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For Series 2 and 3, robots had to knock a football into a goal, drive over a see-saw, drive around some breeze blocks, drive in a figure-eight around some large springs and then drive onto a piece of wood and spin on the spot. Some robots that failed to qualify were still used as reserves for that series. Notable reserves that were brought in include V-Max, Griffon and Steg-O-Saw-Us.

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  • For Series 2 and 3, robots had to knock a football into a goal, drive over a see-saw, drive around some breeze blocks, drive in a figure-eight around some large springs and then drive onto a piece of wood and spin on the spot. Some robots that failed to qualify were still used as reserves for that series. Notable reserves that were brought in include V-Max, Griffon and Steg-O-Saw-Us.
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  • For Series 2 and 3, robots had to knock a football into a goal, drive over a see-saw, drive around some breeze blocks, drive in a figure-eight around some large springs and then drive onto a piece of wood and spin on the spot. For Series 4-7, the qualifiers assumed the form of one-on-one or melee battles between two or more prospective competitors. They would take place in a smaller version of the Robot Wars Arena, as the one seen on TV was too large to transport. The qualifier arena was painted to look like its televised counterpart, but did not usually include the hazards or the House Robots. Because of the arena's reduced safety capacity, roboteers were told not to flip their opponents out of the arena during their qualifier battles. The roboteers would be able to enter the qualifiers with more than one robot, but would only be able to qualify with one robot, this in particular affecting Team Mouse in Series 6 and 7, however Team Vader and Team Ming were able to enter with two robots each in Series 7. Some robots that failed to qualify were still used as reserves for that series. Notable reserves that were brought in include V-Max, Griffon and Steg-O-Saw-Us. The qualifiers always used the otherwise little-seen House Robot Shove as a cleaner/sweeper, as well as to push any immobilised/damaged robots to the arena entry gates if they could not be driven out on their own. Shove was used because it was more compact and easier to transport than Refbot. For Series 8-9, no qualifiers took place. The qualification process for this series took the form of the producers reviewing applications sent in by potential entrants, and selecting them to compete. A number of robots that were not selected did eventually take part in an untelevised pilot episode, which was held and filmed with a live studio audience to test the camera equipment ahead of the main series. The Robot Wars Wiki's list of known qualifier battles that took place from Series 4-7 can be found here, the wiki's list of known robots that failed to qualify for each series can be found here. Examples of Series 6 and Series 7 qualifiers can be found here and here.
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