper that Inertia Labs pioneered in the States never came to be a big thing over here. Ceros was the best attempt we had of a T-Minus/Toro/Matador/Bronco clone and arguably still is - all we have to rival it is Robo Savage after all. A worthy heat finalist and had they kept going, I think they'd have deserved a judges' decision.
If it seems like I'm harsh on St Agro, consider it tough love. St Agro is one of my favourite robots of all time, design wise. The double flipper is something I remember drawing on the back of my maths books in school, and I was hyped to see someone finally put it into action. The huge exposed wheels seem like a threat but arguably it's easier to lose a chunk of it and keep spinning rather than lose the whole thing or have it jammed up (reminds me of spinner killers in the states like Sewer Snake). My only problem is that it's not driven nearly as well as it needs to be to be a threat. A lucky semi-finalist, but such a good design. It's in good hands too now, as Maelstrom under Team Shock. Definitely a robot I want to fight on the live event if only to say I've done it.
The St Agro team won the heat climax but lost to X-Terminator in the semi finals. From Joe. X
Man, this episode could have a whole History Podcast about it, the Mediocrebots of Series 7 Heat H. Seems to be a bunch of OK to good bots, but not elite bots or shitbots either. You've got
-St. Agro, lost in the first round of their heat in Series 6, failed to qualify in 4 and 5
-Revolution 3, the first iteration failed to qualify for Series 5, second iteration lost in the first round of 6 and made it to round 2 of the Extreme 2 New Blood Championship
-Scraptosaur, which had experience in 2 Dutch series and the 3rd World Championship as well
-Mega Hurts LT, which had some funny bots in Series 2, 3, 6, and now 7
-Ming Dienasty, which probably deserves an episode all to itself
-Metalis, which Team Death also probably deserves an episode all to itself
The only real newcomer that didn't have a mediocre history was Ceros, which I could have sworn I saw somewhere else, but the wiki proves me wrong.
You can also lump The Morg into the category of deserving an episode all to itself. Those guys are great.
I think Ceros was moddled on Toro from Battlebots
fucking READ more bullshit how about ACTUAL sentence structure. Rather then gimmicks to make your otherwise boring comment seem not!
Matilda seems to have a cart coin in the middle of the a..
death by safety feature how ironic
How can you have a competsion of the crushers without Razer or Serberius?
The biggest problem with Mantis and ROCS are the bodywork is too thin and the armour almost non-existent. The weaponry seems OK, not the most destructive but not as bad as the defensive side of the bots.
Mantis won the crusher crunch up. From Joe. X
the fact Ming got a seeding summed up how embaressing the final series of the classic robot wars was without Razer, Hypnodisc or Chaos 2
He won the nickelodeon USA/UK tag team episode with Rick. From Joe. X
For the crusher crunch up if Razer were still competing they definitely would’ve won it
He wasn't in it. From Joe. X
@@joeandrews7329 I know I said IF Razer was still competing
Floats like a butterfly... stings like a... bitch!
3:17 imagine he said that on tv these days 🤣
Well good 😅
24:44
Isn't Ming Dienasty a modified Robogeddon?
Both it and Zorro are, yes.
Andrew Cotterell, the team captain of Ming, founded the Robogeddon brand alongside Ian Lewis and Simon Scott of Razer. Ming Dienasty and Zorro were his way of promoting the RCV kits without doing it by name as that wasn't permitted on the show.
Thank you for the answer.
37:27 the clues for the drop zone item are
A TV and an ocean buoy. From Joe. X
Hm, there's a random guy going down on a platform at 24:59.
TheStrongestBaka probably re-setting the Drop Zone
Craig how is it controversial that the practically AFK 15 seed goes out early? That's what happens when you do nothing.
He wasn't quite happy with the performance. From Joe. X
East Kilbridge? I think he might have meant Kilbride.
Does anyone know why MDN was given the 15th seed?
I mean, I know the main reason, which was that Dominator 2 had to pull out. But why did they chose Ming as the replacement seed over better performing robots like Supernova or Raging Knightmare?
Why did Refbot helped Ceros to selfright?
To keep it going. From Joe. X
The Crusher Crunch Up
All of those weren't really that good, but I liked Mantis the most, then Pinser, ROCS never was any good and the arms they added for self righting were just a, at least in my view, awful workaround... would've loved to see them rebuild that bot into something proper.
Mantis seemed to lack control at times, did well against ROCS which was pretty much screwed then, but later got messed up by Pinser.
If Pinser didn't break down, looked like the Flames caused damage? It probably would've won this.
The Hydraulic Fluid on Pinser's Tip was from ROCS, yet JP of course fails to get that...
Of course JP talks down Mantis by the end...
I would have gone for Pinser, they did more damage than the other two
St Agro won the heat but lost to X-Terminator in the semi-finals. From Joe. X
X-Terminator mashed it. From Joe. X
How was Ming Dienasty's elimination controversial? It was armed with an absolutely rubbish weapon and did absolutely nothing in the entire bout. It should have been obvious that Ceros and Scraptosaur were the most obvious candidates to go through on a Judge's Decision.
Also, that Crusher special couldn't have picked less functional robots for it. Like, were Crushtacean and Tiberius 3 not available?
Crushtacean isn't really a crusher, more a gripper-lifter though.
And that weapon's angle was terrible too. Doubt it would have done much if it was entered into Series 2
Ming Dienasty why are you seeded i mean steel avenger king b powerworks no it has to go to Ming Dienasty
alexthehunted let Ming have the seed, this was only place it could get it, just let it have the seed
Main reason was that twice Ming 3 got hit by Matilda when it shouldn't have, this was a consolation seed in the same way Mega Morg got a higher seeding than Mousetrap in Series 5.
I struggle to see why Ming was seeded. With the likes of the above robots and Disc-O-Inferno, I struggle to see what Ming did in the UK Wars to deserve it. I know it did well in something in Robot Wars Extreme Warriors (I think) but still... I think that there were other more eligible robots for that seeding that would have done better with it.
No idea why they did that, any good "deals" with Team Ming who were trying to sell those bots(plus the other one that's up later)? They did do some kind of own robot minigame with RC Robots, so those are essentially stock bots with some extra stuff attached to them.
Looking stuff up shows it won the Tag Team Terror in the Nickelodeon Robot Wars, does that count for anything?
Because Dominator was supposed to compete and was gonna be seeded, but he withdrew.
28:58 really shows how awful cassius was
29:16 lmao, did he say what I think he said?
Crappy heat... and Ming seeded is a joke
Ming was seeded because Dominator 2, who was originally seeded, had to pull out. I can only assume that this heat was meant to be Dominator's heat and when it pulled out, they seeded the only logical choice left.
@@killdozer7792 it’s still silly how they got a seeding even though they never reached a heat final . Fluffy was a more deserving machine of a seed given they did more in 2 series of robot wars than Ming did in 4. Hell even Aggrobot bettered Ming’s record when it came to the UK championships
Jonathan!!! Watch your language!!!!! It’s a kids show!!!!!
I'm sorry but that drill weapon was rubbish. Should pick the crusher.
this show would be better if there was not obnoxious commentators saying really cringe things!
You can’t diss Jonathan Pearce . He was a great commentator for the show. Exactly the sort of person they needed for when the show was out at the time between 1997-2003