The Norman Sheppard Tribute Tournament

[dinowarrior]

The Norman Sheppard Tribute Tournament

DONT remind me Steve-O.

[dinowarrior]

The Norman Sheppard Tribute Tournament

Oh, another thing...I dont do Tap-outs unless Im desperate. Watching BB vs Hypno-disc turned me against that.

[mrdaves]

The Norman Sheppard Tribute Tournament

quote:

Once youre here
Youre here to stay
Your life is made up
Got no say
I never ever see the light of day
Youre so convincing
You talk a lot
About how this is all you go

I will give someone a muffin if they tell me where the above quote comes from :wink:.

Heat G, Round 2

Last round saw the destruction of Odyseus 2 and the flipping out of the arena of Deep Impact 2. Leaving 4 prime robots out for the kill.

Fight 1
Automatic Schmuck vs. Die Ceratops Invertus (13)

Both robots are in the arena, as the rematch between Tom and Chris gets heated up once more:

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ACTIVE

Automatic Schmuck€™s spins up it€™s weapon at once, as Die Ceratops Invertus starts to move. Tom is whistling as he drives Automatic Schmuck forward and away from the arena wall, as Die Ceratops Invertus comes straight at the bar spinner. Die Ceratops Invertus is spun away from the impact, with a scar on it€™s front, Automatic Schmuck carries on spinning, as if nothing has happened.

Die Ceratops Invertus is holding back, as Chris is waiting for Automatic Schmuck to make a mistake, as Tom starts to drive his machine towards the flipper, with Aaron at the weapon control. Tom is catching up with Die Ceratops Invertus, as Chris turns, slamming into the pit release and runs for it. Automatic Schmuck is catching up with Die Ceratops Invertus; ever slowly as both robots are at the opposite end of the arena. Die Ceratops Invertus turns and runs again, but Automatic Schmuck hits the side of it.

The force of the impact, sends the 13th seed sideways, crashing into the arena wall, and Automatic Schmuck slams into it at full power, ripping away the side armour with no holding back, as Die Ceratops Invertus is fed out of the hold, it€™s sides are ripped open for all to see. Automatic Schmuck isn€™t giving Die Ceratops Invertus any time to get away, and hits the rear end of it, spinning Die Ceratops Invertus around and another hit from the spinner, as the rear skirt has come away. Can nothing stop Automatic Schmuck now that it€™s on a roll?

Nope, as Tom crashes in onto the side of Die Ceratops Invertus, ripping the rear wheel clean away from the chassis and into the arena itself. Die Ceratops Invertus isn€™t giving up yet, as it€™s still moving, slowly, but Automatic Schmuck smashes into Die Ceratops Invertus once more, as some batteries are away from it, but still Chris isn€™t tapping out. Die Ceratops Invertus turns around and rams into Automatic Schmuck and fires it€™s flipper in a loose hope, but nothing happens, expect for the removable of the front armour from Die Ceratops Invertus. Still Chris€™s machine carries on rolling.

Another hit, as the crowd are loving this and the other right hand side wheel is out of the chassis, as Die Ceratops Invertus is being taken apart, piece by piece in the arena, Tom and Aaron are smiling, as they smash into Die Ceratops Invertus for one last time, and manage to rip away some co2 pipes, as co2 has started to leak from Die Ceratops Invertus. Automatic Schmuck backs away, but still Die Ceratops Invertus is still moving, in a very wide circle, but still it is moving. Automatic Schmuck starts to play with the loose armour panel and rips it to shreds. Ref is counting down Die Ceratops Invertus, as it hasn€™t got full movement.

Cease

Automatic Schmuck is bored and rams into Ref at full speed, and for the first time, damage is done to Ref, as the sides are spilt open.

Cease

Die Ceratops Invertus, removed from the arena, piece by piece, as the 13th seed crashes out in round 2. Automatic Schmuck, moves into the heat final, whoever fights it will have a tough time.

Now, where did I put my duck tape?

Fight 2
Shovearound 2 vs. Flippa Frenzay Mk 6

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ACTIVE

As soon as the green light is on, Shovearound 2 has crossed the line and is straight into the action. Matt blinked and now he finds his robot being got underneath by the American rammer and is being shunted towards the arena hammer. The arena hammer fires once, twice and three times, as Shovearound 2 lifts Flippa Frenzay Mk 6 off the ground once more and takes the flipper across the arena.

Flippa Frenzay Mk 6 is sent sideways, as Shovearound 2 takes some of the impact. Matt turns and slams into Shovearound 2, and quick as a flash, the American rammer is onto it€™s back, the lifting spikes go up, so that they are down, as Shovearound 2 slams into the side of Flippa Frenzay Mk 6 and pushes it onto the arena spike. The arena spike fires, sending the seeded machine onto it€™s back. Another flip self-rights the beast, but Tony has located the direction and starts to drive Flippa Frenzay Mk 6 towards the low wall, in a hope of a ram out of the arena.

Flippa Frenzay Mk 6 hits into the fence and jumps away, as it tries to get underneath Shovearound 2, but the ground skirts are preventing it from getting a good enough grip and so Shovearound 2 gets away from a sticky area, and gets underneath the front of Flippa Frenzay Mk 6 and takes it on another tour of the arena, slamming Flippa Frenzay Mk 6 straight into the arena hammer, sending it onto it€™s back. The flipper self-rights Flippa Frenzay Mk 6, but straight into the path of Shovearound 2, who isn€™t letting Matt€™s machine time to breath before taking it onto another trip across the arena.

Shovearound 2 hits the wall hard, sending Flippa Frenzay Mk 6 upwards, the rake is down as far as it can do, as it is holding Flippa Frenzay Mk 6, the rear end sitting on the fence, as it can€™t get it out of the arena. Shovearound 2 drops Flippa Frenzay Mk 6 down onto the arena surface and runs away for a moment. Flippa Frenzay Mk 6 is driving away, but something is wrong as there is a strong grinding noise. The pit has been opened by Shovearound 2, as Tony turns and rams into Flippa Frenzay Mk 6€™s side and pushes it sideways down into the pit.

Smoke is rising from the pit.

Cease

Flippa Frenzay Mk 6, didn€™t go on a flipping frenzy and crashes out of the contest. Shovearound 2 makes the heat final.

Heat Final Draw
Shovearound 2 vs. Automatic Schmuck

Tactics. Predictions. Thoughts. Other?

[swiss_tony]

The Norman Sheppard Tribute Tournament

Oh great, now THIS should be fun...
Okay, this is all going to come down to whos lower. If Im lower, great. Ill lift him up, let his weapon grind to the floor, then ram him into a wall. Ill repeat until he gets flipped. Then, his weapon will be onto the groudn and I doubt hell be able to move easily, so itll be easy to get him into the pit. If he gets under, Ill try to get away and use the rear hinged wedge on him. If he gets under THAT too, then im pretty much screwed, as theres ntohing else I can do. So Ill do the only thing left: Salute Mr.Roper for winning the heat and wish him good luck in the rest of the tourny.

[Guest]

The Norman Sheppard Tribute Tournament

Haha, the front wedge is fairly boody thick, as are the skirts. I dont think tis very easy to get under them.

Was my blade kill-switch mentioned in this version of the stats? Dammit, it wasnt. Ah well, I dont think thats going to be much of a problem- ramming me into a wall isnt going to do much. My bots designed to take the brunt of its own spinner comfortably, so I dont think ramming it into a wall is going to break it up much :P

The front wedge sorta prevents the spinner from hitting the floor anyway, because its angle means that it prevents the spinner smacking into the floor when lifted from behind.

Im confident Im lower on all sides, so Im going to go straight after him. Im no slounch in the pushing department at all either!

Good luck Tony.

[dinowarrior]

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Well, theres nothing to do now, other than to retire Invertus from the combat field and get-a-going on the next DC robot...and Tom, you broke it, you pick up the pieces. THATS AN ORDER!!!

[Guest]

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...make me.

[knightrous]

The Norman Sheppard Tribute Tournament

*Passes Chris a bin bag*

You build it, we break it! Its a perfect life cycle

[dinowarrior]

The Norman Sheppard Tribute Tournament

*Ties Tom to a chair, and plays a Teletubbies CD on LOUD!!!*

[Guest]

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Name: Generator
Motivation: 4WD with Titanium encased Omni-drive.
Shape: *look at the CAD Render!*
Speed: 15MPH
Weight: 100kg
Height: 0 - 300mm
Length: 750mm
Width: 820mm
Weapon: The weapon is a highly kinetic empowered hammer. The 8kg Hammer with Stainless centre punch is powered by a 12kg 4000rpm flywheel which produces in excess of 45Kilojoules of energy. The flywheel has two planetary gearboxes mounted to it via a clutch and shaft. One gearbox is for firing the hammer down and a second is used for returning it to firing position. The first gearbox for firing is geared 6:1 from the flywheel giving it large speeds and torque on the hammering stroke, while the reverse gearbox is gears 20:1 to give a more controlled return and will help selfrighting.

The hammer should generate close to 43 kilojoules on impact. Or an equivalent to 3.9 tonnes of pressure in a single point. It should be able to dint Hardox armour, punch holes through Titanium and will destroy Aluminium like paper. Advice: Stay out from under the hammer!

The second weapon is the front wedge, it is a similar design to the wedge on Razer, it uses a sprung tensioned tip that will absorb low blows from spinners. The sprung front wedge is also actuated for a 200kg linear actuator which will allow Generator to lift it€™s front wheels up the ground to put more weight on the wedge to enable it to get under the opponents and their skirting. Once the opponent is up the wedge, we can grapple them with the hammer.

Chassis/Armour: 3.25 Hardox 450 with 10mm Titanium Inner bulkheads and panel bracing. This makes a near-perfect armour as the Hardox skin will survived the largest of spinner impacts while the lightweight Titanium supports and bracing sill stop the panels from bending or buckling and will keep all the internals safe.
Drive: 4 x S28-400 Magmotors on 24v, giving it a combined 16HP drive. The wheels are 150mm Omni-wheels. The robot has the ability to travel sideways and continue travelling forward at the same time, making it the hardest robot to defend against besides a translational spinner. The omni-wheel are generally a weakness to a robot, but these have been made out of 15mm Titanium and use Stainless Steel rollers with a thin coating of urethane tread.
Batteries: a simple supply of 5 x 24v 3600mAh NiCD Battle Packs giving a good 24v @ 18amps/hour.
Notes: Writer of fan fic, please contact me before writing the battles so I can email you a 1mb video of how the omni drive works. This way there will be no misunder standings of how the drive system works.

PWNAGE.

[knightrous]

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*Ties Chris to a chair and locks him in a room with Matty Haka*

mmmm.....

[matty_haka]

The Norman Sheppard Tribute Tournament

Aaron, I have a sense of humour, but suggesting that I am some sort of vengeance and/or that Ill rape anyone in sight, kinda pushes it./

[knightrous]

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Who said you were going to rape him? Who says your not just going to sing to him

[mrdaves]

The Norman Sheppard Tribute Tournament

Dont worry, Aaron has a bet with Tom.

[Guest]

The Norman Sheppard Tribute Tournament

Arent you supposed to not be here anymore?

Get nicked!