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

Reactions took place on April 5th, 2018. This occasion features the first guest of the series; Camilla, Nick's sister and a big fan of Atomic. And Cygnus X-1. She didn't really get much of an opportunity to rave about that one.

Heat G

 * Toast: Nick you didn't tell me your sister would be watching this one with us
 * Toast: I hope she actually likes Robot Wars and preferably does not have cooties
 * Nick: Yeah she saw Atomic was back and couldn’t wait to watch so I’ll give her a pass
 * Camilla: David Bebb is king
 * Toast: WAIT
 * Toast: Did I hear that right??
 * Nick: Oh, so S.M.I.D.S.Y. is seeded
 * Camilla: oh god not terror turtle
 * Nick: What the hell is that entire second melee
 * Nick: THIRTEEN
 * Toast: IT'S ACTUALLY THE THIRTEENTH SEED
 * Nick: So, mate, I did seed you
 * Toast: What kind of series is this? I'm seriously concerned we've had a lot of drop-outs, you know...
 * Nick: I thought I was insecure but it seems that way
 * Nick: Ooh, Atomic’s new flipper looks interesting
 * Camilla: Atomic looks amazing, 10/10 that scoop
 * Toast: might protect them from the spinners better
 * Camilla: don't remind me of series 5 pls
 * Nick: What the frick is this thing
 * Toast: it's just blended into the floor, I think!
 * Nick: YOUVE FLIPPED A COUPLE OF CONRETE BLOCKS WOW
 * Camilla: I like Cygnus' design a lot, really sleek
 * Toast: it's like the tip of an iceberg, with the arena floor being the ocean of the same colour
 * Camilla: 'weakness: unknown as yet' oh no not another 'we have no weaknesses' robot
 * Nick: Hey, at least a Terror Turtle has learned from Extreme 2 and got rid of that bar
 * Toast: His mouth's bleeding!
 * Nick: Right, well unless Cygnus is mighty impressive, then it’s S.M.I.D.S.Y. and Atomic all the way
 * Toast: HAHAHA those strengths and weaknesses. It's a bloody turtle indeed!
 * Toast: I actually think Cygnus looks better than SMIDSY here, we might lose a seed in the very first round
 * Toast: ...if it can self-right
 * Nick: WOW
 * Camilla: ah, Cygnus kinda flopped there
 * Nick: that new flipper certainly looks the business, my god!
 * Camilla: That was a great OOTA
 * Toast: yeah RIP Terror Turtle - after three losses, I don't think we'll see them again
 * Nick: And S.M.I.D.S.Y. in trouble, too!
 * Camilla: great Shunt's axe is ineffective, surprise surprise
 * Nick: It’s nothing on Tsunami, but Atomic is looking strong
 * Toast: Does that make Shunt weaker than Terrorhurtz?
 * Toast: Because SMIDSY got ruined by that
 * Nick: Haha, Atomic’s beaten the lot!
 * Camilla: That was such a good display, always what I've wanted to see from Atomic
 * Toast: I was almost right! SMIDSY just dies for no reason lol, if only Cygnus was not a FLIPPER THAT CANNOT SELF RIGHT
 * Nick: Well I didn’t see what was in the second melee, but this could well be Atomic’s time for a Heat win after all
 * Nick: Because S.M.I.D.S.Y. just looked lost out there
 * Toast: so we already look to be setting up another loss for the seed, but when the seed is SMIDSY, does it even blimmin' count
 * Toast: where is Chaos 2, Hypno-Disc, Bigger Brother, S3, Dominator II, Firestorm?
 * Camilla: #justiceforseries5Atomic
 * Nick: Very true
 * Camilla: WHAT IS THAT FAT SPINNER IN THE NEXT MELEE
 * Nick: Oh jesus it genuinely does look like S.M.I.D.S.Y. is the strongest link
 * Nick: Right break time
 * Toast: man, the ad breaks fly by when there's three of us
 * Nick: Yeah, Pokémon Emerald’s advertising seems really bad though
 * Nick: Not seen any since Heat A
 * Toast: I have to question where you've been hiding this sister when she's clearly such a big fan
 * Nick: Oh my god
 * Nick: What is that
 * Camilla: welp Araknia looks dreadful
 * Nick: Is it made of fur on top
 * Toast: He's made it out of cardboard!!
 * Camilla: cardboard? oh god
 * Toast: Even I've made a robot out of blummin' cardboard!
 * Toast: OH LET'S GO HUDDERSFIELD
 * Toast: Costs me a lot to get to Norwich for these every week, let's go Yorkshire
 * Nick: Vulnerable to axes??
 * Nick: Vulnerable to the arena floor, mate
 * Nick: Um, is that not Diabolus again?
 * Nick: A bit longer, but it might as well be!
 * Toast: Diabolus mixed with a king size bed
 * Nick: Might do okay now there’s no X-Terminator and Tsunami, hey!
 * Nick: Hellbent looks... okay?
 * Toast: Axe looks a bit flimsy, Mean Streak seems the best so far
 * Camilla: Hellbent looks pretty good, don't know about having two weapons though
 * Toast: surely the next one will be a veteran
 * Toast: ...or not
 * Camilla: I-bot-who-what-now
 * Nick: Well it’s not a veteran, but it looks nifty
 * Toast: Here we go, German spinner, finally a robot with potential
 * Toast: I guess the German one and the mattress are going through
 * Nick: Okay, the invertible twins of I Bot and Mean Streak for me
 * Camilla: I'll go I-Bot and Hellbent here, I guess
 * Camilla: Grand final theme, really?
 * Toast: This is the moment when Araknia kills all three
 * Nick: My god, Araknia is pathetic
 * Toast: hahahahaha hellbent's axe just went straight through it
 * Nick: Is that axe good or are the opponents’ armour that bad?
 * Camilla: Hellbent's axe doesn't seem too bad, though I doubt Araknia's armour's the best standard to judge it against
 * Nick: Um...
 * Nick: I Bot??
 * Nick: It’s done!
 * Toast: oh fair enough they've killed the Germans! I think I underrated this Hellbent
 * Nick: Wow, well Hellbent is well on top
 * Nick: Hahaha, Araknia is hilarious
 * Toast: speaking of the "top"!
 * Nick: THE BLOODY TOP PANEL FELL OFF
 * Toast: there goes Araknia's entire lid!!
 * Camilla: Oh my god Araknia's falling apart
 * Nick: AND THE WEAPON
 * Nick: THE BOTTOM PANEL IS MORE RESILIENT THAN THE TOP ONE
 * Toast: why would you design a robot like thatttt
 * Nick: Hahaha it’s on fire
 * Toast: meanwhile I completely forgot about the big bed thing but I guess it just went through
 * Nick: Ha, Mean Streak lost drive in the background
 * Camilla: Mean Streak seems very average, but at least it survived
 * Nick: Well, that was fun
 * Toast: Hellbent Atomic heat final then?
 * Nick: Or not!
 * Camilla: AWH NO ATOMIC VS HELLBENT
 * Toast: ...I suppose that is the entire point of a seeding, but...
 * Nick: Topbot?
 * Camilla: Ooh Crushtacean
 * Nick: Where is Diotoir?
 * Nick: I guess it’s automatically in for the ROI
 * Toast: Diotoir probably qualified by default, they've been in every World Championship
 * Toast: Diotoir might even be seeded at this rate!!
 * Nick: Topbot fought in the sixth wars? What?
 * Camilla: What on earth is that paint job
 * Toast: Decent looking robot though, Crushtacean's not really done spinners before
 * Toast: It's got a "very skilled driver" on the stat boards so I might actually go for Topbot here
 * Nick: Not sure, personally
 * Nick: Crushtacean took out Corkscrew after all
 * Nick: IT BROKE THE ARENA LOL
 * Toast: oh well if this can smash the arena wall open!!
 * Camilla: They broke the arena wall, they must have some power
 * Nick: Well then
 * Nick: That was... a fight?
 * Nick: Well played, Crushtacean, but the fight never really got going
 * Camilla: Crushtacean showed good control, but yeah I get you there
 * Toast: I thought it was a great performance from Crushtacean, I was wrong to underestimate it
 * Nick: Solid stuff
 * Toast: If I'm doing this badly with the predictions, Atomic might be off home now!
 * Camilla: 'Topbot? More like flopbot!' Craig is really weird this series
 * Nick: Oh, Craig
 * Toast: hopefully he doesn't reuse it all the time like "Tsunami the new wave of robot" from last week
 * Toast: God that didn't feel like a full week ago
 * Nick: No, it really didn’t!
 * Camilla: Crushtacean should do pretty well in the main competition, at least a heat finalist tbh
 * Camilla: I'm still not used to Craig introducing the ad breaks, or the ad breaks in general
 * Toast: ahhhh nice to see a good old Woolworths ad
 * Toast: We have to wait for Atomic then, SMIDSY's redemption first
 * Toast: HAHAHA HE JUST CALLED HIS SEEDING A MISTAKE
 * Toast: yeah you're not wrong mate!
 * Nick: Well I’d want to go for Mean Streak here but meh I can’t say it impressed me
 * Nick: So S.M.I.D.S.Y. it is
 * Toast: Yeah SMIDSY's never been that impressive but it's also never done badly
 * Camilla: SMIDSY will probably have this one, but you never know
 * Nick: Ooh, Mean Streak actually damaged S.M.I.D.S.Y.’s side!
 * Toast: otherwise going to plan though
 * Camilla: Mean Streak has such an awkward design, it's so cumbersome
 * Nick: And S.M.I.D.S.Y. has crippled Mean Streak’s front side, too!
 * Camilla: ooph that hit from Psycho was a big one
 * Nick: Aw, that’s a nifty move!
 * Camilla: SMIDSY's stranded it!
 * Nick: Well done, S.M.I.D.S.Y.
 * Toast: Does JP actually think SMIDSY is capable of an OotA
 * Nick: fun little fight
 * Camilla: There you go, I said its design was flawed
 * Toast: Yeah, nothing to prove SMIDSY can beat Atomic or Hellbent, but a solid showing
 * Nick: WHOOOOOA
 * Toast: HOW DID IT GO THAT FAR
 * Nick: Christ, that was close from the Floor Flipper
 * Toast: this was like the biggest robot of the series and they were nearly out of the arena!
 * Camilla: Bash is actually doing damage for once, wow
 * Toast: Refbot has to push him from behind to get Mean Streak in the pit hahahaha
 * Camilla: I noticed that too, lmao
 * Nick: Even when he’s good he’s still bad
 * Toast: I know he is but I can't picture Robin Bennett as a biker
 * Nick: “Why the big improvement?”
 * Nick: Um, Craig
 * Camilla: that guy in the middle looks like Horrid Henry's mum
 * Toast: Hellbent's gonna be looking like a Moody Margaret after this
 * Nick: Hellbent is decent but it should be Atomic’s, this
 * Toast: Team Hellbent have some of the best shirts in the series
 * Toast: Agreed
 * Camilla: Not sure how well Hellbent will do here, Atomic's a really difficult robot for it to face
 * Nick: Is this Matilda’s first appearance all series??
 * Camilla: IT'S MATILDA
 * Camilla: Atomic gets underneath things so easily here
 * Toast: Wow Atomic retracts its flipper super quickly
 * Toast: OH AND IT ENDS MATCHES SUPER QUICKLY
 * Nick: WOW IT’S ON FORM
 * Camilla: OH WOW
 * Nick: The sloped flipper panel is a gem for OotAs, wow
 * Toast: they hit the back wall! What a toss!
 * Camilla: Shame we couldn't see more of Hellbent but that was a really nice OotA
 * Nick: Well another flipper Heat win looks inevitable, but so many of them are so good
 * Toast: Where was Hellbent in the axe attack then
 * Nick: (Side point: Hellbent would’ve been a perfect Annihilator Robot)
 * Toast: Nothing to say there isn't going to be an Extreme 3!
 * Toast: well at least Hellbent got to be in the same match as his waifu
 * Camilla: So they literally got Matilda in the arena to complete this guy's fanfic? Poor Matilda, she's getting neglected here
 * Toast: alright let's be honest
 * Toast: Does SMIDSY have ANY hope
 * Nick: I can’t see it at all
 * Camilla: Nah, Atomic will get underneath them really easily
 * Toast: Always great when there's a Directline ad during Robot Wars, that phone would make a great hammer, decent four wheel drive
 * Camilla: Why does Craig say 'welcome back to Robot Wars' in the exact same tone every time?
 * Toast: Decent tactics from SMIDSY, Scorpion already proved that you can leave the arena, come back in, and keep going
 * Nick: Haha, true!
 * Nick: Maybe Atomic will strand S.M.I.D.S.Y. itself here!
 * Toast: Maybe they can actually fly as the team claims, that might help them
 * Camilla: SMIDSY'S jaw isn't even really on the ground, Atomic will romp this one
 * Toast: Smidders has been out of the arena before, but nobody's done three ootas in a row before
 * Toast: Atomic's so fast
 * Nick: Yeah, Atomic’s on top here
 * Camilla: God, Atomic's scoop is so low to the floor
 * Nick: S.M.I.D.S.Y. just can’t attack it
 * Nick: OH MAN
 * Nick: They’ve done it AGAIN
 * Camilla: ANOTHER ONE, WOW
 * Toast: WONDERFUL FLIP OUT OF THE ARENA
 * Nick: And that’s the best of the collection!
 * Toast: That was a huge slam into the wall. Three in a row!!
 * Toast: Remember Terror Turtle being in this episode haha
 * Nick: So where were they in Series 6!
 * Camilla: I would've loved to see that
 * Toast: Makes a change from fighting Chaos 2 and Hypno-Disc, well deserved from Atomic
 * Nick: Agreed
 * Toast: Robin Bennett's chat game is on fire today
 * Nick: King
 * Camilla: There are loads of flippers in the semis so far
 * Camilla: Atomic's probably been the most impressive, bar Gravity
 * Toast: I'll admit that one, but Atomic has to be the best along with Gravity - maybe ignoring Tsunami but that already left!
 * Nick: WHAT
 * Camilla: WHAT???? MING IS SEEDED
 * Toast: I DID NOT JUST HEAR THAT
 * Toast: NOPE
 * Nick: MING WHATNASTY IS SEEDED?
 * Toast: NOT
 * Nick: DEAR GOD
 * Toast: DEFINITELY DIDN'T HEAR THAT
 * Toast: We're quitting this series
 * Nick: Who IS in this series ??
 * Nick: What a shit Series
 * Camilla: AND WHICH ROBOT WAS EVEN MING IN THERE??THERE WAS NOTHING THAT LOOKED EVEN REMOTELY LIKE IT
 * Nick: Well we’re definitely getting an ‘unseeded’ Heat winner next time!
 * Nick: Unless there’s things worse, that is!
 * Camilla: Thinking about it, that big grey thing with the claw was closest, but that looked awful
 * Toast: Maybe they're trying to act like these new mobile phones and make everything smaller
 * Toast: Might need to get a new Nokia myself