Quite refreshing to have a heat with no one-hit kills!
Ms Nightshade: I had expected the arms/wings/petals to be slower than that, if it had actually moved under it's own power if would consider that a victory in its own right. Looked like a starfish with the arms flapping around!
Rusty: Appears to be built out of rust, completely fell to pieces at the hands of a flipper. Fun fact: This robot is actually call Ceros, which made the heat final in Series 7 in a different guise that actually half resembled a rhino...
Trolley Rage: An upturned shopping trolley and Carbide, what did you expect...
Meggamouse: This robot is very good on the live circuit, they did attempt to flip Carbide, but they once again showed why after Hypno-Disc appeared everyone mysteriously stopped building robots with exposed wheels...
Coyote: Looks great, has a vintage, steampunk kind of look, easily could have been an early sketch-up of Matilda. But it was never gonna happen.
Crackers n Smash: Take notes, Gemini, a clusterbot that's actually effective! Yeah the weapons were removed (not that they looked like they'd have done much anyway), but they were incredibly strong and driven really well, demonstrating the argument for clusterbots, now they just need weapons.
Apollo: If Carbide had been working properly in the grand final last year Apollo would have lost, so it's not really surprising to me that they got knocked out twice.
Carbide: Smashed the arena again, I want to see them face Aftershock.
And now the wild cards:
Sabre Tooth: Only made the heat final because Terrorhurtz and Jellyfish/Rapid took more damage than them and then didn't last in the heat final. No chance.
Cherub: Didn't do much in their round robin and then got thrown out straight away by Eruption: No chance.
Thor: Actually worked, though not very effective and went the distance in the heat final despite never hitting Concussion: Good chance.
Pulsar: Took more damage from itself than its opponents, drained their pool of spare parts and died after one hit. No chance.
Apollo: Didn't work at full capacity but still worked nonetheless, being depending champions probably goes in their favour. My tip to get the wild card.