Welcome back to Robot SMASH!! , where we are beginning the second of eight special events- The lightweight melee!

Lightweight Melee

Created and entered by Kody Kunz, Anti-Virus 2.1!
This Bad Attitude-style rammer has 2 S28-400s at 36v in the drive, a decent heavyweight drive. This gives it the power to shove all the other robots around, although the wheels are exposed from the top due to it being invertible.

Created and entered by Christopher Mason, Little Big Bot!
Essentially Bio-Hazard minus skirts and with an axe instead of a lifter, this robot with powerful drive motors for a lightweight really does pack a punch. However the high ground clearance all around will give flippers a field day.

Created and entered by Joey McConnell, Radioactive!
This robot is an invertible wedge. Um... It sometimes makes appearances in heavyweight tournaments... Erm... Did I say it€™s an invertible wedge? It is similar though to last season€™s successful middleweight Doorstop, who was half of the heavyweight clusterbot Doorstops.

Created and entered by Steven McGregor, Ringo Scarr!
This is another invertible robot; however it is much more interesting than the others seen so far. It is part of the now retired clusterbot The Botles Reunited, which was knocked out of the eliminator last time around by its fellow clusterbot Weapon Synergy, who also has a representative in this battle.

Created and entered by Daniel Stickler, Claw!
This cluster from Weapon Synergy is essentially TAN scaled down. Daniel himself defeated TAN in the main competition with his full body drum Dervish V, and now wants to do better than his opponent back then did. The S28-150s aren€™t a bad drive for a lightweight, but they won€™t cope against the more powerful robots like Anti-Virus 2.1 and Little Big Bot.

Built by Team Nightmare, entered by Paul Cuomo, Backlash!
The only realie in this melee, this little reverse wedge with a powerful vertical flywheel was the lightweight winner at Battlebots Season 1.0. However it€™s pretty unstable and its big brother Nightmare was knocked out of the competition by 7th seed Whirligig 4.5 earlier on.

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Kody Kunz, Christopher Mason, Joey McConnell
Booth 2: Steven McGregor, Daniel Stickler, Paul Cuomo

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SMASH!!

Immediately we see Backlash and Ringo Scarr get their spinning weapons up to speed as all 6 machines get going as soon as the signal to begin is given. Claw also gets going, but being the lightest in this melee it is quickly shunted aside by Anti-Virus 2.1 before it can grab hold of anyone. Meanwhile Radioactive has run in underneath Little Big Bot in an attempt to push it across the arena, but Chris drives up Joey€™s slightly underweight machine and reverses into the back of it, turning quickly to bring the axe down and strike Radioactive€™s tyre! Chris holds on in there and pushes Joey back across the arena into the pit release siren, signalling the pit to descend and the siren to wail! With the impact Radioactive escapes, but in comes Anti-Virus 2.1 from nowhere to shove Joey headlong sideways into the pit! There€™s a quick puff of smoke and another other weight melee is all over for Mr. McConnell. Meanwhile Backlash has smacked into Ringo Scarr and propped it against the arena wall, but 30 seconds pass and someone has to free the trapped Steven. Claw obliges, grabbing hold of the back half of Ringo Scarr and pulling it across the arena, heading towards the pit! Steven struggles, but Claw has a firm grip and quickly pulls around to dump another lightweight into the pit and out of the contest! But Daniel has left himself vulnerable to attack from behind and Backlash hits with the flywheel from the side, attempting to clip him into the pit, but instead flipping him away and putting a small gash in the titanium armour! Anti-Virus meanwhile has gotten in underneath the front clearance of Little Big Bot and pushes Chris up against the arena wall, pinning it there for the full 30 seconds while the tussle behind it goes on. Despite the gash in the armour Claw seems undamaged, and uses those magmotors in the drive to dodge around the front disc of Backlash, to drive around to the rear and grab hold! Paul tries to resist, but despite the disc spinning up to full speed quickly Claw has a hold and isn€™t letting go! The S28-150s fire up into gear and Claw pushes Backlash across the coliseum and into the side of Anti-Virus 2.1, flipping it up a bit, but not over and un-wedging Little Big Bot! Backlash escapes now and reverses away to spin up the flywheel again, but now Anti-Virus 2.1 lines up for another attack, accelerating quickly and jamming up to full speed to slam into the front of Backlash with a CRASH! The spinning disc stops spinning as Backlash slowly tips up and over backwards onto its back! And without the disc spinning it seems the ex-Battlebots champion is out of the match. Anti-Virus 2.1 decides to finish Paul off just for the hell of it and delivers the final shove to knock Backlash into the pit and out of the match, while Claw and Little Big Bot do battle elsewhere. Little Big Bot manages to land some blows on Claw, but Daniel Stickler€™s machine is resilient to the attacks and manages to grasp Little Big Bot from the sides to try and shove it backwards, but the S28-400s defeat the S28-150s and Little Big Bot pulls around and charges across the arena, dumping the Weapon Synergy cluster into the pit and out of the match! But now in comes Anti-Virus 2.1 and scoops up under Little Big Bot€™s ground clearance to slam it against the arena wall with a CRASH! At first there doesn€™t seem to be much damage, but then we realise Chris€™ carbon dioxide gas supply has been ruptured as Little Big Bot vents gas all over the arena floor! But now Kody must reverse away to release Little Big Bot now that the 30 seconds of pinning time are up and Chris drives away across to the centre of the arena to stay clear of the pit, but still Kody follows and gets underneath again, this time slamming Chris across the arena floor and depositing it onto the killsaws! BZZT! And with that the match is over with two of the six robots we started with still mobile!

CEASE!

Judge€™s Decision:
Damage:
Anti-Virus 2.1- 7 x 4= 28
Little Big Bot- 7 x 4= 28
Aggression:
Anti-Virus 2.1- 8 x 3= 24
Little Big Bot- 5 x 3= 15
Control:
Anti-Virus 2.1- 8 x 2= 16
Little Big Bot- 7 x 2= 14
Dominance:
Anti-Virus 2.1- 8 x 1= 8
Little Big Bot- 3 x 1= 3
Overall:
Anti-Virus 2.1- 28 + 24 + 16 + 8= 76pts
Little Big Bot- 28 + 15 + 14 + 3= 60pts

And by a comparatively large margin of 16 points the winner of the lightweight melee is Anti-Virus 2.1!

6th Radioactive
5th Ringo Scarr
4th Backlash
3rd Claw
2nd Little Big Bot
1st+2> Anti-Virus 2.1
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