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Straight from the off Leprosy Infection charges in the direction of Psyclonized who just immediately sits on the spot and allows its hammers to get up to speed. Chris knows that to defeat the beast though hell have to charge and try and stop the hammers from the off, and so flies straight into them with the drum facing. The impact causes little as AJ hasnt fully spun his machine up, but Leprosy Infection is knocked to once side and a few sparks fly from spinner on spinner. Chris turns in again, and repeats the process hammering into the hammers of Psyclonizer, causing more sparks and again being thrown slightly off course. This time Leprosy Infection finds himself facing the machine with his rear, slamming into him again, this time managing to get to him before AJs machine has even started noticeably spinning, allowing him to push Psyclonized into the wall with a loud crash. He backs off, allowing Psyclonized to start driving forwards, but before he can give himself room to spin up again, Leprosy slams back into him with the drum, pushing him back once more, lifting him off the floor underneath the hammers. Psyclonized looks like hes beginning to panic with AJ behind the controls, as this fight hasnt started the way he meant it to one little bit.

Leprosy Infection repeats again and again, slamming into Psyclonized, preventing the favourite from moving anywhere in order to get his discs up to speed. This is superb driving from Chris, but what hes going to do for the rest of the fight remains a mystery. By this point as well, hes slammed so many times that the disc is at a halt, so no damage is being done other than possibly the odd scracth from the slams. Even so, thats enough for Chris to be well in control of this fight and he countinues, in and out, in and out, smoke flying from the wheels as he accelerates and brakes constantly for so long. However, this could be the point where Chris loses his momentum as, due to having been slammed so many times without response, the Refbot gets in the middle of the 2 to see if Psyclonizer is immobile and no sooner has he stepped in the way, does AJ move out of the way of the wall and go spinning off into the centre of the arena. This immediately seems like a hardship for Chris and his machine as Psyclonized immediately gets a chance to spin up to any kind of speed for the first time in the fight. Psyclonized is just getting up to some kind of speed when Leprosy Infection rams in with the drum once more. Again sparks fly as the two spinning weapons meet, but this time theres enough speed in the hammers to send both robots flying.

Leprosy Infection attempts to drive while still spinning around but ends off forcing himself into the wall, a poor display of driving from Chris for the first time. Psyclonized on the other hand has finally stopped doing its crazy flailing spinning dance, and falls to the floor. Seeing hes got a good distance from Leprosy Infection, he pauses before spinning up, allowing himself time to hide cleverly, yet cowardishly behind the refbot. Leprosy Infection sees this and comes up with a clever idea of his own. He flies across the arena straight into the refbot, liftig him up with his spinning drum, straight into the hammers of Psyclonized. The hammers smash into the Refbot and immediately burst the CO2 cannister for the fire extinguisher, sending gas billowing into the arena where the sharpened hammers have punctures the cannister. Leprosy manages to dodge the falling carcass and swivels around the side through the gas, to find Psyclonized waiting with the hammers narely up to speed. Leprosy drives in and theres a horrendous cacophony as the 2 spinning weapons meet once more. The 2 robots spin away again, and it sends Psyclonized straight into the dead Refbot who has finally stopped giving off gas. The impact with the bulk of the referee stops the hammers dead, and this allows Leprosy Infection to come in on the attack again, managing to work out a direction sooner than previously, and slamming AJs machine into the wall once more.

AJ realises he may be a little less lucky this time, and tries to escape again, only for Leprosy Infection to give him a wider berth this time and give him more room to get out. This turns out to be just to be able to get the drum up to a greater speed however and this time the drum lifts up Psyclonized and prods him up against the wall. AJ spins the weapon against the ground and this causes him to fall down... straight onto the top of Leprosy Infection. Chris doesnt know what to do as AJs machine is beached on top of him flailing around with the weapon hoping that hell unbalance himself and fall off the top. Chris reverses straight into the pit release button. But the impact just drops AJs machine and he finds himself charging away as fast as he can to get away from the pit, whilst the weapons are at full tilt for the first time in the fight. Leprosy comes in headlong and slams into him with the drum once more. Another huge crash and another spinning exit for both robots. This time though when Leprosy Infection recovers, he realises that the drum has stopped and so close to the end of the fight. AJs machine requires less energy this time to get up to speed and when Leprosy Infection comes in again, theres another crash, this time the hammers managing to smash into the side of the machinecompletely pushing one of the side bars inwards and bending the armour behind it.

This single impact seems to have done a lot to Leprosy Infection, who immediately seems more sluggish as it appears that the impact has impacted on its ability to move on one side. The damage is not catastrophic though as he still seems to be able to move, albeit with a slight lean to one side. AJ starts to believe that this fight might just be his for the taking and slams in again, but Leprosy manages to turn in time again just quickly enough to get the already broken disc into play as a sacrificial spinner killer. Nobody seems more surprised than Chris that hes taken on one of the most dangerous robots of all time and is still standing, especially so close to the end. Psyclonized comes in again for another slam, but once more the drum stands up to the beating, seemingly no more damage possible. As the fight nears the end, the dead refbot performs the one duty its still capable of and counts down to the end of the fight.

CEASE!

And so to the judges

Damage - Leprosy managed to do lots of insignificant superficial damage but the big blows came from Psyclonized

LI - 2/10 * 5 - 10
P - 8/10 * 5 - 40

Aggression - Leprosy always seemed far more willing to go on the offensive, always trying to hit AJs machine

LI - 7/10 * 4 - 28
P - 3/10 * 4 - 12

Style - Leprosy had more style in its use of the arena and even the house robots

LI - 7/10 * 3 - 21
P - 3/10 * 3 - 9

Control - Although Leprosy managed to manouvre well, it also made a couple of fundamental errors tipping the balance slightly in Psyclonizeds favour

LI - 4/10 * 2 - 8
P - 6/10 * 2 - 12

Dominance - Until the end of the fight, Leprosy always seemed ever so slightly more in control

LI - 6/10 * 1 - 6
P - 4/10 * 1 -4

Totals -

LI - 73
P - 77

What a close fight, and how close to a mammoth upset. But damage has most definitely swayed it and Psyclonized goes through to the heat final.