Disco 5 is immediately chasing down Mornington Crescent with the flipper, but before the champ can strike, Mornington Crescent nips around the flipper, its manoeuvrability superior to the champion's! Realizing his mistake, Martyn reverses his machine quickly before Steve can make good on the threat, and it leaves Mornington Crescent wide open! This time, Mornington Crescent can't get out of the way in time and is collected onto the flipper...while still spinning! Martyn, not too keen on letting his opponent ride further up onto the wedge and hit the vertical, fires Disco 5's flipper, sending Mornington Crescent across the floor, and Steve's bot lands on its back several feet away. As it tries to get a sense of direction, Disco 5 crashes into it again and repeats the process; Mornington Crescent is right-side-up again, but seeing its opponent attacking again, it instantly moves forwards...which is straight into Disco 5! However, it's a lucky break for Steve, as Disco 5 is unable to fire the flipper in time as Mornington Crescent goes up the wedge thrice, and the lower spinning ring hits Disco 5's flywheel! and both house robots slowly exit their own CPZs to attack Mornington Crescent...but Disco 5 won't leave the spinner alone! Up it goes again, the flipper, as it pushes Mornington Crescent onto the wall...is this it? Mornington Crescent is stacked on the wall, but wait! The upper...errr...whichever ring is now upper, is spinning! So Steve's bot still has some movement, but only in its weapon...and it isn't looking like it's helping any! The centrifical force is not enough to get Mornington Crescent off the wall, and sensing the exit of another robot, The Watcher is in da house, shunting the now-first Series Semi-Finalist aside as it begins the countdown to what should have been a much longer and exciting fight... As said, though, flips are few, so it must be careful about passing gas. It's very powerful with its Lynch-drive system and tracks, and the 13kg vertical disc spells doom for those to come into contact with it. It can even keep the disc pointed at its opponent while being flipped, and is very hard to stack on the wall due to independent track modules. That said, it'll have a hard time manoeuvring around. Ringwraith tries to catch up with Die-Reverta-Tops, but Chris has made his bot a bit too fast for Richard to catch, as Die-Reverta-Tops zooms away, past one of Ringwraith€™s wheels, and does an about face as Ringwraith keeps up the advance, but it€™s Chris who does the advancing now as now thrice the revertosaur barrels into the spinning blades!
The result is that OverDrive and Bulldozer are both flung into the arena wall; luckily neither become inverted, but it leaves OverDrive in a bad position to be rammed as BullDozer is facing him! In a roar the scoop is upon OverDrive and under the 7.5mm ground clearance as BullDozer exacts some revenge and smashes OverDrive into a CPZ, where Xianghua III, acting as a guest house robot, inhabits. With a huge spurt, the Peking-born flipper explodes with force as OverDrive is, literally, launched into the air, 11kg of robot sent flying across the arena...that must have been at least 10 feet...not a good distance to land from, as OverDrive crashes down to earth with a thunderous clatter, but Bulldozer is right there with the scoop, shoving OverDrive across the arena again before it can even move...I don't think OverDrive can move after that massive collision, with the floor...and OverDrive is left on top of the arena saws, Bulldozer backs off...and BZZT! The only movement seen from OverDrive is the distance he's thrown off of the killsaws! And it's quite a distance, too! And other than that...nothing. Chris is absurdly delighted with this and goes to attack the other two robots as The Watcher barges in and begins to count out OverDrive! He does however keep Rolling Pin FTW against the wall and keeps him there...while Little Hitter recovers, rights itself, and comes back on the attack...on Bulldozer?! What?! It's crashed into the rear of Bulldozer and giving it huge, HUGE shots! There goes the 'paper bag'! And much more! That 4mm aluminium is completely toast! Look at that, great punches in that top armour! And now, Little Hitter's got his axe stuck inside of Bulldozer! Oh dear. He tries to pull Bulldozer away...and does so! Apparently Bulldozer's two rear wheels aren't in contact with anything with air, which is just fine by Mark Lumb! It drags Bulldozer away from Rolling Pin FTW, lest The Watcher slam into them again with a warning, and Steven's eyes flash angrily; he won't put up with that pin from Chris! Before Chris can try to pull away from Little Hitter, the drum of Rolling Pin FTW has spun-up, and with a brutal smash, smacks into the front scoop of Bulldozer!
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