"The Pit" always pissed me off in the American Robot Wars.
Everyone always went apesh** chanting "PIT! PIT! PIT!" so they would get to see the pyrotechnic effects when a robot was put in it, but it couldn't have consisted of more than a gram of black powder...
Robot Wars always seemed to be more about showmanship than the actual combat.
Actually... Were the house bots in the American versions the same actual robots as the European series? I know they had the same names and looked the same.
Robot Wars was the WWE of robot combat. The whole idea that you had to audition to compete and the number of robots that didn't work and were of low build quality prove it.
It was also rigged and scripted. The producers had the power to choose who would win. The heats were hand picked based on entertainment value of each bot and how famous a bot was. They could also intervene with the house robots or arena. There were also cases of builders (revolutionist) being told to run at 1/2 power so that it wouldn't damage the housebots.
The robots in both American and British robot wars were the same.
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