Round 2 Battle 1
Wheely Pure Evil 2 and Sakura vs. Namie€™s Style and Wedgie

Roboteers, stand by€¦

Booth #1: Daniel Stickler, Frank Goacher
Booth #2: Chezza, David Sheppard

Flames ahoy! Ancalagon the Black, 800kg, discs, jaws, and fire breath, and Sergeant Bash, claw and flamethrower, are our house robots today!

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Acitvate!!

Namie€™s Style comes right out aggressively, there€™s Wheely Pure Evil out to greet the golden machine, and€¦WHAM. A dead center hit. Those fronts just cannot defeat the other. Ooh, Namie€™s Style has that power advantage and is using it to push Wheely Pure Evil back, and that deadlock is broken, Dan works the controls, but he can€™t push Namie€™s Style back€¦and Sakura attacks! Out from her corner, Sakura is gliding on an attack on Namie€™s Style€™s side! Wedgie is out in a flash, but Sakura is much too close!

CRASH!!!

A shower of sparks later and Namie€™s Style is blasted several feet away, coming to rest€¦BZZT!...on the arena saws! Ooh€¦what sort of damage has been caused, I wonder? Chezza flicks his own controls€¦and there€™s movement, quite normal movement, as Namie€™s Style spins around, does a reverse, a forward€¦and gets attacked by Wheely Pure Evil. Sakura however isn€™t so lucky. The hit sent it flying, and right in front of Wedgie! The blossom-shaped FBS can€™t move away in time, and Wedgie turns it over onto its head! Less fortunately for Sakura, it can€™t self-right because Wedgie€™s flipper is holding it there! Sakura nonetheless attempts it, and she€™s tilted up onto the flipper, falls back onto her head€¦and rolls away! Wedgie however is still right there, and manages to push Sakura into Sgt. Bash€™s CPZ! A lick of flame and Sgt. Bash€¦HAS CLAMPED SAKURA€™S SELF-RIGHTER!!! This doesn€™t look good!

What looks less good is Namie€™s Style getting tossed about 20 feet across the arena by Wheely Pure Evil with a menacing FLIP!!! What a toss!!! Namie comes to land directly beside Wedgie, up and over. She self-rights, and€¦is still moving, even after that. Wheely Pure Evil however seems to have been re-enforced, as its flipper hasn€™t exploded yet, and it€™s already back on the attack. As Sgt. Bash drags Sakura over to the flame pit (what for? ), Wedgie spins around and is immediately greeted by Daniel€™s uber-flipper; it slides under Dave€™s own wedge and€¦FLIP!Wedgie goes sailing - straight up into the air! That must have been 25 feet! While he€™s distracted, Namie€™s Style moves in herself. FLIP! Wheely Pure Evil gets knocked over, and right into Sgt. Bash, who has Sakura still in a vice-grip. WHAM! A sickening crunch as Wedgie meets the floor flipper-first, and rolls onto its wheels. Has the flipper been damaged?

As Dave contemplates this, Chezza has other ideas: Namie€™s Style is now pushing Wheely Pure Evil over to the nearbly Disc of Death€¦which doesn€™t seem like a good idea because Wheely Pure Evil is definitely lower than the Disc of Death. Sgt. Bash finally lets go of Sakura€¦who is BARELY able to self-right, and is met by an incoming Wedgie, who wedges it, and€¦can€™t flip! Now Dave realizes it: Wheely Pure Evil DID damage Wedgie with that flip, by disabling Wedgie€™s own flipper! Dan however can€™t laugh at this because Namie€™s Style has it on the wedge, and Wheely Pure Evil for some reason isn€™t able to flip itself off the wedge€¦but someone else can flip! FLIP!

CRASH!!

Wheely Pure Evil meets the Disc of Death straight on the flipper, and gets carved a new one as the top flipper takes a wide gash in the center, with several scratches around it. Namie€™s Style moves in again, but Wheely Pure Evil is away already, too late to get him now€¦and Wedgie slams Sakura into Sgt. Bash again! Ancalagon finally decides to do some damage and moves out of his own CPZ as Sgt. Bash torches the poor flowerbot - OH MY! SAKURA IS ON FIRE INSIDE! There€™s a great amount of smoke inside, and where€™s there smoke, there€™s fire! And that€™s the danger of having confetti in your robot, folks! Sgt. Bash continues to spray the already burning FBS with even more fire, as Wedgie happily keeps it pinned in there. Frank groans at this, but Dave seems to be enjoying himself€¦until he flicks the controls, that is, and finds that Wedgie can€™t move either! And now he€™s going to feel it as Ancalagon makes his way over!

CRASH!!!

One of the discs of Ancalagon clips the rear of Wedgie, and sends it AND the aflame Sakura deep into the CPZ, behind Bash, who simply turns and begins torching them both. Both Wedgie and Sakura are on their backs, and unable to move, so The Watcher is out immediately, and shunts Bash aside. The counter turns on and starts the count-down.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

So it€™s down to Namie€™s Style and Wheely Pure Evil, and Wheely is not looking too good at the moment, with that gash in the top flipper. Nonetheless, it meets Namie€™s Style head-on, and gets under it! Chezza is alarmed and tries to drive off the wedge, but it gets no further than one wheel off it when Daniel hits BOTH flipper buttons€¦

€¦and Wheely Pure Evil€™s rams explode, once again, as the flippers open wide. Namie€™s Style however is sent ROCKETING across the arena, and just hits the arena railing before€¦coming to rest on the right side of the arena! It€™s not an OOTA! However Namie€™s Style is not moving at all, right up on her back though invertible€¦and nor, it seems, is Wheely Pure Evil. The flipper rams are seperated, and the entire robot is venting copious amounts of CO2. Daniel facepalms, and Chezza is visibly frustrated as well. The Watcher is extremely puzzled by this€¦and cease is called before the house robots can dispose of them.

CEASE!

Alright, we go to the judges to find out who was immobilized first€¦the judges are viewing the situation through all the cameras€¦

€¦and their decision is that Wheely Pure Evil was immobilized first because it stopped moving after the rams exploded, and Namie€™s Style€™s wheels were spinning when it was in the air, and the shock when landing killed it, but after Wheely Pure Evil stopped. Daniel holds his head in his hands as Chezza dances in the control booth.

Wheely Pure Evil 2 has wheely got to get a more reliable flipper, while Sakura burns in her own despair.
Namie€™s Style and Wedgie advance to the Heat B Final!!

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Round 2 Battle 2
Infusion Alpha and GeForce 4.0 vs. Sithis and Tornado

Roboteers, stand by€¦

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

Obelix Bulguous would like to make his hammer heard, and Growler has the bite to match his bark, definitely.

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Activate!!

It€™s an all-out war as all four competitors come to blows: Infusion chases down Sithis as Geforce slams into Tornado€¦unfortunately Tornado had just spun around, so GeForce gets the front, and goes up onto it, and is driven across the arena, and right into the wall! Ouch! GeForce is stuck and pinned by Tornado, who backs up a little and drives into it again, careful not to let GeForce fall off the scoop, and it seems like Tornado vs. Gravity again. Suddenly Tornado goes a little bit too far and GeForce gets away, only to be rammed again by Tornado, who gets under the side skirt and slams GeForce again! Andy is getting fed up at this, but there€™s not a damn thing he can do about it at the moment, as Tornado nudges GeForce along the wall€¦and into the Disc of Death!

CRASH!!!

The wedge takes it, but the 3.25mm Hardox wedge is barely dented and GeForce is now away from its aggressor. Meanwhile, Sithis isn€™t having the best luck in the world, as Infusion has caught up to it and stopped it spinning up, wedging it and carrying it across the arena! Sithis is trying to drive off, but as he does so, Infusion pulls a 180 and wedges him again! And€¦right into the pit release button! Uh oh, don€™t wedge yourself under the button, Infusion - ah, that€™s better€¦but Sithis has escaped at that moment. Infusion chases him down, and wedges him again, low enough to avoid being hit by the blades! And€¦there€™s the pit! Danny tries wildly to escape his fate, but€¦no. Infusion€™s got ya€¦BOOM! Down the pit. One down, one to go, but Team SpunOut have to get rid of a pesky Tornado, who has again slid under GeForce€™s skirts and rammed him into the wall! An echoing blow but GeForce is pinned again by the spikes on Tornado€™s scoop! Infusion races in to help his partner and drives the rear rim into Tornado€™s backside while he€™s distracted!

CRASH!!!

Ouch! That didn€™t look so good for Team After-Life, as Tornado loses some rear armour, and both he and Infusion turn around and attempt to wedge each other€¦and it€™s Tornado again who prevails. Aaron is perturbed by this but can€™t voice his opinion on this because 97kg of robot smashes Infusion against the arena wall! Lucky for him GeForce flies in, and gets under the rear of Tornado! And€¦FLIP! Wa-hey! That€™s€¦whoa. €¦ GeForce just flipped BOTH Infusion and Tornado over the arena wall. Barely, but he did€¦and that has got to be the first double OOTA we have ever seen€¦Aaron turns to Andy with a grimace, but Andy shrugs and laughs at it afterwards.

CEASE!

Sithis gets banished to the hole. Tornado meanwhile wasn€™t much of a dervish itself!
Infusion Alpha and GeForce 4.0 advance to the Heat B Final!!