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Rob Team Rotwang
Joined: 19 Jun 2004
Posts: 294
Location: Victoria
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A Robowars and Harry Potter mixed day for me, I did win the event with ReBoot the first time mind you, not since Mini Mowers ‘retirement’ have I taken the trophy (which in this case was a broken saw blade from Inspector general) who I might say suffered its greatest beating since Plan B's visit to Sidetracked and likewise fighting IG was the greatest test on my Robots drums durability which I are pleased to say suffered no damage, I did at a point fear something was wrong when the drum started to shudder while spinning. The first fight I drew The next project ..Possibly the first I fought last time too.. Although I got to give it to him, TNP stayed together and put on a spectacular smoke show
Pincher vs. ReBoot, I realised that Pincher is a danger to ReBoot, (being beaten by him last Robowars) so I gave Pincher a fairly savage belting with my Drum.. this fight I really discovered how straight ReBoot drives and made some cross arena' slams into Pincher at full speed.. I think I was being too optimistic hitting him head on and were caught on my 3rd attack :p
and now for a final fight.. against Ballistic driven by Matt my brother, lol. this has occurred once before during a final fight but this time I weren’t letting him get a flip in.. this really put my driving to the test trying to avoid Matts flipper (which he has become quite skilled with). ...I did get flipped - DAMN!!!1 GAHHH >< 'FLIP ME BACK' 'Matt: alright I trying!' ~waits~ 'David: ah..It appears ReBoot has malfunctioned are you still in ReBoot? - well previous experience told that ReBoot was like flipping IG back onto its wheels...not easy so I pulled myself together and tried to bluff my way through the last 20 seconds by hitting him with my opposite turning drum, Ballistics flipper bit the dust in the last 5 seconds or so, this hasn’t
happened since the new quality ram was exchanged with the cheap bicycle pump.
Fair to say a deserving Win for a great Robot, ReBoot has always had that competitive strength, but like Pincher and scoopy for example hasn’t quite made it to the end. Was a fun day, Thanks to everyone involved!
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Mel
Site Admin
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 163
Location: Victoria
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Round three ROCKED!!
What an amazing day!
My concerns over drawing I.G came true. All these years and we finally get to battle it out. Would have been the match of the century, that saw IG go down big time except.....yup, Scoopy's batteries came flying out. Holy hell, l can't believe it
So many close calls throughout the day and in fact, of Scoopy's 5 fights she was just barely lucky to scrape through on 3 of them, with only 1 or so points being the decider. Flashing the judges did no good at all!!
Ballistic ( not his real name ) got me again. The self righting modifications on SD worked really well and at least she made it to the end of the match this time!! (footage being edited and will be up later today).
Lm very happy to say that Scoopy finally wooped Minimower!! though once again, not by very much. Her wheels were a great success! no problems at all there. Blew one of my IBC's (weapon) after the IG match, but didn't realise it till the countdown was happening at the start of her match with Battle Damage. Lucky for her, BD had no active weapon ready either and it turned into a 'bash match', with Scoopy taking the win anyway.
Final scores and placings will be posted later today. Many thanks to the builders that turned up on time with a 'ready to go' bot and all hands that made this day one of the best l can remember!!!
Mel
xo _________________ It's a She Thing
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Mon Jul 18, 2005 2:01 pm |
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