The Crash & Burn Tournament 2
haha Cosmic Thunder finally makes an Heat Final appearence. Underrated my foot :P
					haha Cosmic Thunder finally makes an Heat Final appearence. Underrated my foot :P
							
						
 
 This invertible full-body-spinner deliberately bounces off of things it hits with the 6cm blades it will use today, attached to its 2000rpm spinning shell. 8mm titanium for the ring and an 10mm Aluminium top/bottom make up the armour, while S28-300 MagMotors make up the drive. Its wheels are exposed however they wont take too much damage thanks to being foam-filled, but it has lack of control. 
 It can get under you, clamp you, push you around, and then some. Titanium armour and invertibility help it in its course, but despite it weighing the full 100kg, it can be flipped very easily: not a good thing against one of the most powerful flippers in Robot Wars, and it has a very boxy shape which can be taken advantage of by spinners. 
 Tempest, at least, flies, right across the pit and into the wall! Big Nipper is sent in a pirouette, more titanium being mangled, but manages to pursue Tempest again. By this time The Watcher has gotten bored of the proceedings and starts to count WBC out. 
 
 It has a big hydraulic lifter that can easily lift 200kg, and a Pussycat-style blade in the flipping plate, which lifts with the flipper, and can cut armour and tires. Its basically a 6mm titanium box with a slightly sloped front, and is powered by Etek motors @ 48v. Its quite nippy at 18mph, but the srimech may prove to be too slow. Will he truly rock you? Youll have to find that out yourself. 
 
 LEM130 Lynch motors power the two hardox wheels at the back, wrapped in vulkalon rubber. It also sports a 5mm hardox monocoque. Like TAN, it has a pair of pneumatic pincers, capable of giving 3.5 tonnes of pressure at the tip, and the ends are sharpened with titanium to slice into opposing robots armour. It works just as well the other side up, but it can be tossed easily despite this, and it definitely can be stacked... 
 
 However its Back to Rock who lunges towards Disc-O-Inferno, who doesnt seem to realize the fight has started yet. 
 
 Andy sulks, and Gigabyte opens the pincers, allowing The Watcher to go - straight into Tiras blade! 
 Gigabyte takes this opportunity to attack the green psychopath, and the claws find the ring...and are foiled by it. 
 However Tira is pushed against the wall and held there. Exa-Gore-Ic is trying to throw Back to Rock off, but Martijn is rather pushy, and trying to push the 400kg bot to the pit...but still, no go. Disc-O-Inferno looks lonely, and without a refbot to count it out, it is still in the running. Gigabyte shoves Tira off the wall and makes a wide U-turn...slamming Tira into Exa-Gore-Ics other side! House robot sandwich, anyone? 
 Martijn lifts again, and succeeds! A little, at least, as Exa-Gore-Ic is thrown up onto the edge of the top, and held there, and finally Back to Rock is able to push the house robot, as Gigabyte backs off. Tira actually pushes Back to Rock in the side without her blade functional, trying to free her teammate but Gigabyte tackles her again and pins her on the wall. And...right on top of the Watcher! 
 Martijn spies Disc-O-Inferno along the wall, and travels over there. Chris frantically tries to work the controls, but Back to Rock expertly slides the arm under, and lifts...lifts...OUT! Disc-O-Inferno is finally out, of the arena, that is. 
 Back to Rock turns to help Gigabyte finish off Tira, but... 
 
							
						
) if you get all its traction off the ground. Go Big Nipper!
							
						
							
						
 The stacking thing doesnt bother me in the slightest, I can just fire the claws and bounce back down. 
							
						
) will surely make GigaByte unbelievably cumbersome whn the claws are closed. Why even have them on the inside, as the wheels are indestructable?  
 
 
 Tempest smashes against it, and lands on his back beside Martijns lifter. Immediately he turns tail and spins up. Back to Rock realizes his mistake and goes after Tempest, but too late: 2000rpm has been achieved by Tempest! 
 anyway Tempest reaches the pit release, poking it with one of the hooks, and guess what? The pit opens. 
 WAIT! Back to Rock is moving again! Frank is indeed surprised, but not in any danger, as Back to Rock is not moving very quickly...Tempest is spinning up the shell again, and by the time Back to Rock has reached him, its back at full speed. 
 
 
 
 Gigabyte clamps but its too late, as Big Nipper gets away. Gigabyte chases him, but meets the lifting pincers head-on and immediately closes his own pincers, catching the Titanium sides, as Big Nipper lifts. Big Nipper lifts itself, and Gigabytes pincers sink into the sides, piercing through the titanium and into the innards! Big Nipper suddenly tilts back, lifting Gigabyte off the ground, and Big Nipper goes for the pit release! WHAM! Gigabyte is slammed into the button and again the siren goes off as our evil hole appears. 
 Big Nipper decides that it much rather wants those lovely tires and heads over to the arena saws. All of a sudden, Gigabyte does a tilt himself, lifting Big Nipper up, but the saws come up and BZZT! Ooh, major saw hit to Gigabyte! This also puts Big Nipper on the ground again and lifts Gigabyte back up, but Big Nipper lowers the clamps and back goes Gigabyte onto the saws! BZZT! Ooh, pretty sparks. 
 Gigabyte pushes back but Big Nipper activates the lifter again and lifts himself 
 allowing Gigabyte to smash it into the wall. WHAM! Ah! Gigabytes pincers come unstuck from the sides of Big Nipper! We have a good fight again! Big Nipper heads for Gigabytes left pincer and collides with it, lifting it up and pushing Gigabyte back onto the saws! BZZT! Uh oh! The rubber one of Gigabytes tires has been shredded, and traction will definitely be hindered! BZZT! Big Nipper goes over the saws this time, and more sparks! 
 OOH!!! Big Nippers rear end, near the bottom, has been brutalized by the saws! What damage! Gigabyte comes back in and slams into Big Nipper, but unable to get around those lifters, which haul Gigabyte up, and Gigabytes own pincers, near the ground, actually hook under Big Nippers own sides, pinning them in that position, but its Big Nipper who pushes his fellow clamper towards Taki-sans CPZ! Taki charges under Gigabyte and into his claws, still snagged around Big Nippers underbelly, and throws the both of them away, freeing Gigabyte. Gigabyte wobbles back towards, Big Nipper, traction suffering, and successfully gets to the side, and the jaws clamp! However Big Nipper gets the lifter in the way, and lifts itself from the ground, right off of Gigabytes claws! This means that Gigabyte cant get a proper hold on the real robot, and Big Nipper hangs by one of the pincers. Gigabyte decides to feed him some wall anyway. WHAM! Big Nipper is mashed against it with force, but bounces away and out of the grasp of Gigabyte. Gigabyte follows him, still wobbling a little. Big Nipper outmanoeuvres Andys machine and sliding under one of the claws lifts him, only the same way he would have from the front! 
 This results in Gigabyte again escaping, and then ramming Big Nipper from the side! Big Nipper lowers the lifter onto one of the incoming pincers and vaults over the other one clumsily, Gigabyte turning and feeding it to another wall. WHAM. Big Nipper however is now facing the side of Gigabyte and getting under that pincer pushes him into the wall! WHAM! The clamps lift! Gigabyte is gripped by the clampers now, taken backwards, and - BZZT! Oh, Big Nipper takes another blow from the arena saws! Gigabyte is dropped! BZZT! Gigabyte takes a hit now! Its all really been the saws that have inflicted the most damage here. Heres the lifter of Big Nipper again, towards Gigabytes front end, and they collide, Gigabyte actually overshooting and landing on top of Big Nipper, meaning the pincers can do absolutely nothing at all! Big Nipper charges, lifting up his trophy (not THAT trophy! 
) and heading to the pit! Gigabytes wheels turn and find the edges of Big Nippers front, but Dave seeing whats about to happen turns to face the pit with the backside, sending Gigabyte tumbling...down! BOOM! 
 
							
						
 
 
 Anyway Big Nipper decides to lower the clamps and rush right into the maelstrom that is Tempest! 
 Both bots spin away, Tempest a bit further, and Big Nipper receiving a wide gash in the right side of the front as a result. Tempest hurriedly spins the shell up but Big Nipper heads towards him...and is again foiled as Tempest nimbly avoids that too. 
 Frank brings Tempest back into action as the FBS attacks Big Nippers side. Big Nipper tries to pull away, but its way too late! 
 Tempest is approaching Big Nipper now, so Big Nipper faces him with the rear, and throws his butt in Tempests path! 
 Tempest swings around the side and catches the berserk Big Nipper in the other side! 
 Internals ahoy! Big Nippers mechanics are strewn across the arena and its safe to say that this battle is pretty much done. The Watcher counts the remains of Big Nipper out as Tempests shell comes to a stop. 
 (thanks for that one Swanny 
							
						
 
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