Welcome back to Robot SMASH!! , where round 2 of the penultimate heat is about to get underway. In round 1 we saw the biggest shock of the series so far when the fourth seed Seung Mina IV crashed out of the contest when it tried to take out Killotine: EVO, but instead was munched by Dervish V.
While that was happening Nitro-Gene 4.0 and Tough as Nails took out the clusterbot With or Without You.
Nitro-Gene 4.0 v Killotine: EVO
Dervish V v Tough as Nails

Heat Semi-Final 1

Ladies and Gentlemen, please give a round of applause for the return of Nitro-Gene 4.0 and Killotine: EVO.

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Paul Cuomo
Booth 2: Steven McGregor

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This should be an interesting round. It€™s the extremely powerful flipper and push-ability of Nitro-Gene 4.0 pitted against the dangerous axe and previous success of Killotine: EVO. Both are the standard box wedge shape, but Nitro-Gene gets off to a quicker start today and drives around to the side of Killotine: EVO, but Steven turns to meet Paul head on and as their ground clearances cancel each other out and Nitro pushes Killotine back across the arena, but Steven fires the axe and puts a small dent in Nitro€™s flipper. All the same Steven finds himself on the killsaws and is bounced upwards into the air, allowing Nitro-Gene to rush in underneath with the flipper, but the killsaws stop Nitro-Gene from ending the match via an OOTA and spin it away in a shower of sparks. The tyres seem to be OK after that, but not after this next attack, which sees Killotine: EVO run in from the side and breach the side skirt of Nitro-Gene 4.0 and bring the axe down directly onto the front left wheel of Nitro-Gene and hold on in there! Paul struggles, but the axe is in there and it isn€™t coming out. Paul however fires the flipper and does manage free itself, but only temporarily as it is chased across the arena by Killotine: EVO. But now Paul pulls around and gets under the side of Steven€™s machine, throwing it high up into the air with 1600kg of force behind that flip! Killotine turns over in mid-air and crashed back down onto the ground on its lid. Nitro-Gene comes in underneath and starts pushing Steven, who self-rights off Nitro-Gene and pushes into the side again, but this time the side skirt does its job and Killotine drives up the side of Nitro-Gene, stopping at the middle of the angled side. But that doesn€™t mean Nitro is safe from the axe, which comes down and goes through another tyre! Nitro€™s manoeuvrability will be seriously impaired now, and Killotine uses that to its advantage, holding the axe on in there and beginning to push Nitro-Gene 4.0 across the arena, but with Killotine on the side skirt Nitro manages to turn around and get underneath the side of Killotine: EVO, now ramming full speed into the arena wall with a CRASH! And now Paul gets the flipper underneath and hits the button, hoping to get Killotine up and over the barrier, but it goes more up than across here because of the position Killotine was in on the wedge, and Steven drives over the top of Nitro-Gene 4.0 before turning around and ramming into the rear, getting in underneath and hitting the top of Nitro-Gene with the axe again, but not making much of that hit. But now Nitro-Gene goes into reverses and drives over the top of Killotine, but before getting to the rear Steven uses the axe as a front hinged flipper and inverts Nitro-Gene, who despite being invertible does a stylish 540 degree turn in the air and neatly lands on its wheels. Paul now powers back into Nitro-Gene and somehow manages to get under the front plough, getting right in underneath before once again powering that fantastic flipper and sending Killotine high into the air, before he comes plummeting back to earth and lands on top of Nitro-Gene€™s open flipper, which snaps shut when Killotine lands on it. Steven drives off Nitro-Gene and comes around on the attack, hitting the same wheel it first punctured earlier on with the axe and pushing Paul across the arena and into the arena wall. Steven pulls the axe out of Nitro and reverses back a bit, and now there€™s very little movement from Nitro-Gene! It bounces along a bit on one side, but now in goes Killotine again and gives Nitro a whack in the bodywork with the axe! And now all movement has stopped- nothing is happening and the crowd counts the valiant veteran Nitro-Gene 4.0 out. Both these robots went out in round 2 last series, and it seems Nitro-Gene 4.0 has again, but Killotine: EVO beats its previous record. And as the camera zooms in we see the cause of Nitro-Gene€™s sudden immobilisation- the link was loosened by Killotine€™s axe blows throughout the match, and that last blow knocked it out completely.

CEASE!

Nitro-Gene 4.0 is executed; Killotine: EVO goes through to the heat final!

Heat Semi-Final 2

Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome back to the coliseum Dervish V and Tough as Nails!

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Daniel Stickler
Booth 2: Christopher Mason

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Both these robots are invertible and have effective weapons that work just as well when inverted, but that€™s where the similarities end. Dervish V is the full body drum designed to cause major punishment, while Tough as Nails is the perhaps less conventional full body claw designed to grab and then pit opponents. But Chris is finding it hard to get a grip on Dervish V, and Daniel just ploughs straight into the centre of TAN and flips it over, exposing the rear of the Dutch crusher to attack, and that€™s exactly what Dervish does, slamming into those exposed wheels with the drum spinning upwards at full speed and beginning to eat away at the one on the right! Chris tries to pull around and get away from Dervish, but Daniel swings around after him and this time hits the wheel side on, badly buckling it! Tough as Nails is in real trouble now and drives in circles, trying to grab Dervish V, who has reversed safely out of reach. And just at the right time Daniel rushes back in and slams into the other wheel with the drum spinning at top speed, although this wheel isn€™t too badly damaged at a glance that is until you realise Dervish is munching away at the wheel itself as it pushes TAN across the arena! And that dangerous spinning weaponry has eaten away almost the entire wheel, meaning Tough as Nails now has very limited mobility, not even making a full turn. The crowd can see that TAN isn€™t going anywhere soon, and they count the Dutch crusher and only newcomer of this heat down and out of the wars.

CEASE!

Tough as Nails wasn€™t tough enough; Dervish V whirls onto the heat final!

And so the penultimate heat final will be:
Killotine: EVO v Dervish V