You could see a gouge in that billet from that shot in the back. Well, that’s probably not good.Įnd Game came in and ripped off part of the front wedge as Shatter! was barely mobile. Hitting the belts would have been a success, instead this was just a loss of hammerhead. It looked to be the latter as it got away for now, and moved front to front to try and line up again.Īnd it was a success, weapon on weapon! Wait, not a success. Shatter! could self-right but it wasn’t driving, either because the drive was lost or the bent fork had gotten stuck. Another was just a glancing blow, and enough of a jump for End Game to get under Shatter! and push Shatter! enough around to get to the back, push and send it popping up with a big hit. Shatter! bounced back, pushed back impressively and got a hammer shot in. The ablative armor did as intended with the first strikes of End Game’s weapon, but Shatter! overcorrected to return to meet End Game, which means End Game was on the corner, and then the side, slicing away at the plastic and exposing Shatter!’s titanium billeted chassis and its underside to hits. forks in an attempt to win that still all-important ground game, Shatter!’s single forks (but also magnets!) vs. End Game survived a controversial split decision with Rotator to get this far, while Shatter! managed to break the meta-breaker juuust enough to win their own decision vs. Black Dragon wins by unanimous decision and moves to the semis to face the winner of Hydra-Whiplash. 3-0.Īggression: Thanks to being flipped over, Ribbot couldn’t get anything going in aggression either. Honestly, 4-1 or 3-2, and let’s be real, that was Black Dragon probably breaking itself on Ribbot’s face.Ĭontrol: Black Dragon controlled this fight. So yeah, Black Dragon was on fire and it killed the weapon, but I don’t think I can go 5-0 Ribbot. And with all that, it went to the judges, and I get to adjust the winner of my “House of Pain” Award!ĭamage: The flip counts as damage in a way and might have been the most debilitating thing to Ribbot, though the forks also made it tough. Would Black Dragon hang on? It was still being the aggressor, still controlling the fight, and Ribbot was doing very little to stem that tide thanks to being inverted. Meanwhile the fire was spreading and I swear half the internals had to be engulfed in flames at this point. Black Dragon was still dominating in control, chasing after Ribbot, putting the frog on the screws, taking it to the pulverizer (actually pinning it next to the pulverizer, either a mishit by Black Dragon or a great defensive ploy by Ribbot depending on whose corner it was) and around the Box. So you had Ribbot inverted, without enough oomph in their weapon at this point to get back over, and Black Dragon, whose weapon motor was on fire. But it looked like it was the weapon and it was just any leftover inertia. Not sure what, as they were still zipping around, and still flipping Ribbot over. Poor foam frog, at this point it was as good as gone.īut Black Dragon was smoking.
The get back over was once again Black Dragon hitting them, though. Ribbot was just getting by by turning using weapon and wheels until they could find a way to get back over. I mean, less so the foam frog, but the rest of it.īlack Dragon continued to win the ground game, as Ribbot was losing forks left and right and even just getting turned turtle by Black Dragon’s wedge.
Black Dragon came in for another hit and actually flipped Ribbot back over, so minus whatever damage, Ribbot was okay.
And Black Dragon could take advantage when the two bots finally met, getting the leverage and with it sending Ribbot somersaulting right over. Ribbot went for the circling maneuver, getting nothing but a snapped off wedgelet for their troubles. Yeah, that would be Black Dragon.Īs for Ribbot, their undercutter got damaged beyond repair in their upset win over Uppercut, so for this fight (and I guess any after) it’ll have to be the vertical disk. And one of these bots you could totally have expected to get here, and I did considering I had them making the final. Records don’t matter now anyway, it’s the final 8 bots. Welcome back to the Beat! The recap this morning is a pretty simple premise: Eight robots, seven fights, one champion.
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