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[mr_matt]

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Tsunami 2 (4) vs. Kick in the Teeth

Get round the sides of KITT and toss it OOTA.

[scott]

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Booyah! Take THAT, Beastie Boy! For the Deer, I want revenge for the last Scottish Fiction! Ill drive to its side, and go for those bolts with my little muncher, then reverse and come in at such an angle as to hit the broad side of its forks and drive it towards the pit, and onwards, chaps!

Also, its not totally a Storm 2 clone, I made the scoop concave instead of flat :-p

[mrdaves]

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Ok scott :wink:

As Martyn has disappeared off the surface of the earth, I will try to do the fights tomorrow, the key word being try.

[martyn]

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Sorry i have been ill, i will grab the sides and try and do a repeate of last time

[mrdaves]

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ah, ok Martyn.

[steven_mcg]

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HEAT B
ROUND 2
1) Kick in the Teeth VS Tsunami (4)
Got to take the No.4 seed to eject Clover from the Warzone. A REAL kick in the teeth, thatd be.

2) Scottishly Fictional VS The Deer (29)
A gripping encounter (no pun intended :wink, eventually won by the PTT champ via pitting

[mrdaves]

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Fight, you can€™t handle the fight *whistle in ear*
Sorry, wrong intro

Round 2

Who will step one foot closer to the covered prize?

Fight 1

Tsunami 2 (4) vs. Kick in the Teeth.

Last time, Tsunami 2 placed Beast Boy 3 out of the arena, where Kick in the Teeth gave a shock and survived when The Deer pitted Darth Dread.

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Tsunami 2 speeds away from the starting line, heading towards Kick in the Teeth, worried about that evil looking vertical disc. Clover starts to move her robot forward, looking to get the wedge underneath Tsunami 2 and out-pushing it, but it looks like Matt has the first blood, as both wedges hit, and the lower wedge of Tsunami 2 gets underneath Kick in the Teeth, and before the crowd knows what is what, Kick in the Teeth has been flipped over, landing on it€™s back, but still moving, as Tsunami 2 turns and runs away from Kick in the Teeth, Matt worried about the disc. Clover starts to move forward once more, and manages to catch up with the German wedge flipper, only to find the English Matt turning on the spot, and ram straight at Kick in the Teeth, before giving any warming, as Kick in the Teeth is being out-pushed and forced towards the arena wall.

Can Clover stop the number 1 OOTA machine last time with a total of 8 flips in making Kick in the Teeth number 10? The wheels are turning, but no traction is coming up from the steel floor, as Tsunami 2 finishes off the job and tosses Kick in the Teeth over the jolly wall and chases down onto the not-so jolly camera track, the disc ripping up a part of the track.

Cease

Kick in the Teeth, sent out, over the fence. Can anyone stop the wave, as Tsunami 2 books it€™s place in the heat final?

Fight 2

The Deer (29) vs. Scottishly Fictional

The Deer almost when out last time, after it was battered by the duel of Kick in the Teeth and Darth Dread, it lost one jaw, but that has been replaced. Scottishly Fictional, again almost crashed out, after some careless driving grounded it out on Beast Boy 3, only the arena wall stopped Tsunami 2 ending the route of the PTT4 champion.

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Scottishly Fictional, giving the acceleration, as we would expect for a mere Storm 2 clone with a different front, and gets up to speed in a quick time, as The Deer starts on it€™s route to repeat what happened last war. Scott wants revenge, as he drives straight into The Deer, not giving the seed any respect, the front scoop slams under the front jaws, as The Deer is slammed into the arena wall. The rear skirt is bent upwards with the force, as Scottishly Fictional allows The Deer to move away.

Scott meanwhile, crosses the arena, and slams into the arena pit release, dropping the pit, as The Deer starts once more towards Scottishly Fictional, Scott turns on the spot and drives straight at The Deer, Martyn dodges the attack well, but Scottishly Fictional turns around on the non-skirted sides, and gets to The Deer€™s side, and underneath the skirt, the little disc makes a lovely mess of the skirt, as Scottishly Fictional is pushing The Deer towards the arena hammer, which is primed and ready to attack.

Martyn is trying to pull away out of a sticky area, but Scottishly Fictional introduces The Deer to the hammer, as the hammer comes down, hitting onto the top of The Deer, once, twice, and three times. Scottishly Fictional once more redraws from attack mode, as the hammer comes down, hitting onto The Deer€™s wheel, as Martyn runs away, The Deer is a fine mess now, as it turns, heading towards Scottishly Fictional.

Scott meanwhile, is waiting to be attacked, but drives over the spike, before no time, Scottishly Fictional is on it€™s back, and Scott says doh! Has the battle turned on it€™s head? Scottishly Fictional quickly rams into The Deer side, the inverted scoop, playing well, as The Deer is pushed sideways, heading towards the spike. Martyn is trying to pull away, but the lack of power is killing the hope, as The Deer is placed onto it€™s back. Scottishly Fictional quickly uses the spike to self-right itself, and rams at the front jaws of The Deer once more.

Martyn opens wide, but the front wedge gets underneath the jaws, as the disc slices into armour below the jaws, hydraulic fluid is leaking out of the jaws, as one of the pipe lines has been sliced open by the impact, as Scottishly Fictional turning on the spot, but loses control, as the wheels spin for traction, as the friction suddenly drops to near zero. Scottishly Fictional€™s wheels are spinning, but The Deer is making light work with it€™s go-kart wheels, but everything is lost for The Deer?

Scottishly Fictional is pushed sideways onto the non-oil surface and before Martyn can finish off the attack, he finds The Deer being pushed sideways towards the pit. The Deer jumps down the pit, as Scottishly Fictional follows, as both robots go down the pit, only to assume to make baby vapourbots.

Cease

The Deer, turned into venison it€™s parts leaving the arena in a mess, as the duster-machine comes out to clean the floor from the oil. Scottishly Fictional turns fact into fiction and moves onto a heat final.

Heat B Final
Tsunami 2 (4) vs. Scottishly Fictional

Tactics, predictions, did you like round 2?

[mr_matt]

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Tsunami 2 (4) vs. Scottishly Fictional

Get under SF and flip them OOTA. Try to keep to the sides and rear and keep the front facing him at all times.

[steven_mcg]

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2 outta 2 - awoohoo!

HEAT B
ROUND 3
Scottishly Fictional VS Tsunami (4)
Another potentially close encounter here, but unless Tsunami can get a lucky flip or two in, I think Scotty could be one step closer to another title

Duels brimming with wootiness, Mr D

[andrewj]

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Tsunami 2 (4) vs. Scottishly Fictional

Im thinking the same as Steve here. Unless Tsunami can get Scottishly Fictional onto its back I think the Scott bot has it.

[scott]

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Right. Im not letting him around the side. Ill charge at him, drive to the side, and ram it into the sidewall. Then Ill retreat slightly and go to the rear while its recovering, then kaboom into the pit release. Then Ill retreat slightly, drive to the side and push down the pit. Im hoping for a quick finish here.

[knightrous]

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Ill be backwards and go with Tsunami pulling off a flipping miracle to win the match.

[pcbore]

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Ill agree with Aaron here. Tsunami to total one of Daves cameras.

[mrdaves]

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Heat B final

Here we are again, two robots, one place in the semi finals, so let us see who the two robots are:

The 4th seed, Tsunami 2 (Beaten Beast Boy 3 and Kick in the Teeth)
The un-seeded PTT4 champ, Scottishly Fictional (Beaten Beast Boy 3 and The Deer)

Both robots are in the arena:
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Scottishly Fictional gives the world the acceleration only you would expect from a LEM 130 drive, but Tsunami 2 gets away quicker with it€™s more old Bosch 750 drive. Matt turns the German wedge around to face Scottishly Fictional, as Scott dodges the attack, but fails to counter-dodge, and losses the first points in the fight.

Scottishly Fictional turns on the spot to try to attack the rear end of Tsunami 2, but Matt turns quicker, and both robots meet head-on, Tsunami 2 is gotten underneath by Scottishly Fictional, but Scott is facing the wrong way, as he slams Tsunami 2 into the wall. Tsunami 2 comes down and gives chase to Scottishly Fictional, as Scott tries to keep his balance, but Tsunami 2 slams underneath the rear and before you can say Cod and Chips, the Scottishly Fictional is onto it€™s back, the front wedge now useless. Matt breaths out, as he knows his job is a lot easier now, as he tries to get the second real robot in the semi finals and the first seed.

Scottishly Fictional turns on the spot, but Tsunami 2 turns at the right time to avoid being rammed from the side, as Scottishly Fictional drives up the wedge of Tsunami 2 at a strange angle, so it gets grounded, wheels either side of the flipper, as Matt is thinking, that he must finish of Scottishly Fictional now, and so is driving towards the arena side wall, Scott is trying to get away from the flipper, but all is lost, as the carbon dioxide fills the piston, and the flipper opens, sending the third robot out of the arena this heat. To add insult to injury, there isn€™t an arena camera for Scottishly Fictional to hit, as it crashes down onto the camera tracks.

Cease

Result: Scottishly Fictional flipped once and flipper twice, ends up marrying the camera track. Tsunami 2 joins Tanto 3 in the semi finals.

Next time:

Heat C.
Clawdius Decimus Murderous (1) vs. Intensity vs. Riptile
Lunch Box (32) vs. Biohazard vs. Starfire the 3rd

Tactics, Predictions, did you like heat B?

[steven_mcg]

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Nice stuff as per there, Davey Boy

HEAT C
ROUND 1
1) CLAWDIUS DECIMUS MURDEROUS (1) VS Intensity VS Riptile
Typical. Trust the champ to get one of the toughest draws. . All I can really do is try outmanouevering the two and grappling from the side before a trip to the Pit. Most likely, Ill concentrate on Riptile, due to having the slightly weaker armour of the two and my Hardoxs good resistance to the blades

2) Biohazard VS Lunch Box (32) VS Starfire the 3rd
Either Bio to end up overturned or Starfire to rocket into the Pit. Or maybe both.