So Dutch Wars was originally before German Championship, Hell it was filmed around the same time the US Championship was filmed but it ended up being the final of the three International series. Dutch Wars follows a similar format as the US Championship, six Heats and Six Grand Finalists. However, one major thing that I wanted but couldn't achieve was commentary. I really wanted an A.I. text to speech in Dutch to do commentary but I just couldn't find one, or at least one that wasn't dull and robotic, so German Championship was made as I searched endlessly to find a really good one that was free to use and easy to access...but no, nothing, so no commentary...
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
German Championship Grand Final
Blink and you'll miss it, it's the Grand Final already! The format changes for this final as we have six robots in regular knockout tournament with a third place playoff and a Grand Final inserted. The series ends up pretty much repeating the IRL series except Tsunami dies in the first round and Cobra is the runners up.
German Championship Heat B
The second Heat is miles better than the first featuring far more interesting battles and machines. One robot in this that was of interest was Tsunami, who had some severe problems. Tsunami if flipped on its back, couldn't self right, which was annoying and a shame because it was one of the better German robots, ah well! This Heat also contains the first appearance of Arena Killer, who actually was meant to have debut in Dutch Wars but because the series was bumped, this became its debut instead (ironically this was filmed AFTER Dutch Wars filming).
German Championship Heat A
The German Wars in Robot Wars may be the worst thing ever and whilst Diotoir's Wacky Rumbles attempts to make Germans interesting, it sort of went wrong. The German Championship first Heat was slow...very slow. The fight last ages with little action and whilst most robots are interesting to look at, some like Reaper NP2 absolutely suck. Heat A is a drag but at least it's better than the IRL counterpart and the unique format makes things interesting enough.
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
German Championship
The German Championship is the shortest series by far, yet has the longest episodes. As there's barely any German robot, as much as I tried to stretch out the series, it was no good...As a result it's two Heats and a Grand Final with a "two losses/two wins" style format. The series was originally going to be the final International series, Dutch Wars was meant to be the second, however, Dutch Wars was delayed, namely the editing and something else which I'll get to when I discuss Dutch Wars...So in the end German Series, which was last to be filmed was second to air! Can't be as bad as the IRL Robot Wars German Series right?...
US Championship Grand Final
The Grand Final is usually an epic occasion and whilst there's great robots all around, except maybe Rot Box, this is one incredibly short episode, being only 8:55mins long! The final also contains the shortest battle in Diotoir's Wacky Rumbles history...and it's the final battle itself! It was so short I attempted to redo the battle multiple times, hoping for something more interesting, but instead the same result, each and every time, plus it was just funny seeing the series culminate into a final battle that lasts a whopping 1 second... As of writing, this is the last episode to use commentary!
US Championship Heat F
The final Heat for this short Series, reminds me of the old days when it began...except this much higher quality! Here he have one of my personal favourites Conquering Clown and Rammstein, two fantastic robots and I am so pleased they were the Heat Finalists in this pretty fun final Heat! Of course some downsides is that Falcon, Voltaric and Snookums drop out early despite being very good looking machines. Anyways, for me this is the best Heat of the series.
US Championship Heat E
Another one of those weird Heats where robots don't do as well as one would hope, Drillzilla is that case in point in this Heat as others like Buzz or Xylon do better. However, this Heat happens to be controversial as well, being one that ends with a controversial winner in Deadblow who is technically invertible but at the same times doesn't seem effect inverted...Should it have won?
Monday, September 4, 2023
US Championship Heat D
Heat D is one of those episodes where what you'd think would happen, doesn't happen and the unexpected happens instead. We have robots like Cyclone, a big spinner lose in the most embarrassing way while Probophobia, a fan favourite and a powerful lifter which falls in the first round to Runaway of all robots! Bunny Attack also manages to slip to second round and the Heat is eventually won by a stock robot made of wood!
US Championship Heat C
Heat C is historical because it contains the very first flying robot! It's also one of the oldest, this being S.P.S. 2 which was a robot from 1995 and the first ever flying robot...it also couldn't do much. Here we have deadly spinners galore with Darkness and Destructive Criticism as well as Brawler and Dr. Inferno Jr. As the description of the video has one of the funniest and dumbest puns ever which is enough to roll eyes...
Friday, September 1, 2023
US Championship Heat B
Heat B is a lot slower than Heat A but that doesn't take away from the chaos. Frostbite is probably the single most deadly robot in the show's history, it's a shame the robot doesn't work when ported over to the Robot Wars+ Mod and thus it's regulated here, but this Heat shoes how deadly the orange spinner is...As seen in the Robot Wars The Alternative Wars series, it's amazing to see how good Techno Trousers is, it's kinda bizarre which in turn sucks when the really cool and interesting Mechadroid fails to make impact...
Dutch Wars Heat D
Heat D was a moment when I started thing, perhaps a European Championship could happen? Like imagine European robots from Germany, The Neth...
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The final Heat for this short Series, reminds me of the old days when it began...except this much higher quality! Here he have one of my pe...
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The true start of the series and we see one of the biggest shocks ever as the reigning champions are knocked out during the Heat! Of course...
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So Dutch Wars was originally before German Championship, Hell it was filmed around the same time the US Championship was filmed but it ende...