User:Rob Collins-fduser

Greetings, and welcome to my user page. My name is Rob Collins, and I started this wiki on 16 May, 2013. I am a member of a number of forums, but my biggest achievement was becoming an administrator of the MPire Mall. I am a member of GameTechMods, and Advanced Robot Combat.

About Me
I was a fan of Robot Wars at the age of 5, when I watched Heat B of series 2 when it aired. I watched BattleBots, but because it didn't air episodes in order weekly, I had a hard time understanding, since I was young at the time. I still prefer Robot Wars to BattleBots. I am a huge fan of the independent circuit. For those who do not know what that is, it's basically the same as the wrestling independent circuit... but with robots. Two of my favourite robots as a kid were Cassius and Mace 2, I remember watching the series 2 final in the dining room, and I was disappointed when Panic Attack won, the same robot that also beat Mace 2. My favourite battle of all time is Firestorm vs Hypno-Disc in the Series 5 playoff.

I will now show you my review of the match, that I posted on the MPire Mall:

"Need I say more about this match? Even though it was only roughly less than a minute long, the fight that Firestorm gave was incredible. The battle scars proved it.

''With no armour, no weapon, and no anything, Firestorm gave a battle cry and tackled Hypno-Disc into the pit with itself. It looked like Hypno-Disc had exploded when that happened. The judges allowed both robots to a rematch, but Hypno-Disc's team claimed they were immobilized on their drives - this was true.''

''I will tell you now, and this is the complete truth... nothing, will ever top this match. If you see the matches Firestorm had in series 5 leading up to this, this was a great redemption.''"

When watching series 3, I hated Firestorm. When it beat Diotoir, I hated it even more, so you should know how I felt when Chaos 2 defeated it and in the way that it did. For some reason, I became a fan of Firestorm 2 during series 4. To this day, I still have no idea why I liked Firestorm since then. But then series 5 happened.

Firestorm became my number one robot of all time during its series 5 performance. The blood, sweat, and tears, if robots have those. As I said in my review, it was a great redemption. After its first couple of fights, I thought that it wasn't going to be Firestorm's year, but when it was actually able to reach the Grand Final, I wanted it to win the series so badly. Alas, it was not meant to be.

I think I only saw one series 6 match as a kid, and just didn't watch it. Now I am an adult, and during a conversation on the MPire Mall, robots were brought up and it triggered my childhood fascination. I then joined GameTechMods and became interested in robots again. This also made me find out that I could watch all of the series again on YouTube (credit to BBCRobotwarsUK), I did so and as always, enjoyed it.

Because of GameTechMods, I played their fan-made game Robot Arena 2: DSL. Because of both MPire Mall and GameTechMods, Robot MPire was born.