Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

**majinb** · 18th March 2008, 20:02

he was right, you were impatient

**kodster** · 18th March 2008, 20:16

Impatience sucks.

**knightrous** · 18th March 2008, 21:51

n00bs suck

**majinb** · 18th March 2008, 22:05

TIME TO KICK THIS THING OFF!!!

A small reminder: This is a part 1 of UTATYA, a series of tournaments where the arena shall be heavily biased towards certain kinds of robots. In this part, the arena walls will be low, bloody low, soâ‚¬Â¦ guess what robots will do well here? :wink:

Round of 16
Fight 1

Walk Away vs Starstorm 2

Walk Away: Ring spinner walker thingy. Its biggest forte in this specific arena is its variable ground clearance (0 mm minimum) as well as its weight bonus, which should give evil flippers a harder time getting it anywhere.

Starstorm 2: Full body flipper, you donâ‚¬â„¢t see that everyday. The whole body moves up, as will its victims. This machine wonâ‚¬â„¢t perform OOTAâ‚¬â„¢s as well basic wedge-flippers, but with walls as low as this, will that really be a problem?

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ACTIVATE!

Starstorm 2â‚¬â„¢s a Formula 1-car when compared to the slow walker he opposes, but what Walk Away lacks in walking velocity it makes up in weapon speed

. Frankâ‚¬â„¢s getting mildly worried when he sees Walk Awayâ‚¬Â¦ walking away (

) to buy itself time for its weapon to spin up. Starstorm utilizes its superior speed to attack Walk Way!
CRASH!
Tony was quick enough to retract Walk Awayâ‚¬â„¢s legs in order to make the ground clearance death zero. Frank couldnâ‚¬â„¢t react in time and took the full wrath of the spinning ring! Luckily Frankâ‚¬â„¢s vapour is dome-shaped and Hardox-armoured, but that doesnâ‚¬â„¢t stop Frank from being pretty damn annoyed by this outcome. The full body flipper quickly recovers and drives towards Walk Away again, who has seemingly decided to remain static in order to keep its 0 GC. Starstorm again attempts to penetrate Walk Awayâ‚¬â„¢s underbelly, less reckless and more controlled this time. However, Walk Away defensive mechanism is formidable and Startstorm doesnâ‚¬â„¢t manage to pull off its plan. Walk Away is pushed rather than anything else, and after a while Starstorm stops it attempt. Tony still doesnâ‚¬â„¢t there use its legs with Starstorm so close to it. Frank decides to drive circles around Walk Away now to either lure him into action or keep him immobile as long as possible. Matter of fact, Walk Away has been immobile for over 20 seconds!
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Tony starts sweating!
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And Walk Awayâ‚¬â„¢s walking again! Starstorm is VERY quick to respond and rams under!!!
FLIP!
Walk Awayâ‚¬â„¢s thrown up and over, without srimech, without any help!
Lets flash-forward a bit shall we

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Frank starts whistling â‚¬Å“Walk Awayâ‚¬Â by Franz Ferdinand for the sheer purpose of annoying Tony.
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CEASE

Walk Away, stuck on its back he is
Starstorm 2, to the quarter finals he goes

Next: Sir Spinalot vs Wedge Devolution

Start replying all right!

**kodster** · 18th March 2008, 22:08

Knew that was going to happen.

Yay for a right prediction.

Good going Martijn and Frank.

**knightrous** · 19th March 2008, 08:11

quote:

Next: Sir Spinalot vs Wedge Devolution

Wedge Devo to give Spinalot a warm welcome to the Out of the Arena club....

**steven_mcg** · 19th March 2008, 16:58

Charge straight in before the bar gets up to full speed and stop it. Slide underneath and flip before it can start whirling again. From there, dump it out the ring before it can self-right.