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Round 3
Feb 25, 2010 22:42:41 GMT -5
Post by Kody on Feb 25, 2010 22:42:41 GMT -5
Round 3
Envy vs. Under Pressure Qwertyuiop vs. Monsoon Season
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Round 3
Feb 25, 2010 22:44:18 GMT -5
Post by Kody on Feb 25, 2010 22:44:18 GMT -5
Semi-Final 1Envy vs. Under PressureRoboteers, stand by...House robots: Count Bleck, Rorschach 3... 2... 1... ACTIVATE!And now it's on! The first semi-final! Envy's blown across the arena in an instant, hoping to get between and past the claws before Under Pressure can close them, and Martijn has barely started to move his own robot yet. And there it is, the collision..oh no! Under Pressure closed its claws too early! What does this mean? It means that Envy has flown under the lower claws and completely under Under Pressure, and Martijn's alarmed at this, yes indeed! There's no escape as Envy hurtles Under Pressure across the arena and activates its famed front-hinged flipper, throwing the horizontal crusher onto its back in an instant, and it's now against the wall with its claws! Definitely not a good start for Martijn, but it gets worse! Envy is trying to get Under Pressure over the fence, or at least stack it! He's not having much luck though; every time the flipper pops open, Under Pressure bobs up, and then comes down on the flipper. Shane is enjoying this very much, making a chuckle of amusement whenever Under Pressure is popped. It happens again, but during this particular pop-up, Under Pressure lands in between the wedge and flipper before the flipper could close! Waving this aside, Shane figures he's got Martijn right where he wants him and heads for the pit release button. Futilely, Under Pressure tries to close its claws and the lower ones grasp around the flipper panel, but are unable to squeeze it. He does, however, get the pit release button, as he's pushed into it by Envy! Even those wedgy bits of Under Pressure's are penetrating the 'armour' of the button! And...haha! ;D Under Pressure's, well...torn off the pit release button, to put it as blunt as a dull axeblade. Envy reverses away from the pit and wheels about; the pit opens. Envy goes over to the pit, still carrying Under Pressure in that same sort of Heimlich manoeuvre, and...oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear oh...dear? Wha...correct me if I'm wrong, but...I don't see how Envy is going to get Under Pressure into the pit here. And nor does Shane! Envy's got his scoop over the edge of the pit, but he can't do anything as Under Pressure is stuck on the open flipper! Under Pressure's claws open...oh you wee git you. Under Pressure dropped the pit release button into the pit. Insult our arena, will you?! Well...we'll settle that one later. Anyway, The Watcher seems to be necessitating on whether to free them. Apparently he's made his decision, because he's coming over swiftly. However, Envy doesn't want the ref's help; turning away from the pit, he drives Under Pressure in a beeline straight towards the wall! With a dull crash, Under Pressure's claws connect with the wall and send him backwards over Envy, free at last! Envy, having also driven into the wall, backs away and spins around very quickly, to ward off any opportunities, but there's a problem! And a big one it is, too! Envy's flipper is still stuck, even without the weight of Under Pressure stuck on top of him! Shane taps the flipper switch on his controls a few times fiercely, but there's no response! With his opponent's weaponry seemingly incapacitated, Martijn decides to implement his plan of going on the offense, and now charges Envy full blast, who reacts instinctively and meets him head-on! Who'll prevail here? ...looks like Martijn! The claws of Under Pressure have now succeeded! They've snuck under the sides of Envy like a cockroach infestation in your kitchen walls! And that's no good thing, by any means! Envy tries to get away but the percent of wheelage on the ground in Envy's favour is an absolute zero, meaning there's not a chance in hell you're getting out of this one, Mr. Swan! And now the upper claws come and sink in...OOH...now that's damage! They've surely suck in and...are going in far...that can't be a good thing either. Under Pressure, seeing Count Bleck nearby and forgetting about the pit, moves in to deliver Envy to the house robot. CRASH!!!And hoo boy, Envy gets delivered, all right! As in: delivered a huge blow to the rear, scarring it up bad! Y'see, folks, Hardox isn't quite as invincible as you'd think. ;D The force also has spun the two bots around right quick, but no internal damage seems to have been done to Under Pressure, as far as we know. Seeing the great gash in Envy's rear from his control booth, Martijn now abandons his plan of pitting Envy for the moment, having remembered it seconds before, and plans to cause Envy as much damage as possible! He spins Under Pressure (and Envy) back around to face Count Bleck, and waits for the Count to spin up again; the said Count emits a long blast of flame which sweeps over Envy's rear, reflecting off the black and silver paintwork, and quite possibly into Envy through that gash. Now Martijn moves in on the house robot again. CRASH!!!Again the two competitors are spun right around in a tango, Under Pressure facing away from the house robot! The gash in the rear of Envy has widened considerably, but the blow's definitely not loosened the monstrous grip Under Pressure still has on Envy, so Shane is out of luck! The fan favourite looks about to be defeated here, as Martijn spins his robot back around...but then decides to go back to his original plan, he doesn't want to be too bad of a sport. So Under Pressure spins back around again and carries Envy towards the pit. Envy does not appear to be moving, at all, no matter how much Shane works the controls: obviously the claws or house robot attacks have done something to the internals. The bottom of the tires are visible to the arena cameras, and they do not appear to be rotating (the tires). Martijn doesn't notice this; one great shove and Envy is dangling over the pit. Martijn goes to retract the claws...but can't! The claws aren't responding! The only viable alternative to Martijn is to...BOOM! Martijn flings Under Pressure down the pit, still grappling Envy in front. Shane smirks wryly at this outcome. CEASE!Envy-ous of your opponent's performance, Shane? Take two and call your doctor in the morning. ;D Under Pressure advances to the Final!
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Round 3
Feb 25, 2010 22:45:17 GMT -5
Post by Kody on Feb 25, 2010 22:45:17 GMT -5
Semi-Final 2 Qwertyuiop vs. Monsoon Season
Roboteers, stand by...
House robots: Asterix Anarchius, Renegade
3... 2... 1... ACTIVATE!
It's Qwertyuiop who has the faster start, but Monsoon Season is no slouch either, and barely has Qwertyuiop crossed into Monsoon Season's half of the arena when the two robots crash into each other, a crack of steel almost snapping the eardrums of the audience in half! However Qwertyuiop, due to a more leveraging design, is able to get under the ramming plate of Monsoon Season and toss it over quickly like a pancake! Daniel rights his machine just as quickly, but not quickly enough to avoid a total wedging by Qwertyuiop, and the said attacker carries Monsoon Season to the nearest CPZ and tosses it! It's an empty CPZ, but Asterix Anarchius is on course for it immediately, and no sooner has Qwertyuiop exited the scene and Monsoon Season turned about, than Asterix enters the CPZ at a frightening velocity, slamming right into Monsoon and sends it literally flying across the arena off the wall! Monsoon Season lands ungracefully, rolling chassis-over-teakettle several times, and finally settling onto its back. Just as Daniel is about to right his beloved Monsoon Season again, Qwertyuiop arrives again to push the Monsoon into the wall! Unfortunately, just as Navaha hits the flipper button, Daniel does the same! The result is quite spectacular, as Monsoon flies spinning into the air like a trapeze artist, almost terminally, and lands quite gracefully this time onto its tracks, behind Qwertyuiop! Both roboteers are stunned, Navaha because he didn't get his OOTA, and Daniel because he can't believe he survived that. Once he realizes his robot's front end is facing his opponent's robot's rear end, Dan snaps back to reality and drives Monsoon Season forward. Navaha comes out of his shock barely a split-second later and spins Qwertyuiop about, and startlingly knocks the plate of Monsoon Season aside, exposing the side! Before Dan can do a thing, Qwertyuiop is under the side of Monsoon Season and tosses it again, sending it flying across the arena. Monsoon tumbles chassis-over-teakettle again but doesn't even finish doing so; Qwertyuiop is on its case and pushes Monsoon into Renegade's CPZ where Monsoon lands on its tracks again. Shockingly enough it manages to get under the house robot as Qwertyuiop pushes it, but Renegade brings down the axe into the Hardox plate of Monsoon, however hardly doing any noticeable damage. Monsoon takes this in stride and tosses over the nearly quarter-tonne house robot, and in turn is tossed onto him unceremoniously by Qwertyuiop's own flipper! With a 110kg robot on top of him and 225kg of his own weight to bear, Renegade cannot right himself with that axe and tries to drive out of the way! However Navaha is there to lending a helping hand, or in this case, flipper, and Qwertyuiop gets under the rear of the inverted Team Darkzlayerz member, just as Monsoon drives backwards onto the said flipper of its opponent. Qwertyuiop would have flipped, but is interrupted by a vicious, vicious slam by Asterix coming in behind, and is deposited into the CPZ as well!
It's a dog-pile in the corner patrol zone as Renegade tries to free itself of the ball'o'robots and manages to do so, heaving Asterix and Qwertyuiop out of the way, Monsoon back on top and inverted. Monsoon Season tries to self-right and does so, but is stuck on the rear of Renegade and is pushed into Asterix, who pushes back! Qwertyuiop, inverted itself and crushed into the side wall, also tries to self-right but fails, mostly because Monsoon's side is stuck overtop of it. Now Renegade itself tries to self-right...and manages to do it this time, just as Monsoon Season frees itself from Asterix. Qwertyuiop again makes a self-righting attempt, achieving success this time but not quick enough to evade a hasty attack from Monsoon Season, who collects Qwertyuiop onto its flipper, and before Navaha knows what's going on, Monsoon Season launches the 2WD flipper into the air and clean over the fence!
CEASE!
Qwertyuiop is like soooo last cycle, Navaha. ;D Monsoon Season advances to the Final!
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