Heat D

Entered by Steven McGregor, SD IV!!
This one of Steven€™s most successful vapourbots with success in many tournaments, including VFT 1. Steven has thought about every detail of the design. The robot€™s shape is a box with a wedge at the front, flanked sides and a triangular back that goes to a sharp point. The wheels are driven by 2 motors that generate 4hp each, giving it 8hp. The robot is armoured in 4mm Hardox, and for a weapon, it has a saw mounted along the ground to cut wheels and skirts and the base panels of other robots.

Entered by Andy Jackson, Pysclonised!!
Andy comes in with his most viscous entry to date! A 15cm high horizontal cylinder, with a spinning ring around the edge merged with an anti axe/crusher cage. The cage is made of 8mm Hardox, and had 3 Hardox blocks on the hammer, strengthened by three beams of 8mm Hardox. The ring is also 8mm Hardox and spins using a 52hp motor, allowing it to spin at somewhere near the 3500rpm brackets. The robot moves at 15mph and is scary!

Entered by Christopher Mason, Orka MK.4!!
Chris Mason describes Orka as an €˜all round jack of the trades€™. Shaped like a box that goes up at the rear, Orka is armoured in Titanium, has 6 wheels that give a ton of grip. And for weapons, it has a front lifting scoop that can lift up a bus, and it has a claw to grip as well. For self-righting, it uses a dorsal fin mechanism.

Steven looks down from Booth #1. Andy looks down from Booth #2. Chris looks down from Booth #3, as they await their 3 way duel.

Roboteers, stand by!!

3€¦2€¦1€¦activate!!!!

And they are off! All three of them are fast at 15mph, but Psyclonised starts off first, by attacking and seriously damaging SD IV! As SD IV is spun away, Orka MK.4 lifts and slams Psyclonised into the arena walls, where the drums on the sides tear away a bit at the sides. SD IV tried to push and slice Orka, but couldn€™t, so tried to get revenge on Psyclonised, and pushed it across the arena into the pit release button. Psyclonised spun up and slammed into SD IV, breaking the Hardox side shell. SD IV spun the sword and sliced at Orka MK. 4, who spun SD IV around, grabbed it, lifted it, and rammed it into Psyclonised. The top was battered to the point of breaking off. Orka dropped it, only to find both Pysclonised and SD IV attacking it, and flipping lit, only for us to see the dorsal fin based self-righter working perfectly. Psyclonised is being pushed again by SD IV, but Orka MK.4 comes in and flips Psyclonised over. SD IV soon follows it, as Orka MK.4 flips SD IV over, and pushes it down into the pit release switch. Psyclonised charges at them, and SD IV is launched into the pit.

Result:
SD IV pitted. Orka MK.4 proves it is still the monster of the big, blue arena, and Psyclonised works on the psyches on the robots they might be facing in Round Two!

Entered by Alex Holt, Tengu 7!!
This has to be the most successful vapourbot on the FRF. EVER! Alex Holt€™s 7th incarnation of this lethal robot is made of 4mm Titanium, and has an anti-spinner frame to deflect fellow FBS€™s. The spinner itself is the full body spinning at a speed high enough to deliver 70-80KJ of energy. The teeth it has are made of 2cm of aluminium, each is 15cm long, and curve sharply upwards to flip over robots with high ground clearances/centres of gravity and rip up robots that don€™t fit in that category.

Entered by David Weston, Flaming Hell!!
Flaming Hell is what is victims will be saying! Flaming Hell is a box with four wheels, and a huge 20kg spinning cage, rotating at 3000rpm, with three frightening looking €˜bot-openers€™. The body is 3mm Titanium

Entered by Michael Cuomo, Crusher C.U!!
Crusher C.U is here, ready to make everyone come back with camouflage! The robot is an invertible box wedge, with its wedge at an angle of 22* for getting under everyone. The suckers grip everyone on its wedge, and the crushers claw them. The crushers are mounted just behind the wedge, and it the wedge and work like pliers and deliver 6 tonnes at the tips. 17mph and 16hp make this robot hard to push and the armour is 12mm Titanium and 5mm Tungsten steel.

Tengu€™s weapon is spinning, as Alex checks from Booth #1. David Weston is checking his weapon as well, in Booth #2. Crusher C.U spins about and Michael Cuomo gives a wave to the audience from Booth #3.

Roboteers, stand by!!!

3€¦2€¦1€¦activate!!

Tengu 7 is the fastest and speeds away, as does Crusher C.U, only Crusher C.U is speeding TOWARDS Flaming Hell. Instantly though, the cage deflects Crusher C.U off, but Flaming Hell bounces back and hits the wall and the cage stops spinning. Tengu 7 speeds in, buffeting both robots, ripping a bit of armour off Crusher C.U, but destroying the cage on Flaming Hell! Crusher comes in and grapples the cage, starting to crush through the 3mm Titanium as though it didn€™t exist. Flaming Hell is walloped into Tengu, and more damage has been caused to Flaming Hell. Dave is now yelling €˜Back off! Back off!€ The match is instantly stopped, to prevent irreparable damage being caused to Flaming Hell.

Result:
Flaming Hell is exactly what Dave is saying as he sees his robot deduced to scraps. Tengu 7 and Crusher C.U go into the next round.

Round Two line-up

Orka MK. 4 VS Tengu 7

Psyclonised VS Crusher C.U

Entered by Alex Holt, Tengu 7!!
Tengu splattered Flaming Hell about, before Dave asked to surrender to save his robot further punishment.

Entered by Christopher Mason, Orka MK.4!!
Orka MK. 4 proved it€™s worth in Round One, where it engaged in a violent melee with Psyclonised and SD IV. SD IV got sliced and flipped, but pushed a lot, until it was pitted, and then Orka and Psyclonised went through.

Alex and Chris have already fought in Round Two - In heat A, Y4 OOTAed competition favourite Achilles. Alex vows revenge in Booth #1 and Chris hopes to continue in Booth #2.

Roboteers, stand by!!

3€¦2€¦1€¦activate!!!

Tengu straight away spins the shell. Orka€™s moving in very carefully, and gets whacked, and flipped, but quickly self-rights. Tengu 7 charges again, but the lifting scoop of Orka MK.4 catches it and flips it. Orka is now on it straight away trying to keep it down, but Tengu self-rights and speeds up the shell to its maximum revolutionary capacity, and rushes at Orka. Orka once again flips it and Tengu self-rights again, but is suddenly struggling to continue going. Orka is walloped and flipped again, self-rights, and pushes Tengu now towards the pit Release switch. Flipped once again, Tengu is lined-up so it can€™t self-right.
10€¦9€¦8€¦7€¦6 €¦5€¦4€¦3€¦2â ‚¬Â¦1€¦cease!!

Result:
Tengu performs like Pingu, and goes out in a monster shock. Orka MK.4 goes through to the Heat Final!

Entered by Andy Jackson, Psyclonised!!
Psyclonised, champion of Mechanical Noise, started by teaming up with SD IV on Orka MK. 4, but then betrayed and sliced into SD IV, before Orka pitted it.

Entered by Michael Cuomo, Crusher C.U!!
Flaming Hell€™s spinning cage was completely destroyed by Tengu, before Crusher C.U caused it more damage.

Psyclonised is getting ready; Andy looks down from Booth #1. Michael waves to the audience from Booth #2.

Roboteers, stand by!!!!

3€¦2€¦1€¦activate!!!

Psyclonised instantly gets the killer cage up to speed, and Crusher C.U comes in to try and do something. Straight away, the cage pushes them away, but it pushes back, and Crusher C.U gets underneath the cage, pushes it towards the arena walls, and crushes the cage supports. Andy jams onto the controls and drives out of the reach of Crusher C.U. Crusher C.U quickly catches up and grabs Pysclonised again and pushes it. However the cage is still spinning and the front wedge on Crusher C.U is ripped in half, but it€™s not stopping, Pysclonised is pushed into the pit release switch. Psyclonised is dragged back, towards the pit, and finally down.

Result:
Psyclonised sliced and diced, but pushed and shoved. Crusher C.U goes through to the Heat Final!

Heat Final

Orka MK.4 VS Crusher C.U

Entered by Christopher Mason, Orka MK.4!!
Orka dominated Round One, where it used Psyclonised to batter SD IV to death before pitting it. It didn€™t quite dominate Round Two, where it received a bunch of cuts and clashes courtesy of Tengu 7, but once Tengu was flipped, and lined up to prevent it from self-righting, Orka ensured a place in the Heat Final.

Entered by Michael Cuomo, Crusher C.U!!
In Round One, Crusher C.U took a bit of damage from both Flaming Hell and Tengu, but once Tengu shattered the spinning cage of Flaming Hell, Crusher C.U could dominate it utterly. Psyclonised also caused it damage, but Crusher C.U kept on pushing it, finally down the pit.

Chris already has Y4 in the semis, and hopes from Booth #1 that Orka MK.4 will join him. Michael has been very lucky so far, as he€™s readying up Crusher C.U for the monster whale.

Roboteers, stand by!!!

3€¦2€¦1€¦activate!!!!

And they are off! Orka is the slower by 2mph, and Crusher C.U take immediate advantage of that, getting under the sides and ramming it full on into the arena wall, sucking it to the front, and clawing through the Titanium shell. Crusher then has to back off, and Orka gets under the front, before pushing it backwards. Crusher is flipped onto his back, he is invertible though, but the scoop is inverted. But not for long, as it fires its hydraulic self-righting arm, and charges back on another attack. Crusher C.U comes in, and once again gets underneath the front scoop, and is now crushing it inwards. Orka raises the scoop to break loose but can€™t. Orka is slammed into the pit release button and dragged towards the arena pit, turned around and pushed down the pit. Michael bashes the glass of his Booth in utter joy.

Result:
Orka MK.4 has whale of a problem - it€™s out!
Crusher C.U goes through to the semi finals