With Or Without You vs. Apocalypse II

From Enschede in the Netherlands...With Or Without You!

A two-part clusterbot, and the second in this tournament. With You is a basic 4WD rambot with Hardox and titanium armour, and a thick scoop at the front for shoving around. Without You is a 2WD sloped/angled box with aluminium armour, but a massive titanium spinning bar which ejects 420kJ of force, but takes a long while to get there. The idea is basically With You stalls the opponent, while Without You spins up, and then moves in for the kill!

From Cardiff in Wales...Apocalypse II!

A Storm II-shaped 2WD flipper. It has decent power and Hardox armour with extra ti/v panelling in certain areas, but real feature is indeed the massive 4-bar full pressure flipper that can send robots flying quite a distance. There are barbs running down Apocalypse, flanking the flipper to trap opponents, so the flipper can take charge!

Roboteers, stand by...

The house robots today are Sir Killalot and Cassius Chrome.

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Activate!

The clusterbot splits; With You and Apocalypse head right for each other while Without You begins its painstaking ascent into spinning that deadly bar to full speed! With You and Apocalypse meet nearly directly in the center of the Battlegrounds, but it's indeed Apocalypse who gets right under With You and starts to shove it backwards! Towards Without You, even! Hurriedly Martijn tries to get his other cluster out of the way, but with a sickening CRACK, the raging weapon of Without You strikes its brother's rear end! Fortunately for the pair, since Without You's weaponry was nowhere near full speed, so the effects are minimal, but it still sends them away...and With You out of the way! Apocalypse now sets its sights on the spinner, and rams into it, but With You is close behind! Apocalypse gets Without You into the wall, but With You manages to penetrate the skirts of Apocalypse and with a nasty shove throw it right up against its other half! Lian smiles though, and activates the flipper! ...well that was interesting. Without You was directly on top of Apocalypse, and the trajectory of the flip sent Without You in a terminal path while, Apocalypse being up against the wall, flew back over top of With You and settled down right behind it, and Without You comes crashing down on top of its brother! Both roboteers can't help but chuckle at that turn of events, but the situation quickly retracts into seriousness as Apocalypse gets underneath With You, Without You falling off its brother in the process, and tries the OOTA attempt again...oh goodness me, was he ever successful! With You must have flown at least 15 feet into the air! And with another CRUNCH, comes right back down on the wrong side of the fence! So now Team Varying Every Day are in trouble here, but not out, because the other cluster has to go as well!

Realizing this, Apocalypse wheels about, to find Without You nearly fully spun up! The time it took for Apocalypse to eject With You from the arena floor and out, has allowed Without You time to spin its massively destructive blade up! Lian isn't too worried, though, and with some gusto Apocalypse hurtles headlong into the spinning blade!!!...CRASH!!! Well...that was rather epic! Without You is flung far across the arena, slamming into the arena wall, but managing to keep on its wheels in a whole package! Apocalypse is now missing a skirt and...is having a hard time moving! An absolutely massive hit to the side must have done something to the drivetrain as well! But what's this? Without You...can't seem to spin up! Oh dear! Apocalypse wanders over to the lone cluster, but it seems that the cluster is outmanoeuvring it! Without You tries to get to the side, and does so...but only rides up the remaining side skirt! Apocalypse manages to turn...and flip! And Without You lands directly on its back! What a stunner! Without You can't self-right...and Apocalypse knows it because it starts to go into a slow victory dance! And as if to make it official, the Refbot is there with the countdown!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

Cease!

Apocalypse II overcomes the complex teamwork of With or Without You and is granted access to Round 2!