The Crash & Burn Tournament

@ AJ - Yer thanked very much, suh.

Well now! Were back to the fights, and back for more mayhem for our 2nd Round 2 fight!

Y4 tossed NSBFR-X OOTA before getting his back panel ripped clean off by Matilda.

Aquarius pulled off a controversial judges decision over Kali based on damage.

Roboteers, stand by...

The house robots messing with da foos are Sir Killalot and Dead Metal.

3...
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ACTIVATE!!

And Y4 starts off good, ramming straight into Aquarius, and getting under the lifting arm, tossing Aquarius high into the air! Aquarius comes back down but races off straight away before Y4 gets another chance. But the Dinowarrior doesnt give up a chase that asily and so Y4 follows Aquarius around the arena, hoping to get in a shot before his prey eludes him. But thats just what happens as Aquarius turns 135 degrees and zooms by Y4 before Chris flipbot can blink. Y4 turns, and Aquarius goes right into Y4, backing into him. Y4 gleefully launches the flipper, sending Aquarius into orbit. Aquarius comes right down and lands upside-down, but being invertible rams Y4 again, and is again launched high, but this time over-top of Y4. Aquarius lands right-side-up and AGAIN rams Y4, getting the flipper underneath the T-Minus look-a-like and this time uses its own weapon to launch Y4 this time. Y4 spins through the air and lands right-side-up, only to land on Aquarius flipping arm and gets sent into orbit again! :proud: Now the tide has turned as Aquarius follows the motion of Y4s movement and positions himself to get close enough to get another flip (Y4 lands on the arena wall and just makes it back in)...and another (Y4 is sent straight up this time; Aquarius does a 180)...and another (Chris looks right cheesed off :proud:)! Y4 lands right-side-up again but dodges another flip from Aquarius and hits the pit release button in panic, and the pit descends, but Y4 is now way too near the arena wall and Aquarius getting under Y4 activates his flipping arm and Y4 is shot into the air...to land on the arena camera track! :proud:

CEASE!

Y4 is now TER-MIN-8-ED
AQUARIUS ADVANCES TO THE HEAT A FINAL!!

Heat A Final
Axeon VS. Aquarius

Tactics? Predicitons? A thousand pounds?}

@ Tony - ye posted yer tactics in the wrong place! :wink:

Anyway, this is the first heat final of this tournament, so lets kick it off!

Axeon took part Jim Struts piece by piece, earning a well-deserved KO, and then went on to beat Knightrous Wedge via pitting, earning another KO and a huge upset.

Aquarius beat Kali in a tight judges decision with damage being the main factor, and then tossed Y4 over the fence to earn his way into this heat final.

Roboteers, stand by...

Teh house robots are Shunt and Sgt. Bash.

3...
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1...
ACTIVATE!!!

Off we go! Axeon has slammed into Aquarius and brought down the hammer already! Oops, my bad, its an axe. :proud: Anyway, a very tiny hole has been made in the 12mm titanium, but nothing else seems to have been done. And now Aquarius has gotten under Axeon - WHOA-HO! Aquarius activates the flipper, and Axeon is sent flying across the arena, landing on his back! Aquarius follows Axeon and gets under the hacker again, tossing him several feet, and finally into the wall. But AJ wont let this fight go to the dogs as Axeon rights itself; Aquarius hits Axeons wedge and goes sailing over! Axeon fires the axe, just as Aquarius is almost right over him, and the point catches the underside; Aquarius rotates forward and hits the ground wedge-first! However, it does not affect the shape: Aquarius being made of strong material. Axeon goes in for another attack, and again finds himself flying through the air, to land on his back again, but fires the axe and rights himself...to find himself on the flipper of Aquarius and again gets launched! Axeon lands right-side-up and prepares for a counter-attack...AND AGAIN GETS FLIPPED! AJs face is now a shade of red darker than the Canadian flag. :proud: Axeon has had enough abuse and decides to take action; he dodges another charge from Aquarius and slams the axe down, right into the slot below the flipper, which has not been lowered yet! Somehow, things have turned the other, nastier, and crueller way as Axeon drags Aquarius around the arena and straight into Sgt. Bashs CPZ. The military sergeant bot grapples Aquarius in his claw, and scrunches down, but that 12mm titanium is proving resilient! Suddenly, Axeon is shoved into Aquarius as Shunt flies in and sticks his own axe into Axeons top. Aquarius is released from both Bash and Axeon, gets to Bashs side, and FLIP! The sergeant be-eth inverted! Shunt, however, has managed to put Axeon against the wall on his side, and is hacking away with his own axe, yet the blows arent doing that much damage. Tony seems to think that he should get all the glory and not Shunt, and so Aquarius backs into Shunt, buffetting him out of the way to get at Axeon. Axeon uses the axe to push himself...onto Aquarius wedge. TOSS! Bye bye, Axeon, youve just landed yourself a one-way ticket OOTA! :proud: Shunt is in a fury and flips over Aquarius with his scoop, hammering the 12mm titanium wedge and not doing a damn thing to it. Aquarius slips to Shunts side, and tosses the other HB over. Then he carries Shunt over to the wall, and FLIP! Shunt lands right on top of Axeon. Bad luck, Andy!

CEASE!

Axeon doesnt have the axe effect.
AQUARIUS MOVES ON TO THE SERIES SEMI-FINALS!!!

Series semi-finalists

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Coming up: Heat B
Leprosy Infection VS. Wedge Devolution
Son of Ripper 5.0 VS. Enter the May Tracks
Ripper VS. Terrorhurtz
Terror Gear 3 VS. Mother Of All Bricks IE

with no bots in this tournament, all thats left to do for me is giving my lovely predictions :proud:

Leprosy Infection VS. Wedge Devolution

I think Steves Wedge-bot has the best chances here, given its good armour and OOTA-ing ability

Son of Ripper 5.0 VS. Enter the May Tracks

SoR 5.0 to live up to its good reputation and beat his nemesis

Ripper VS. Terrorhurtz

I dont know much about Ripper, but I do know Terrorhurtz is my all-time favourite realie so Ill be cheering for the axebot :proud:

Terror Gear 3 VS. Mother Of All Bricks IE

hmz, if I have to put my money on one of these, itd probably be MOABIE, although I have to say Terror Gear stands a fair chance of drumming and pitting Aarons brick

Another variation of what I said earlier...

WEDGE DEVOLUTION?!
Im gonna kill you Kody! Im gonna strangle you, and bury you, then dig you up and clone you, and kill all your clones! Then, Im never talking to you again!!!

(prays that Kody has seen Madagascar)

OK, just hit it and hope for the best.

quote:

Im gonna kill you Kody! Im gonna strangle you, and bury you, then dig you up and clone you, and kill all your clones! Then, Im never talking to you again!!!

Strange, seeing as how you stuck up for me earlier in the NSBFL-X 2 thread. :wink:

Ooh, sorry about that. Forgot that you didnt want to think about those days anymore.

Still, the joking comment still stands.

Son of Ripper 5.0 VS. Enter the May Tracks

Hax0r the May Tracks! Avoiding Infusion would probably help around now too. :crazy:

OK, SOR 5 seems to be a very powerful flipper and not much else. Well, hes got the saw but attacking hardox with it is a nice excercise in futility so I doubt Andy will use it.

Not sure how powerful those lorry windscreen wiper motors are, but Im pretty sure Ive got the better drive. My tracks give me better traction for an all in all better pusher.

If any damaging house robots are chosen, Ill keep flipping him into CPZs to try and kill him off that way. Failing that, Ill either try to flip him OOTA, or flip him into a CPZ, open the pit while hes escaping, or just plain flip him until he runs out of gas.

5.0, Frank! Not the old retro version...

I thought the stats looked surpisingly basic:proud:

Tactics are pretty much the same, except for killing via house robots which I now wont be trying. If I flip him, hell need to self right in order to attack effectively.

I can still run invertible, and the spinner can also work inverted. But as you said before, chances are it wont do a lot to the armour... so Ill just go and shut up. :P

Hey, forget about the boring fight... Want to team up on the house robots before we start on each other?:)

Sounds good to me. Then I can go and drive down the pit... :proud:

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Todays Shopping Centre Announcement...

Checkouts 5 & 6 will be closed today.... FOR BURNOUTS!!!!!!!!!! :proud:

Noooooo idea what youre talking about Aaron...oh well, the others might.

My guess is a statement on SORs drive system... if not Ill join you on not knowing. :lame:

My guess is: Since when did Aarons jokes make sense? :p

Hmmmmm i work on a checkout... but guess what... i have no idea what your on about, feel free to explain

Leprosy Infection VS. Wedge Devolution will be up shortly

It all started along time ago, so long ago, it was Monday... I was in doing a bit of shopping, getting some more slabs of coke... Its for my addiction you see. And I must have taken like a wrong turn at the food deli and I ended up in the cold food section, and it was basically empty, there were no other people...

I wondered, WOW! Wouldnt it be soo coool if there was an underground street racing syndicate of souped up, blingin trolley racers in the cold food section.... Maybe shopping would be half interesting with two trolleys doing burn outs down the aisle with large Nitrous Oxide tanks giving hardcore performance...

So in my usual act of randomness, I yelled down the aisle, Aisle 12 is now closed.... FOR BURNOUTS! before proceeding to race my trolley as fast as possible down the aisle.... **I swear they are gonna kick me out of there someday, my trolley wasnt even registered**

I did a quick tough lap with my trolley, scaring an old lady in the process and headed to the checkouts...

Now the reason it became Checkouts 5 & 6 will be closed today.... FOR BURNOUTS!!!! was because when I was explaining the story to some of my mates, trying to get them to join the fully sik underground world of shopping trolley racing, the influence of alcohol magically made me say checkouts instead of aisle... Since then, the random saying has stuck...

The moral of this story? Dont leave things in the fridge!

**Queues There something in the fridge tonight by Wierd Al and adds the Cowboy Bebop video clip before departing off to the House of Carnage robot event....**

Ahhh makes a bit of sense but I guess its a you need to be there to find it funny sorta thing

Again, sorry, for the delay€¦you didnt think the tournament stopped at Heat A, did you?! Shame on you! :proud: Were onto Heat B now, and the action seems to intensify. Todays fight features€¦

LEPROSY INFECTION, a robot shaped like Tetanus Booster from Series 7; an invertible vapourbot with bars on the sides to prevent being stuck on its sides, and a vicious spinning drum in front. However, though the wheels are semi-protected, they are still vulnerable to axes. Chris neednt worry about the wheels, though. Leprosys opponent is€¦

WEDGE DEVOLUTION, a very well known vapourbot on this forum. A low wedge with steep sides and rear (and skirts over top), it sports a nasty rear-hinged flipper capable of easily lifting a tonne. It has a front plate that makes it easier to get under robots with skirts. However, it has limited CO2 capacity€¦

Roboteers, stand by€¦

House robots: Sir Killalot, Mr. Psycho

3€¦
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ACTIVATE!

Wedge Devo is already blasting towards Leprosy - WHOA! Caught you off-guard, there, didnt it, Steve? The drum had already got up to speed, and sent Wedge Devo flying onto its tip€¦and comes right back down on top of Leprosy, who advances, and shoves Wedge Devo right into the wall. Leprosy turns and, trying to get its spinning drum into the wheels of its enemy, drives forward a little bit, manoeuvring around trying to get the precise motion - and no, Wedge Devo slides off of Leprosy and bolts away, happy to be free. :proud: Leprosy looks in a right state after that, and bores at Wedge Devo, hoping to toss it over with a good solid hit. But Steve disallows the chance as Wedge Devo makes a reverse 90 on one wheel, and Leprosy goes sailing past. Wedge Devo then slides under the drummer and WHOOSH! Leprosy is sent spinning into the air, and lands back down on Wedges flipper, and again gets launched! Not the flight plan Chris was intending! :proud: Leprosy has now landed behind Wedge Devo, and trying to take advantage of this charges at Wedges rear. Wedge Devo turns, but too late; the drum hits the side and Wedge Devo is thrown up onto Leprosy again, with the side skirt gone, and uh-oh! Leprosys heading for Sir Killalots CPZ! At the last second, Wedge Devo reverses off of Leprosy, and gets under him again, tossing him about ¼ way across the arena! What a back and forth match this is! Refbot looks on as Wedge Devo chases Leprosy down and gets under Leprosy, but too late, as Leprosy speeds off, and all the use of that flip is put to naught, as Wedge Devo hits air. Leprosy spins around and charges again at Wedge Devo, but no, the flipper closes too fast, and Leprosy drives straight onto it. A grin unfurls on Steves face as the flipper yet again activates and€¦I daresay the flying sickness that Leprosy is feeling is showing in Chris face: hes starting to turn green himself. :proud: Leprosy lands near the floor flipper, and is rammed by Wedge Devo again, being shoved on top of Wedge Devo and sent across the arena again! Leprosy lands inverted this time, but being invertible this doesnt matter. Wedge Devo bores at Leprosy again, but this time the drum catches the flipper. Wedge Devo is driven into the ground, and Leprosy flings himself into the air from the hit, but something has happened, because Leprosy has started to smoke. Wedge Devo senses that this match has drawn to a close and so advances on Leprosy again, who is not showing any signs of life other than the drum spinning. WHAM! The flipper again is caught by the drum, and Wedge Devo cushions the blow into the ground using his wheels. Leprosy, however, is not moving at all; the drum has stopped completely. Wedge Devo reverses all the way across the arena into the pit release, opening the pit, but Sir Killalot and Mr. Psycho have blocked off Leprosy from Wedge, and Refbot is counting Leprosy out.
1€¦2€¦3€¦4€¦5à ¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚¦6€¦7€¦8€¦9â⠀šÂ¬Ã‚¦10!
Mr. Psycho advances, lowering the hammer, and poor Leprosy is feeling the wrath of the house robots now, as Sir Killalot grips him with the Jaws of Life - WHATS THIS?! Wedge Devo has gotten under Sir Killalot and thrown him onto his face?! Uh oh, Mr. Psycho doesnt look too happy as he advances on Wedge Devo, but Steve gives Psycho the oh please look as Wedge lets Psycho advance. And over Mr. Psycho goes at the tip of the flipper. Leprosy has been dropped as Sir Killalot rams Wedge Devo from behind. Wedge Devo turns and flips Sir Killalot again, but now smoke from Wedge is emanating€¦Refbot shoves Leprosy down the pit.

CEASE!

The cure for Leprosy Infection has been found.
ITS WEDGE DEVOLUTION, AND HE ADVANCES TO ROUND 2!!!

Coming up: Son of Ripper 5.0 VS. Enter the May Tracks

Coming up: Son of Ripper 5.0 VS. Enter the May Tracks

Correction. Its Son of Ripper 5.0 vs Enter the May Tracks vs the house robots:proud:

Well, time for another fight. Two veterans, three more spots in Round 2, who will get the next place? One of these two will€¦

SON OF RIPPER 5.0, with its box-no-wheels design, with sloped sides and front wedge. It has a Firestorm-style wedge extender, which on top is a nasty rear-hinged CO2-powered flipping arm that runs across the top and front of the robot. Also it has a rear horizontal Hardox spinning bar. Also invertible, with good armour, and good speed, it should stack up well against€¦

ENTER THE MAY TRACKS, a Comengetorix shape with a bigger wedge than Comengetorix, and 20mph speed. It sports a front flipper with a recycling system, so it has unlimited firepower, and can prevent robots from going right over the top due to sunglasses at the top (sunglasses€¦?). It has 3.25mm hardox armour, and is a tracked robot. However, it is not invertible€¦

Roboteers, stand by€¦

The house robots, thanks to Andy and Frank, are Matilda and Growler. :proud:

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ACTIVATE!

And so Andy and Frank have decided to take on the house robots before they start on each other! Matilda has started with the disc pointed at the opponents, and is reversing into Enter the May Tracks. EtMT isnt phased by this, and so bores full out on Matilda.
CRASH!
OUCH! Not a wise decision, as EtMT goes flying into a 360 and lands right back into its wheels, the flipper not really damaged, though. SoR goes flying into Matildas side and inverts her. Growler rams SoR from the side, getting under the skirts and clamping down, removing the side skirt. EtMT rushes in and tosses over Growler, from the side also. Now with the house robots out of the way - no? Oh, there goes Matilda OOTA courtesy of SoR! :proud: EtMT opens the pit and pushes Growler towards it. SoR turns, and joins EtMT in the pushing of Growler into the pit. Yup, down he goes, straight into the pit of doom! Now that the battle with the house robots IS over, Andy and Franks bots turn and face each other. Then€¦they charge. And SoR goes flying onto the wedge of EtMT and gets launched across the arena. He lands upside-down and uses the arm to right himself, but right on top of EtMT again, who tracked down SoR, and launches him again. SoR bounces off the arena wall and lands right-side-up€¦and EtMT gets under him€¦and bye-bye, Son of Ripper, its OOTA for you!

CEASE!

Son of Ripper 5.0 gets sent out early. Quickly. Literally. :proud:
ENTER THE MAY TRACKS ADVANCES TO ROUND 2!

Coming up: Ripper VS. Terrorhurtz

interesting fight Kody :proud:

Ripper VS. Terrorhurtz

as a matter of coincidence, I just saw some action pics of Ripper (for the first time), making me say Terrorhurtzll win :proud:

Does anyone have any pics of Ripper? Im not quite sure what it looks like...all I know is that its got a flipper, and it beat the crap out of the HBs (having read the TV Archives)

http://roamingrobots.co.uk/images/aboutus/ripper.gifhttp://roamingrobots.co.uk/images/aboutus/ripper.gif

Its bigger then it looks on photo. :)

Yup it certianly is... :mrgreen:

Ta muchly, AJ :)

Yes, Ripper is the biggest machine Ive seen live.

As for the sunglasses, theyre a piece of metal shaped to look like sunglasses, not actual sunglasses. And I would be more excited about beating SOR, but someone spoiled the ending for me :p

Well, someone (me) shouldve told him to check the match instead. :lame: *smacks self*

Anyway, weve got our next fight about to begin! First up is...

RIPPER, with its wedge design, and superb flipper. It has a stopper that is unlike Franks creation, a bit bigger. It was a heat finalist in Series 7 but got beaten by Firestorm V. Its fighting...

TERRORHURTZ, a hugely successful design with its double-sided axe and hexagonal wedge shape. It has front plates that help against spinning weapons. It made the Grand Finals in Series 6 but got beaten by Razer.

These two have met before, with Terrorhurtz winding up the victor. But will Terrorhurtz continue to dominate, or will Ripper get his revenge?

Roboteers, stand by...

And the house robots kicking it off are Shunt and Cassius Chrome.

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ACTIVATE!

And its Ripper that begins first by driving towards Terrorhurtz, getting under the front panels and flipping Team Hurtz bot over. Terrorhurtz rights itself but is rammed by Ripper into the wall. Terrorhurtz gets under Ripper from the side and with the speed of an incoming diesel train slams Ripper into the wall and inverts him in doing so. Ripper rights itself onto Terrorhurtz and rolls off of him. I dont think Terrorhurtz are too interested in flipping Ripper, because theyve got that hugely powerful axe and are now making nice carvings in the arena floor! :angry: Thats coming out of your wallet, buddy! Ripper have now hit the pit release button, hoping to end this match quick, but - no, Ripper have been slammed against the wall again! Down comes the axe, and up, and down, and up, and down again! Ripper finally escapes and reverses into Shunts bucket. Shunt drives forward and inverts Ripper, shoving him right into Terrorhurtz and over him. Terrorhurtz axe fires again, but its Shunts axe that takes the blow this time - SHUNTS SCOOP! THE BUCKET HAS BEEN DAMAGED! Holy flying freight trains! Terrorhurtz axe has penetrated Shunts scoop, making about a half-inch cut right inside! Shunt seems momentarily phased by this, and Terrorhurtz takes this opportunity to retract the axe and reverse away to go looking for Ripper. But not that long, as Ripper rams Terrorhurtz from the side, getting under the Team Hurtz bot and throwing it onto its back! Terrorhurtz again rights itself, and is narrowly charged over by Ripper, who turns and is given a flipperful of axe by Terrorhurtz, who turned as fast as Ripper did. Ripper advances, and right on top of Terrorhurtz, who fires the axe again. Ripper slides off of Terrorhurtz, who hits arena floor again with the axe. Ripper decides that hes had enough of Terrorhurtz and goes after Cassius Chrome in his CPZ! Cassius Chrome turns, and is flipped over as the wedge slides under the dual scoop and inverts the house bot. Shunt rallies over and Terrorhurtz crashes into him from the side, bringing down the axe but not doing any damage this time. Ripper is still toying around with Cassius Chrome, trying to toss him OOTA, but its not working. Again and again the axe of Terrorhurtz is fired, and the Shunts side panel is really looking bent now, as the axe is actually doing damage. Ripper finally leaves the CPZ and comes over to Shunts other side, flipping him onto Terrorhurtz, who reverses. Ripper then pushes Shunt onto the floor flipper...WHOOSH! Shunt learns to fly for about 1.2 seconds and lands on his other side. Terrorhurtz charges Ripper again and brings the axe down. One of the panels of Ripper falls clean off. Ripper reverses and Terrorhurtz drives right up onto the wedge, and gets inverted. Ripper shoves Terrorhurtz into the angle grinder, but Terrorhurtz rights himself again before an impact results, and Ripper is hit instead! Ripper backs away, and that gives Terrorhurtz time to charge, hammering Ripper from the side and bringing the axe down again and again! More armour from Ripper goes flying off, and the bars inside the armour look pretty tasty for Terrorhurtz who has given about 10 axe blows in a row! Refbot comes in and seperates the two, as Terrorhurtz backs away. Ripper trundles away looking severely beaten up. Terrorhurtz drives in again and plows Ripper into the wall again, throwing Ripper away as the axe chops the air and hits the wall. Ripper bounces behind Terrorhurtz and comes to a stop. It looks like its over for Ripper! Terrorhurtz decides to spare Ripper any more torment and shoves him into the pit - OOPS! Terrorhurtz went too far and threw himself in as well! :proud: Refbot stares around in confusion as the crowd cheers Terrorhurtz! Terrorhurtz!

CEASE!

Ripper got a victory ripped off of him, including his armour. :proud:
TERRORHURTZ ADVANCES TO ROUND 2!

Coming up: Terror Gear 3 VS. Mother Of All Bricks IE

Coming up: Terror Gear 3 VS. Mother Of All Bricks IE

Put the front electric servo acting wedge on MOABIE down hard against the floor and ram into the front hinged wedge on Terror Gear 3 and try to go under the weapon. Push him to the arena wall and then stack him against it so he cant drive :proud:

Either that or just ram foo his ass around the arena... I got a shat load more torque and plenty of traction to boot, should be able to batter him around the arena and take no damage from the drum....

Gonna open a can of whoop ass on ya Tony ;)

What if the can is one of those that wont open? :proud:
...Oh, thats right, the can opener. Ill be sure to hide that.

Heres my can opener ;)

http://aaron.botclips.net/images/Personal/Kenpachi.jpghttp://aaron.botclips.net/images/Personal/Kenpachi.jpg

Do I want to ask where you got that? :proud:

I dont think so Andy ;)

E-bay? I know someone who collects those things.

me for instance.