The Crash & Burn Tournament: The Dual Duels

[andrewj]

The tactics for Monolith are pretty self explanitory here. Drive into Shredderator, slow down that weapon and then try and get it into the pit. Infusion is more effective when inverted then I am, so I suggest Aaron takes on Bigger Brother. We also know how much damage Hypno Disc caused to Bigger Brother...

Going back to MeCannibal - what is the motor driving the skirt for? If it is to hold the skirt flush to the ground while spinning it will effect your weapon alot (with friction resistance etc...) If it is to raise the skirt while spinning, Im pretty sure the gyroscopic forces will raise it without the need for extra power. The skirt itself is also a problem - especially if you are wanting it to work both ways up. If the skirt is a ring, I cannot understand how it touches the floor. It would need to be angled if that makes sense, and therefore it wouldnt work that well upside down. Another problem I had was that the skirt would rest on top of the blades if you are flipped.

Its a similar case to the anti-spinner ring. I know there are faults, but I cant explain them well enough to tell the designer what I mean.

[paulc]

The point of the skirt that raises when the weapon spins is to combat the dinosaur-era dating tsactic of fighting FBS and going stop it from getting up to speed as due to the skirt, it means that any scoop or flipper MUST let it spin before they attack.

And its only designed to work one way up, because I designed it like that

[RogueTwoRobots]

*high fives Liam*

Woot, woot! First vapourbot battle, first victory and first blood

Some great fights Kody, look forward to seeing the rest!

[kodster]

Sorry for the delay...but here they are, the next fights!

Round 1 Fight 3
Infusion Helix & Monolith vs. Bigger Brother & Shrederator

€œFrom Team SpunOut: Infusion Helix€¦and€¦Monolith!€

Ram or spin, Infusion Helix aims to win, or so it€™s said. It€™s the first of the 8 Infusion robots to compete and comes with a complex ramming system and rear spinning rim. Monolith is quite possibly the obelisk of this tournament, with a seemingly undamageable 10mm Hardox monocoque, and more powerful drive than Tornado.

€œFrom Team After-Life: Bigger Brother€¦and€¦Shrederator!� �

Our first real robot team up in the form of Bigger Brother, who is apparently constructed from bulletproof armour, the 750w electric motors make it look obsolete these days, but it is not to be underestimated. Shrederator might be doing all the shredding, a full-body spinner with D-Pack motors for weapon power, and is arguably one of the best spinners around.

Roboteers, stand by€¦

Booth #1: Aaron Knight, Andrew Jackson
Booth #2: Daniel Bailey, Samuel Park

Our house robots today come in the form of€¦what do you know? Sergeant Bash, flamethrower and gripping claw€¦and Matilda, front tusks, and the very ugly flywheel at the rear.

3€¦
2€¦
1€¦
Activate!

Strangely enough, it€™s Monolith who comes out first from Team SpunOut, to clash with Bigger Brother, it seems. The skirts are fitted to Monolith for this battle and the two meet nose to nose! And it looks like Monolith€™s in trouble because the plate of the RW5 runner up has slid under the front of Monolith and FLIP! Over it goes! It€™s invertible, but its ramming power is rendered useless now, and so Infusion Helix is forced to come out early and attack. Shrederator responds by driving straight at Infusion with the shell at full speed. Infusion, surprisingly enough, ignores Shrederator and heads for Bigger Brother with the wedge, who seems to be trying to cause down Monolith. BZZT! Monolith runs over the arena saws but he seems to be okay at the moment, and there€™s no bits of rubber anywhere. WHAM! Infusion mashes into Bigger Brother and sends it towards the arena wall! WHAM! Bigger Brother is shot over top of Infusion and lands directly in front of the rim€¦

CRASH!!!

A staggering blow, and the Robot Wars veteran gets sent into a ridiculous pirouette across the arena, but that€™s allowed Shrederator to slide in and have a go at the split-second opportunity that is Infusion€™s motionless rim!

CRASH!!!

Infusion is sent keeling, as is Shrederator, but the heavy blow doesn€™t really accomplish much, as the 10mm Hardox rim of Infusion is still completely whole, and completely spinning up again. Monolith barges in, but misses its tackle as Shrederator backs off and spins up for another slightly vain attempt at trying to outmuscle Infusion. AJ isn€™t going to let Samuel and the Shrederator boys get away that easily, however, and keeps the momentum through, eventually coming into contact with the deadly full body spinner.

CRASH!!!

Monolith is blasted backwards, the small frame of it sent keeling, as Shrederator bounces back a few inches, but it€™s quite clear that Monolith is tougher than he looks. Absolutely NO damage, at least externally, can be seen at all, and AJ hopes that the internals didn€™t get shocked too much either. Unfortunately, that€™s the moment when Bigger Brother comes back into the play and sneaks around to Monolith€™s side while he€™s stunned, sneaks under the skirts, and lets loose a mighty flip! FLIP! Monolith gets wrangled up and onto his back, which does, really, hardly anything as Monolith can work both ways up, except that the wedge don€™t do anything that way. Infusion ain€™t too keen on fighting Shrederator right now and goes back for Bigger Brother, who is picking on Monolith still, but the pesky Watts family robot outmanoeuvres Monolith and tosses him right up onto Infusion! Shrederator takes the opportunity while it€™s given to them.

CRASH!!!

Many sparks, but Infusion ain€™t moved at all thanks to having the weight of Monolith on him, and strangely enough Monolith has stayed on top of Infusion. Shrederator however has been blown quite far across the arena, and right up near Sgt. Bash€™s CPZ. The Sergeant comes forward, claw poised, only to miss as Shrederator moves away. Whiles that happened, Bigger Brother was able to take advantage of an impaired Infusion, and getting under both of them lets loose! FLIP! Infusion sails up onto his back and Monolith lands€¦under him! Shrederator is back and looking to do some damage, but Monolith escapes. Infusion lands with a dull thud, but it€™s too late as 0.1 seconds later, Bigger Brother is under his side, and€¦FLIP! What a surprise€¦Infusion topples outside of the arena! The audience is completely shocked, but Aaron mutters something under his breath.

Monolith is now completely alone, and decides to, tactically, attack Shrederator. Shrederator is more than willing to greet him, but Bigger Brother is too eager and shoots off towards Monolith€™s side. The result is a FLIP! As Bigger Brother gets the side and skirts of Monolith, he tosses, and Monolith goes sailing€¦right-side-up. The bad news: Shrederator careens straight into Bigger Brother!

CRASH!!!

Danny moans as a large piece of armour comes flying off of the Watts machine, which gets sent back a considerable distance into the wall. AJ looks absurdly pleased at this slightly ridiculous turn of events and guns forward on Phrizbee€™s successor - BZZT! Oops, Monolith gets hit by the saws€¦which don€™t really affect him that much but it does allow Shrederator to get away and spin up. Bigger Brother seems to be having some problems now, he€™s moving quite slowly. Samuel, however, gets an idea and circles the closed pit. Monolith gives chase, and Shrederator moves away€¦unfortunately, his plan of luring Monolith into a CPZ doesn€™t work: Monolith is too fast!

CRASH!!!

Another heavy duty blow, and Shrederator dusts the floor of the Battlegrounds with his tires, sending him flying - BUT WAIT! His plan DID work, as the direction of rotation sent Monolith right into that same CPZ!!! Monolith is stuck along the wall, and backs up to try and move away, but Matilda cuts him off€¦only to be gotten under and shoved back. Sgt. Bash is next and smacks into the side of Monolith, the claw penetrating those skirts which don€™t seem to be helping Monolith much, and squeezes. Shrederator nails the pit release button and starts spinning again. Meanwhile, The Watcher is counting Bigger Brother, who hasn€™t done much moving around, at all.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

One on one, now, and Monolith is hooked in place by Sgt. Bash, while Matilda backs up and rams Monolith with the tusks, finally getting under that wedge and stacking Monolith up against the CPZ. Shrederator is waiting patiently just outside the zone, as Matilda turns around. AJ smirks, quite confident he€™ll be able to stand up to Matilda€™s weapon.

CRASH!!!

It does€¦but it sends Monolith straight onto Sgt. Bash€™s claw again! Fortunately for AJ, the Watcher moves back in and pushes the house robots away€¦allowing Shrederator to most in past the ref!

CRASH!!!

Shrederator is blasted back yet again, and Monolith doesn€™t look too damaged€¦or is it? Something€™s wrong. Monolith isn€™t moving at all. AJ taps the controls, but no sudden movements come from his tough nut of a robot€¦and so The Watcher moves in and starts counting him out!!!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

CEASE!

In a shocking turn of events, Infusion Helix gets his DNA sent flying high, while Monolith falls prey to a loose motor and a few severed wires.
Bigger Brother and Shrederator advance to Round 2!

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Round 1 Battle 4
Mechavore & Blue vs. The Rock & Life and Death

€œFrom Team JimBob: Mechavore€¦and€¦Blue!€

First pairing of realie and vapourbot here, Mechavore is a €˜girl€™ robot, with a 3000RPM front horizontal spinning blade, but no srimech€¦costly, but it does have skirts, though weak ones. Blue is actually Flipping Mad 7 in disguise, but captain David Sheppard renamed it for some reason. Powerful, torque-y, good armour, and a nice flipper€¦yet kind of basic€¦

€œFrom Team Chevron Insanity: The Rock€¦and€¦Life and Death!€

The Rock is a chip off the old block, with a powerful axe, good armouring, and a decent drive, but it will run out of axe power eventually, and its sides are asking to be pentrated without skirts. Its clusterbot partner, Life & Death, may be able to help with that. Both have tracks, the same drive, and pretty much the same armouring, but Life has a flipper whilst Death has a crusher. Both can self-right.

Roboteers, stand by€¦

Booth #1: Chezza, David Sheppard
Booth #2: Paul Cuomo, Joey McConnell

Growler is here to take a bite out of the other robots, weighing in at 375kg. Oh, but Sir Killalot will not be left out of the hunt, the claw and lance proven to be the bane of countless warriors.

3€¦
2€¦
1€¦
Activate!

It€™s Mechavore and Life & Death who slide out first. The blade of Mechavore can easily reach the two twins but Chezza is still wary of Life€™s flipper and doesn€™t want to take any risks. Joey knows this too, and is trying to get Life around the back of Mechavore, mainly to flip it over but also to avoid the disc. Mechavore spins around to try and ward off Life with that deadly flywheel, now at max RPM, and spins a little too far, as Death comes in from the side and slams into the skirt. Unfortunately it can€™t get under the skirt of Mechavore€™s and slightly beaches itself. It falls back off as Mechavore spins back into it, the same direction, with the disc.

CRASH!!!

Now THAT must have hurt. As Death landed, the disc caught it on the front and sent it spinning away towards a CPZ, but thankfully out of Killalot€™s reach. The front remains undamaged, but it was quite a blow nonetheless. Not that it moves Mechavore much, but Life seems to have taken this as a signal, and moves in from the rear, sliding under Mechavore€™s rear skirt! And€¦FLIP! But Mechavore only goes flying up, and comes right back down onto its wheels beside Life. Life moves in quickly towards the disc before it starts spinning up, and Chezza is backing Mechavore away quite quickly, seemingly unable to remember that the arena wall is in behind. WHAM! Mechavore pounds against it, and Life crashes in.

CRASH!

Not a full disc hit as Team JimBob wanted, but again it sends Life away, just as €˜damaged€™ as Death, and gives Mechavore plenty of time to get away. Joey is getting visibly agitated now that the plan is going slightly to seed, and through some quick thinking over with Paul, he decides to switch with Paul€™s machine, as both clusters head off in The Rock€™s direction and tag it. Chezza also seems to have had enough play time and speaks to Dave in the control booth, indirectly resulting in Mechavore bumping into Blue with the rear skirt.

The Rock and Blue come to blows almost immediately from the time they are tagged. It€™s Blue however that gets the leverage going and sneaks under the front of The Rock with the titanium strip, thus receiving a heavy axe blow in return. WHACK! The axe hits the 4mm Hardox and bounces back, unharmed. FLIP! Blue graces the axe blow with a gigantic flip that sends The Rock airborne and into the side wall, hitting it on an angle so that its side is facing the wall. Blue moves in to finish The Rock off when Paul hits the axe button again, righting The Rock and moving it away from Blue, as Blue gives chase. Dave seems to be enjoying himself. The same cannot be said for Paul, as The Rock turns around and once again has his front wedge foiled by Blue€™s own. FLIP! At this point, Joey decides that it€™s a good time to come into the battle again, and Life & Death return to the fray. Chezza doesn€™t miss it at all, and Mechavore re-enters as well, cutting Death off immediately.

CRASH!!!

A devastating hit! The 4mm titanium side armour is mangled, and the blow has hardly sent Death flying, or stopped Mechavore€™s disc, who moves in again, but Death amscrays outta there before anything uglier can happen. The Rock is righting itself as Blue moves in, and gets shoved into by Life! FLIP! Now Blue gets a taste of his own medicine. Mechavore hurries in to try and take out Life; Joey sees it coming and hastily backs Life away, a little too late.

CRASH!!!

The side armour of Life gets it now, however it takes the blow considerably better than Death did, only a dent is made, but it has sent Life away again. The Rock crashes into Mechavore instead while the disc is stopped and brings down the axe! WHACK! OOOHHH!!! A very heavy blow dealt to the top armour of Mechie: that is a very clean hole put there by that axe, and that axe retracts to try doing that again. Its chances are foiled when Blue moves in from the side and gives it a toss. FLIP! The Rock sails into a 360 and Blue keeps with it, flipping it again! FLIP! This time The Rock lands inverted, but before it can be flipped again, a recovered Death moves back in and tackles Blue€™s side! The crusher sinks and meets the 4mm Hardox, unable to penetrate it, but it has beached Blue slightly. Mechavore gives Death another hefty blow from behind while it€™s distracted!

CRASH!!!

This time it€™s Mechavore who gets sent back slightly, but in doing so, Death has received all the shock, all the damage€¦and, I think, all the life has run out! Not to mention that Blue has been freed. Mechavore€™s disc has completely stopped, however€¦and Life moves in! FLIP! And it looks like Mechavore is out! They€™re on their back and unable to self-right! Blue meets an incoming The Rock again, and again gets under and tosses, straight into Life, who has his teammate come down on him hard. What€™s this? Blue is going over to Mechavore AND FLIPPING! Mechavore is back in action! No countout! However, the disc still isn€™t working€¦Life senses this, and tosses The Rock off of him, trying to get to Mechavore first€¦and Blue gets under Life€™s flipper! He€™s going for the arena wall! FLIP! Life sails straight over the wall and onto the camera track. Joey sighs and mutters something about a €˜cappuccino€™. As he says this, The Rock is again righted and smacks into Mechavore€™s side, getting the skirt, and taking Mechavore all the way into the DISC OF DEATH!

CRASH!!!

Well! That€™s more damage to Mechavore than I thought we€™d see! The top armour is shredded almost completely, and smoke is coming out in large quantities. As Mechavore slowly trundles away, Chezza looking panicked, Blue homes in on The Rock€™s location and moves about, but The Rock turns just in time€¦to be gotten under! FLIP! Dave smiles as The Rock sails, straight into Killalot€™s CPZ! Sir Killalot moves in, getting the claw into the side and lifting him up€¦Paul smacks the axe frantically. WHACK! Wait€¦what the€¦Killalot has stopped moving??? The Rock has smacked Killalot straight in the side€¦and the house robot stopped, with his prey in his claw, still upraised. Dave and Chezza look at each other and nod: both Mechavore and Blue charge Killalot and bean him: Blue gets the leverage€¦FLIP! The Rock sails out of Killalot€™s grasp as the mighty house robot slowly topples onto its back! Growler apparently does nothing, which is shocking indeed.

The Rock is back in the fight and ready to do some more damage, as Mechavore bravely yet slowly charges in. Problem is, time is running out in the match with 20 seconds to go. The Rock brings the axe down but just misses, but Mechavore can€™t really respond with a slower drive and immobile disc. Blue decides to move in and help. It tackles The Rock, but for the first time in the match it fails to get under The Rock€™s front end and goes up onto it! WHACK! The axe does hit home this time, denting the 4mm Hardox on top. Mechavore backs into The Rock€™s side and actually beaches it with the skirt! Paul hits the axe button again but that smacks Blue again instead of freeing him. The dent is made even bigger. Mechavore backs up€¦towards Growler€™s CPZ!

10€¦9€¦8€¦7€¦

Growler has already moved out and tackled The Rock. Luckily The Rock is been unbeached by this and moves away as Mechavore slowly gives chase€¦unfortunately just grabbed by Growler!

6€¦5€¦4€¦

The Rock tackles Blue into the pit release button and hits the axe again! WHACK! A small hole appears! Mechavore finally gets away from Growler and tries to find its ally.

3€¦2€¦1€¦

The Rock turns and flies across the arena towards the pit€¦and slams into Mechavore who gets in the way. Dave and Chezza high-five each other as Paul groans.

CEASE!!!

First judges decision of the tournament, let€™s see how this went down!

Mechavore and Blue - The Rock and Life & Death

Life & Death is exempt from the judges decision due to being KOd.

Mechavore - Blue - The Rock

Strategy = 1/5 - 2/5 - 2/5
Style = 3/10 - 3/10 - 4/10
Control = 3/15 - 6/15 - 6/15
Aggression = 5/20 - 7/20 - 8/20
Damage = 8/25 - 0/25 - 17/25

TOTAL = (20/75 + 18/75) - 37/75
= 38/75 - 37/75

By the smallest possible margin The Rock crumbles, while Life & Death pass away.
Mechavore & Blue advance to Round 2!

[kodster]

Heat A: The Round 2 Draw

Bigger Brother & Shrederator vs. Achilles & Wedge Devolution

Firefly & System Shock vs. Mechavore & Blue

Tactics, predictions, comments, thoughts, and a plasma shield please.

[joey_picus]

...[banned]?

*makes mental note that clusterbots are generally a bad idea*

(Message edited by kane on May 11, 200

[RogueTwoRobots]

Just realised in my stats for Firefly that I never stated what the plough was made of!

I know I cant change it or define it now but whatever it is (titanium, cardboard, a wet sponge) I hope its strong enough to stand up to Mechavores disc. It does however have no srimech, so Liam, I could aim to tip him over with the plough lifter and that takes Mechavore out of the equation (although I hope he doesnt rip my plough off in the same way as me ripped Biohazards lifting arm off - just saw the vid on Youtube )

Blue doesnt worry me too much, as although its a flipper, Firefly can run both ways up so if it flips me (and provided I dont get stacked against the arena wall or OOTAd or lose a connection through shock-impacting) I can still continue on.

Good idea with the pit Liam, lets get it open early and try and get them down it, without going down ourselves beforehand!