I'm not by any means saying the selection system in Robot Wars is perfect, and of course there's room for improvement. It would certainly be nice to have more transparency over what makes you more likely to qualify for the show. I suppose they're hesitant to give quantitative information on how to qualify because they still want to pick and choose to an extent. However that doesn't make the competition unfair, whoever wins has (for the most part) proven themselves to be the victor from those that were selected.

It'd be nice to have a more community-oriented arena to fight in or at least somewhere spinner-worthy outside of the show, but that obviously isn't possible without major funding, which needs many people to be invested in the show, which needs more exposure from the show itself. It would be nice if they'd rent the existing show arena out for practice or amateur matches, though I can't imagine them being that charitable somehow, and you'd need staff onsite, etc.