In the Insularic Series Yvette is often represented as a stern school-teacher type character, and here in Arena Hall F we can see that caricature out in full effect: the away fans are packing out the hall, and reports are that since the bout was announced the BlogBot website has barely managed to cope with the demand for tickets for this Bout. Here’s hoping it’s a classic for the ages.

Ah - here go the lights - it’s starting!

IN THE BLUE CORNER, in position #4, the local talent, the hometown champ, the reason you’ll be renting forever, IT’S: CREDIT SCORE:F!

AND IN THE RED CORNER, in position 16, the ma’am with most, the automation that gives detention, IT’S: YVETTE THE BOTMISTRESS!

Contenders… READY! THREE… TWO… ONE!

And we’re off! A cagey opening from Credit Score, shuttling a bit forward to position 6, and then a tactical move from Yvette, working around the perimeter of the arena to position 15. Both Bots staying just outside of each others’ reach, looking for an opening - here’s Credit Score F again, poking into Yvette’s range, holding a position at around the 8th square, and now Yvette, once again giving a little cautious nudge forward into 14 - but that’s close enough for Credit Score F, who fires off his taser, jolting Yvette right in the flipper!

(Is it just me or do some of those parts on Yvette look poorly maintained? Compared to Credit Score, at least, where everything is gleaming and new…)

Yvette, of course, has a taser of her own, and now we’re in an artillery fight, the two Bots circling each other, maintaining distance and trading taser shots! After three taser strikes Credit Score F has fried the circuitry on Yvette’s flipper, but Yvette needs four shots to do the same to Credit Score’s axe, and by then Credit score has moved on, and is jolting Yvette’s own taser - two shots and the taser is down, Yvette is defenceless!

But of course Yvette has one of the best pilots in the business, and chiiika won’t make this easy for her opponent. Immediately she goes into evasive manoeuvres, but Credit Score closes the gap even more, moving into position 10, and resumes fire with its taser - these shots are now hitting the chassis but the electric shock damage is hitting the vulnerable engine! Yvette can only take so much of this, surely - one hit, two, three - and then a fourth, and Yvette showly comes to a halt, with chiiika in the Operator pen shaking the remote control in frustration. The judges have called it! It’s Credit Score: F by TKO!