Welcome to the penultimate heat of Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged. Tonight will see the return of the number #4 seed Seung Mina IV, who reached the quarter-finals last season before bowing out to the eventual runner-up Nidhogg.
Tough as Nails v With or Without You v Nitro-Gene 4.0
Seung Mina IV (4) v Killotine: EVO v Dervish V

Eliminator 1

Built by Jeroen, entered by Christopher Mason, Tough as Nails!
This invertible robot is a pair of claws with wheels on the sides, it really is. One of the hardox armour pioneers, this robot reached the semi-finals of RW7 before it lost a JD to Bulldog Breed 3. The weaponry consists of the pincers snapping shut via pneumatics to grab and then pit opponents.

In RS!!1: Didn€™t enter

Created and entered by Martijn M Benschop, With or Without You!
This two part clusterbot consists of a ramming brick and a powerful spinning blade capable of delivering 1-hit Kos, although the rammer is useless when inverted and the blade is immobilised when inverted, so this one doesn€™t want to meet any flippers.

In RS!!1: Came up against eventual quarter-finalist Whirligig 4.5 in the first round and was quite simply shredded.

Created and entered by Paul Cuomo, Nitro-Gene 4.0!
This invertible box wedge packs 36HP in the drive train and has a full pressure Nitrogen flipper to boot. This flipper is capable of 1600kg of force, and the hardox armour along with shockproofing will protect against spinners.

In RS!!1: Had a very tough battle with the promising Intrigue in the first round, but eventually managed to flip it out of the arena. In round 2 however Nitro got a taste of its own medicine and was thrown out by Gabriel II.

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Christopher Mason
Booth 2: Martijn M Benschop, Paul Cuomo

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SMASH!!

With only four eliminators of this season left to go, let€™s get the first one out of the way! The clusterbot immediately splits up, and Without You gets that blade up to speed while With goes for Tough as Nails, who grabs hold when the two meet, but is pushed backwards into the arena wall anyway. Meanwhile Nitro-Gene 4.0 heads for the unprotected Without You, who tries to get away, but is gotten under and flipped onto its back! And so early on in this bout With is left alone, and valiantly tries to pit Tough as Nails, pulling the Dutch crusher towards the pit release, but Chris lets go and reverses away, letting Nitro-Gene 4.0 come in and get under the rear of With, slamming it into the corner and onto the killsaws! BZZT! With is thrown away in a shower of sparks and Nitro-Gene 4.0 follows, getting in underneath again and throwing it high into the air, and With crashes down onto the arena floor with wrong way up! With tries to get away and manages to press the pit release, but now Tough as Nails is on the attack and gets in on the inverted scoop, and With manages still to push it back onto the killsaws! BZZT! Chris decides to let go again and stays away for now, and he doesn€™t need to do anything else as Nitro-Gene gets under the inverted scoop of With and throws it high into the air and over the arena wall, leaving it fall onto the camera tracks and out of this heat.

CEASE!

With or Without You is without success; Nitro-Gene 4.0 and Tough as Nails go through!

Eliminator 2

Created and entered by Kody Kunz, seeded #4, Seung Mina IV!
This powerful rear hinged flipper has interchangeable flipper plates (a normal plate or spikes) and can now choose to dump the flipper and have an anti-spinner ring around the robot, an option not available last season.

In RS!!1: Flipped Metal Sonic Spin Dash around in round 1 to win a judge€™s decision through to the next round, where it pitted the ring spinner MeCannibal 2.0. In the heat final Kody swapped the flipper plate for the spikes and flipped Flick of the Wrist around. It was rammed in return, but won through to the finals on another JD. In the quarter-finals it was drawn against Nidhogg, who lifted, crushed and pitted it. But there were condolences in the play-off for fifth place, and Seung Mina IV flipped Whirligig 4.5 out of the competition before helping Storm II get rid of Liar 2, and then disposing of Storm to get 5th place!

Created and entered by Steven McGregor, Killotine: EVO!
Essentially Storm II with an axe on top, this robot is a famous winner of many majors such as VGC 2003. It may be successful, but it€™s an old fashioned design and that could mean it gets eliminated by the more complex designs.

In RS!!1: Gave Gravity the axe in round 1, but was grabbed by the claws of Super Gore Evo in the second round.

Created and entered by Daniel Stickler, Dervish V!
This Barberous 2-lookalike full body drum is pretty lethal. It can thrown and rip robots up, although it didn€™t do too well in Robot SMASH!! Season 1. Flipping it does nothing, and it is hard to push around.

In RS!!1: Met Tempest Evil-est-oution in round 1 and was Spun out of the competition by thee invertible ring spinner.

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Kody Kunz
Booth 2: Steven McGregor, Daniel Stickler

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SMASH!!

The one to watch in this bout will surely be the seeded robot Seung Mina IV, who looks even more lethal than last season, heading straight for Killotine: EVO and breaching the side skirt on this first onslaught, pushing in underneath and flipping Killotine up and letting it do a sideways roll in mid-air! The crowd cheers and Kody smiles maniacally, but now Dervish V has spun up to speed and comes in on the attack on Seung Mina IV from behind, making a small gash in the rear armour and throwing it up and over! Mina self-rights, but finds herself on top of Dervish V€™s spinning body and she is thrown over again, and all of a sudden in comes Killotine: EVO and rams the upside down seeded machine into the arena wall to stop her self-righting and slams the axe into the base armour, clamping down hard and dragging the seeded machine across the arena to thwack it into the pit release! However the impact loosens Killotine€™s grip and Mina rights herself before resetting the flipper and ramming in underneath the side of Killotine and attempting to throw it out of the arena, but just as it leaves the flipper Killotine€™s axe fires and just snags on one of the bars of Mina€™s flipper, allowing it to fall back down and ram in underneath the seeded robot and push it into Dervish V who comes in from behind and flips Kody over again! Killotine hits the base armour with the axe again, this time getting a very strong clamp and heading for the pit, pushing the worrying seeded machine towards the chasm, but Kody fires the flipper and just manages to knock Killotine€™s hold off, but Dervish V runs in from the side and rips off a aide skirt, flipping Seung Mina IV onto its side as it does so! Mina falls onto her back again and although she self-rights Killotine: EVO runs in underneath the rear this time and clamps the axe down over the flipper, and even when Mina fires it the axe keeps a hold of it, managing to keep onto one of the bars and push Seung Mina IV down into the pit and out of the contest, quite possibly in the biggest shock we€™ll see this season!

CEASE!

Kody€™s tactics let Mina down slightly and the fourth seed bows out of the contest; Killotine: EVO and Dervish V go through to round 2!

Round 2 line-up:
Nitro-Gene 4.0 v Killotine: EVO
Dervish V v Tough as Nails