I just remembered that Chinese robot combat show King Of Bots is entirely available on YouTube courtesy of its Chinese broadcasters - if you need a fix for robot combat, it's got some damned good fights in it. The guys who built the House Robots for the RW reboot rocked up with an attempt at making a competitively viable heavyweight crusher and the results have to be seen to be believed, and the Chinese competitors have some seriously good robots among their number.

The YouTube playlist is available here and it's well worth a watch. =]

It's pretty obvious, though, that after the end of the Eighth Wars they didn't have all that much confidence in the show. The Ninth Wars was barely advertised at all, and the Tenth Wars - for all that it was the best damn series yet - was obliterated in the ratings... BY THE BBC. It got even less advertising than the Ninth Wars and was shoved in the same timeslot as Blue Planet II. Someone at the BBC had evidently completely lost confidence in the show.

I am angry and upset. Robot Wars had the best format of all the currently-existing robot combat shows and the downtime between fights was spent in the pits with the roboteers. At least King of Bots was good and Battlebots is getting a third reboot series.