Robot SMASH!!

[leorcc]

Robot SMASH!!

Simple problem with cloaking devices: The oppponent cant see you, but you cant see your robot either. very difficult steering as roboteers that have tried driving their robots blind at Wicksteed park can testify. It was very funny though. People shouting Left Left and the robot turning right.

[Guest]

Robot SMASH!!

Special Event- Featherweight Final
Skink v T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L

Let€™s see how these two mighty minis made it this far...
1)Skink flipped Cunning Plan OOTA after it wedged itself under the grinder. Silly Joey!
2)T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L had a harder time with Arrgh, but still managed to clamp its opponent and dump it in the pit.
3)Skink returned in the semi-finals to flip Pillow Torque around the arena, taking some damage to the plastic armour, but dealing out enough of its own punishment to progress.
4)T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L took on Micro-Gore, who had previously destroyed Katnip. It was another tough match for Steven, but that extra 6kg granted by the tracks proved decisive and T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L went through.

Booth 1: Martijn M Benschop
Booth 2: Steven McGregor

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, SMASH!!

T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L gets off to a quick start, using its grippy tracks to manoeuvre around the arena and press the pit release tyre. Skink on the other hand has wheels and now comes in from behind and throws Steven onto his back with that powerful co2 powered flipper! T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L quickly self-rights with the axe and comes on the attack itself, getting underneath with the scoop and once again slamming down with the axe, this time using it for its primary means and making a nice hole in the plastic armour of Skink! With a good hold with the axe, Steven uses the extra traction granted by his tracks to push Skink into the angle grinder, and when he pulls it away we see a cut in that armour! Team Wind Power need to get some proper armour on their featherweight if it€™s going to stand up to a robot like T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L, and now Martijn wriggles free by firing the flipper to loosen the axe€™s grip! Skink hurries away and turns to come back on yet another onslaught, getting underneath T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L from behind and flipping it again! Steven once again uses the axe to get back onto his wheels, but Skink was ready and now rams Steven into the corner, where he€™s flipped by the arena spike! Steven self-rights again, but Skink was ready and flips it again, stacking it on the wall so that the whole world can see T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L€™s underbelly! But once again the axe comes in handy as Steven frees himself and quickly gets out of the corner to turn around and come back on another attack, this time slamming in with the axe and lifting Skink high in to the air with a combined attack with the scoop!

Steven looks delighted at this major twist in the battle, and now carries Skink towards the pit of oblivion! The crowd are on the edge of their seats, yelling for T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L while Martijn weeps quietly up in his control booth. Then, his expression brightens as he sees a young lad in the front row screaming:
SKINK SKINK SKINK! He€™s overjoyed for a moment, then realises what the kid says next and frowns. DIE SKINK DIE!

T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L finally gets to the perimeter of the pit, and turns around, lowering its scoop so that one side of Skink teeters on the edge! He then pulls the axe out and reverses, job done- or so he thinks! Skink is still on the edge, and uses its one useful wheel to pull itself around so that it€™s facing the pit and flips! The power knocks Skink back a little and Martijn escapes! He roars with joy and gives chase to T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L, who had been doing a premature victory spin! But now Steven rises to the challenge and comes back to meet Skink and they slam into each other head on!
CRASH!
Skink flies over the scoop of T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L, and Steven fires the axe at just the right time, hitting the bottom of Skink and knocking Martijn to the ground! The crowd gasp and Steven strikes again, clamping down with the axe to prevent Skink self-righting! He now pushes Skink again, for the final time right across the arena and with just five seconds left Skink falls into the pit of oblivion as T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L gets the featherweight gold medal!

THE FEATHERWEIGHT COMPETITION IS OVER!

We now go live to the podium, where Kody Kunz is receiving the bronze medal!

Robot SMASH!! Series 1, Featherweight Results:
8th DTK
7th Katnip
6th Cunning Plan
5th Arrgh
4th Pillow Torque
3rd BRONZE MEDAL: MICRO-GORE
2nd SILVER MEDAL: SKINK
1st GOLD MEDAL: T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L

The results below 4th are based on who the heat losers lost to e.g. Arrgh lost to the eventual winner, so it came 5th.

Featherweight Seeds for Robot SMASH!! Series 2 will be:
1st T.R.E.D.T.H.A.L
2nd Skink
3rd Micro-Gore
4th Pillow Torque

Coming Next:
Ming Die-Nasty v Razer

[Guest]

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Just to tell everyone Im going to try and make all my battles like the last one from now on- much longer and more detailed. I know I wouldnt have been happy with some of the earlier ones if I was competing in this.

[kodster]

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Thats good to hear.

[Guest]

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And now as Im writing longer ones they cant be written at the speed of light either

[joey_picus]

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Thats bad to hear

[kodster]

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No its not, it actually gives people time to post some good tactics.

And thats good.

[joey_picus]

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I stand corrected...

*sits back down, as its too late at night for him to be typing standing up*

[Guest]

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Heat Semi-Final 15/16:
Ming Die-Nasty v Razer

Ming Die-Nasty gave Mark is first win, can this robot with a useless drill give him his second victory? Mark planned to buy a cloaking device for this fight, but when he went down to the shop they called the police. Mark is currently in hospital listed as unstable.

Razer destroyed Terrorhurtz with ease in the eliminator, and will probably do the same to Ming Die-Nasty here. Ming was once a Razer clone, will the part bird, part reptile, and part machine get revenge here? Or will the two-time world champion decide that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

Booth 1: Mark Elam
Booth 2: Martijn M Benschop

5, 4,3,2,1, SMASH!!

Razer gets the quicker start of the two robots, racing into the centre of the arena aggressively, hungry for Ming! Mark, however, doesn€™t hang around and heads for the pit release button, quickly hitting the tyre with its drill and trying to get away from Razer, who has come in from behind! Mark however turns away just in time and decides to play chicken with the pit like his last opponent did! Martijn comes in cautiously and makes a fake jab so that Mark races away for nothing! Now Razer follows and gets underneath the rear of Ming Die-Nasty and rams Mark into the angle grinder to keep him still before coming down with that dangerous arm and Mark tries to counter the move by raising his srimech, but Razer simply pushes down with far more force and snaps the arm in two! With the srimech out of the way Martijn brings the crusher down again, this time penetrating the body armour of Ming Die-Nasty and lifting Mark high into the air! Martijn reverses away from the angle grinder and toasts Mark on the flame pit, allowing Ming Die-Nasty to feel the heat! Now Ming falls off the crusher and escapes, and Mark makes a break for the perimeter of the pit again, and reaches his destination, only for Razer to come in from behind so as to push Ming away from the pit instead of falling for the desperate ploy. Mark pulls a clever U-turn and heads back off down the arena, but once more Razer pursues and chases Ming into the corner, where it is flipped by the arena spike! Mark is now out for the count, but Martijn is merciless to Ming and comes in with the crusher again, easily crunching into the armour and hoisting Ming€™s corpse into the air for all to see! The crowd roars with delight and Martijn dumps Ming on the floor flipper, where Mark is thrown for the full length of the arena and lands the right way up again, albeit stacked on the wall, from where he cannot move. All the same Razer comes in again and gets the wedge under one side so that Martijn can crush through the other wheels sideways! It€™s a very painful experience for Ming, and now Razer lifts Mark again, this time carrying him over to the pit he himself opened at the beginning of this bout and dumps him into the depths of the abyss!

RAZER GOES THROUGH TO THE HEAT FINAL!

Another battle of the realies goes Martijn€™s way and the crusher goes through!

Coming Next:
Wedginator 6.0 v Wedge Devolution

[Guest]

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Heat Semi-Final 16/16:
Wedginator 6.0 v Wedge Devolution

Wedginator 6.0 has been around since 2002 on the RW forums, will these 6 years of experience help the all-around front hinged flipper or will it be lights out?

Wedge Devolution is a very simplistic wedge flipper, but effective! Who will prevail here, the front hinged flipper of Wedginator 6.0 or the rear hinged flipper of Steven McGregor€™s Wedge Devolution?

Booth 1: Kody Kunz
Booth 2: Steven McGregor

5, 4, 3, 2 ,1, SMASH!!

Both wedges get off the mark very quickly and circle each other like hawks, hunting their prey and preparing to strike! It€™s Wedginator that gets the first onslaught, driving in on the attack and using its six wheel drive to shove Wedge Devo into the corner, where Steven is flipped by the arena spike! Kody pushes him again, and he self-rights onto Wedginator€™s flipper, and Kody turns Steven over again! Wedge Devo self-rights, and as he does Wedginator drives in to flip again, but this time Kody is flipped by the spike and Wedge Devo now attacks his flipped adversary, getting underneath just as Kody self-rights, but onto Wedge Devo, who lets it fly!
CRASH!
Kody flies upwards and comes down to earth with a bump onto the angle grinder, and he seems to be beached on there now!
There€™s a spark of malice in Steven€™s eye as he heads towards the stacked Wedginator, who is desperately firing its own flipper into thin air in an attempt to get off the wall! Steven carefully slips his flipping plate underneath the rear scoop of Wedginator 6.0, which looked so good in the eliminator, vanquishing the hot favourite The 6isc. But Wedge Devolution looked just as powerful taking on Woodpecker, and the rear hinged flipper is now poised on the brink of a place in the Heat H final to take on Razer! Easy does it....
Wedge Devo is now fully underneath and Wedginator has given up trying to free itself, perhaps to conserve gas if by some miracle its wheels touch the ground again in this close match. Steven readies himself triumphantly and reaches for the button; his fingers get there and...
FLIP!
Wedginator 6.0 sails over the barrier and out of the competition! Wedge Devolution goes through to the Heat H final to meet Razer for that last place in the series finals! No one perhaps expected that turn-around by Steven McGregor, will he get a second robot into the finals of Robot SMASH!!? He€™s beaten Woodpecker and Wedginator 6.0, to get through he€™ll have to beat Razer the rampaging realie!

A SHORT MATCH AND WEDGE DEVO GOES THROUGH!!

Heat H Final:
Razer v Wedge Devolution

Coming Next: The middleweight final!
Life v Solstice 2.0

[joey_picus]

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Ill go for Wedge to get Razer down the pit.

[kodster]

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*gets tin can thrown at him*

Ouch. I phailed in the battle of wedges...

But I shall get my revenge...

[steven_mcg]

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Hoowaaaay!

Now for Razer. Bugger. Use my superior speed to get round the sides and flip it over. Charge back under before it can self-right, aim for the walls and flip like theres no tomorrow.

[Guest]

Robot SMASH!!

Special Event- Middleweight Final
Life v Solstice 2.0

Lets look back and see how these two manical middleweights got this far!
1) Life threw Hazard onto its back and out of the heats.
2) Solstice 2.0 had a much tougher draw with Killoteeny, but prevailed by shredding Stevens middleweight creation.
3) Life had a hard battle with Doorstop, but won on a JD.
4) Solstice 2.0 never relented with its endless atttacks on T-Minus, which was left going in circles!

Booth 1: Joey McConnell
Booth 2: Kody Kunz

5,4,3,2,1, SMASH!!

Solstice starts spinning up, but Joey tries a box-rush and storms across the arena, slamming Solstice into the grinder! Kody is ruffled, but quickly runs away and spins up before Life can come in on another onslaught. Now Joey looks worried, as the hunter has become the hunted as Solstice chases Life around the arena, trying to get into that rear armour! But Joey keeps the wedge towards Kody and keeps driving away, and he reverses just to behind the arena floor flipper! But Solstice doesnt fall for it and tries to get around the flipper, but now Life reverses away again! Solstice pursues, and chases Life into the corner, where Joey is flipped by the arena spike! He hits the flipper button to self-right, but as Life bounces back to the ground in comes Solstice 2.0 with the weapon spinning at full power!
CRASH!
That 3mm aluminium baseplate is smashed and Life is slammed into the arena wall, and falls back onto its tracks! Solstice has already spun up again and now crashes into the rear 5mm titanium on Life!
CRASH!
The back panel and wheelie bar are torn clean off, and now Life turns around to attack Solstice before Kody can spin up again!
FLIP!
Over goes Solstice, but Lifes flipper was only under the blades, and without the wheelie bar Joeys middleweight goes onto its back again!
CRASH!
Once again Joey tried to self-right, but was slammed by Solstices powerful weaponry and now it seems a motor has been ripped out from the bottom of Life! Joey self-rights and tries to come back on the attack, but can only go in circles now so Kody spins up again and with Lifes limited movement Joey is out-driven and Solstice slams into the side of Life, ripping that panel off too! And now Life is venting gas, it seems that the nitrogen supply was ruptured by that attack, and now Life is weaponless! The crowd want to count Life out of the middleweight final!

5,4,3,2,1, IMMOBILE!

Solstice does a victory spin and wins the Robot SMASH!! middleweight title!

Robot SMASH!! Series 1, Middleweight Results
8th Steel Sandwich
7th Claw and Axe
6th Hazard
5th Killoteeny
4th Doorstop
3rd BRONZE MEDAL: T-MINUS
2nd SILVER MEDAL: LIFE
1st GOLD MEDAL: SOLSTICE 2.0

Middleweight seeds for Robot SMASH!! Series 2 will be:
4th Doorstop
3rd T-Minus
2nd Life
1st Solstice 2.0

Coming Next: The Heat H Final
Razer v Wedge Devolution

(Message edited by Robot_Warrior on May 02, 200

[joey_picus]

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*tosses silver medal into the air in joy* YAY! I won something...I was kind of expecting to get trashed anyway :P

Good job Kody, good to see your robots are beginning to get the wins they deserve, and good job to Liam for doing some good fights, even if you did mention Lifes wheels when it has tracks