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Re: Crash & Burn: Mini-Tournament of Death 3
Wot? No battles from me for a while? Shame on me!
Eliminator 2
Mornington Crescent vs. Flipping Hell
Recent C&B4 Heat Finalist Mornington Crescent was born from the megalomaniacal mind of Steven McGregor!
It€™s your average cylinder shape...and that€™s about as average as it gets! It has TWO spinning rings, one on top, one on bottom, and they spin opposite ways! Couple that with decent power and strong Hardox armour and it gets pretty scary. Tires are exposed from the top, however.
But David Weston don€™t give a Flipping Hell about that! His robot has a 4-bar flipper! That is, it works like Biohazard€™s arm, but has the speed and power of a flipper! That can lead to a lot of OOTAs! Its drivetrain is about as powerful as Razer€™s, so that€™s decent. What€™s not is the mild steel and aluminium used for the armour, and the number of flips it has...which is very limited. One-flip wonder, or will it be one-hit KO€™d?
Roboteers, stand by...
House robots: Rorschach and Exa-Gore-Ic Evo.
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ACTIVATE!
Not the nippiest start, but quite fierce as Mornington Crescent whirls up a storm of spin and Flipping Hell...moves behind the arena saws. Tactics are critical here, it looks to be. Steve is trying to move around the saws, and get a hit in on Flipping Hell, but Dave isn€™t letting him get one...ring around the rosie, or ring around the saws, your choice. Speaking of rings, Mornington Crescent€™s two are looking pretty lethal at the moment and Dave better be careful. Cat and mouse, cat and mouse...and finally, Flipping Hell plays the mouse no longer and runs out from behind the saws! Steve...puts the saws between him and Flipping Hell! Obviously, he wants Flipping Hell to mess up, but that's not going to happen because Flipping Hell is more agile, and is catching up...
CRASH!
A noticeable dent in the wedge plate of Flipping Hell, but it's not bothered him much as Mornington Crescent bounces away and is soon collected up onto the wedge! And Flipping Hell goes to the wall! Ahhhh...ah. No, sorry. Mornington Crescent catches a huge break as its upper ring, still spinning, hits the ground before Flipping Hell can toss it, and sends it quite a bit away from its predator. Dave is alarmed by this quick action and moves his machine around, but Mornington Crescent already has his spinning rings...spinning again! Unwilling to allow a bad situation to turn for the worse, Flipping Hell charges into the onset, and meets the tempest of metal!
CRASH!
But again the fortune is in Dave's favour as, though another dent is in Flipping Hell's wedge, it's largely ineffective as the launchbot scoops up Mornington Crescent and smacks him into the wall! ...not a wise move! Mornington Crescent's upper ring smacks the wall and propels the 100kg double ringer out of danger again! But this time Dave is prepared for it, and immediately turns and rams into Steve's spinner before the latter can even reach a tenth of its spinning speed! But the upper ring is spinning again! Flipping Hell tries to turn, but Mornington Crescent slides a bit and Dave moves his bot back to keep the spinner on the wedge. So...he guns it towards the wall! ...and AGAIN, Steve is saved by the upper ring, which has hit the ground a second time and flung Mornington Crescent away, and it's spinning mightily fast now! Flipping Hell is definitely agitated by this flurry of cheap escapes and rams Mornington Crescent straight on again!
CRASH!!
A bit more 'oomph' in that collision! And there's why! A huge chunk of Flipping Hell's wedge is twisted and bent up! I doubt it'll even be able to do any flipping at all now! Not to mention the fact that Flipping Hell's been sent quite a bit away across the arena by the force of that shot! Pleased with himself, Steve moves in for another attack, both rings spinning quite fast. Flipping Hell thinks better of its tactic now and goes for the pit release button, slamming straight into it before Mornington Crescent has even halfway crossed the arena, and turns to face the spinner...who's coming straight for him! Dave does't look like he wants to take another chance with ramming his opponent and get his beautiful wedge wrecked further, and guns around the spinner towards the pit. Steve follows slowly, but nicks the arena saws!
CRASH!!!
OH! That was...uncalled for. Mornington Crescent just killed one of our arena saws! Well, he didn't break it, but it's stuck up and not spinning...you plumb git you! Flipping Hell backs in to take advantage, and its tail nudges Mornington Crescent's immobile lower ring, and moves it back along the side, the upper ring sweeping up across the tail and stopping as well! Jovial, Dave turns his machine around and pushes Mornington Crescent across the arena, right ino Rorschach's CPZ! Oh ho ho...the crusher descends! And stops! Even the new house robot's crusher can't penetrate that armour! But it can stop him from spinning! Flipping Hell pushes into Mornington Crescent from behind, trying to get it onto its wedge, but is finding that extremely difficult due to his wedge's condition, and because Rorschach has attached himself to Mornington Crescent's top! And here comes Exa-Gore-Ic Evo, knocking Dave's machine aside and clamping in on both of the spinner's rings! The spike lashes out, but hardly tickles Steve's machine. And Flipping Hell is just waiting to capitalize on an escape attempt, outside the CPZ...but it's not coming. Eventually, Rorschach and Exa-Gore-Ic are largely unable to damage Steve's robot and Mornington Crescent is freed by The Watcher, who shunts either house robot aside and clears the way...for Flipping Hell to fly in! WHAM! Mornington Crescent is scooped up onto the wedge, but before Dave can activate the flipper, Mornington Crescent slides off, and Flipping Hell nearly tosses itself, but is saved thanks to its tail. NOW the spinner is truly free to do what it likes, and Dave is agitated more than ever as Flipping Hell, lacking regard for other tactics, crashes into the twin spinnah!
CRASH!!!
Yowch! That wedge is more bent up than ever, and the poor paintwork! And Flipping Hell's been sent for a loop again! Steve's looking for blood, though, as Mornington Crescent moves in again, its lower ring getting back to speed. Flipping Hell again takes the brave stab at box-rushing the bassa straight away.
CRASH! CRASH!!!
A double hit! The lower ring turned Flipping Hell around just enough for Steve to hit the side with the upper ring! And THAT's done some great damage! A wide gash down the side tells the tale, as again the British flipper goes for a spin, and the Scottish spinner spins back up to maximum killing potential! OH! Mornington Crescent's been hit by an arena spike! He's terribly out of control! But...I think the damage has been done! To Flipping Hell that is! Obviously those heavy shots must have taken their toll on the flipper, because he is completely stationary and unresponsive! Dave's fiddling with the controls, but there's little hope now for the win, as Mornington Crescent - WHOA! Look at that! It's some kind of crazy Mauler dance, but it's not stopping! Steve isn't enjoying this and turns the power for the rings down a bit, as The Watcher moves over to give Flipping Hell the death sentence...
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!
Back under control, Mornington Crescent spins back up, and he's hungry for more! Dave sees Steve's robot moving in on his beloved flipper, and calls for Steve to hold off. Steve, sporting about it, backs off and lets the house robots dispose of the Team Hell robot. Rorschach scoops under Flipping Hell and crunches down. Unlike the Hardox shell of Mornington Crescent, the crusher easily sinks through the mild steel/aluminium of Flipping Hell and causes quite the hole. 400kgs of house robot makes itself known as well as Exa-Gore-Ic comes to clamp in on the action, literally. Its claws crush into Flipping Hell's sides and squeeze it, bending metal and ooh, hopefully not the electronics. Dave grimaces, but the worst isn't over yet; Exa-Gore-Ic drags Flipping Hell (and Rorschach, claw still sticking into Flipping Hell's gut ) to the floor flipper! Rorschach finally gets away in time, and 3...2...1...FLIP! Flipping Hell ironically sails across the arena, coming to rest directly on the edge of the pit. Mornington Crescent shunts it down to spare Dave further embarrassment.
CEASE!
Flipping Hell dishonours the name of the devil and limps back to Hades with a broken middle digit!
Mornington Crescent advances to Round 2!
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Next battle: Die-Reverta-Tops vs. Envy
Wot? No battles from me for a while? Shame on me!
Eliminator 2
Mornington Crescent vs. Flipping Hell
Recent C&B4 Heat Finalist Mornington Crescent was born from the megalomaniacal mind of Steven McGregor!
It€™s your average cylinder shape...and that€™s about as average as it gets! It has TWO spinning rings, one on top, one on bottom, and they spin opposite ways! Couple that with decent power and strong Hardox armour and it gets pretty scary. Tires are exposed from the top, however.But David Weston don€™t give a Flipping Hell about that!
His robot has a 4-bar flipper! That is, it works like Biohazard€™s arm, but has the speed and power of a flipper! That can lead to a lot of OOTAs! Its drivetrain is about as powerful as Razer€™s, so that€™s decent. What€™s not is the mild steel and aluminium used for the armour, and the number of flips it has...which is very limited. One-flip wonder, or will it be one-hit KO€™d? Roboteers, stand by...
House robots: Rorschach and Exa-Gore-Ic Evo.
3...
2...
1...
ACTIVATE!
Not the nippiest start, but quite fierce as Mornington Crescent whirls up a storm of spin and Flipping Hell...moves behind the arena saws. Tactics are critical here, it looks to be. Steve is trying to move around the saws, and get a hit in on Flipping Hell, but Dave isn€™t letting him get one...ring around the rosie, or ring around the saws, your choice.
Speaking of rings, Mornington Crescent€™s two are looking pretty lethal at the moment and Dave better be careful. Cat and mouse, cat and mouse...and finally, Flipping Hell plays the mouse no longer and runs out from behind the saws! Steve...puts the saws between him and Flipping Hell! Obviously, he wants Flipping Hell to mess up, but that's not going to happen because Flipping Hell is more agile, and is catching up...CRASH!
A noticeable dent in the wedge plate of Flipping Hell, but it's not bothered him much as Mornington Crescent bounces away and is soon collected up onto the wedge! And Flipping Hell goes to the wall! Ahhhh...ah. No, sorry. Mornington Crescent catches a huge break as its upper ring, still spinning, hits the ground before Flipping Hell can toss it, and sends it quite a bit away from its predator. Dave is alarmed by this quick action and moves his machine around, but Mornington Crescent already has his spinning rings...spinning again!
Unwilling to allow a bad situation to turn for the worse, Flipping Hell charges into the onset, and meets the tempest of metal!CRASH!
But again the fortune is in Dave's favour as, though another dent is in Flipping Hell's wedge, it's largely ineffective as the launchbot scoops up Mornington Crescent and smacks him into the wall! ...not a wise move! Mornington Crescent's upper ring smacks the wall and propels the 100kg double ringer out of danger again! But this time Dave is prepared for it, and immediately turns and rams into Steve's spinner before the latter can even reach a tenth of its spinning speed! But the upper ring is spinning again! Flipping Hell tries to turn, but Mornington Crescent slides a bit and Dave moves his bot back to keep the spinner on the wedge. So...he guns it towards the wall! ...and AGAIN, Steve is saved by the upper ring, which has hit the ground a second time and flung Mornington Crescent away, and it's spinning mightily fast now! Flipping Hell is definitely agitated by this flurry of cheap escapes and rams Mornington Crescent straight on again!
CRASH!!
A bit more 'oomph' in that collision! And there's why! A huge chunk of Flipping Hell's wedge is twisted and bent up! I doubt it'll even be able to do any flipping at all now! Not to mention the fact that Flipping Hell's been sent quite a bit away across the arena by the force of that shot! Pleased with himself, Steve moves in for another attack, both rings spinning quite fast. Flipping Hell thinks better of its tactic now and goes for the pit release button, slamming straight into it before Mornington Crescent has even halfway crossed the arena, and turns to face the spinner...who's coming straight for him! Dave does't look like he wants to take another chance with ramming his opponent and get his beautiful wedge wrecked further, and guns around the spinner towards the pit. Steve follows slowly, but nicks the arena saws!
CRASH!!!
OH! That was...uncalled for. Mornington Crescent just killed one of our arena saws! Well, he didn't break it, but it's stuck up and not spinning...you plumb git you! Flipping Hell backs in to take advantage, and its tail nudges Mornington Crescent's immobile lower ring, and moves it back along the side, the upper ring sweeping up across the tail and stopping as well! Jovial, Dave turns his machine around and pushes Mornington Crescent across the arena, right ino Rorschach's CPZ! Oh ho ho...the crusher descends! And stops! Even the new house robot's crusher can't penetrate that armour! But it can stop him from spinning! Flipping Hell pushes into Mornington Crescent from behind, trying to get it onto its wedge, but is finding that extremely difficult due to his wedge's condition, and because Rorschach has attached himself to Mornington Crescent's top! And here comes Exa-Gore-Ic Evo, knocking Dave's machine aside and clamping in on both of the spinner's rings! The spike lashes out, but hardly tickles Steve's machine. And Flipping Hell is just waiting to capitalize on an escape attempt, outside the CPZ...but it's not coming. Eventually, Rorschach and Exa-Gore-Ic are largely unable to damage Steve's robot and Mornington Crescent is freed by The Watcher, who shunts either house robot aside and clears the way...for Flipping Hell to fly in! WHAM! Mornington Crescent is scooped up onto the wedge, but before Dave can activate the flipper, Mornington Crescent slides off, and Flipping Hell nearly tosses itself, but is saved thanks to its tail. NOW the spinner is truly free to do what it likes, and Dave is agitated more than ever as Flipping Hell, lacking regard for other tactics, crashes into the twin spinnah!
CRASH!!!
Yowch! That wedge is more bent up than ever, and the poor paintwork! And Flipping Hell's been sent for a loop again! Steve's looking for blood, though, as Mornington Crescent moves in again, its lower ring getting back to speed. Flipping Hell again takes the brave stab at box-rushing the bassa straight away.
CRASH! CRASH!!!
A double hit! The lower ring turned Flipping Hell around just enough for Steve to hit the side with the upper ring! And THAT's done some great damage! A wide gash down the side tells the tale, as again the British flipper goes for a spin, and the Scottish spinner spins back up to maximum killing potential! OH! Mornington Crescent's been hit by an arena spike! He's terribly out of control! But...I think the damage has been done! To Flipping Hell that is! Obviously those heavy shots must have taken their toll on the flipper, because he is completely stationary and unresponsive! Dave's fiddling with the controls, but there's little hope now for the win, as Mornington Crescent - WHOA! Look at that! It's some kind of crazy Mauler dance, but it's not stopping! Steve isn't enjoying this and turns the power for the rings down a bit, as The Watcher moves over to give Flipping Hell the death sentence...
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!
Back under control, Mornington Crescent spins back up, and he's hungry for more! Dave sees Steve's robot moving in on his beloved flipper, and calls for Steve to hold off. Steve, sporting about it, backs off and lets the house robots dispose of the Team Hell robot. Rorschach scoops under Flipping Hell and crunches down. Unlike the Hardox shell of Mornington Crescent, the crusher easily sinks through the mild steel/aluminium of Flipping Hell and causes quite the hole. 400kgs of house robot makes itself known as well as Exa-Gore-Ic comes to clamp in on the action, literally. Its claws crush into Flipping Hell's sides and squeeze it, bending metal and ooh, hopefully not the electronics. Dave grimaces, but the worst isn't over yet; Exa-Gore-Ic drags Flipping Hell (and Rorschach, claw still sticking into Flipping Hell's gut
) to the floor flipper! Rorschach finally gets away in time, and 3...2...1...FLIP! Flipping Hell ironically sails across the arena, coming to rest directly on the edge of the pit. Mornington Crescent shunts it down to spare Dave further embarrassment.CEASE!
Flipping Hell dishonours the name of the devil and limps back to Hades with a broken middle digit!
Mornington Crescent advances to Round 2!
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Next battle: Die-Reverta-Tops vs. Envy
It€™s a low wedge based on Spawn Again, with 8mm titanium armour, a powerful flipper, good drive, and a roller on the flipper to help it get out of sticky situations. It will run out of flips eventually, though. But will it get its revenge on...
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