| Fight
3: vs. Shrike
Whirligig's
next fight was against veteran robot, Shrike, built by Steven Levin.
We were a bit
nervous going into this fight, as we knew that the winner of this
fight had to go up against the dreaded Ziggo.
The match started
well, Whirligig zipped over to the barely-moving Shrike and slammed
him several times, then spun around and nailed Shirke's wheel with
Whirligig's spike. This apparently disabled Shrike's drive on that
side, so Whriligig backed up for a shot at pounding Shrike's topside.
However, Whirligig, being quite hard to control, drove right under
the arena Pulverizer, and got nailed hard. I wasn't worried about
damage from the Pulverizer, we build Whirligig with thicker armor
than many heavyweight bots, but as soon as I saw that hammer come
down the way it did, I had a thought- The Switch!!
Sure enough,
the impact hit Whirligig just right that it turned off his master
power switch. Whirligig stopped moving and got hit a couple more
times by the Pulverizer, one hit bending his weapon arm significantly.
Shrike, able to move with one wheel, advanced to fight Ziggo.
Afterwards,
we realized that a simple piece of tape on the switch would have
kept this from happening. Arrgh. Oh well, next time Whriligig will
be back better than ever!
Total time:
1 minute, 4 seconds |
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