And so begins our next battle in the heat. The two competitors who are looking to rip each other to subatomic pieces are€¦

KNIGHTROUS WEDGE, a Slam Job-shaped wedge with a flat top, an insanely powerful flipper powered by a unique hydraulics system, and invertibility. The speed! The pushability! The strength! But is the emphasis on those three words great enough to overcome€¦

TOBY THE T-RAM ENGINE? Rather larger than his opponent, Old Toby sports skirts all around and rams opponents with his front plough. Also sporting 15mm Lexan armour and rollbars to prevent being stuck on his back, this little engine is rougher than he looks.

Roboteers, stand by€¦

The house robots for today are Shunt and Mr. Psycho.

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ACTIVATE!

And here we go again! Knightrous Wedge, with its 40MPH speed, zooms right into an oncoming Toby, and the resulting crash even makes the house robots tremble in their little footies! Unfortunately, neither is able to get underneath the other, and so they back up and try again. But Toby has barely started going when Knightrous Wedge plows into him again! To Aarons consternation, Knightrous Wedge forgot to notice that Toby pulled off an old trick: the power dive. So Toby stopped, driving his plough almost right into the ground, and Knightrous Wedge, as a result, drives right into the plough and up sideways, onto his rear! Without wasting a moment, Toby bores straight into Mr. Psychos CPZ, and slams the Slam Job look-a-like into the house robot. The crazed antagonist gets ready to bring the hammer, but Knightrous Wedge, using his quick thinking, fires the flipper, which is in contact with Mr. Psycho, and flings himself across the arena, landing right onto his back. And so Mr. Psycho does bring down the hammer€¦onto Tobys plough! Luckily, the blow glanced off of Toby, and so no visible damage seems to be€¦visible . Knightrous Wedge rights himself ala T-Minus, with a 540 degree flip that awes the crowd, and is backed into by Toby. Back skirt meets side skirt, and they are stopped again. Knightrous Wedge wheels himself towards Tobys side, hoping to get a shot, but Toby keeps reversing. Aaron, however, wants to see a flying robot show and chases right after him. Toby stops€¦and Aaron has once again fallen for the power dive trick€¦no! Knightrous Wedge has stopped right in front of Toby. It looks like a real Mexican stand-off€¦only we aint got no Mexicans . Neither are moving. Refbot comes over and slightly nudges Knightrous Wedge, who turns to drive him off. Bingo! Toby rams into Knightrous Wedge, and this time the reverse happens: Toby flies right on top of Knightrous Wedge, but onto the side. Aaron, in his delight, hits the flipper button too soon: the flipper hits Toby and gently nudges him over. This, however, has saved Knightrous Wedge from flipping itself, and as Toby rolls over, Knightrous Wedge catches him before the skirts hit the floor. Fasten your seatbelts, gents! Whoosh! With the flick of a button, the flipper of Knightrous Wedge activates again, with Toby on top. The 120 degree angle of the flipper means that not only has Toby been flung high into the air, but over top of Knightrous Wedge as well! He lands just inside of the arena, but the rollbars look very bent after that landing, and Toby just makes it onto his wheels, only to be rammed again by Knightrous Wedge, who turned around just in time. Skirt meets skirt again, and again the two stop completely; Knightrous Wedge reverses and goes for the rammer again, but finds that he is gone. Then he sees that Toby has rammed into the pit release, opening the dreaded pit! Aaron laughs in the control booth, figuring that that is a cheap way to win, and so Knightrous Wedge advances on Toby - WATCH OUT! Knightrous Wedge has again run over the plough of Toby, and nearly threw himself into the pit! Toby rushes forward, eager to punt the Australian bot into the pit, but Knightrous Wedge reverses away€¦

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Toby spins around, and reverses at Knightrous Wedge, but Knightrous spins around and around to glance the blow away€¦

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Knightrous Wedge hurtles into a CPZ, and tosses a very surprised Shunt into one of the cameras€¦

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Mr. Psycho advances, but is rammed by Toby€¦

CEASE!

Well, this will go to the judges, then.

Knightrous Wedge - Toby the T-Ram Engine

Categories will be marked out of 5€¦

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

Total = (15 - 10)

By a 15-10 judges decision, Old Toby might be better off smoking Pipe-Weed and not steam.
KNIGHTROUS WEDGE ADVANCES TO ROUND 2!

Coming up: NSBFR-X VS. Y4