So the grand final in review.
The 10 bot rumble lived up to the hype and probably set a record for most robots in the pit at once.
Eruption played it smart and hanged back and picked off anyone who survived the initial onslaught.
The fact that they mentioned that both Nuts and Behemoth had a grudge against Carbide was the cherry on the top of that battle and as for the battle itself...
A (former) joke bot BEAT Carbide, not survived it.
That flail is upon reflection, more destructive than you expect because it can hit parts of a bot that aren’t as armoured due to normal weapons being unable to hit them.
Heck it did what Ironside 3 couldn’t do and killed the bar spinner.
Unsung hero of the bout though goes to the clusterbot that pitted Behemoth. 👍
Second group battle was also brilliant as Eruption once again hanged back and then got stuck in when Rapid came a knocking.
Rapid gets bonus style points on the backflip self right altough that flip snapped the elastic to its flipper which would eventually catch up with them when they tried to self right and the flipper ended up out of place to do so.
As for Magnetar, a Srimech that works once ain’t a great Srimech, the death drum put a good showing in mind.
The redemption round of Behemoth and Magnetar was a close and tense one really that could’ve gone either way, Magnetar had radio issues and then Behemoth had drive issues due to damage and looked to be going out, but again a srimech that works only once makes not a good srimech and one well timed flip later and Magnetar was out.
Carbide shockingly was having to fight to stay in the final and was up against Rapid and again, could’ve gone either way, but one too many hits from Carbide caused something in Rapid to short out big time and ended up out fog of warring Thor with all the smoke billowing out of it.
And then Rapid, the most expensive bot in the competition caught fire to add salt to the wound, but they went out in a blaze of smoke and glory.
Semi final time and it’s now Carbide’s turn for revenge against the robot that took revenge on it for the beating it took in series 8, still with me on this?
Carbide for the first time had to modify itself to take on Nuts 2 which in itself is amazing, by using a piece of the now smouldering Rapid as a“Nut Guard”, Carbide dealt a familiar beating to Nuts 2 by tearing off the flails and part of the frame itself, kept both wheels this time, but the clusterbot once again got bullied by Carbide.
Eruption v Behemoth or to give it a better name, Behemoth pinball.
Behemoth got launched, flipped and rolled about the arena by Eurption, who was feeling like an actual pinball wizard( minus the whole deaf, dumb and blind part.
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And then the grand final and strong case of deja vu. ( No Eurobeat please
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Carbide and Eruption definitely have had a rough fight getting to this point, Eruption had lost to Carbide in its heat and had to survive the 10 bot rumble just to get another crack at Carbide.
Carbide won its heat, but it was no walk in the park this year as Gabriel 2 put in its best fight and gave Carbide quite a few headaches to patch up afterwards and then losing out to Nuts 2(!!) put them again on the back foot.
As the match itself, all 3 three finals have been Carbide against a flipper and speaking of deja vu, the weapon wasn’t at 100% like in series 8 and Eruption was more durable this time around and survived to another grand final judges decision.
And the NEW Robot Wars champion of the U.K.
Eruption!!
10/10 Best Grand Final to date. 👍👍
Edit: The top ten robot seedings as they are and in my opinion.
1st: Eruption
2nd: Carbide
3rd: Behemoth
4th: Nuts 2
5th: Rapid
6th: Magnetar
7th: Apollo
8th: Terrorhurtz
9th: Big Nipper
10th: Thor
