The reasons ratings declined last time were mainly:
1) Moving from an awesome Friday teatime slot on BBC2 to BBC Prime/Choice/Whatever the hell it was...a channel that hardly anyone had.
2) After that, moving to Channel 5 (A channel that, at the time, a lot of people still didn't have or couldn't get a decent picture on, and now they also had to watch ad breaks) and changing the timeslot.
The main "problems" with the new Robot Wars are (I still loved it overall):
1) The Pit. AKA a crutch for crappy pushbots and robots whose weapons don't do anything or have stopped working. It is too final and ends too many potentially good fights too suddenly. Also where is the incentive for innovation and new cool weapons when you can just shove the other robot into the pit? Either make it open automatically only in the last 45 seconds...or GET RID OF IT.
2) Unreliable robots. This is because this series was a rush job and shot very quickly so the competitors had hardly any time to prepare (and bring plenty of spares) or repair their robots.
3) Crappy boring pushbots and weak lifters from 1999. This is a problem that would sort itself if the show becomes popular again and people really get back into building robots to compete in it. Once again this could easily be blamed on the lack of notice entrants got and the rush to prepare their robots to compete in this series.
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Hitler was a dog person.
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