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

Reactions took place on April 28th, 2018.

Heat I

 * Nick: Boy, I’m excited for this. Storm 2 and Supernova are both here!
 * Toast: yep, time for ANOTHER seed to lose
 * Nick: Yeah, Storm 2 got damaged by both Revolution 2 and Chopper after all
 * Toast: and Craig Charles just punched me in the face
 * Nick: Um what
 * Toast: is that one Supernova?
 * Toast: oh "Mayhem". Well let's see if they can get through to the Annihilator!
 * Nick: It looks like Supernova if it hadn’t been worked on in 12 years!
 * Nick: WHAT
 * Nick: RHINO HAHAHAHA
 * Nick: AFTER CEROS LAST WEEK THAT HAS TO BE DELIBERATE
 * Toast: haven't we had a robot called Rhino before
 * Nick: 65 sure volcalon what
 * Toast: Jayne much more complimentary of Storm II than Philippa was
 * Nick: You couldn’t exactly be less complimentary!
 * Toast: Ceros wasn't even the one I was thinking of!
 * Toast: now THAT is what a horizontal flywheel looks like
 * Toast: There was a case for Supernova being seeded, but in this heat, it clearly doesn't need it
 * Toast: Storm II should qualify with it though
 * Nick: Should be the big two, here
 * Nick: SLAM
 * Nick: OH HOH
 * Nick: SUPERNOVA, MY BOY
 * Toast: and that's it for Mayhem!
 * Nick: MATILDA WHAT THE HELL
 * Toast: the arena wall didn't just "buckle", Jonathan!
 * Toast: now just to get a big hit on Rhino
 * Nick: Rhino ain’t doing too badly tbh
 * Nick: Is Supernova dead?
 * Nick: WHOAH
 * Nick: Well I don’t think it’s alive anymore but what damage
 * Toast: Sir Killalot is the dead one!
 * Nick: Yeah, Supernova just isn’t moving in the background
 * Nick: And it won’t be now lmao
 * Toast: Mayhem is getting smashed up by Matilda. You certainly wouldn't tell the Supernova team to emulate that design in the future.
 * Nick: So... Rhino is actually getting through...?
 * Nick: What the hell
 * Toast: I feel like the seed just fell in the first round for a second heat in a row, even though it didn't!
 * Toast: Could Supernova be THE biggest loss in the first round?
 * Nick: ITS STEEL AVENGER
 * Toast: IT IS TIME FOR SHREDDER'S BIG RETURN
 * Nick: It’s Shredder! Let’s hope it continues on from Spin City
 * Toast: STORM RHINO AND STEEL AVENGER CAN GO HOME NOW
 * Toast: The undefeated Shredder Evolution comes in after its wonderful heat final in Series 6, I can't wait for this
 * Toast: Trax's flipper is weird, definitely looks like an axe except it's not
 * Nick: Yeah, it looks decent but not viable as an attacking machine
 * Toast: I'll give you a fiver if you can name the Scottish county Sub-Version just came from
 * Nick: Argyl wasn’t it lmao
 * Nick: Near the footy team oi oi
 * Toast: not close enough for the money, there were at least two halves to it
 * Nick: I know Bute is tight next to Argyl to
 * Editor's note: The correct answer was Argyll & Bute, I probably would've docked Nick for spelling it wrong
 * Toast: The Steel Avenger is too old for this, should be Shredder and Trax
 * Nick: Damn, Shredder
 * Nick: Trax looks very handy!
 * Toast: Sub-Version... doesn't
 * Nick: Haha, at least it’s doing better than the Fifth Wars Scottish Bots!
 * Nick: WHOAH
 * Toast: OK that was the most anti-climactic "OotA attempt" I've seen in my life
 * Nick: Sub-Version you weirdo
 * Nick: Shredder hasn’t really got going here...
 * Toast: SHREDDER PICK UP THE PACE LADS
 * Toast: I love this little robot, I'll be very upset if it loses here
 * Toast: Ta-ta Sub-Version, but Shredder did nothing to qualify here...
 * Toast: Craig said it was a controversial decision, "what are you thinking", I was preparing for a late Shredder victory :(
 * Nick: Two interesting first-round dropouts then!
 * Toast: And now Trax is fighting Storm II, which means someone out of The Steel Avenger and Rhino is getting a heat final!
 * Toast: Trax unlucky to fall this early after a strong melee performance, but Storm II has the same features and more
 * Nick: Well this is suddenly, surely, Storm 2’s Heat!
 * Nick: Poor Trax: a good machine just being battered around here
 * Nick: Honestly: how do you even try to rate Storm 2’s chances? 16th seed but it looks frightening
 * Toast: I thought tracks were supposed to offer greater traction - it's slipping all over the place! What even are the benefits of tracks anymore?
 * Nick: To take it to a Judges’ decision, evidently! Not much else though
 * Toast: I'm assuming Storm II has this heat wrapped up - if they can keep this killer ground clearance, I'll be bold and say they make Round 2 of the semis. Should be lower than some of the flippers, invertible too
 * Toast: Not enough weaponry or experience for a Grand Final of course
 * Nick: I suppose that arm can right itself too
 * Nick: So yeah, I agree with that prediction
 * Nick: WAIT
 * Nick: There’s no side event ????
 * Toast: oh what the heck!!
 * Nick: Um what the hell
 * Toast: is it doing a Sumo from Series 4?
 * Nick: Maybe! Good thinking
 * Toast: I hope we have more, I'm still waiting for the Flipper Frenzy!
 * Nick: Exactly! We’ve had some decent fights so fight after all
 * Toast: so Rhino vs The Steel Avenger then. Certainly Steely did better in its melee, but if they got KO'ed by Spirit of Knightmare, I think it has to be Rhino.
 * Toast: Team looks familiar but I can't put my finger on why
 * Nick: Yeah, though I think I’d have a more empathetic Reaction if I noticed them, 2
 * Toast: Rhino had some messages on the side, wish I was quicker with my Toycam and I would've snapped a picture of it
 * Nick: Maybe it’s the Inverterbrat team
 * Nick: I mean look at that rear spinner...
 * Toast: The Steel Avenger has done more damage with its axe in this fight than Shunt has in the whole series
 * Toast: looks like we've bodged another prediction
 * Nick: Credit to Steel Avenger - it’s pacing this fight very well
 * Toast: Pleasant to see such an old robot dominating a fight, although there's definitely a Supernova-shaped hole in this round
 * Nick: OOOOOH STEEL AVENGER CAREFUL THERES THE PIT
 * Toast: Some consolation though, Supernova qualified for the World Championship if I remember correctly
 * Nick: That’s right
 * Nick: Manic Mechanic it beat or something
 * Toast: "when you're basing something on an animal, you have to base it on something aggressive like an elephant or a hippo or a rhino - all the other ones have already been done"
 * Toast: Says the Rhino team less than one episode after the last Rhino entered
 * Toast: Oooh confirmation of a new robot "SA2" for Series 8!
 * Nick: If it’s anything like Dominator 2 it’ll be okay!
 * Nick: ...which we still haven’t seen in Series 7 yet...
 * Toast: Actually I just noticed there's no "The" in Steel Avenger's name anymore, SA2 must be why
 * Nick: Oh boy, your sumo prediction was off
 * Nick: Why are we getting a recap :|
 * Toast: Hey I can't complain about M2 footage, it's been weeks since I last saw one of my new favourites!
 * Nick: Well the Heat Final is going to be a short one then
 * Toast: hahaha this recap just reminded me that Cassius Kong exists
 * Nick: Nevertheless, gives me a chance to think who has the best chance of title glory so far I guess
 * Nick: I’d say this is my list so far:
 * Gravity
 * Dantomkia
 * Tornado
 * M2
 * Atomic
 * Grim Reaper
 * X-Terminator
 * St. Agro
 * Toast: Yeah Gravity seems like a surefire Grand Finalist and Dantomkia did well enough last series, time for more improvement
 * Toast: Surely Atomic was a bit better than M2 though, they were in no danger at any point in their heat
 * Toast: this series has had far too many upsets for Tornado to make another Grand Final
 * Nick: M2 beating two trophy winners make me more convinced of it
 * Nick: But it’s a very interesting lineup!
 * Nick: So left field, but so good!
 * Toast: Every single heat winner had a quote from Jonathan Pearce to big it up, then we had "...and St Agro!"
 * Nick: Seems about right unfortunately!
 * Nick: Well unfortunately I think our string of great Heat Finals is over here
 * Toast: Yeah, I'm thinking and thinking, but there is absolutely nothing Steel Avenger can do to win this fight
 * Toast: Craig got cut short on his HEAT FINAAAAAAAA there
 * Nick: Nope. We’ve seen it against things like Chaos 2 before and it gets bullied
 * Nick: No OotA for Storm 2 here, but it might as well be!
 * Toast: hahaha shovelling Refbot across the arena
 * Nick: ...can I take that back...!
 * Nick: WHAT. THE. HELL.
 * Nick: WHAT
 * Nick: WAS
 * Nick: THAT
 * Toast: They only fired the lifter afterwards!!
 * Nick: Put Storm 2 number 1 on my Heat winners list now!
 * Toast: is this actually better than Tornado??
 * Toast: A brute force OotA, we've seen it all now
 * Toast: Very excited for SA2 though, nice 3-minute interview to send off the Steel Avenger team
 * Nick: Absolutely. A valiant Heat display from this Steel Avenger to close things off
 * Toast: OK we're definitely feeling the lack of a special event in these very long interviews
 * Nick: Oh god... Thermidor 2 is Swedes?
 * Nick: *seeded
 * Toast: what's next! They went out in the first round last time!
 * Nick: I’m liking the Seventh Wars so far, but something has gone majorly wrong behind the scenes...
 * Toast: at least they're only fourteen and they're at least well known, but I'm really getting ready for something like S3 or Hypno-Disc now

Epilogue

 * Toast: will get that published tomorrow - did you do that entire react on your iPod, what with the autocorrects
 * Nick: Yeah I did haha
 * Editor's note: Who the hell would spend an hour of purely typing messages on a bloody iPod??