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

Reactions took place on April 17th 2018.

Heat G

 * Nick: Can’t say I’ve been buzzing about this Heat. We don’t even know what the supposed seed looks like!
 * Nick: And that supposed seed is MING
 * Toast: There's no hype, but Robot Wars is still Robot Wars
 * Nick: True I guess - it’s something
 * Toast: so Ming must be one of those flippers then - they wouldn't show us clips of it getting tossed over repeatedly
 * Nick: Um maybe not lol
 * Nick: What on earth is that
 * Toast: It is actually armed with a drill!! And clearly we've already seen about how well it's going to do
 * Toast: Unseeded heat winner #99 confirmed
 * Nick: Mega Hurts looks the most promising veteran...
 * Nick: Ooh, a Dutch Semi-Finalist!
 * Toast: where on earth was that location Scraptosaur came from?
 * Toast: From GALHUNDENFREETHENJUKRICAGH, Scraptosaur
 * Nick: Ooh, Ceros looks neat!
 * Toast: what does "Ceros" mean?
 * Nick: Good question!
 * Nick: Another one: who is going through? Looks like Scraptosaur and Ceros based on the preview
 * Toast: OH I GET IT
 * Toast: Jonathan Pearce said it's "built like a rhinoceros"
 * Toast: Try and spell rhinoceros and you'll get it
 * Nick: Hahaha, that’s a clever one!
 * Nick: Man, these two are decent little flippers
 * Toast: Have to agree on the flippers going through
 * Toast: The "seeded" Ming is doing positively nothing
 * Nick: I just don’t even see how it can be viable
 * Toast: can you think of any robots that were already in this series that could've been seeded instead
 * Toast: Atomic maybe
 * Nick: Anything over this...
 * Toast: Metalis just looks like mould on the arena floor from the overhead camera
 * Nick: Oh well: Ceros looked good. Wonder if we’ll see Rhino next Heat, haha!
 * Toast: That was a good performance from the flippers, although the only way to have a seed more uninvolved with the heat would be to repeat what Terrorhurtz did
 * Toast: I'm certainly assuming Ming lost, I suppose it started to fight back
 * Nick: Goodbye, seed
 * Nick: Lol, Craig calling it controversial ?
 * Toast: think you need to get a dictionary Charles
 * Nick: Revolution... 3??
 * Nick: UM WHAT
 * Nick: THAT’S THE NEW REVOLUTION OH GOD
 * Nick: WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO IT
 * Toast: Wasn't Revolution 2 the one with the huge combine harvester blade??
 * Nick: that's a downgrade
 * Nick: I mean it looks viable, but not aesthetically 😞
 * Nick: Oh, it’s St. Agro
 * Nick: With nothing changed bar the tyres it seems
 * Toast: decent overhead shot of St. Agro, if ever a website starts taking pictures of all the robots in the show, nice opportunity there
 * Nick: What the hell is a Mega Hurts Lilt?
 * Toast: computers aren't meant to make me thirsty!
 * Nick: HAHAHA LAP TOP
 * Toast: what the heck it stands for lap top - what was the announcer bloke on about then?
 * Nick: Um, I’ll go Mega-Hurts and Revolution 3 I guess
 * Toast: The Scrapper has a good disc, backing that with Revolution 3
 * Nick: Scrapper’s disc does look decent enough!
 * Nick: Oh it’s lost drive already
 * Toast: Mega Hurts doing very very little
 * Nick: OH WOW
 * Nick: Nice OotA, St. Agro!
 * Toast: I didn't have that kind of faith in St Agro! Fair play!
 * Nick: I was going to say that I didn’t know if it was improved from a Series 6 or just facing bad opponents. That’s shut me up!
 * Toast: St Agro was in Series 6? I don't even remember that
 * Toast: you're joking, Revolution 3 tried to attack Mega Hurts and died from recoil
 * Nick: What the hell has this fight been hahaha
 * Nick: Oh man, Mega-Hurts never got going
 * Nick: Well what on earth wins this Heat now then! I have literally no idea
 * Toast: Yeah if St Agro's just gonna get his mouth stuck open after winning the fight!
 * Toast: Did you say that Scraptosaur was a Dutch finalist? That's the only obvious bit of pedigree here. We're almost guaranteed another flipper win!
 * Nick: Dutch Semi-Finalist apparently, yeah
 * Nick: It looked solid there, but not Gravity levels
 * Nick: Maybe it’ll step up majorly in Round 2
 * Nick: Well then that’s Revolution 3 through too
 * Toast: can we just put Tsunami in this one
 * Nick: What a bizarre Heat
 * Nick: I can’t say I’m not enjoying it. It’s just... interesting
 * Toast: FINALLY TIME FOR RAZER
 * Nick: Crusher Crunch Up? Alright then!
 * Nick: Wow Mantis looks awesome whatever it is
 * Nick: R.O.C.S. ??????
 * Nick: where is razer...
 * Toast: I mean... Pincer is BASICALLY Razer...
 * Nick: I mean, I guess these could be the second tier like Spin City, but still...
 * Nick: OOH Mantis can lift!
 * Toast: ROCS is going to get squished by Mr Psycho
 * Toast: Have to say though, even if we're excluding Razer for being too strong - where is Tiberius?? They can fit four robots in the arena!
 * Nick: That’s true. Must be a reserve-type thing then
 * Nick: Not that these machines seem bad!
 * Nick: Good fight so far
 * Nick: Oh damn, Pinser has some bite to it!
 * Toast: Great crush from Pincer!!
 * Nick: WHOAH WHAT WAS THAT EXPLOSION
 * Toast: HOLY
 * Toast: And somehow Pincer is still moving!
 * Toast: wahey, the new House Robot gets to do something, what was he called again
 * Nick: Um Cassius Knome or something I think
 * Nick: All three were still technically active. What a great little fight
 * Nick: Well done, Mantis. Looks a tidy machine!
 * Toast: "hey you've won something", Craig says to a robot in its very first battle
 * Nick: Hahaha there’s a guy on a crane behind Craig
 * Toast: Well looking at these line-ups, I see a Scraptosaur vs Ceros heat final
 * Nick: Agreed
 * Nick: Will be good to see the dominant two from that melee go head to head
 * Nick: Marien van der Meer’s hair is beautiful
 * Nick: It’s Cassius again!
 * Toast: I don't know why Jonathan keeps harping on about limited CO2 for Scraptosaur, that applies to 75% of the robots left in this episode
 * Toast: Hope it's not foreshadowing
 * Nick: Well exactly
 * Nick: St. Agro looks so... static. Scraptosaur well in control
 * Toast: Scraptosaur well on top right now
 * Nick: Certainly not a Gravity, but another good foreign machine!
 * Nick: Um what the hell
 * Nick: Right yourself, Scraptosaur!
 * Nick: Has Cassius actually killed it
 * Toast: do you mean to tell me that a Dutch semi-finalist is a flipper that cannot self-right
 * Toast: and that means Jonathan really was foreshadowing!!
 * Nick: What a shame
 * Toast: Impressive attacks from Cassius Chrome though
 * Nick: I mean, St. Agro looks... okay. But it has nothing on every other Heat Finalist so far
 * Toast: yeah if not for that OotA, they'd be comparatively poor
 * Toast: We've only seen Ceros in one fight so far but on the evidence of that win from St. Agro, it should have a fairly easy ride now
 * Nick: Agreed
 * Nick: I mean if you did a rankdown of the performances in Heats, St. Agro would be in an ‘average’ or ‘poor’ category so far
 * Toast: I'd call it 'good' purely because of the Hawaiian shirts
 * Nick: True!
 * Toast: Revolution team thinks Ceros might drop out??
 * Nick: Oh goodness, I don’t need a St. Agro-Revolution 3 Heat Final
 * Toast: Wow that changes things, so Revolution 3 is in fighting form and Ceros is limping
 * Nick: Oh, they’re okay, good
 * Nick: Is it foreshadowing again though!
 * Nick: I’ll back Revolution 3 then why not
 * Toast: we could have everything completely wrong here, I was only harsh on Revolution because it died randomly, it is still invertible at the end of the day
 * Nick: what...
 * Nick: it’s... over?
 * Toast: they've just straight up died again! AND Jonathan was foreshadowing it with his comments about a long drawn out battle!
 * Nick: Dear god
 * Nick: Haha, Ceros can’t overturn Shunt! Chaos 2 could do that in Series 3, my man!
 * Toast: Why don't you just go ahead and say "St Agro's high ground clearance might give it problems against the powerful flipper of Ceros, and it lacks pushing power which could lead to difficulties with the pit"
 * Nick: Well it’s over now, is Shunt!
 * Toast: was the most drawn out flip on a House Robot I've ever seen, mind
 * Nick: What is Sergeant Bash doing lmfao
 * Toast: Just about everybody's done a bodge job here
 * Toast: Revolution 3 died in seconds
 * Toast: Shunt got flipped over
 * Toast: Ceros took ages to do it and is now in the pit
 * Toast: and Sgt Bash couldn't even outpush a competitor robot
 * Nick: What a mess of a fight
 * Nick: This Heat has either been brilliant little fights or complete incompetence it’s incredible
 * Toast: even the drop zone was terrible, what's a tiny TV going to do
 * Nick: And finally it’s over
 * Nick: “What a right, royal, ding dong”
 * Nick: I wouldn’t rule out Craig meaning between the competitors
 * Toast: I feel like putting my TV in the drop zone tbh, this heat final isn't promising
 * Nick: Yeah, this Heat is still decent for what it is, but unlike Heat B there’s no true saving grace
 * Nick: Bloody Ming
 * Toast: I forgot that was even there!!
 * Toast: Halfway through the series we use Revolution 3 to explain how safety links work - to be fair, I can't think of any other time a robot has died like that in this series
 * Nick: No. That’s true. It’s good to have good fights in the Heats for two series in a row
 * Nick: Alright then, well... Ceros I guess
 * Toast: what's funny about this heat is that we've gotten so used to seeds losing, we're complaining about having two randoms in the Heat Final. If this happened in Series 5 or 6, we'd be lapping it up
 * Nick: I assume it can self right unlike Scraptosaur
 * Nick: IS IT OVER ALREADY WHAT
 * Toast: maybe it cannot self-right!!
 * Nick: Well it can if Refbot helps it!
 * Nick: A bit dodgy
 * Toast: controversy reigns supreme!
 * Nick: I’m eagerly listening to JP’s commentary
 * Nick: Wahey, that’s better
 * Toast: St Agro really showing some style now though, finally starting to look like a heat winner
 * Nick: How close are you to the Pit, Ceros!
 * Toast: drive away!!
 * Nick: Interesting tactics!
 * Toast: OH MY GOD CEROS NEARLY WON
 * Nick: OH MY GOODNESS
 * Nick: HAS ST. AGRO BOTTLED IT
 * Nick: AND NOW CEROS CANT SELF RIGHT AGAIN
 * Toast: St. Agro's wheel shredded by Matilda too, how does it move?
 * Nick: My goodness, what a ride of a fight
 * Toast: I've never even heard of a robot losing part of its wheel and then still winning the fight, imagine if Hypno-Disc lost half its wheel against some random joke and then still killed it
 * Nick: HOLY CRAP, MATILDA
 * Toast: OH OK WE ARE GETTING AN OOTA AFTER ALL
 * Nick: Are we going to get a bad Heat Final in Series 7!
 * Nick: There’s only a mouse of a chance it seems
 * Toast: That really picked up steam halfway through, suddenly this heat ended on a great note!
 * Nick: Well I’m happy with how things worked out now!
 * Nick: Three very good fights, one good one, and two... interesting ones
 * Toast: St Agro is going to beat absolutely none of the other heat winners
 * Toast: The only one they have a chance against is X-Terminator because that can't self-right on top. Here's hoping they draw X-Terminator, eh!
 * Nick: Yeah, and unlike Tsunami, St. Agro doesn’t need to self-right either
 * Nick: So if it gets that draw it can definitely sneak through
 * Nick: 16 seed, Storm 2? Makes sense I guess
 * Nick: I think Supernova and Steel Avenger were in there too
 * Nick: Looks a good Heat, but another without a big name
 * Toast: ahhh I was wondering when Storm would show up. They never mentioned it would be seeded but it deserves it way more than Ming!