After that ad break, we€™re back with the final of Heat C:
Turbo Shredder v Cyclone Force 3
Let€™s flashback and see how these two hard as nails competitors made it this far:
In the first eliminator Cyclone Force 3 and Storm II flipped Obsidian, which could not self-right.
In the second Turbo Shredder was at first shoved around by Monolith, but came back strongly and damaged Scaramanga II€™s flipper rams.
In the first heat semi-final we witnessed the biggest shock of the series so far, when the number #5 seed Storm II lost a JD to Turbo Shredder by just three points!
In the second Monolith took on Cyclone Force 3, but was blown away by the gale force winds and pitted.

I€™m here in the pits now with both vapourboteers as we load up the entry bullpen!
Me: Hey Samuel, going good so far, huh?
Sam: Very well, I didn€™t expect to take Storm II out.
Me: You€™re the first person to defeat a seed so far, how does that make you feel?
Sam: Great and I€™m hungry for more damage!

Me: What setup will be seeing here Chris?
Chris: I€™m sticking with the scoop here, you€™ve already seen it, but it€™s effective.
Me: We€™ve seen the lifter and the scoop, what else might we see later in the series if you prevail here?
Chris: There are a pair of spikes that could cause some serious damage, but maybe they won€™t come out to play in this tournament, especially if I lose here!
Me: Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, now it€™s back to the coliseum where battle is about to commence!

Heat Final

Ladies and Gentlemen, please give a thunderous applause for the return of Turbo Shredder and Cyclone Force 3!

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Samuel Park
Booth 2: Christopher Mason

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SMASH!!

And we€™re off! It€™s Cyclone Force immediately on the attack, getting underneath the front of Turbo Shredder and ramming it across the arena, into the arena wall! Both robots actually have the same drive power, but the scoop on the front of Cyclone Force 3 is allowing Chris to get in underneath and push Turbo Shredder around while not letting Samuel spin up! And Chris shows this now, ramming Turbo Shredder again across the arena and this time onto the Killsaws! BZZT! Turbo Shredder is thrown onto its back, but Samuel€™s seed beating machine is invertible and finally spins up to slam into Cyclone Force! Chris spins away, but immediately recovers and comes on the attack again, getting underneath once more and slamming Turbo Shredder into the wall so hard it flies sideways and chews into the floor with the disc! And still Cyclone Force is aggressive, pushing in underneath Turbo Shredder from the side and shoving Samuel across the arena again and onto the Killsaws once more! BZZT! Turbo Shredder isn€™t flipped this time, but bounced away onto Cyclone Force, who pushes Samuel away across the arena and into the pit release button! The siren wails and the chasm descends, giving the drivers another worry- a big hole in the floor! And now it€™s Turbo Shredder on the attack, whacking into the scoop of Cyclone Force with the disc, but doing nothing except driving onto the scoop, which allows Chris to slam it across the arena once more, crashing into the wall on the opposite side! Turbo Shredder tries to escape, but Chris gets underneath and pins it against the wall for a few seconds before releasing Samuel, who drives away only to be slammed from behind by the aggressive Cyclone Force, who now shoves Samuel€™s spinning disc into the Killsaws! BZZT! And Turbo Shredder is flipped onto Cyclone Force 3 again, and this time Chris drives it hard up against the barrier yet again! Samuel is really feeling the pain now, and finally gets a bit of breathing space as Samuel drives away from its ramming opposition, only to yet again get pushed from behind and get pushed all the way across the arena and up against the already-pressed pit release button! And as Cyclone Force gets underneath Turbo Shredder drives off the top, only to get pushed around in a wide arc so that the two machines are now playing a deadly dance of death right next to the pit! And it€™s Chris that finally makes use of that chasm, getting underneath Turbo Shredder one last time and giving one last almighty shove to drop Samuel into the pit and out of Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged! .

CEASE!


Turbo Shredder didn€™t do any shredding, and Cyclone Force 3 blows the rest of the heat away to go through to the series semi-finals!

Next time, on Robot SMASH!!, we will witness the return of Steven McGregor€™s second series 1 finalist, the number #7 seed Whirligig 4.5!
Macduff the 3rd v Orka MK.4 v Stealth
Whirligig 4.5 (7) v Eternia v Nightmare
Don€™t miss it!