Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

[joey_picus]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

No idea who it was, although I deny all responsibility

Tengu = full body spinner, Mantis = those beaks that are rather easy to rip off, and what looks like steel mesh armour...Tengu for the win here.

[majinb]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

damn you Liam, youve turned into a respectable tournament writer!

keep it up!

[leorcc]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Tactics, same as before. if the ring is spun up, back into it with the back plates first. The spinner doesnt need to stand still, just slowing it down is enough to reach in with the beak. clamp, lift, dump in pit.
if the spinner tries to spin up while clamped it will only burn its batteries or motor or both.

[Guest]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Damn me Marti

Thanks very much

[Guest]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Robot SMASH!! Now returns to your screens for us to show you the heat final of tonight€™s episode, which has been Heat F. First let€™s take a look back at how Mantis and Tengu VII got this far:
The first eliminator saw Mantis pick up and dump Pure Evil: Return of the Disc to head through along with Walk Don€™t Run 3.
The second three-way melee commenced and Tengu knocked Sithis around before it was lifted and pitted by the number #11 seed All Scoop and No Stab Make Steve a Dull Boy.
The first heat semi-final saw Tengu€™s anti-spinner ring stop any damage from Walk Don€™t Run 3 and eventually knock Samuel into the pit and out.
The second saw the number #11 seed All Scoop get dumped into the pit in one of the biggest shocks yet. Mantis proceeded and will meet Mantis in the heat final, but first I€™m in the pits with both teams.

Me: How€™s Tengu looking Alex?
Alex: Good. It took next to no damage in the last fight, and it€™s ready to rumble here.
Me: Are you at all worried about Mantis€™ weaponry?
Alex: It€™s impressive, but without the pit it€™s worthless so as long as I stay away from the pit I€™ll be fine.
Me: Good luck in there.
Alex: Thanks.

Me: Ready to go?
Leo: 100%. The seed went in the last round, and Tengu is a newcomer to the competition so no problems.
Me: But so is Mantis.
Leo: Hmmm... Yes, but it has the experience of a realie.
Me: And Tengu has been around for years... Maybe longer than this version of Mantis.
Leo: It€™s certainly impressive, but I€™ll see what I can do.
Me: Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay, now to a new section of the show we call €œEggheads corner€, where we find our technical experts Mr. Einstein and Professor Brainy-Head.

Einstein: I€™m picking Mantis for the win here. Tengu€™s anti-spinner ring won€™t help it here, and if Leo can finish as fast as he did his previous bouts then he€™s laughing.
Prof.: I€™m favouring Tengu VII, actually. Tengu is one of the (if not THE) best vapour FBS/ring spinner out there, and Alex may score his first of many semi-finalists here.
Einstein: I suppose it€™s all a question of whether or not Mantis€™ armour will stand up to Tengu€™s attacks.
Prof.: Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, now let€™s go to the coliseum!
Me: THAT€™S MY CATCHPHRASE, THIEF!
*Pulls of Professor€™s wig*
Me: It€™s Male Kram! Trust you to steal my catchphrase!
*Fires Male Kram and replaces with a real egghead*
Me: Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay, now let€™s go to the coliseum to settle this argument once and for all!

Heat Final

Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome back to the arena Tengu VII and Mantis!

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Alex Holt
Booth 2: Leo Van Miert

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As this, the final of Heat F gets underway Tengu VII immediately starts spinning up and quickly reaches a dangerous speed as Mantis draws closer, but Alex isn€™t sitting still and moves away, keeping his distance from that intuitive lifter/crusher setup, similar to the device that saw Orka MK.4 through Heat D and into the semis earlier in the series. Will we see a repeat performance here, or is the whale the only clamping bot that will prevail in the heats?
However, it seems that Leo has no intention of having a head-on collision with Alex€™s champion FBS, and he turns around to whack into Tengu with the rear armour plates! CLANG! Tengu€™s blades come to an abrupt halt and Mantis quickly turns, getting in underneath the side of Tengu and lifting with the forks while quickly coming down with the crusher! However, only the left fork and the left claw have managed to hold on, so when Leo hoists Alex into the air one side of Tengu drags on the arena floor on the way to the pit release button and Tengu falls to the ground just as the siren wails for the opening of that chasm! Tengu VII quickly spins up again, and Leo turns around again to ram in with the rear panels, but Alex backs away and speeds in, slamming into Mantis and tearing the right hand side one clean off! But Mantis is spun around by the attack, and since nothing inside seems to be damaged Leo ploughs straight on, getting all three forks underneath Tengu and bringing the full crushing mechanism down on top! Tengu is really caught between a rock and a hard place now, and Mantis hoists its prisoner into the air with glee before turning to head for the pit! Alex looks on in disappointment and Leo smiles with satisfaction as he holds Tengu VII over the pit for three whole seconds before finally lowering his weapons and thus releasing Tengu, who falls into the pit and out of the Heat F final!

CEASE!

Tengu VII spins out of the competition in the shocker that sees our first realie semi-finalist, the one and only Mantis!

Come back next time, when we witness the return of the number #13 seed Super Gore Evo, who made it to the heat G final last time around! The question is, can he square up to the likes of vertical spinner Isolation and powerful saw blade Metal Sonic Spin Dash, not to mention the other three of our dangerous competitors, a number that includes a previously successful vapour flipper, a robot with not one like Isolation, but THREE vertical spinning discs and another with a triangular spinning blade!
Don€™t miss it!
Super Gore Evo (13) v Isolation v Darkestar
Metal Sonic Spin Dash v Wedga€™s Revenge v Tri-Tainium

[RogueTwoRobots]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Prof.: Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, now let€™s go to the coliseum!
Me: THAT€™S MY CATCHPHRASE, THIEF!
*Pulls of Professor€™s wig*
Me: It€™s Male Kram! Trust you to steal my catchphrase!
*Fires Male Kram and replaces with a real egghead*

[joey_picus]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

That was unexpected...well done to Leo, and congrats to Liam on a most w00ty fight

TACTICS, WHICH I HAVE PROBABLY SAID BEFORE, MIGHT EVEN HAVE CHANGED, BUT MEH

Isolations first (and last) appearance coming up...generally try and stay out of things to some extent, and see if I can team with Darkestar and bash Super Gore up a bit, maybe bend those claws.

Have you got net access back Liam? You havent been on MSN for a bit, and its kind of boring

[Guest]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Im on my dads work laptop, since I dont have internett access on my own laptop and our home computers gone bye bye. Im home ill off school at the mo, but mam has just popped down the road and she doesnt know Im using this, so excuse me if I disappear suddenly!

[joey_picus]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

[kodster]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Clamping claws this time around.

When attacking Isolation, bash up against the disc of Isolation and grapple onto it. See if I can shove it into Darkestars own disc.

When attacking Darkestar, try and grab the tracks and damage them. Shunt into Isolations disc.

In other words, try and make excellent use of the opponents spinning weapons.

[alex_holt]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

When attacking Kody - aim for his smug face, lol.

Anyway more seriously, attack SGE because Id rather get him out the way in the melee where I have an ally. Just keep the weapon towards him at all times.

[kodster]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

I prefer overly-optimistic rather than smug, because I dont want people to think Im nervous...oops.

Previous tactics still apply, except attack Darkestar more often than Isolation.

[paulc]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Mantis won! Surprising...heres tactics and predictions

Super Gore Evo (13) v Isolation v Darkestar: Super Gore Evo looks like Kan-Opener, which hasnt done too well in melees on TV. However, I think its qutie good, but its being teamed-up on by Darkestar, which is also tracked, but I think can damage SGE rather than vice-versa, due to the linking mechanism. Isolation will be in HUGE trouble if over-turned, as the disc might hit the door and shock-kill it, or the team-up may be sucessful, and we see Kody out. But Alex will DEFFO go through.

Metal Sonic Spin Dash v Wedga€™s Revenge v Tri-Tainium: I didnt know how Wedga looked when I did my tactics for this line-up. My game plan is still to attack MSSD, but also to try and rip a skirt off Wedga. The skirts are Hardox, but as Lord Goacher says, If your skirts are Hardox, then the hindges may be Ali or Ti so Ill try and break off a skirt, then try to damage the gas bottle to avoid risk of flipping. MSSD needs to self-right after being flipped, so turn it over, then attack the base. Unlike the smug and overly-optimistic Kody, Im very worried, and I dont think Ill last all that long.

Good luck Steven and AJ :wink: but you dont need the luck - I do :sad:

(Message edited by paulc on July 10, 200

[leorcc]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

/me is doing the cookie dance of joy now!

[Guest]

Robot SMASH!! Series 2: Recharged!

Nice cookie dance of joy

Welcome back to Robot SMASH!! , where Heat G is about to get underway!
Tonight will see the return of the number #13 seed Super Gore Evo, but we haven€™t seen a seed go through since Heat B when Supreme Glory Omega triumphed over Knyfe. Let€™s take a look at this interesting record:
Heat A= Wedge Devolution (1)
Heat B= Supreme Glory Omega (3)
Heat C= Cyclone Force 3 (Storm II (5) defeated by Turbo Shredder in round 2, Turbo Shredder defeated by Cyclone Force 3 in heat final)
Heat D= Orka MK.4 (Defeated Whirligig 4.5 (7) in round 2, then Macduff the 3rd in heat final)
Heat E= Back to Rock III (Defeated WORCK-ER (9) in round 2, then SOR X in heat final)
Heat F= Mantis (Defeated All Scoop and No Stab make Steve a Dull Boy (11) in round 2, then Tengu VII in heat final)
Today€™s line-up is:
Super Gore Evo (13) v Isolation v Darkestar
Metal Sonic Spin Dash v Wedga€™s Revenge v Tri-Tainium
Can Super Gore Evo break the mould by at least reaching the heat final (or enduring a humiliating round 1 exit), or will it be one last hurrah for this version of Super Gore to make way for Revo when the time comes?

Eliminator 1

Created and entered by Kody Kunz, seed number #13, Super Gore Evo!
This invertible tracked robot has plenty of power in both the drive and the claws, as it proved last time around. It may be powerful, but the tracks are exposed from above (and with Metal Sonic Spin Dash in this heat, below), and this could be its downfall.

In RS!!1: Dodged Axe to Fall€™s deadly axe in the first round, keeping the exposed tracks safe for a while, but in round 2 things seemed grim when the draw saw the bot come up against Killotine: EVO. However, Once again Mr. Kunz proved to be expertly skilled at dodging axes and grappled it€™s powerful opponent with what you could call elegance, but here on RS!! We call it violence... Things seemed to be looking up in the heat final, but Storm II was able to use the lifter and stay out of SGE€™s claws to turn the bookies on their heads and move onto the quarter-finals.

Created and entered by Joey McConnell, Isolation!
This reverse wedge has a nice meaty vertical flywheel on the front and a flipper on the back that doubles as a self-righting mechanism! As if that wasn€™t enough, Joey has also given the robot a name to strike fear into even the deadliest of opponents, such as Spring-BOK! and Toby the T-Ram Engine. However, it is the only wheeled robot in a bout with two other tracked bots, both of which have chosen to exploit the 110kg maximum weight limit for tracks rule, and this has left Isolation with a 10kg disadvantage.

In RS!!1: Didn€™t enter

Created and entered by Alex Holt, Darkestar!
This is truly an exceptionally interesting robot, shying away from the usual circular flywheels and opting for a triangular blade, something that may be referred to as a flytriangle... Like Super Gore, it is an invertible tracked robot, but it is only armoured on the sides, rear and inside the centre to protect the weaponry, and that could me a major failure.

In RS!!1: Didn€™t enter

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Kody Kunz
Booth 2: Joey McConnell, Alex Holt

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Commercial Break!
Hang on a minute, this Robot SMASH!! , not Vapourbot Vengeance!
Darkestar looks deadly, immediately beginning to spin up that scary looking blade while Super Gore Evo, the seed looks menacing with the claws glinting in the light. Isolation also look menacing, spinning up to speed in a matter of seconds and just waiting for the chance to strike. It€™s Darkestar who attacks first, manoeuvring around to stand by Isolation, and the two of them move in against the seed! Kody grits his teeth and heads in towards Darkestar, faking an attempt at ramming the front and trying to get around the side, but Alex turns sharply and catches Kody with his blade, flicking the front of Super Gore Evo up into the air! Isolation then hurries in underneath and the flywheel sends Super Gore Evo toppling over again, this time bouncing down on top of its claws with a clang before it lands back on its tracks. However, the 4mm hardox shell seems to be protecting it quite nicely for now and Kody sees his chance to attack Darkestar, grabbing Alex from behind and holding on with those clamping claws hard on the side armour! Alex worries and tries to pull away, but it wheelies slightly as Kody reverses, dragging Darkestar towards the pit release button, but Isolation gets in the way and hits Kody with the flywheel from behind, this succeeding in tearing off the rear armour panel! The attack loosens Super Gore€™s grip on Darkestar, who then comes around on a side onslaught of its own, once again sending Kody tumbling up and over onto his back! But Super Gore Evo is having none of it and rams into Isolation, who was just spinning up the disc again. But now that weapon as been stopped in its tracks and Kody uses those claws to grab hold of Isolation, and now Kody nudges the pit release button, this time making it there! Darkestar comes in to try and repay Isolation for freeing it earlier, but the attack from that triangular blade merely scratches the paint this time and Super Gore continues on, pushing Isolation towards the pit! But Joey struggles back, and the two bots are caught in a deadly embrace! But the tracks of Super Gore give more traction and Kody gains the leverage he needs to push Isolation right to the pit, but before he goes quite in... CLANG! Darkestar decides to interfere, and this time he hits the left claw of SGE and loosens Super Gore€™s grip, allowing Isolation the moment it needs just to pull away, before turning around and coming back on in a ram with the wedge side, getting in underneath the front of Super Gore and flipping it over to expose that damaged rear end! Darkestar moves in with the blade, but isn€™t yet back up to full speed and so it merely sparks off something inside, and Super Gore turns again, this time determined to finish an opponent off and he slams full force into Isolation, who had turned back around to attack with the flywheel, and with a Kan Opener-style battering ram blow Isolation is sent reeling onto the edge of the pit, with one wheel on the ground and one hanging uselessly over the abyss! Kody smiles and moves in, but Darkestar stands in his way again! The bond of teaming up on seeds must be strong, but Kody merely ploughs straight into Darkestar and once again puts uses his claws to get a hold on Alex€™s side armour, now pushing Darkestar backwards into Isolation who topples into the pit, only to be followed by Darkestar!

CEASE!

A bad start for Super Gore Evo, but the unlucky seeding number seems to a load of hogwash as Isolation is isolated in the pit of oblivion and although Darkestar joined him Joey was the first one to go and thus Alex Holt joins Kody in the next round!

Me: I€™m here in the pits now with Joey, whose robot Isolation has just bowed out of the competition. It looked promising, will we see it again?
Joey: Possibly, as it was a pretty bad draw for Isolation. Super Gore isn€™t the type of robot it likes to fight, and the team-up with Darkestar turned out to be pretty ill-fated.
Me: Well, you still have plenty of other robots in the competition, right?
Joey: Yeah, a good few to go, including my number #2 seed.
Me: Well, surely you€™ll be hoping to win a heat before then?
Joey: Obviously I€™d like to win every heat before then.
Me: Even the ones you€™re not in?
Joey: Duh.
Me: Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, now let€™s head back to the coliseum for the second eliminator of tonights heat.

Eliminator 2

Created and entered by Steven McGregor, Metal Sonic Spin Dash!
A box shape with a vertical pussycat-style blade and mute-style barbs to trap opponents on top, this robot also sports a self-righting mechanism on top that can be used to effectively get back onto its wheels.

In RS!!1: Looked promising, but a first round encounter with Seung Mina IV saw it spend most of the fight getting thrown around the arena. Steven did come back and push Kody around, but it was too late and the judges gave it to the Calibur female on a close decision.

Created and entered by Andrew Jackson, Wedga€™s Revenge!
Unlike your average wedge flipper this robot has a cut-off wedge, and a hard scoop to deflect spinners where you would find the wedge on a normal wedge flipper, such as our reigning champion Wedge Devolution.

In RS!! 1: Didn€™t enter

Created and entered by Paul Cuomo, Tri-Tainium!
Unlike Isolation and Darkestar, whom we saw in the first of tonight€™s eliminators this robot has more than one vertical spinning device. No, it doesn€™t have two. It has THREE. Each one is on the front scoop, but as Tri-Tainium is invertible and doesn€™t have any way of turning itself back over when flipped the weaponry could quickly be rendered immobile.

In RS!!1: Didn€™t enter

Roboteers, standby!

Booth 1: Steven McGregor
Booth 2: Andrew Jackson, Paul Cuomo

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SMASH!!

Tri-Tainium€™s weaponry seems a great oddity to many robots, perhaps a strange idea. Each disc delivers 45Kj of energy, but when Paul built the robot he thought that the robot would deliver a 135Kj hit with an three-disc hit, but as people in the How Can I Improve thread informed him, it would deliver a 45Kj hit in three different places, not a single powerful hit. Whether this will make or break Paul€™s chances here today is yet to be seen, but it seems not as Tri-Tainium quickly has all three of those discs spinning upwards at top speed and knocks into the side of Metal Sonic Spin Dash, crippling the side skirt rather badly and flipping Steven€™s saw blade bot up and over onto its back in one easy move. But MSSD has that self-righting mechanism built into the back of the robot and quickly rights itself before coming back on the attack and driving in underneath the 10mm side ground clearance of Tri-Tainium, and sparks fly out from underneath as that vertical saw blade hits the base armour! However, no real damage seems to have been done and MSSD pushes Tri-Tainium into Wedga€™s Revenge, who we now see for the first time in this fight as it gets that scary looking flipper in underneath Tri-Tainium and flips Paul up and over onto the barbs on top of MSSD! That€™s Paul stuck in a very inconvenient position, and MSSD uses the srimech to flip him back onto Wedga, who flips Tri-Tainium again, this time onto the front of MSSD! And finally the saw comes into play, as Steven pushes Paul up against the wall and as the front left tyre struggles to turn over we see that MSSD has completely shredded it! Wedga comes in to attack Tri-Tainium, but in doing so frees it. Paul limps away and spins up again, but Wedga catches up on the robot now with badly impaired driving and slips the flipper in under the rear and with a nice flip Tri-Tainium finds itself on its head, with all three discs chewing lumps out of the arena floor! Paul lands upside down and Wedga attacks again, this time getting underneath the front and pushing Tri-Tainium to the side of the arena before Andy hits the flipper button again and stacks Paul up on the barrier, from where he is helpless! Steven doesn€™t think he needs to help, so just looks on happily from the control booth as Andy moves in for the kill, sliding the flipper in underneath Tri-Tainium for one final time, seconds before Tri-Tainium flies up and over the barrier before coming crashing down onto the camera tracks with a bump.

CEASE!

Tri-Tainium needs more than three discs as Metal Sonic Spin Dash and Wedga€™s Revenge make their way to the next round!

Me: I€™m here in the pits now with Paul.
Paul: I thought it would go better than that.
Me: No kidding, three discs is plenty!
Paul: But not enough to take on MSSD and Wedga€™s Revenge, it seems.
Me: Yes, but you did get one good hit on MSSD, right before it shredded your tyre to pieces.
Paul: True...
Me: Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, now we€™ll be back after this short commercial break, but don€™t go anywhere yet folks, because here€™s the round 2 draw!
Heat G Semi-Finals:
Super Gore Evo (13) v Wedga€™s Revenge
Metal Sonic Spin Dash v Darkestar
Tactics, predictions and a hurrah because I€™ve found a professor, who really ISN€™T Male Kram, all ready for Eggheads corner before the heat final!