Final heat! Guess Aaron won't be rubbing in my face that this will be a hypo, now will he? :P (j/k, don't hit me with that boomerang! D

Heat P
Fight 1
Achilles (2) vs. Dervish: The l33t Generation

From Geddinton, runner-up and 2nd seed...Achilles!
One of the most feared box-wedge flippers out there, and it has proven to be so with its pneumatic/hydraulic capabilities in every FRA tournament it's competed in! Extremely powerful drive, tough armour, proven to get under the lowest ground clearances...the name is misleading, as there are no real Achilles heels to discern, here! He's ready to go one step further!

C&B1: Didn't compete.
C&B2: Lost a judges decision against 6th seeded Die-Ceratops Re-Invertus.
C&B3: Made it all the way to the Grand Final, and in the quite climactic battle, it just barely lost the judges decision (it was even until the damage category, which he lost by a point) to 27th seed Disco 5, who was crowned champion.

From Merthyr Tydfil, Wales...Dervish: The l33t Generation!
Will beat you up into whipped cream with the 1500rpm eggbeater-style weaponry in the middle of the two wheel-pods, which are powered by MagMotors on 36 volts. The pods are made of Hardox and come to an angled point to prevent it from resting on its side...but stop the beater, and you can ram it around all day, it hasn't got good pushing power...

C&B1: Didn't compete.
C&B2: Didn't compete.
C&B3: (as Dervish: Generation X) Met an untimely demise in its Heat Final, when 19th seed Wedge Devolution pushed it into a CPZ and the house robot Triple Big Mac bashed in one of Dervish's wheels.

Achilles (2) will be using the pneumatics this time around.

Roboteers, stand by...

The house robots today are Hexadecimal with the 360º lifting spikes and cutting blade underneath, and Exa-Gore-Ic Evo with the massive horizontal jaws and punching spike!

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ACTIVATE!

Achilles blasts out of its starting spot, eager to justify its silver medal! Dervish, in return, heads straight for him, the beater spinning madly! Unfortunately Achilles slams straight into him and one of the wheel pods gets in the way of the beater, Achilles hitting the pod with the flipper, and wastes no time in tossing it! The gyroscopic Dervish seems to merely float a bit before coming back down, suffering very little damage/recoil! Achilles does not let up and rams into him, this time taking a good-sized blow from the beater, but even so it glances off the wedge and sends Dervish backward! Achilles' great torque is helping it here, but as it gets Dervish close to the wall it cannot get enough leverage to toss Dervish out, and merely contents itself with throwing Dervish sideways, end-over-end across the arena floor! The beater-bot finally comes to a rest, but before Dervish can get its bearings back, it's rammed again by the seemingly unstoppable force that is Achilles, and is thrown...straight into Hexadecimal who Achilles then flies into, but is penetrated by the spikes! Hex tips them up, but Achilles fires the flipper, jolting himself loose, and backs off, as Dervish...oh dear! Well the beater design certainly doesn't help it there! Two of the spikes went through the open space of the beater, pinning it in place as Hex lifts Dervish completely off the ground and into the air! But now two of the surrounding spikes conflict with Dervish's main body, so Hex cannot fully take advantage...but Achilles certainly will! The 2nd seed slams its rear end across the arena into the pit release button, and we know all too well what happens after that! Hexadecimal twirls around like a psychopath, the pinioned Dervish helpless to do anything about it! And as Hex spins...the spikes lower! Dervish is flung to the middle of the arena, much further than the pursuing Achilles anticipated! Furious, Dervish spins its beater back up and manages to sneak past the box-wedge, and delivers a nice hit to the side!

CRASH!

Achilles is overturned, and there's a great dent in that 5mm titanium side, but Achilles self-rights...right in the path of Dervish's beater again! CLANG! Achilles is nearly popped over again, but falls back onto its wheels, and Dervish can't hit it with a stopped beater! Now it's Achilles' turn to get angry, as it turns and shoves Dervish back! The shove turns into a full force pulverizing against the arena wall, Achilles not bothering to use the flipper here as Dervish bounces away, the arena wall groaning from the impact! Dervish skitters away but is closely pursued by Achilles, and it fails to dodge aside in time...as Achilles rams into the beater-bot and with one great shove sends it into the pit, followed shortly thereafter by itself!

CEASE!

The l33t Generation sure looks LOLzy, as Dervish is backspaced from a Round 2 headline again!
Achilles (2) advances to the Heat P Final!

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