This badass little girl's pink robot was the real winner of 'Robot Wars'
Don't mess with April from Team Glitterbomb.
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LONDON -- To win Robot Wars, you need to outlast the other robots in your heat, make it through to the final and then crush your opponent in a fierce one-on-one fight to the death.
But that's not the only way you can win.
On Sunday's episode, the pink blade-wielding robot Glitterbomb -- which came complete with a feisty little girl called April -- may not have won the battle, but it was definitely the people's champion.
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Here's Team Glitterbomb.
And here's April, the official "boss" of the team.
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"I chose the colour scheme and I also chose the design," said April in the pre-battle interview. "It's a pink robot that's all glittery with a belt around its waist, and the axe is really spiky so it can dig in robots."
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April immediately became the favourite on Twitter.
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Tragically, Glitterbomb didn't make it through the heat stages.
But despite the early exit, April was still heralded as a hero on Twitter.
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She even got a special card from the show's presenters.
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This surely won't be the last we'll hear from April and Team Glitterbomb.
