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Alternate Series 4 Grand Final

Behemoth vs SMIDSY: I did skip the last round because we'd already done those matches, and there was no reason to expect a different outcome. Anyways, these ones look more interesting. On this one, I have to join Toast on the "surprised" side, Behemoth wasn't fast in this series, sure it can flip SMIDSY, but SMIDY will just roll off its scoop and counterattack with a ram. Behemoth's loss to X-Terminator was very telling - it had problems with fast robots and being lifted off the ground. SMIDSY has both those attributes.

Razer vs Mortis: Ah this matchup again, my old friend. I'm going to maintain what I said last time and the time before that, that Mortis would have to get really lucky to do terminal damage to Razer. Now granted, Razer's beak can't pierce everything - Drillzilla, Onslaught, and a beer keg being the most infamous examples - and I disagree with those who say it could pierce Mortis' armour, because even in Series 2, I think its armour was good enough to hold Razer off. However, the important thing to remember is that Razer ended up winning against Drillzilla and Onslaught. It doesn't need to pierce, just maintain control of the match. From studying the way its beak is set up, I'm very skeptical of David's argument that Mortis could disable the beak. The "open" part is only exposed when Razer's beak is in the down position, and the team know better than to keep it there for too long (unless they're in the process of crushing another robot.) Also the "cables" are just for the self righting wings, not the beak itself - to disable that, you'd have to hit Razer's underside at the rear, which no robot except PC has managed to do. I see Mortis putting some holes in Razer's curved bits on the side, but underneath them is just air, so no detrimental effect. If the Razer team has finesse and precision control - which they do in spades - they'll realize that the weak points are Mortis' lifter and the gaps where its weapons are housed, it may not pierce those but it might bend them.