* EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite going home in the first round, Game Over and Commander remain respectively popular, with many hoping they'll return in an imagined second season.
* HilariousInHindsight: The lowest ranked robot who was considered the underdog, but has [[StoneWall extremely good defense]] and is piloted by a {{Determinator}} team of father and child ends up surprising everyone and making it to a championship fight. The comparisons to ''Film/RealSteel'' are already obvious, but Crash could make a fairly good stand-in for Atom.
* GameBreaker: Scorpio's blade weapons could be seen as this, considering that they seem able to easily slip through upper and lower halves of the torso into the vital areas, and both of it's fights have ended with their opponent bisected at the 'waist'.
** Somewhat mitigated when the other teams are given a chance to win a weapon upgrade for their robot or pick their opponent. Unfortunately for said team, they passed it up in favor of choosing an opponent, and paid the price.
** Eventually ''all'' the teams get weapons they can use in the third round of a match and Scorpio runs up against Crash, who's armor is too tough to be cut through.
** Crash's roll cage. The cage makes it almost impossible to reach Crash's torso actuators, can't be cut through by any of the weapons, and absorbs most of the impact from opponent's punches. It's probably the biggest reason why Crash managed to win the tournament.
* {{Padding}}: Won't be a tense show without them, mostly with ConfessionCam clips. Especially so in the episode with Robo Hammer vs. Drone Strike, where the fight was ended with one hit at the start of Round 1, leaving them having to pad the episode out with the tech and jockey futilely trying to fix their robot.