The Celebrity Special (or Celebrity Robot Wars) was an event held during the Christmas Specials of Robot Wars: The Fourth Wars. This tournament featured eight teams, each of which was paired off with a celebrity captain for the competition. The robots fought in a straight knock-out tournament to determine the champion. The Celebrity Special was originally broadcast on December 27, 2000 on BBC One. The rules were that the celebrity driver had to control the machine for sixty seconds before they were permitted to hand the controls over to the roboteers of the machine.
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| - The Celebrity Special (or Celebrity Robot Wars) was an event held during the Christmas Specials of Robot Wars: The Fourth Wars. This tournament featured eight teams, each of which was paired off with a celebrity captain for the competition. The robots fought in a straight knock-out tournament to determine the champion. The Celebrity Special was originally broadcast on December 27, 2000 on BBC One. The rules were that the celebrity driver had to control the machine for sixty seconds before they were permitted to hand the controls over to the roboteers of the machine.
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Winner
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Team
| - Nick Adams, Isabelle Adams & Jake Adams
- Richard Broad, Abdul Degia & Ian Degia
- Alan Gribble, Robert Bettington & David Gribble
- Shane Howard, Brian Fountain & Darryl Howard
- Mark Marshall, Nick Bullock & Oliver Reed-Smith
- Gilbert Grimm & Robert Grimm
- Peter Redmond & Ciaran Bryne
- Steve Merrill & Dave Whitehead
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Dimensions
| - 24.0
- 102.0
- 42.0
- 55.2
- 69.0
- 13.2
- 25.8
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Power
| - 2(xsd:integer)
- 3(xsd:integer)
- 4(xsd:integer)
- Electric powered motors
- Electric Powered Motors
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Name
| - Gemini
- Pussycat
- Wild Thing
- Sir Chromalot
- Diotoir
- Killertron
- Iron-Awe
- Disc-O-Inferno
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Caption
| - The Celebrity Robot Wars logo from the introduction titles
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Weight
| - 80.0
- 79.7
- 79.3
- 80.2
- 76.4
- 71.7
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Clearance
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Weapons
| - 2(xsd:integer)
- Blade
- 18.0
- Lifting arm and lance
- Large axe
- Spring loaded lifting arm
- Big axe
- Flywheel on front
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Notes
| - Self-righting mechanism
- Integral self-righting mechanism
- Hand painted by Alan
- Clusterbot
- Pressure 1200PSI
- Made from packaging machinery
- Came 3rd in Series 2
- Can run upside-down
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from
| - Dublin
- Gloucester
- Aldershot in Hampshire
- South Ockendon in Essex
- Maidstone in Kent
- York University
- Low Ham in Somerset
- St Leonard's-on-Sea
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abstract
| - The Celebrity Special (or Celebrity Robot Wars) was an event held during the Christmas Specials of Robot Wars: The Fourth Wars. This tournament featured eight teams, each of which was paired off with a celebrity captain for the competition. The robots fought in a straight knock-out tournament to determine the champion. The Celebrity Special was originally broadcast on December 27, 2000 on BBC One. The rules were that the celebrity driver had to control the machine for sixty seconds before they were permitted to hand the controls over to the roboteers of the machine. The format of the Celebrity Special would later be succeeded by Robot Wars: Battle of the Stars, as part of Series 9.
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