Robot SMASH!!

7th April 2008, 10:10

Special Event
Middleweight Heat 1/4
Life v Hazard

Life is half of the clusterbot Life and Death.It packs a powerful flipper and fairly tough armour.

Hazard is a box-wedge with a spinning blade on top.It has won the Battlebots middleweight title more than once, but has no srimech, so bad luck on being drawn up against Life!

Booth 1: Joey McConnell
Booth 2: Mark Elam

5,4,3,2,1, DESTROY!

Hazard spins up and heads in on the attack, but Life is coming at it full pelt!
CRASH!
Head on collision! Life seems to have taken a small gash to the front armour while Hazard has momentarily ceased to spin!
Life takes this opportunity to get in underneath and throw Hazard into the air!
CRASH!
It lands upside down on the flame pit, and Life isnt taking any chances!
The crowd counts for us!

5,4,3,2,1, IMMOBILE!

Life does a victory spin and presses the pit release button! It then drives in underneath Hazard and flips it again!
Mark somersualts and lands in the pit of oblivion!

Another fast and furious special event comes to a close!Life goes through to the middleweight semi-final!

**paulc** · 7th April 2008, 10:13

I dont wish to sound like a sore loser, but I need to ask about my fight - Gabriel didnt get THAT far under me so shouldnt he have just thrown me AGIANST the wall so I could self-right off it?

And also, when we both got flipped, couldnt I have self-righted just as easily as he did? Becuase Im invertible, when on my back, I can drive away from him and self-right then.

And another thing - whats a rear shirt?

Im not bitter at all - another of my robots is coming up in the next heat - but Im a bit confused about the result.

**joey_picus** · 7th April 2008, 12:52

A rear shirt is an invention of my own design, that is just like a rear skirt except it has a handy pocket for putting spare bolts and annoying house robots in.

And I agree with some of Pauls comments here - front hinged flippers need to get right under the opposition to do anything more than push them away a bit.

**paulc** · 7th April 2008, 12:55

Can I ask for a rematch, to make sure the result was technically possible - if its alright with you Joey.

**joey_picus** · 7th April 2008, 13:02

Its alright with me, Paul - Id rather lose fairly than win controversially, even though that sounds really cliched.

**corsair_lightning** · 7th April 2008, 14:28

Liam, where did Life get in underneath?

If its the front, thats near impossible because I have a wedge. If its the sides, Im perfectly happy, although Hazards blade would cause him to go like this:

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7HHwkSbZZ4&feature=related

Watch when Tornado Mer(the one with the blade) gets turned over.

(Message edited by corsair_lightning on April 07, 200

7th April 2008, 15:04

Paul and Joey- I meant skirt, not shirt!
And about the OOTA- Think about it, Nitro-Gene was on the rails, right?When he reverses hell go onto the top part of Gabriels flipper, which from that position could push him out.
Ill do a rematch if your both still unhappy though.
Mark- Life attacked from the side, but your blade wasnt spinning at full speed after the last impact.

8th April 2008, 20:52

Heat A Final
Heat Final 1/8:
Gabriel II v Liar 2

Lets see how these two fantastic machines got this far...
1) Gabriel opened the tournament by pitting Acronyms FTW after a hard battle.
2) Mark was confident, but Cyrilium 2 was no match for Liar 2 which threw it OOTA
3) In the first of the heat semi-finals Gabriel II had another tough fight with Nitro-Gene 4.0. This was the first of what will be many Joey v Paul battles, and right now its 1-0 to Joey!
4) Liar 2, on the other hand breezed through round 2 throwing the 20kg clusters of Weapon Synergy sky high!

Lets see who will claim the first place in the quarter-finals!

Booth 1: Joey McConnell
Booth 2: Martijn M Benschop

5,4,3,2,1, OBLITERATE!

Both bots head towards each other, seemingly tentative, not willing to risk ending up on the others wedge! They edge closer, then Joey makes the first move!
He rams in, pushing against Liar 2s front, but then Martijn spins around and gets in underneath with his side-wedge! Gabriel is turned over onto its back, and Joey quickly self-rights before moving out of danger!
Martijn pursues, but this time fires his flipper too early, allowing Gabriel to get under the front! Joey sends Martijn head over heels, but like Gabriel Liar 2 is quick to right itself from the position it landed in and Martin reverses into the side of Gabriel, driving up the robot! While Liar 2s wheels are useless Joey turns around to get underneath Liar from the back and flips it again! Once more Martijn self-rights and comes on the attack, pushing Gabriel into the angle grinder!
Joey pushes back, this time getting Liar 2 onto the flame pit! No damage sustained as such, and now Liar does the spinning trick again to get under with the side-wedge!
But Joey was ready for it and turned in preparation, so getting in around Liars rear end! Gabriel rams Martijn for the full length of the arena, into the pit release button, and pushes Liar up against the wall so that it is on the wedge! Joey fires the flipper, but it just knocks Liar into the macrolon and Martijn escapes! Gabriel follows, but Martijn is ready this time, pulling around to get behind Gabriel and pushing it towards the pit!
The struggle is intense, but finally Joey manages to turn away and come back around to attack the side of Liar 2!
But hes forgotten the side wedge, so when he fires his flipper Martijn flips him over with the side wedge! And now Joeys flipper is open against the floor! He starts to self-right, but Martijn takes advantage of the momentary weakness and gives Gabriel a long push- towards the middle of the arena and the pit Joey opened! When Gabriel has self-righted now Joey is on the back of Liar 2, and so cant go anywhere but where Martijn wants him to go! And you can guess where Martijn wants him, and gets him...

THE FIRST HEAT IS ALL OVER!

Gabriel meets the bottom of the pit, Liar 2 meets the series finals!

**joey_picus** · 8th April 2008, 20:58

Ah well, someday Gabriels luck will change

Good job Liam and Marti.

**paulc** · 8th April 2008, 21:03

OK - me and Joey wouldve liked a rematch, but fine. Well done to Liar and Martijn.

My tactics for the next heat:

D.V.D vs. Iron Awe 5: I admire Iron Awe 5, but I dont admire Mark whos entered it. I know his armour may be too tough for my drum to hurt. But I can have a go - my drum develops more power than Typhoons FBS did, and its heavily shock-proofed in the front so it wont self-destruct. Iron Awe 5 is great and its flipper is scary, but it doesnt have a 0m turning circle - its turning circle is 1.2m, so I have better agility and speed and control.

The other thing is all of Iron Awe 5s components are attached to the base, and Iron Awes side-panels are bolted down. This means I can attack the bolts, break them, and the rest should be easy to hurt. If not, my powerful drum can always throw him OOTA.

Good luck Mark :wink:

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