Storm 2/Controversy
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It was a small invertible box-shaped robot with a wedge on the front. The robot was originally built with no weapons but the team was asked to add an active weapon in order to take part in the seventh series, so the team came up with a built-in lifting arm, very similar to the American robot BioHazard.
However, it was not the weapon but the immense speed and power of the robot that did the most damage to its opponents, managing to throw The Steel Avenger out of the Arena in its Series 7 heat final.
The robot competed in the seventh series of Robot Wars, winning The Robot wars storm 2 World Championship at the end of the series, having won the 16th seed into the competition by being victorious in the New Blood Championship of Extreme 2. Storm 2 was created by Ed Hoppitt. He was joined by Tim Bence and Andrew Rayner. Hoppitt and Bence would alternate driving during the wars.
Not long after the filming of New Blood, Andrew Rayner got married, moved house and began a family, so robot wars storm 2 place on the team was filled by Bence's fiance, Meral Kolac. In the original run, Storm 2 was somewhat notable because it was the most prominent robot never to lose a battle through KO, only losing one battle on a very controversial judges' decision.
The said decision was the grand final of Series 7, losing the title to Typhoon 2. The announcement of Typhoon's win caused a large amount of booing from the audience; host Craig Charles had demonstrated through a cheering contest beforehand that the audience believed Storm II to be the victor, having been the most aggressive in the battle throughout. The booing was so loud that Mentorn, the producers of Robot Wars, had to add canned robot wars storm 2.
However, it lost on knockout to Apollo who went on to win the series in the heat final of the series after being thrown out of the arena, having lost to the same bot on judges decision in the group stages - in both fixtures, Apollo flipped over at least one house robot. Storm 2 was eligible to be named as a wildcard but was not chosen. Despite Storm robot wars storm 2 success in Robot Warsthe producers were not happy with its lack of weapons and the briefness of most of its matches.
After winning the Extreme 2 New Blood tournament, Storm 2 could enter Series 7, but only if an active weapon was added, saying that Storm 2 was classed as "boring" by the producers. After Storm 2 kick-started its campaign of the Series 7 championship by throwing The Steel Avenger out of the arena in its Heat Final, Storm 2 robot wars storm 2 three times Grand Finalist Firestorm 5 in the second round of the semi-final. The judges refused, and Storm 2 reached the Grand Final. In the first fight of the Grand Final, Storm 2 met reigning champion and fellow rambot Tornado.
Storm 2 dominated the fight, and easily won the judges decision. Much to Team Storm's surprise, the pit raised back up again. Despite being given the questionable lifeline, Tornado lost the fight. Storm 2's next battle was to prove one of the most controversial of all.
Robot wars storm 2 2 charged into Typhoon 2 and used its lifting arm. Typhoon 2 ran away, before smashing part of the arena wall.
The plan was to edit out this part of the fight as if it never happened, although Typhoon 2 refused to spin, so Mentorn allowed Typhoon 2 to repair. Cease was called, and, after a difficult judges decision, Typhoon 2 was given the win. Team Storm were also saddened by the fact that the show concentrated on Storm 2's aforementioned panel and not Typhoon robot wars storm 2 drive chains, despite losing the latter having a larger difference than losing a small panel.
Shooting began for the Third World Championships later that day, and Typhoon 2 were supposed to be fighting in Heat D, but had to pull out because of "technical difficulties". The real reason why Typhoon 2 pulled out was because between Typhoon the middleweight and Typhoon 2 there was only one set of batteries. Team Typhoon opted to defend and keep their Middleweight Championship status. Typhoon 2 wasn't seen again that day.
In the series, Storm 2 fought Gary Cairns' new machine, PP3d, in the decisive group match, in which the winner would reach the heat final. The last controversial incident involving Storm 2 ironically happened in the last ever televised fight. One of its wheels was on Storm 2's wedge, leaving it off balance and it careered sideways into the arena wall, stuck. Storm 2 ran away, believing Team Storm had won the fight, but Refbot freed Supernova instead of robot wars storm 2 it out as his counter wasn't working.
After Supernova got away, Storm 2 was finally freed, but it was running inverted, where it was more vulnerable to attacks. After another close decision, the judges gave Storm 2 the win, based on the old rule that if a robot in this case, Supernova is immobilised for more than 30 seconds, it is out of the fight. This fight has received criticism for heavy editing use, since the televised fight didn't accurately show how long Supernova was pinned on the wall. Supernova was judged to be stacked on the arena wall for far more than 30 seconds, meaning it lost.
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