The Crash & Burn Tournament

[kodster]

No,IdidnotstealyourcoffeeAJ.Nowletusgetonwiththefights.

The contendahs today are€¦

AQUARIUS, with its Voltronic-style shape, front flipper, 25mph speed and 2-wheel invertibility. Its ground clearance of 5mm around the sides and back is not so good, but with 12mm titanium armouring, it is a good bet that it wont take much damage. However, its armour will probably be useless against€¦

KALI, who also has a speed of 25mph, plus sporting a Biohazard-style lifting arm, pneumatically powered. It sports boron carbide armour; 10mm in front, 5mm at sides and rear. On top it has 14mm polycarbonate. But it is not invertible, and having a Biohazard-style lifting arm, Im not sure if it can self-right probably€¦

Roboteers, stand by€¦

Oooh! Our final two house bots are Sgt. Bash and Cassius Chrome. Shocker.

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ACTIVATE!

Both bots slam head-first into each other, looking for an advantage, but its Kali who gets underneath Aquarius and throws it into the air with the pneumatic power. Aquarius lands upside-down but slams into Kali again, sailing over the lifting arm and over Kali into the wall€¦? Whats this? Theres smoke in the CPZ? OH MY GOODNESS!!! SERGEANT BASH HAS PUT HIMSELF ON FIRE!!! :sad: Dont know how that happened€¦and theres Refbot, putting him out. Back to the real fight, Aquarius rights himself and is at Kalis rear. She turns, but is flipped by Aquarius; luckily, she tips off of her side and lands right side up. This does not please Tony, or Aquarius, who flies straight at Kalis rear again. Kali reverses, expecting to try the same trick€¦nope, Aquarius got the time right, and Kali is tipped over onto her back. Aquarius wheels around and, seeing Bash out of the way, tries to have his way with Cassius Chrome, who is waiting in the CPZ. And so getting under the plow of the idiotic-looking monster, Aquarius activates his flipper€¦to no avail. Cassius Chrome is merely tipped up a little bit and comes down. Meanwhile, Kali has righted herself, and twists round, flying at Aquarius who is underneath Cassius Chrome. Aquarius again drives forward, but Kali is too quick, and slides the arm under Aquarius, hoping to get an OOTA! That thought is dashed as Aquarius merely tips onto his back, and scuttles away, Cassius Chrome screaming after him after also coming back down. Kali chases them both€¦and cheekily stops and hits the pit release, opening the pit if push comes to shove. Aquarius rights himself€¦right into Cassius Chrome! Not good for Tony, as Cassius Chrome shoves Aquarius into the side wall, and up onto his rear. Kali drives right into Cassius Chromes rear and begins lifting. The house robot is suddenly finding himself in a difficult situation, with only his plow on the ground, and his head to the wall. Against the wall and underneath Cassius Chrome, but not out, Aquarius fires the flipper, and pushes himself into Cassius Chrome. Cassius Chrome is shoved back into Kali, who again lifts the house robot. Aquarius backs into Kali, and fires the flipper. Cassius Chrome is tipped€¦and out! You saw it here! Cassius Chrome: over the fence and out of the arena! Refbot does not look too pleased. Time is running out, as Aquarius shoves himself backwards into Kali, who has the lifting up and so cant use it on Aquarius. Kali reverses, trying to separate Aquarius from her, but Aquarius keeps backing into her, and eventually€¦POW! Kali is shoved into the wall, and Aquarius scuttles away again. Oh dear! Kalis lifting arm is stuck! After that collision, no wonder!

10€¦9€¦8€¦7€¦

Aquarius wheels around and runs right into Kali, getting under her and throwing her into the air.

6€¦5€¦4€¦

Kali lands upside-down and cant right herself. Sgt. Bash is smoking ominously in the CPZ.

3€¦2€¦1€¦

Aquarius does a little victory spin€¦

CEASE!

Well, that was brutal! Sgt. Bash on fire, Cassius Chrome gone out of the arena; a true flipping frenzy! Lets hear from the judges.

Aquarius VS. Kali

Aggression = (3 - 2)
Style = (2 - 3)
Control = (2 - 3)
Damage = (4 - 1)
Strategy = (2 - 3)

Total = (13 - 12)

A very tight judges decision; but nonetheless, Kali walks down the Hall of Shame.
AQUARIUS ADVANCES TO ROUND 2!

Heat A semi-finals

Knightrous Wedge VS. Axeon
Aquarius VS. Y4

Tactics? Predictions? Tic-tacs? :P

[pcbore]

I think the heat final will be Knightrous Wedge vs Aquarius.

[alex_holt]

Err... Im a tad hypocritical for saying it but it is invertible, but it doesnt say it in the stats so Im not going to make a fuss about it as Im in the wrong, Ill ammend that shortly for future.

However, biohzard flippers do self right without any problem, though it doesnt affect the otucome of the fight in any way, again however, good fight, keep up the good work.

[kodster]

@ Alex - Ill be sure to get the most recent version of Kali if you enter it in my next tournament.

@ Frank - Thanks for the pre-diddly-iction

Well, we have two mighty behemoths today, fighting like rabid dogs over the heat final. Heres how they got here.

Knightrous Wedge pulled off a judges decision after catapulting Toby the T-Ram Engine around the arena.

Axeon KOd Jim Struts after repeatedly whacking the living hell out of it with the axe.

Roboteers, stand by...

The house robots today are Matilda and Sgt. Bash, who has been repaired.

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ACTIVATE!

Both bots zoom at each other again, but its Aaron who draws first blood with Knightrous Wedge, who gets under the wedge of Axeon and rockets it high into the air! Axeon comes down hard but lands on its wheels and manuvers away as if nothing happened. This does nothing to ease Knightrous Wedges temper, and so the Slam Job-shaped bot advances on Axeon, and again they slam into each other. Knightrous Wedge again gets under Axeon but fires the flipper too soon, just as Axeon is on the tip, and Axeon is gently turned over, righting itself with the axe. Unfortunately, the time it took to right itself cost Axeon the chance of moving a move as Knightrous Wedge gets under Axeon again, and throws the axebot into the air once again. Axeon again comes down hard, and rights itself once more.Before Knightrous Wedge can try his tactic again, Axeon reverses away and unwittingly hits the pit release, opening the pit! Aaron again laughs, knowing that Toby the T-Ram Engine pulled off this tactic before, and also laughing then: Knightrous Wedge flies straight at Axeon, who goes flying over the wedge before the flipper can launch him, lands behind Knightrous Wedge, and backs into him, but again drives up onto Knightrous Wedges rear slope. Aarons monster backs towards the wall with every intent on slamming Axeon against it, but Axeon scuttles off the wedge and makes a 180 turn off of one wheel into Knightrous Wedges side! The wedge of Axeon gets underneath the side skirt, and Knightrous Wedge finds himself slanted at an angle! Down comes the axe into the 8mm titanium top armour! A tiny hole can be seen in the titanium. Knightrous Wedge is trying to get away, but it seems that his movement has been hindered since he is off the ground. A grin unfurls on AJs face as he drives Aarons flipbot towards the pit of doom. Suddenly, the flipper activates on Knightrous Wedge, but AJ saw that coming, and Knightrous Wedgelands right back on Axeons wedge, but the line-up with the pit has been broken. Axeon turns and hammers Knightrous Wedge once more with the axe, and then dumps the proud bot down the hole.

CEASE!

Knightrous Wedge has blown out.
AXEON ADVANCES TO THE HEAT FINAL!!

Coming up: Aquarius VS. Y4

[pcbore]

I dont get why youre happy... Instead of fighting one of Aarons super bots, youve got to fight a robot capable of beating one of Aarons super bots

[knightrous]

Yeah, what Frank said. If Knightrous Wedge was a super bot, that means Axeon is even better But as we allllll know.... Axeon is just a clone of Dureon

Which, Ill have to show AJ how its done with Dureons evolution called Opteron

[kodster]

Mini-tournament fights set up. The fight between Aquarius and Y4 will be done later.

[andrewj]

Axeon is just a clone of Dureon

Gah! Stop finding me out!

Nice fights, Kody.