User blog:ToastUltimatum/Completely Genuine Live Reactions/Heat E

On the same day that Nick and I launched our 'rival' Top 18 Series blogs, we sat down and had a jolly old live react to Heat E of Series 7. Thought about releasing this when more people were online but I also have to give ThatRedOtter a tangible reward for finally watching X-Terminator vs Tsunami after fifteen years!!

Heat E

 * Nick: So, champion time it finally is!
 * Toast: You have to wonder why it took until Heat E...
 * Nick: Well I can’t blame them airing M2’s Heat first
 * Toast: It feels like we watched that, like, last year
 * Nick: Nothing bar Barber-Ous looks like challenging here
 * Toast: Tornado introduced as the "UK and Euro" champion, acknowledgement of how amazing the European Championship was
 * Nick: Ooh, different interchangable weapons, with some “restricted” according to Andrew Marchant
 * Nick: At least Razer won’t get robbed this series
 * Toast: aren't those interchangeable weapons both just scoops though
 * Toast: Weaknesses: "We built it", I guess these aren't written by the producers then, RIP Saw Point
 * Toast: NO WAY IS THE LAMBSY SUCCESSOR CALLED EWE 2 HAHAHAHAHAHA
 * Nick: Devastator looks solid, should go through with Tornado. Rooting for Ewe 2 though, that name is genius
 * Nick: It’s a Bit overkill, that name (editor's note: no it isn't)
 * Toast: well Tornado's got its sights set on Devastator, there might be an upset here
 * Toast: why does Ewe 2 have a chicken drawn on the back
 * Nick: Wow, Matilda’s shattered the arena wall
 * Toast: Hurry up Ewe 2 crikey, Saw Point is already dead
 * Nick: Hahaha, what a cheeky pitting on Devastator
 * Nick: Easy enough for the two of them, but a fun little melee
 * Toast: Ewe 2 looks pretty damaged but both robots earned the victory there, Devastator underwhelming
 * Nick: Oh no, did JP just say that there’s not a fourth robot in the second melee
 * Toast: urgh I admit I couldn't see one. This flipper looks OK
 * Toast: Oh this is a Tetanus robot??
 * Nick: Well there’s a design change!
 * Toast: I really liked the crusher, but the "spinning disc" on the stat board looks more like a spinning drum to me, like this bot that's just walking in, Barber-Ous
 * Toast: Nice to see more drums even if they're together
 * Nick: Oh my god this one's broken down in the entry gate!
 * Nick: Hahaha
 * Toast: Not again!!! This is the second time now!
 * Nick: Well there’s why this wasn’t Heat A!
 * Nick: I don’t know who is progressing with Barberous tbh
 * Nick: DAMN BARBER-OUS LOOKS GOOD
 * Toast: On the evidence of this, double drums, Leveler getting ripped up!
 * Nick: NO ITS BROKEN DOWM
 * Nick: Omg what an upset
 * Toast: Good grief that didn't last long
 * Toast: Then you realise that without Thunderpants, this battle is already over
 * Nick: Wow Tetanus Booster looks strong
 * Toast: Hahaha I was just about to call this the worst melee yet so then Tetanus Booster just decides to smash up Leveler
 * Nick: Shame about Barber-Ous, but Tetanus Booster certainly warrants progress
 * Nick: Leveller 2 may have to pull out considering the damage it took, mind!
 * Toast: No real opinion on Leveler yet but they're getting Tornado anyway
 * Nick: FEATHERWEIGHTS AGAIN! Amazing stuff
 * Toast: yesssss
 * Nick: A MINI DANTOMKIA
 * Toast: Fantastic stuff! Mini Stag nice too
 * Toast: Of course Team Typhoon are in this, why wouldn't they be
 * Toast: Remember the heavyweight Typhoon from Extreme 2? Hope that will be in Series 7!
 * Nick: Eh, I wouldn’t expect much from it but it’d be nice to see Team Typhoon enter a main UK competition
 * Toast: Cadet isn't even moving though
 * Nick: Mammoth is holding its own quite nicely
 * Toast: Wait isn't Cutlet from the Lambsy team, that's two robots in one episode!
 * Nick: Alienator just died against the Pit button
 * Toast: Haha "it'll take until Christmas of 2015 to get there"
 * Toast: Surely not even Mammoth will take THAT long, that's what, over a decade away?
 * Nick: I hope we’ll have Robot Wars around that time
 * Nick: Hahaha well done, Mammoth
 * Toast: Pity for Staglet, they were doing really well
 * Nick: HAHAHAHA ALIENATOR
 * Nick: What is going on in this fight
 * Toast: Typhoon actually getting counted out, that didn't live up to expectations
 * Nick: WHOAH NEARLY OOTAD
 * Toast: Dantomkia Jr best by a long way, who is even left to go through with it
 * Nick: I forgot Bernard was even still fighting!
 * Toast: No way did they just use the Drop Zone on a featherweight haha
 * Toast: Will Mammoth not be in the Middleweight championship then?
 * Nick: DTK should be the only one that progresses!
 * Toast: Bring back Kitty!
 * Nick: Hilarious fight though
 * Toast: Bernard entered by Richard Branson in the back there
 * Nick: Wow Leveller 2 flipped Tornado in the preview!
 * Toast: well they just got a heck of a lot better inbetween rounds!
 * Nick: And it confirms they’re fighting in the next round. No dropping out for Barber-Ous to get back in!
 * Toast: Was Tornado using the blimmin' scoop again
 * Toast: Oh dear, they are, we even saw how badly Leveller does against drums
 * Nick: And Tornado gets flipped instantly! This could be interesting
 * Nick: Leveller 2 struggling for proper control, mind
 * Nick: Oh, Leveller 2: why did you right Tornado!
 * Toast: Is that a flail spinner on Tornado?
 * Nick: Looks like it. Looks like it’s useless, too
 * Toast: I mean, I GUESS it's an improvement on the static scoop
 * Nick: Wonder why they’d bother adding that extra attachment though
 * Nick: Either way, Tornado is relentless here
 * Toast: Yeah after those two flips it's been a huge downhill slope for Leveler 2
 * Nick: Credit to Leveller 2: it’s still chugging away, but Andrew Marchant is too good
 * Toast: I'm ready for it to lose now though, this is dragging a bit
 * Nick: Hahahaha, it’s only gone and driven into the Pit - hilarious
 * Toast: We've never lost a reigning champion in the heat, can't see Tetanus or Ewe 2 changing that, they're fighting for glory though, might be a good fight
 * Nick: If Tetanus Booster can shatter Leveller, then I’d expect similar damage to Ewe 2. They both have the same armour
 * Toast: Apparently Tetanus Booster is unhappy to fight Ewe 2 because it's a flipper! That's a nicer draw than Tornado!
 * Toast: I love Ewe 2's name but Tetanus has been great in past appearances, gotta cheer them on
 * Toast: JP with three U2 puns in thirty seconds
 * Nick: Ewe 2 holding up solidly so far, but it needs to get a proper attack in
 * Nick: Ooh, damage being caused now
 * Toast: Tetanus with a big attack there but I'm fairly sure it was only a bit of polycarbonate, Tetanus was smoking earlier
 * Toast: Very even so far
 * Nick: JP JUST CALLED TETANUS BOOSTER’S WEAPON A DISC
 * Toast: What a jim
 * Nick: Not very laddish of him
 * Toast: Tetanus almost immobile now, Ewe 2 starting to take a big lead
 * Nick: Well that was tense
 * Toast: Ewe 2 damage visible but Tetanus almost immobile and Ewe 2 was slamming it around. Have to favour control and aggression, Ewe 2 for me
 * Nick: Ewe 2 edges it in general play, but the damage is going to cost it probably
 * Toast: really? That would surprise me
 * Toast: What the--- you're... right?
 * Nick: Can’t say I care either way, to be honest - both machines had a right to win, but neither will challenge Tornado
 * Toast: Craig Charles and the Ewe 2 rightfully disagreeing with the call, I think I need to rewatch this fight but it seemed quite clearly Ewe 2. At least you're right in the sense it doesn't matter
 * Toast: wow so the damage to Ewe 2 was THAT sacrificial, only one of three different layers, this is only stacking further against Tetanus Booster
 * Nick: It’s certainly an interesting one to think about
 * Toast: Tornado has a lifter now?
 * Nick: That’s... a scoop...
 * Toast: some comfort though, this is easy for Tornado but it's still only the second seeded heat winner
 * Nick: And it’s not a flipper either way, I suppose!
 * Toast: Tetanus is smoking again!!
 * Nick: Andrew Marchant is so good at suffocating the opposition
 * Toast: Tetanus just cannot get going here
 * Nick: What is that smoke all about
 * Nick: And it’s moving freely again ?? Strange
 * Toast: Still knackered after the Ewe 2 fight I suppose
 * Toast: Tetanus slowing down, this is going predictably but at least it's hanging on
 * Nick: Solid pitting, and that’s it
 * Nick: Well it was a predictable Heat, but solid fun
 * Toast: Tornado clearly not going to be fazed by most of the heat winners so far - Gravity, though...
 * Nick: Couple of neat new machines, good Featherweight action, and a different weapon into the Semis
 * Toast: Just a slightly sour note from a weird Judges' decision, and a predictable win for Tornado. Weakest heat yet but not bad
 * Nick: Can we wrap up this interview, please - I want to see a Dominator 2 preview!
 * Nick: Umm, X-Terminator is seeded ????
 * Toast: oh OK then, X-Terminator?
 * Nick: Well that looks a weak lineup
 * Nick: I didn’t even see a fourth machine in the second melee!
 * Toast: Not too strange that it's seeded in a 16 heat series, but did they say 11th?
 * Nick: They did...
 * Nick: At least it has a disc. Makes things a bit more interesting
 * Toast: Are you sure that wasn't some other robot, I wasn't looking
 * Toast: Someone else must be joining Firestorm in sitting this series out then, we'll figure it out later
 * Nick: Can’t say I’d miss something like Spawn Again, to be honest!