NSBFL 7

[pcbore]

Heat G has arrived at last, and it comprises totally of new machines. I could stall for a while, or we could go meet them. What do you think?

V€™Ger is the 13th seed, basically getting said position because a lot of seeds weren€™t re-entered. It has a front 10 KG flywheel and rear lifter, but has enough weight left over for some optional extras including an anti-Aaron steel scoop although seeing Aaron hasn€™t entered we won€™t be seeing that.

Circuit breaker has come all the way from the States to compete, so let€™s hope they haven€™t had a wasted journey. It€™s a dome shape with a very low bar spinner which looks something similar to Choppers. Despite having what is described as the €œtoughest armour know to man€, it hasn€™t done very well in Battlebots which makes it an ideal candidate for this war

Got Bot came over on the plane with Circuit Breaker, so lets hope they didn€™t have a wasted journey either. It€™s a triangle shape, and can run invertible with no loss of pushing ability, and side spikes stop it resting there. Could Got Bot Get Success?

Finally we have GeForce from Andy Jackson. GeForce has an awesome nitrogen powered flipper which Andy is hoping to use to throw all contenders into the Stratos-Fear. And with a powerful drive and good armour to boot, who€™s to stop him?

Battle 1

V€™Ger vs Circuit Breaker in the Roulette arena.

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V€™Ger immediately heads for Circuit Breaker, who retreats and gets the spinning bar working! Circuit Breaker avoids the first lunge, and V€™Ger€™s wedge goes over a pit which doesn€™t open, but it was a moot point as not enough of V€™Ger was over to go down anyway. V€™Ger backs up and turns to face the wedge towards Circuit Breaker and charges again! The wedge slips under the spinning bar, and lifts it up a little, sending one of the bar ends into the floor causing Circuit Breaker to bounce off the floor, land, bounce again, start spinning up again causing itself to bounce once more onto a pit, fail to fall down as the pit next to it opens, and start spinning up again, once more proving the injustice of fan-fiction as that would have been a totally sweet TV sequence

Circuit Breaker gets off the pit, but is intercepted by V€™Ger before the bar can reach a respectable speed and lifted up and over again onto the pit! Again the pit fails to open, but Nick is shying away from going over the pit himself to attack Circuit Breaker some more, but it doesn€™t look like he needs to do anything as the bar of Circuit Breaker spins a little, hits the floor and isn€™t doing anything to push Circuit Breaker upright! It€™s been a fast fight, but with Circuit Breaker being counter out, V€™Ger is heading into the heat final!

Battle 2

Got Bot vs GeForce in the unimmediate Peril arena.

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The two machines head forwards and meet in a head on charge! GeForce gets under Got Bot easily and the flipper fires, propelling Got Bot backwards and over! GeForce gets under Got Bots rear and fires it over and upwards again, where it lands near the arena fence, and is unable to escape in time as GeForce comes in one final time and flips it out of the arena!

Well, it€™s a vey bad day for the battlebots as both get dispatched in double quick time. Now V€™Ger and GeForce face their worst fears€¦ Each other! Appropriately enough they do so in the last €˜bot standing arena.

[mrdaves]

Good fights.

VGer to outlast GeForce.

[pcbore]

By the way. Just want to A) apologise for the short fights and B) say it wasnt due to my hand, it was due to the fact I refuse to write long fights for the sake of writing long fights. If I think a fight would realistically end in the first 30 seconds of a match, it will do so.

[andrewj]

VGer vs GeForce

I beleive I am the more powerful robot. So in this fight Im going to use the power advantage and wedge shape to beat VGer against the walls. A couple of flips should help out should it go to a judges decition.

Wooty fights Frank!

[parassyte]

VGer vs GeForce

Tear it apart. AJ will point to his $500 million armor. I think the weapon will break up the bolts holding it in nicely. His robot apparently has no frame, and he somehow expects to be able to attach the plates around the hull to each other without a frame.

If youre suggesting Aluminum Boron Carbide can be welded to itself easily, then I dare you to try.

Think of it like trying to drill holes in diamond. This is the third hardest substance in the world, diamond being first (not counting super-large carbon complexes).

And Id like to note that with my robots 6 cm clearance, prevalently, his flipper fill find very bad angles to attack. He has 0% chance of getting under without also spending lots of time on the flywheel, which should eliminate much of his control score lead.

Horsepowerwise: dont expect that much of a performance gap. Overvolted lem130s are rather inefficient and get a tidbit hot. They wont blow up or anything, but I expect it to slow his batteries down, and slow his robot down overall towards the end of the match.

Ultimately, I want to try spinning, and thwacking him away with the lifter. Im quite sure my lifter is lower. I designed it with the hope of getting under Aarons precarious spinners, so it should fare alright against another flipper.

Good luck anyway Andy.

[parassyte]

Id like to petition to remove diamond or almost-diamond armor from the legal acceptability provisions of the tournament, Frank. Would you agree?

Not to mention that theyre only stronger than steel in a tensile sense. Compressive, in any direction other than head-on (hello flywheel!), theyre what you get for their mass, unfortunately.

[parassyte]

Okay... never mind. Apparantly Aluminum Boron Carbide isnt that expensive after all. I was going to edit it into the above posts, but the forums being a dick.

Sorry for that, Andy.

[pcbore]

I dont agree in prohibiting use of almost diamond armour for the following reasons:

1) They are still usable and as far as Im aware not hazerdous like Berylium.

2) I am aware of some of the shortfalls and they will be taken into account, so like extreme powered spinners and passive weapons you use them at your own risk.

...And the forum has a 15 minute edit time limit for some reason. Go figure.

[andrewj]

Its surposed to be a welded monocoque, but if its as hard to weld as you say then I guess that serves me right for not researching parts correctly.
6cm clearance, is that a typo? If not then I think Im going to find plenty of space to get under and start flipping and shoveing.
Motors... I beleive Storm II runs its LEM130s on 48v with no problems, so I see no reason why GeForces shouldnt.

Hope that helps.

[mrdaves]

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