Hello and welcome to an exciting new spin-off of the series of major tournaments known as Robot SMASH!! , Classic SMASH!! !

Today we have 4 new robots competing:

From Middleton-Cheney, Hypno-Disc!
This four wheel drive box-shaped machine from series 4 of Robot Wars has a horizontal spinning disc at the front and a side-hinged self-righting arm behind said disc. There also spikes on the top, but they are mostly for show. This version of the machine reached the series 4 Grand Final, losing out to Pussycat in the first Grand Final eliminator. However powerful it was 8 years ago though the disc€™s power and the armour€™s reliability are both seriously dated by today€™s standards.

From Richmond, Oxen!
The first vapour of the competition is a triangular machine powered by wheelchair motors. This curiously shaped machine has a static spike at the rear and is armoured in 5mm titanium, and although that could be exploited by some spinners flippers won€™t do anything to it as it can run inverted.

From East Tilbury, Essex, Spawn Again!
Semi-Finalist of RW5, this robot is the most modern realie in the competition, as it weighed just 79kg at RW5, 21kg under the maximum weight. It has a large co2 powered flipper that can throw opponents high into the air, but it can be pushed around too easily.

From Suffolk , Bad Temper Jr!
Surprisingly this robot has competed in Robot SMASH!! before, fighting and losing to Disco 5 in the eliminator of the Mini-Tournament. It is a Tornado shaped machine with a large Overkill-style blade on top that can come down with some force.

But the Gauntlet awaits them, can they make it through?

Hypno-Disc is first up.

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Kody Kunz/Dave Rose/Derek Rose/Ken Rose

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SMASH!!

The four wheel drive machine gets off to a quick start and spins up the disc as it approaches the first wall that is it€™s obstacle, bringing the disc around to bear on the middle section of the wall and striking lucky, knocking it down and progressing through, where it tries two walls before finding the correct way through and progressing onto the third fence, where the knock-down wall is quickly found, as is the case on the last two walls. After that though Kody finds himself facing the large square that is belching fire to hide the killsaws in the floor! Hypno-Disc guns the four wheel drive across the square, but is caught by a saw and flipped! BZZT! The srimech kicks into play, but in this era it was a painfully slow 5 seconds and we see now that some of the plastic on Hypno-Disc has melted!

CEASE!

Hypno-Disc: 12.5 metres

Next up is Oxen

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Jack Orr

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SMASH!!

The pizza shaped machine gets going straight away, but the wheelchair motors don€™t provide a lot of power and Jack unfortunately has to test a few walls on the first row to progress, although on this second row he€™s quick and goes on again. However the third wall is where it all goes wrong prematurely for Oxen as it bounces slightly on a bump in the floor and mounts the fallen wall, beaching itself!

CEASE!

Oxen: 6.2 metres

Now is Spawn Again

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Samuel Park/Darren Ball/Graham Warner/Luke Jackman

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SMASH!!

The long wedge that was seeded #13 in RW5 gets off to a speedy start, delivering a good shove into the central wall, although that isn€™t the knock-down wall and Samuel spins around, knocking the next-door neighbour down! And now the wedge hurries through the gap it just made and runs along into the second wall, getting a lucky hit and powering through both second and third rows by staying in the same line! The fourth however is a bit more tricky and Spawn has some tough manoeuvring to do to get past quickly, but Samuel at the controls manages it and Spawn Again triumphs as it smashes through the last two walls and out onto the square of death! But Samuel confidently drives across the square and reaches the other end just as time runs out!

CEASE!
Spawn Again: 14.5 metres

And right now we have Bad Temper Jr
Roboteers, standby!
Booth 1: Christopher Mason
5...
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SMASH!!

The vapourbot gets off to a quick start, driving up to the first row of walls and testing them out with the huge overhead blade, giving one a good whack and letting it fall to the ground, allowing Chris to shoot through quickly and run into the next row, striking lucky again and getting the knock down wall in very quick time before progressing to the third row, however this time it takes a little longer, but still Bad Temper Jr is persistent and moves on again, knocking through the fourth and fifth rows to reach the square, where it immediately gets tossed over by a pair of killsaws! BZZT! Chris self-rights though and now carries on through the square, reaching the end just as...

CEASE!

Bad Temper Jr: 14.5 metres

Leaderboard:
=1: Spawn Again- 14.5 metres
=1: Bad Temper Jr- 14.5 metres
3: Hypno-Disc- 12.5 metres
4: Oxen- 6.2 metres

Next up the remaining three robots try their hand at sumo against Sumo Shock!
Remember all weapons are de-activated in this upcoming round.