Chapter 1- History of 'my old series.' (not filmed).
After watching robot wars 7 or 8 years ago, KingPazza decided to make k'nex robots and play with them. If he had filmed all of these there would be over 100 series as each battle(consisting of 10-13 robots) was a 'series' where they battled it out to be the the last remaining robot. It was set out as a huge annihilator, with the bottom 2 robots usually being replaced with new knex bots. Unfortunately KingPazza did not record all of the winners in a book, and the ones he did have since been lost, but he can remember the successful robots. Snowflake, built 7 years ago was extremely successful for the 4- 5 years she competed in, winning a few more than the 2nd most successul robot, Thunder. Other successful robots include Rainbow, rainbow 2+3, Lightning, Box, and DoubleFlip (SpiderSplitter's old name). The GripAttacker series of robots is also extremely old. There were 30 GripAttackers before KingPazza built GripAttacker 19+ 20 for series 1 of RRW (He forgot how many he had made so re-started with 19 for RRW). Other notable robots include Carrot, Gemini and Thunder 2.
Paul played this 'game' for about 6 years on and off during the time robot wars was on, between the time of the 3rd series until about a year or two after the last series- from about the years 1998/1999- 2004/2005 (not 100% sure on the dates). He did occasionally play when in year 8 and 9 but limited this to holiday periods. After 2/3 of years of irregular K'nex action (probably playing with them twice a year) a lot of his gear went in the loft in January 2007 because his room was re-decorated which meant his K'nex bots went in the loft too, and were brushed aside into the realms of memory, but not for too long... (as you will see in the next section it only took a year for Paul to remember the glory days of his K'nex series.)
Chapter 2- General information and history of RRW
Random robot wars is a fan made robot wars series, created by KingPazza1/ RoboticRandomness (Paul) in January 2008. It was inspired by Hogwild94s illustrious series. The first series was in fact a training series which was filmed on KingPazza1’s bedroom floor, as he did not have an arena. After some encouraging comments KingPazza1 decided to pop down to Tesco and retrieve some cardboard boxes, with which he made an arena which is one of the most recognisable arenas. It has an extremely powerful floor flipper which sends many robots flying. It also has a pit release button (which is a yellow smily face) to open the pit which also differs from Hogwild94’s series. It also has a drop zone. In series 1 and the first half of series 2, the drop zone was a very destructive Lynx deodorant can (touch), but now alternates with an even more destructive large stone which obliterated TT Advanced on its second showing. In series 3 other items were also used.
KingPazza1’s first series had 32 competitors with 8 seeds and 8 heats. The winners of the heats went through to the quarter finals.
KingPazza1 made many plaudits through his first series but the one criticism was that 7 out of the 8 seeds went through to the quarter finals. Only Tetris was knocked out in the heats. Four robots then went through to the semis, and the final was between Snowflake and Comb. Snowflake went onto win the final with a decent flip.
KingPazza1 finished filming series 2 in March 2008, which contained 48 robots, 12 seeds, and 12 heats. Dragon won the final beating the much loved Scoop in a thrilling encounter where he managed to smash Scoop out of the arena.
In mid- June after his GCSEs KingPazza1 uploaded 6 Euro 2008 random robot wars specials which many have enjoyed. The final was won by Pendulum Punisher (France) against Umbro Republic (Czech Republic).
Series 3 Grand Final was uploaded 23rd July and consisted of Dragon, Thunder, Maze and Relentless. Dragon and Thunder won their respective eliminators leaving Relentless to defeat Maze for 3rd place. In the end, Thunder defeated Dragon, the first seed, by back flipping him into the pit, to claim the title.
The 1st World Championships qualifying video was uploaded on 25th July. The 1st world championships followed this. Thunder (England) once again won, beating Relentless (Ireland) in the final. This meant he had won 2 series in a row. Epidemic (Ukraine) finished 3rd and Lanky Rhino (Kenya) finished 4th. They were both surprise grand finalists. Lanky Rhino defeated Dragon and Maze to reach the grand final eliminators, and Epidemic beat TT Advanced.
Chapter 3- The end of a long journey?
History of RRW Winners
