Monday 6 January 2020

Edit Wars #13

7 - 13 August 2000: The main competition part of the fourth series of Robot Wars is filmed.

14 - 15 August 2000: Various specials and side tournaments for the same series are filmed. This includes the Sumo Basho tournament, which will be broadcast across the first eight heats.

The fact that the non-competition stuff is filmed after all the fighting, but most of it broadcast first, would not be a problem... were it not for this.


What you see there is Pussycat during its participation in the Sumo... with pictures of all the robots it's defeated in the main competition clearly visible, including its semi-final and grand final fights, which hadn't yet been broadcast.

Admittedly this was back in late 2000, when most viewers would still have been relying on inferior-quality VHS recordings for rewatches, so it's unlikely anybody at the time would have been able to make out the specifics. Even so, it's obvious from that picture that Pussycat goes on to make the grand final, given how many of its victims there are (and that shot is on screen for a good few seconds).

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