User blog:Toon Ganondorf/Series 4 with TG's seeds

As requested, Series 4 redone with my seeds listed here.

Format
The series consisted of sixteen heats featuring six robots each with each heat champion progressing to the semi-finals and two robots from each going through to the Grand Final of the series. In the restructured heats the first round had two three-way eliminators instead of four one-on-one battles with two robots progressing to the next round.

Only change is that seeds 1 and 32 fight, not 1 and 17.

Robots that have gone from seeded to unseeded have been inserted into where I believe the balance is least amended. See the seed blog for explanations.

Seeded robots
1. Chaos 2

2. Hypno-Disc

3. Firestorm 2

4. Panic Attack

5. Steg 2

6. Gemini

7. Razer

8. 101

9. Behemoth

10. Killertron

11. Wild Thing

12. Gravedigger

13. Mortis

14. Diotoir

15. King B3

16. Evil Weevil 2

17. Pussycat

18. Spawn of Scutter

19. Bigger Brother

20. Shadow of Napalm

21. Plunderbird 4

22. X-Terminator 2

23. Wheely Big Cheese

24. Berserk 2

25. Cerberus

26. Aggrobot 2

27. Invertabrat

28. Dreadnaut XP-1

29. Suicidal Tendencies 2

30. Darke Destroyer 2

31. Milly-Ann Bug

32. Sir Chromalot

Heat A
Robots competing in Heat A: Chaos 2, Atomic, Indefatigable, Medusa 2000, Sir Chromalot, Attila the Drum

Eliminators
 * Indefatigable vs Atomic vs Chaos 2 (1): Indefatigable eliminated - seen
 * Attila The Drum vs Sir Chromalot (32) vs Medusa 2000: Sir Chromalot eliminated - Attila the Drum isn't Scorpion, there's more staying power there and we know it. All Medusa has to do is run its wedge underneath the unwieldy bot and its timberrrrrrrrrr. Two robots can then interfere with the contraption's self-righting

Semi-Finals
 * Medusa 2000 vs Chaos 2 (1): Chaos 2 won - seen -
 * Attila the Drum vs Atomic: Attila the Drum won - Attila won't spontaneously combust and hand victory to a limping Atomic

Final
 * Chaos 2 (1) vs Attila the Drum: Chaos 2 won - think Stinger, but with less danger to Chaos 2'

Heat B
Robots competing in Heat B: Firestorm 2, Robochicken, Velocirippa, Stinger, Darke Destroyer 2, Reptirron

Eliminators
 * Firestorm 2 (3) vs Velocirippa vs Robochicken: Robochicken eliminated - Velocirippa is to nimble and prone to rolling back onto its wheels, without Razer to pierce the vital internals its more likely that Robochicken will end up on its back
 * Darke Destroyer 2 (30) vs Stinger vs Reptirron: Reptirron eliminated - it may not catch fire because the wagglers aren't Pussycat's blade, but Stinger's mace will knock something loose in Reptirron

Semi-Finals
 * Firestorm 2 (3) vs Stinger: Stinger won - any other Firestorm and I'd vote for it, but Firestorm 2 just wasn't reliable and struggled plenty of times with immobilising The Morgue. Stinger claims its first massive scalp and looks to repeat history.
 * Darke Destroyer 2 (30) vs Velocirippa: Darke Destroyer 2 won - urgh what a choice, but Velocirippa can't fight properly against DD, who could at least ram Warhog without much hurt

Final
 * Darke Destroyer 2 (30) vs Stinger: Stinger won - Stinger beats its alternative self, the 30th seed, by bludgeoning it. The wagglers won't pose nearly as much aggression.

Heat C
Robots competing in Heat C: Steg 2, The Morgue, Scar, Bolt from the Blue, Dreadnaut XP-1, Ming 2

Eliminators
 * Scar vs The Morgue vs Steg 2 (5): The Morgue eliminated - likely to end up upside down
 * Bolt From The Blue vs Dreadnaut XP-1 (28) vs Ming 2: Dreadnaut XP-1 eliminated - more likely to be toppled by Ming 2 than Bolt


 * Note: After the eliminators, Scar broke down and could not be fixed in time so The Morgue was reinstated.

Semi-Finals
 * Steg 2 (5) vs Bolt From The Blue: Steg 2 won - will have just as much trouble getting under Bolt, but more likely to succeed in an aggressive attack
 * Ming 2 vs The Morgue: The Morgue won - seen

Final
 * Steg 2 (5) vs The Morgue: Steg 2 won - just like Firestorm, a repeat of Round 1

Heat D
Robots competing in Heat D: Razer (7), Crusader 2, Cronos, Iron-Awe, Aggrobot 2 (26), Mazakari

Eliminators
 * Cronos vs Crusader 2 vs Razer (7): Crusader 2 eliminated - my gut says that Crusader 2 loses here for being vulnerable, but Toast pointed out that so was Robochicken. But I can't shake my gut, I see Razer targeting Crusader 2 as the most obvious choice, speed notwithstanding 
 * Aggrobot 2 (26) vs Mazakari vs Iron-Awe: Iron-Awe eliminated - without Mortis' arm to strand Mazakari, this is an easy call because Iron Awe has no saving grace with the judges

Semi-Finals
 * Razer (7) v Mazakari: Razer won - Mazakari may be a flywheel, but that doesn't help it much here
 * Aggrobot 2 vs Cronos: Aggrobot 2 won - Cronos' weapon is too weak and maybe too small to hurt Aggrobot, who is fast enough to ram it around

Final
 * Razer (7) v Aggrobot 2 (26): Razer won - and all was right with the world

Heat E
Robots competing in Heat E: Behemoth (9), Dominator 2, Henry 2, Major Tom, Berserk 2, Disc-O-Inferno

Eliminators
 * Henry 2 vs Dominator 2 vs Behemoth (9): Henry 2 eliminated - seen, no reason to suggest Behemoth's presence changes the first two seconds
 * Disc-O-Inferno vs Berserk 2 (24) vs Major Tom: Disc-O-Inferno eliminated - no reason to believe Berserk 2 makes Disc-O less prone to death. Berserk 2 finally gets to stand up to a flywheel and actually claim the win.

Semi-Finals
 * Major Tom vs Behemoth (9): Beheoth won - no doubt
 * Berserk 2 (24) vs Dominator 2: Dominator 2 won - I feel that Dominator 2's wedge would probably end up being a factor

Final
 * Dominator 2 vs Behemoth (9): Dominator 2 won - Behemoth is a great robot, but if X-Terminator 2 can boss it around, Dominator 2 can. Dominator 2 has never lost to a flipping weapon, ever.