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[team_mammoth]

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Mammoth V Typhoon 2 (Dreaming as not getting a Valentine this year)

Atomic V Typhoon 2 would be good.

[team_mammoth]

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Speaking of letters and cards etc...who gets the most fan mail Gary?

You or Hazel?

[typhoon_driver]

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hazel has left the cdts. We dont really get fan mail so to speak, just a few letters now and again from the top brass of the RAF.

[team_mammoth]

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Oh and there was me thinking you had a following (then again I think Mammoth is cool so maybe its me)

Shame about Hazel leaving, who is going to take the P*** out of Mammoth during the autograph sessions now?

Glad the top brass like Typhoon.

[Guest]

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Only saw it today much to my great shame! Missed it last week, but boy it was a cracker, the best heat since heat D i should say. Great dutch fight too with TAN finishing of the hitherto invincible seeming Gravity, But of course the real focus is on typhoon 2, who looks to be a superb contender for the final championship. Not invulnerable, as shown by Bigger Brother in round 1, but very hard to beat once it starts to spin! In fact, once it spins, it is invincible, and id say that no flipper can/will beat it. I believe that the best hope against typhoon is a rammer that keeps coming like tornado, or even better, storm 2, as even the mighty gravity flipper would be rendered useless. But i hear that theyve got thermidor 2 in the semis, which should be a stroll, as soft wheels make easy meat and those claws could be eviscerated right open. But anyway, good luck to Typhoon, my second favourite in the semis.

[spinnerboy]

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invincible when it spins,dont think so.

[team_mammoth]

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Really?

Is there some secret I am unaware of?

[spinnerboy]

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Yeah its called reality cus nothings invincible

[team_mammoth]

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Ok, so apart from Sun Tzus art of war which states that if you wait by the river the body of your enemy will float by is there anything currently availible that can stop Typhoon?

[spinnerboy]

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Have to wait and see i suppose.

[fluppet]

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Quite - Ive mooted several ideas on how one might build a robot which would be capable of defeating Typhoon2 (although most compromise the robot against non-fbs opponents a bit), but I think several robots have a shot against them.

As you say, I suspect Storm2 may have the best shot against them (if they get that far), with Tornado not far behind - partly because theyre very solid, partly because they could get to them before theyre spinning very fast, and partly because they could pin them against a wall. If Firestorm avoid getting edge on, Id give them a chance too. The other flippers would probably have more trouble. If TaN gets their fast enough they could have them too, if TaN has enough grip.

Of non-finalist competing robots, Id suggest Dominator (thick titanium armour, at least at the front, and an axe which could get stuck in T2 to hold it still) and THz (whack it hard enough to make the teeth hit the floor, then watch it *fly*) could have a go, if theyre careful. Something like 259 (if it was still around) or Warhead might be able to do as much damage as it took.

Then there are those robots that might be able to immobilise the spinner, or at least get in its way in a melee. Kan Opener has done this in the past, and Im sure it and others could again.

Finally, 13Black has a sporting chance of managing my thought about pushing it with a contrarotating disk, so long as it was the right way round. :-)

What will actually happen, well have to see. Im generally against spinners, but in a field full of flippers (which I normally support) Im interested to see how theyll do. Im presuming nobody OOTAs them while theyre at full whack, because wed have heard about the casualties from the macrolon shrapnel...

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Fluppet

[fluppet]

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Actually, I should add that since Overkill has traditionally done well against spinners, Stinger might be able to have some effect on them too. The wheels wouldnt take many hits, though, so theyd have to be a bit careful.

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Fluppet

[typhoon_driver]

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andrew i hate to disappoint you but we can go through 5-6mm thick titanium very easily at full(ish) pelt. I like it that your taking such an interest in our robot and its interesting to see the ideas you come up with.

im not going to say anything about potential opponents etc as any comment i make could be made out to be a spoiler

[team_mammoth]

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How about a giant base ball glove to spring out and attach to the surface of typhoon 2....

Better yet how about Mammoths armour 300mm thick all round a walker in a match?

[team_mammoth]

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I feel a bit disapointed really...you totally killed Mammoth, not once but twice (well 259 flipped us and the twins scratched the paint) so Im expecting wall to wall destruction of Iron Awe and instead you tickle him into submission....I never knew you liked us so much.