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Thanks to the combined efforts of both Mentorn and Mr. Reaper, I knew every result of this semi. Thanks a bundle everyone.
Firestorm vs Mute
Well we all knew Mute was probably lucky to even be here... We also knew that self-wronging was going to be a problem, so I suppose this wouldnt have been a surprise anyway. The highlight was definiterly Mute helping Firestorm to propel it out of the arena:)
Winner: Firestorm
Storm 2 vs Grim Reaper
Grim Reaper was out-manouvered from the word activate and battered around the arena... The almost got Storm 2 on the flipper once but not quite, but overall this was Storm 2s match. Incidentally, Grim Reaper is the only robot in S7 to go to the judges for all its matches.
Winner: Storm 2
Typhoon 2 vs thermidor 2
Charge miss, hit, house robots. That... Pretty much sums the fight up. I wouldnt mind knowing what killed the lobster though.
Winner: Typoon 2
Atomic vs M2
Quite a fast paced battle, this, with Atomic ion top for most of the fight. It may be a high preassure flipper, but it still seems to have a lot of gas. The bit where Atomic was on the side wall would have been tense if I didnt know theyd won the fight, and the only really unexpected bit was M2 flying OOTA but once Atomic had them trapped against the wall it seemed kinda inevitable. Fight of the night.
Winner: Atomic
Storm 2 vs Firestorm
I expected this fight to be closer, but the trouble for people fighting Storm 2 is, youre just recovering from one slam, when it gets under you again... Fighting robots like that are going to breed roboteers with reflexes like greased lighting. Lets face it, itll have to unless everyone wants Storm to win everthing:proud: Anyway, again Storm 2 was pretty dominant as although Firestorm got under a few times, Storm just flew off the wedge and they couldnt get hold of it. Good fight anyway.
Winner: Storm 2
Atomic vs Typhoon 2
Atomic finally did what all the other flippers failed to do, and got to Typhoon 2 in time and flipped it! It rolled over again, but it looked like beating the FBS from hell would be a formality for the farmers, but then they went and did a Chaos 2 and flipped themselves, and then it pretty much looked like a pipe had burst, rendering Atomic immobile. Then Typhoon went and hit it a couple of times anyway, floor flipper, pit.
Winner: Typhoon 2
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was not need to attack atomic once they turned themselves over, after a few seconds it was clear theyd killed themselves.
Storm looked impressive as always and didnt look beatable even the mighty firestorm looked wimpish against it
its a great final coming up
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If Typhoon hadnt have Attacked Atomic then the house robots would have totally mashed up Atomic, they have do to something to keep the battle long enough for tv
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Wow, fascinating stuff, but not a patch on Semi 1 for me. Heres my view of the fights:
Round 1
Mute V Firestorm (2)
Just as i predicted, Firestorm easily getting in underneath the tiny ground clearance of Mute and from then on it was all over. Preety obvious stuff, thanks in no small part to last weeks spoilers, but still good to see the self-righting ability of Mute being put to (bad) use. Correct the angle by 90 degrees and they could have won this fight, but at least the didnt flip themselves out.
Thermidor 2 (14) V Typhoon 2
I predicted this as well, one hit and all over. No real destruction, but one great hit took out the lobster to make sure it was broiled. Then the House robots came in to do what was probably the only part they had to play in both Semis combined.
Storm 2 (16) V The Grimreaper
I didnt expect the Reaper to last nearly this long, so full credit to them, they done really well against a superb robot. They couldnt get even a single flip in on Storm 2 which was utilizing the side panels to very good use. Although it was total domination from Storm 2, the Reaper hung on to a Judges, which was coincidentally the only decision in this semi and only the second in the entire semi final rounds. The fights seem to be one sided.
Atomic V M2
Battle of the flippers pressures high and low. Good stuff, the only battle in this semi that wasnt one sided. I thought M2 had them out at one point, but i knew thanks to last weeks sloppy editing that this would never happen. Didnt expect M2 to go flying out, in fact i thought theyd win outright. Has to be the fight of choice in this semi.
Qualified: Firestorm, Typhoon 2, Storm 2, Atomic.
Round 2
Firestorm (2) V Storm 2
Good stuff, i thought Storm would win, and lo and behold, they did. Basically a repeat of last series tornado/firestorm match up, Firestorm got under Storm 2 a few times early on, and after that got pushed around everywhere. Interesting but short.
Typhoon 2 V Atomic
I thought Typhoon would win by ripping Atomics flipper/blade style wedge off. Although there was no damage quite that extreme, there were some BIG gashes on Atomic by the end.
Very gentlemanly of team typhoon to hold back after Atomic was obviously knocked out, though it was confusing exaclty what happened to Atomic. They reminded me of a very large beetle stuck on their back, they seemed to get locked there and then it was all over after one nearly flip. The noise that typhoon made was pretty tremendous, i liked that! :)
Qualified: Storm 2, Tyhoon 2.
So, overall there were some very good fights, most notably M2 V Atomic, and the standard of robot was special. Perahps the two that got through here were even better than those last week. My only complaint was that the fights were not overall quite as entertaining as those of Semi 1.
But still, a very good show!!
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Well get the heat write-up on the website as soon as possible.
Its all kinda strange, a year ago we were on the new blood and now people are tipping us for Series 7
All quite surreal !
Nice to see Storm II looking like it should with its skirts on - and good to see they worked. Didnt expect to get through that semi without going over once !
Ed
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Well ed, with a ground clearance that low, its hardly surprising. Harking back to the days of battlebots and biohazard methinks.
Oh yeah, very good performance :)
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Well Ed if youd actually had the courtesy to stay on Firestorms wedge long enough for them to flip you, you wouldve bee turned over:wink:
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I thought I read something in the rules about not being allowed to change your robot for defensive purposes. ie only interchangeable weapons. Are the skirts weapons :). Doesnt really matter, Storm II was allowed in & their decision is final.
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Mark, the rules do state that you cannot add defensive armour however we did not add any. We turned up and weighed in with the skirts on. We then chose to remove them for the heat fights as we werent against any flippers that posed a problem to save any damage to them from things like Supernova.
Come the Semis we put them back on.
Theres no rule that says you cant take defensive armour off !
Ed
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Ed, Storm 2 was impressive yesterday, Ill be backing Storm 2 all the way. Go for the title!! :)
Best bits: Mute flipping itself OOTA while on top of Firestorm, Typhoon 2 disabling Thermidor in 1 hit (wow), Atomic flipping M2 OOTA & Storm 2s fight against Firestorm
Worst bits: Atomic immobilizing itself against the arena grinder while trying to flip Typhoon (Get rid of the arena grinder. They are a design flaw, always have been, always will be)
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or an arena hazard if u look at it that way.
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Jamie theres never a reason to atack a dead robot all that TV bullshit just an excuse to make robots look good
Unfortunatly its mainly spinners that do it
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but Typhoon 2 is a powerful robot and as someone else said in the forum that the house robots would just destroy Atomic so Typhoon 2 had to come in for the kill (impressive as well as destructive) to show the house robots that Atomic has had enough damage so they just flipped it and dumped it in the pit!
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craig, i am not going to change your mind or anyone elses on this forum. You are entitled to your opinion.
that was a very lucky flip (for us) that atomic dished out. I know it does sound like a bad excuse but i thought that perhaps giving them a hit on their back would perhaps close their flipper and allow them to fight on. We gave them 2 hits and then we backed off, however we then got a Mr Craig Charles screaming through the curtain to give them another hit. In the heat of the moment we decided to show how powerful we really were and although in retrospect it was a bad idea it happened and there is nothing we can do now.
However craig i do not think that it is only spinners that attack immobile robots, all types of robot are guilty and the only reason that spinners are noticeable is because they usually do alot of visual damage. Just my opinion
I would like to thank all our competitors for being such good sports about taking the damage that we dished out throughout series 7.
I personnally think that the final is the most interesting there has been although ill let you all make up your own minds next week
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Exactly if a robot is dead, a flipper doesnt stop flipping them around, its just that spinners cause the most noticable damage and that is because they made the robots so they could win
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Craig Charles screaming? I never would have guessed...
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Theres a vast difference between being in control and put a couple of gashes into a dead opponent as opposed to knocking all the bloody electrics out over the floor.
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I dont recall people complaining much when Hypnodisc put pieces of Splinter all over the arena floor LONG after it ceased moving. Whats so different now?
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Robot Wars has changed a LOT this year...:sad:
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well ive seen nothing wrong with anything on a robot apart from pussy cats blade and bulldogs bread green thing(i donno what it is) neither the less strom 2 is gonna whip torando to win the RW7 just maybe have a go at the house robots too ;) TAKE ON GROWLER
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We asked on a number of occasions if we were allowed to go growler racing, but sadly Mentorn wouldnt let us :sad: and asked us not to get involved following what we did to Sir K.
Ed
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lol ill add something to that Ed after the next show.........
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I will admit Gary your by far not the worsed for attacking a dead robot in fact I think thats the first time Ive seen you do it, However Gary and Jamie the noticeable damage you talk about is very true flippers dont cause noticeable damage but then again its very unlikely a flipper alone will damage anything. A spinner is designed with one thing in mind I dont care who you are what your intentions are there only out to do one thing.
Spinners and crushers cause alot of real damage and having been on the receiving end of having my immobile robot attacked again and again because they focus on trying to obliterate my robot
it really annoys me when people like it coz it looks good and makes them feel better, Im more impressed when someone like typhoon kills a robot with one hit as you did with Thermidor
If i were attacking someone after they were dead the other team would complain and quiet rightly so its an unwritten rule thing but its an issue that really rattles me
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You have to ASK before attacking the house Robots??? :sad:
Dont tell me that all the spontanius house robot taking on weve enjoyed throughout the history of RW has been pre-planned!!
(Alright, I know of ONE for definate...but the others are fine....surely???)
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but there was the chance Atomic could of flipped its self back over, flipped Typhoon 2 over and the match would of been finished so Typhoon 2 had to go in for the kill.
Gary, how fast did you get Typhoon 2 up to on the first hit on Atomic, it sounded sweet from the audience!!
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Two Words
SOUND EFFECTS
Typhoon 2 doesnt sound like that when it spins up
Ed
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Makes a change from JP saying and listen to the noise of... when all you can hear is the music and his commentary (or is it just me?)
So what *does* T2 sound like? Wasnt until I got the DVD that I heard Razer for the first time (Ive seen it live, but not competing). Id much rather have the real noises than JP.
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it does actually ed, thats the sound of the petrol engine getting up to speed
You can hear the engine in our first match against hamerhead 2 when we came close to the camera. This was because we put the engine at its full rev however this meant that the clutch continually slipped and so the energy from the engery was lost and we didnt get an efficient spin up. From then on we realised that it was better to match the engine rpm to the disc rpm. In the atomic battle the disc had caught up enough to really hear the engine and whilst it probably was amplified it does make that noise when it gets to that speed.
Dont worry Craig we have made a team decision to stop attacking our opponents no matter what the production crew want (if theres another series).
carl the first hit wasnt the fastest, around the 700rpm mark, the biggest was the last which was 800 to 900rpm. Basically our max rpm.
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Oh ok Gary, I take it back then - it sounded very much like dubbed over sound effects rather than Typhoon spinning up !
Ed
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i was going to say, i was at the filming and it was awesome
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ed, on your robot stats on RW, it says Storm II has interchangerable weapons, is this true??
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Actually, most of the sound effects are actually real, and I should know. Ive been to a live event.
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Yes, who else noticed the mistake on Storm 2s stats on TV?
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Its not a mistake - Storm II is designed to take interchangable weapons. Course Mentorn didnt pay any attention to the bit that states wed only made the one for Series 7. The arm lifts in an out, takes about 2 mins to get the arm out - and yes were working on a few other modules for it.
Not strictly speaking a mistake.....
Ed
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Storm 2 does have interchangeable weapons. They shove Supernova, it has a spinning disc. They shove Steel Avenger it has an axe:proud:
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How do you get the grinning faces? I can only do :)
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In other words: Add : with O...
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Dont worry Craig we have made a team decision to stop attacking our opponents
Should be easy for them next year then! :proud:
What are you gonna do, just stand there and let them bounce off you? :proud: