15,14 - The birth of Hypno-Disc, saw that one coming. 13,12 - 101 and Gravedigger were harshly eliminated for me. 11 - Pretty good effort from Overkill but 101 was more reliable in the end. 10 - Great driving match, especially from Nick Adams and Thing II 9 - Another good driving match that went the whole distance, 101 deserved it for me. 8 - Steg-O-Saw-Us did really well, just a shame the damage from Hypno was too much in the end. 7 - Hugely satisfying to see Napalm get the s*** beaten out of it. 6 - Good fight, Killerhurtz were very, very unlucky in the end. 5 - Awesome fight, started a great rivalry and probably my personal favourite fight from series 3 as a whole. 4 - The only time in the UK3 series where Chaos 2 had a genuinely good driving match against Big Cheese. 3 - Beserk 2 for me won that fight, I honestly didn't think Hypno-Disc should have won that. 2 - Best Heat final match for me, X-terminator started the more aggressive but Panic Attack produced a really good comeback. 1 - Razer seemed immobile for longer than 10 seconds so Behemoth should have won that fight. Overall very good list.
I've gotta say after rewatching it, what were the judges thinking putting Steg-O-Saw-Us through over Grave digger. I'd always thought that Steg got some good slams in on Gravedigger, but they didn't, while Gravedigger got 2 good flips in on Steg.
Simple - they already had a front-hinge flipper through in Firestorm, they didn't want two of the same in the final. If Firestorm had gone out (as it probably should have against Pitbull) I bet you anything Gravedigger would have gone through.
J.R.Walton.Jr Disagree that Steg-O-Saw-Us is a candidate for worst grand finalist. It was a great robot for series 3, but grave digger beat it fair and square
One problem with the whole "they already had a front hinge flipper through" story. Firestorm vs Panic Attack was filmed after Gravedigger vs Steg. Also, Steg did a lot more damage and was way more aggressive, so it deserved to win.
Remember that what you see on TV is a lot different from the actual match, as they have to make cuts for time/shots of the team and audience. This is why T2 vs Darke Destroyer is seen as such a controversial decision, when DD actually caused superficial damage to T2, which is more than the zero damage T2 did to DD. From what I saw, yeah, it was BS that Steg won, but I don't think it would have changed anything. Gravedigger's armor looked somewhat fragile, and it would have been eaten alive by Hypnodisc before they could have gotten a good flip in, and that's assuming it could beat Beast Of Bodmin.
TheRoboteer look at the front wedge of gravedigger it’s completely wrecked on one side. And stegosaurus was out pushing most of the fight. that is why they won.
Wow, I can't believe this video slipped under my radar for years and I had no idea! Anyway, here are my Top 25 from this Series; 25: Hypno-Disc vs Stegosaurus 24: Chaos 2 vs Hypno-Disc 23: Pitbull vs Technophobic 22: Gravedigger vs Stegosaurus 21: Chaos 2 vs Mace 2 20: Panic Attack vs Firestorm 19: Hypno-Disc vs 101 18: 101 vs Overkill 17: Hypno-Disc vs Stealth 16: Stegosaurus vs Napalm 15: Razer vs All Torque 14: Razer vs Techno Lease 13: The Big Cheese vs Anorakaphobia 12: The Big Cheese vs Shrapnel 11: Thing 2 vs All Torque 10: 101 vs Centurion 9: Razer vs 101 8: Chaos 2 vs Killerhurtz 7: Panic Attack vs X-Terminator 6: Chaos 2 vs Firestorm 5: Hypno-Disc vs Robogeddon 4: 101 vs King Buxton 3: Hypno-Disc vs Beserk 2 2: Razer vs Behemoth 1: Chaos 2 vs The Big Cheese
Great. Razer vs Behemoth are in this video which means I have to once again remind people what the rules of this show are. A robot can not win if it is pinned down or stuck. That is why the House Robots intervened. Funnily enough something similar happened in this video between Steg O Saw Us and Napalm but I don't see anyone complaining about that fight.
I feel it being stuck on the flame grill was fair and should not have been interfered with. Ultimatly, robots can and have lost by getting stuck on the wall, and it was arguably an excellent use of arena hazards by Behemoth.
15-14: I can’t really blame you for these, the first taste we Brits had of truly destructive machinery, and an end to the simple machines that could do everything well, people saw Robogeddon and Stealth and knew they had to make proper machines from then on. 13: Good fight, but utter bullshit by the judges. Mike Franklin is nowhere near the driver of some of the better ones in the competition - he’s an engineer first and foremost and 101/Transpower’s performance at the assault course in Techno Games indicates that much. But Hypno-Disc couldn’t do anything, and was sent through simply because it was a crowd and producer favourite. I’m kind of glad of it since 101 is not one of my favourite machines (Anarchy was though) but this is a match that would go on my list of top 10 bullshit judges’ decisions. 12: Another decision I was not on board with. See my comment to TheRoboteer for why I don’t agree. 11: Oooh, that was a good fight! God, Overkill are unlucky though. Radio problems in Series 3, and then came up against a dream team of Panic Attack and SMIDSY in Series 4. Such a shame they didn’t continue on. 10: I mentioned above that Mike Franklin is an Engineer rather than a Driver - Nick Adams is clearly a mixture of the two, look at that control! It is also a shame though to look at All Torque. That was a fantastic machine, well driven, and then what did they do come E1/S5? They made Hippobotamus/Fighting Torque, completely overshadowed by the robot that followed them, Tornado. Speaking of, I know at least one person on the reddit who’s going to moan about lack of active weapon in this fight.. 9: Again, 101 proving it’s a monster of a machine that god damn refuses to die. A cracking match between these two push-bots, but a fair decision, Buxton lacked control at times and simply couldn’t outlast its’ future rival and tag-team partner. 8: If you watch carefully at Steg’s wheels you can see after the damage, you can see they’re the same ones used on Steg 2, it really was a full rebuild! Shame that it didn’t last, I loved Steg 2. 7: Some would call this ‘justice’ - I’m not sure. Napalm looked so flimsy and yet Steg barely managed to do much to it, most of the work was done by Killalot. 101 or King Buxton or Small Torque or one of the other great push-bots this series would arguably have done more to it. Say what you like about Napalm (I have, vehemently), but it’s a survivor. And probably Crosby was happy that it was still mobile - it meant most of it could be salvaged for the next robot. 6: “Who has the hairiest tummy button in the Chaos 2 team?” I’m fairly certain it has to be Ian Swann, I reckon Richard has more testosterone in him than George Francis ever did! As for the fight - as a kid when watching this I was terrified. I was such a Chaos 2 fanboy as a young’un and seeing the ‘undefeatable’ little black flipper in such a squeeze by KHz gave me some very uncomfortable feelings. Not going to lie though, it is a strange satisfaction seeing all those glittering Battlebots stickers and still leaving Series 3 with a 0-3 W/L record in Britain (not counting the gauntlet and trial in S2). 5: Neither robot deserved to be here. There, I said it. Thing 2 and Pitbull controlled their fights all the way through until they hit the arena spikes, and these two got called decisions very early on. But we did get a cracking fight out of it, can’t deny that. Fair judges’ decision too. 4: You can see why this was voted the top battle of the series. Just a shame the srimech didn’t work at all as intended on Big Cheese. 3: I’d not seen this fight before, guilty admission. I’d thought that Hypno-Disc got lucky with the spike on Bezerk 2 and it had been left upside down. But full credit to the Roses - first they righted Bezerk so the fight could continue when someone else might not have, and then when the disc wasn’t working, they put the back of their robot to use. I think this was a fair decision even if they’d got a brutal lesson in that not everyone is made of tin foil for them to have a go at. In another note, can you imagine if Bezerk 2’s team was in the modern day series? The BBC would be falling over themselves for the ‘disabled person’ card when at this time, they just treated them as anyone else. 2: People ask me why I don’t like S7 X-Terminator, and apart from the gormless shape, it’s primarily the fact that X-T was characterised by fantastic speed, a sort of bizarro world version of Behemoth, and in the final series it got reduced to a trundling machine that dished out damage rather than control. Fights like this, and the Arnold and Behemoth fights from S4 show why I liked those so much. 1: You can SEE the house robots ordered to interfere on behalf of Razer here, come on guys! You handed them the pinball trophy, the least you could is let Behemoth have some degree of respect for themselves. Razer’s damage to the end was bad yes, but the fact that the house robots refused to come in for the kill, only to knock it back, leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Yes, I can kind of see why it won, that damage at the end to Behemoth was fairly disastrous, but it shouldn’t have been in a position to do that. Just… augh.
Active weapon rule didn't come into place until Series 7, so no on that regard lol. Now, the Razer-Behemoth fight is controversial, but the flame grill was not there to catch robots from self-righting, and Razer was getting pinned down by Behemoth during the times it was flipped. The House Robots before Refbot did fairly free many other robots when they got stuck, so no, they weren't "ordered" to interfere on behalf of Razer. It would have been the same if Behemoth had gotten stuck. A robot cannot win if it is pinned down by another machine or stuck - Steg got stuck too vs Napalm, and it got righted. Nobody is complaining about that, are we? In respect though, I understand the frustration.
Definitely disagree with your assessment of #5, while Thing 2 did get unlucky, Panic Attack was the better machine and I think put up a better performance than I imagine Thing 2 would have vs Firestorm. And as for Firestorm, Pitbull had no srimech. I'm actually one of the few people that didn't mind the Series 3 spikes, but I understand why they got rid of them.
I'm sure if Behemoth and Razer fought again today, Behemoth would win. It's roughly 3 times faster than it was back then and the scoop was low enough to get under Razer's wedge.
It might be a close call thing. When the weight advantage came in in S5/E1, Razer went for an even lower ground clearance, and I think it was proved in the match in Extreme 1. That said, Behemoth has had 16 years of evolution, while Razer's had to share Warhead's development, and I think the latter is an honestly better machine. Would have been interesting to see if the Razer/Cold Fusion rivalry ended in a suicide pact.
considering behemoth once stood up to hypno disc and nowadays can be shredded by the same kind (albiet stronger) of weapon in Carbide, i'd have my concerns. though it would be closer than this certainly
Ultimatly, Razer is now outdated and rightfully retired. And we should be glad it went in the pit in Series 8, because otherwise it would be in pieces.
HD/Berserk is a good fight, but top 2? Above Chaos 2/Big Cheese? Can't say I agree with that. I do however 100% agree with the top two, personally I'd maybe swap them around...
Yeah I couldn't think of anything else to watch at 4:49am with my peppered steak slice. Your #15 choice is always STUPID. You can't open with Supernova vs Frostbite. You can't open with Hypno-Disc vs Stealth. Your #14 choice is also STUPID. You can't have Hypno-Disc vs Robogeddon yet. Your #13 choice is STUPID, Hypno-Disc vs 101 is ridiculously close, automatically making it one of the best in the series. Your #12 choice is STUPID for showing a consistent decline in quality throughout the countdown so far, two consecutive matches where the edit potentially shows a different winner. Your #11 choice is EXTREMELY WORTHY, in a very underappreciated fight. I still managed to misremember it, thought there was a pitting at the end, but no. Overkill was also a bit intermittent in hindsight. Your #10 choice is INITIALLY TOO LOW based on my first impression, this is one of my absolute favourites from Series 3. Your #9 choice is DESIGNED TO ANNOY MCGOWAN, all of the good fights apart from the remaining two Alex Browns + Razer and Behemoth are a mystery to me now Your #8 choice is UTTERLY BIZARRE, this is the worst Hypno-Disc fight on the list so far, and the worst fight yet in general apart from the previous Steg-O-Saw-Us fight and maybe 101 vs Overkill. The way Steg "dies" is just so awkward. Your #7 choice is a DECENT SHOUT, with the bending of Napalm being very satisfying, but not a scratch on Hypno-Disc's best fights. That doesn't include the damn Steg-O-Saw-Us win. Your #6 choice is OVERRATED COMPLETELY, Chaos 2's CO2 rupture was exciting but ultimately meant nothing, and one fight decided the outcome of the battle. Your #5 choice is FAIR ENOUGH, but feels slightly out of place in the Top 5, given the cuts you made to allow it. Your #4 choice is ABOUT RIGHT, I refuse to be Alex Browned anymore. Your #3 choice is WRONG, Hypno-Disc lacked controlled movement, the spikes ruined Berserk's chances, if your enjoyment from this comes from Hypno-Disc being challenged, then you were looking for the fight against 101. Your #2 choice is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, unquestionably Your #1 choice is GOING TO BE IN THE TOP 25 of the Ultimate Countdown, but I think you need the Extreme battle between Behemoth and Razer, too. That one was just as close, with one point separating the Judges. It's a case of Apollo vs Storm2, and S3 vs Shredder, where the fights are almost impossible to separate, and you simply need both WHAT YOU MISSED: Razer vs Techno-Lease, very satisfying stuff. Chaos 2 vs Fire Storm, it's in the Ultimate Countdown so you recently declared it as better than the majority of the list. Chaos 2 vs Mace II, you rave about it on Discord, so why not here The Big Cheese vs Anorakaphobia, one of the best KO's in Robot Wars history. Definite possibility of a Diotoir vs Depoppesaurus Rex shout, maybe just misses out. and my honourable mention which isn't good enough for the Top 15, but is generally underappreciated, Techno-Lease vs Prometheus.
A pretty fair list. I think a few honourable mentions I would give to Razer vs. Aggrobot, and Big Brother vs. Grim Reaper.
15,14 - The birth of Hypno-Disc, saw that one coming.
13,12 - 101 and Gravedigger were harshly eliminated for me.
11 - Pretty good effort from Overkill but 101 was more reliable in the end.
10 - Great driving match, especially from Nick Adams and Thing II
9 - Another good driving match that went the whole distance, 101 deserved it for me.
8 - Steg-O-Saw-Us did really well, just a shame the damage from Hypno was too much in the end.
7 - Hugely satisfying to see Napalm get the s*** beaten out of it.
6 - Good fight, Killerhurtz were very, very unlucky in the end.
5 - Awesome fight, started a great rivalry and probably my personal favourite fight from series 3 as a whole.
4 - The only time in the UK3 series where Chaos 2 had a genuinely good driving match against Big Cheese.
3 - Beserk 2 for me won that fight, I honestly didn't think Hypno-Disc should have won that.
2 - Best Heat final match for me, X-terminator started the more aggressive but Panic Attack produced a really good comeback.
1 - Razer seemed immobile for longer than 10 seconds so Behemoth should have won that fight.
Overall very good list.
I've gotta say after rewatching it, what were the judges thinking putting Steg-O-Saw-Us through over Grave digger. I'd always thought that Steg got some good slams in on Gravedigger, but they didn't, while Gravedigger got 2 good flips in on Steg.
Simple - they already had a front-hinge flipper through in Firestorm, they didn't want two of the same in the final. If Firestorm had gone out (as it probably should have against Pitbull) I bet you anything Gravedigger would have gone through.
J.R.Walton.Jr Disagree that Steg-O-Saw-Us is a candidate for worst grand finalist. It was a great robot for series 3, but grave digger beat it fair and square
One problem with the whole "they already had a front hinge flipper through" story. Firestorm vs Panic Attack was filmed after Gravedigger vs Steg.
Also, Steg did a lot more damage and was way more aggressive, so it deserved to win.
Remember that what you see on TV is a lot different from the actual match, as they have to make cuts for time/shots of the team and audience. This is why T2 vs Darke Destroyer is seen as such a controversial decision, when DD actually caused superficial damage to T2, which is more than the zero damage T2 did to DD.
From what I saw, yeah, it was BS that Steg won, but I don't think it would have changed anything. Gravedigger's armor looked somewhat fragile, and it would have been eaten alive by Hypnodisc before they could have gotten a good flip in, and that's assuming it could beat Beast Of Bodmin.
TheRoboteer look at the front wedge of gravedigger it’s completely wrecked on one side. And stegosaurus was out pushing most of the fight. that is why they won.
Wow, I can't believe this video slipped under my radar for years and I had no idea! Anyway, here are my Top 25 from this Series;
25: Hypno-Disc vs Stegosaurus
24: Chaos 2 vs Hypno-Disc
23: Pitbull vs Technophobic
22: Gravedigger vs Stegosaurus
21: Chaos 2 vs Mace 2
20: Panic Attack vs Firestorm
19: Hypno-Disc vs 101
18: 101 vs Overkill
17: Hypno-Disc vs Stealth
16: Stegosaurus vs Napalm
15: Razer vs All Torque
14: Razer vs Techno Lease
13: The Big Cheese vs Anorakaphobia
12: The Big Cheese vs Shrapnel
11: Thing 2 vs All Torque
10: 101 vs Centurion
9: Razer vs 101
8: Chaos 2 vs Killerhurtz
7: Panic Attack vs X-Terminator
6: Chaos 2 vs Firestorm
5: Hypno-Disc vs Robogeddon
4: 101 vs King Buxton
3: Hypno-Disc vs Beserk 2
2: Razer vs Behemoth
1: Chaos 2 vs The Big Cheese
Top 15 Robots of Series 3.
15) All Torque
14) The Big Cheese
13) Razer
12) Pussycat
11) Scutter's Revenge
10) Behemoth
9) Mace 2
8) Thing II
7) X-Terminator
6) 101
5) Panic Attack
4) Firestorm
3) Steg-O-Saw-Us
2) Hypno-Disc
1) Chaos 2
Great. Razer vs Behemoth are in this video which means I have to once again remind people what the rules of this show are. A robot can not win if it is pinned down or stuck. That is why the House Robots intervened. Funnily enough something similar happened in this video between Steg O Saw Us and Napalm but I don't see anyone complaining about that fight.
I feel it being stuck on the flame grill was fair and should not have been interfered with. Ultimatly, robots can and have lost by getting stuck on the wall, and it was arguably an excellent use of arena hazards by Behemoth.
15-14: I can’t really blame you for these, the first taste we Brits had of truly destructive machinery, and an end to the simple machines that could do everything well, people saw Robogeddon and Stealth and knew they had to make proper machines from then on.
13: Good fight, but utter bullshit by the judges. Mike Franklin is nowhere near the driver of some of the better ones in the competition - he’s an engineer first and foremost and 101/Transpower’s performance at the assault course in Techno Games indicates that much. But Hypno-Disc couldn’t do anything, and was sent through simply because it was a crowd and producer favourite. I’m kind of glad of it since 101 is not one of my favourite machines (Anarchy was though) but this is a match that would go on my list of top 10 bullshit judges’ decisions.
12: Another decision I was not on board with. See my comment to TheRoboteer for why I don’t agree.
11: Oooh, that was a good fight! God, Overkill are unlucky though. Radio problems in Series 3, and then came up against a dream team of Panic Attack and SMIDSY in Series 4. Such a shame they didn’t continue on.
10: I mentioned above that Mike Franklin is an Engineer rather than a Driver - Nick Adams is clearly a mixture of the two, look at that control! It is also a shame though to look at All Torque. That was a fantastic machine, well driven, and then what did they do come E1/S5? They made Hippobotamus/Fighting Torque, completely overshadowed by the robot that followed them, Tornado. Speaking of, I know at least one person on the reddit who’s going to moan about lack of active weapon in this fight..
9: Again, 101 proving it’s a monster of a machine that god damn refuses to die. A cracking match between these two push-bots, but a fair decision, Buxton lacked control at times and simply couldn’t outlast its’ future rival and tag-team partner.
8: If you watch carefully at Steg’s wheels you can see after the damage, you can see they’re the same ones used on Steg 2, it really was a full rebuild! Shame that it didn’t last, I loved Steg 2.
7: Some would call this ‘justice’ - I’m not sure. Napalm looked so flimsy and yet Steg barely managed to do much to it, most of the work was done by Killalot. 101 or King Buxton or Small Torque or one of the other great push-bots this series would arguably have done more to it. Say what you like about Napalm (I have, vehemently), but it’s a survivor. And probably Crosby was happy that it was still mobile - it meant most of it could be salvaged for the next robot.
6: “Who has the hairiest tummy button in the Chaos 2 team?” I’m fairly certain it has to be Ian Swann, I reckon Richard has more testosterone in him than George Francis ever did! As for the fight - as a kid when watching this I was terrified. I was such a Chaos 2 fanboy as a young’un and seeing the ‘undefeatable’ little black flipper in such a squeeze by KHz gave me some very uncomfortable feelings. Not going to lie though, it is a strange satisfaction seeing all those glittering Battlebots stickers and still leaving Series 3 with a 0-3 W/L record in Britain (not counting the gauntlet and trial in S2).
5: Neither robot deserved to be here. There, I said it. Thing 2 and Pitbull controlled their fights all the way through until they hit the arena spikes, and these two got called decisions very early on. But we did get a cracking fight out of it, can’t deny that. Fair judges’ decision too.
4: You can see why this was voted the top battle of the series. Just a shame the srimech didn’t work at all as intended on Big Cheese.
3: I’d not seen this fight before, guilty admission. I’d thought that Hypno-Disc got lucky with the spike on Bezerk 2 and it had been left upside down. But full credit to the Roses - first they righted Bezerk so the fight could continue when someone else might not have, and then when the disc wasn’t working, they put the back of their robot to use. I think this was a fair decision even if they’d got a brutal lesson in that not everyone is made of tin foil for them to have a go at.
In another note, can you imagine if Bezerk 2’s team was in the modern day series? The BBC would be falling over themselves for the ‘disabled person’ card when at this time, they just treated them as anyone else.
2: People ask me why I don’t like S7 X-Terminator, and apart from the gormless shape, it’s primarily the fact that X-T was characterised by fantastic speed, a sort of bizarro world version of Behemoth, and in the final series it got reduced to a trundling machine that dished out damage rather than control. Fights like this, and the Arnold and Behemoth fights from S4 show why I liked those so much.
1: You can SEE the house robots ordered to interfere on behalf of Razer here, come on guys! You handed them the pinball trophy, the least you could is let Behemoth have some degree of respect for themselves. Razer’s damage to the end was bad yes, but the fact that the house robots refused to come in for the kill, only to knock it back, leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Yes, I can kind of see why it won, that damage at the end to Behemoth was fairly disastrous, but it shouldn’t have been in a position to do that. Just… augh.
Active weapon rule didn't come into place until Series 7, so no on that regard lol.
Now, the Razer-Behemoth fight is controversial, but the flame grill was not there to catch robots from self-righting, and Razer was getting pinned down by Behemoth during the times it was flipped. The House Robots before Refbot did fairly free many other robots when they got stuck, so no, they weren't "ordered" to interfere on behalf of Razer. It would have been the same if Behemoth had gotten stuck. A robot cannot win if it is pinned down by another machine or stuck - Steg got stuck too vs Napalm, and it got righted. Nobody is complaining about that, are we?
In respect though, I understand the frustration.
Definitely disagree with your assessment of #5, while Thing 2 did get unlucky, Panic Attack was the better machine and I think put up a better performance than I imagine Thing 2 would have vs Firestorm. And as for Firestorm, Pitbull had no srimech. I'm actually one of the few people that didn't mind the Series 3 spikes, but I understand why they got rid of them.
I'm sure if Behemoth and Razer fought again today, Behemoth would win. It's roughly 3 times faster than it was back then and the scoop was low enough to get under Razer's wedge.
It might be a close call thing. When the weight advantage came in in S5/E1, Razer went for an even lower ground clearance, and I think it was proved in the match in Extreme 1. That said, Behemoth has had 16 years of evolution, while Razer's had to share Warhead's development, and I think the latter is an honestly better machine. Would have been interesting to see if the Razer/Cold Fusion rivalry ended in a suicide pact.
considering behemoth once stood up to hypno disc and nowadays can be shredded by the same kind (albiet stronger) of weapon in Carbide, i'd have my concerns. though it would be closer than this certainly
Ultimatly, Razer is now outdated and rightfully retired. And we should be glad it went in the pit in Series 8, because otherwise it would be in pieces.
To me 15 & 14 should be 2 & 1 respectively through the amount of destruction Hypno-Disc caused to those 2 robots
HD/Berserk is a good fight, but top 2? Above Chaos 2/Big Cheese? Can't say I agree with that.
I do however 100% agree with the top two, personally I'd maybe swap them around...
Yeah I couldn't think of anything else to watch at 4:49am with my peppered steak slice.
Your #15 choice is always STUPID. You can't open with Supernova vs Frostbite. You can't open with Hypno-Disc vs Stealth.
Your #14 choice is also STUPID. You can't have Hypno-Disc vs Robogeddon yet.
Your #13 choice is STUPID, Hypno-Disc vs 101 is ridiculously close, automatically making it one of the best in the series.
Your #12 choice is STUPID for showing a consistent decline in quality throughout the countdown so far, two consecutive matches where the edit potentially shows a different winner.
Your #11 choice is EXTREMELY WORTHY, in a very underappreciated fight. I still managed to misremember it, thought there was a pitting at the end, but no. Overkill was also a bit intermittent in hindsight.
Your #10 choice is INITIALLY TOO LOW based on my first impression, this is one of my absolute favourites from Series 3.
Your #9 choice is DESIGNED TO ANNOY MCGOWAN, all of the good fights apart from the remaining two Alex Browns + Razer and Behemoth are a mystery to me now
Your #8 choice is UTTERLY BIZARRE, this is the worst Hypno-Disc fight on the list so far, and the worst fight yet in general apart from the previous Steg-O-Saw-Us fight and maybe 101 vs Overkill. The way Steg "dies" is just so awkward.
Your #7 choice is a DECENT SHOUT, with the bending of Napalm being very satisfying, but not a scratch on Hypno-Disc's best fights. That doesn't include the damn Steg-O-Saw-Us win.
Your #6 choice is OVERRATED COMPLETELY, Chaos 2's CO2 rupture was exciting but ultimately meant nothing, and one fight decided the outcome of the battle.
Your #5 choice is FAIR ENOUGH, but feels slightly out of place in the Top 5, given the cuts you made to allow it.
Your #4 choice is ABOUT RIGHT, I refuse to be Alex Browned anymore.
Your #3 choice is WRONG, Hypno-Disc lacked controlled movement, the spikes ruined Berserk's chances, if your enjoyment from this comes from Hypno-Disc being challenged, then you were looking for the fight against 101.
Your #2 choice is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, unquestionably
Your #1 choice is GOING TO BE IN THE TOP 25 of the Ultimate Countdown, but I think you need the Extreme battle between Behemoth and Razer, too. That one was just as close, with one point separating the Judges. It's a case of Apollo vs Storm2, and S3 vs Shredder, where the fights are almost impossible to separate, and you simply need both
WHAT YOU MISSED:
Razer vs Techno-Lease, very satisfying stuff.
Chaos 2 vs Fire Storm, it's in the Ultimate Countdown so you recently declared it as better than the majority of the list.
Chaos 2 vs Mace II, you rave about it on Discord, so why not here
The Big Cheese vs Anorakaphobia, one of the best KO's in Robot Wars history.
Definite possibility of a Diotoir vs Depoppesaurus Rex shout, maybe just misses out.
and my honourable mention which isn't good enough for the Top 15, but is generally underappreciated, Techno-Lease vs Prometheus.