6: Manufacturing Controversy

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Your hosts finish up with Robot Wars series 9 after discussing what it means to be an engineer, then Ryan makes Sam question whether or not he's living in a film.

• Follow-up
  • Episode 4
    • Foxic: winner of an fight ft. terrible live commentary.
  • Episode 5
    • Welding and working with Aluminium.
    • The original Heat E lineup ft. excellent detective work.
    • Reopening the Jellyfish engineering wound. (skip to 30mins to avoid. We won't blame you.)
      • The engineering mindset & formal education.
      • 'Solved' problems and best practices.
      • Learning to be creative - John Cleese on 'playing'
      • Ryan doesn't know how to define the terms of his argument
• Melee 1
  • Apollo (wildcard)
  • Aftershock
  • Eruption
• Melee 2
  • Carbide
  • Concussion
  • Ironside 3
• Head to Heads
  • Ironside 3 vs Eruption
  • Carbide vs Aftershock
    • The arena does its job
    • The BBC spoiler policy - Conker 3 in an excellent battle
  • Aftershock vs Ironside 3 The fixening
  • Carbide vs Eruption
  • Aftershock vs Eruption Hurting the house robots
  • Carbide vs Ironside 3
• Final Carbide vs Eruption Carbide vs the House Robots
• Ratings (spoiler alert)
• Ryan's Robot Rank-O-Rama
  • Part 1: 'objective' rankings
  • Part 2: favourites
• Armchair Production
  • Re-working the format