The Killer Toad Tournament - The Final Assault

[joey_picus]

The Killer Toad Tournament - The Final Assault

TACTICS:

S.T.A.T. vs. Spin Dash Unleashed
Ram it. Hard. If it is practical at any point, avoid the saw, but generally ram it, try to impale its wheels with the spike, and get it down some sort of pit type thing.

Back To Rock III vs. Eye of Ran
Keep the wedge to BTR if possible until the blade is spun up to about 3/4 of max speed, and then hit it. If it proves difficult, get the blade up to max and see what that does. Always try and keep one of the ends (blade or wedge) facing BTR, try not to let it get around the sides.

Supreme vs. Nidhogg Evo
Get underneath it somewhere, lift it so it doesnt have traction, crush into it or at least clamp it so it cant escape, and then attempt to pit it. Standard tactics really.

Good luck everyone, particularly Dan, Steve and Marti

[kodster]

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Tactics time, I guess:

Sithis vs. Seung Mina V

Dont use the flipper at all...unless I need to self-right for whatever reason, I dont want my flipper rams attacked . Simply ram-foo Sithis ass into the pit double quick and preferably turn to ram into the direction hes spinning, like straight into the blade, so hell become unstable and fly up the wedge . The angle of the wedge, nice LEM power and Hardox armour should help immensely here.

Crimson Thunder vs. Curse of Dread

Another Danny B battle I see. Well my spinning bar gets up to speed in pretty much no time at all so keeping hitting him until he dies. Hopefully the panels will come off after enough hits. Even if the bar isnt spinning, I can use the wedge to get under and push him around. If he manages to get under, turn away, as I should still have my wheels on the ground. Should be good.

Good luck Danny in both battles.

[paulc]

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At least Ive got one robot through. Heres the plan for Knyfe.
Battle Raptor 4 vs. Knyfe
Hooray! I havent fought Richard in a while, and given hes updatewd his robot, and Ive got a new robot here, itll be good. First of all, Im a bit worried about the axe, not because of my armour, as i dont think itll do too much to my 6mm Hardox - Im worried he may break a chain and prevent me from moving. So, I need to get the robot off the ground so he cant hit me. But he has those forks to flip me over and render my normal wedge useless. So here comes...

8: A 42* hindged wedge at the front made of 7mm Hardox with a large 8mm Hardox hindge. The wedge is invertible, as it flops over if flipped, and isnt effected if flippeed. I use this against flippers.

If he gets underneath first time round, no worry, just push (I can outpush him, as his motors will genderate 16hp overall - mine give 50hp) If I get under, just slam into the nearest wall as hard as possible, and hope I break something. Just keep pushing him into the hazards, walls, and hope I win

Good luck Richard :wink: and everybody else.

[kodster]

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quote:

First of all, Im a bit worried about the axe, not because of my armour, as i dont think itll do too much to my 6mm Hardox - Im worried he may break a chain and prevent me from moving.How, exactly?

[joey_picus]

The Killer Toad Tournament - The Final Assault

If he gets underneath first time round, no worry, just push (I can outpush him, as his motors will genderate 16hp overall - mine give 50hp)

...might be being slightly nosey here, its not really my place to comment on tactics, but - if he gets underneath you, there will either be less weight on the wheels you have remaining on the floor (making them more likely to just spin and make a nice noise...eeeeeeeee), or, more likely, all your wheels will be off the floor making oushing about as effective as one of Baldricks plans.

Just saying, your overconfidence is blinding you to reality a bit again. :wink:

[davids]

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And I think Paul has forgotten he already has one robot in the group stage :wink:

[velociraptor]

The Killer Toad Tournament - The Final Assault

Against Knyfe, BR4 will stick to the sides and try to turn him over and push him around - hopefully my front plate will go under the skirts with a good enough push, and may even go under the front wedge if Im lucky. As for the axe, even if I dont break a chain, Ill score points and maybe strike a wheel or two, so Ill hammer away anyway.

[swimm3r]

The Killer Toad Tournament - The Final Assault

Sheesh, only 1 bot through and I get drawn against SOR X again :sad:

I can only hope to batter his armour as best I can, Im not entirely sure how effective it will be against 4mm hardox but I have to try. I will also try to box rush at the beginning to stop the rim, after that just go mad with the axe. Good luck Andy, I hope you dont pwn me again :S

In the other matches I think Pure Evil, Knyfe, Mina, STAT, PsycloniZer, SYNDOS, Eye of Ran, Achilles, Fatality, Supreme and Crimson Thunder will go through

[team_orr]

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looks like im out:sad:

oh well, well done dave

[samuel3764]

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Ge5orce, eh?

Not much I can do here, except for SLAMMING into his side. AVOID THE FRONT LIKE THE PLAGUE!!

[andrewj]

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Slammer VI vs. PsycloniZer

Interesting! This should be a good fight, but I can€™t think of much we can do to each other. I€™ll aim to attack the framework at first. If anything can be broken, this is probably it. Then just give it some thumping hits as many times as possible. The wheels are obviously a target, if I can rip some rubber off it should reduce its manoeuvrability and make it more prone to attacks. With the components contained inside, some hard blows could knock something loose inside. Just damage whatever I can.

SOR X vs. Premonition

Hopefully the axe won€™t cause a lot of damage to my armour. I€™ll mainly use the spinning rim for the start of this battle. The skirts will be my first targets - if I can damage or remove those it will allow me to get under and flip later in the battle. The armour is hopefully damageable so I€™ll give it a few hits next. I€™ll also attempt to damage the axe heads if possible. If the skirts are damaged, then I can get under with the wedge to push it and flip it around the arena.

Fatality vs. Ge5orce

I€™ll go in right from the start and flip Fatality before the shell can get fully spun up. The armouring of my wedge should be enough to withstand the attacks I think. 7mm clearance should be easy enough to get under, and then launch it in the air. I€™m not sure the self righting spike will be that reliable, but if it is, I just need to throw it over enough times until it runs out of gas. Or if I can get it out the arena before then, that would be even better.

Good luck to all! Pure Evil, Battle Raptor, Seung Mina, STAT, SYNDOS, Back to Rock, Achilles, Nidhogg and Crimson Thunder are my predictions for the other battles.

[velociraptor]

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Whoops, didnt realise SYNDOS was through too. Itll keep things simple and attack all it can with the disc.

[davids]

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So it€™s time for round 2, the winners of these matches will move forward onto the group stages where the 12 winners will be joined by the 3 seeds, to be spilt into 3 groups of 5, with a seed in each.

So first up is:
Pure Evil: Back to Basics vs. Masamune

In round 1, Pure Evil flipped Y4 out of the arena. Meanwhile Masamune pitted Crooked.

It€™s Frank against Daniel in the first 2nd qualification round battle

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And it starts, the flipping wedge against the sword barrel, both are away, with Pure Evil having a higher top speed, but with only 2 wheels (which I€™m assuming because the stats don€™t actually state how many wheels it has when in wheel-mode), against the 4 wheels of Masamune, with two good drivers, both with an eye on a spot in the groups, as Masamune dodges the attacking run from Pure Evil, as the sword comes out from Masamune, ready to get underneath Pure Evil and to hopefully pit it, whereas the aim from Daniel is to get underneath Masamune and flip it through the hole in the arena wall to score some more points by making Masamune change it€™s shape to fit though the hole which happens to be in the wall. Wait wrong show, as we€™re back to the action.

Masamune dodges another attacking run from Pure Evil, Masamune has a 3cm ground clearance on the sides and rear which Frank must be careful off, whereas Pure Evil has 7mm ground clearance, still large enough to put a sword under, but Dan has an ace up his sleeve, the flipper is powerful enough to rock Pure Evil off the sword, as Frank dodges another attack from Pure Evil, by spinning around and launching into a counter-attack, but Dan dodges and goes into a counter-counter attack, of which Masamune manages to dodge, but with the front wedge of Pure Evil coming close. Masamune turns around and issues a counter-counter-counter attack on the initial attack, but once more Daniel manages to dance away from the front sword of Masamune.

Pure Evil once more attacks Masamune, in a counter-counter-counter-blah-blah-counter attack, this time though Frank dodges well and runs away, in an attempt to get Pure Evil to follow, but watch that pit there Frank, as Masamune narrowly misses the open pit, which would have been embarrassing for Frank, one of the few original people left in the game, after all this time, but Masamune dodges the pit as Pure Evil gives chase, Frank spins around fast and holds fast as for the first time of the battle, both robots meet up, as the front sword of Masamune goes up the wedge of Pure Evil, as Danny puts on full power driving towards the arena wall, as the flipper button is pressed, throwing Masamune in a lovely arc smashing onto the pillows will are around the edge of the arena.

Cease

Masamune is flipped out, Pure Evil: Back to Basics, goes forward onto the group stage and into the actual competition.

1 down, 11 more to go:

Next up it is Battle Raptor 4 vs. Knyfe

[davids]

The Killer Toad Tournament - The Final Assault

I know this has kinda fallen behind (I was hoping to be on the group stage by now). I will try and hammer out some fight at the weekend.

[davids]

The Killer Toad Tournament - The Final Assault

And I said that on the 12th of last month, oops.

I will defo try and do something this weekend, it might be summary battles like the first round, and I might change the format once more from group stages to pure knock-out just to try and cut down the number of fights.