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Welcome to tfirst ever review done solely on the FRA forum. I miss the old forum already:sad:

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I NEED A HUG DAMNIT:angry:!!!

Melee 1

Spawn Again immediately chased down Chip, probably because they thought it was the most dangerous there. Anyway, they got a slight hit from the disc and threw them out easily enough. Meanwhile ROTAS had managed to disable Neater Machine with a hit and a flip, so it was just a formal battle between Span and Revenge which Neater Machine was counted out.

Melee 2

The new Executioner looks VICIOUS! And I say that with a capital vicious... Wait, I just did. Meh. On the other hand, they seemed to have trouble getting that spinning blade to actually hit their targets. It certainly hit Topbot though, flipping it with one hit and discembowling it with another! Raging Knightmare was obviously having flipper trouble, but showed willing while Topbot, after losing their blade... Ran off. Psychos head coming off was a good laugh though. ROCS also showed willing.

Now... WHY did Psycho hit Executioner? It wasnt in the CPZ!! Had it broken down? If so, dont the viewers deserve to KNOW about this beforehand? Stupid editing.

World champs

Terror Turtle got one attack after lots of dodging... Drove up snakebites wedge... Snakebite used Razeresque tactics and got rid of Terror Turtle. Really these fights are getting boring. Often it seems the winner is never in any doubt.

ROCS vs spawn Again

Spawn Again was well on top for most of the fight, but ROCS was staying in there... Then they managed to get behind Spawn and trap it in a CPZ wherupon... Killalot cut their hydrullic line and not only meant they couldnt clamp Spawn to get rid of it, but also couldnt self right when flipped again. Stupid house robots.

Raging Knightmare ve Revenge of Trouble and Strife
Raging Knightmare was very much the agressor in this fight, but couldnt seem to get Revenge over. However, a pipe burst on Trouble, allowing Knightmare to tip it over at last. Good aggresion and attacks by both machiens make this... fight of the night.

Raging Knightmare vs Spawn Again

Over too quick for my liking... The initial few flips had me thinking Yeah, this is gonna be a nice even flipper fest, possibly going to the judges. Instead Spawns reliablity comes back to haunt them and their flipper explodes. Meh. Well done to Raging Knightmare anyway:)

First time...

Spawn Again failed to make the semies

Spawn Agains reliability is exploited

Raging Knightmare make the semies

A robot balances perfectly on the fence

Spawn gets flipped OOTA.

Somebodie€™s weapon explodes

...Lot of firsts tonight, eh?:)

Mr Psycho losing his head was funny.
Who was the other house robot in the spawn/rocs fight?

Killalot I think

The Swedish team nicked the name of one of my Vapourbots! (Youve had similar problems due to Twister from Holland, havent you Frank?) Well, mines Mega Snakebite right now, so maybe it doesnt matter.

A good heat. I wasnt too impressed by Spawn Again in Series 6 due to its reliability (in Series 5 I would have been more impressed if I hadnt been so annoyed by Tornado going out) - in this series I am impressed by it, and it goes out. Well done to Raging Knightmare though.

Frank, Mr Psycho hit The Executioner because wed been dead for about a minute (busted speed controller). However, because the radio & engine were working fine, we just sat there with the disc spinning flat out. R.O.C.S. came over to have a look, but wisely decided that if they had a go at us & caught the disc, they would have taken serious damage.

We then just sat there waiting for the House Robots to do their thing. The only damage we sustained from Mr Psycho was a bent weapon when his hammer hit us, & two small holes in the carbon fibre debris panels inside the weapon bay from his hand. There were no crush marks on the outer body shell, & no big dents from being dropped from a great height into the pit.

That design has a lot of promise, Ian. Im sure many of us would love to see the Executioner return.

If theres a Series 8, it will. With a tougher scoop & a new, stronger weapon.

Im gonna post again, sad, but the first hydraulic beasty Executioner was really hyped, and had a lot of expensive technology in it, yet rather fell flat on television. Probably the only hydaulic bot with the potential to rival Razer (more powerful too, wasnt it?)

Why dont you take the new machine to live events like Enginuity or Robot Rumble that allow spinners?

Time..... Mark works in Austria, & Im very busy so I have to fit robot building in amongst a lot of other things (including two jobs). It normally ends up that we get one shot a year as building takes so long.

The first Executioner was a bit of a pain because to get the massive pump & other hydraulic bits within the weight limit, we had to use an aluminium chassis. This is not easy to weld at home unless you have a really decent big MIG. Modifications have to be made in the garage, then taken somewhere to be welded with decent MIG/TIG equipment. Also, even with a regen valve, we found hydraulics too slow. Hence a petrol spinner. The other thing was battery life, the pump pulled in excess of 125amps. Battery life was a bit of a problem. Petrol engine performance doesnt drop as the fuel is used, whereas motor performance drops as the batteries run down.

I design the robot in my head as I go along, the only engineering drawings (if you can call them that), were for the spinning weapon as this had to be made on a very big lathe.

Then, of course, it opened the pit and drove down it! Sorry, couldnt resist.

Watch the video carefully, we were actually pushed in by Dominator II.

Best Bits: JP speaking Dutch wile introducing NEATer Machine, Chip thrown OOTA by Spawn Again, Topbot losing its disc, Psycho losing his head (quite literally) :proud: and Spawn Again flipped out of the arena.

Worst Bits: Spawn Agains C02 ram exploding :sad:

A bit of advice to other roboteers is replace the C02 ram after every series of Robot Wars (or after 2 series of Robot Wars), then your pneumatic ram wont explode.

BTW, I also have the 1st semi-final line-up. Here it is:
Raging Knightmare Vs Tornado (1)
Dantomkia (5) Vs Gravity
St Agro Vs X-Terminator (11)
Bulldog Breed (12) Vs Tough as Nails

Poor Spawnly.

But with a 80% rate of getting into the semis, it is still the best, with Firestorm (80%)

I would have liked to see Spawn Again vs Tornado, I do not mean to sound harsh but it looks like Tornado is going to win that battle against Raging Knightmare.

Richard: Yeah, I got a lot of names copied by real robots. I guess its us who have to suffer from it, the Ripper series will of course have to stop when the last heat it shown :sad:

That will probably be
Tornado
Gravity
X-Terminator
Tough as Nails

Tornado v Gravity-Possibly Gravity
X-Terminator v TAN- I think X-Terminator
TAN v Tornado-Very Hard i think Tornado
Gravity v X-Terminator-Problems with x-terminators self righter will lead to gravity
TAN v Gravity-Gravity
X-Terminator v Tornado-Is X terminators weapon to high i think Tornado

They should have used Melees

I think:

Tornado will exploit Raging Knightmares flat sides to get many good shoves in and take a judges.

Dantomkia will out drive Gravity and surprise the hell out of everyone.

X-Terminator batters the sides and disintergrates the wheels on St Agro

...And Bulldog Breed sinks Tough As Nails after a close tussle.

Gravity vs Dantomkia... well, who can get who out of the arena first?

TAN vs Bulldog Breed... I reckon well either see the Dutch machine hurled around the arena, or the dawg getting its frame seriously bent.

St Agro vs XT... like Frank says, I expect a certain vertical spinner to treat this fight like a practise session.

Sounds like a fascinating semi. Id say that Tornado will easily out-push raging knightmare, Gravity will flip Dantomkia quickly out, X-terminator will beat St.Agro by battering it to death, and Bulldog Breed will beat TAN in a close fight.

sorry frank i just stopped laughing hahaha Mike Lambert out drive someone? lol good one frank :P

I now know how Mike Read feels after being the 1st out of Im a Celebrity...he complained that all his best bits were edited out.

Well I was edited out!! ...you only saw my nose and elbow ..and I thought Jayne fancied me:)

Also in the show Chip lasted about 17 secs when in reality it must have been ....at least a minute:)

We were going great!!(we didnt break down!!) where the hell did Spawn Again come from...bas***ds!!:)

Glad they exploded and got OOTA though:)

At least we went home in one piece...oh well there is always next time ...if there is one!

Tom

P.S I know there are loads of smileys..it just show its all in jest.

Youre a Celebrity? Get outa here! :)

Well I think we may have underestimated TAN, brilliant again tonight, I seriously doubt that Bulldog Breed will beat it

Well thats perhaps so Jamie but remember how close Robochicken V TAN was? And it could have gone either way really. Plus Bulldog Breed seems to be much stronger than Robochicken, especially in terms of drive power. Think of Bulldog: fast, very powerful, flipper, strong armour. TAN couldnt really get a worse match up. But yeah, TAN could well win.

Cos of that idiot on the five forum i know the outcome of this and im really disappointed. Looking at it if i hadnt known it looks like a great line-up. Shame :sad:
Also due to a pic on the five website giving away a fight.
Hate that Man U really...
(dont worry, i wont say what happens)

Saw this on saturday, sad to say perhaps one of the most boring heats so far. Annoyed that an exceptionally worthy semi finalist like spawn again went out on bad luck alone, but hey, thats the fun of building multi thousand pound costing machines, i suppose.

Are we the ones to stay the most horizontal while being flipped OOTA? ...most bots go ar*e over t*t (end over end) ,,but I thought the way we stayed pretty much horizontal..due to the disc still spinning,,(though we landed upside down so must have done a 180) was very impressive:)

When it happened it was TOTALLY unexpected (no matter how it looked in the prog) and as I watched us go OOTA it seemed to be in slow motion, and I thought How level we look

Tom

It was an eerily graceful takeoff, perhaps something to do with the forces involved (envolved??) with the disc??

However, all that was ruined when you smacked into the back of the camera..flipping you! :wink:

Great to see Spawn Again exploding, finally we know that it is possible for a robot to explode in real life, and that it isnt just limited to a Fantasy Fight in the old RWM*. Sorry if this is a little late as well.

*I am referring to the Razer vs Raizer Blade fight...which was very badly done (like most of the fights) and BADLY biased towards the House Robots. I mean, how is it that, when Raizer Blade explodes (due to its gas cylinder been cut), Razer, who only has a hook onto the armour, explodes into little pieces, and yet Dead Metal, who actually cut into the aforementioned cylinder, doesnt recieve a single scratch?! Confusing...and annoying!

Kronic 2 exploded when Terrorhurtz fought it in S6, and lost a lot of its spines :proud: