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#Aftershock comfortably knocked РАПЫД out at this stage in Series 9, and by comfortably I mean in a way that is hard to disagree with. [[User:Jimlaad43|<font color="black">J</font><font color="gold">im<font color="black">laa</font><font color="gold">d</font>]][[User talk:Jimlaad43|<font color="gold">4</font></font><font color="black">3</font>]] 07:55, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 
#Aftershock comfortably knocked РАПЫД out at this stage in Series 9, and by comfortably I mean in a way that is hard to disagree with. [[User:Jimlaad43|<font color="black">J</font><font color="gold">im<font color="black">laa</font><font color="gold">d</font>]][[User talk:Jimlaad43|<font color="gold">4</font></font><font color="black">3</font>]] 07:55, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 
#That's it for R A P I D <span style="font-family:Pirulen; font-size:10pt">[[User:ToastUltimatum|<font color="maroon">'''T'''</font><font color="ff8c00">'''OAS'''</font>]][[User talk:ToastUltimatum|<font color="maroon">'''T'''</font>]]</span> 12:41, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 
#That's it for R A P I D <span style="font-family:Pirulen; font-size:10pt">[[User:ToastUltimatum|<font color="maroon">'''T'''</font><font color="ff8c00">'''OAS'''</font>]][[User talk:ToastUltimatum|<font color="maroon">'''T'''</font>]]</span> 12:41, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
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#Yeah, nice and easy. [[User:Hogwild94|Hogwild94]] ([[User talk:Hogwild94|talk]]) 17:48, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 
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Forums: Index > Audited Series 9 > Audited Series 9 Heat 3


This is Robot Wars! Last time, we saw Terrorhurtz book its place in the Grand Final alongside Eruption, both looking to take home the title of Robot Wars grand champion. The winner of tonight's heat will also be one step closer to glory, but back in the pits, there's something even greater at stake. For years, the most effective weapon in the arena has been the flipper, but time and time again, deadly spinning weapons have been nibbling at their toes. Tonight, three flippers and three spinners are looking to settle the argument as to which weapon is superior once and for all! Who will reign triumphant? Will any of our wildcard weapons - the axe and crusher - get in the way? And most importantly of all, who will book their place in the Grand Final? Let battle commence!

Round 1

Toxic 2 vs Rapid vs Trolley Rage vs Push To Exit

House Robot: Dead Metal

Toxic 2
Toxic 2
Votes
  1. Toxic 2 and Rapid. I've not seen that many videos of Toxic 2, besides its success in the World Championships which I feel confident enough relying on for this first round clash at least. It should certainly be able to deal with Trolley Rage, and I'd comfortably go for Rapid over Push-to-actually-work-like-you're-meant-to, so this is a simple victory for me. CrashBash (talk) 19:10, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
  2. Toxic 2 and Rapid - Easy wins here, Trolley Rage is dead plain and simple and PtE's lack of reliability will be its undoing... also did Push to Exit ever flip a robot? Diotoir the son of nemesis (talk) 19:18, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
  3. Toxic 2 & Rapid - Yeah, this feels very comfortable for the two rear-hinged flippers. Trolley Rage looks very easily flipped and I'm not convinced it'd easily self-right from its lid; Push to Exit (which did manage to flip Hobgoblin in Series 10) lost a wire to a hit from PP3D which the two flippers can probably match the force of if not the damage. Combatwombat555 (talk) 19:56, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
    Ah yes it did didn't it.Diotoir the son of nemesis (talk) 20:01, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
  4. Toxic 2 & Rapid. A pretty simple victory for the two big flippers. P2E will not flip anyone and break down, while Trolley Rage is a flip or two away from being trapped upside-down and trashed by a House Robot. Or flipped out of the arena by Rapid. Jimlaad43 20:18, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
  5. Toxic 2 and Rapid. I'm afraid I'm not very familiar with Toxic 2; if someone could point me in the direction of some footage of it, that'd be much apppreciated. Its against two straight forward opponents though, so it and Rapid shouldn't be troubled here. Hogwild94 (talk) 20:26, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
  6. Toxic 2 & Rapid: I have to say regarding this heat, definitely not the lineup I was expecting but regardless I agree with what's been said thus far, I don't see any major threats to the two flippers here. BizarroKing (talk) 20:28, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
  7. Toxic 2 and RAPID - yeah, I wouldn't rule out Push to Exit getting some fun flips in this time around but it won't do enough over the course of the fight. NJGW (talk) 03:18, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
  8. Toxic 2 and RAPID. The inclusion of Toxic 2 is hardly going to set the world on fire, they weren't really a devastating exclusion (and didn't they technically try with a new robot for Series 9? Or was that just Series 10?) but the rear-hinges will be fine here. TOAST 14:08, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
  9. Toxic 2 and RAPID. Toxic 2 is decent enough, and RAPID had potential that was confirmed a series later. Both should have no trouble taking out the opposition here within the first minute. SpaceManiac888 (Talk) 20:23, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
Rapid
Rapid S9
Trolley Rage
Trolley-rage
Push to Exit
Push to Exit
Results Qualified: Toxic 2 & Rapid Score: 9-9-0-0

PP3D vs Aftershock vs Draven vs Frostbite

House Robot: Dead Metal

PP3D
PP3D
Votes
  1. PP3D and Aftershock. Good lord, this isn't a question of "Who wins?", it's a question of "What state do the losers end up in?"...I'll say this much, at least Draven will still be in something resembling one piece, compared to the metal shards and dust particles that was once Frostbite. CrashBash (talk) 19:10, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
  2. PP3D and Aftershock - Another easy win, not much to say. Diotoir the son of nemesis (talk) 19:19, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
  3. PP3D & Aftershock - Well, this is less a fight and more an exhibition of spinners. Frostbite will be Gone, reduced to atoms, and Draven got its bottom torn out by PP3D IRL - which didn't actually kill it, but death won't be far off by that point. Combatwombat555 (talk) 20:01, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
  4. Draven & Aftershock - I just can't see PP3D's wheels being left alone by Aftershock for too long. Draven did survive a couple of hits before dying, and it surely won't take long for Aftershock to take an extra wheel off. Frostbite is a non-entity here and I don't see there being two more vulnerable robots for it to fluke a survival here. Jimlaad43 20:21, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
  5. PP3D and Aftershock. Two strong spinners against two highly vulnerable opponents, this shouldn't take very long. Hogwild94 (talk) 20:27, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
  6. PP3D & Aftershock: Aftershock will more or less tear Frostbite apart before they can get their weapon up to a proper speed and as much as I want to give Draven the W here, we've seen what PP3D did in RL, even if Draven survives I feel PP3D will take it on damage and if Aftershock somehow ends up assisting them, then I CAN see Draven getting KO'ed.BizarroKing (talk) 20:28, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
  7. PP3D and Aftershock - if it was just a case of everybody blindly engaging in whatever fight comes first then the result could be anything. PP3D could be rendered immobile early, Aftershock could have one of its fragile areas shattered by a big hit, and so on. But similar to Aftershock's actual Series 9 melee the spinners will likely avoid each other here, and if so the other two won't last long at all. Even if the two teams aren't in the same driving booth they'll still likely avoid engaging because they'll be aware of what a strong collision could result in. NJGW (talk) 03:21, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
  8. PP3D & Aftershock - Yeah, the big spinners are sensible enough to not go after each other. Gary Cairns won't mind blowing up the school entry while Aftershock can just have a little warm-up with Draven. TOAST 14:09, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
  9. Aftershock and Frostbite. Eh, I think Will Thomas will show sympathy for the school team, and thus turn Aftershock's attentions towards quickly breaking PP3D's wheels, before taking out Draven within a few blows. Frostbite limps towards qualification. SpaceManiac888 (Talk) 20:23, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
Aftershock
Aftershock
Draven
Lord Draven
Frostbite
Frostbite
Results Qualified: PP3D & Aftershock Score: 7-9-1-1

Round 2

Toxic 2 vs PP3D

House Robots: Shunt & Matilda

Toxic 2 PP3D
Toxic 2
PP3D
Votes for Toxic 2
  1. Don't know for sure how tough Toxic 2 will be against spinners, but it looks ready to ram and flip PP3D if it can survive the blows. Not only that, but PP3D didn't like getting flipped...like at all! It either had a breakdown, lost a wheel, lost mobility on one side or all together, which honestly does not go well in a fight against such a compact flipper bot.Diotoir the son of nemesis (talk) 20:11, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
  2. I really do not know, because I have not seen Toxic 2 face a spinner before! If this were the Series 8 PP3D, I would be confident enough to vote for it, based on its performance against Eruption. However, PP3D's reliability got worse in Series 9, and Series 8 Eruption did tank some blows. If Toxic 2 has around the same toughness and reliability as Series 8 reliability, maybe it will survive long enough to shock PP3D enough for the latter to break down? It's possible, I suppose! SpaceManiac888 (Talk) 22:48, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
  3. The armour on Toxic 2 is thin but the robot is really quite big, I think it'll be comfortably losing throughout and PP3D will enjoy a bit of a field day until it just has a bit of a Series 9 moment and packs in. TOAST 12:40, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Votes for PP3D
  1. I'm not too sure about this fight, given that PP3D could die at any moment, but it's also hard to say how effective Toxic 2 would be towards spinners. I'm going to, very tentatively, vote for PP3D, but I wouldn't be surprised if I changed my mind given all its issues. CrashBash (talk) 20:04, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
  2. I have a feeling Toxic 2 might struggle against a spinner like PP3D. It might get one flip in but I feel PP3D is gonna do some heavy damage against the yellow flipper before they have a chance to KO the spinner. BizarroKing (talk) 22:01, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
  3. Given that Toxic 2 is another of the live event crowd that (at the time) never face spinners, I'm not convinced it's particularly well-armoured - according to the FRA website it's 3.2mm HARDOX, so a touch thinner than Eruption's armour without the additional panels added. Add in the flat sides, and Toxic 2 really doesn't strike me as resilient to high-powered spinners. PP3D's reliability was worse in Series 9, but the disc also had more power - I back it to cause terminal damage to Toxic 2 before it conks out itself. Combatwombat555 (talk) 23:10, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
  4. Shout out to anyone who remembers the Nitrome flash game Toxic 2 that was exceptional. Anyway, I can't see the flipper on Toxic 2 surviving many hits before taking some damage that will stop it working. PP3D may have been a bit vulnerable to being too powerful for itself, but I don't see Toxic being hard enough to cause the sparking issue or to still be strong enough to deal with PP3D and KO it once the disc stops. PP3D to get the required damage done first, and ride on those coat tails for the rest of the fight. Jimlaad43 08:14, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
  5. Provided PP3D goes in inverted, which would probably favour the disc in this instance, I feel it can just about do enough to win this one. Hogwild94 (talk) 17:48, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Winner:

Aftershock vs Rapid

House Robots: Sir Killalot & Dead Metal

Aftershock Rapid
Aftershock
Rapid S9
Votes for Aftershock
  1. Technically, this is a seen-it, and RAPID got trashed. But even assuming that it doesn't, the biggest issue Rapid has is that it didn't really have a flipper-lip. This suggests to me that Aftershock has the ground clearance advantage, and will likely get under rAPID more often than the other way around. Also since RaPiD often had to be very situational in its OOTA flips...if this version of rapid even can get such a flip...I'm not convinced that it can deal with Aftershock before it inevitably tears Rpd to pieces...or gets it stuck in a place it can't right itself again. CrashBash (talk) 20:04, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
  2. My god all those ways of calling it Rapid. Hate to say it but it's a seen it. Aftershock may do even more damage just to make sure... Plus it seems when ever Rapid faced a spinner it got thrashed (Aftershock, Carbide, Magnetar) Diotoir the son of nemesis (talk) 20:13, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
  3. I have fears of Rapid's realibility here, we all know it had to forfeit after it's 2nd round battle and against Atershock, I don't see them coming out on top. BizarroKing (talk) 22:01, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
  4. Aftershock's victory seemed clean to me. Even if RAPID did not get stuck, Aftershock's hits seemed to cause it some issues beforehand. SpaceManiac888 (Talk) 22:48, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
  5. Yeah, can't really go against what we saw. It's just struck me how unappealing this version of rApId looks, big old dark grey slab with the name in block capitals (that I'm pretty sure is even slightly off-centre) - fantastic engineering, but it wasn't a pretty machine was it? Combatwombat555 (talk) 23:10, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
  6. Aftershock comfortably knocked РАПЫД out at this stage in Series 9, and by comfortably I mean in a way that is hard to disagree with. Jimlaad43 07:55, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
  7. That's it for R A P I D TOAST 12:41, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
  8. Yeah, nice and easy. Hogwild94 (talk) 17:48, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Votes for Rapid
Winner: