0:00:02 > 0:00:04Welcome to Robot Wars, where anyone with a fiendish imagination
0:00:04 > 0:00:08and a spanner can build a machine to take on the world.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11Pit lanes packed with bartenders, school teachers...
0:00:11 > 0:00:13even junior doctors all gearing up to fight.
0:00:13 > 0:00:18Tonight, after five gruelling heats, we've reached our grand final.
0:00:18 > 0:00:2030 teams began, but only one can become
0:00:20 > 0:00:23the new Robot Wars champion.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:27 > 0:00:29After weeks of the toughest...
0:00:32 > 0:00:34..most hazardous...
0:00:34 > 0:00:37- SHE SCREAMS - ..arena-smashing battles ever...
0:00:39 > 0:00:43..tonight we'll finally crown the new Robot Wars champion.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50Welcome to the grand final.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00CHEERING
0:01:00 > 0:01:02The heat winners from the past five shows
0:01:02 > 0:01:05have earned their places here tonight.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09Joining them will be one wild card.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13And for the first time ever, to decide who gets it, second and third
0:01:13 > 0:01:19place teams from every heat will battle it out in a 10 Robot Rumble.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25The 10 Robot Rumble will be the most fun you can ever have.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27It's going to be utter chaos.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30The winner of the wild card going through to fight in tonight's show
0:01:30 > 0:01:33will be the last robot standing.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36One massive fight with everyone going at each other,
0:01:36 > 0:01:39I think, could be a problem if someone presses the pit button.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45It'll just look like a complete war zone.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49To get through that, you're going to have to be something pretty special.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53No time limit, no rules, no mercy.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55It is going to be brutal.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57It could be one of the most epic fights we've ever had.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03CHEERING
0:02:03 > 0:02:07- COMMENTATOR:- This is going to be the granddaddy of grand finals.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11Each heat winner has blazed their way through three robot battles
0:02:11 > 0:02:14to get here, but the hardest fights are yet to come.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19The rules of the Robot Rumble are simple - there are no rules!
0:02:19 > 0:02:23Cease will be called when only one robot remains active,
0:02:23 > 0:02:26they will be crowned the victor and they'll claim their place
0:02:26 > 0:02:30in the grand final, alongside the five heat finalists.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33The ten robots in the Robot Rumble are...
0:02:33 > 0:02:37Apollo, Eruption, Terrorhurtz, Concussion,
0:02:37 > 0:02:44Thor, Sabretooth, Big Nipper, Track-tion, Iron-Awe 6, Expulsion.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48It's time for the biggest battle in Robot Wars history.
0:02:48 > 0:02:53If I don't survive this, tell my wives - all 162 of them -
0:02:53 > 0:02:55I love them. It's battle time!
0:02:58 > 0:03:01ROBOTIC VOICE: Roboteers, stand by.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Oh, I am so looking forward to this.
0:03:06 > 0:03:12ROBOTIC VOICE: Three, two, one, activate.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15Off we go, Thor first on the attack.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Oh, little bit strange, isn't it? Sort of cardboard spinner there.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20On top of Track-tion.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22- It's chaos!- Go on, go on!- No!
0:03:22 > 0:03:23Oh, my God!
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Waiting in the corner, measuring everyone up,
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Eruption there with the yellow and black stripes.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Track-tion, I think... Oh, I think that they've lost some track.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35- ALARM BLARES - There's Thor with a little nudge on the Doom Dial.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37Oh, goodness me.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Well, there's still life in Track-tion...
0:03:39 > 0:03:44- Oh, no! Expulsion have gone! - Cater rods!- The rods, no!
0:03:45 > 0:03:50Terrorhurtz attacking Track-tion, Apollo getting buckled in as well.
0:03:50 > 0:03:51Ooh, the meat in the sandwich there
0:03:51 > 0:03:54between Sabretooth and Concussion teaming up well.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56ROBOTIC VOICE: The Fog Of War.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Fog Of War!
0:03:59 > 0:04:01The Fog Of War. This is going to help me, isn't it?
0:04:01 > 0:04:03Fog out there as well, on top of everything else.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Uh... Track-tion, yes, still in there.
0:04:07 > 0:04:08Ah! They've gone!
0:04:08 > 0:04:14Track-tion, finally out. So two have gone. How can you enjoy THAT?!
0:04:14 > 0:04:18Terrorhurtz, with all the experience there, John and Nick.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20ALARM BLARES
0:04:20 > 0:04:21There's a big flip from Apollo
0:04:21 > 0:04:23- on Iron-Awe. - ROBOTIC VOICE: The Fog Of War.
0:04:23 > 0:04:28Doom Dial again... Fog...Of...War!
0:04:28 > 0:04:29I've no idea what's happening.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33They're just about hanging on, are they, out there?
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Let's get rid of the fog, I can't see!
0:04:35 > 0:04:39Apollo... Oh, and that's a great attack on Sabretooth!
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Apollo looks strong in this then, so far.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Oh, but Eruption nearly got caught in with the house robot.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49The sneaky attack... Oh, mighty, mighty slam there!
0:04:49 > 0:04:51There's Iron-Awe 6 back in towards the Doom Dial.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54- ALARM BLARES - Down it goes again.
0:04:54 > 0:04:55ROBOTIC VOICE: Rogue House Robot.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58Rogue house robots now, taking on Iron-Awe.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01There's Big Nipper, first time we've really seen Big Nipper
0:05:01 > 0:05:03in this amazing 10 Robot Rumble.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07Concussion still in there, the orange machine as well.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09And once again, Iron-Awe go for the tyre.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12ROBOTIC VOICE: The Fog Of War.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15Fog Of War! Where are your fog lights?!
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Come out, I'm over there somewhere.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Please, help me, roboteers!
0:05:20 > 0:05:24The pit has two, I fear there will be more...
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Sabretooth still rumbling around.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31Big Nipper with a big pinch there as well.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Graeme Dawson, what a good roboteer he is.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37It's very, very... Oh, who's that gone down?!
0:05:37 > 0:05:42Iron-Awe 6 in the pit. How many robots have we got out there now?
0:05:42 > 0:05:46Six, seven, I make it, seven.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Oh, down to six! Concussion have gone!
0:05:48 > 0:05:51- Oh, my days!- Oh-h-h-h!
0:05:51 > 0:05:53It's like a rubbish bin out there.
0:05:53 > 0:05:58The rubbish bin of Robot Wars...dreams.
0:05:58 > 0:06:04Now, Sabretooth, with the drum on the front of Eruption's flipper.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Ah, come on!
0:06:06 > 0:06:10A very passionate Gabriel at the controls of Sabretooth.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14A flip for Terrorhurtz, big machine to lift in the air...
0:06:14 > 0:06:17Terrorhurtz, are they in trouble? They need to self-right!
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Oh, no. No, no. Away we go!
0:06:19 > 0:06:22John Reid needs to self-right Terrorhurtz... And he does so!
0:06:22 > 0:06:24- We're up, we're good.- Carry on.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27They're still out there fighting. There's Terrorhurtz...
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Oh! Down comes the axe on top of Sabretooth.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33Through the murky mists I can just about make out the house robot now.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36I can see Eruption... being taken on by Big Nipper.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39- The Doom Dial goes down again. - ALARM BLARES
0:06:39 > 0:06:40ROBOTIC VOICE: Rogue House Robot.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44We have the dial, we have a house robot.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47We have Killalot coming out into the fray. He wants Eruption.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50For some reason Killalot has a feud with Eruption...
0:06:50 > 0:06:53And now Apollo in trouble as well.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55They've gone for Apollo.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57But they're OK, it would seem.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02Sabretooth, they've gone! They're in the pit.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03Ah-ha!
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Terrorhurtz under pressure.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09- There is still enough power in the Eruption flipper.- Damn!
0:07:09 > 0:07:11- Young Michael Oates at the controls. - ALARM BLARES
0:07:11 > 0:07:14- ROBOTIC VOICE: Rogue House Robot. - Terrorhurtz picked up here.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17Oh, by Sir Killalot, this late on.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19- ROBOTEERS:- Oh!
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Oh, and this late on for Thor as well!
0:07:22 > 0:07:24It's all come to an end, he's down the pit!
0:07:24 > 0:07:27And Killalot has Terrorhurtz.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Well, throw us, come on.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33- Oh, this is painful...- Oh, come on! - ..for John Reid.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36No! No, no, no, no! No!
0:07:36 > 0:07:38That's not right, that's not right.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42It isn't right, John Reid, it's brutal,
0:07:42 > 0:07:44but them's the rules, son, get on with it!
0:07:44 > 0:07:48And I think Sir Killalot's been gentle!
0:07:48 > 0:07:49Thank you!
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Oh, my goodness me, I never thought I'd see the day.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Sir Killalot's gone all mushy.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57Three robots remaining.
0:07:57 > 0:08:03Apollo and Eruption surely the favourites now together out there.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05Terrorhurtz...
0:08:06 > 0:08:08Have they got any gas left?
0:08:08 > 0:08:12Terrorhurtz shoving Eruption around...
0:08:12 > 0:08:14but they're very close to the arena wall!
0:08:14 > 0:08:16And they get a big flip,
0:08:16 > 0:08:19and I think that is it for Terrorhurtz.
0:08:19 > 0:08:20We almost made it.
0:08:20 > 0:08:26So, two robots left, we have Eruption on the attack,
0:08:26 > 0:08:27we have Apollo in orbit.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30Apollo in trouble and Eruption senses it.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32And Eruption comes in again.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34And Eruption's going for the kill.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36And Eruption turns away, they know they've done it.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38CHEERING
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Ten robots started and I think we've got one winner.
0:08:43 > 0:08:44I think Eruption are the winners.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46- KLAXON BLARES - Eruption are the winners.
0:08:46 > 0:08:47- ROBOTIC VOICE: Cease. - What a fight.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Please, bring me my cocoa and a bed.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52Look at the robot rubbish in the bin.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56And I feel just like them, I've had enough, I quit!
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Michael faced controversy in the heat
0:09:02 > 0:09:04after beating best friends Aftershock...
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Down, Will.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09And look at the power of Eruption!
0:09:09 > 0:09:12- Oh.- Oh, my God.- Oh, my God!
0:09:12 > 0:09:15- ANGELA:- ..before being despatched by champions Carbide.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20On one hit, Carbide's deflected off and sort of come round
0:09:20 > 0:09:22and taken our wheel out.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30He then played the smart game in the 10 Robot Rumble.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07- LAUGHING:- Well done. - Thank you.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09- WOMAN: Well done. - Oh, you're so...
0:10:09 > 0:10:12To be honest, my favourite shot of the entire melee is this one shot,
0:10:12 > 0:10:15- and in the foreground you can see it's just going crazy.- Yeah.
0:10:15 > 0:10:16And just behind them is you.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19- Yeah.- Just standing in the corner, just watching it all unfold.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21- Yeah.- That was a deliberate thing? - Yeah, course it was.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24I mean, you've got some really nasty spinners in there,
0:10:24 > 0:10:26but they've only got so much battery.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28If you can hang back, let them use it up on...
0:10:28 > 0:10:31- And everybody else went straight in, they were straight in...- Yeah.
0:10:31 > 0:10:32..and I was happy for them to do that.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35- If they all take each other out... - Yeah...- ..I'm OK with that.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38Well deserved.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42Michael the great tactician takes tonight's grand final wild card.
0:10:43 > 0:10:47From here the teams begin by fighting in the group battles.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51The winners from each go straight to the semifinal,
0:10:51 > 0:10:53while the four losers fight again
0:10:53 > 0:10:55for a chance to stay in the competition.
0:10:58 > 0:11:02Let's meet the best of the best in our first group battle.
0:11:04 > 0:11:05ROBOTIC VOICE: From Derby...
0:11:11 > 0:11:14So I like to think I'm one of the best drivers in the competition.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19I think that's been proven over the last couple of years.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21No-one seems to be able to outdrive the machine.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Carbide... So, we've learnt a few tricks from them.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33We've got a different type of scoop as well,
0:11:33 > 0:11:35which will deflect their spinner.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38I think we may have a good chance of actually beating them.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41ROBOTIC VOICE: From Hemel Hempstead...
0:11:47 > 0:11:49For me, to keep coming back to do Robot Wars,
0:11:49 > 0:11:51it's actually built into me now.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55It's something we've been doing so long,
0:11:55 > 0:11:58it actually would feel wrong not to be doing it.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05ROBOTIC VOICE: From Crewkerne...
0:12:11 > 0:12:14Yeah, I think we're pretty much as surprised as anyone
0:12:14 > 0:12:15to see Nuts this far.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22As a flail spinner, we have the advantage of a lot of reach,
0:12:22 > 0:12:25we've got about a metre of flail each side,
0:12:25 > 0:12:28so it can reach into places where people don't normally armour.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30It's not the hardest-hitting robot,
0:12:30 > 0:12:32but it'll hit places where people aren't expecting.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39We kind of see it that if someone uses entanglement
0:12:39 > 0:12:43against us and it doesn't work, then they'll be punished accordingly.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Nuts 2 and Behemoth have reason for revenge.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Carbide, the reigning champions,
0:12:52 > 0:12:55- have smashed them both up before. - ROBOTIC VOICE: Roboteers, standby.
0:12:55 > 0:12:59Will they team up against Carbide? Carbide the favourites, certainly.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01CHEERING
0:13:01 > 0:13:06ROBOTIC VOICE: Three, two, one, activate.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Carbide, bottom of your picture, coming on.
0:13:08 > 0:13:09Behemoth, to the right-hand side,
0:13:09 > 0:13:12comes in with a little nudge on the reigning champions.
0:13:12 > 0:13:13Nuts 2, whirling up to speed.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15The other two machines need to stop Nuts 2 getting up to speed
0:13:15 > 0:13:19or stay out of trouble from that huge weaponry -
0:13:19 > 0:13:22when they spin, they spin to win.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25There at the controls of Behemoth, Ant, awesome driving.
0:13:25 > 0:13:26Ooh! That's one of the Nuts 2
0:13:26 > 0:13:28little minibots out there.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- ALARM BLARES - And they pushed the pit,
0:13:30 > 0:13:31and down go Behemoth!
0:13:31 > 0:13:33- Ah!- Oh!- What happened there?
0:13:33 > 0:13:36The little one pushed the pit.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38Aw, dang it!
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Utter confusion in the Behemoth team.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44Oh, and, well, that's gone. I think that was Carbide's chain...
0:13:46 > 0:13:51..which drives the weaponry... in that last attack by Nuts 2.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56The weapon's not working, the big bar spinner,
0:13:56 > 0:14:00which means all they've got now left is...push-ability, the big shove,
0:14:00 > 0:14:03and an occasional mistake by Nuts 2 - and they had one there -
0:14:03 > 0:14:08but they've got nothing really now to use against Nuts 2,
0:14:08 > 0:14:10apart from the ability to push.
0:14:10 > 0:14:13And Nuts 2, as you can see, a very, very difficult machine
0:14:13 > 0:14:15to get close to, to push.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19You get close to Nuts 2 and you're going to be destroyed.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21- And Carbide... - ALARM BLARES
0:14:21 > 0:14:23- ROBOTIC VOICE: Rogue House Robot. - ..is releasing the dial,
0:14:23 > 0:14:27is releasing the rogue house robot... Sir Killalot comes out now.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29What can Carbide do then?
0:14:29 > 0:14:33Dodging flame pits and spikes and floor flippers and wedges.
0:14:33 > 0:14:34They can't really fight each other.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37Carbide's reign of terror could be coming to an end
0:14:37 > 0:14:39- as we go to Fog Of War... - ALARM BLARES
0:14:39 > 0:14:42- ..which really doesn't help things at all, ladies and gentlemen. - ROBOTIC VOICE: Fog Of War.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44There's a little wedge again,
0:14:44 > 0:14:47trying to pin Carbide to the spot by wedging it,
0:14:47 > 0:14:51so Carbide can't get any traction... And Nuts 2 think they've won it.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Is that it?
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Sam and Dave look resigned. They're immobilised, I think.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59The judges are ready to count them down and out.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Move then, just do something.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03Carbide has one wheel spinning, but not the other.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05- They need to move. - Five, four, three, two...
0:15:05 > 0:15:07They're being counted down. Oh, goodness me!
0:15:07 > 0:15:09How did they survive that?!
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Just one second - he got away!
0:15:11 > 0:15:13They were nearly counted out.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16A little nudge from the wedge helps, but Nuts 2 on top.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Carbide need a miracle.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Yeah, basically, it's a tiny robot is beating Carbide.
0:15:21 > 0:15:26Oh, the ignominy. The champions being chased around by a tiny,
0:15:26 > 0:15:28teeny, touchy little thing.
0:15:28 > 0:15:33There's Nuts 2 with the big, big flail.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36No chain for Carbide.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38He looks perplexed.
0:15:38 > 0:15:43He now has to fight a very tactical battle, but Nuts 2...
0:15:43 > 0:15:46so, so obstinate.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Go on, go on. Pin him. Pin him in.
0:15:48 > 0:15:54Nuts 2 are pirouetting. That's for show, showboating, but why not?
0:15:54 > 0:15:55Because ultimately,
0:15:55 > 0:15:58and I think this terrific battle will go the distance.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Tyre's looking a bit knackered.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04Nuts 2 have done enough and I think Sam and Dave know it.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06What an upset this is.
0:16:06 > 0:16:07I have never seen Carbide
0:16:07 > 0:16:10- in this particular predicament... - KLAXON BLARES
0:16:10 > 0:16:11ROBOTIC VOICE: Cease.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13..as we go to cease.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15- Well done, guys.- Well done. - Cheers.- Well done, guys.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17What a performance by Nuts.
0:16:19 > 0:16:23Well, Behemoth with the aluminium scoop bucket designed to take hits
0:16:23 > 0:16:28and did from Carbide, but they got themselves parked on the pits
0:16:28 > 0:16:33as the little wedge robot sent the pit down and Behemoth with it.
0:16:34 > 0:16:40But Carbide rendered impotent when the chain came off.
0:16:41 > 0:16:46And Nuts 2, so often a joke character in Robot Wars,
0:16:46 > 0:16:48now to be taken seriously.
0:16:48 > 0:16:49Carbide killers.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Aw, I mean, who would have thought
0:16:57 > 0:17:01that this innocent, bug-eyed little fella would do so much damage?
0:17:01 > 0:17:04- I know, pesky little thing there, uh?- Pesky little thing.- Yeah!
0:17:04 > 0:17:06I was doing a swing round and all of a sudden
0:17:06 > 0:17:08heard a noise and it just disappeared.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10OK, well, listen, good luck in the Robot Redemption.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13- Thank you. - Please make some noise for Behemoth.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15CHEERING
0:17:17 > 0:17:21- So that's the big story, the weapon stopped.- Yeah.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23And why...? Was it...? Was it a clash with Behemoth
0:17:23 > 0:17:25or did you get a knock on the entanglement here?
0:17:25 > 0:17:27No, one of their flails span round and hit us right on the chain,
0:17:27 > 0:17:29on the front of the weapon, and took it out.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32I've never seen Carbide in as much difficulty
0:17:32 > 0:17:34in this kind of situation.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37But the fight went on. To be honest, I don't think I should be interviewing you, I should be
0:17:37 > 0:17:40interviewing whoever drove the tiny robot, the tiny baby robot.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Yeah, that was Alex. Alex did an amazing job.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45So, after the adjudicators have looked back over the fight
0:17:45 > 0:17:47and have gone through their various different criteria,
0:17:47 > 0:17:49the winner, unanimously,
0:17:49 > 0:17:51is Nuts.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54- Nuts have won the battle.- What?! - CHEERING
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Nuts has beaten Carbide.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59- Nuts is through to the semifinal of the grand final.- Oh, my...
0:17:59 > 0:18:02- How...?!- Well done, mate. - You've won, you've won. That is...
0:18:02 > 0:18:05My commiserations, you will fight another day, we know that,
0:18:05 > 0:18:07but congratulations!
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- If you want a hug, you can hug. - Oh, go for it, go for it. Oh!
0:18:09 > 0:18:11It's very, very good. Well done, Nuts.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15There's a feeling of shock as two of the favourites to win,
0:18:15 > 0:18:18not just the fight, but the title, find themselves having to
0:18:18 > 0:18:22battle again just to stay in the competition.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31I think Carbide thought that Nuts and Behemoth
0:18:31 > 0:18:35would be a pretty easy ride, an old machine and the joke robot.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39They are rattled.
0:18:46 > 0:18:50Yeah, not as confident as we usually see Carbide.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52It's definitely got to them.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03They did really well, decisive win there. Well-Well... Well driven.
0:19:07 > 0:19:08What's that?
0:19:14 > 0:19:15They did well, to be fair to them.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18Those little mini bots are pretty annoying.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20But there's not a lot you can do about them.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25The robot disappeared into a hole.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30But that's the way it goes, unfortunately.
0:19:31 > 0:19:37But it's all smiles for Nuts 2, as they're through to the semifinals.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42After that huge upset, it's time for our second group battle.
0:19:44 > 0:19:45ROBOTIC VOICE: From London...
0:19:50 > 0:19:53Rapid really is just silly.
0:19:53 > 0:19:57I mean, if you were going to dial everything up and make it,
0:19:57 > 0:19:58that's...that's what Rapid is.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06I tell you why we painted it gold, as a big middle finger.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08HE LAUGHS
0:20:08 > 0:20:11If we're going to be the money boys, we may as well be gold.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21To be in the final of Robot Wars is just a fantastic feeling.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23When you know that you're playing with some of the best
0:20:23 > 0:20:26and you get to give it your best shot against the best,
0:20:26 > 0:20:28you just can't ask for more, it's fantastic.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30ROBOTIC VOICE: From Madeley...
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Magnetar is the highest kinetic energy drum spinner
0:20:39 > 0:20:41in Robot Wars and we're going to send the competition flying.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53The only thing that could stop Magnetar is itself.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59CHEERING
0:21:02 > 0:21:04The one thing I've always known my whole life -
0:21:04 > 0:21:07I was like three years old, I was like, "I want to do that.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09"I want to be on that show and I want to win Robot Wars".
0:21:11 > 0:21:12ROBOTIC VOICE: From Cheshire...
0:21:17 > 0:21:22I see it more as me versus somebody else rather than robot versus robot.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27And it's a really complicated issue and it gets really serious.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31People do not get how seriously people take this show.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43Make no mistake, this is a really serious competition
0:21:43 > 0:21:44and everyone's here to win.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48CHEERING
0:21:48 > 0:21:52Out they come. Eruption, who came through that 10 Robot Rumble
0:21:52 > 0:21:55so brilliantly, so superbly controlled.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Ellis Ware at the controls of Magnetar.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00- Good luck, guys.- Yeah, you too.
0:22:01 > 0:22:07ROBOTIC VOICE: Three, two, one, activate.
0:22:07 > 0:22:11Here's Rapid, trying to get in on Eruption there.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Oh, Michael's hanging back again.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16- Rapid coming in. - MECHANICAL WHIRRING
0:22:16 > 0:22:19Ooh, what's that I hear? It's the drum of Magnetar!
0:22:19 > 0:22:23- Whirring up to speed...- Oh! - ..and a big hit on Rapid,
0:22:23 > 0:22:26and that was a mighty hit.
0:22:26 > 0:22:27WATCHING AUDIENCE: Oh!
0:22:27 > 0:22:29HE LAUGHS MANICALLY
0:22:29 > 0:22:30Elastic's gone.
0:22:30 > 0:22:35Big slam...on Rapid.
0:22:35 > 0:22:36Rapid the favourites here.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41And now they're in trouble from the house robot too.
0:22:43 > 0:22:44This is a tense one.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48Magnetar trying to get in underneath the flipper of Eruption.
0:22:49 > 0:22:53Magnetar suddenly emerging as the dark horses here,
0:22:53 > 0:22:55as Rapid overturned again.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58- Will they run out of power? - MECHANICAL HUMMING
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Magnetar, listen to the death hum.
0:23:01 > 0:23:02That's it, we're out.
0:23:03 > 0:23:08The drum, whirring up to speed. Rapid looks a little bit ponderous.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11- How did you do that?!- Go, go, go! HE LAUGHS
0:23:12 > 0:23:14They're OK now, they're dodging away from...
0:23:14 > 0:23:17It's all about Magnetar taking on Eruption.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21Eruption has the power, of course, in that situation to flip
0:23:21 > 0:23:26and Magnetar drove in a little bit naively on Eruption and got flipped.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28- ALARM BLARES - We have the dial.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30- ROBOTIC VOICE: Rogue House Robot. - Dead Metal is the rogue robot
0:23:30 > 0:23:32coming out onto Eruption...
0:23:35 > 0:23:39..and trying to slice and dice.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42We have all three robots still in the fray.
0:23:42 > 0:23:48Big flip for Rapid once again, can they continue to self-right?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50MANIC LAUGHTER
0:23:50 > 0:23:52- That's the end of that... - That's the end of him.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Oh, Rapid's gone!
0:23:54 > 0:23:56Rapid can't even self-right, can he now?
0:23:56 > 0:24:00Rapid, favourites for this battle, are out! They cannot self-right.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02They're immobilised.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06And we have Magnetar against Eruption,
0:24:06 > 0:24:11the two proteges have beaten the master.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13How about that?
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Eruption, don't forget, has its mighty flipping power.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20In the last series, Michael flipped four of his five opponents
0:24:20 > 0:24:21out of the arena.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25But it's Magnetar doing the chasing and the pushing
0:24:25 > 0:24:29into the CPZ of Dead Metal.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Eruption, getting in underneath Magnetar.
0:24:31 > 0:24:35- ALARM BLARES - Magnetar pushes the tyre.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39We have the pit going down. We need to be wary of that.
0:24:39 > 0:24:43Now... Oh! Eruption almost onto the fly tail of Matilda
0:24:43 > 0:24:46and that would have been disastrous for them!
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- Oh, what's happened here to Ellis? - No.
0:24:49 > 0:24:51Matilda has caused the damage.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53Self-right is dead.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57- He's hobbling out into a victory. He has, he's won it!- Nice!
0:24:57 > 0:25:01Eruption have won this on the back of the 10 Robot Rumble,
0:25:01 > 0:25:04that is staggering!
0:25:04 > 0:25:06- That is incredible. - KLAXON BLARES
0:25:06 > 0:25:08- ROBOTIC VOICE: Cease. - Durability, creativity.
0:25:08 > 0:25:12- Hard luck, guys. - Great control. What a performance.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- Unlucky, that was a good fight though.- Yeah, it was a good fight...
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- Caused a lot of damage though.- Yeah.
0:25:16 > 0:25:20It was the big early hit from Magnetar that put pay to Rapid.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24They got the drum up to full speed, look at the impact there.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27But they knew exactly what they had to do, Eruption.
0:25:27 > 0:25:33Eruption got a big flip in there and there's a massive hit from Matilda.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36And that's what immobilised Magnetar.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39Self-righter, gone. Eruption, winners.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44The four losers from the group stages now battle it out
0:25:44 > 0:25:46in the Robot Redemption.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49It's a must-win fight as the losers will be going home.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50But there's salvation
0:25:50 > 0:25:51for the winners
0:25:51 > 0:25:52as they go through
0:25:52 > 0:25:54to the semifinal.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Our first Robot Redemption battle
0:25:56 > 0:25:59is between Behemoth and Magnetar.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01- You're fighting Behemoth? - Yeah. Yeah.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04- Behemoth's been around a while. - Since I was two.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Really?! You're only two years older than the robot you're fighting?
0:26:07 > 0:26:10When they built the first version of Behemoth, yeah.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- OK, cool, good luck. - Yeah, thank you.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Behemoth, to me, is very important.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19I mean, it has literally been around almost half my life.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22I've grown up with it now and it's sort of, like, in me.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24OK, it might look like it's the same robot,
0:26:24 > 0:26:27but, yeah, we are evolving it every single time.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29And you might see this or you might not,
0:26:29 > 0:26:31it depends on how closely you look at the robot.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39The truth is, as with all of the flipper versus kind of vertical spinner fights,
0:26:39 > 0:26:41is that it's a game of who gets underneath.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45So, if I'm running well and the drum's spinning good and the self-righter's working,
0:26:45 > 0:26:47there's not an awful lot they can do to me to hurt me, um...
0:26:47 > 0:26:49It's going to be a matter of that first hit.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52BANG!
0:26:55 > 0:26:58We have the oldest-serving robot in the competition
0:26:58 > 0:27:00and Behemoth is going to teach you a lesson.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02CHEERING
0:27:06 > 0:27:10ROBOTIC VOICE: Three, two, one, activate.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Great run in this competition from Behemoth,
0:27:12 > 0:27:14moving in from the left-hand side.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16They can use that scoop bucket, you know,
0:27:16 > 0:27:20to get Magnetar close to the arena side wall and flip it out.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Magnetar self-righting.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25You need to go low to get in a blow, according to Ellis,
0:27:25 > 0:27:28and that's what he did, and Behemoth here in trouble.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29Self-right, self-right, self-right.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31And, of course, every time they self-right,
0:27:31 > 0:27:34they use all-powerful fuel.
0:27:34 > 0:27:39And Magnetar, again, trying to drive in underneath the scoop,
0:27:39 > 0:27:41the intention there to detail
0:27:41 > 0:27:43and concentration on the face of Ellis Ware.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45But this is where Behemoth can be powerful.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Behemoth on the drive... Ooh, they just overextended themselves
0:27:48 > 0:27:50and Magnetar can come in underneath.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53And Magnetar has Behemoth pinned against the arena side wall.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55- Sorry, I can't watch it. - MECHANICAL WHIRRING
0:27:55 > 0:27:59Listen to the whir of the drum. Again, it's Magnet...
0:27:59 > 0:28:04Oh, it's a death wail and Behemoth is in peril, but it rolls away,
0:28:04 > 0:28:06tries to get the scoop in underneath.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09Magnetar holds its ground. Great battle again.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11I've got radio issues, I think. Something weird.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Yeah, I've lost... I've got no radio signal.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Does the Magnetar drum work? I think the Magnetar weapon's gone.
0:28:18 > 0:28:23The Magnetar weapon has gone and Behemoth now can sense that...
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Look, almost like a smile of satisfaction
0:28:25 > 0:28:27on the face of Ant Pritchard.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29They're stuffed, I think.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31But I think they might be in trouble, Behemoth,
0:28:31 > 0:28:34that maybe the drive on one section has gone.
0:28:34 > 0:28:35Well, Behemoth are stuck in gear.
0:28:35 > 0:28:39Behemoth still moving, but they'll only be moving slowly
0:28:39 > 0:28:42because I think the six-wheel drive, change of a drive system,
0:28:42 > 0:28:46has been damaged in some way.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48Magnetar here could go on and win this,
0:28:48 > 0:28:50as long as they stay out of trouble.
0:28:50 > 0:28:52- Can you try the drum again?- I have.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55Ellis Ware, as long as he doesn't get flipped,
0:28:55 > 0:28:57could go on and win this.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59If you can get him over...
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Behemoth know they're in trouble. Oh, no, they've come so far.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04- Oh! Look at that! They've flipped Magnetar!- No!
0:29:04 > 0:29:07They did get the flip in, I can see no way back here for Magnetar.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09Is he stuck?
0:29:09 > 0:29:12They've waited so long for this moment, Behemoth.
0:29:12 > 0:29:14So many years of trouble and strife
0:29:14 > 0:29:18and now, what a moment of joy for them.
0:29:18 > 0:29:19Poor old Magnetar,
0:29:19 > 0:29:21- I thought they had it won. - KLAXON BLARES
0:29:21 > 0:29:23- ROBOTIC VOICE: Cease. - So close.- What do I know?
0:29:23 > 0:29:24Ellis, you nearly had us.
0:29:24 > 0:29:28They've waited so long for this, the Behemoth team, so very, very long.
0:29:28 > 0:29:30They will cherish this moment.
0:29:30 > 0:29:31But, Magnetar,
0:29:31 > 0:29:36the moment comes where one is dropped into one's pit. Bye-bye.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42Once Behemoth realised they could get the scoop to work
0:29:42 > 0:29:45and flip Magnetar over, this was only going to end one way.
0:29:46 > 0:29:50Magnetar needed the power of its drum spinner, causing
0:29:50 > 0:29:54damage like that, but they needed to sustain it throughout the battle.
0:29:54 > 0:29:56But the key came when the spinner stopped.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00And Behemoth could get on the attack and flip Magnetar.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03No spinner, no streamer, Behemoth winner.
0:30:04 > 0:30:06You had all your bad luck, I think,
0:30:06 > 0:30:08in the previous round, where you end up in the pit.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11- Yes, disappeared in the pit. - Yes! And then you got it back
0:30:11 > 0:30:13because once he'd been flipped onto his side...
0:30:13 > 0:30:15- Yeah, I flipped him once and he self-righted...- Yeah.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18..but then his self-right stayed open, so I knew all I had to do
0:30:18 > 0:30:20was get him one more time, and that's why I just kept moving.
0:30:20 > 0:30:23- Right.- And then his disc stopped. - His disc stopped? Yeah. - I thought, "This is it,
0:30:23 > 0:30:25"I just need to try and get it into position."
0:30:25 > 0:30:28As soon as I saw him kink, just up on the edge of the bucket,
0:30:28 > 0:30:30- I fired, and over it went. - Very, very good.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32- Listen, good luck, lads. - Thank you very much.
0:30:32 > 0:30:33- Go do your repairs. - Cheers, thank you.
0:30:35 > 0:30:38Well, you had one self-right, didn't you?
0:30:38 > 0:30:41- If you'd had one more...- Yeah. - ..you'd have won.
0:30:42 > 0:30:46Battle-hardened Behemoth go through, while young whizz kid, Ellis,
0:30:46 > 0:30:50must return to the pits to reflect on what could have been.
0:30:52 > 0:30:55Ellis... What happened?
0:30:55 > 0:30:56I don't really know.
0:30:56 > 0:30:59You were on a lucky streak! It was...
0:30:59 > 0:31:01- It was, it was going well at first, wasn't it?- It was.
0:31:01 > 0:31:03It was, yeah, and then, uh...
0:31:03 > 0:31:07- Oh, lost a screw, sorry, there you go.- Oh, no! Salt in the wound.
0:31:07 > 0:31:10Behemoth had been immobilised, it was running on one wheel,
0:31:10 > 0:31:12so if you had stayed away you would have had it.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15Well, I did for a long time and I saw they weren't being counted out,
0:31:15 > 0:31:18so I started to approach them again and, obviously, that bit me.
0:31:18 > 0:31:21Well, we're sad to see you go, but best of luck.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23- We'll see you next time.- Cheers.
0:31:25 > 0:31:28We're semifinalists and to be one fight away,
0:31:28 > 0:31:31it makes it even more so that we really need...
0:31:31 > 0:31:34We really need to get this win to get into that final.
0:31:37 > 0:31:38Time for our last
0:31:38 > 0:31:40Robot Redemption battle.
0:31:40 > 0:31:42Who'd have thought we'd see
0:31:42 > 0:31:43reigning champion Carbide
0:31:43 > 0:31:44fighting for survival?
0:31:46 > 0:31:50They'll need to defeat Josh's super high-powered Rapid
0:31:50 > 0:31:52to avoid the biggest shock of the competition.
0:31:54 > 0:31:55The biggest problem is the elastic went,
0:31:55 > 0:31:57so we've found a new way to do the elastic.
0:31:57 > 0:31:59I don't know if it's going to work, but there's no way
0:31:59 > 0:32:01to contain the amount of power that's in it.
0:32:01 > 0:32:02We wanted to build something stupid,
0:32:02 > 0:32:04uh, double backflips seemed to prove that.
0:32:06 > 0:32:12Rapid really is quite silly, I mean, we've made the weapon ridiculously
0:32:12 > 0:32:16powerful, the armour's pretty strong as well and the drive is
0:32:16 > 0:32:1920 horsepower, it's about as strong as any other drive in the pits.
0:32:23 > 0:32:25Can you get me another disc, Andy?
0:32:25 > 0:32:29This is the elastic that retracts the flipper on.
0:32:31 > 0:32:36There are no equations for controlling a pneumatic...
0:32:36 > 0:32:40cylinder retracts in that kind of environment.
0:32:40 > 0:32:41You just have to try things.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45The hardest thing about designing something like Rapid is
0:32:45 > 0:32:48actually protecting it from itself and not other people.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55I think we're going to try and drive an attack on the left-hand side
0:32:55 > 0:32:57because we kind of spin clockwise, so it'll hit them right
0:32:57 > 0:32:59on their front corner.
0:32:59 > 0:33:01So if we can rip that off...
0:33:01 > 0:33:03Yeah, try to get the upper hand, get the first chunk out, then,
0:33:03 > 0:33:05we'll be in a good place.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10There was a lot of machines this year that are, on paper,
0:33:10 > 0:33:13bigger and badder than Carbide, but when it actually comes down to it,
0:33:13 > 0:33:15we'll see how that works out for them.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19Rapid have stuck some bits and bobs on the side there
0:33:19 > 0:33:21to try and entangle us...
0:33:23 > 0:33:26- Good luck for them, with that. - HE LAUGHS
0:33:26 > 0:33:29If we keep spinning, I don't think they'll be too much of an issue.
0:33:30 > 0:33:32CHEERING
0:33:32 > 0:33:35Have Carbide fully repaired the bar spinner? That's the big question,
0:33:35 > 0:33:42against Rapid, the dark destroyer of Robot Wars.
0:33:43 > 0:33:44Well, in their dreams, anyway.
0:33:44 > 0:33:49ROBOTIC VOICE: Three, two, one, activate.
0:33:49 > 0:33:53And out comes Carbide, Rapid getting in underneath Carbide
0:33:53 > 0:33:55and lifting it into the...
0:33:55 > 0:33:56That's 110 kilos of robot, by the way,
0:33:56 > 0:33:59they just lifted into the air there, and got in underneath.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01Our Shunt in the CPZ.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03Rapid trying to line up an attack.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06We know Carbide are specifically targeting one area of Rapid!
0:34:06 > 0:34:09But Carbide fighting for their lives now!
0:34:09 > 0:34:14The reigning champions are really in trouble.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16Oh, and Carbide comes in with a mighty slam
0:34:16 > 0:34:19and that's ripped a side, one of the side panels of Rapid!
0:34:19 > 0:34:21Rapid gets a flip.
0:34:21 > 0:34:23Oh, but look at this! That's CO...
0:34:23 > 0:34:27No, it's not CO2, they're on fire, I think! They're on fire!
0:34:27 > 0:34:30- Smokescreen... Haven't seen that weapon before.- No.
0:34:30 > 0:34:34They are absolutely on fire!
0:34:34 > 0:34:39There is a big Robot Wars technical term for this - Rapid is bust!
0:34:39 > 0:34:42- That's electrical smoke.- Is it? - Yeah.
0:34:42 > 0:34:45Oh! Come on, baby, light my fire.
0:34:45 > 0:34:48Rapid didn't want to hear that, not at this stage.
0:34:48 > 0:34:49Smoke is pouring out.
0:34:49 > 0:34:56One puff, two puff smoke signals, which mean, "We're out!"
0:34:56 > 0:34:59- Oh, no, we're out. - That's the end of that.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02It's the old Carbide back with us though.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05Mean and merciless, they love their weaponry.
0:35:05 > 0:35:07Again... Oh, please, stop, and he's had enough.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10- Our message to you, Rapid... - KLAXON BLARES
0:35:10 > 0:35:12- You're fired! - ROBOTIC VOICE: Cease.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14CHEERING
0:35:14 > 0:35:16- Well done. - Sorry about the cloud of smoke!
0:35:16 > 0:35:18- Well done.- Went through the bulkhead, I think.
0:35:18 > 0:35:19- Well done, that was good.- Well done.
0:35:19 > 0:35:22- That's going to smell bad in there. - You've done your own Fog Of War now.
0:35:22 > 0:35:24Well, they'll want to go back in and have a look at Rapid
0:35:24 > 0:35:26and see exactly what went... Oh, they won't now!
0:35:26 > 0:35:28Wow! Rapid's on fire!
0:35:28 > 0:35:32- Oh! Rapid's going on fire! - Hello! That is a big fire.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35The most expensive robot in Robot Wars history is worth...
0:35:35 > 0:35:37buttons and beans now!
0:35:40 > 0:35:43- LAUGHTER - Aw, it's really burning!
0:35:43 > 0:35:46- What's happening?!- Aw, it's burning!
0:35:46 > 0:35:51It's burning! Somebody get in there! Carbide, what are you doing?!
0:35:51 > 0:35:53- Got any marshmallows?- Oh, no!
0:35:53 > 0:35:56That's the way to go out. That's fantastic!
0:35:56 > 0:36:00It did look like Rapid almost got rid of you over the...
0:36:00 > 0:36:02- Almost, almost. So close.- Yeah.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04- That's the closest a flipper's ever got to...- Yeah.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06Didn't quite get to the edge, did we?
0:36:06 > 0:36:07We were just a bit too far away, but...
0:36:07 > 0:36:09Well, Rapid, that's you out of the competition.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12You've been absolutely fantastic. Thanks for coming.
0:36:12 > 0:36:16- Carbide, through to the semifinals. - Thank you, guys.- Well done again.
0:36:18 > 0:36:21Carbide did so well, because make no mistake, the champions
0:36:21 > 0:36:25were on the edge of oblivion here, they nearly went out of the arena.
0:36:25 > 0:36:29But there came the big slam on Rapid,
0:36:29 > 0:36:32that's what caused the problem, off came the side panel.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35Carbide could sense they were on top.
0:36:37 > 0:36:41Rapid were in trouble and that's when we saw the smoke.
0:36:41 > 0:36:46And that's where we saw Rapid coming to a grizzly end
0:36:46 > 0:36:51and Carbide turned this battle on its head.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54That's the very stuff of champions, Carbide.
0:36:56 > 0:36:59Once the safety teams have made the fire safe,
0:36:59 > 0:37:01Rapid's escorted from the building
0:37:01 > 0:37:05and Josh can reflect on the robot dreams that just went up in flames.
0:37:07 > 0:37:08..I could have done that.
0:37:08 > 0:37:12That was the best way you could ever leave this competition.
0:37:12 > 0:37:13I'm happy.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19So, a decisive victory for champions Carbide
0:37:19 > 0:37:22and we now have our semifinalists -
0:37:22 > 0:37:26Nuts 2, Eruption, Behemoth and Carbide.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31It's Eruption against Behemoth
0:37:31 > 0:37:33in our first battle.
0:37:39 > 0:37:41We're just going to do what we always do.
0:37:41 > 0:37:42We're going to go into that arena...
0:37:42 > 0:37:45Yes, I'm going to think about it, I'm going to have all my tactics,
0:37:45 > 0:37:47I'm going to take it really seriously.
0:37:47 > 0:37:48I'm going to try and win,
0:37:48 > 0:37:51and when they call activate we're going to absolutely go for it.
0:37:53 > 0:37:54Eruption.
0:37:54 > 0:37:56- Yes.- How are you feeling about that?
0:37:56 > 0:37:58They were very happy to have been put forward against you.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00I imagine Michael is, yeah. He's, uh...
0:38:00 > 0:38:02He's had us out of the arena more than once.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05- Yes or no - can you do it? - Yes. Yes, we can do it.
0:38:05 > 0:38:06- That'll do. Good luck.- Thank you.
0:38:15 > 0:38:17CHEERING
0:38:17 > 0:38:22ROBOTIC VOICE: Three, two, one, activate.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25Eruption, singularly one of the most impressive robots
0:38:25 > 0:38:27throughout this series.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29Oh, wow.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31Behemoth are straight in!
0:38:31 > 0:38:34A little panicky, but Eruption has the big self-righting mechanism.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36Behemoth comes in for another scramble!
0:38:36 > 0:38:37Nearly got caught by Dead Metal.
0:38:37 > 0:38:38Get out of there, Behemoth,
0:38:38 > 0:38:42otherwise you will be pinched and sawn to bits, Behemoth.
0:38:42 > 0:38:45But it's pretty impressive stuff at the moment by the Behemoth team.
0:38:45 > 0:38:47Eruption gathering its senses.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50Keep it gentle, keep it gentle.
0:38:51 > 0:38:55Eruption... When you think it took a judge's decision in their heat
0:38:55 > 0:38:58to get beyond Big Nipper in the heat semifinal.
0:38:58 > 0:39:00It is very aggressive.
0:39:02 > 0:39:07What a hit there on Behemoth. Behemoth is in trouble.
0:39:07 > 0:39:10Behemoth is flipped into the air, huge power on that lift...
0:39:10 > 0:39:15Oh, goodness, that's electrifying! Behemoth in real trouble now.
0:39:17 > 0:39:18Can they self-right?
0:39:18 > 0:39:20- They fall against the tyre. - ALARM BLARES
0:39:20 > 0:39:23- Forward, forward, forward. - Left, left! Come on, come on!
0:39:23 > 0:39:27Which means the dial goes to release a house rogue robot,
0:39:27 > 0:39:30it is Dead Metal and good driving as well.
0:39:30 > 0:39:32Keep... Mark it down until you're sure.
0:39:33 > 0:39:37Away from Michael Oates in the controls of Eruption.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41Oh, Jesus, this is a good fight.
0:39:41 > 0:39:43This is a really good fight again.
0:39:43 > 0:39:48We are seeing one of the best episodes ever of Robot Wars, for me.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50Eruption, getting in underneath Behemoth.
0:39:50 > 0:39:53Oh, he's just letting him use up the gas.
0:39:53 > 0:39:55Is there any more life in Behemoth?
0:39:57 > 0:39:59Behemoth twisting and turning in the air,
0:39:59 > 0:40:01like a pirouetting ballet dancer.
0:40:01 > 0:40:06- MAN SHOUTS: You can do it, Eruption! - In underneath goes Eruption again.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09Behemoth backs away, tries to get some room to manoeuvre
0:40:09 > 0:40:10- and drive in on the scoop. - KLAXON BLARES
0:40:10 > 0:40:14- We have Fog Of War. - ROBOTIC VOICE: The Fog Of War.
0:40:14 > 0:40:17- They're trying to get some sort of vantage point.- Where am I?
0:40:17 > 0:40:21- Back. Forward, forward, forward. - Right. Forward, forward, forward.
0:40:21 > 0:40:23Behemoth, when it gets up to speed,
0:40:23 > 0:40:25can use that bucket scoop to its full potential.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28But Eruption's dodged away from it again.
0:40:28 > 0:40:29The scoop is not low enough, it feels like.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31I know. I know, they can't get underneath it.
0:40:31 > 0:40:34What a good driver, Michael Oates.
0:40:34 > 0:40:37What a brilliant young roboteer he is.
0:40:37 > 0:40:40No wonder he put off his studies at Durham University
0:40:40 > 0:40:42to finish his Robot Wars dream.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44Save the flipper.
0:40:44 > 0:40:49Behemoth backing away and still in there, fighting so very, very hard.
0:40:49 > 0:40:55It rolls, it hits the tyre. Eruption senses they're on top now.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57And Behemoth is in trouble.
0:40:57 > 0:41:01Oh, rolls across the arena floor... And into Matilda territory!
0:41:01 > 0:41:04Oh-ho! That was amazing.
0:41:05 > 0:41:12Roly-poly Behemoth and Eruption! Mean and merciless Michael Oates!
0:41:13 > 0:41:16Up into the air, can he get them out of the arena?
0:41:16 > 0:41:17Can he get them out?
0:41:19 > 0:41:22- No! No!- He's got it the next, third time lucky...
0:41:22 > 0:41:24No, he's on the wrong angle.
0:41:24 > 0:41:26It would be the coup de grace.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29It'll be horrible for Behemoth. Stay in there, Behemoth, go on!
0:41:29 > 0:41:33Back, centre of the arena, Ant, go to the centre of the arena.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35Is there any mobility left in Behemoth?
0:41:35 > 0:41:37Yes, there is, sir, still in there fighting,
0:41:37 > 0:41:41but Eruption here, really on top now.
0:41:41 > 0:41:45- Oh!- So determined to get him out. - Desperate to get him out!
0:41:45 > 0:41:46Come on!
0:41:46 > 0:41:48Look at the battles they've come through
0:41:48 > 0:41:49and surely they'll get it out?!
0:41:49 > 0:41:51Oh, no!
0:41:51 > 0:41:52They can't lift it out.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55It's a huge, great thing, Behemoth. They're going to have another go!
0:41:55 > 0:41:57KLAXON BLARES Cease.
0:41:57 > 0:41:58Cease is called.
0:41:58 > 0:42:01What a sensational bout again.
0:42:01 > 0:42:05They square up, they face each other, what a battle that was.
0:42:05 > 0:42:06Judges will decide.
0:42:06 > 0:42:08Shaking, man! Oh, God.
0:42:08 > 0:42:10That was one of the best fights there's been.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12- A good fight, a really good fight, a good scrap.- Yeah.
0:42:12 > 0:42:14Great... Great driving.
0:42:14 > 0:42:18Well, they'll be marking on control, damage and aggression.
0:42:18 > 0:42:20Behemoth the aggressor early on.
0:42:20 > 0:42:25Eruption up against a machine that is as big as my beer belly.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28Eruption in trouble, but from this moment on...
0:42:28 > 0:42:31they got in underneath that big beer belly
0:42:31 > 0:42:35and they flipped it once and twice and thrice and so many times.
0:42:35 > 0:42:38Mighty flip into the clutches of Dead Metal.
0:42:38 > 0:42:41Think of the courage of the Behemoth team, think of the engineering that
0:42:41 > 0:42:44went in to produce a machine that can sustain this sort of damage.
0:42:44 > 0:42:48The best Behemoth we've ever seen. Took Eruption all the way.
0:42:48 > 0:42:52Crashing, bashing, smashing, but still fighting.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55- That was a great fight.- Yes.
0:42:55 > 0:42:57That was a fantastic, just stand up, slugging at each other,
0:42:57 > 0:42:59who could get underneath.
0:42:59 > 0:43:01- I thought it was going to be over in seconds, by the way.- Yeah.
0:43:01 > 0:43:04Yeah, you got straight in underneath there and just missed him.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06- You missed tipping him out a fair few times as well.- Yeah.
0:43:06 > 0:43:08It could have gone either way
0:43:08 > 0:43:13and the decision of the adjudicators was that the finalist will be...
0:43:15 > 0:43:17- ..Eruption. Eruption are the winners today.- Well done.
0:43:17 > 0:43:19- CHEERING - Well done. Well done, guys. - All the best.
0:43:22 > 0:43:25So, Michael's Eruption, who had the toughest journey to get here
0:43:25 > 0:43:27by winning the 10 Robot Rumble,
0:43:27 > 0:43:29has made it to become our first finalist.
0:43:31 > 0:43:32He'll meet the winner
0:43:32 > 0:43:33of our second semifinal
0:43:33 > 0:43:35between Dave and Sam's Carbide
0:43:35 > 0:43:37and Rory's Nuts 2.
0:43:41 > 0:43:44They might be out for blood because it's a, you know...
0:43:44 > 0:43:47It's probably not the best thing for their ego to be beaten by Nuts
0:43:47 > 0:43:50and they probably want to make a show of, um,
0:43:50 > 0:43:52putting us down, so to speak.
0:43:52 > 0:43:55After their early shock defeat at the hands of Rory,
0:43:55 > 0:43:59this is shaping up to be the grudge match of the series.
0:44:00 > 0:44:02I've noticed them making some modifications.
0:44:02 > 0:44:04Nuts-specific modifications?
0:44:04 > 0:44:08- Nuts-specific modifications. To keep their chain protected.- OK.- Um...
0:44:08 > 0:44:10But that must feel quite nice, having Carbide try
0:44:10 > 0:44:13and protect themselves against Nuts for a change.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15- It's little comfort... - No, but then, the downside is
0:44:15 > 0:44:17you're in a fight against Carbide.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19- Yeah, good point. - I don't like that attitude.
0:44:19 > 0:44:22Well, you know, it's Carbide and he knows what's coming this time.
0:44:22 > 0:44:25- It's Carbide who you've already beaten. - Well, that's because, you know...
0:44:25 > 0:44:27Can...? Can you have a word with this guy?
0:44:27 > 0:44:28- We have chatted.- OK.
0:44:28 > 0:44:31I think he's going to go after us strongly, we know that.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34Of course he is, but that's fine, you can go after him strongly.
0:44:34 > 0:44:38So the nut guards are basically just a device to stop the flails
0:44:38 > 0:44:40of Nuts actually getting to our chain, um,
0:44:40 > 0:44:43and it's made out of the front end of Rapid,
0:44:43 > 0:44:45which we just ripped off, so...
0:44:45 > 0:44:46that was good of 'em to give us this.
0:44:52 > 0:44:55I think he's a bit worried. Um...
0:44:55 > 0:44:59- I think I would be too. - HE LAUGHS
0:44:59 > 0:45:00WHISTLING AND APPLAUSE
0:45:00 > 0:45:06ROBOTIC VOICE: Three, two, one, activate.
0:45:06 > 0:45:07Carbide from the left.
0:45:07 > 0:45:10Nuts 2 and the little clusterbots on the right-hand side.
0:45:10 > 0:45:11Good attack by Carbide.
0:45:11 > 0:45:15They have the chain guard now to deflect the mighty flail of Nuts 2,
0:45:15 > 0:45:19the reigning champions, back in.
0:45:19 > 0:45:21- Oh!- Oh!- Uh-oh!
0:45:23 > 0:45:30Carbide came in with huge power and it's Nuts 2 sustaining damage!
0:45:30 > 0:45:33Oh, that's half our rig. Got one flail left.
0:45:33 > 0:45:36The full body flail spinner that is Nuts 2
0:45:36 > 0:45:38against the bar spinner that is Carbide.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42The little clusterbot again releases Fog Of War this time.
0:45:42 > 0:45:45ALARM BLARES The Fog Of War.
0:45:45 > 0:45:47They're using the clusterbots as we saw them do earlier on.
0:45:47 > 0:45:50Carbide looks a bit perplexed.
0:45:50 > 0:45:53Ooh, a bit wily, just staying out of trouble
0:45:53 > 0:45:54until the Fog Of War cleared.
0:45:54 > 0:45:56Having a look, having a check.
0:45:56 > 0:45:59Nuts 2 doing absolutely nothing in there!
0:46:00 > 0:46:01- Oh, what was that?- Oh!
0:46:01 > 0:46:04Nuts 2, I think, is now wild!
0:46:04 > 0:46:06Oh, that's... Oh, it's gone. Nuts is gone.
0:46:06 > 0:46:10I don't think they have any sort of control there, on Nuts 2.
0:46:10 > 0:46:12They can't get out of the CPZ.
0:46:12 > 0:46:14No, we're dead.
0:46:16 > 0:46:18No, it's still moving!
0:46:18 > 0:46:20They're still moving,
0:46:20 > 0:46:23so they're still active, they're not immobile YET.
0:46:24 > 0:46:28One side bar ripped clean off by Carbide.
0:46:28 > 0:46:31- Are you dead then, guys, or what? - Dead, yeah, we're dead.
0:46:31 > 0:46:32Cool.
0:46:32 > 0:46:36And the Carbide team, the clusterbots mean nothing now.
0:46:36 > 0:46:38Nuts 2 immobilised and out.
0:46:40 > 0:46:44- And Carbide can go in and destroy the little clusterbots.- Aw!
0:46:45 > 0:46:48KLAXON BLARES ROBOTIC VOICE: Cease.
0:46:48 > 0:46:50Carbide, through to the final!
0:46:50 > 0:46:53Reputation restored for the champions.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55Always out for enjoyment, Nuts 2,
0:46:55 > 0:46:59and they really perform well with the flail,
0:46:59 > 0:47:02but Carbide had made the changes, they knew they could withstand
0:47:02 > 0:47:04the flail with those changes
0:47:04 > 0:47:08and that was the moment that the Nuts 2 protective bar
0:47:08 > 0:47:10came hurtling across the arena.
0:47:10 > 0:47:12Nuts 2 gone really.
0:47:12 > 0:47:15Carbide, what a mean-looking machine again.
0:47:15 > 0:47:18They are back to their very best.
0:47:20 > 0:47:25- That's a bit of a slow, sad clap. Rory!- Oh, dear.
0:47:25 > 0:47:29- Come here! Aw, man! - That could've gone a bit better.
0:47:29 > 0:47:31- You were the joke robot coming into the competition.- Yeah.
0:47:31 > 0:47:34You beat the reigning champion once.
0:47:34 > 0:47:36I don't care - most people haven't managed to do it ever.
0:47:36 > 0:47:39- So, take heart and come back. - Yeah. Oh, we will.- Yeah?
0:47:39 > 0:47:42- We will!- Now less of a slow clap this time, please!
0:47:42 > 0:47:44- Make some noise for Nuts 2. - CHEERING
0:47:44 > 0:47:50- Goodbye! Thank you so much! - SQUEALS:- Heartbroken.
0:47:50 > 0:47:51Bye!
0:47:53 > 0:47:57Dave and Sam exact their revenge, with Carbide going through
0:47:57 > 0:48:00to defend their title in tonight's grand final.
0:48:02 > 0:48:08Carbide is, simply put, the most feared machine in the UK.
0:48:09 > 0:48:12It's proven itself now, people are scared of it.
0:48:14 > 0:48:17The lean, green, robot-smashing machine
0:48:17 > 0:48:19that dominated Robot Wars last series
0:48:19 > 0:48:22hasn't had the easiest of tournaments.
0:48:23 > 0:48:27Teams arrived fitted with Carbide-killing entanglement devices...
0:48:31 > 0:48:34..and proved that the champions were beatable.
0:48:34 > 0:48:36- We liked being untouchable, didn't we?- Yeah.
0:48:36 > 0:48:39So, we've had confidence knocked this year...
0:48:39 > 0:48:41- It's time to step up.- Yeah.
0:48:41 > 0:48:43But Dave and Sam rose to the challenge,
0:48:43 > 0:48:47ultimately despatching all those who dared to face them,
0:48:47 > 0:48:51to earn their rightful place to defend their title.
0:48:51 > 0:48:55Try and smash them on the left-hand side and damage the flipper arm.
0:48:55 > 0:48:58Going to try that again. Hopefully it will work once more.
0:49:02 > 0:49:06Their opponents Eruption have also taken a tough path.
0:49:09 > 0:49:12After controversially launching friends and one of the favourites
0:49:12 > 0:49:16for the title, Aftershock, out of the series...
0:49:16 > 0:49:17they lost their heat.
0:49:20 > 0:49:23Michael had to rely on his tactical play to claw their way back
0:49:23 > 0:49:26via the 10 Robot Rumble.
0:49:28 > 0:49:31However, they appear to be hitting a rich vein of form
0:49:31 > 0:49:33when it matters most...
0:49:33 > 0:49:34It's been my whole life, really.
0:49:34 > 0:49:37The one thing I've always known my whole life -
0:49:37 > 0:49:40I was like three years old, I was like, "I want to win Robot Wars".
0:49:40 > 0:49:41That would be my dream come true.
0:49:43 > 0:49:46..and have more than earned their place in tonight's final.
0:49:46 > 0:49:48We're going to do everything we've got
0:49:48 > 0:49:50and we're going to go for it, you know, it's the grand final.
0:49:50 > 0:49:51We're going to do everything we can.
0:49:54 > 0:49:56Drive head-on into Carbide and see what happens.
0:50:00 > 0:50:03- Good luck, guys. - Best of luck, guys.- Good luck.
0:50:03 > 0:50:04- Good luck, chaps.- Yeah, good luck.
0:50:04 > 0:50:07It comes to this... The grand final.
0:50:07 > 0:50:10CHEERING
0:50:10 > 0:50:13ROBOTIC VOICE: Three, two, one, activate.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15There can only be one winner
0:50:15 > 0:50:17and for one of these machines, the coveted trophy.
0:50:17 > 0:50:19Oh, big slam there!
0:50:19 > 0:50:22Carbide, trying to take Eruption out with a first attack.
0:50:22 > 0:50:24The reigning champions mean business here.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26They want to hold onto that trophy.
0:50:26 > 0:50:30Eruption, so durable, has come through so much to get this far.
0:50:30 > 0:50:35They're up against the titleholders.
0:50:36 > 0:50:40Can Eruption stay out of trouble?
0:50:40 > 0:50:47Oh! Another big hit from Carbide's big bar spinner - heavy, weighty.
0:50:47 > 0:50:48Is his flipper broken?
0:50:48 > 0:50:53Devilish. Is the flipper of Eruption still working? I'm not too sure.
0:50:53 > 0:50:54We're smoking.
0:50:54 > 0:50:56The flipper of Eruption is working,
0:50:56 > 0:50:58the bar spinner of Carbide certainly is...
0:50:58 > 0:51:01- Oh, it's working!- Yes! Get in!
0:51:01 > 0:51:03It's certainly working, we have a fight again.
0:51:03 > 0:51:04I thought Eruption were out,
0:51:04 > 0:51:08but that's what this whole programme has been around this time -
0:51:08 > 0:51:10robots that seemed to have been down and out,
0:51:10 > 0:51:12but suddenly coming back and winning.
0:51:12 > 0:51:15And look at this! Eruption gets on top and Carbide is over!
0:51:16 > 0:51:20- Are we dead? Weapon dead?- Um...
0:51:20 > 0:51:24The Carbide spinning blade has been stopped,
0:51:24 > 0:51:28they know they're in trouble here now, Sam and Dave.
0:51:28 > 0:51:31Oh, my God, the weapon's gone! He's lost his weapon.
0:51:31 > 0:51:34- Oh, my God, this could be it. - Eruption, have they still got weaponry?
0:51:34 > 0:51:36Let's see, they're in underneath Carbide.
0:51:36 > 0:51:38I don't think they can flip Carbide though.
0:51:38 > 0:51:41Are we going to see the end of the reign here?
0:51:41 > 0:51:42Ah, is it working again?
0:51:42 > 0:51:44Oh, it's spinning, it's spinning.
0:51:45 > 0:51:47Is it working again? There was a hint of the spinner there.
0:51:47 > 0:51:49- And we have Fog Of War. - ALARM BLARES
0:51:49 > 0:51:51- ROBOTIC VOICE: The Fog Of War. - I am totally perplexed.
0:51:51 > 0:51:55Who is going to win it? I do not have one clue.
0:51:56 > 0:51:59I thought they were out there, the champions, it's...
0:51:59 > 0:52:04- SHE SCREAMS - It's going again, you can hear the thrum, the drum of the bar spinner.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06Goodness me. Would you believe it?
0:52:06 > 0:52:09And so... Ah, what was that?!
0:52:09 > 0:52:12A spark in the booth, the control booth up there.
0:52:12 > 0:52:16- Oh! A hit with the floor flipper, this is wonderful stuff.- Ooh!- Oh!
0:52:16 > 0:52:20This is great stuff. In come Eruption again, underneath Carbide.
0:52:20 > 0:52:21- SHOUTS:- Come on!
0:52:21 > 0:52:26Tossing and turning it, this is the stuff of Robot Wars dream here.
0:52:26 > 0:52:30Carbide and Eruption - what a final. Now, is the floor spinner working?
0:52:30 > 0:52:31Yes, it still is!
0:52:31 > 0:52:34We know that Eruption's flipper hasn't been quite as forceful
0:52:34 > 0:52:35as we thought it...
0:52:35 > 0:52:37I don't think there's any power left in the flipper,
0:52:37 > 0:52:39but they do have drive.
0:52:39 > 0:52:41They can push Carbide into horrible places.
0:52:41 > 0:52:44They need to be careful themselves, Eruption.
0:52:44 > 0:52:47Carbide on top now in the final.
0:52:47 > 0:52:49But Eruption know if they can... If they can release the pit
0:52:49 > 0:52:52or get in a flip like that, they can cause the champions problems.
0:52:52 > 0:52:53Carbide, if they stay out of trouble,
0:52:53 > 0:52:55should go on to win from this position.
0:52:55 > 0:52:57But how can I say that with the unpredictability
0:52:57 > 0:52:59of this whole grand final?
0:52:59 > 0:53:01It's been wonderful so far.
0:53:01 > 0:53:05But Carbide has the weaponry. Eruption, yes, get in a floor flip!
0:53:05 > 0:53:07They've waited their moment.
0:53:07 > 0:53:08Michael Oates,
0:53:08 > 0:53:13he has preserved enough energy to get in the flip on Carbide.
0:53:13 > 0:53:15We're going to go all the way it seems!
0:53:15 > 0:53:18- Dad, time?- 36.
0:53:18 > 0:53:23All the way to the judges at the end of the final of the grand final.
0:53:23 > 0:53:26Wow, you couldn't have made that up.
0:53:26 > 0:53:29And Eruption get a flip in and Carbide are wobbling.
0:53:29 > 0:53:31- And Eruption flips...- No! Come on!
0:53:31 > 0:53:34..itself over with its own force, and Carbide drives it again.
0:53:34 > 0:53:38And Eruption attacks Carbide - over they go!
0:53:38 > 0:53:42Will it ever cease? Over goes the floor flipper, over goes Carbide.
0:53:42 > 0:53:43Eruption nearly got themselves
0:53:43 > 0:53:45caught in underneath the floor flipper,
0:53:45 > 0:53:47but they escaped and could drive Carbide again.
0:53:47 > 0:53:50And Carbide - this is a technical term for you - are running away!
0:53:50 > 0:53:53They are running away, the champions.
0:53:53 > 0:53:56Run away and try and dodge the trouble caused
0:53:56 > 0:53:59by that mean and merciless Michael Oates at the controller...
0:53:59 > 0:54:01- KLAXON BLARES - But what a final.
0:54:01 > 0:54:03- ROBOTIC VOICE: Cease. - It goes to the judges.
0:54:03 > 0:54:06That is a battle befitting any Robot Wars occasion
0:54:06 > 0:54:10and befitting any final, and it's too close to call.
0:54:10 > 0:54:13- Look at the beaten, bruised Eruption.- Oh, what a fight!
0:54:13 > 0:54:18My goodness, that is... what you want from a final.
0:54:18 > 0:54:20- I know, I know. I've no idea which way that went.- Great final.
0:54:20 > 0:54:23- Well done.- It felt better than the last one.- Well done to you as well.
0:54:23 > 0:54:26- Well done, guys. - You deserve it if you've won it.
0:54:26 > 0:54:27Great camaraderie at the end of it all.
0:54:27 > 0:54:29Fully deserved, fully deserved.
0:54:31 > 0:54:34The judges marking on control, damage and aggression.
0:54:34 > 0:54:38Both sustained damage, both caused damage... Both had great control.
0:54:38 > 0:54:43Carbide the stronger early on. Will the judges decide on that?
0:54:43 > 0:54:46Eruption the stronger later on. Will the judges go for that?
0:54:46 > 0:54:48I wouldn't like to be in their shoes.
0:54:48 > 0:54:52It has been a brilliant final to a wonderful series, the best ever.
0:54:52 > 0:54:55It is very close, too close for me to call.
0:54:55 > 0:54:57It goes to our people with the brains
0:54:57 > 0:54:59who have to make the decision.
0:54:59 > 0:55:01What a series, but who has won it?
0:55:03 > 0:55:08Ah, you know what? That is absolutely everything
0:55:08 > 0:55:11we could have wished for from a Robot Wars final.
0:55:11 > 0:55:15We were going nuts, they were going nuts, it was unbelievable.
0:55:15 > 0:55:16How was it for you?
0:55:16 > 0:55:17It's like, "We survived!"
0:55:17 > 0:55:19- You did.- Like every other time we've fought Carbide,
0:55:19 > 0:55:21we've come out in a bin bag, totally destroyed,
0:55:21 > 0:55:23and we lasted the full three minutes.
0:55:23 > 0:55:28Yes. What would it mean to you to take home this fine lump of steel?
0:55:28 > 0:55:30I think, for me, that would be...
0:55:30 > 0:55:32I think that would be my dream come true, probably.
0:55:32 > 0:55:35Brilliant. I don't know what to say off the back of that.
0:55:35 > 0:55:38- APPLAUSE - Let's hear it for Eruption.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41CHEERING
0:55:42 > 0:55:45Carbide, the second participant in, I think, our best final,
0:55:45 > 0:55:47cos that was a proper scrap.
0:55:47 > 0:55:49- That was properly good, wasn't it? - It was good, wasn't it?
0:55:49 > 0:55:53- And you're the reigning champions, you had to beat them in the grand final last year.- Yeah.
0:55:53 > 0:55:54And with the same two robots you'd presume -
0:55:54 > 0:55:57- oh, it must have been a coronation for you both to sweep this.- Yeah.
0:55:57 > 0:55:59But this was as difficult for them and for you
0:55:59 > 0:56:01- as any paths through the competition.- That's right, yeah.
0:56:01 > 0:56:04- I don't think I've ever seen you as exhausted, both of you. - Yeah, yeah.- Yeah.
0:56:04 > 0:56:06I mean, this has taken a lot out of you and Carbide.
0:56:06 > 0:56:09- Yeah, it's probably time for a new one, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:56:09 > 0:56:11It's had a lot of replaced parts, um...
0:56:11 > 0:56:15- We've never had an event like this where we've had to work so hard to keep it going.- Mm.
0:56:15 > 0:56:18OK, and there could be an overhaul, so this could be farewell to one of
0:56:18 > 0:56:21the great champions of Robot Wars, no matter what happens tonight?
0:56:21 > 0:56:22- Uh, potentially.- Yeah.
0:56:22 > 0:56:25OK, all right. Listen, give it up, ladies and gentlemen,
0:56:25 > 0:56:27not just for tonight, but for the last three years, for Carbide!
0:56:27 > 0:56:29CHEERING
0:56:29 > 0:56:32So, one job left to do.
0:56:32 > 0:56:36OK, well, as you know, it went to a judges' decision
0:56:36 > 0:56:39and that decision was unanimous.
0:56:44 > 0:56:47- Eruption! - CHEERING
0:56:55 > 0:56:57- Well done, Michael.- Well done, mate. - Thoroughly deserved.
0:56:57 > 0:57:00- Well done!- This is quite heavy. Michael, come here, come here.
0:57:00 > 0:57:03This is quite heavy. Stop hugging people and lift your trophy.
0:57:03 > 0:57:06- Congratulations. Ladies and gentlemen, Eruption!- Whoo-ooh!
0:57:06 > 0:57:08CHEERING
0:57:08 > 0:57:09What an incredible battle.
0:57:09 > 0:57:12We hope you've enjoyed this series as much as we have.
0:57:12 > 0:57:15A huge thank you to all of our brilliant teams.
0:57:15 > 0:57:17From all of us here,
0:57:17 > 0:57:20huge congratulations to our brand-new Robot Wars champions, Eruption.
0:57:20 > 0:57:22- Good night.- Good night.
0:57:22 > 0:57:25CHEERING
0:57:25 > 0:57:30Michael has fulfilled his lifelong dream, but it hasn't been easy.
0:57:30 > 0:57:33There's been sacrifice...
0:57:33 > 0:57:36Do you approve of this, by the way? This bunking away to do this?
0:57:36 > 0:57:39Well, he's worked very hard beforehand, so I'm trusting him.
0:57:39 > 0:57:40..controversy...
0:57:40 > 0:57:42- Are we not ceasing or what? - It's cease.
0:57:42 > 0:57:45He was carried down and then a certain young man
0:57:45 > 0:57:47called Michael, um, rear-ended us!
0:57:50 > 0:57:52..even defeat.
0:57:52 > 0:57:54And they waited their moment perfectly
0:57:54 > 0:57:56and Eruption are finished here.
0:57:57 > 0:58:00But in the face of adversity, Michael never gave up...
0:58:00 > 0:58:02The one thing I've always known my whole life -
0:58:02 > 0:58:03I want to win Robot Wars.
0:58:03 > 0:58:07It's time for the biggest battle in Robot Wars history.
0:58:07 > 0:58:11Run away and dodge the trouble caused by that
0:58:11 > 0:58:14mean and merciless Michael Oates.
0:58:14 > 0:58:18This is the stuff of Robot Wars dream here!
0:58:18 > 0:58:22..ultimately defeating Carbide in the final to become...
0:58:22 > 0:58:25the new Robot Wars champion.
0:58:25 > 0:58:32# Who wants to live forever?
0:58:32 > 0:58:38# Who wants to live forever?
0:58:38 > 0:58:45# Forever is our today. #