Crash & Burn: Mini-Tournament of Death

[steven_mcg]

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Here are my stats, everyone. Say hello to the sixth member of the Spin Dash clan!

NAME- Spin Dash Unleashed (formerly Metal Sonic Spin Dash)
SHAPE- skirted box, with rounded sides and back.
COLOUR- dark blue bodywork, with red-and-white striped skirting.
WEIGHT- about 100kg
DIMENSIONS- 100cm X 75cm X 20cm
SPEED- 16mph
TURNING CIRCLE- 0mm
GROUND CLEARANCE- virtually 0mm all round, 10mm at sides and rear without skirts.
ARMOUR- 4mm Hardox
MOVEMENT- inner, 6WD
POWER- 2 x LEM-130s. These run at 36v and produce approximately 18hp.
WEAPONS- A horizontal Pussycat-style saw blade on the front. The blade is mounted on the underbelly ala Code:BLACK and is designed to chew up skirts and wheels. It is powered by an S28-150 Magmotor and runs at 3000rpm. Its 18hp and shape also makes it an excellent battering ram.
SRIMECH- invertible. The rounded sides and rear also prevent it getting beached.
NOTES- flies Scotland flag.
STRENGTHS- excellent traction, fast, tough armour, low weaponry, invertible
WEAKNESSES- untested, so-so manoueverability, saw blade less effective upside-down

PIC- http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5359/spindash6ta1.pnghttp://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5...indash6ta1.png

[kodster]

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Thanks Steve! Okay then...

1) Gabriel III (Joey)
2) Nitro-Gene 4.0 (Paul)
3) Dolce (Chezza)
4) PsycloniZer (Andy)
5) Systematic Shocker (Liam)
6) Achilles (Alex)
7) Spin Dash Unleashed (Steven)
The 6isc (Frank)

Thus, the draw.

Achilles vs. Systematic Shocker
Spin Dash Unleashed vs. Gabriel III
The 6isc vs. Dolce
Nitro-Gene 4.0 vs. PsycloniZer

Tactics, predictions, comments, n thoughts you lot.

[joey_picus]

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Spin Dash Unleashed vs. GABRIEL III

This should be good. I can probably get underneath the front with my front point, sawblade or no sawblade, so my tactics are to charge straight at it and try and either break the skirts or get under said front, and flip it over. With it inverted, it should be much easier to get in underneath, so get it caught on the barbs, take to the wall and flip out, or alternatively into the housies or the pit. In the event of that failing, spin around and go thwackbot on SDU.

I wont bother with the skirts in this fight - theres the risk that they might bend down and take the wheels off the ground.

Good luck, Stevo

[steven_mcg]

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Gabriel, eh?

Classic tactics apply here. Aim for the sides or rear and chew up those titanium skirts. The 14mm max ground clearance should be more than enough for the saw to slip under and nibble those wheels too. If worst comes to worst, aim for the sides and use my superior pushing power to dump it in the Pit.

EDIT: No skirts, Joey? Even better.

(Message edited by Steven_McG on May 31, 200

[paulc]

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The line-up came about fast! Well done Kody for getting the competition entered so quickly, and contrats to everyone who entered so quickly.
My predictions and tactics:

Achilles vs. Systematic Shocker: Systematic Shocker is the less experienced, but is the most powerful, and Achilles has the more experience and an effective weapon, but has thin armour, and if pushed into the hazards, will be destroyed. Ill go for Achilles to tumble out - GO LIAM!

Spin Dash Unleashed vs. Gabriel III: Spin Dash looks good, but those sides arent going to do much to help it, and so Ill say that Gabriel shall win!

The 6isc vs. Dolce: Sorry Chezza, but The 6isc to outclass you.

Nitro-Gene 4.0 vs. PsycloniZer: KODY YOU [Beep that goes on for 7 minutes ]! PsycloniZer is the most damaging robot in this competition, but I have a plan to win. The sides of Nitro-Gene and the are shaped like / (rotate them 90* each way. Rotate it to the left to get the shape for the rear) the shape of the sides/rear means that those hammer will hit a fine point, and do near-to-no damage. The flipper is 6mm Hardox, and I think hell find it hard to damage me at all, and Ive also added shock-proofing foam and Vulkanised Rubber to quell blows from powerful spinners. So I should be fine.

The plan is to ram into the blades, and given the length of the the hammers, it shouldnt be a problem. Because the front is 42*, it should stop the ring. After that, push it to the edge and throw it out.

Good luck AJ :wink: though possibly its me who shall need it :sad:

[alex_holt]

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What is it these days with 5mm titanium being weak? Its not hardox but its by no means as easily damaged as people make out... Consider - how often did you ever see significant damage to titanium on robot wars?

Ill go with hydraulics... lets see much those tracks help when its suspended in the air.

[joey_picus]

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Dominator II?

[pcbore]

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WBC being sliced apart by Hypnodisc, Biohazard being torn apart a few times, Dominator 2 taking damage from Hypnodisc and Pussycat, Tsunami being torn a new one by X-Terminator... Ti isnt weak, but it doesnt offer much protection against big-ass spinners.

Against Dolce, Ill aim for the sides, keep flipping him over with the disc and wait for something to break. Sorry Chezza but Im going to have to damage your paint job a lil bit:wink:

(Message edited by pcbore on May 31, 200

[andrewj]

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Nitro-Gene 4.0 vs. PsycloniZer

Looking over the stats, Nitro-Gene 4.0 has clearly been designed to stand up to high-energy spinners. Despite that, I think there is plenty for me to exploit. First of all, lets run through the basics. Nitro-Gene 4.0 is a flipper, and PsycloniZer is invertible. So in that case, its weapon does not particularly bother me. We all saw how difficult it was to flip Typhoon 2 in Robot Wars 7, despite it facing a flipper of some description in almost every match. The gyroscopic forces of me spinning should prevent any sort of decent attack from Nitro-Gene. Even then, the width of PsycloniZer will be a problem for it. So I think I€™m pretty safe from any attacks. As before, if it does flip me, I have the invertibility.

The pointed side things do not really bother me that much. All it does is provide me with even more corners to try and latch on to and rip a panel away. With 5mm Hardox armouring, I€™m not going to be causing any serious damage to the panels themselves. Therefore, I€™m going to have to rip them off instead. First of all though, those 5mm Ti skirts look tasty. €œHardox hinges€ or not, my aim is to give them a couple of hits and wipe them clean off. Then, take to all those nice corners. Spin up the shell and smash it to as many pieces as possible. Target the edges and rip it up.

Good luck Paul, this looks like it is going to be a good one.

Elsewhere, I can see Achilles going through based on experience. Spin Dash Unleashed should have a winning debut and The 6isc will probably be too powerful for Dolce. Looks like a cracking little tournament!

[kodster]

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Woo, loads of tactics.

[alex_holt]

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Now admittedly I havent seen series 7, so you might be referring to fights I havent seen...

But looking at these fights on youtube there is little if any notable damage in any except hypnodisc vs wheely big cheese, and there it is purely on the wheels across the welds.

[paulc]

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Good luck Paul, this looks like it is going to be a good one.
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I second that AJ! Its going to be an interesting battle in that Im an anti-spinner and youre an anti-flipper, so its going to be mad All we need is a world-class writer and were away! *Looks at the dorr, and spots a package labelled World-Class Writer inside - do not invert as it may downgrade him due to boring facts about knocks on ze head. I open the package, along with Liam, AJ, Steven, Alex, Joey and Chezza and we see Kody emerge. We all cheer and shout Forget World-Class Writer, this is a UNIVERSE-Class Writer!*

(Message edited by paulc on May 31, 200

[joey_picus]

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I never thought Kody would stoop to fake German

I second the sentiment though.

[kodster]

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People, youre too kind. :P

Now normally I can pass with tactics, but seeing as I posted the draw just over an hour ago and I already have 3/4s of the tactics, come on Liam and Chezza, Id like to have the complete set.

[Guest]

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Tactics: To axe the hell out of The 6isc and make it suffer.