Middleweight Semi-Final 1
Blizzard MW vs. T-Minus

Roboteers, stand by...

Sophitia returns to a guest house robot role, but this time she's paired with Shunt, who gets to play the big boy for now!

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A riveting start we have, for T-Minus blazes across the arena and slams into the corkscrewy robot, and launches it sky-high with an amazing flip! Blizzard comes down hard, but proves that it's quite fine by roughly shoving T-Minus across the arena with its drills! T-Minus tries to escape the push, but the torque and traction of Alex Holt's barbaric creation is unparalleled, and soon T-Minus finds itself against the wall and in no position to flip Blizzard! Quickly, the bizarre drill weaponry of Blizzard coming into play! Thankfully, T-Minus' front armour easily withstands the assault and moments later the Inertia Labs machine is able to squeeze away and approach the side of Blizzard again! Blizzard tries to move away, but gets another hefty flip as it does so! Blizzard lands with its rear facing T-Minus, but as T-Minus rushes at it again with flipping determination ablaze, it strafes aside almost like nothing! Martijn wasn't expecting that and stops fully, but T-Minus is able to reorient itself as Blizzard gets the drills in again, and this time manages to angle itself in for another flip, tossing Blizzard end over end! All this action is driving them towards Sophitia's CPZ, and moments later the Greek Goddess (of War! ) manages to get some action at last as T-Minus heaves Blizzard across and on top of her. Sophitia gets a clean launch and T-Minus is flabbergasted as Blizzard absolutely sails straight over him and lands with a nasty crunch several feet behind! T-Minus whirls about in a metallic blur, but Blizzard must be made of sterner stuff than the bookies thought because the drills slam into T-Minus again and push it towards the giddy house robot! T-Minus manages to make a reverse turn out of it and Blizzard drives straight into Sophitia and her feared flipper! T-Minus approaches from the side and gets a toss in, just as Sophitia mistimes a flip and throws herself over! It seems the angled rear didn't exactly help matters! Regardless, T-Minus leaves her alone and pursues the retreating Blizzard, but the devilishly cunning screwbot strafes aside again, and bumps into the launchbot as he drives by! Side-by-side, T-Minus tries to turn and flip, but Blizzard also tries to turn and so we have both robots driving straight into the wall! But before he does, Alex halts Blizzard's progress and the far nippier T-Minus crashes its massive snout straight into it! Blizzard sees a golden opportunity and backs all the way across the arena...Martijn struggles to pull T-Minus off the wall and The Watcher, our friendly neighbourhood refbot, is looking a little concerned! Just as T-Minus activates the flipper in desperation, and throws itself onto its back, free, Blizzard bulldozes in and drives into the inverted front of the launchbot, slamming it hard into the wall in a rough display not unlike a cross-check in hockey! There's no way in hell that Martijn will try and self-right from that position though - the famed 540 self-right of T-Minus will see it jump the fence! But it cannot wiggle free from Blizzard's monstrous grip and has to settle for being drilled by the extreme traction action of the screws propelling the front prongs! Eventually The Watcher has his say, and Blizzard is shunted aside, its fun ruined, as T-Minus, with two holes in its front armour, speeds away!

Blizzard dodges around the refbot and keeps in close quarters, but not well enough! A quick spin from T-Minus has it at Blizzard's sides, and Alex tries to strafe sideways away, T-Minus keeps at the side and eventually drives it into Shunt's CPZ and flips it! Shunt receives the full 68kg of the screwbot into his scoop and slams the axe down! Unfortunately the axe blow glances off, but held down it manages to hold Blizzard in there. Shunt turns around and pins Blizzard into the CPZ, and retracting the axe manages to dint Blizzard's middle body several times with that diamond-edged axe! Eventually there's a small hole put into that section, but as Shunt releases him at last, there's little evidence that the damage is anything but superficial! T-Minus, however, intends to make the pain prolonged, and getting in another toss slams Blizzard into the wall nearby! As they approach a nearby Disc of Death, Blizzard suddenly gains the upper hand, finding the side of T-Minus and pinning it! T-Minus wiggles and fires the flipper, but can't free itself, and Blizzard slowly but surely makes the most of this moment by riding the wall and getting T-Minus into that dreaded hazard...of Death!

CRASH!!!

And oh yes, T-Minus is high enough to be hit by that! Sent a'twirling, T-Minus is shot across the arena like a pinball, coming to rest near the floor flipper, with a nasty, nasty gash in the top corner! Martijn tries to reign T-Minus' driving back to full strength, but 'full strength' doesn't seem like an option anymore because the Inertia Labs machine is quite slow now! Unable to withstand a sudden Blizzard ram, it is pushed back towards the arena spikes, and T-Minus tries to get off of it but is poked anyway and sent...flying, actually! The pointy piston explodes terminally, propelling T-Minus off the floor and about a few feet into the air! It lands right side up, thankfully, but its drivetrain problems are still clear to the audience! And they are much clearer to the two drivers, and Alex takes full advantage by roughly shunting T-Minus backwards and into Sophitia's CPZ again...and the Grecian responds by giving T-Minus a taste of its own medicine, rocketing the launchbot across the arena to land near the pit! Blizzard senses that the end is nigh, and goes to open the pit, but T-Minus is reluctant to meet a dark and gloomy end and drives away from the pit...unfortunately, his mobility is hindered enough so that he doesn't even get 2 feet away before Blizzard spears the pit release button and nearly drags it from the wall! As Martijn frantically tries to get T-Minus working at capacity again, Blizzard crashes in and sends it straight back into Sophie's CPZ! This time Sophitia gets T-Minus fully onto the wedge and tosses it...at near terminal velocity! T-Minus 1 second and counting...? BAM! The second it takes for T-Minus to land from its utmost height is like Marti's heart dropping as it lands onto its back and bounces, again near the pit! There's no surviving the inevitable, and a well-fought fight finally ends in victory in Blizzard as it makes one last drawn-out push towards the big hole and T-Minus at long last tumbles in!

CEASE!

A rocketing display for sure, but it's T-Minus who takes off into the great blue yonder!
Blizzard MW advances to the Middleweight Final!

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