Velociraptor's Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

[andrewj]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

The Disc 4 (1) vs Psyclone (17)

Go for the wheels, rip it to peices, no mercy.

[velociraptor]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Thanks for all your comments! And youve still got seven robots left, Aaron!

The first VFT6 heat final is here, and the first filled place in the first semifinal is on the horizon! Like VFT5, its a clash of the seeds - The Disc 4 and Psyclone! Will The Disc 4 be on its way to a title defence, or will Psyclone pull a Tempest Evil-oution?

3, 2, 1 - ACTIVATE!
Both robots came towards each other, and both had already spun up by the time they met. With a crash, they collided - The Disc 4 went flying to one side, its left wheel hitting Psyclone as it went so it ended up spinning around! Quickly stabilising, Psyclone came in and managed to hit the right wheel, which spun the first seeds disc into its body, but the Hardox teeth swatted it away while the 17th seed was tilted a little! The Disc 4 was sent wheel-first into the wall - as it bounced off, Psyclone hit it in the left wheel and sent it into the wall disc-first, so it flew backwards, missing Psyclone! Psyclone followed, but the champ quickly recovered and attacked head on, intercepting Psyclones attempt to swerve, striking with the disc and causing another wobble while being knocked away itself! This time, The Disc 4 balanced on one wheel as it flew, and Psyclone followed it - as it spun around, the disc just missed and Psyclone hit the left wheel, denting the wheel guard and taking The Disc 4 even more off the ground, so it almost met the wall again! Back on track, The Disc 4 dodged Psyclone as it advanced and managed to hit while Psyclone was close to the wall! Psyclone brushed the wall, slowing the shell, but The Disc 4 was unable to reach it before it had spun up again!
Psyclone reversed away from the wall, outpacing The Disc 4, and tried luring it towards the arena disc. The Disc 4 saw what was going on and stopped, and both were stationary for a moment. The Disc 4 moved first, and Psyclone quickly joined it, trying to swerve again, but The Disc 4 cut it off and whacked it, although the spinning shell propelled it disc first into the wall, and this time when it bounced back, its left wheel hit Psyclone and it was spun into the wall again, running into the arena disc as it bounced again! And before it could recover, Psyclone advanced and knocked it into the disc again! The Disc 4 missed Psyclone as it flew again, but Psyclone took care of that by hitting it in the left wheel again! The champion had survived the abuse thanks to its heavy armouring, but its wheel guards were now extremely battered and pierced a little!
The Disc 4 moved back towards the wall and waited for Psyclone to attack. The 17th seed approached cautiously, getting closer, until The Disc 4 moved to one side and attacked! Psyclone also moved, hitting the disc and the left wheel, so The Disc 4 was sent into the wall and back into Psyclone, hitting it and slowing its shell! Psyclone was shifted by the impact and started reversing away from the first seed, successfully spinning up again and following The Disc 4 back to the wall! It approached The Disc 4 from the other side to spin it away from the wall, so the champ tried running round Psyclone, but the spinner intercepted it and landed another blow to the disc and left wheel, piercing the wheel guard and spinning The Disc 4 away while only tilting a little itself! Recovering quickly, The Disc 4 ran at Psyclone and another head on collision resulted, which caused The Disc 4 to almost crash into the wall again!
The Disc 4 stayed where it was, waiting for Psyclone to attack - Psyclone again went for the left, so The Disc 4 ran round it sooner. But this didnt help, as Psyclone reacted quickly and aimed to hit the wheel, but was hit by the disc again, although again the champion flew! The Disc 4 advanced after spinning, but couldnt reach Psyclone fast enough before it was away from the wall! Psyclone again moved towards the arena disc, and there was another standoff between the two, until The Disc 4 moved first, dodged Psyclones aiming for the wheel and ran towards the disc itself! Psyclone came back and The Disc 4 dodged, aiming to knock the 17th seed into the disc, but Psyclone stopped in time and went into The Disc 4 to hit the disc and right wheel! Psyclone moved away from the arena disc, and The Disc 4 followed, sticking close to the wall, but when Psyclone went towards the pit release, it didnt follow! So Psyclone just returned to the first seed but managed to dodge the attack and hit the right wheel, brushing the disc as well! The Disc 4 glanced off the wall as it flew, but was back on track just in time to strike Psyclone as it wheeled towards it - once again, it was The Disc 4 that flew away! It waited around the wall again, and Psyclone faithfully came in slowly, but as The Disc 4 ran around it again, it successfully did so! Psyclone brushed a wheel, but The Disc 4 was still on course to hit Psyclone, be spun into the wall and remain close to the 17th seed! In the following impact, this did happen, with The Disc 4 bouncing back and forth between the wall and Psyclone a couple of times, but Psyclone ran and spun up its shell, although time ran out before another impact, so it spun it down - the Hardox armour was scratched, but nothing like the damage on The Disc 4! What would happen to the VFT5 Champion in the first judges decision of VFT6?
CEASE!

Aggression: The Disc 4 - 5, Psyclone - 5 (there was equal aggression between the two)
Damage: The Disc 4 - 2, Psyclone - 8 (P caused a lot of damage to TD4s wheel guards, while TD4 didnt do as much to P)
Strategy: The Disc 4 - 7, Psyclone - 3 (TD4 had more strategy than P -using the wall and the arena disc - but limited success)
Control: The Disc 4 - 4, Psyclone - 6 (P was more controlled)
Style: The Disc 4 - 3, Psyclone - 7 (sending TD4 flying many times gives P more points here)
Dominance: The Disc 4 - 3, Psyclone - 7 (the fight mainly consisted of the two robots attacking each other, but P initiated more hits and TD4 came off worst from each one)
Final Score: The Disc 4 - 24, Psyclone - 36

PSYCLONE GOES THROUGH TO THE SEMI FINALS!

Next time on VFT6, third seed Manic Monsoon will try and drown Cholera, Powerpoint Reaches Pressurepoint and Slammer IV!
And nineteenth seed Whirligig 4.0 will attempt to send Battle Rat, Growling Storm 2.5 and National Speed Limit Applies spinning out of the tournament!

[steven_mcg]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

WOOHOO! 3 in a row for the Official VFT Predictor!

HEAT B
ROUND 1
Cholera VS Manic Monsoon (3) VS Powerpoint Reaches Pressurepoint VS Slammer IV
Ill take last seasons bronze medallist to easily sweep through, along with a surprising Powerpoint

BattleRat VS Growling Storm 2.5 VS National Speed Limit Applies VS WHIRLIGIG 4.0 (19)
BattleRats first on the list. Its simply a case of revving up and aiming for the sides. Its DeShelling Time, folks!
After that, rev up again and take on whoevers nearest.

[andrewj]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Thank you Richard! Ive finally defeated that heap o junk!

[matt_macdonald]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

GROWLING STORM 2.5s TACTICS:
While Whirligig 4.0 goes after BattleRat, Ill take on National Speed Limit Applies, and try and catch up to its speed, but when I have it cornered, Ill either wedge underneath it or grab it with my jaw, and bring it to the pit. If Steve hasnt successfully taken out Battle Rat, then I shall team up with it to take it out. And if he has, then Growling Storm 2.5 and Whirligig 3.0 will team up on NSA, and NSA should be either immobilised or pitted before the battle is over.

[andrewj]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Whirligig 3.0? Thats just cheating! :wink:

[team_britespark]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Tactics: If Alex agrres, I would like to gang up with him and attack the other 2 robots. I feel that with Slammers interchangable weaponry and Manic Monsoons awesome pushing power, nothing will get in our way.

[alex_holt]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

OK agreed.

[matty_haka]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Not too worried about any of them, though I do believe that Manic Monsoonll be a stalemate. Just slide underneath anyone in the way, shoving and hitting them with the bar.

[dinowarrior]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Like I said already, stay away from Manic Monsoon.

[Guest]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

What is Battle Rat like?

Tactics,

Growling Storms claw is too high of the ground to get a successful clamp onto what is in theory 5mm of titanium armour. My tactics will be to aim for that jaw and try to slice it away with a few fires. If thinks get stickly, slam into top gear and run for it.

[parassyte]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

http://www.robotcombat.com/images/bbsfnov01/large/battle_rat.jpghttp://www.robotcombat.com/images/bb...battle_rat.jpg

Heres Battlerat. Good Armor, Nightmare was able to scrape it a bit, but couldnt do much other than break the lifting plate in half. It is slow though, and Overkill (granted one of the lowest wedges) could get under the front still, as low as it may look.

[parassyte]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Hey, Rich, I reworked VGers stats just a tid-bit. (profile)
The rear is now just one big wedge. I think thisll work out better for it. Im going to adjust it a tid-bit more by making the end a hinged wedge too. (The purple shit is just some ali armor that comes on and off, dont mind it)

Ill have a big nifty stats page with a brief explanation of what any of that shit does, and tons of pictures. But its onto the next thing at the moment.

[velociraptor]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Sorry Nick, but as with Dave, I dont think I should allow changes in the stats youve already given.

Welcome to VFT6! In the first heat, 17th seed Psyclone caused a shock by beating the VFT5 champ The Disc 4 in the heat final, and is now our first semifinalist! Will it become the new champion, or perhaps the winner of Heat B will take the title!

Third seed Manic Monsoon came close to doing just that in VFT5 - its high power ramming defeated Forcepower 3.0, Achilles, Annoying Box Rush and SD IV, before The Disc 2 successfully disabled its arm and overturned it with its arm propping it up in the grand final! But it beat Killotine Evo in the playoff, and took third place! Manic Monsoon is still a box-wedge with a lifting arm, running at an impressive speed of 28mph, but while its Hardox armour has been reduced to 5mm thickness, it uses new motors to double its horsepower to 60! It may have more power behind it, but will its control difficulty make storm clouds gather over its hopes in the tournament?

Nineteenth seed Whirligig 4.0 was in the top 8 of VFT4, but didnt get so far in VFT5, when Annoying Box Rush sent it down the pit in the heat final. This new evolution is a shuffler, to give it stability, traction and pushing power, but its still an invertable ring spinner! And its more powerful than before, with a 33.72kg spinning shell with 9 blades, producing 183kJ to annihilate anyone that comes too close! The titanium armour is nearly 2cm thick, and Whirligig is fairly fast at 15mph, but having camshafts lowers its manouverability!

Battle Rat, the only real robot in this heat, is an American battlebot - its competed in three BB tournaments but only finished in the top 16, beaten by such veterans as Tazbot, Nightmare and Overkill! The Rat is a low wedge with a lifter attached to either side, and able to move through 360 degrees to lift opponents and selfright Battle Rat! However, the lifter can be disabled with a powerful spinner hit, as it was against Nightmare, and if the control on it fails, as it did against Overkill, Battle Rat could be sent rolling over and over and unable to do much to any attackers!

Cholera may not be able to give robotic opponents disease, but the drivers still might turn blue and feel unable to hold certain bodily wastes in when they see the jaws on this Big Nipper-like robot, which moves through 180 degrees to carry opponents when they are gripped, and help Cholera when its being pinned! The 6mm titanium armour will withstand attacks well, but with a 2mm ground clearance, Cholera isnt flipper proof!

Growling Storm 2.5 is an invertable wedge, which has a strip at the end to get under most opponents, aided by the 6 wheel pushing power! But the real weaponry is the Growler-style jaw that works either way up and will have stormy consquences for any opponent that wanders into it! But at 12mph, Growling Storm 2.5 isnt the fastest robot around, and while it has skirts at the sides, theres a 6mm ground clearance behind them for any low flipper!

National Speed Limit Applies (or NSA for short) could well be breaking the speed limit, as it has a top velocity of 60mph! This isnt used much, however - its either 24mph for fighting or 10mph for pushing. NSA is a wedge, armed with a low lifting scoop and a nitrogen powered guillotine (the blade can be swapped for two axe heads or a flipper blade) that will hit you at 100mph - ouch! It also comes with a vacuum to hold itself to the floor when the guillotine is fired, otherwise it would bounce! However, NSA may have trouble in defence, with comparatively thin armour, and a high ground clearance!

Powerpoint Reaches Pressurepoint should find it easy to release any pressure on its opponents - its a low square cuboid with an 18kg spinning bar on top, which releases 83kJ, able to cut through up to a cm of titanium! It sounds like Hazard from Battlebots, and like Hazard it has skirts to counteract flippers, but unlike Hazard it has a srimech, in the form of two low pressure arms that can work when the blade stops! PRP isnt fast at 9.6mph, but it claims to be the best of everything in a small package - could it soon be showing us a slideshow of all the opponents its torn apart?

And Slammer IV has been in one previous VFT - VFT4, where despite somersaulting and causing damage, NSBFR killed its exposed wheels and sent it out in Round 1! Slammer IV has fixed the exposed wheel problem, but it still resembles a flattened Pussycat or expanded S6 Wild Thing, except it has a flipping plate on the top and bottom to flip itself around and either slam or escape from opponents! It still has an arsenal of interchangable weaponry fitted at the front - a vertical or horizontal hydraulic claw, static axe blades used when the flippers fire, a vertical or horizontal flywheel, a wedge, a lance and gripping mandibles!

In our first fight, Manic Monsoon, Cholera, Powerpoint Reaches Pressurepoint and Slammer IV (using a wedge)!

3, 2, 1 - ACTIVATE!
Manic Monsoon, Powerpoint Reaches Pressurepoint and Slammer IV all immediately went for Cholera, who was at a loss for what to do until MM reached it and started taking it towards the wall! When they got there, Cholera was knocked onto MMs side, allowing Slammer IV to catch up, get its wedge underneath, then throw Cholera backwards towards PRP, who took advantage by using its blade which ripped a gash in Choleras side! MM was again first to reach Cholera, then rush it into the arena disc! Slammer IV was glanced by PRP as it followed, leaving a side wound! Once it had recovered from the spinning, Slammer IV headed for Cholera as it flew from the force of the disc, but as it aimed for the sides, Cholera managed to slip under Slammer IVs side and snap its pincers on the bottom flipper! Slammer IV fired the flipper as this happened, dragging Cholera over onto its side as it flew! Both robots were left with their wheels off the ground and unable to move! MM attacked to try and free Slammer IV, just missing PRP and taking the other two into the corner, and overturning them! Slammer IV now had its wheels on the ground, and the inverted Cholera was on top of it! It began taking Cholera towards the pit release, but PRP caught it again and opened the gap in its side! Its titanium chassis bent but still holding up, Slammer IV spun around for a moment, as Cholera released its grip and used its arm to get off its body! But Slammer IV intercepted it and shoved with its wedge, into the pit release! MM and PRP watched as Cholera was taken to the pit, and descended out of the fight!
Once that was done, Slammer IV headed towards PRP, while Manic Monsoon backed up, then rammed the spinner hard while raising its lifting arm to try and tip it over! MM was sent into a vortex by the collision, and its arm was buckled and immobilised, but it had come up under the blade and tilted PRP! PRP skimmed a short distance from the shove, almost striking Slammer IV in the face, but Slammer IV reversed and tried to attack before PRP fell back to the floor! It failed to do so, but could still come under the blade and fire its flipper! The blade tore into the titanium plated wedge, but as Slammer IV tumbled to one side, PRPs blade hit the floor and it bounced! MM followed it, as Slammer IV didnt seem to be moving! As PRP began stabilising, MM was able to get one side of its wedge underneath as it was tilting, and start running it towards the pit release! But as they ran, PRP fell off the wedge! Spinning up the blade, it headed straight for Slammer IV, who had started to twitch! The blade hit home on Slammer IV and propelled it into the wall just as MM rammed PRP from behind and shifted it while being spun off itself! There was now no life left in the torn Slammer IV, who was counted out as MM and PRP avoided each other.
CEASE!

Cholera and Slammer IV are eliminated!
MANIC MONSOON AND POWERPOINT REACHES PRESSUREPOINT GO THROUGH TO ROUND 2!

Following them into Round 2 will be two of the following - Whirligig 4.0, Battle Rat, Growling Storm 2.5 and National Speed Limit Applies!

3, 2, 1 - ACTIVATE!
Whirligig 4.0 spun up its ring and headed for Battle Rat, who waited for it, while Growling Storm 2.5 and NSA headed for each other! Battle Rat tried to turn its lifter into Whirligig 4.0, who shuffled around it. Battle Rat kept turning, but with its superior speed, Whirligig 4.0 managed to get round to the sides and strike! One side of the lifter was torn away from the robot, and tears were made in the armour! Mainly unaffected by the impact, the 19th seed followed Battle Rat as it spun and hit it again on the right before it could recover, making an even bigger dent! This time, Battle Rat came round just before Whirligig 4.0 reached it, slipped its plate underneath and lifted! But the lifter was weakened and didnt tilt the spinner before it was dented and Battle Rat spun away again! Meanwhile, Growling Storm 2.5 had tried to use its jaw on NSA, who had sped up, escaped and aimed to bring the guillotine down on its jaw, but missed! The guillotine came down and embedded itself in the arena floor! It was the perfect target for Growling Storm to grab, and it did, but it couldnt pull while the guillotine was stuck! NSA eventually freed itself, and with its vacuum still on, it could retract the guillotine and take Growling Storm off the ground with it! At this point, Battle Rat hit NSA after its third blow from Whirligig 4.0, but that didnt affect Daves robot much!
While Whirligig 4.0 continued chasing Battle Rat, NSA began taking Growling Storm 2.5 towards the pit release, and Growling Storm wisely opened its jaw to free itself, then immediately reversed into NSAs side and closed it! Now NSA was trapped, as Growling Storm 2.5 used its superior power to drag it into the pit release, then reverse and dump it in the pit! Growling Storm 2.5 then headed towards Battle Rat, who in its absence had taken two more punishing hits from Whirligig 4.0, leaving its armour dented and one panel peeling a little, but it was still alive! Happy to help, Growling Storm 2.5 ran round Battle Rat, who ran into its side but couldnt get past the skirts, while Whirligig 4.0 was able to hit it in the rear! As Battle Rat flew, both Vapourbots ran after it, Whirligig 4.0 getting there first and sending Battle Rat into the wall while opening the panel some more! Growling Storm was unable to get past Whirligig to attack Battle Rat itself, so the 19th seed followed the American as it went for the pit release! Whirligig 4.0 caught up as it was in the corner, and Battle Rat tried to use its lifter again, but this time it was bent and wouldnt go under Whirligig at all, only hit the shell and let it be spun off again! Now Growling Storm 2.5 could take the oppotunity to attack, and grab the lifter where it was detached, then run Battle Rat into the pit while it was still open!
CEASE!

Battle Rat and National Speed Limit Applies are eliminated!
WHIRLIGIG 4.0 AND GROWLING STORM 2.5 GO THROUGH TO ROUND 2!

Heat B, Round 2:
Manic Monsoon (3) vs Growling Storm 2.5
Whirligig 4.0 (19) vs Powerpoint Reaches Pressurepoint

[matt_macdonald]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Wooty fights.

Growling Storm 2.5s Tactics:
My one real good chance is to go for the 1cm ground clearance of the rear of Manic Monsoon and either grab it with the jaw, or the wedge, and bring it to the pit. Or, get a quick side-on shove when its near the pit and send it down that way. That hopefully shouldnt be too much of a problem.