User blog:CrashBash/Robot Profiles - Backbreaker

Backbreaker was a competitor robot from the Lego robot series "MegaWars". It was a box-shaped robot armed with a spinning vertical bar for a weapon. The bar was capable of causing significant damage to other robots and could even overturn its opponents, but the robot had no self-righting mechanism and very little armour.

Backbreaker finished fourth in the first series of MegaWars, but fell in the second round of the heats in both of the following series.

Series 1
Backbreaker competed in Heat B, where it fought Demolition and Pandora in its first battle. It was hit early on by Pandora, but this only caused Pandora's spinner to break. It later managed to overturn Demolition with its spinning bar, but it was ultimately Demolition who decided the battle by overturning Pandora, before Backbreaker itself was overturned by the same robot. Luckily, Pandora was considered immobilised first, putting Backbreaker through to the second round.

Here, Backbreaker fought the heavily-fancied Glacier. However, Glacier was unable to effectively get underneath Backbreaker, and the flipper-bot kept missing its attacks. At one point, Backbreaker was able to get underneath Glacier's flipper and eventually overturn it itself. These attacks eventually caused Glacier's flipper to break down, but Backbreaker was unable to finish it off. Nevertheless, it won the judges decision, putting it through to the Grand Final.

In the eliminator round, Backbreaker was drawn up against Nausea. Early in the match, Nausea was able to get its forklift caught in Backbreaker's weapon frame and, in trying to overturn its opponent, fell over, immobilising both robots. The battle was restarted, but Backbreaker was unable to land an effective attack on the low Nausea, and was eventually overturned for a second time, putting it out of the competition.

However, Nausea was still able to compete in the 3rd-place Playoff, against Crossbow. Despite landing a few hits on Crossbow's wheels, it was largely unable to catch the faster machine. Eventually, Crossbow slammed Backbreaker from the side and managed to push it over, immobilising Backbreaker once again, and leaving it in fourth place overall.

Series 2
Backbreaker was given the fourth seed, and was drawn up against newcomers Rammer King and The Terror Trio in its first battle. It immediately attacked one part of The Terror Trio, immobilising it straight away, before focusing on the remaining parts of the three-way clusterbot. With only minimal help from Rammer King, Backbreaker eventually took out the remaining two parts of The Terror Trio, even knocking one out of the arena.

This put Backbreaker through to the next round against newcomers Sir Lancalot. However, within seconds, Backbreaker was overturned by the lifting arm of Sir Lancalot. With no way of righting itself, Backbreaker was counted out and dropped out of the arena by Goliath.

Series 3
Backbreaker returned to the third series unseeded. In its first battle, it was drawn up against veterans Hachiman, newcomers 4klift and the number 6 seed, Raised Expectations. It attacked Raised Expectations early, causing little damage, and later hit Hachiman, which was enough to break off its own spinning weapon. 4klift would later overturn Raised Expectations and Hachiman, but Backbreaker was able to evade being flipped, which put it through to the second round.

Here, however, Backbreaker had an unfortunate draw against the previous series runner-up, Purple Predator. It was able to evade Purple Predator's flipper at first, and managed to overturn its opponent at one point. However, Purple Predator eventually righted itself and managed to get underneath Backbreaker using one of its side-spikes as a choke. Backbreaker was flipped onto its side and eventually counted out, before being flipped out of the arena again.

Series Record

 * Series 1: 4th place
 * Series 2: Heat, Round 2
 * Series 3: Heat, Round 2