Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

[alex_holt]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Choosing a realie with a srimech would be boring though - everyone must learn to fear COPPER ARMOUR!

[joey_picus]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

*puts on boring robot wars expert voice*

Bodyhammers armour was actually some composite material used in the military, allegedly from armoured cars in Bosnia :P and it was coated with electroplated hardened steel sheet, not copper.

*puts on normal voice*

Dont ask how I know that...

[alex_holt]

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Which bodyhammer are you talking about? One was definatly either copper or copper plated, the second one was some fibreglassy type stuff

If it wasnt copper I was refering to the colour.

[joey_picus]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

The first one - the second one was just weapons grade fibreglass thingymabob.

[Guest]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Sorry if Im disappointing anyone, but for reasons Im afraid Ill have to keep secret for the moment all the special events will be scrapped. Buyt do not fear, ETC08 will be doing them all later this year, so you can enter those if you wish.
Sorry for any inconvenience!

[majinb]

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cant wait for those reasons to be revealed

[team_britespark]

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Tactics!!

Supreme Glory Omega (3) v Shrederator v GBOD - Shrederator has no proper srimech, mainly relying on not getting flipped. It€™s a shame I haven€™t got a flipper really. . My main tactic is to attack Shrederator from the word go. My armouring should withstand the hits from both spinners. I will try and drive Shrederator towards the arena killsaws and hope that a hit with them could knock Shrederator off balance and flip itself upside down. Team up, Leo?

Mantis v Walk Dont Run 3 v Pure Evil: ROTD - Pure Evil was designed to be a one hit killer, almost kamikaze like in its attacks. Yes it will self destruct after a single hit, but it will take an opponent with it. . I will focus my attack on Mantis, using the flipper to hopefully get it OOTA. In order for PE: ROTD not to explode, I will keep the kinetic spinner at a slow speed, switching the motor on and off during the match.

Achilles v Manic Monsoon v Death Threat 0.2 - Achilles and Manic Monsoon have a slight grudge on these forums, both robots facing each other on numerous occasions and both robots winning the same amount of battles (I think!). Therefore I propose a team up with Alex against Death Threat. The claws on Death Threat shouldn€™t do anything, and even if it grabs a hold of me I can easily push it around the arena.

Death Wish 2 v Bio-Hazard v Axes of Evil - Wish I had picked a better realie. Ummm€¦ flip both opponents around, try and stack one against the wall or tip it OOTA. Will team up with whoever wishes to.

Dennis the Menace v Exertion v Revenge of Black Death - I propose a team up with Exertion to dispose Revenge of Black Death into the pit.

Razer ( v Weapon Synergy v Holepunch - Eeeeep! Panic! Just split up and attack wherever possible and try to cause enough carnage and annoyance so if it goes to the JD I will sneak through.

Seung Mina IV (4) v Killotine: EVO v Dervish V - Apparently, Sueng Mina is going to be attacking Killotine €œlike there€™s no tomorrow€ (Quote from MSN convo with Kody). Therefore, I will be attacking Sueng Mina. The flipper looks quite deadly and I feel confident in beating Killotine later in the heat.

Drum Boy v Envy v Sonic Boom - Two axlebots against a front-hinged flipper. LOL! I will concentrate my attacks on Drum Boy, basically being an annoying axlebot like Stinger and clouting it a few times with the axe. Wanna team up, Kody?

[Guest]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Welcome back to Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged! If you missed the first parts of tonight€™s episode, you€™ve missed out, as we saw Wedge Devolution and Sheer Heart Attack 2 defeat The Curse, and then Bodyhammer was flipped and pitted by Y4 and Splinter!
Let€™s take another look at the heat A semi-final line-up!
Wedge Devolution (1) v Splinter
Y4 v Sheer Heart Attack 2

Heat Semi-Final 1

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back to the coliseum, the number #1 seed Wedge Devolution and Splinter!

Roboteers, Standby!

Booth 1: Steven McGregor
Booth 2: Leo Van Miert

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And now the first semi-final of Heat A gets underway, as the number #1 seed Wedge Devolution comes flying out at the start to meet the experienced realie owned by Leo Van Miert, Splinter! The two meet head on and Wedge Devolution pushes Leo back into the arena wall, but Splinter gets underneath and grabs hold of Wedge Devo with the arms before ramming it back across the arena and hitting it repeatedly with the axe! They hit the arena wall and Wedge Devo uses its flipper to push Splinter backwards and gets out of there, then turns around to try and flip Splinter from the side, but Steven only gets under the arm and when he flips Splinter is merely flicked into the air and not thrown over as he€™d hoped! And now Leo comes back on the attack, getting underneath Wedge Devo€™s skirts at the front corner and again grabbing and axing, at the same time ramming Wedge Devolution into the corner, where Steven is flipped by the Killsaws! The number #1 seed quickly self-rights and comes back on the attack, this time getting underneath the side of Splinter with success and throwing Leo onto his back with the axe down! Splinter can€™t self-right from there, and Wedge simply pushes it across the arena to the edge! Leo looks on helplessly while Steven manoeuvres Wedge Devolution to get right underneath Splinter before firing the flipper and letting Splinter fly up and out of the arena!

CEASE!

Splinter is splintered; Wedge Devolution goes to the heat final!

We now go to the pits, where Leo is leaving with Splinter.
Me: Time for Splinter to get a proper srimech, perhaps?
Leo: It seems so. It can only self-right from certain positions at the moment, and it€™s just not good enough with flippers like Wedge Devolution around.
Me: But not many people would last that long against the number #1 seed, aren€™t you happy you didn€™t go out in 5 seconds?
Leo: Yeah, I guess so, but I would have liked it to last to a judges€™ decision if I could have
Me: Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, now back to the coliseum for the other heat semi-final of Heat A!

Heat Semi-Final 2

Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome back to the coliseum Y4 and Sheer Heart Attack 2!

Roboteers, Standby!

Booth 1: Christopher Mason
Booth 2: Martijn M Benschop

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This is the stage that Sheer Heart Attack left us last year, crashing out of the competition to WORCK, who is back as WORCK-ER this year and seeded #9; we€™ll see him later on in the series. But now the focus is on Sheer Heart Attack, who has that drum spinning upwards at full speed! Y4 is based on T-Minus, and is essentially a heavyweight version, but it proves its worth now by ramming into the side of SHA2 and sending Martijn tumbling up and over with that flip! But SHA2 is no pushover and comes on the attack with the drum, sending Y4 up and over onto its back! Y4 is quick to self-right and goes back on the attack, flipping SHA2 from the front this time and there€™s so much weight in the drum that Martijn goes high into the air before crashing down hard! And before he can spin up to come back on another onslaught in goes Y4 again, throwing SHA2 far rather that high this time and letting it bounce into the Killsaws! BZZT! SHA2 quickly drives away, and gets the rear wedges under the side of Y4, pushing Christopher into the pit release button! But now Y4 escapes and comes around for a side attack, but SHA2 turns and slams the drum into him, throwing Y4 onto its back yet again! Christopher self-rights and flips SHA2 back over, but it€™s invertible and goes on as normal, spinning up and then turning to meet Y4 again, this time throwing Chris against the arena wall hard! Y4 is really feeling the pain now, but Chris pushes on and flips SHA2 high into the air for it to come crashing back down into the centre of the arena, and Y4 rushes in again to push SHA2 into the Killsaws again! And this time it seems the tracks may have taken some damage, as one of them seems to have been sliced a little! But for now it€™s OK, and SHA2 drives out of there to escapes Y4, who doesn€™t relent and pursues, getting underneath the side of Martijn€™s tracked bot again to once more throw it up and over! SHA2 turns again though and hits Y4 while the flipper is raised, flicking it onto its back! And suddenly Y4 is venting gas- is the co2 supply ruptured? It would seem so, as co2 steams up the coliseum and SHA2 goes into a victory spin! Chris looks on in dismay, and Y4 just sits there on its back- the wheels are spinning, but there€™s no movement as Y4 is on its back and out of the match!

CEASE!

Y4 has a sheer heart attack, allowing the second heart attack to go on to the heat final!

Heat A Final:
Wedge Devolution (1) v Sheer Heart Attack 2

And now we return to the pits to chat with one Christopher Mason about that last fight!
Me: Sad to see Y4 go, Chris.
Chris: Me too. I seemed to be on top at one point, but then Martijn came back and destroyed the co2 supply so I couldn€™t self-right.
Me: Who do you think will win the heat final?
Chris: It€™s hard to choose, as Wedge Devo is the reigning champion, but on the other hand SHA2 is one hell of a robot.

And that€™s it for the heat semi-finals! We€™ll be back after the break with the Heat A Final!

[leorcc]

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Jeez, you leave the forum for a couple of days only to find your robot destroyed.

Great fight Liam. Very well written.

[joey_picus]

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I thought it was already destroyed :P

Ill go for SHA to pull off a shock in the final.

[paulc]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Im going to say that Wedge Devolutions wedge is angled at a perfect angle to halt the drum., If it cant stop the drum, SHA shall win, but Ill say that Wedge will fight back, and put SHA in the pit.

[corsair_lightning]

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Liam, everything is perfect except for this:

Built by Team Kat, entered by Alex Holt, Bodyhammer!

Bodyhammer was built by Team Cold Fusion, a group of nuclear engineers.

[Guest]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Yes Mark, I know, but since the team has been renamed. Now shut up and go back on vacation.

Welcome now to the final part of tonight€™s exciting episode of Robot SMASH!! , where 4 robots have already bitten the dust and just 2 are left to do battle for a place in the series semi-finals!
Let€™s take a look back at the episode so far and see how the number #1 seed Wedge Devolution and it€™s opponent Sheer Heart Attack 2 got this far:
They started off in the same eliminator, in which SHA2 had agreed to team up with The Curse, but the reigning champion proved too strong and The Curse was pitted.
In the first heat semi-final Wedge Devolution flipped Splinter onto its back and in the second Sheer Heart Attack 2 ruptured Y4€™s co2 supply and flipped it into its back.

Let€™s go now to the pit area, where our two heat finalists are queuing up to enter the coliseum with their mechanical masterpieces.
Me: Hey Steve, is Wedge Devolution ready to cause some robot decomposition in this heat final?
Steven: You bet. The number #1 seed rarely bows out in the heats, and this is gonna be no exception.
Me: Do you have enough power to throw SHA2 OOTA?
Steven: More than enough, and seen as he€™s invertible and has a very heavy drum there€™s a good chance he€™ll end up on the camera tracks.

Me: How do you feel about this line-up Martijn?
Martijn: It was a flipper SHA2 went out to last year, but at least I€™ve gone one better so even if I lose here it€™s an improvement.
Me: Do you think you can rupture Wedge Devo€™s co2 supply like you did to Y4?
Martijn: There€™s enough power in the drum, it€™s just a game of whether I can get the right hit in.
Me: Good luck to the both of you, let€™s settle this in the coliseum!

Ladies and Gentlemen, please applaud the return of the number #1 seed Wedge Devolution and Sheer Heart Attack 2 to the coliseum.

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Steven McGregor
Booth 2: Martijn M Benschop

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Sheer Heart Attack 2 gets that drum to start spinning almost immediately, and Wedge Devolution is also quick off the mark, heading straight across the arena and slipping underneath the side of SHA2 and flipping it sideways! Martijn€™s drum isn€™t affected though, and he turns and slams into Wedge Devolution which is flicked onto its back! Steven self-rights and reverses out of there, but he€™s given Martijn time to spin up again, so when he comes back on the attack SHA2 is ready and hits the corner of the wedge, flicking it up into the air and rushing in underneath so as to push Steven around, which Martijn does, heading straight for the pit release button to lower the chasm! But having pushed Wedge Devolution up against the wall SHA2 can€™t stay underneath and push Steven around, and so is forced to retreat out from underneath! And the minute he does the number #1 seed rushes on and flips SHA2 far across the arena, almost right to the other side! But for now Martijn is OK as he gets his rear wedges underneath the front of Wedge Devo before the flipper is back down and now he pushes the champ into the corner, where it is flipped by the Killsaws! Steven self-rights and flips Sheer Heart Attack 2 from the side again, but the ability to run inverted is really proving valuable here as Sheer Heart Attack 2 uses those wedges to push Wedge Devo again, this time across the arena and into the opposite corner! BZZT! Once again Steven is turned turtle by the Killsaws, and for the second time he quickly recovers to throw SHA2 up and over yet again, but now Martijn has the drum spun up again and hits Wedge Devolution, sending the champ up and over onto its back yet again! And Steven is slower to self-right this time- is the champion running out of co2? It still seems he has some life yet now though as Steven gets underneath Sheer Heart Attack 2 again and this time stacks Martijn sideways on the wall! The crowd roar with surprise as Wedge Devolution quickly and slickly slips that flipper in underneath another of the tracks on SHA2, and Steven grins with delight as he reaches for the flipper button!

CEASE!

Sheer Heart Attack 2 started so well, but now it€™s down and out on the camera tracks and the number #1 seed Wedge Devolution goes through to the series semi-finals!

And don€™t forget to tune into next week€™s episode of Robot SMASH!! , as we witness the return of the number #3 seed Supreme Glory Omega!

The line-up for Heat B is:
Chaos 2 v Axe-o-Lotl v Knyfe
Supreme Glory Omega (3) v Shrederator v GBOD

[paulc]

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Wooooo! The robot that is back-to-basic is through to the semis! Nice going Steve - I hope your reign as Champion continues...

Anyway: Tactics and predictions:

Chaos 2 v Axe-o-Lotl v Knyfe: Im very happy about this match-up, as both have very weak armouring (Chaos 2 has about 1.2cm of Aluminium on the sides, but its very low grade Aluminium, and do I need to mention the rear panel ) and Axe-O-Lotl has 3mm of Aluminium and 5mm of Titanium. I should also be able to out-push both of these - Chaos 2 has 2hp, but has a 16kg weight disadvantage, and Axe-O-Lotl has 18hp, whoch is average for a vapourbot (Im not being rude, its an observation that vapourbots use the LEMs very regularry) and Knyfe using its 2 x LEM200s at 48V uses 50hp! I can outpush these two, and plan to use weapon set-up...

6: A 5mm Hardox front plate with 8 rows of 6 spikes on them, making Knyfe into a useful and dangerous rammer, as the spikes are each 8.4cm long, 2.2cm in diameter, and diamond tipped. And a 100kg robot hitting you at 20mph with diamond-tipped spikes is going to hurt thin-ish and thick-ish armours.

The advantage of this set-up is a quite lethal set-up, and if Chaos 2 flips me, I wont be affected. My plan is to lodge into one of these, and just smash these into the hazards to cause damage and dislodge me if Im stuck and unable to get loose. Target Chaos 2 the most, but if Axe-O-Lotl gives me hell, go for him.

Good luck Chris and whoever entered Chaos 2

Supreme Glory Omega (3) v Shrederator v GBOD: SGO to surprisingly go out in the first round, as the two spinners will tear through its Lexiguard armour.

[joey_picus]

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PREDICTIONS:

Tumbleweed to be ganged up on by Knyfe and Chaos 2, and those motors and those linkages to catch fire before it gets flipped out.

*voice reminds him that there is no robot called Tumbleweed in this fight*

Oh. Anyway, Ill actually go for Axe-O-Lotl to go out, since I think people underrate Chaos 2 quite a bit - AOL has a very narrow angle of attack, and Chaos 2 will likely flip it out.

In the other one, Im inclined to agree with Paul here.