If you are around my age, or older, you might remember a programme on the BBC by the name of Robot Wars around a decade ago. As the name suggests, teams built their own robots and fought other robots for a chance to become the Grand Champion. I remember watching it like a religion every Friday night, cheering on my favourites (which always used to end in disaster
) and booing the House Robots. Nowadays, I look back over the later series with a feeling of indifference. Basically, I feel after the 3rd Wars, the show got too popular. People started spending ridiculous amounts of money on robots, the show became gimmicky, and eventually it killed it. I mean, why have a sodding Refbot for HWNSNBM's sake! That reduced the House Robots to bit players, where previously they'd been brilliantly villanous, getting involved and changing the course of a match. And why only open the pit at the end of a match, when previously it was left open. The last series (which was broadcast on Channel 5 in 2003-04) was a complete shambles. Most of the famous robots (Hypno-Disc, Chaos 2 and Razer) had retired, most of the remaining robots were stupidly expensive, and there was a allegation of match fixing in order to make a certain robot not become the Champion. 
That said, I still look back at the first three series as shining examples. No gimmicks, family teams and garage enthusiasts rather than rich geeks, most of the robots being built in a shed or something. And no refbot. I remember Chaos 2, the only double champion being built for a total cost of £250, rather than the £5000+ of the robots in the last series.
And so, I've come up with an idea involving Robot Wars and F1 Rejects. Basically, members can enter their own robot(s) under a name of a reject team/driver, or their own name. I'll run the championship (using paper, pencil and dice, because I'm retro
) with heats between robots, and we'll have a champion reject. The rounds will either be a challenge such as robot football, tug of war with a house robot, a time trial and a few fights, depending on what I feel like including. So, let the wars begin! *
*The earliest I can run this will be May 25th, after my final AS-exam, so I'm just gauging interest at the moment. I'll post a specification list a little later on.
And the big question is do you, the members of the F1 Rejects forums, think this is a good idea, or one doomed to failure?
