Heat C
Round 2
Fight 1

SOR 5.5 vs Star 69

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Two machines, both powered by LEM130€™s at 36 V, move away from their starting squares. SOR shows off slightly more acceleration, but Star€™s 19 mph top speed gives it an edge when Martyn€™s machine gets going. Oddly, he doesn€™t goes straight to SOR but rather steers away to get his ring going. SOR in the meantime has its rear facing Star and decided to ram Martyn€™s star with its blade. 69 tries to dodge and does a good job, but SOR still drives straight against one of Star€™s sticking out points!
CLANG!
Star€™s weapon is not up to speed at this moment, unlike SOR€™s small blade, which is hitting air because of Star€™s odd shape. Star€™s weapon is stalled completely, and SOR swiftly reverses, makes a tight U-turn, and wedges Star 69! Martyn discovers Star still has a small amount of grip on the floor and tries to reverse, but Andy is quicker on the buttons and fires his flipper!
FA-LIP!
Star is thrown into the air and onto its back, hardly a problem for an invertible machine . SOR moves in and Star moves away. The fbs€™ top speed moves it out of the range of the flipper, and Martyn now found himself some time to spin up its weapon, and comes in at SOR! Andy turns SOR€™s back to Star again as he really doesn€™t want his flipper to feel the spinner€™s wrath. Not scared for a confrontation, SOR comes in as determined as Star does, and the duo meets with a bang!
BANG!
Told you it was a bang . Star bounces off the Hardox armour and dances around uncontrollably for a second, whereas SOR makes a spin around its centre. When Andy turns SOR around, he sees the damage done to SOR€™s rear. The Hardox€™ plate is mostly intact, but that bar is looking pretty damn loose! Andy€™s highest priority does not include that bar at all though, and he wedges Star who is only just regaining control. Andy€™s plan isn€™t performed perfectly as Star€™s weapon slowed down only 50% or so rather than 100, and Andy fires his flipper quickly before receiving more blows! Star flies through the air yet again and initially lands on its side. Andy moves as Star starts to topple back on its wheels, and wedges the spinner again! The duo moves in forward-motion, one of Star€™s teeth dragging along the ground stopping it from spinning up. The wall€™s in sight!
FA-LIP!

CEASE

Star 69 has hit the camera tracks
SOR 5.5 goes through to the heat final!





Heat C
Round 2
Fight 2

Metal Sonic Spin Dash vs Snakebite IV

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And off they go! Looking at their basic shape these machines have a lot in common. Both are low, skirted boxes with a front wedge, and both rely on getting underneath their opposition€¦ or do they? Richard doesn€™t fancy MSSD€™s skirts and bring Snakebite€™s rear into play, where an 8 kg blade is spinning up viciously. Steve€™s driving to Snakebite reveals he wants to attack that rear, but not quite where that blade is! The two vapourboteers don€™t want to open up a gap for their opponent to attack, resulting in an odd status quo where the two machines drive (or shuffle, in Snakebite€™s case ) around each other. Steve guesses his six wheels will make MSSD turn slightly better than Snakebite€™s camshafts and the hedgehog has a go at the snake€™s right corner! The box slides underneath, and sparks fly when its top receives a nudge from the blade! That nudge knocks MSSD aside slightly, and MSSD€™s saw is positioned under the skirt rather than the main body! Sparks fly from under the skirt when MSSD drives Snakebite forwards and slams Snakebite against the wall!
CLANG!
MSSD reverses and reveals how messed up the joint of Snakebite€™s side skirt looks now. Snakebite now drives towards Spin Dash using its superior speed and does time DOES get a hit in on the side with the blade!
CRASH!
Snakebite isn€™t known as an uber-spinner but that knock still sounded pretty impressive! Sonic€™s side-skirt was knocked upwards and the main body was knocked around, Snakebite standing firmly on the ground due to its superior weight. MSSD drives away from its nemesis to make a U-turn, and to attack Snakebite€™s flank! Snakebite isn€™t quick enough on it shafts to dodge this assault! Spin Dash doesn€™t quite penetrate Snakebite€™s skirt but does manage to shove it to the wall, and THERE penetrates the skirt . With a display of sparks and€¦ sparks, the saw eats its way past the skirt underneath the body, where Snakebite€™s underbelly is at the saw€™s mercy! The shafts are trying to get a grip on SD€™s wedge to shuffle away, but aren€™t quite able to do so. For all Richard knows, Spin Dash might be sawing his shaft in halve right now! After several highly tense seconds, Snakebite manages to get a grip on MSSD€™s saw of all places and shuffles away to safety. Doing so, however, Richard shockingly discovers several small slices across his left camshaft! Snakebite still moves, but can€™t quite respond when MSSD comes in on its right side! With the traction on the left shaft decreased as it is, MSSD does a good job pushing Snakebite. The hedgehog turns left a little, where the pit is waiting! The grip left in Snakebite moves it forward a bit, but is it enough€¦?

CEASE

Snakebite IV meets the bottom of the pit
Metal Sonic Spin Dash goes through to the heat final!

Coming next:
SOR 5.5 vs Metal Sonic Spin Dash

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