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Mechanical Maelstrom Season 2.0
Frank, can I actually offer a team-up with Cobalt?
Frank, can I actually offer a team-up with Cobalt?
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Ill accept Kodys team up offer for BP.
Dantu to keep on the move and not risk being pushed but otherwise go for whosever armour is flimsiest.Comment
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Time to get this tourney started...
Entrants
Team Varying Every Day, Sheer Heart Attack 2 (1)& Back to Rock III
Team Chevron, Gabriel IV: Enjoy the Violence (2) & Nidhogg Evo
Team Braveheart, Spin Dash Unleashed (3) & Traffic Warden
Team Dino Warriors, Leprosy Infection (4) & Mega Masher 2
Team Zlayerz, The Zodiac & Tira V
Team Insanity, Nitro-Gene 5.0 & Autoism 3.0
Team Wet €˜n€™ Wild, Visioned & Hot Sauce
Team Manglo-Saxons, Binary Hell & Talisman
Team Bored, The May Tracks Has You & Cobalt
Team ???, Wedga Triton & Monolith
Team Fatal Robotics, Neo-Mecha & Death Sentence
Team Britespark, Supreme & Pure Evil: Back to Basics
Team Devil€™s Incarnate, Roo 2 & Hypertension MK3
Team Accolades, Black Panther & Dantu
Team RCC, Eternia & Holepunch 2.0
Team Killa Vapourbots, Drilla Killa VII & Dendroaspis
Welcome back to Mechanical Maelstrom! This is the second season of robotic crash, bang and wallop to hit your screens and tonight will see the first four robots enter the arena to do battle, but only two can make it through to the second round.
Round 1
Nidhogg Evo vs Autoism 3.0 vs Spin Dash Unleashed (3) vs Back to Rock III
Representing Team Chevron, Nidhogg Evo!
This rollover design with Lightning-style wedge and effective weapon synergy is a contender for the title. It has a powerful Razer-style hydraulic vertical crushing beak and a front hydraulic lifter designed to get opponents€™ wheels off the ground for the crusher to come into play. The hardox armour will keep most weaponry at bay and it has good lynch motors in the drive, but with just two wheel drive and a narrow area of attack it may have difficulty if it needs to push opponents around.
Representing Team Insanity, Autoism 3.0!
This Big Nipper-esque machine has 4 wheels on top the top and bottom, and like Nidhogg Evo features hydraulic weaponry that can lift and crush, but in this case it€™s a horizontal crusher. The aluminium armour is weak, but it is protected by a tough exo-skeleton that should stop spinners making their mark. The magmotors in the drive are over-volted for more speed and power, but with Nidhogg in there the aluminium armour could prove to be its downfall.
Representing Team Braveheart, seeded 3, Spin Dash Unleashed!
This simple box shape got the bronze medal last time around, using the bottom-mounted saw blade and six wheel lynch motor powered drive to box rush opponents into hell. The 4mm hardox armour will keep most opponents away from the internals and the magmotor powering the weapon goes at a nice speed, but the weaponry will be useless against most armours.
Representing Team Varying Every Day, Back to Rock III!
This next robot is also a six wheel driven machine powered by lynch motors and also has a saw blade, so by that it sounds a lot like Spin Dash Unleashed, but unlike the Scottish machine it packs a Behemoth-style electric lifter with the saw blade mounted vertically within the lifter itself, more accurately placed to go for opponent€™s tyres.
Roboteers, standby!
Booth 1: Joey McConnell, Paul Cuomo
Booth 2: Steven McGregor, Martijn Benschop
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As the match starts Autoism 3.0 and Nidhogg Evo quickly move towards each other, with Autoism lifting the claw into the air to get the attack in, fitting the horizontal grabbing device snugly around Nidhogg Evo€™s vertical crushing beak and utilising the hydraulic lifting part of the multi-purpose weapon to take Nidhogg€™s wheels off the ground! The crowd gasps in surprise, but Paul keeps his head and holds Nidhogg Evo aloft, reversing across the arena now to hit the pit release button and trigger the siren as the pit descends, but the impact with the pit release button has loosened Autoism 3.0€™s grip on Nidhogg Evo, and Joey€™s wedge shaped machine falls back to the arena floor, where it can quickly run from Autoism 3.0 to line up for another attack. Meanwhile Spin Dash Unleashed has taken on Back to Rock III, but unfortunately for the number #3 seed the front lifting plates of Back to Rock III have allowed it get under the front mounted horizontal saw blade of Spin Dash Unleashed, but the blue invertible box which is now inverted as Back to Rock III uses the electric lifter to lever it up and over! The bottom-mounted saw blade is now a lot less effective as its primary tactic is to attack skirts and tyres, which it cannot do if the robot is inverted (and the saw in the air). Steven pushes Spin Dash up against the lifter of Back to Rock III, hoping that Martijn will oblige and use the lifter to help the Scottish machine back onto its normal position, but Martijn has other ideas and ploughs forwards with Spin Dash Unleashed stuck on the wedge and slams the seeded robot against the spike strip, using the electric lifter again to lever Spin Dash Unleashed up and over and prop it against the fence! Steven is well and truly beached, but Martijn isn€™t happy to leave him there and heads in on another onslaught, getting those nifty front lifting plates underneath Spin Dash and raising up into the air to get Spin Dash Unleashed onto the top of the barrier! The blue battering ram wobbles worryingly at this precarious angle, and is given the final nudge by the promising Behemoth-like machine as it tumbles over the arena wall and onto the camera tracks, lying in a broken and beaten heap on the wrong side of the wall!
This leaves three machines in the arena, and shockingly it€™s the seeded robot that has been the first to bite the dust this season. Autoism 3.0 and Nidhogg Evo are still locked in a deadly embrace as Nidhogg had finally got an attack in while Back to Rock disposed of the seed. Joey has managed to lift Autoism into the air, but his powerful crushing beak has hit nothing but a bar of the exo-skeleton, stopping its progress in its tracks and preventing Nidhogg Evo from penetrating any armour and causing any damage. Autoism is however not in an entirely unhappy position as the claw is close enough to Nidhogg€™s beak to grasp around it and fire the lifting device of its own! This of course creates havoc as with both machines attempting to lift and crush each other they are locked together and as Nidhogg Evo€™s wheels are not gaining enough purchase on the ground for educated movement neither bot can get anywhere. Back to Rock III decides to play referee though and moves in on the attack, ramming in underneath the side of Nidhogg Evo and sending sparks off the base plate as the Dutch machine gets to work on the clamping robot from Pontefract/Kuwait, getting some more action and tipping the battling pair onto their side! And as Nidhogg Evo rolls over on the barrel shape they separate, but while Joey is left tumbling and reeling from the attack Autoism€™s Big Nipper-style drive setup allows it to carry on the match without even having to reverse the drive.
Autoism 3.0 just drives into the side of Nidhogg Evo and gets that horizontal claw sideways around the main overhead weapon of Nidhogg Evo, using the 5000kg of lifting power to hoist 100kg of Nidhogg Evo into the air, and although Autoism tips forwards with the weight suddenly becoming double on one side the claw doesn€™t relinquish its grip and Nidhogg is left helpless as Paul drives his machine slowly but surely over to the chasm where he quickly deposits Nidhogg Evo, the promising robot with a powerful hydraulic weapon synergy
CEASE!
Spin Dash Unleashed (3) spins out and Nidhogg Evo needs to evolve again; Autoism 3.0 and Back to Rock III move onto the second round!Comment
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Do we perchance have another halo writer on our hands? Well done Lewis!
And crap for predicting a battle almost completely wrong. XDComment
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Just to point out - where it says Team Accolades on my site that is just the title of the list of awards, my teams actual name is Team Doomforall.
But anyway, good fight, I look forward to seeing more.Comment
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Autoism won?...it did:
+2>WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
Well done Steven and Joey for putting up a fight, well done to Lewis for writing a great battle, and good luck to everyone in the next fight :wink:
PS: Dont feel bad about predicting wrong Kody - I didnt predict myself a win, and Im the git who MADE Autoism (when I say made, I mean came up with, and its an intangible robot
) so dont feel too bad.
(Message edited by paulc on November 23, 200
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Uhh...maybe you didnt see the XD at the end of my message...or are you unfamiliar with some smileys, Paul? lol :PComment
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I did - I just dont have a clue what most of them mean.Comment
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Binary Hell: Team up with Gabriel IV if possible, do a speed run and ram everyone ito the walls, the hazards and the pit
Talisman: OOTA everyone except CobaltComment
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Sorry about the long wait
Eliminator 2
Mega Masher 2 vs The Zodiac vs Hot Sauce vs Binary Hell
Representing Team Dino Warriors, Mega Masher 2!
This triangular shaped robot has dangerous wedge/box-rush capabilities similar to Minion, and also like the aforementioned Battlebots Superheavyweight Champion it has a vertical spinning flywheel at the rear. This one is powered by a good old lynch motor, but is small enough for the robot to run inverted so don€™t expect any classic attacks.
Representing Team Zlayerz, The Zodiac!
This full body spinner didn€™t do too well last time around, with the 6mm ground clearance proving a major weak point against Spin Dash Unleashed. It is unchanged, and still has the four magmotors to spin the shell and another two to work the drive. It has a trusty pneumatic srimech and nastily shaped teeth, but could that all round ground clearance be its undoing a second time?
Representing Team Wet €˜n€™ Wild, Hot Sauce!
Clearly inspired by Firestorm, this hardox beastie has powerful lynch motors to get around the arena and a neat front hinged flipper to throw opponents around and even right out if it gets the opportunity. The paintjob is nice, but that won€™t save it if the design proves to be too old-fashioned and is beaten by the newer, more innovative creations.
Representing Team Manglo-Saxons, Binary Hell!
This six wheeled Killdozer-shaped robot from hell packs a hellish 4-bar lifting or flipping arm to launch the opponent over the fence. The skirts may help against other flippers and it can run inverted, but will the thin armour be exploited by the more powerful vertical crushers, and Team Manglo-Saxons didn€™t do too well last time around when Haldux 2.0 was knocked out of the first round against Leprosy Infection.
Roboteers, standby!
Booth 1: Christopher Mason, Ben Read
Booth 2: Kody Kunz, No Wai
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The Zodiac is the most eye-catching robot in this melee as the shell quickly becomes a blur, the sharp teeth looking especially menacing when they are barely visible. Hot Sauce and Mega Masher 2 are also off the mark though and the two wedges collide in the centre of the arena, neither robot getting underneath the other but Hot Sauce€™s more powerful drive allowing it to push Team Dino Warriors entry across the arena and into the spike strip! Mega Masher€™s disc is jammed up against the strip and so can€™t begin to rotate properly unlike the shell of The Zodiac, which is already up to that dangerous top speed and moves in on the attack just as Hot Sauce reverses to safety!
A large section of Mega Masher 2€™s armour is ripped clean off and flies off across the arena, bouncing along the arena floor and coming to rest on the closed pit. Binary Hell hasn€™t done much yet, but now it is attacked by Hot Sauce and Ben is galvanised into action! Hot Sauce€™s wedge shape meets Binary Hell€™s 4-var flipping arm at the front and the two push away at each other, with Binary Hell€™s six wheel drive working hard and this time triumphing and Ben gets underneath Hot Sauce€™s wedge, now ramming No Wai€™s machine across the arena and firing the flipper to send it flying over and over and stacking Hot Sauce against the pit release button!
The siren goes off and the pit descends, with Hot Sauce being stuck where it is as the front hinged flipper is firing into thin air with no effect at all. The wheels aren€™t touching the floor and the yellow and purple wedge is in trouble now as Mega Masher 2 lines up an attack with the vertical flywheel, now up to speed courtesy of that powerful lynch motor. Chris puts the pedal to the medal now and zooms in on the attack of Hot Sauce, but just before reaching his beached opponent The Zodiac intercepts the attack and slams into the unprotected side of Mega Masher 2, tearing out the left drive motor and sending Mega Masher 2 flying across the arena and into Hot Sauce, knocking No Wai€™s decorative wedge down to the ground and back into the fight! Mega Masher struggles to move in circles, but there is no worry as Hot Sauce slides in underneath the side of Chris€™ machine and with a flick of the front hinged pneumatic flipper tips Mega Masher 2 into the pit and out of the match!
With just The Zodiac, Hot Sauce and Binary Hell left in the arena the tension increases as no driver left in there wants to be the second robot to bite the dust today. The Zodiac is back at full speed and heads across the arena towards Binary Hell, who comes forward to meet it and Ben looks confident as he feels that his flipper will easily breach that 6mm ground clearance, but he has reckoned without the friendship that has been clearly visible between Hot Sauce and The Zodiac during this match and Hot Sauce drives in from the side of Binary Hell, defeating the skirt this time and turning to push Binary Hell sideways onto the Zodiac!
With a deafening whack Binary Hell is tossed across the arena and slams into the spike strip before falling back to the arena floor missing a side skirt and a key component- the removable link was knocked out from that hit and that has rendered the number bot immobile!
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!
Binary Hell however cool looking it was is counted down and out.
CEASE!
Mega Masher is mashed and Binary Hell is sent to hell;
The Zodiac and Hot Sauce are hot enough to go on throughComment
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Good fight Lewis, yore keeping fanfic going during these lean periods at least
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oh w00t, the team up worked
Excellent writing so far Lewis
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Round 1 Eliminators so far:
Autoism 3.0 and Back to Rock III pitted Spin Dash Unleashed (3) and Nidhogg Evo
Mega Masher 2 was smashed up by The Zodiac and pitted by Hot Sauce, who the helped Kody to destroy Binary Hell.
Next Battle:
Supreme vs G4briel: Enjoy the Violence (2) vs Cobalt vs Talisman
Tactics/Predictions por favor!Comment
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Tactics are up above, basically team up with Dan and go against the other two, launch them out of existance.
-2>pending me catching Dan on MSN and persuading him to agree with me on thisComment
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Supreme vs G4briel: Enjoy the Violence (2) vs Cobalt vs Talisman
Well if Supreme and G4briel are teaming up, then Supreme will probably go through with G4briel, though Supremes entire front is pretty much 5mm titanium skirting, and if something smacks the skirting away, hes a goner. But...hell go through. I just have a feeling about it.
(Message edited by kodster on December 05, 200
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