Y2K is back from BBB, and it held up much better than I thought. Even managed to get a few KOs. Also saw a 1lb antweight.
The Unfilmed Battles
Fight 1: Here Comes The Thing!
Held in the test arena, this fight was against a grappler named The Thing. The Thing was easily outwedged and soon OotA’d
The Filmed Battles
Fight 1: Spinners Be Damned
The spinner rumble. A death sentence, for most.
My opponents were:
- Birdemic, a 4wd grabber powered by a beetlweight’s servo
- Eclipse, a 2wd vert with a cage on its spinner to prevent pulling a Vanquish
- speaking of, Vanquish. a 2wd vertical spinner which started out as a Trailmakers build.
- Neociraptor, a 2wd grabber-lifter.
- Neosaur, a 2wd lifter.
- Game Over, a 4wd vertical spinner
- Reactor, the only horizontal in the battle
- Another 4wd vert which I do not know the name of. James, if you’re reading this, sorry about not naming your robot.
Strategy
Avoid Reactor as much as possible, as I did not want to sacrifice the lifter just to get them out.
Head for the sides of the vertical spinners, as they do not have good ground clearance.
The Fight:
Straight away, I went for Birdemic, with pushing and shoving ensuing.
Then, Vanquish got a hit on Game Over which caused it to take flight and land directly on Neosaur, obliterating the lifter and removing a vertical spinner from the fight. Of course, I happened to just be pushed away by some coincidental fork placement. I then went for Eclipse, who was having drive issues, nearly turning them upside down. After succeeding at flipping Eclipse, I decided to go for Vanquish, which had bad bite on my TPU forks. (THANK GOD!) Vanquish then reversed directly into the other 4wd vertical spinner, sending them into the roof and ending up on their front end, also losing mobility due to the switch cutting out. As a result, I got Vanquish out of the arena without it throwing itself in. After nearly getting Birdemic out as well, Reactor got a good bite on me, taking a chunk from below my wheel. After another hit from the horizontal, it drove itself into the pit. I then got double teamed by Neosaur and Eclipse, with the latter winning the rumble.
Fight 2: Completely To PLAnt
Don’t let the lack of spinners fool you, there were many more robots in the arena.
Including…
- No Big Dill
- Gecko (the GRoCS 6 version)
- Gecko (the GRoCS 5 version, otherwise known as Karma Chameleon)
- Rodney, not driven by the shin-kicker
- A Gen3 N&B Pusher with forks on it
- Nom, a modified N&B Gen2 grabber
- Hercules 3
- For Fork Sake, a 4wd pusher
- Optilift Prime, a 2wd lifter
- Cat Flap!, a SVRN lifter
- Fatal Deviant, an antweight version of a beetleweight named after an Irish martial arts film
- Neociraptor, again.
- A 2wd lifter. Again, if you are the driver of this, let me know.
- Warlord, a 2wd flipper.
- Wensleydale, another 2wd flipper.
- Former champions, Burning Tiger.
Safe to say, I got flung into next week, then Cat Flap couldn’t take the pain anymore and pitted itself. I was then pitted by Hercules 3.
Battle 3: More To PLAnt
The second PLAnt rumble, much smaller than Battle 2.
My opponents were:
- Optilift Prime
- Hercules 3
- Neociraptor
- No Big Dill
- Wensleydale
- Fatal Deviant
Strategy:
As the one-wheeled horizontal once said, SEND IT!
The Fight:
Send It I did, driving straight towards Hercules 3, but the former champion didn’t use their grappler. Thank God! Heading for NBD, one flick of the lifter and a push sent the “sometimes suplexer” one wheel in the pit. Hercules started going for me, but Fatal Deviant crashed into it again. Finally pushing NBD in and having a close call with Wensleydale, Hercules decided to end this once. Ben drove right in, got a lift, then took me down with him.
Fight 4: Timely Tussle
What do you get when you mix two printbots with a 500mph spinning blade?
Opponents:
- FlintKnock, a horizontal spinner similar to the likes of Triton
- Cat Flap!, an SVRN printbot, ELVRN specifically. For some reason brought forks against a horizontal.
Strategy:
With the way that my wedge was set up, it was Fling Horizontals or Lifter (now resolved). As not to sacrifice ground clearance, I put the wedge on one side (for FlintKnock) and a fork on the other side (for Cat Flap!).
The Fight:
FlintKnock had tried to spin up, but the both of us raced towards the bothersome bar, and due to a shoddy wiring job, that was FlintKnock’s spinner done for. Cat Flap! was attempting to use its lifter as a grabber, so I came in and the both of them rode up my wedge, with only FlintKnock falling in. Lots of flipping, pushing and grabbing ensued until time was up.
What’s next?
See you at GRoCS. A new printer’s been ordered because you can’t pay me to remove those supports again.
