HEAT D: ROUND ONE

13 Black (7) VS Herbinator VS Infusion VS Lightning

From Essex€¦ Lightning!
A sleek wedge design created by this team from Essex, powered by 2 x 750x electric motors giving an average top speed. The weaponry comprises of 2 independent flippers that are unique to Robot Wars - they move in a sideways motion! Lightning can self right, but with limited C02 on board will Lightning be gone in a flash?

From Leicestershire: the number 7 seeds€¦ 13 Black!
The double discs of doom are back! 13 Black stormed its way to the semi finals last year, with a lack of a srimech letting it down. This year it€™s solved that problem, and turbo charged the discs so they are even more frightening. Two wheel drive gives good manoeuvrability and at 20mph it is the fastest in the competition. But with a lack of pushing power, could 13 Black prove unlucky this time around?

From Australia€¦ Infusion!
Croikey, mate, this robot plays by its own Aussie Rules! This robot from Down Under is sure to be Spinning Around in the form of a 28kg body and a potential 25mph top speed. Powered by 2 Magmotors running at 24v, the electronics inside Infusion are pretty safe. The front wedge gives 0mm ground clearance at the front, but with exposed wheels, could Infusion end up getting tied down, sport, or Skippy its way through the competition?

From Huddersfield€¦ Herbinator!
First time competitors to the Wars, this flipper robot hopes to throw opponents out of the arena using it€™s rear hinged flipper powered by a €œ16 bang pneumatic CO2 cylinder€ (quote from Youtube video, not random garbage, honest! ). The robot is made from aluminium and has roll-bars to stop is getting stranded. The Herbinator is a cross between the Terminator and Herbie: will the Herbinator be back, or will it go bananas?!


Booth One: Laurie Calvert (Lightning) and Jeremy Cuss (Herbinator)
Booth Two: John Denny (13 Black) and Aaron Knight

House Robots: Sgt Bash and Shunt.

3€¦2€¦1€¦ACTIVATE!

Heat D begins, with all four robots sprinting out of the starting gate and driving towards the centre of the arena. Infusion€™s spinning body whirrs ferociously, the blades becoming a blur almost instantly as the 2 x D-Pack motors kick in. 13 Black has also got its spinning weaponry rotating, but very slowly, the counter rotating discs, each one being 70cm in diameter, looking for some metal to munch. Lightning is the first robot to make contact with another, sliding its low wedge shape underneath the far larger Herbinator and using one of its sideway flippers to send the robot from Huddersfield onto its back, the side roll-bars doing their job perfectly. Infusion moves menacingly towards Lightning and Herbinator, the latter self righting in superb style using the flipper. 13 Black also begins the move towards the action, allowing time for the discs to rev up to their top speed. John Denny, the driver behind 13 Black, uses the 20mph top speed of his machine to slam one of the discs into the side of Lightning, the impact ricocheting both 13 Black and Lightning away from each other. 13 Black is send flying towards the arena wall, the other spinning disc smashing into the Lexan wall and slicing it as if it was thin paper. Lightning, which now has a huge gash in the side armouring, spins across the arena floor, finally coming to a halt just outside Shunt€™s arena CPZ. Laurie Calvert regains control of Lightning and gets it back in on the action. Infusion, which has been quite quiet during this battle, spots an opening for some destruction - the side roll-bars of Herbinator. Aaron Knight turns Infusion around and brings the 28kg spinning shell into play, smashing into the side of Herbinator.

Sparks fill the space as the Aluminium roll-bars are sent soaring through the air, crashing into the safety screen outside of the arena. The crowd are in awe, as Infusion, relentless and blood-thirsty, crashes into Herbinator again, this time the entire side panel is ripped clean off in a shower of sparks and shrapnel. On the other side of the arena, both robots clearly recovered from their initial onslaught, 13 Black and Lightning collide once again, this time Lightning getting the upper hand and sliding underneath the double-spinner, flipping it over using one of the sideways flippers and expelling C02 in the process. The discs on 13 Black grind to a halt as they make contact with the arena floor, splinters of wood flying upwards and showering the arena floor. John Denny bring the newly added srimech into play, and 13 Black self rights without any problems at all. A large crash fills the arena, as the entire crowd turn to see Infusion deliver another deadly blow to Herbinator, who has seemed pretty motionless after the first attack from the Aussie robot. The innards of Herbinator, scattered around the arena, resemble the remains of a gazelle after being attacked by a lion: Herbinator sadly being the gazelle. The carcass of Herbinator is shoved around by Sgt Bash, a flick of flame adding to Jeremy Cuss€™ misery, before the arena floor flipper sends Herbinator airborne, the Aluminium remains landing ferociously on the arena floor.

As Herbinator was being removed from the competition in spectacular style, Infusion, still bloodthirsty and wanting more destruction, drives towards 13 Black and Lightning, the robot from Essex receiving more battle scars from the spinning discs of 13 Black. Laurie Calvert, the driver of Lightning manages to get his machine underneath the ground clearance of 13 Black and sends it onto its back once again. The arena floor gains two more grooves from the twin discs of 13 Black, just as the spinning body of Infusion gets nearer. The two robots collide, 13 Black in mid-self righting mode. The noise is deafening, as 13 Black is send skidding across the arena on its back, the srimech arm completely ripped off and left spinning on the exact spot where 13 Black and Infusion collided. The Aussie robot is sent in the opposite direction, towards the arena side wall. As smoke begins to waft from the upside-down robot from Leicestershire, Aaron Knight€™s Infusion collides with the arena wall, shattering the Lexan into tiny shards.

CEASE!!

In the interests of safety, the match is stopped for the arena wall to be repaired. However, John Denny informs the Judges that 13 Black is completely dead and cannot compete when the match restarts.

Therefore: Infusion and Lightning go through to Round 2!



Gravity VS Hydra VS Thor VS Hodaf The Bad

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dDHn0FBv5Ewhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=dDHn0FBv5Ew


HEAT D: ROUND TWO

Gravity VS Infusion
Lightning VS Thor

Tactics? Predictions? A new keyboard because someone€™s stupid €˜N€™ key keeps sticking? :sad: