Welcome to the 2nd first round battle of the Fowler Fic War Series 5, and today we see the number 23 seeds, taking on a real robot, and a newbie to get through to round 2.

Now, Matt is really getting bored of writing intros for each of the robots especially as everyone knows about them so he€™s just going to do the histories

First in, seeded number 23, Slammer V

In FFW3 - In round 1, took out his own team mate Hector, however got caught short in round 2 by Voltronic who went on to win the heat

In FFW4 - In round 1, teamed up with Heart of Fire to knock Cleopatra out of the competition. Got through an extra round as they managed to knock out veterans The Crashing Bore in round 2. Lost out in an all-seed heat final though to Axe to Fall.

Points

FFW3 - 2/2 = 1
FFW4 - 3
Total = 4


Next in is MeCannibal.

In FFW3 - DNE
In FFW4 - DNE


And finally Kan-Opener

In FFW3 - DNE
In FFW4 - DNE

And off we go after that immensely lazy start.

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Slammer using the wedge is the first to tear across the arena straight into MeCannibal, who finds himself on top of the wedge before he has any time to spin up at all, Kan Opener then uses the opportunity to come in and immediately parks himself around the rear of Kan-Opener and gets his claws around the tyres surrounding the wheels and immediately tries to close the claws on them, but Alex, realising he can gain control and aggression points, fire his self-flipping arms, launching both himself and MeCannibal into the air, with MeCannibal falling just short of the arena fence (right way up) and Slammer himself landing directly on top of Kan-Opener.

Alex tries to get Slammer to spin his wheels on top of the shiny titanium armour of Kan Opener, but just ends up hovering around struggling to gain any purchase. Kan Opener tries to drive as smoothly as possible to the pit release button but Slammer falls off along the way. Kan Opener carries on his merry way anyway and drives into the pit release button, which immediately lowers the pit with klaxons sounding around the arena. (Oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-ah)

MeCannibal has been left to his own devices on the other side of the arena and that€™s exactly the way he likes it as it means he€™s been given full time to spin up. Immediately he charges over towards Slammer but again Slammer gets the wedge facing him and gets right underneath the incoming machine. Immediately he fires the self flipping arm and turns him upside down, immediately leaving Pauls€™ machine with no number. No-one is sure why MeCannibal has stopped until Slammer throws him through the air and it is realised that MeCannibal is sans motors.

It turns out that those were what the big sticky out lumps on the top of MeCannibal were as there is no way in hell you would ever get Etek motors into a machine 15cm tall, and so he had to leave a big hole to let them fit out of which they have fallen out of the second he was flipped.

CEASE

MeCannibal ate itself with a rubbish design, Slammer V and Kan Opener go through to round 2.

Round 2 line-up

Axe To Fall (7) v Kan Opener
Slammer V (23) v Dysfunction 2.0

Thoughts, Tactics, Predictions, Stilton and broccoli soup?