Revenge! And one more chance not to suck! Tactics for Round 1 later.
As for the first fight, Gehenna and Under Pressure for le winz.
As for the first fight, Gehenna and Under Pressure for le winz.
And it's left no one in doubt who his main target is - Empty Inside! The titanium machine in return goes right after him! Gehenna meets Empty Inside with his spinning drum, and crashes into the flipping plate of the box-wedge! Sadly, it hasn't done much damage at all! So Empty Inside does what any self-respecting flipper would do when a great ruddy drum crashes into it - flip!!
Gehenna goes sailing and lands on its back! But while that happens, the other two robots make themselves known to the spotlight - S.O.T.A.R. itself crashes into Empty Inside, who couldn't get out of the way in time, and its armour is badly torn up!! Gehenna self-rights quickly and chugs after Empty Inside, but Under Pressure, the MT3 runner-up, cuts across and snags him from the side! Andy tries to wiggle his robot free, but it's not happening! And suddenly, those bottom claws sneak underneath Gehenna and lift him completely off the ground!! Uh oh!! Under Pressure goes to the arena spinner immediately! And while he does that, Empty Inside recovers from that nasty blow from S.O.T.A.R. - he attacks the spinner again, though, but that's hard to do when it's back at full deadly speed! CRAAAASH!!! Empty Inside receives a huge tear in the flipper that would probably have made Gehenna envious... if he suddenly wasn't shunted into the arena spinner by Under Pressure! And with another big CRAAAASH, Gehenna sails away with its 6mm Ti10V armour battered! I tell you, that spinner is absolutely vicious, isn't it?! Gehenna is free now though, and seems to be working fine, so he goes after Under Pressure instead of Empty Inside, and tries to get around the claws... no, he can't! But guess what?! FLIP! Gehenna got at the main meat of Under Pressure, and tossed it! The crusher stays right-side-up, happily, but the flip attempt stunned it enough for Gehenna to come back in and comfortably get underneath one of the crushing arms! ...but still, Gehenna cannot get the crusher over! He turns around to face the Dutch machine, who's allready in Gehenna's face! This time, the bottom jaws slip underneath Gehenna before Gehenna can slip itself nice wedge underneath the middle of Under Pressure, and we're back to the clamping show!!
This time, Martijn feels the pulverizer hazard would bear more fruit than the spinner, and hauls ass over to that, narrowly dodging S.O.T.A.R., who tried to attack Under Pressure from behind. S.O.T.A.R. pursues, but is intercepted by Empty Inside... who's starting to look the part now as the entire front panel just gets shorn straight off, leaving the entire ram assembly exposed!!! And as if to finalize its defeat, Empty Inside putters a bit and stops. ...no, Tracy is absolutely blood thirsty! CRAAAAASH!!! Empty Inside takes another agonizing hit!! The ram gets ripped straight out, and CO2 vents everywhere! Good gracious!! Well I think that's about the end for Empty Inside. The Watcher, if you could, sir.
) and sends both of them bouncing away! The aforementioned wheel is now bent to the point where Under Pressure cannot move on it! Do you realize what this means? It means that Under Pressure can only spin in a circle, and that's a big no-no! Under Pressure is out! Martijn looks rather displeased, but is at least thankful that not too much damage was done to his robot as The Watcher makes things final with his second count-out of the fight!
Truth or Consequences seems to be debating on who to attack first, when one of the machines suddenly makes its move first: Wedge Devolution! It makes a beeline for ToC, and gets straight under one of the corner wedges; with an almighty heave, the American flipper goes topsy turvy and lands smack dab on its back! As ToC self-rights, Tengu VII has crossed the arena and attacked Good For It, while passing over the slots! Sonic, Sonic... Sonic! We have lift-off!!! The arena spinner is revving up like a maddened Tasmanian Devil!
And speaking of whirling dervishes, Tengu has collided with GFI, and instead of GFI's teeth hitting Tengu's anti-spinner ring, as Alex wished, GFI hit the teeth of Tengu and CRAAAAAAASH!!! What an incredible hit! Both spinners get rocked and blasted far apart from each other! While they are reeling, ToC has self-righted, but is the victim of another flip! Wedge Devo tries to find Tengu, but the green machine is nowhere to be found! Flip! ToC rights itself again with a stylish flip, and vamooses before Wedge Devo can move back in! As for the super-spinners? They are just now beginning to spin back up! The energy generated from the hit must have kicked back into their machinery, and only now have recovered! But instead of heading for GFI again, Tengu chases ToC down! Josh takes the hint and moves away past Tengu, and arcs around GFI in an attempt to ward them off... but wasn't counting on GFI to attack him!! CRAAAASH!!! The wheelguard takes the blow and ToC goes for a flight, but it also knocked GFI straight into an oncoming Wedge Devo, who neatly wedges the ring spinner and hefts it up into the air, where it bounces on its ring before coming to rest upside-down! Of course, being inverted won't hurt the spinner at all, but even with its seemingly mediocre drive, Tengu is able to move back in before GFI can move! CRASH!! Another attack by Tengu sends them both flying, but GFI's ring stands the test of time! Wedge Devo moves back in to attack GFI... but only gets under him in time for ToC to make a comeback, and slide under THAT side! FLIP! Wedge Devo AND GFI go for a tumble! Tengu, quick on the uptake, moves in on ToC, but Josh isn't quite that blind, Mr. Holt! ToC backs off and Tengu just barely manages to stop itself from hitting its own partner! Wedge Devo won't self-right either, in fear to flipping itself into the shell of Tengu! GFI meanwhile is moving around again and Tengu takes off after him instead, allowing Wedge Devo to right itself! Which it does! And gets launched by a prompt attack from Truth or Consequences! Wedge Devolution somersaults through the air, doing an almost perfect 540, and lands directly onto its back! Blimey! Steve isn't enjoying this and tries to self-right without further intervention, but the American is persistent. Wedge Devo gets tossed again just as it landed back on its wheels, but thankfully now lands right-side-up after the flip, and hastily scurries away to regroup! Meanwhile, Tengu VII and Good For It have come to blows again, and once again the bottom teeth of GFI connect with Tengu's! CRAAAAASH!!! Tengu pinballs into the wall behind and GFI goes flying... into a CPZ!!!
GFI bounces down off those and onto Wedge Devo, pushing its flipper back down. Devo flips again, but Asterix lowers the forks, so GFI gets stuck between the flipper and the forks! Luckily for him, ToC comes in from behind and gets under the rear skirt of Wedge Devo, and with a great heave-HO, pancake-flips Wedge Devo, straight over top of Asterix! Wedge Devo lands right on top of the house robot, still right-side-up, but not sure where to go! At that moment, Tengu rejoins the fray, and takes a bite out of ToC's side by slamming into it, knocking ToC into the wall and causing a bit more damage to the wheelguard! ToC didn't like that much, and now blazes after Tengu with a vengeance - and just narrowly avoids the other house robot, Rorschach, who'd sped across the arena to help Asterix fight off the other invaders! Good For It dodges around him as well, escaping the CPZ, so it looks like Wedge Devolution is in some trouble here! Rorschach stops outside of the CPZ, giving Asterix some room. What's going on?! Asterix leaves us in doubt hardly any longer, as he begins to spin around! Yee-haw, ride 'em cowbot!
Unfortunately Wedge Devolution isn't exactly a star at riding a Terror-Bull and the force eventually shakes him free!
Rorschach charges at him straight away, but Steve backs his machine off! Who'd want to ride Rorschach, anyway?! Concurrently, ToC has wedged Tengu and now given the British spinner some flipper love, in the form of a catapult-style flip that sends the Holt machine at least 8 feet into the air! Tengu crashes down onto its back, but immediately begins to self-right! ToC wants more! And it gets more, but not more of what it expected - Good For It slams into ToC's side again, doing slightly more damage to the wheelguard and sending ToC away from Tengu! ToC reels, and Tengu gets back up to speed! GFI however goes after Tengu, not caring who he's attacking, as long as he has his defined targets! Good god, kudos for the multi-tasking there, Sir 'Zooki! Looks like the hazards have slowed down now too... quite the pity that is. The spinners collide, their wills intent own their own spinners instead of the arena one! CRAAAASH!!! Teeth meet teeth again, and sparks rain down in the midst of the mighty blow! Tengu goes flying, hits the side wall, and stabilizers itself, but GFI didn't fare as well, flying straight back into ToC! Well, guess what Josh thinks of that, me good chum? FLIP! GFI soars into the air, flicked like a bi-centennial half-dollar coin!
It crashes down onto the floor heavily, but doesn't get a breather before Tengu comes back in and lashes out at the stalled spinner, knocking it away with a minor hit - straight into Wedge Devo, who's back for more! FLIP! GFI is taking heavy abuse now as it lands pretty damn hard onto the arena floor - but ToC doesn't take the cheap shot! He instead attacks Tengu again! Alex manoeuvres his machine away - but not quickly enough! ToC has his say! FLIP! Tengu soars like a bird, but not as gracefully, and the landing is even less graceful! Tengu bounces end over end, and comes to rest on its back again! Up goes the arm, and ToC races in to prevent Tengu from recovering, but the flip, it is mis-timed! Tengu scurries away, and ToC gives chase!
ToC rights itself, angered, but anger will only get you so far - Wedge Devo flips him again! 

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