Heat 10 - round 2 - Battle 2 - Wheel of Misfortune v La Machine

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Much to everyones suprise its La Machine who makes the faster move from the off and comes in on Wheel of Misfortune, attempting to box rush it before it has time to get the disc up to speed. Aaron turns around after the first impact and tries to get some speed behind it, managing to put La Machine off for long enough to get a reasonable hit on him, spinning the former Battlebots champion away, but with little to no damage. La Machine comes flying back after being sent away, determined that hes not going to make this fight the walkover that everyone had it down as. Aarons managed to get more speed behind the disc this time and allows the front wedge of La Machine to meet him straight on, putting a gash into it but as before, no significant damage. He tries to charge in as La Machine spins away once more, but La Machine sees the attack comign and once again just brings the scoop wedge front to meet the disc, seemingly thinking the concave design is the best chance of slowing Wheel of Misfortune down enough to be able tp push him around. Again another gash in the weak armourment but no significant hits yet.

Aaron seems more than happy to bide his time, knowing hes the stronger of the 2 machines and seems perfectly willing just to hang around and wait for La Machine to come to him. La Machine on the other hand just sits there, making sure that hes got time to keep the front facing. The audience dont seem to be happy at the prospect of such a tentative fight and so Aaron edges Wheel of Misfortune slowly closer, the disc now up to its terrifying full speed. He tries to drive in at the side, but La Machine turns away to get the wedge facing. Aaron backs off and attempts to traverse around to the back, but once again La Machine just keeps the front facing. No luck for Aaron. He tries to go down th eleft side, but knowing that La Machine will turn, calls his bluff and turns at the last minute to come down the other side, finally getting the full 2500rpm into play with a huge crash. The side panel immediuately goes in with a cut in it, and it seems to be that that one hit is all its gonna take.

La Machines side pod has been knocked in and seems to be impacting on the drive as he is now only moving in circles. Aaron spins up the disc again and tries to attack the other side. He creates a huge crevace in the other side, but the machine is still driving so he backs off again to spin the disc up. Once more he comes in when the disc is up to speed and crashes straight into the already damaged left side panel. He comes in a little closer to the front this time, and this time instead of just cutting a gash into the panel it tears the panel off completely. He can see all the internals, the motors, batteries, wheels and failsafe, but being the nice guy, decides not to go for the more expensive parts and instead just aims for the wheel. He slams into it, ripping it out of the machine, leaving La Machine a dead duck. The refbot counts him out and the fight is quickly stopped to save La Machine any further humilation.

CEASE

La Machine put up a fight but ended up playing russian roulette with the Wheel of Misfortune. He goes through to the heat final

And so the heat final itself

The May Tracks Has You (30) v Wheel of Misfortune

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