Down the Tubes Resources: Robot Wars

One of the magazines I wrote for was the short-lived Robot Wars Magazine. Here are some links I collected during research for the title.

Jump straight to
• Official Sites • News Sites

UK Competitors:
• Series One • Series Two • Series Three • Series Four • Series Five • Series Six

Robot Wars Extreme: One - Two

US Competitors: Series One - Series Two

Official web site: www.robotwars.co.uk/
Screening info: www.robotwars.tv/
Now seen in 27 countries worldwide

Robot Wars Creator Marc Thorpe
• www.marcthorpe.com/
No longer owns the concept but still happy to talk about it

• Robot Wars Magazine - Robot Wars Quiz
Call yourself a Robot Wars expert? Test your knowledge here

• Tectonic Robot Wars Site
Builders of Tracie (series 1) and now Sharon

• Robot Combat.com
US site with useful links section except it’s not broken down by series or show, (also includes battlebots)

• RobotWars101
Tie-In Events: www.robotwars101.com/events/

• Robot Wars Mad
Excellent links section, worth checking back on that

• Robot Wars PSX

• Robot Wars Fans

UK Competitors
NB some competitors appeared in more than one series: there are repeat URLs in the list below. Note also that not all the robots listed here may have made it to the show, just to heats.

Series 1
Jump straight to • Official Sites • News Sites
UK Competitors: Series One - Series Two - Series Three - Series Four - Series Five - Series Six
Robot Wars Extreme: One - Two US Competitors: Series One - Series Two

• Barry: freespace.virgin.net/chris.sherwood/

• Cunning Plan: freespace.virgin.net/oliver.steeples/
This has a good section on many of the early robots with pics and construction details

• Killertron: www.killertron-co.com/ (Requires Flash)

• Mortis: mortis.bpweb.net/

• Scrapper: home.clara.net/mrickard/page2.html

• Roadblock: www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~heap/Home.html

• Torque of the Devil: www.geocities.com/Area51/Dungeon/7109/darktech.html

• Tracie: www.robotwarsuk.cjb.net/

• Tracie: www.tomic.force9.co.uk/tracie/index.html

• Vector of Armageddon: www.dmachine.tv/

• Wedgehog: www.rexx.demon.co.uk/robotwars/wedgehog/

Series 2 (1998)
NB some competitors appeared in more than one series: there are repeat URLs in the list below. Note also that not all the robots listed here may have made it to the show, just to heats.

Jump straight to • Official Sites • News Sites
UK Competitors: Series One - Series Two - Series Three - Series Four - Series Five - Series Six
Robot Wars Extreme: One - Two US Competitors: Series One - Series Two

• Armadillo: www.dmachine.tv/

• Automatic Jack: www.exaflop.org/robotwars/

• Behemoth: www.teambehemoth.co.uk/

• Caliban: archive.scoot.co.uk/robotwars/

• GBH: home.clara.net/mrickard/page3.html

• Razer: www.razer.co.uk/

• Corporal Punishment: www.dmachine.tv/

• Griffon: freespace.virgin.net/oliver.steeples/

• Haardvark: www.haardvark.connectfree.co.uk/

• Jim Struts: www.eyeeye.demon.co.uk/

• Killerhurtz: www.johnreid.demon.co.uk/

• Killertron: www.killertron-co.com/ (Requires Flash)

• Milly Ann Bug: www.clare.free-online.co.uk/milly/index.html

• Mortis: mortis.bpweb.net/

• The Mule: www.bigcheeserobot.com/

• Onslaught: www.teamonslaught.fsnet.co.uk/

• Pain: www.use-the.net/robots/

• Panic Attack: www.panic-attack.net/

• Razer: www.razer.co.uk/

• Roadblock: www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~heap/Home.html

• RoboDoc: members.aol.com/MFrank7143/Robodoc.htm

• Rotor Osche: www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/9888/ro.html (Banned for being too violent!)

• Slippery Strana: slipperystrana.a-history.co.uk/

• Spin Doctor: members.aol.com/robotspin/index.html

• Stinger: www.robot-stinger.co.uk/

• Talos: www.soft.net.uk/wilks/

• Tantrum: ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rupertweeks/

• Tender Caress: members.tripod.com/~Mr_A/RW/index.shtml

• Thud: www.dallim.u-net.com/

NB some competitors appeared in more than one series: there are repeat URLs in the list below. Note also that not all the robots listed here may have made it to the show, just to heats.

Jump straight to • Official Sites • News Sites
UK Competitors: Series One - Series Two - Series Three - Series Four - Series Five - Series Six
Robot Wars Extreme: One - Two US Competitors: Series One - Series Two
• Agent Orange: members.aol.com/robotspin/index.html

• Axios: www.rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk/departments/daps/axios.htm

• Beast of Bodmin: www.rhindstreet.fsnet.co.uk/

• Beelzebub: www.bodge.force9.co.uk/diary.htm

• Behemoth: www.teambehemoth.co.uk/

• The Big Cheese: www.bigcheeserobot.com/

• Botweiler: www.robotwars.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

• Bulldog: www.bulldog-breed.co.uk/

• Chaos 2: www.gt-electronics.freeserve.co.uk/

• Dominator: www.team-dominator.co.uk/ (Requires Flash)

• Dr. Who: www.btinternet.com/~vecom/

• The Enigma: www.choas.freeserve.co.uk/

• Eviscerator: www.eviscerator.com/

• Facet: home.clara.net/mrickard/page4.html

• Firestorm: www.gbone1.force9.co.uk/rw99/index.htm

• Flippant Torque: flippant.freeservers.com/

• The General: www.jth100.freeserve.co.uk/thegeneral.html

• Gnasher: freespace.virgin.net/chris.sherwood/

• Griffon: freespace.virgin.net/oliver.steeples/

• Haardvark: www.haardvark.connectfree.co.uk/

• Hades: meltingpot.fortunecity.com/croatia/452/

• Hammertron: www.angelfire.com/tv/alfh/

• Hefty: www.racinghippo.co.uk/madcamo/index.html

• HypnoDisc: www.hypno-disc.co.uk/

• Judge Mech: www.use-the.net/robots/indexnf.htm

• Killerhurtz: www.johnreid.demon.co.uk/

• Manic Mutant: www.manic-mutant.mcmail.com/

• Mercenary: www.btinternet.com/~robertb/

• Micah: bun0149919@www.wdomains.currantbun.com/

• Milly Ann Bug: www.clare.free-online.co.uk/milly/index.html

• Miss Struts: www.eyeeye.demon.co.uk/robots/missstruts/index.html

• Mortis: mortis.bpweb.net/

• Mumbo-Jumbo: website.lineone.net/~br14n/home.html

• Onslaught: www.teamonslaught.fsnet.co.uk/

• Panic Attack: www.panic-attack.net/

• Paper Cut: members.lycos.co.uk/teampsycho/

• Panic Attack: www.panic-attack.net/

• Phase 1; www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~magpie01/

• Pittbull: www.botting.demon.co.uk/

• Project 99: www.gbone1.force9.co.uk/

• R2: www.robotwars101.com/

• Razer: www.razer.co.uk/

• Scraposaurus; www.futurews.freeserve.co.uk/teamlightning/index.htm

• Silverblade: www.angelfire.com/al/robotsilverblade/index.html

• Sir Chromalot: smithelec.theshoppe.com/

• Son of Thud: www.dallim.u-net.com/

• Sonic: freespace.virgin.net/chris.sherwood/

• Steel Avenger: web.ukonline.co.uk/jwrobots/

• Stinger: www.robot-stinger.co.uk/

• Sumpthing: www.sumpthing.com/

• T2: ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rupertweeks/

• Team Beelzebub: meltingpot.fortunecity.com/croatia/452/

• Team Binky: dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/hq41/index.shtml

• Thermidor: www.teamlobster.freeserve.co.uk/

• Toecutter: www.toecutter.co.uk/

• V2: welcome.to/v2site

• Wolverine: www.lancasterbombers.com/

• Behemoth: www.teambehemoth.co.uk/

• Bulldog Breed 2: www.bulldog-breed.co.uk/

• Dominator II: www.team-dominator.co.uk/ (Requires Flash)

• Executioner: www.eviscerator.com/

• Firestorm: www.gbone1.force9.co.uk/rw99/index.htm

• Hellraizer: www.hellraizer.iwarp.com/

• HypnoDisc: www.hypno-disc.co.uk/

• Killerhurtz: www.johnreid.demon.co.uk/

• Killertron: www.killertron-co.com/ (Requires Flash)

• Mortis: mortis.bpweb.net/

• Onslaught: www.teamonslaught.fsnet.co.uk/

• Razer: www.razer.co.uk/

• Share and Destroy: homepage.ntlworld.com/share-and-destroy/index.html

• Sir Chromalot: smithelec.theshoppe.com/

• Miss Struts: www.eyeeye.demon.co.uk/robots/missstruts/index.html

• Sumpthing: www.sumpthing.com/

• Thermidor2: www.teamlobster.freeserve.co.uk/

• Toecutter: www.toecutter.co.uk/

• Tornado: www.teamtornado.co.uk/

• Type320: www.dmachine.tv/

• Wheely Big Cheese: www.bigcheeserobot.com/

• Wolverine: www.lancasterbombers.com/

• Xenomorph: www.xenomania.co.uk/

• Chaos 2: www.gt-electronics.freeserve.co.uk/

• Onslaught: www.teamonslaught.fsnet.co.uk/

• Phage: members.lycos.co.uk/teampsycho/

• RoboChicken: www.jason.shirley.clara.net/

• Ruf Ruf Dougal: jump.to/.splash (Too many pop ups!)

• Savage Toaster: www.savagetoaster.com/

• Sharon: www.robotwarsuk.cjb.net/

• Shuriken: www.camcon.co.uk/robotwars/

• Tornado: www.teamtornado.co.uk/

• Vixon: members.lycos.co.uk/thevixon/

NB some competitors appeared in more than one series: there are repeat URLs in the list below. Note also that not all the robots listed here may have made it to the show, just to heats.

Jump straight to • Official Sites • News Sites
UK Competitors: Series One - Series Two - Series Three - Series Four - Series Five - Series Six
Robot Wars Extreme: One - Two US Competitors: Series One - Series Two

• Frightmare: www.danielburke.com/robot

• Gyrobot: freespace.virgin.net/steve.wood4/index.htm

• Vader: www.gate-web.com/vader/

• Team Lightning: www.calvertfilm.fsnet.co.uk/robot.htm

• Joker: tools.ecn.purdue.edu/~harmeyes/robots

• Mad Cow: www.teamboltz.com/

Series Two
(Final screened on TNN in June 2002)

• Joker II: tools.ecn.purdue.edu/~harmeyes/robots

• Juggerbot: www.juggerbot.com/

• Delta: www.teamdelta.com/rwx/

• Duct Tape: www.angelfire.com/mb/theredturtlepic/robotyears/robots2001.html

• Hercules: www.robotcombat.com/creator.html

• Manta: www.cesnik.com/

• Pants: www.robotwars101.com/

• Raptor: www.raptorrobotics.com/

• The Revolutionist: www.teamlogicom.com/

• Run Away: www.open.org/~joerger/robotica.html

• $6m Mouse: www.litewav.com/

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