The Crash & Burn Tournament 3

[swanaldo]

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nice battle kody. would have liked HT to do better but hey we always had expectations of it but never showed in the arena :sad:

sheer heart attack and turb to go through

[dinowarrior]

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Easily the best so far, and its only been the first two battles. Well done.

Heres hoping it gets finished properly.

[team_britespark]

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Those battles were more than satisfactory, well done Mr Kunz.

Seriously...

OMG THEY WAZ TEH MOST BESTST BATTLS EVR!!!!1!!ONE!

[majinb]

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Sheer Heart Attack 2 (1) vs. Naughty Girl

Haha! He... I mean she, has a scoop, hopefully my drum will fit in nicely and majorly mess it up. Additionally, when my drum IS busy messing up that scoop, her axeblows will come down right between my tracks and hit nothing, muhahaha!

My shape is hart to hit for axes because Im basically an axlebot (no ordinary axlebot but still an axlebot). Try to hit the side-surfaces, perhaps flip it over, and make it end in the pit.

The other fight is a toughie actually but I think Gefiveorce will win

This CB3 kickoff brought a smile to my face...

(Message edited by MajinB on August 23, 200

[alex_holt]

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You do realise that there isnt anywhere for an axe to lodge in particularly - the frame is pretty open for the most part.

Plus why wouldnt I just fire my lower flipper, sending up both of us over?

But pretty decently written fights nethertheless

[siphai]

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Turbulence (17) vs. Ge5orce

Try to maneouver around both of them. Use my superior traction and speed to grapple Ge5orce from behind and ram it into Turbulence. Hopefully the damage done from my claws will be enough to immobilize Turbulence. Again my speed should play key here.

[majinb]

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Turbulence (17) vs. Ge5orce

I think Flank Attack will win this one

[kodster]

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One round is done, and four robots have kicked the bucket already. We€™re going to send another two their way; Round 2 is upon us!

Round 2, Battle 1
Sheer Heart Attack 2 (1) vs. Naughty Girl

Roboteers, stand by€¦

In the arena, for the house robots, we have Triple Whamlet, the tri-axed terror, and alongside him we have Exa-Gore-Ic Evo with the claws and spike!

3€¦
2€¦
1€¦
ACTIVATE!

Can the champion make it past this stage? Sheer Heart Attack 2 is quite eager to show that he can and spinning that drum up heads for that really Naughty Girl immediately! Martyn isn€™t fond of a frontal attack and turns to move away, just getting past that 39kJ drum, which turns to keep her in check! Both have pretty much the same manoeuvrability so this will be difficult for Naughty Girl to actually get an attack in, and much less so when the champion wants to get an attack in itself! Naughty Girl backs off but the speed of Sheer Heart Attack is moreso than Martyn€™s machine, and any moment now€¦

CRASH!

It€™s not quite a devastating blow, but it has sent Naughty Girl up and over onto its back, which Martijn definitely wanted, and now it goes forward as Naught Girl self-rights€¦straight onto the drum! Only it€™s not even half-spun up and now Naughty Girl brings down its axe hitting€¦air! AH, BRILLIANT! The axe went as far as it could go, and stopped, sending Naughty Girl flying straight over Sheer Heart Attack and onto its back, but now it€™s righting itself again, and turns around before those rear wedges can gets into play! Ooh, the champ is vulnerable, it has to get around to get its weaponry into play! Naughty Girl pushes and bumps, Sheer Heart Attack can€™t seem to spin itself to face the opponent, and now the axe comes down! Oh, but the shaft hits the tracks and not the axe itself!

Martyn however isn€™t really daunted by this and keeps the axe shaft in the way of the track€™s mobility, pushing the champion into Exa-Gore-Ic Evo€™s CPZ! Exa-Gore-Ic gladly takes hold and crunches into the 10mm titanium sides! And the spike comes out - OHH HAAA HA HA HA!!! Oh dear, the spike came off€¦ahh, I can€™t believe it, the house robot€™s lost his spike. There it is, lying on the arena floor, the drum just tore it right off, haha€¦and I think that€™s immobilized the house robot! Exa-Gore-Ic€™s mobility has ceased, it€™s not moving anywhere at all! What in the name of Frankie Boyle have you done, Martijn?! Nothing Naughty Girl is concerned about, and it€™s crashed into the rear of Sheer Heart Attack, only to get wedged by those rear wedges! It brings down the axe on the dormant drum, but it glances off and now Martijn, his robot free of Exa-Gore-Ic€™s dead grip, shoves backwards, getting it off the wedges and onto the pit, and then goes for the pit release button€¦no, it turns around. Naughty Girl is after it and crashes into it without a second pence.

CRASH!

Another blow that has sent the challenger over, and Martijn pushes Martyn over towards Triple Whamlet€™s CPZ, as revenge! Naughty Girl self-rights once more, but it€™s already in the corner patrol zone, and WHACK WHACK WHACK go the axes of Whamlet, and look at that, all those dents in the Hardox already! Sheer Heart Attack backs off, Naughty Girl held in place by those continuouly punishing axe blows, or maybe even that lovely scoop of Whamlet€™s , and spins up its drum. Naughty Girl finally escapes, but runs straight back into the champ€™s weaponry!

CRASH!

And it€™s over once more! Sheer Heart Attack pushes it back into the CPZ, and it€™s Whamlet€™s axe time on the underside of Naughty Girl€¦guessing by the name, maybe she likes this punishment, but Sheer Heart Attack plans to add a bit more to this chaos and gets its weaponry going again. Naughty Girl can€™t self-right, Whamlet€™s axes are keeping it on its back, its underside looks very dented and now the champion rolls forth to conquer its axed opponent!

CRASH!

Over goes Martyn€™s robot again, right into the deepest pocket of that CPZ, it needs to get away, but Whamlet turns around€¦to get wedged by the scoop of Naughty Girl and axed! Oh dear! Our house robots are being attacked again, but it was the only way out of the CPZ: through Whamlet! Sheer Heart Attack€™s drum continues to spin up to maximum fierceness and Naughty Girl won€™t let go of Whamlet anytime soon€¦until Sheer Heart Attack smacks into its tracked fellow with the drum, once again!

CRASH!!!

And it€™s the side now! Naughty Girl is jolted up, not inverted, but Whamlet is freed and is taking VERY peeved at this attack. Naughty Girl doesn€™t appear to be moving anyway, but now Whamlet€™s axe party goes again, and this time Sheer Heart Attack does go for the pit release button! Drum-first! Why you€¦you€¦you€™ll be paying for that, believe you me! Whamlet€™s pushing it, and pushing it€¦Martyn€™s robot would have liked this more if it was still moving, I€™m sure. And now it€™s on the floor flipper! The Watcher is gonna count it out, for damn sure!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

WHOOSH! Naughty Girl gets a nice taste of gravity as it€™s flung across and back down onto the arena floor, and the champ backs into it, shoving, shoving, down the pit, that€™s all she wrote, folks.

CEASE!

Naughty Girl, a heat finalist? Don€™t go there, girlfriend.
Sheer Heart Attack 2 (1) advances to the Heat A Final!!

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Round 2, Battle 2
Turbulence (17) vs. Ge5orce

*we apologize for the delay as a screaming Alex MacWilliams and 3rd seed Flank Attack: DT are removed from the pits*

Roboteers, stand by€¦

House robots! Triple Big Mac, cone spinner, deadly hammers, quick spin-up time, I€™m lovin€™ it. Partnering it is none other than the biggest of the housies, Ancalagon the Black, you know the power in the jaw by now, and those discs.

3€¦
2€¦
1€¦
ACTIVATE!

Flipper vs. flipper, but Ge5orce is the bookies€™ pick and he€™s set to prove them right as he goes straight for Turbulence, who€™s going for him! The effect is pleasing to Andy as Ge5orce slips under that front flipper of the seed and launches it skyward! Turbulence crashes back down onto the arena floor, but self-rights instantly. Ge5orce is back at it though, getting under the rear and tossing it into a 360, and gunning forward as Turbulence lands, but Turbulence lands on the wedge and drives off, Andy hitting the flipper button a second too late and Ge5orce flips itself over! Turbulence takes advantage of this, turning around and getting under Ge5orce€™s wheel pod, wedging it and taking it to the wall, but unable to flip it out as Ge5orce bounces off. Turbulence whips around to see the recovered uber-flipper in his path and approaching quickly, and meets him with its own flipper€¦but Ge5orce prevails once more. Unfortunately for Ge5orce, the angle it€™s at makes it unable to toss Turbulence OOTA and so it tosses Turbulence into the air again. Turbulence lands hard, right in the center of the arena, onto its wheels though and turns around again€¦only to get rammed into a very damn persistent Ge5orce! The persistence pays off again, as Turbulence can€™t get its own flipper under Ge5orce€™s€¦and Ge5orce heads for the arena wall! Turbulence goes to drive off but the flipper activates bloody soon, and the 17th seed meets a sad end on the other side of the arena wall!

CEASE!

Turbulence couldn€™t handle the force, and the pressure made it jump the wall!
Ge5orce advances to the Heat A Final!!

[kodster]

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HEAT A - SO FAR€¦
Round 1
Sheer Heart Attack 2 (1) & Ge5orce won their battle when Ge5orce pitted Megabyte, and with help from the champ, sent Hell€™s Teeth over the fence!
Turbulence (17) & Naughty Girl won their battle when Turb finally got Slammer VI over the wall, and Naughty Girl clamped Axes of Evil and pitted it.

Round 2
Sheer Heart Attack 2 (1) pressurized Naughty Girl with the drum, and eventually killed it alongside Triple Whamlet.
Ge5orce totally outflipped 17th seed Turbulence, and quickly got it out.

Round 3
Sheer Heart Attack 2 (1) vs. Ge5orce

Tactics and predictions, if you please.

[Guest]

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One hell of a first heat there Kody

Im torn between these two, but I think the champion may just clinch it on a JD although Ge5orce could very easily take this match in one flip

[team_britespark]

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Wow, this heats moving along faster than Michael Phelps in a paddling pool!

Predictions in which I will predict the outcome of the next battle

Im gonna go with my original prediction and say for Ge5orce to send SHA2 out, either via a pitting or OOTAing it in style!

*w00ts because Dervish is in the next heat! *

[samuel3764]

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Seriously, anyone of these 2 could win.

[swanaldo]

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Wow, this heats moving along faster than Michael Phelps in a paddling pool!

[team_britespark]

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Thank you Shane, I thought it was hilarious, too!

I got plenty more, watch out!

[majinb]

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WOW! I dunno what I like more in this tournaments, Kodys awesome battles or Dans awesome jokes!!!

anyway

Sheer Heart Attack 2 (1) vs. Ge5orce

My axlebot-ish nature make me though for any flipper, but Gefiveorce is a really strong one. That loooong flipper shape ala Wheely Big Cheese make it hard for him to move its weapon into position and thats where my main advantage comes in, tackles his sides and rear all the time, pit asap.