Nonetheless, the lifting arm of Harraz activates, and sends both Exertion and the house robot up on an angle, and eventually tips Sgt. Bash onto its rear end into the corner! It drops Exertion in surprise, who lands directly on Harraz! Harraz zooms across the arena to deliver Exertion to an unpleasant place as Vertigo gets in another gigantic toss on Blast and S.O.T.A.R. spins up again! Lian and Empty Inside bravely rush the spinner but another hit just sends them reeling again, the flipper blade now with a large cut in it! But finally this has the effect Lian wanted and S.O.T.A.R. is roughed up against the arena wall! Harraz however interrupts the play by slamming itself into S.O.T.A.R. and Exertion goes flying off! In the confusion Empty Inside manages to get underneath S.O.T.A.R. and toss it...ALMOST out of the arena, but Tracy breathes a sigh of relief as the spinner hits the railing and bounces off, much to Lian's chagrin! Seeing a weakened opponent, Harraz turns on S.O.T.A.R. and delivers it to an empty CPZ, where Rorschach immediately zooms over! Lian's there in no time as well, and Empty Inside tries to get in another OOTA attempt but the angle is poor and S.O.T.A.R. rides the wall, now completely out of danger! To make matters worse, Rorschach is now in Harraz' face for the earlier treatment of Sgt. Bash, and getting under him lowers the crushing beak! Empty Inside leaves the CPZ and chases down S.O.T.A.R., who is spinning again, and this time manages to deflect S.O.T.A.R. across the arena, and over the saws, but they don't pop up in time. Lian dodges the upraised saws, but this means Tracy gets him from the side and the bots are separated in a massive way! Empty Inside's flipper blade is now slashed open! Lewis is quite trigger happy, as he tosses Blast all over the arena, missing a few OOTA attempts but not letting Blast recover even once! Paul's teammates are doing all they can but Vertigo is getting under every time! An intrusion by S.O.T.A.R., however interrupts the fun with an absolutely massive shot on Vertigo's side!! The resulting dent in the 4mm Hardox is quite massive and sends Vertigo flipper-first into the arena wall! This does however send S.O.T.A.R. directly into the path of Empty Inside, but S.O.T.A.R. slides off the side of the wedge before Empty Inside can activate the flipper, and it crashes head-long into Blast! Not to be put-off, Lian is under Blast, and gives Cuomo Machine 1 a nice inverting via the flipper; Lewis isn't happy about that cheap shot and is after S.O.T.A.R., but the spinner is proving tricky to catch and Vertigo misses a charge! Tracy makes Lewis pay for that with another hit on the side, denting it up further but sending itself flying towards the resulting house robot scene with Harraz and Exertion, the latter of which is underneath Rorschach and trying to lift him over! Vertigo flies in immediately, and is able to catch S.O.T.A.R. before it can spin-up, but this takes them straight into the rear of Rorschach and S.O.T.A.R. bounces off the house robot...into Empty Inside's path! Thing is, there's an Exertion II in the way and Lian coming in mashes S.O.T.A.R. against Exertion, and then flips her on top of the Shropshire machine. This doesn't bother Andy one bit, though, but S.O.T.A.R. can't seem to get away! Vertigo now tries to flip the house robot, but with Exertion lifting Rorschach up from the side, Vertigo misses most of its potential with the flip and Rorschach is popped up a bit...this does however make the house robot let go of Harraz, who rams into the other side of Exertion and starts to lift it and S.O.T.A.R. over! Empty Inside however responds with a flip and Exertion goes sailing overtop of Harraz, and behind him, while S.O.T.A.R. lands on the upraised flipper! And then Blast 'blasts' in...with an utterly spectacular double flip that overturns both S.O.T.A.R. and Empty Inside! Vertigo gets the hint and rams S.O.T.A.R. as it tries to get away, but accidentally drives into one of the arena spikes and is popped over! S.O.T.A.R. is now definitely away and spins up as Lewis self-rights his machine, but Lian has self-righted faster and tries getting underneath Vertigo; it does, and now tosses Vertigo against the arena wall...uh oh! It looks like Vertigo can't right itself properly from that position...!! ...and how friendly. S.O.T.A.R. has travelled over to Vertigo and walloped the side again, actually freeing Vertigo from its predicament! Lian seems quite furious that his plan failed, but Blast is in there and manages to flip Empty Inside before the latter can respond! Goodness me, what a powerful flip! Empty Inside lands on its back, as Lewis self-rights his own robot from its back, and Vertigo now gets straight under Empty Inside...only for the Bloodmage bot to right itself and have Vertigo sail by! And directly into a hit from S.O.T.A.R.! One of the skirts is smashed open by the hit, sending Empty Inside skittering away...and into Blast! Now Blast tries to get Empty Inside over the fence...but fires a little too late and Empty Inside bounces off the wall...to meet Vertigo! And Lewis makes good on what Blast threatened, and Empty Inside sails over the wall, crashing out!
tbh, I wasn't completely sure one of my machines would be getting through that, so I'm quite happy both are still in. Unlucky Lian, still, life goes on 
and try and stack them against the wall or pit them, or shove them into walls and house robots till something breaks.
The team must rely on Harraz now... Ah well, that was hardly gonna keep up forever; at least Blast got into the top 5, which given it's previous pedigree, is quite an achievement To be fair as well, I'm amazed Blast was able to get past Round One after the abuse that fell upon it, so never mind, all is well 
HOPEFULLY
And...Count Bleck has effectively killed himself!! Or the ring...yes, the house robot is moving, but apparently he cannot spin up anymore!! Whatever the case, it's rendered moot as Exertion now slams the skirtless Harraz against another arena wall! I...I'm stunned, I'll tell you! Both Lewis and Tracy have dropped their transmitters in hilarity, for S.O.T.A.R. was thrown into the air, and completely shore off Count Bleck's hat and monocle! I'm not too sure what's going to happen now, S.O.T.A.R. is beached on top of the house robot...who isn't moving NOW...Vertigo, now mobile again, is puzzled at what to do...and though Andy and Paul have had a chuckle, Harraz is still on the attack, shoving Exertion into the pit release button! So, the attack continues...The Watcher comes in to have a look at S.O.T.A.R., now tries to free it...AND OI! You...you dastardly Liverpool boy!!! Vertigo has toppled the refbot! What shenanigans are taking place here?! House robots won't like it!! Asterix Anarchius immediately across the arena, Vertigo is slammed hard into the arena wall by the gaul-ish house robot! But I think it's now a done deal! Harraz has very carefully positioned Exertion II on the lifter, and is driving towards the pit! And yes, both Vertigo and S.O.T.A.R. are safe because, try as Andy might, he's unable to get off the lifter of Harraz and a moment later Exertion II has eaten pit bottom...followed by Harraz itself! What craziness!
So try to avoid the front as much as possible, and shove him into the walls/house robots till something breaks, maybe also try my ploy with overturning and shoving into SOTAR to attack the base plate. One ploy which I may try is if I get under the rear, push him towards the arena walls, and try and position him on the wall with his back facing the outside. This will either waste his CO2 trying to get off (if he does) but he may throw himself OOTA (hopefully ) ) Vertigo will take him on instead of me, and try and get rid of the more dangerous machine. And have fun writing this one Kody
excellent writing Kody, sorry I haven't been posting tactics very much 
but on second thoughts, why not team-up: I'm in. !!!!WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!! The main one is lifting into the house robots to attack the base-plate and cause serious damage, but if I can stack him on the wall with his back facing the outside of the arena.
great fight Kody XD
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