And so we come to the penultimate heat final of Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged, after 14 heats of total destruction there are only 6 battles left before the series semi-finals.
In round 1 Killotine: EVO was targeted by Seung Mina IV (4), but Dervish V targeted the seed and eliminated it in the biggest shock of the series.
Killotine: EVO had a long and hard fight with Nitro-Gene 4.0, eventually knocking out the link with a killing blow.
Meanwhile Dervish V tackled Tough as Nails, buckling the wheels and immobilising the full body claw.

Heat Final

Ladies and Gentlemen:
Killotine: EVO
Dervish V

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Steven McGregor
Booth 2: Daniel Stickler

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SMASH!!

The full body drum that is Dervish V immediately starts revolving as the signal for the fight to begin is given, and before Killotine: EVO knows it those LEMCO-130 motors have spun the dangerous weapon up to top speed and Dervish is making its way across the arena to attack Killotine: EVO, who uses its own LEMs now to power across the arena and get the front wedge under Dervish V, the hardox armour taking minimal damage from the drum and managing to push Daniel€™s machine onto the killsaws! BZZT! Dervish is spun around, and gets hit by Killotine€™s axe, which puts a hole in the aluminium armour of Dervish V and allows Killotine to drag it back across the arena, but the drum starts spinning again and Steven loses his vice grip. Dervish V reverses away and gets that weapon up to speed again, and although Steven tries another box-rush Daniel pulls around to the side of the former VGC Champion and rips off a side skirt, flipping Killotine up and over in the process, attacking the base armour and then rolling Killotine across the arena, over and over before slamming it against the arena side wall and ripping the side hardox panel clean off! Killotine is in trouble now, but manages to escape to safety before coming around on an attack and pushing Dervish side on, bringing the axe down onto one of the exposed tyres of Daniel€™s drumming machine! Killotine holds the axe in there and pushes Dervish against the arena wall, but the impact loosens the axe€™s grip and Dervish V escapes, allowing Daniel to spin up that lethal drum weapon again before coming around on the attack and trying to get at Killotine€™s exposed internal workings, but Steven pulls around so that Daniel meets the front wedge of Killotine: EVO and drives straight into Dervish, driving it across the arena and into the corner, onto the killsaws once again! BZZT! Dervish is thrown off again and drives away from Killotine in order to get that spinning drum body up to speed, and when it does it comes back around on the attack, dodging Killotine€™s third box rush and pulling around in a second attempt to get a good onslaught into the internal workings, but Daniel (due to the slightly impaired mobility due to the damaged tyre) has pulled around too late and hits the rear of Killotine, but he still manages to rip off the skirt there. To make sure the drum doesn€™t do any more damage Killotine: EVO reverses into Dervish V and pushes it across the arena and against the pit release button! The siren wails and the chasm descends, giving the two drivers another thing to worry about in this fight. And now comes another turn for Killotine to attack, with Steven pulling around and wedging Dervish V against the arena wall, stopping the drum and the robot€™s mobility for now. The axe comes down, but goes right over Dervish V and hits the barrier, doing no good whatsoever. Steven withdraws the axe and pins Dervish V in this position for the full 30 seconds, perhaps just trying to keep the drum away from the insides of Killotine: EVO. But now those 30 seconds are up and Killotine: EVO is ordered to reverse away from the wall, therefore freeing Dervish V, who spins up again and comes at Killotine, who attempts another wedge attack and is successful, jamming Dervish V up against the arena wall. Those LEM-130s in Killotine€™s drive are really paying off, but once again Steven has to reverse and now Daniel spins up again, this time managing to avoid Killotine€™s attempt to wedge it again and comes around to attack the un-protected side of Killotine, and finally it is successful, rolling Killotine over and over again and flipping the unprotected side over onto the killsaws! BZZT! Killotine is lifted into the air and Dervish drives in again, flipping it up and ripping the remaining side skirt, managing to stack Killotine: EVO on the arena wall, and now Steven€™s machine is really looking the worse for wear. He fires the axe to jerk it down off the arena wall, but now Killotine is only going in circles, and it seems the wires connecting the left drive motor to the batteries were cut through by the killsaws! And with next to no control Killotine drives straight forward into the arena wall, firing the axe helplessly. Daniel smiles and powers up the drum one last time before slamming in and rolling Killotine: EVO up against the arena wall, causing some more superficial damage as the fantastic axe robot rolls over the barrier and out of the contest, and landing on the camera tracks in a broken and beaten heap.

CEASE!

Killotine: EVO is all cut up; Dervish V whirls onto the series semi-finals!

Next time on Robot SMASH!! , the final heat!
Nidhogg (2) v Leprosy Infection v Under Pressure
Drum Boy v Envy v Sonic Boom

NOTE TO MARTIJN: How near is Under Pressure to completion?