Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

I guess if you stretch WORCK out a bit it would.

I pronounce them differently though.

Semi-Finals
Fight 2

Wyfe Beater vs Achilles

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Achilles is off, frightening and intimidating like only the most fearsome Greek warrior can be. But Aaron knows very well that even the most fearless Greek warrior must have an Achilles€™€¦ heel (yeah, I know :lame:) somewhere, and beater weapon of Wyfe Beater approaches Achilles, the weapon going faster and faster. Achilles tries to avoid being hit by the beater and attack its opponent at the same time, and pretty much succeeds in doing by abusing its superior speed to outrun Wyfe Beater and pop up at its side. The flipper plate has no problem whatsoever in penetrating Wyfe Beater€™s belly. Alex fires his mighty flipper!
FLIP!
Wyfe Beater is thrown up into the air and travels a lovely 360 degrees around its axle before thumping down back on its wheels, upside up (not that that really matters being invertible and all :proud:). Achilles approaches Wyfe Beater again, but despite the speed disadvantage Wyfe Beater IS in fact the more manoeuvrable one here with its 2WD drive system, and Aaron€™s deadly machine makes a quick turn to face the incoming Achilles. Alex tries to dodge but is too close to€¦
CRASH!
OUCH! Alex can call himself lucky for hitting the beater with its reinforced and sloped front, but it was a most frightening hit nonetheless with Achilles being repelled away from Wyfe Beater big time, while actually showing a big gash across the front of its flipper. Achilles comes back for some more and Wyfe Beater is ALSO on the offensive, this promises to become one helluva spectacle. The robots are about to meet head-to-head€¦
CRASH!
FLIP!
BOTH weapons activate upon hitting the other, what a lovely sight this is! Wyfe Beater is good and well inverted upon meeting Achilles flipper whereas Achilles is swept aside, its front looking worse now. Wyfe Beater recovers quickly whereas Achilles has to deal with its flipper being bend and scraping along the floor even more than it used to do. Inverted but far from undefeated Wyfe Beater heads for the struggling Achilles, and aims straight for the side!
CRASH!
W00t! Achilles€™ skirt flies straight off and nearly takes Achilles flying after it! Achilles is inverted on the impact and finds itself in serious peril, but the ever so kind Aaron Knight is about to release Achilles from its misery even before Achilles can self-right€¦
CRASH!
OOTA! Talking about a beater, that robot is dynamite! Achilles ends up on its wheels alright, but how much will that help it when OOTA? Achilles rams the wall with all its got hoping to ram its way through it seems, but its no use. Time is running out Alex!
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CEASE
Achilles, OOTA he is
Wyfe Beater, to the GRAND FINAL he goes!!!

Next:GeForce 4.0 vs Wyfe Beater

Post your tactics while they€™re hot!

I think GeForce will get Wyfe Beater OOTA here.

«GeForce 4.0 vs. Wyfe Beater»

Well my tactics haven€™t let me down so far, so again I will attempt the €œstraight in, straight out€ plan. As usual, go looking for that 10mm high ground clearance and get under with the wedge. Once on the wedge I should easily out push it towards those walls and throw it over. Of course, avoiding that eggbeater is another priority. However with my sloping wedge, sides and rear I€™m hoping its attacks aren€™t going to have a great effect on me. Even if this is not the case, my armour should be good enough to hold up to the hits€¦ so, in and under it, drive it towards the bloody low walls and throw it OOTA.

Good luck Aaron, you technically win either way. :wink:

Wyfe Beater FTW

GeForce FTW

We meet again Mr Jackson :proud:

Tactics are simple, attack fast, and often. Try to stay in the center of the arena as a stray flip near the walls could be the end.

Fun :proud:

Both predictions wrong! Damn! Aaron consistantly designs very persistant robots were everything is through through to be as good as possible. AJ goes for an all-rounded approach. I personally prefer the beater idea, as it may keep on turning GeForce over, course some damage.

Ill go for the win to go to Wyfe Beater.

GRAND FINAL

GeForce 4.0 vs Wyfe Beater

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The speedy GeForce leaves his starting square and eagerly wants to get his damn tournament over with. And nobody can really blame him, because this testosterone flipper has shown to be quite effective in this specific arena, where it can throw opponents OOTA without breaking a sweat, or, like Andy put it himself, €œmy tactics haven€™t let me down so far€. Well guess what mr. Jackson, the same thing can be said about Aaron€™s run in this tournament. With one of the few non-flippers in the tournaments Wyfe Beater proved to be very effective in utilising those bloody low walls to its advantage. Said Beater now places itself firmly in the centre of the arena to avoid being thrown out, while at the same time GeForce lines itself up to get Wyfe Beater OOTA ASAP. GeForce comes in powered by those powerful LEMs and Andy€™s driving skills prove good enough to beat that 10 mm GC that can be found at the side of Wyfe Beater!
FLIP!
The first blood is drawn as Wyfe Beater is quite literally SWUNG into the air, but the blood isnt as deep red as Andy wants it to be and Wyfe Beater comes down, with a bang, but quite safely onto its invertible body. GeForce comes in again but Wyfe Beater wont let its opponent sneak up on him a second time. Geforce comes and Wyfe Beater turns. Andy swiftly makes another turn to get away from that deadly beater weapon, and with success. Aaron now has the initiative however and continues his attack on GeForce some more, until€¦
CRASH!
Sloped sides or not, GeForce is knocked up and the skirt is knocked CLEAN OFF! GeForce activates it srimech before more harm can be done, which proves to be very wise as Wyfe Beater comes in again. GeForce turns around, but Wyfe Beater is still attacking. GeForce brings in the flipper, but isnt as lucky as with its first flip€¦
CRASH!
Before GeForce can do any flipping at all the vapour is beaten away by the beater. The slope of the flipper deflects most damage but still one cant deny the pressure GeForce is under. Especially when Wyfe Beater goes into forward mode€¦
CRASH!
Again its the flipper that receives the hit, and again most is deflected, in comes Wyfe Beater, but this time GeForce outmanoeuvres its opponent and comes in€¦
FLIP!
Wyfe Beater now finds itself in the same position it was at the start of this match and anticipates the now incoming GeForce. Flipper meets spinner again€¦
CRASH!
And again the spinner does most damage! The audience sees how the fight has slowly but steadily moved itself closer and closer to the arena wall when Wyfe Beater attacks that flipper yet again!
CRASH!
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That final attack didnt invert GeForce, but the powerful flipper IS beaten OOTA by it! Still on its wheels, GeForce eagerly attempts to ram its way through the wall!
CLANG!
But with no use! There€™s no escaping! No matter how hard GeForce has tried for the past 27 seconds€¦
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CEASE
GeForce, OOTA he is
WYFE BEATER, UTATYA 1 HE WON!

And that€™s it, UTATYA 1, my first experimental tournament, is over. I was very happy I could get 16 people for it, though in the end the tournament took longer to finish than any 16-robot tournament should. Anyway, I made it my job to finish it and so I did. I very much liked the idea of having €œan arena that favours flippers€ rather than an €œonly flippers allowed€ approach. Only 10 out of the 16 robots entered were actually flippers, 2 of which were front-hinged and even 1 was unhinged. As expected by me there were vertical spinners, 2 to be exact. The biggest surprises came from the 4 remaining entrants, 1 was a FBS that could launch robots, 1 was just a horizontal spinner trying its luck and 2 utilised anti flipper mechanisms to gain advantage in this arena. In the end the final was between the best of the rear-hinged flippers and a vertical spinner, and the vertical spinner won to prove this tournament wasnt just another Flipper Frenzy.

This tournament also was a nice and long pause for MN 2, which will continue ASAP. I might pause MN 2 another time in the future to make room for UTATYA 2 and show off another arena one might take advantage of :wink:

Many congratulations to Aaron Knight for winning this tournament!!!

Damn you Martijn, you killed off my prediction :P

Oh well, good job Aaron and YOU BETTER WIN NEXT TIME AJ. XD