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Heat 9
Feb 21, 2009 11:30:17 GMT -5
Post by devilsincarnate on Feb 21, 2009 11:30:17 GMT -5
Round 1
Agro 3.5 (16) v Translator v Y4 - Agro 3.5 Out Mute (32) v Shadow Zone v Nitro-Gene - Mute Out
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Heat 9
Feb 21, 2009 11:31:00 GMT -5
Post by devilsincarnate on Feb 21, 2009 11:31:00 GMT -5
Heat 9 - Round 2 Battle 1 - The Translator v Shadow Zone
3... 2... 1... Activate!
And from the off it's Shadow Zone who#s straight out of the blocks charging at the Translator who is immediately spinning around every which way but staright trying to avoid the impending box rush attack.It's not long before AJ has managed to get his machine to flail around enough that he#s up to a very reasonable speed however and he soon slams into the side of Shadow Zone. Tearing the skirt off in one hit. Kody looks panicked at the power of his foe, before spinning around, seemingly believing that the rear flipper may provide a more solid and sturdy opponent to the irresistible force of the translating... translator. AJ rubs his hands together with glee before realising he's supposed to be using them to drive the machine. He tries to swivel around again and manages to catch the same side again which was now exposed from the skirt being removed and crashes straight into it, a huge gash appearing in the side panel. Kody tries to spin again to get either his front or rear wedge into play but to no avail whatsoever as he he cannot keep tabs on the madly spinning Translator.
AJ knows that all he has to do is to get one decent attack on the internals and his opponent's dead. He gets spinning and is almost at full speed when Shadow Zone charges at him staright first. There's an almighty crash as the front wedge of Shadow Zone meets the teeth of The Translator and both robots fly away, Shadow Zone going airbound and landing on his feet in the middle of the arena, whilst The Translator... has just stopped... AJ's machine has hit the wall and instantly stopped. There's a brief flicker of life from one side, but soon it becomes stationary once more. Although it will later transpire that the force of the collision of the wall was enough to snap one of the drive chains, for now AJ has to settle for his extremely powerful machine being knocked out in round 2 when really it deserved much better... but that's robot wars and mechanical breakdowns for you...
CEASE
Me - The Translator? Je ne sais pas. Shadow Zone goes sonic speed into the heat final
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Heat 9
Feb 21, 2009 11:32:46 GMT -5
Post by devilsincarnate on Feb 21, 2009 11:32:46 GMT -5
Heat 9 - Round 2 Battle 2 - Y4 v Nitro-Gene
3... 2... 1... Activate!
Straight from the off it's a battle of 2 flippers, and it immedately becomes clear that both machines are just waiting for the right moment to use their precious flips as neither seems to want to make an early charge and expend any of the robotic golddust known as carbon dioxide gas. It'll be interesting to see which of these 2 unusually shaped box flippers will come out on top, though it's Nitro-Gene who eventually comes out and makes the first meaningful attack as he slims under the 8mm ground clearance of Y4 and sends him actually flying through the air, nearly getting him out of the arena from nowhere near it whatsoever. Y4 does his best mute impression and self-rights on the 3rd attempt but Nitro-Gene is right back on his case though and manages to get himself right back on the tail of Y4. Y4 performs a quick about turn though and somehow manages to spin to the side of Nitro-Gene from where he gives him a nudge and attempts to turn him over and onto his back. This plan fails though and the fight continues as normal.
Nitro-Gene doesn't seem happy that Y4 has managed to exploit any kind of weakness in him and immediately starts going to try and rectify this, skidding around the arena with his vulcalon coated wheels, revving up the etek motors which are providing him with huge speed and acceleration around the ring. He makes another charge only for Y4 to dodge and send Nitro-Gene skidding straight into the wall. Y4 immediately uses the opportunity to try and get underneath the pointed rear end of Nitro-Gene and he fires the flipper, getting Nitro-Gene to stand up against the wall. He slides underneath again to try and throw him out of the arena properly this time, but gravity brings Nitro-Gene back down and he ends up falling over the side of Y4's flipper and back onto his wheels, albeit the wrong way up. He self-rights to get himself back on all 4 wheels and runs off again, Paul looking increasingly frustrated with how the fight is panning out.
Y4 chases Nitro-Gene, Chris clearly feeling he's got some momentum going and so looking to carry it on whilst he can. He charges across the arena, attempting to get under the back of Nitro-Gene once more but Paul spins his machine round and the last possible moment and Y4 ends up getting straight onto the wedge of his foe and promptly being rammed into the fence. Paul tries to flick the flipper to get him out at speed but it just results in Y$ going over sideways much like Nitro-Gene did earlier and onto his back. This time Chris manages to self-right his machine at the first attempt, but unlike previously where he managed to run off, he just gets himself in trouble by landing straight back on the wedge of Nitro-Gene, with Paul hammering away at the controls, seemingly thanking his lucky stars for the fact that another good opportunity didn't get away from his quite as far as it did last time.
Looking around the arena he decides to play it safe and rather than trying to open the pit or flick his foe out of the arena he decides to charge into one o fthe CPZ's. He makes a beeline for the opposite corner of the arena where Matilda is waiting and slams him into the corner of her wall, flicking him onto his side. Matilda then flies in with her rear end and gives him a hard smack with the flywheel which sends him flying back out again, leaving Nitro-Gene trapped in the corner. Paul panics as he tries to manouvre out of the CPZ only to end up underneath Matilda and with a gracefully effortless flick of the flipper sends her straight over. He comes out of the CPZ to be greeted by a non-moving opponent. He flicks Y4 over and he immediately self-rights, but as soon as he does so, there's no drive. This later transpires to be a battery connection, however it's unclear whether it was the slam into the wall or the attack from MAtilda that did it.
CEASE
Y4 Y3 Y2 Y1... Why! The countdown's over! Nitro-gene's got the DNA. Dutifully Nasty Aggression! He's through to the heat final
And so the heat final of heat 9
Shadow Zone v Nitro-Gene
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Heat 9
Feb 21, 2009 14:58:34 GMT -5
Post by devilsincarnate on Feb 21, 2009 14:58:34 GMT -5
Heat 9 - Shadow Zone v Nitro-Gene
3... 2... 1... Activate!
And the 9th heat final off the series begins! And the beginning is, at best tentative with what seems a little like a repeat of the match between Nitro-Gene and Y4, though without doubt Paul will be more nervous in this fight than he would of been in his previous as he faces a far more terrifying prospect this time in Shadow Zone. Kody's machine immediately seems to be looking to be the more offensive one, driving at Nitro-Gene with the front wedge, but immediately Paul just traverses out of the way of the incoming solid block and tries to switch his attention to the skirted sides of the Matador-esque machine. This doesn't really seem to get Shadow Zone worried though, nor does it seem to get Nitro-Gene anywhere in terms of slipping underneath Kody's machine. This doesn't stop Paul continuing to try and nibble away and hope for a weak spot, and when eventually he thinks he's found one, he fires the flipper, but ends up throwing nothing and instead just nearly topples himself under the force of the arm.
As Nitro-Gene fires himself into the air rather than his opponent, Shadow Zone realises what a good opportunity this is and quickly spins and tries to catch Nitro-Gene as he falls down. Instead of catching him on the flipper however, he only manages to get him onto the skirt and part of one of the mini-wedges and as a result can't get the flipper underneath. After a couple of swivveling attempts to get him to fall onto the flipper arm itself, Nitro-Gene falls off the wedge and skirt and continues on his way, though Pauls brow appears to be slightly sweaty as he manouvres away quickly before Shadow Zone has a chance to slip under for real. Kody attempts to immediately catch his escapee, but Nitro-Gene turns around at the last second and the 2 flippers grind together. Shadow Zone backs off and turns around, evidently trying to get back into the habit of using plan A, which was to use the wedge at the front. The machines charge at each other front first, and grind their prospective wedges together, both with an absolute zero ground clearance.
The 2 machines spend a brief moment grinding together, wheels spinning, before Nitro-Genes drive unleashes itself and he accelerates full pelt, and slams Shadow Zone right across the arena and into the arena sidwall where he's met by an angle grinder and the join together in beautiful matrimony and firworks fly into the sky... oh wait, no that['s just sparks as the aircraft grade aluminium gets sliced into. Nitro-Gene turns and manages to get Kody's machine to stay on the extension plate, before driving him into the wall and the next angle grinder along, he waits for a moment, before firing the flipper. Shadow Zone lands on the top of the fence, teeters momentarily, and then falls over the edge, giving Paul a one flip ko, and meaning he's done all he needs to get him through the fight.
CEASE
Shadow Zone was a shadow of his former self whilst Nitro-Gene, levers, or should that be levis his way into the semi-finals.
Next time, heat 10
The May Tracks Has You (30) v Scaramanga Wheel of Misfortune v La Machine
Thoughts, Tactics, Predictions, A camouflage top?
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