The Crash & Burn Tournament

[pcbore]

Good thing I got here in time. Ill use the low slung blades against Tengu. The anti-spinner ring makes attacking the body pointless, so Ill aim low

[kodster]

Fighting below the belt, sir Frank?

Tengu VII outclassed Whirligig 4.0 and tore him to shreds before Whamlet shoved him down the pit.

Tempest Evil-er-oution kept up the perseverance and the severance until ForcePower 5.0 was eliminated in a tight judges decision.

Roboteers, stand by...

Asterix Heroicus and Obelix Bulguous come back from the Wars Incarnate in their robot forms to cause mayhem in the arena.

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ACTIVATE!!

Both cylinder-shaped spinners gradually get up to speed and crash into each other.
CRASH!
Tempest is the one who strikes, smashing the aluminum foam skirts with the 25CM blades and tearing them clean off, even the rubber! Added to this, Tengu is still spinning, and is now going all gyroscopic, all sideways, and all upended. What a hit! Tempest gets in a light nick before the arm of Tengu pops up and rights her. Then Tempest scurries away. Tengu is incensed and pursues him, but it is too late, as Tempests blades are already up to speed! There is a huge hit, but since it is to Tengus wheels, there is no big crash, but a great whap, and Tempest is stuck to a still spinning Tengu! The low blades cut into Tengus wheel and one is stuck there! So now we have two full-body spinners stuck to each other, and one has its shell spinning rapidly. Heres The Watcher coming in to seperate the two bots, and doing absolute zilch, for the blade is still stuck into the tire! Wait! Tempest wriggles free and Tengu bounces away...and hits The Watcher!
CRASH!
The ref reels backwards, falling onto the back of his head from the hit, but he cannot right himself, nor give a red card due to that being an accident. Tempest, now back at full speed, plows into Tengu; another whap, Tengu bounces up, and holy flying rubber Batman! Tengus front right wheel goes bouncing across the arena floor! Uh oh, I sense that this fight has just taken a turn for the worse for Tengu. Tempest backs away to allow his weapons to get back up to speed. Tengu lurches forward and goes off-balance, all gyroscope city, but lands on her belly, shell immobile. Tempest moves on and smacks off more rubber from under Tengu. Tengu wobbles, and slowly moves towards Tempest, curving around. Tempest moves away, but Tengu advances still, but goes past him and around. Tempest comes on the attack again, but Tengu keeps going in the same arc. Its now painfully obvious that not only can Tengu move in circles, but she can only move FORWARD in circles. Tempest smells the death scent of Tengu and moves in for the kill. WHAP! Ooh, holy flying rubber Batman! Tengus rear right wheel goes flying out from under her! Tengu is really starting to look sad. Tempest is apparently going to blow this scene and hits the pit release button. The pit descends! And Tengu is still moving in a forwards arc. Tempest goes back to Tengu with the blades still spinning and WHAP! Ooh! Tengus left front wheel is severed! And Tempest pushes her over it! There has been no life from Tengus shell since the removal of the first tire, and I dont think its going to magically be reborn unless some random act of Satan occurs...dont you dare Tony! WHAP! No wheel removal, but its been damaged. What a strategy! Tengu stops moving nonetheless. Tempest travels around and WHAP! Ooh, that took out the wheel! Tengu is dead with no wheels and HEY! The shell is actually spinning again! Tengu isnt moving but the shell is! Erm, The Watcher comes near and starts the count-out.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

CEASE!

Tengu VII is caged up and mutilated.
TEMPEST EVIL-ER-OUTION ADVANCES TO THE HEAT G FINAL!!

Heat G Final

Die-Ceratops Reinvertus VS. Tempest Evil-er-oution

[majinb]

predicting again...

Die-Ceratops Reinvertus VS. Tempest Evil-er-oution
This has happened before, and I believe Die-Ceratops took advantage of Tempest bouncing off his flipper and flipped it OOTA, could happen again, Tempest might also take advantage of the fact that Die-Ceratops isnt as well aroured as your general spinner-killer (it IS quite wel armoured though)
... Die-Ceratops might win, though itll have a though match

[dinowarrior]

At least it isnt Tengu. Err...just try and flip.

[kodster]

Its grudge time!

Die-Ceratops Reinvertus flipped Knightmare, Taki, and Tira OOTA before shocking the crowd with a win over the highly impressive-looking Infusion Beta.

Tempest Evil-er-oution took the split judges decision over ForcePower 5.0 and then blasted Tengu VII out of the sky by taking her wheels off.

Roboteers, stand by...

Double Whamlet and Double Big Mac are the housies today.

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ACTIVATE!!!

Tempest has the regular 6cm teeth on again and ready to rip the wheel housing off of Die-Ceratops: the latter whisks himself away before Tempest can get there, though. Tempest does a quick spin to let out a bit of steam, then goes in pursuit of Die-Ceratops, finding out a second later that Die-Ceratops has pursued him! The flipper slides under, but Tempest suddenly pulls a Mauler and goes all tipsy-turvy, flying off of the flipper before the flipper makes him go flying off and lands to the side of Die-Ceratops. Die-Ceratops did not activate the flipper, however, and had followed Tempests movements precisely. Now he gets under Tempest again, and this time he lands a flip: Tempest goes sailing across the arena and bounces off his rim to land back onto his wheels! Die-Ceratops moves in again to prevent any exit, forcing Tempest to move away and close to Whamlets CPZ. Die-Ceratops follows Tempest and keeps the flipper pointed at him. All of a sudden, Whamlet decides that what he needs is more room to maneouver, and so he barrels into Tempest, forgetting that the shell is at full speed!
CRASH!
The hit glances off of the scoop but had the effect that Frank wanted; Tempest bounces away across the arena again and out of harms way, doing another quick spin to get the crowd going. Rather silly, seeing that Tempest is round, but the crowd cheer anyway. Chris is enraged by this escape and bores down upon his opponent. Tempest dodges the blow, and nails the wheel housing!
CRASH!
BAM! Thats left a mark, or rather, a huge gash in the armour, and Tempest is away again, but less agile than before. Die-Ceratops catches up and slides the flipper under, but Tempest slides off before the eventual flip, sending Die-Ceratops belly up. Tempest takes advantage of the backside and smashes it.
CRASH!
Big hit, but little damage! Tempest, unfortunately, forgot to position himself, and bounces into the arena wall, off, and right onto Die-Ceratops flipper! FLIP! Tempest is sent up high, and over Die-Ceratops, landing with a huge smash against the floor. Die-Ceratops is immediately under him again, and Tempest is halfway off the flipper before it activates. FLIP! And its a triple lutz! Tempest lands heavily - right back onto the flipper! FLIP! Tempest is not sent over Die-Ceratops this time, but hits the arena railing and back in. Die-Ceratops is in complete control, and hes back in again, under Tempest and that flipper does its job again, heaving a 100kg FBS right through the air, and - OUT! Tempest is shot right over the wall and out! Its over! Die-Ceratops wins again!

CEASE!

Tempest Evil-er-oution dies down to a pleasant breeze.
DIE-CERATOPS REINVERTUS ADVANCES TO THE SERIES FINAL!!!

Series Finalists

-Aquarius
-Enter the May Tracks
-Orka MK4
-Clawdius Decimus Murderous
-Aneurysm
-Warrior SKF
-Die-Ceratops Reinvertus
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One more spot remains! The ones who are eligible to claim that spot are in:

Heat H

The Great Cornholio VS. IDSFA
Acid Burn VS. Killotine: EVO
Storm II VS. Mega Masher 2
Disc-O-Inferno VS. Salamander III

I have Tony and Chris tactics already, so if I get a few more Ill start right away.

[steven_mcg]

HEAT H
ROUND 1
Acid Burn VS KILLOTINE: EVO

Aarons entry is many things. Fast isnt one of them. Charge straight into Acid Burn to stop the spinner reaching its nasty speeds, then fire the axe and grapple the cage. Engage in a tug-of-war and attempt to drag towards Pit.

[alex_holt]

Lets see..my last chance, and, against a robot with a very similar concept, however, not so powerful. The answer? Mush it as soon as possible.

[pcbore]

The Great Cornholio VS. IDSFA

Two similar-ish machines. My aim will be to get under the front and flip him around. Try to feed to house robots, flip OOTA or pit. The sawblade wont do any damage so this will be a pushing/flipping war.

[kodster]

Seen and done, time for the first fight of the last heat!

The Great Cornholio is a Beavis & Butthead-inspired machine with two lifting arms attached to the middle of its rectangular body, and an Ankle Biter-esque sawblade in front. However its sawblade will be ineffective against...

IDSFA, whom I do not know what that stands for. Its got a front-hinged flipper on its wedge in front, and a rear horizontal disc at the back. It looks similar to Raging Nightmare from S7. Its main tactics are to get in fast and get im out fast.

Roboteers, stand by...

Double Whamlet and Asterix Heroicus. Nuff said.

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ACTIVATE!

Its TGC who makes the first move, ramming IDSFA with the sawblade. No damage. IDSFA responds with a flip that sends TGC belly up. TGC pops the lifting arms up and falls back onto the wedge of IDSFA, who heads over to Double Whamlets CPZ. Whamlet whacks TGC with the twin axes, and a small whoosh confirms the fact that Asterix has just entered the scene as well. TGC is stuck in Whamlets grasp now. IDSFA backs away to give Asterix more room for killing, and now its a house robot party on The Great Cornholio! Tony is peeved about this but it seems theres no way he can get away, for Whamlet shows no signs of releasing him! IDSFA now decides that blowing the scene was a bad idea and heads back. By now TGC is really looking miserable, the top all punctured and a huge hole is there amid smaller ones. IDSFA reenters but Whamlets grabbing axe is in the way! So IDSFA picks on Asterix and gets under his side. Asterix is oblivious to all of this and can only wonder why the world has suddenly gone sideways as he is tipped onto his shoulder. Now with that out of the way, IDSFA moves in with the rear disc and hits TGCs sawblade with the disc. Ka-boom! The sawblade comes off! And something sparks inside of TGC, setting him alight! It can clearly be seen from the top, thanks to Whamlet, who is now destroying TGCs internals. What a pathetic opponent, Frank thinks to himself, and drives IDSFA back to his spot because theres nothing more to see here. Whamlet, still grappling and hacking the corpse of TGC, heads over to the pit release and opens the pit. Then, whirling around like the dear Professors cape, he dumps his food in the ground.

CEASE!

Time has run too short for The Great Cornholio. Or too long, depending on how you look at it.
IDSFA ADVANCES TO ROUND 2!

Coming up: Acid Burn VS. Killotine: EVO

[kodster]

Dun dun dun! Three more fights. (and I believe ISDFA stands for I Dont See Frank Anywhere :wink

Acid Burn is rather Son of Whyachi with the weight switched around. The shufflebot inside the 125kg weapon weighs 25kg. The weapon is supposed to destroy the opponent with as few hits as possible, even if its only one. It has a slow spin up speed, though.

Killotine: EVO represents Scotland! Its basically a front rammer with a malicious axe that can both hammer and grapple. Its fast, powerful, and it can right itself from all positions. However, he doesnt really like to face spinners such as this one.

Roboteers, stand by...

The housies for the first fight are Tira-san and Ancalagon the Black.

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ACTIVATE!

Killotine is out and away towards Acid Burn, who transfers a little of his huge kJ factor into Killys front wedge. The blow glances off, and Killotine brings down the axe. Right into the shufflebot. Ouch! The axe penetrates the top armour of the shuffler and sticks in and, to put it bluntly, Acid Burn does not have much pushing power. Killotine makes full use of this advantage and shoves Aarons killer towards the pit release button. Bump: right into it, and the pit descends slowly. Killotine turns around, and releases the shufflebot...who falls into the pit! But hold on! Acid Burn is suspended above the pit by his (not-)spinning cage! So to rid himself of all cares, Killotine proceeds to hammer the crap out of him. You know, only one hit determined the winner of this fight. Now the house bots close in and aid Killotine in the disposal of Acid Burn. Ancalagon opens those godly-powerful jaws and crunches down on the cage. Tira gives a schmack to the other side, resulting in colourful sparks not unlike the colour of Chaos Emeralds...ring a bell, Prof.? Anyway, its now clear that Acid Burn is completely in the hands of the house bots, as Ancalagon pulls a Sir Killalot and spins around with Acid Burn in his jaws, wrenching him from the pit and suddenly letting go. The 150kg Acid Burn goes flying across the arena and lands right-side-up. Tira is immediately in his face, and Killotine a second later, combining their strength to reduce the shuffler into scrap metal on wheels. Killotine brings down the axe once more, and grappling the cage brings him back to the pit. Erm...Acid Burn doesnt seem to fit into the pit. Oh wait, a sideways shove, aaaaand...BOOM! Bye-bye!

CEASE!

Acid Burn didnt even have enough time to warm up a choco-chip cookie.
KILLOTINE: EVO ADVANCES TO ROUND 2!

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Storm II is the 2nd seed of the Seventh Wars. Hes basically a rectangular box with a front wedge (and skirts all around), and a small flipping arm. The main fear is the power of this bad boy. Hes able to shove just about anybody anywhere he wants to. Hes not that effective inverted though.

Mega Masher 2 comes to the Crash & Burn Tournament with a roar. Hes based on Battlebots SHW bot Minion, with a front wedge and a rear vertical cutting blade, and also a self-righting bar from the sides. Unlike Minion, hes got 4WD and he can run inverted as well.

Roboteers, stand by...

Obelix Bulgous and Double Big Mac are in for the second fight.

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ACTIVATE!

Its Storm who is immediately out of his spot and away towards Mega Masher. Mega Masher, instead, retreats towards the arena wall, with hopes that Storm will ring himself out. That halts Storm. Hes not going to be made a fool of, and instead whirls around and again to Mega Mashers side. Mega Masher runs over the wedge and does a 3-wheeled bicycle, whirling around himself to land back down. Storm advances again and Mega Masher turns and buries the disc into Storms wedge!
CRASH!
WOAH! No damage! And Storm is still advancing, right back into the disc, stopping it, and ramming Mega Masher into the wall opposite! Mega Masher tilts up diagonally and crashes down beside Storm. Storm does not stop there, but continues carrying Mega Masher into the CPZ! Obelix takes this as a compliment and so gratefully brings down the hammer on the 3mm steel on top of Mega Masher and his wedge. DBM slowly twists his away towards them all, like an F5 tornado. Mega Masher and Storm get the warning and back away, but Mega Masher is too quick, and Storm charges into him from behind, right into DBM!
CRASH!!!
AHHHHH!!! What a hit! Mega Mashers wedge panel just went flying along the floor and bounces off of Obelix, who just for the hell of it proceeds to pound it into a pulp. DBM himself got launched back into his CPZ and almost went onto his back! The Storm team look smug as Storm easily slides underneath Mega Mashers wedge-less front and slams him disc-first into the arena wall!
CRASH!
Mega Masher is sprung back over Storm and lands with the disc on top. Storm reverses and gives Mega Masher some more arena wall. Mega Masher is really starting to look sad, the front exposed and panels around it all bent up. Storm turns around with Mega Masher still under him and gives him a little flick with the arm. At this, Mega Masher is propped up against the arena wall and unable to do anything. And thats all she wrote folks. As to verify this, Storm gets the arm under Mega Masher again and another little flick sends us a message, the message that Mega Masher is indeed out of the arena and out of the competition.

CEASE!

Mega Masher mashed around by the superior power of his opponent.
STORM II ADVANCES TO ROUND 2!

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Disc-O-Inferno, from Series 4, is a short, wide box with a front horizontal disc going at 3000rpm. Its invertible, but its got questionable armour and it can be got under easily. It won the second Annihilator of Extreme 1.

Salamander III is Alex Holts beloved axlebot spinner. Its tires are pretty tough and the weapon is pretty tough too. Its also a horizontal disc, and its significantly more powerful than Disc-O-Infernos. However, its pretty easy to toss.

Roboteers, stand by...

Taki-san raises her wedge in her CPZ, whilst Exa-Gore-Ic: AI closes both sets of pincers omniously.

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ACTIVATE!

Salamander jumps the gun almost before ACTIVATE! is called and gets a hit in on Disc-Os side, smashing a piece of lexan off. Disc-O retaliates with a hit to Salamanders tire. Alex is peturbed to see a shred of rubber fall off the wheel. Salamander spins around and smacks his other tire into Disc-Os side, not doing damage but annoying him slightly. Disc-O charges and Salamander is ready, and both discs meet!
CRASH!!!
*GASP* Disc-O-Infernos disc is in pieces on the arena floor! (And as this is my tournament and not Series 3, Disc-O-Inferno is not disqualified unlike Pussycat when he hit Scutters Revenge and the blade went flying in pieces. ) Now in immediate peril, Disc-O no longer has a disc and perhaps maybe we should call him O. Anyway Salamander marvels to see that the match has turned in his favour, and after his quick surprise he comes back to earth and rips off some more armour from Disc-O. Disc-O backs up all the way into the pit release button and - WHOA! Salamander nearly landed himself in the pit! Disc-O circles the pit, hoping Salamander will take the feint and take the fall, but Salamander spins and meets Disc-Os front end with the flywheel, and pieces of Disc-O fly around the arena! Added to this is the fact that Disc-O has stopped moving. Salamander pushes Disc-O in the pit to finish this just-over-a-minute match.

CEASE!

Disc-O-Inferno shouldve been built 30 years ago - at least then he wouldve been in style.
SALAMANDER III ADVANCES TO ROUND 2!

Heat H semi-finals

IDSFA VS. Salamander III
Storm II VS. Killotine: EVO