What if Robot Wars had another series in 2004? What if Battlebots had returned after a brief break for Season 6.0? Well Orc took his Time-Space-Transporty-Whatsit to a universe where both shows hadn't been taken off the air AND had joined forces to become...
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(Great name I know)
GENERAL RULES:
- So the idea behind this tournament is simple: participants must take a robot and design it as if it was entering Series 8 of RW/Season 6.0 of BB. You can take any robot from these franchises...I will also allow you to pick MODERN robots but you must downgrade them to being Series 8/Season 6.0 quality.
- 32 Bot Tournament. Robots will be seperated into 4 heats of 8 in 1 on 1 battles.. All Heat Finalists will advance to the Grand Final but they still fight to confirm their place in the Grand Final. The Grand Final itself features Heat Winners taking on other Heat Runners-Up (So Heat A Winner fights Heat B Runner-Up, Heat B fights Heat C Runner-Up and so on.)
- Robot Wars 2016 Arena.
- Supplying your own AI is appreciated but not required
- Crash Patch is being used (as with all tournaments I run now)
- I shall be entering. I will open up 2nd entries if entries run dry.
BUILDING RULES: (basically OW5 rules)
Weapon Limits:
Spinners:
- VERTS: 2 large teeth (15-24kgs) ex: Large Typhoon, Ripping Teeth, Large Nightmare, etc OR 4 small teeth (7-14kgs) ex: Small Typhoons, Cutting Teeth, Heavy DS Teeth, etc OR 6 Small/Medium/Large Beaters.
- HORIZONTALS: 2 large teeth (15-24kgs) ex: Large Typhoon, Ripping Teeth, Large Nightmare, etc OR 4 small teeth (7-14kgs) ex: Small Typhoons, Cutting Teeth, Heavy DS Teeth, etc OR 6 Small/Medium/Large Beaters.
- WEDGELESS DRUMS ONLY: Can use up to 10 Small, 8 Medium or 8 Large Beaters. Other teeth types would not be allowed on these bots. Yes, this also means wedgeless drums have more DP allowed than other spinners.
- Mechavore/Minion discs of both sizes banned.
- Maximum allowed weapon weight of 100kgs for non-cosmetic damaging weapons allowed on a bot (including dsl bars). This does NOT include your weapon setup (disks, extenders, etc).
- 2400 max dp allowed.
- Use basic common sense if mixing weapons (ex: 4 small typhoons and 2 larges is not allowed)
- TO CLARIFY A WEDGELESS DRUM: robots like DID and Roka are wedgeless drums(eggbeater in Roka’s case) whereas something like Phantom is more of a drum vert. If you look at real examples, Magnetar is a wedged drum while Tornado/Sabretooth are wedgeless.
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Axes/Hammers/Clamps:
-These robot types struggle as it is, therefore just don’t take the piss with them. (Example, 5 burst axe bot or sticking everything you can on one axe).
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Burst limits:
-Front/Rear hinge:
1 Beta Burst/Motor, 2 VDMA R/P Bursts/VDMA Front Hinged/Storm Burst/Mag Snappers
-Top Hinge:
Max of 1 long pneumatic, or 2 short pneumatics
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cheatbot2:
- Flatmotors allowed ONLY on wedgeless drums and overhead saws. VS/wedged gutrippers that use drums do not count. ex: (DiD, Maxtox count as drums, things like Phantom and Duper Scooper count as VS). Not allowed as drive motors, max of two flat motors per bot
- Overkill motors are the ONLY other CB2 part legal for OW5.
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Other:
- Damaging weapons on the front of rammers/wammers are banned. However, things like Nogoodnik’s spiked wheels are legal.
- All DSL 2.2 IRL edition armors allowed
- Skirts only allowed on dustpans with proper support
- Free hinges/axles are banned for wedges/wedgelets. These are allowed for details like Rat King’s tail/Purin’s headband however!
- Ant Blades are banned for all bot types.
- No EternalFlame.py or logic.
- No servos UNLESS you can AI it yourself then feel free to send me the servo bot with the AI.
- No meltybrains.
- Clusterbots are allowed: they must strictly be Middleweights. No minibot nonsense. 50/50 split.
- No weapon spam or stacking. I won’t limit parts but I will be clamping down on robots I think are pushing it. I won’t be lenient.
- No excessive extender spamming/stacking (Extenderbots are allowed of course but if you use extenders to armour your bot….just use the armour panels!)
ENTRIES:
1. Gammatron Returns by Plerco
2. Trimangle 2004 by MrMatthews
3. Comically Large by Cringey
4. Garm by NeonCalypso
5. Iron Awe 3 by Botbuster
6. Sniper by MrBK
7. Mega Deadblow by ForceOfWill
8. Wipe Out #2 by Gulden
9. Deadman's Hand by Superbomb
10. Raging Knightmare: The Return by Double00Rhys
11. Thorak Nemesis by Primeval
12. Barber-Ous 3 by SM
13. Witch Doctor 2004 by Nightraven
14. Facet Evo by IBD
15. Kill-O-Amp 4.0 by Hard Bot
16. Orac's Reboot by MrBK
17. Village Idiot by Superbomb
18. Complete Control by RedAce
19. Frostbite 5.0 by Nicky
20. ORBY by Botbuster
21. Black and Blue by SM
22. Hypershock by Autobot Jazz
23. Rotator by Cringey
24. Tazbot by Neon
25. Bloody Eclipse by Mattiator
26. Greenwave by NH
27. The Matador by NH
28. Ultraviolence 2004 by Double00
29. Stinger The Killer Bee by Nightraven
30. Terror Bull 2 by Orc
31. Hammerhead Evo by Plerco
32. Supernova by Captain Mantine
Final note, have fun, be creative but DON'T TAKE THE PISS. (Looking at you Sagaris...with your bloody Mighty Mouse with an overhead bar...I'M WATCHING YOU)
What's the standard for ring spinners? I want to make a sequel to Mauler 51-50 and I can easily see it being a ring spinner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE8j7aAsDNk
Plerco and Captain Mantine take the last 2 spots! Time for the draw!
HEAT A:
Complete Control vs Barber-ous 3
Garm vs Witch Doctor
Ultraviolence vs Village Idiot
Iron Awe 3 vs Bloody Eclipse
HEAT B:
Comically Large vs Stinger the Killer Bee
Terror Bull 2 vs The Matador
Facet EVO vs Black and Blue
Tazbot vs Gammatron Returns
HEAT C:
Frostbite 5.0 vs Mega Deadblow
Kill-O-Amp 4.0 vs Deadman's Hand
Orac's Reboot vs Supernova
Trimangle vs Raging Knightmare: The Return
HEAT D:
Hypershock vs Wipe Out #2
Hammerhead Evo vs Sniper
Thorak Nemesis vs Greenwave
Rotator vs ORBY
Make sure to vote for arena choice if you haven't yet: I'll be locking the arena choice when I get up in the morning!
Liking the editing. Sadly most of the fights in the last 2 heats have been a bit dull.
Also the wheels on Orby are super ugly.
Pretty disappointed in how my bots performed but I mainly entered them to look good
Aaaaand we're done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdjdmNa2Ocs
Thanks everyone for taking part/watching.
SPOILER:
Congrats to Primeval for winning with Thorak Nemesis!
Not being rude here, but Thorak didn't deserve that win. Seriously, was their fight with ORBY just HUGE vs Whiplash all over again? ORBY tore off the entire flipper, and you give it to them? Let me guess, the "style, control, damage and agression" type judges decision? Just explain it.
Not being rude here, but Thorak didn't deserve that win. Seriously, was their fight with ORBY just HUGE vs Whiplash all over again? ORBY tore off the entire flipper, and you give it to them? Let me guess, the "style, control, damage and agression" type judges decision? Just explain it.
It spent more of the fight upside down than it did the right way up, and spent the rest of that time getting shoved and flipped around while trying to self-right?
Not being rude here, but Thorak didn't deserve that win. Seriously, was their fight with ORBY just HUGE vs Whiplash all over again? ORBY tore off the entire flipper, and you give it to them? Let me guess, the "style, control, damage and agression" type judges decision? Just explain it.
When you start with "Not being rude", it often means you're gonna be rude.
Aggression: Thorak was easily the aggressive robot here, charging at ORBY and wedging under it continuously.
Control: Thorak. When did ORBY have control? RA2 Spinning around in circles is not control/aggression for either robot. Thorak was flipping it around.
Damage: Considering that RA2 flippers don't do damage, this goes to ORBY. However, Thorak was not KOed and the majority of the damage it took was when both bots spun in circles...which isn't aggressive or controlled.
With this, Thorak wins on Aggression and Control. Sure, ORBY did damage but it literally did nothing else. Damage is not the only category that matters.
Expected result for Dead Man's Hand. Just didn't have anything against those forks