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ROBOT WARS SERIES 4

For series 4 there is a new format. Instead of 8 robots in each heat fighting  in 4 first round battles with two robots in each battle, there are now only 6  robots in each heat, two of them being seeded, fighting in two first round,  three way melee battles.Two robots go through to the next round from each melee,  with one going out. Also this year there is a seeding system, with 32 seeds  chosen by the Robot Wars staff. There are two seeds in each heat. The series has  now finished, and here are the results: (the number in brackets is the robot  seed number)

Heat A.

Reigning champions Chaos 2 (1) started easily by throwing  Indefatigable out of the arena. King B3 (17) lost to Atomic whilst Chaos 2 took  on Medusa 2000. Chaos 2 vs Atomic was the final, with Chaos 2 going into the  series semi finals.

Heat B

Razer (3) was back along with Pussycat (19). The two easily won into the heat  final, where Razer broke down again. It was then trashed by a mercyless  Pussycat.

Heat C

Diotoir (21) returned and was met with disaster. The team missed the ferry  from Ireland and only had two hours to finish their robot. They lasted 10  seconds. Firestrom (5) beat The Morque in the final.

Heat D

Steg 2 (7) and Mortis (23) returned and both won into the closely matched  final. But the power of Steg 2 and its 900psi flipper beat mighty Mortis and  threw it into the pit.

Heat E

101 (9) and Shadow of Napalm (25) were in the heat, but Shadow of Napalm was  beaten by Dominator 2 which then beat 101 in the heat final.

Heat F

The first UK cluster bot Gemini (8) took on The Creature and threw it over  the wall. Beserk 2 (24) was beaten by Tornado who then beat Gemini in the  final.

Heat G

Gravedigger (13) proved its unlucky seed number when it broke down in the  first round. Dreadnaught XP-1 (29) beat Warhog in round one but was thrown  around and badly damaged by Sir Killalot. It made it into the second round to  lose to Thermidor II. Thermidor II lined up against Kronic the Wedgehog in the  final. Thermidor II went into the series semi finals.

Heat H

Roger Plant was back with  Wheely Big Cheese (15), Beating Prizephita 2 and the returning Killertron (Which  wasn't in series 3, and has not been changed from series 2). Meantime, Suicidal  Tendencies (32) beat Maverick and the also returning Wheelosauraus, again not  seen since series 2. Wheely Big Cheese then faced and just managed to beat  Suicidal Tendencies, after the judges said Tendencies was broken before Wheely  Big Cheese fell into the pit.

Heat I

Killerhurtz (16) returned from driving school to beat Distruct-A-Bubble but  it then lost to Small Torque when the speed controller caught fire. Centurion  (31) had a fail safe failure and lost whilst the final was Small Torque vs  Splinter. Small Torque's Hi-tech CO2 motor cooling system failed and it caught  fire.

Heat J

Bigger Brother (14) and 7 year old Joe Watts was back, and it beat Clawed  Hopper (The first walking robot to enter the main contest) for a place in the  second round against Bulldog Breed 2. But the clear favioute, Bigger Brother  lost a high pressure CO2 pipe and couldn't self-right, leaving them out.  Meantime Stinger (30) beat Hammer and Tong to face Bulldog Breed 2 in the final,  a final with Stinger won easily.

Heat K

The major talk here was the early loses of both of the seeds, Evil Weevil  (12) and Wel-Dor (28), both of which lost in the first round. Sumpthing disabled  itself, and Mousetrap went into the series semi-final, beating Tiberius.

Heat L

Music lovers dived for cover as Plunderbird 4 (26) entered the pits in an  army Helicopter. They teamed up with Vercingetorix to beat Fat Boy Tin, whilst  Spawn of Scutter (10) and Knightmare destroyed Banshee. In the final, Spawn of  Scutter beat Knightmare.

Heat M

Wild Thing (11) and the Steel Avenger took out Humphrey in round one whilst  Scorpion was flame grilled and lost its tail. The final was Wild Thing vs Steel  Avenger, with a close fight ending as Steels Avengers srimech arm got bent and  it was left upsidedown, ready to be pushed into the pit. Which it was, as the  House Robots backed out to let Wild Thing do the pushing.

Heat N

Behemoth (6) was back taking out Rambot and Judge Shred 2, whilst  X-Terminator 2 (22) took out Millennium bug, another walker, and Arnold  Terminegger. The final proved to be good, and it was X-Terminator 2 that got the  win, taking out Behemoth.

Heat O

Series 2 champions Panic Attack (4) were back, and showed their will to win  by removing Overkill in round one. Aggrobot 2 (20), having beaten Razer last  year, looked to more gaint killing, but didn't get the chance. They beat  Oblivion 2 but lost to Smidsy. Panic Attack beat Saw Point, whose wheels are  made of huge saw blades, and then killed Smidsy to get into the semis.

Heat P

This time we had to wait for the final heat for the H's. Only this time, it  was a mix ofs H's and E's. Hypno-Disc (2), Even more Harrowing, Even more  Hairraising, and Hand me a brush to pick up even more pieces. In its melee  round, it broke both Raizer Blade, who stayed alive the longest, and Predator,  who lost both its batteries. Cerberus (18) was too heavy and lost its head, and  its battle. Onslaught was meant to be in the heat, but broke down allowing V-Max  a chance to fight. However, they probably wished they hadn't bothered, as they  met Hypno-disc in round two. More batteries, motors, gears, Co2 and steel  flying. Raizer Blade beat Terror Bull, to fight Hypno-disc again in the final.  But they had been blowing speed controllers all the way though, and they had  borrowed Dead Metal spares for the last fight. But they lost their hydraulics,  and the speed controllers, and their bodywork, as Hypno-disc stormed into the  finals.

Semi Final 1.

Chaos 2 fought Steg 2, the underdog hoping for a trip into the finals, but  the reigning champs flipped Steg 2 more and they got stuck the wrong way up.  Tornado met Wheely Big Cheese. Tornado in orbit, but the titanium wheels of  Wheely Big Cheese shattered against the wall, and with Tornado having completed  re-entry, Wheely Big Cheese was out. Firestorm was put out by Dominator 2, and  Pussycat just about beat Thermidor II. In the second round, Pussycat had a good  battle against Dominator 2, with Pussycat into the Grand Final. Chaos 2 met  Tornado, Tornado was quickly pushed up onto the arena wall, and was quickly  tipped over it, landing nearly on the camera. Chaos 2 into the final.

Semi Final 2

More H's as Hypno-disc took to the arena floor again. Splinter was the poor  robot. It started well for Splinter but one attack went wrong and Hypno-disc  trashed it. Killalot somehow found the one place on Splinter that could be used  to pick the robot up in one piece, and he threw it accross the floor to its  final destruction, as it fell apart. Panic Attack beat Spawn of Scutter, as the  House Robots gathered round for the kill. Stinger beat Mousetrap, when the  weapon chain fell off.Wild Thing Terminated X-Terminator 2, but the faces of the  team dropped when they were told who they were fighting next. They put up a  brave fight against Hypno-disc, but the judges gave it to Hypno-disc on the  damaged wobbley wheels of Wild Thing. Panic Attack fought Stinger, uniterasting  battle, but poor judges decision, as the winners Stinger were booed. Everyone  (Including me) felt Panic Attack should be in the final. But at least they  escaped the finals with Hypno-disc.

Grand Final

Eliminator 1.

Pussycat vs Hypno-disc.

This battle promised so much for the crowd, but it was all over at the first  strike. Pussycat hit the right rear wheel as Hypno-disc turned to get time for  the disc to spin up, and Hypno-disc was instantly going round in circles as the  wheel guard jammed the wheel. But a dead robot can still be dangerous, and the  disc was still spinning. Pussycat came in, and the two high speed weapons hit  and Pussycats blade bent. Shunt then stuck its axe though the spinning  Hypno-disc, and the force pulled the axe into Hypnos front transmission. The  disc stopped, the drive stopped and Killalot dropped them into the pit.

Eliminator 2

Chaos 2 vs Stinger

Nearly everyone wanted to see Chaos 2 beat Stinger, and the battle was a good  one. Stinger was impossible to flip, but Chaos 2 kept trying and got it up into  the air a few times, but Stinger causes huge damage to Chaos 2. The back panel  was ripped out, and the front covers started falling off. But Chaos 2 won the  battle on a judges decision.

Playoff

Hypno-disc vs Stinger

The battle never happened. Hypno-disc was badly damaged. Shunt had struck his  axe into the rotating disc, pulling the axe blade into Hypnos front drive  system. The gears were badly bent, and the damage couldn't be fixed. Stinger  were third with Hypno-disc forth.

The Grand Final

Chaos 2 vs Pussycat

This promised to be good, and it was. Pussycat got a few holes in Chaos 2,  and a piece of armour reached orbit flying out the top of the battle box. Chaos  2 flipped Pussycat over and over until the blade broke. Pussycat had trouble  getting back onto its wheels without its blade, Chaos 2 nearly got it out of the  arena, but the judges had to decide the champion. The winner was clear, all  points went to CHAOS 2, making Chaos 2 the first robot ever to win two titles,  and not only that but two titles together.