NSBFLX-2

[bex]

Frank you just hate people with better jokes than yourself

[dogbot4000]

No I meant bogies is spam just on its own I dont want bogies thrown at me.:new::-)

[mrdaves]

What was that Timmy?

Did you say all your bases belong to Frank?

You did, oh-dear, time to call the FPF (Frankie Police Force)

[dogbot4000]

What are you talking about?

[dinowarrior]

OK, no Zero Wing jokes.

Theyre Not Winner!

[pcbore]

Welcome to our second tag team bout, taking place in the Last €˜Bot Standing arena. Let€™s meet our teams.

In the green corner, we have Mega Masher 2 and Leprosy Infection from Chris Mason. Both are similar in their philosophy of damaging and pushing the opponents around, with Leprosy being the bigger damager and Mega Masher being the better pusher. Will they push and slice their way to victory?

In the yellow corner, we have Panicking and Disco 5 from team Martyn. In a true clash of styles, Panicking hopes to lift and shove enemies while Disco 5 aims to slice them to bits with its fearsome flywheel, or possibly flip them over with its self righting flipping arm.

Starting off are Leprosy Infection and Disco 5.

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ACTIVATE!!

And here we go! Leprosy is the faster machine, but it€™s Disco 5 with the better acceleration, and straight away Martyn is aiming for the side of Leprosy, just catching it with the disc as Chris tries to get it out of the way, bouncing Leprosy up in a shower of white sparks! Martyn quickly turns Disco around as the disc revs up again and catches Leprosy full on the side, knocking it completely up and over! Disco pushes forwards, battering away at the side of Leprosy!

Leprosy is knocked head over heels as Martyn keeps Disco chasing after it, catching it with blow after blow and battering it across the arena, with not a darn thing Chris can do about it! A respite comes when Leprosy is bounced off a wall and away from Disco€™s charge! In a credit to sturdy building and good armour, Leprosy still seems to be running well, despite the buckled and torn side armour, and Chris spends a second working out which way up his robot is before heading to the tag corner to send Mega Masher into the fray!

Mega Masher goes straight after Disco, and manages to get its front wedge under Disco€™s own! The front flywheel is lifted up where it can€™t do anything, and Disco is slammed backwards into the arena wall, pushing it further onto Mega Masher€™s wedge. With Disco€™s wheels spinning helplessly in the air, it is pushed into the green corner and dislodged, before Leprosy slams into Disco€™s side, tipping it over with the drum! The upside down Disco is pushed into the wall by Leprosy as it tries to self right, and pushed base first against the wall!

Panicking comes out now, and lifts Disco away from the wall. This is technically legal as Disco had been immobilised, but Refbot gives Panicking a yellow card anyway. As Disco heads to the yellow corner, Panicking lifts over Leprosy, trying to strand it against the wall, but it slips down and heads off, before turning and running back at Panicking! Panicking gets the forks under Leprosy€™s front, but Leprosy continues forwards and crashes into Panicking€™s front with a crash!

Although Panicking€™s driver is pushing the button to raise the forks, nothing is happening, and Panicking is pushed backwards by Leprosy! This only goes on for a second though. Panicking€™s weapon may have been broken, but it still has the greater traction and horsepower, and Leprosy is edged backwards! Rather than be pushed back, Leprosy reverses, turns and reverses into the tag corner to get Mega Masher out there! As Leprosy reverses, we can see the damage the drum has done, and the forks of Panicking are hanging limp and half coming out.

As Mega Masher comes out, Panicking decides discretion to be the better part of valour, and makes a beeline for the yellow corner, and in comes Disco! Disco charges out straight away and connects with the disc on Mega Masher€™s side, knocking it over and opening up a gash in the side armour! Like before, Disco keeps up the pressure, knocking Mega Masher up again! As soon as Mega Masher bounces onto its wheels, its driver takes it away from the next attack, and turns around, bringing its own disc to bear on Disco!

Disco gets a taste of its own medicine, and is knocked upwards and over by the disc of Mega Masher! Immediately the self righting bar flicks up, but Mega Masher attacks again, hitting the bar and knocking Disco up and over again! Fortunately for Martyn€™s team, Disco lands back on its wheels and hurriedly reverses from the next attack, and Mega Masher hits the wall! Martyn gives the self righting arm a fire to see if it€™s still operational, and is pleased to note it is.

That done, Disco charges Mega Masher disc first as it backs away from the wall and spins its disc up. Disco slams into Mega Mashers€™ side near to its disc, and to his delight notes that the disc of Mega Masher is now spinning slowly to a halt! Mega Masher takes another hit and is knocked up and over, before self righting again and quickly tagging in Leprosy! Leprosy charges at Disco, and Disco replies in kind! Disc hits drum with a huge bang, knocking both machines up! Now the disc of Disco isn€™t spinning, and the drum of Leprosy has been jarred from its mount and is hanging out!

Disco retreats and tags in Panicking now, as each combatant has lost its weapon. Panicking comes in and slides its forks under Leprosy. Although useless for lifting, they still give Panicking the leverage to push Leprosy around and into the wall! Not knowing what to do with Leprosy from there, Panicking returns to the yellow corner and tags in Disco once more, who comes out backwards to use the flipper now it won€™t be needed for self righting.

Leprosy charges into Disco€™s side, causing the drum to come away completely! Disco is pushed sideways into the wall, reversing from there, then quickly turning and getting under Leprosy, flipping it up and over! Disco quickly gets under Leprosy again and flips it onto the wall, pushing into it to make sure it is properly stacked before heading off to clash with Mega Masher as it charges out of the green corner like a bat out of heck!

Wedge meets wedge as Disco gets between Mega Masher and the stranded Leprosy, and stalemate. The two spin their wheels against each other for a moment before Disco is pushed slowly backwards. Using a different tactic, Disco reverses, allowing Mega Masher to shoot past. Mega Masher heads for the stranded Leprosy though, but Disco again manages to cut it off and flips it over! Mega Masher self rights as Refbot starts to give Leprosy the ten count!

Mega Masher starts pushing Refbot now, who is between itself and is team mate, hoping to knock one onto the other and so free Leprosy, but Disco gets under Mega Mashers side and flips it again! Mega Masher self rights, but is dangerously near the yellow corner! Making use of a tactic that had previously beaten Panicking, Disco flips Mega Masher onto its team mate and just leaves it there. Refbot finishes counting out Leprosy, as Mega Masher fires its self righting arm repeatedly, trying to unstuck itself, but does not manage so in time. Thirty seconds go down, and team Martyn are the winner via double stranding!

[dinowarrior]

Im not trying to complain here, but how exactly was Mega Masher able to get stranded on Leprosy without it either being able to self-right or simply driving off?

[pcbore]

It was stranded on Panicking, with its base touching Panickings top. It couldnt drive off because its wheels werent touching the floor, and it couldnt self right because it was the right way up. Hope that clears it up.

[dinowarrior]

Ahh...I was getting confused over which partener MM was stranded on.