Team Zlayerz House Robot Rebellion: The Trilogy

[kodster]

Team Zlayerz House Robot Rebellion: The Trilogy

Yes, I lied about there being no 3rd-place playoff, for indeed there is one.

3rd-place playoff
Glasgow Kiss vs. Mobile Failure

Final
Flipping Hell vs. Stiltskin

Tactics and predictions, if you would, my friends.

[joey_picus]

Team Zlayerz House Robot Rebellion: The Trilogy

PREDICTIONS FOR THE THIRD PLACE PLAYOFF:
Uh...dunno. A lot of axing to happen and one of them to win

TACTICS FOR THE FINAL:
Flip it out. Dont waste gas trying to flip and try and break FH, as it wont have much effect...possibly flip it over first to allow the self righting to give me more angles to get under, but above all get it out of the arena.
IF it somehow manages to get back in the arena, flip it out again.
Repeat ad nauseum until I either run out of gas or FH is definitely out of the arena with no hope of getting back in.

Gluck Dave, may the best flipping thing win :P

[kodster]

Team Zlayerz House Robot Rebellion: The Trilogy

Well, before the final, we€™ve got a 3rd-place playoff to settle, and no tactics for it, but damnit let€™s get it settled anyway! :P

Playoff
Glasgow Kiss vs. Mobile Failure

Roboteers, stand by€¦

3€¦
2€¦
1€¦
ACTIVATE!

So it€™s definitely an axe meeting of sorts, and the two semi-final losers are at it immediately, fighting for that good ol€™ wooden spoon. But Glasgow Kiss is the first to strike, its racecar -inspired shape sliding under Mobile Failure€™s big wedge as its axe comes down, but only hitting the €˜airy€™ area inside of Glasgow Kiss, as the racecarbot takes Mobile Failure to the wall and slams it against the wall as it did with Flipping Hell last round, Scott humming to some sort of Franz Ferdinand tune. Tracy tries to turn her machine around quickly, but Glasgow Kiss has actually sped away, possibly going for a ram. Mobile Failure decides to meet him head-on€¦not a good idea, as Glasgow Kiss sweeps under Mobile Failure and actually passes under it, the shape of the middle wedge helping as the Failure goes flying over it. Glasgow Kiss turns around, Mobile Failure trying to do the like, and slams into the side of its opponent, burying the axe into Mobile Failure€™s top armour with a heavy WHACK! The 6mm titanium gets dented quite a bit, but holds up relatively fine. Tracy responds to Scott by actually turning Mobile Failure into Glasgow Kiss€™ side and retaliating with an axe blow of its own, and manages to smack Glasgow Kiss€™ armour around its own axe, and unlike the blow it got, the blow it dealt is much more severe! Apparently the 1mm difference of titanium proves its point, or maybe the power of the axes, but there€™s a hole that has been punched straight through the 5mm Ti, and Scott€™s melodic humming of €˜Auf Achse€™ comes to an abrupt end as he struggles to get his machine away, to no avail.

The tide turned, Tracy takes Scott all the way to the other end of the arena and gives him a taste of his own medicine, Mobile Failure showing brute strength by pounding Glasgow Kiss against the wall; this does loosen the axe, but Glasgow Kiss is now up against the wall instead of having bounced off, and Mobile Failure smacks the side with its axe€¦shaft. That was kinda useless. Glasgow Kiss fires its own axe to try and get itself off the wall, but it seems to still be stuck on its side, as it retracts its axe. Mobile Failure waits out of axe range; Scott again tries to get his machine off its side, this time succeeding, only to find the newcomer blaring into its side already, and the axe comes down again, making another hole in the titanium! As suddenly as the hole came to be in Glasgow Kiss€™ armour, Tracy remembers the pit, and goes to open it, but it seems Glasgow Kiss has found its footing again because it suddenly begins to pull Mobile Failure around the arena, with the axe still lodged in its amour! However, Mobile Failure€™s LEM-power kicks in and begins to pull backwards, and in the middle of the pushing and pulling they go right over the arena saws. BZZT! Spark-y. That seems to have loosened the hold on Glasgow Kiss as Mobile Failure backs off, but in turn Glasgow Kiss seems to be moving awkwardly€¦I think the arena saws have done some damage to them tires! Or at least one anyway. Scott sees all too clearly what€™s happened; it€™s the front left wheel that€™s taken the damage, as a great big slice has been made in it, so Glasgow Kiss€™ control has now been greatly reduced.

Tracy comes in again, Mobile Failure€™s axe swinging into the front, and Glasgow Kiss does the like. WHACK WHACK go the axes in harmony, and this time both axes seem to have made holes in the other€™s armour€¦but it€™s Glasgow Kiss who, despite the control problem, once again manages to sneak its own wedge under Mobile Failure€™s, and having lifted its opponent€™s wheels off the ground, takes it into a CPZ, knocking the bejesus out of it. Scott€™s machine indeed does seem to take a lickin€™ and keep on kickin€™, as it tries to stack the Failure against the wall on its butt-end. WA-HEY! Mobile Failure fired its axe against the wall, and in a stupendous gymnastics display, sent itself flying away from the wall and overtop of Glasgow Kiss in a perfect 270, landing neatly behind it! Cool. Glasgow Kiss€™ turning ability seems to have been hindered as well, as Tracy is the one set to turn right around to face its opponent first, and does so€¦and display another newcomer trait by turning around too much. As she finally gets around to get the wedge pointed at Glasgow Kiss, Scott has his machine€™s front wedge back in action and back in Mobile Failure€™s face, and Tracy just can€™t seem to get any sort of leverage advantage against Scott, as Glasgow Kiss again gets under Mobile Failure and takes it across the arena on an angle, and just has enough force to slam it against the wall, just near the pit release button. That ram has inverted Mobile Failure, also, but it self-rights quickly, only for Glasgow Kiss to ram into it once more, and this time the axe comes down, onto Mobile Failure€™s top armour again, only denting it though, so it doesn€™t get a good enough hold€¦but Glasgow Kiss again takes what little control is left and slams Mobile Failure into another wall again, the newcomer surely reeling from these hits.

However, it seems Glasgow Kiss is the real one reeling, the front left wheel does not seeming to be turning at all anymore, and especially that last punishing blow he gave, seems to have exerted rather much of his remaining effort, as Mobile Failure comes in again after a moment€™s pause. Glasgow Kiss moves in again as well, and though again successfully managing to slide under Mobile Failure, it isn€™t moving that much fast as it was before, and both axes come down€¦more holes in the armour, though Glasgow Kiss€™ armour looks the more worse for wear, but that last axeblow shook Mobile Failure off the wedge, and allows it to get away. Scott€™s in a stew of trouble now, he definitely doesn€™t have the €˜zoom-zoom€™ he had at the start of the match , and Mobile Failure although receiving the worst of the hits so far has kept itself alive and running well, as it now circles Glasgow Kiss. Scott can€™t turn his machine fast enough anymore and Mobile Failure gets at the side, wedging it and smacking the armour again with its axe, carving a hole in the other side of the armour this time. Now with a firm hold, Mobile Failure backs up across the arena, stops to angle itself right, and reverses into the pit release button, sending that platform descending into the abyss we all know and hate. And Scott finally pulls out the white flag as Glasgow Kiss is hurtled across the arena by its captor and sent down into the void€¦with its opponent on top of it.

CEASE!

The veteran kisses Ground Zero! Glasgow Kiss misses out on the Wooden Spoon and settles for 4th!
Mobile Failure gets 3rd place!

Next up: The Final

[razerdave]

Team Zlayerz House Robot Rebellion: The Trilogy

Tactics for the fianl:

The stats speak of a reversed wedge on the back, something like a paralelogram, which makes a tasty target for my flipper. That will be my main target, but failing that, hit and flip the sides, 10mm is yawning to FH

[kodster]

Team Zlayerz House Robot Rebellion: The Trilogy

Well, after over three months of sitting around, watching other tournaments pass it by, this rebellion tourney has finally reached its conclusion! Let€™s see how these flipping fiends got here!

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Flipping Hell - the journey

- Got thrown around the arena in Round 1 by Taki III, house robot winner of last tournament, but Flipping Hell needed only one toss to win, and he finally got it. Taki III sailed over the fence and Flipping Hell advanced.
- During the 2nd round fight, Flipping Hell tossed Asterix across the arena, flung Triple Whamlet out of it, and ultimately humiliated Ancalagon the Black by combining its flipping power with its fellow finalist Stiltskin to heave the dragonbot onto its back.
- Almost a repeat of Round 1, Round 3 saw Glasgow Kiss smack Flipping Hell around a few times, but again one toss was needed, and the Weston bot prevailed.

Stiltskin - the journey

- Pretty much had its way with Renegade in Round 1, despite a few bashings to the polycarb armour finally got Renegade over the fence after a multitude of flips.
- The 2nd round saw Stiltskin give Triple Whamlet a flipping, and helped fellow finalist Flipping Hell give the dragonbot Ancalagon the Black a tummy tickle using their combined flipping power.
- Round 3 with Mobile Failure saw Stiltskin utterly vanquish the newbie, a few flippings and finally Tracy€™s axebot exited the arena.

And now, for the final, we introduce the new Battlegrounds! You know you want to see it, so go http://teamzlayerz.proboards.com/ind...19&page=1here:

[joey_picus]

Team Zlayerz House Robot Rebellion: The Trilogy

...

...what on earth...you know, I was talking to Andy last night and he was playing his role in the community down, and I felt compelled to point out that only one of my robots had ever actually won a tournament...

You can make that two now. Stiltskin, you did me proud. Might not be a major but its the best damned thing Ive won yet, so I think all I can say now is:

w0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000t!! ! 5t1lt5k1n = t3h r0xxxx0r5!!!!!111oneoneoneone

*ahem*

Thanks to Dave for putting up a good fight, one I was in no way sure of winning, and of course well done to Kody - after all thats been going on in your life lately you can still produce brillint battles, keep it up and keep me on the edge of my seat reading them.

Congrats and commisses to everyone else, in some form, and now if youll excuse me Im off to celebrate this by working out how I can make Stiltskin better...Magnitude ahoy!