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Title: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on March 02, 2025, 02:49:45 PM

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https://youtu.be/L0PjkG_GMAM

There are three weightclasses; MW, CW and HW, w/ the events split evenly between them.  Winners of all events other than samurai elite will be the first robots in line for a seeding in SS4 in the event of a seed withdrawing.

All weightclasses
Samurai elite
- All-stars competition
- 12 robots in each weightclass, invite only
- The top 4 of SS1, SS2 and SS3 qualify
- In the event of a robot getting top 4 more than once or withdrawing, vacancies that are left will be filled by: 1) the robot w/ the most 5-8th place finishes, 2) the deepest run after a 5-8th place finish (MW only) or the deepest run as the 5th seed (CW and HW), which will then run down to 6th, 7th and then 8th (5th in SS3 will be ahead of the best performing 6th seed in line for an invite)
- First round will be 3 way rumbles, w/ the winners advancing straight to the quarter-finals while 2nd and 3rd place having to fight a redemption round, which is the start of a single elimination bracket
- Will be separated into two heats, each of which is a side of the bracket; winners of the two heats will fight 1v1 in the final after the second heat

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Survival of the fittest
- Annihilator style competition
- 12 robots
- One entry per person
- First up will be qualifiers, which will either be 1v1 fights or 3 way rumbles, depending on the size of the field
- One robot advances from each qualifier
- In the competition proper, the first round will be two 3 way rumbles, from which one robot will be eliminated and two will advance
- The remaining four robots will then be put into one 4 way rumble, which will then restart as a 3 way rumble when one is eliminated, and then again as a 1v1 final match when another is eliminated

Double demolition
- Tag team competition
- 16 robots (8 teams of 2)
- Two entries per person (entering onto two different teams, you can team w/ two different ppl or w/ the same person twice)
- Your two entries must be of two different bot types
- Single elimination bracket

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Samurai’s academy
- New blood competition
- 16 robots
- One entry per person
- The robot must not have fought in any tournament before (sequels are allowed as long as the robot its a sequel to never fought in a tournament)
- Round robin heats of 3 or 4 depending on the size of the field
- The top two of each heat will advance to a single elimination bracket, the first round of which will be heat winner v heat runner-up
- In the event of a tie for W/L records in the heats, method points will be used as a tiebreaker (+2 for win by KO, +1 for win by JD, -1 for loss by JD, -2 for loss by KO), followed by head to head record
- Entrants into this event are not permitted to enter the other event of the same weightclass
- Please wait until SSB signups close before entering your entry for this into other tournaments

The bushido boss
- Boss battle gauntlet
- 8 robots
- One entry per person
- Gauntlet style fight, starts as a 1v1 fight, the winner of which will advance to the next fight against the next opponent, this continues until one robot remains
- The winner of the gauntlet will then fight a house robot built specifically for this event 1v1, and will receive a second trophy on top of the one for winning the gauntlet as a prize for beating the HR
- WIP pic of the HR:
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Birth of the sport
- 1994-97 US RW build challenge
- 16 robots
- One entry per person
- The robot must be a new build and fit the build challenge, which is all robots must look like smth that would be entered into the 1994-97 US RW events
- Round robin heats of 4
- The top two of each heat will advance to a single elimination bracket, the first round of which will be heat winner v heat runner-up
- In the event of a tie for W/L records in the heats, method points will be used as a tiebreaker (+2 for win by KO, +1 for win by JD, -1 for loss by JD, -2 for loss by KO), followed by head to head record
- Entrants into this event are not permitted to enter the other event of the same weightclass
- Please wait until SSB signups close before entering your entry for this into other tournaments

War of the Weapons
- 20 robots w/ 4 in each WotW weapon category
- Two entries per person
- Your two entries must fit into two different WotW weapon categories
- Round robin heats of 4, w/ each heat being a different weapon category
- The winner of each heat will advance to a round robin grand final of 5, the top two of which will fight 1v1 again in the championship final
- In the event of a tie for W/L records in a round robin, method points will be used as a tiebreaker (+2 for win by KO, +1 for win by JD, -1 for loss by JD, -2 for loss by KO), followed by head to head record

Bot types (this system will not be used for WotW)
If you enter two bots into the same event, both of those bots must be of different types.  For example, you can’t enter two verts into the tag team, but you can enter one into each event.  This rule doesn’t apply to the all-stars, so if for example, you have two HSes that have reached top 4 in the same weightclass, they will both still qualify for an invite.  Bot types are listed below:
- Vertical spinners (includes wedged drums), irl examples: Bite Force, Witch Doctor, Aftershock
- Wedgeless drums (includes eggbeaters), irl examples: Minotaur, Concussion, Yeti
- Horizontal spinners, irl examples: Tombstone, SOW, Gigabyte
- Rear-hinged and 4-bar flippers/lifters, irl examples: Apollo, Bronco, Lucky
- Front-hinged and top-hinged flippers/lifters, irl examples: Firestorm, P1, Push To Exit
- Axes/hammers, irl examples: Beta, Thor, Shatter
- Overhead saws/hammer saws, irl examples: Sawblaze, Skorpios, Starchild
- Crushers/grabbers (clamps in general), irl examples: Razer, Quantum, Kraken
- Rammers, both wedgebots and wedgeless, irl examples: Original Sin, Tornado, Road Block
- Pokers, irl examples: Spawn of Scutter
- Drills, irl examples: Rusty
If a bot has two active weapons that fall into different categories (i.e. Whiplash, Fusion), you will be asked which one is the primary weapon if you don’t state it when you send me the bot.  If a config bot’s configs fall into different categories based on their primary weapon (i.e. Bombshell, Tornado), you will be asked which one is the primary config if you don’t state it when you send me the bot.

WotW weapon categories
If you enter two robots into WotW, they must fall into different categories as outlined below, due to each of the five heats (STC) being a different category.  The weapon categories are STC depending on whether or not the event stays at 20 robots.
- Spinners (verts, HSes, wedgeless drums, hammer saws)
- Flippers/lifters (rear-hinges, front-hinges, top-hinges, 4-bars, any other form of lifting weapon you might make)
- Axes/hammers
- Rammers (both wedged and wedgeless)
- Everything else (clamps, overhead saws, pokers, drills etc.)
Config bots and robots w/ two active weapons that fall into different categories will be banned from this event due to its format

Battle rules
- 3 minute fights
- Custom arena: the temple 2.2
- I will be willing to take a fight up to 10 times in the event of a havok, crash or pin ending the fight.  If I’m unable to get a clean finish within 10 takes, the bot which caused the majority of the invalid finishes will lose the fight by DQ.
- A havok ending a fight will be counted as one that either KOs a bot directly or causes the bot to be KO’d by its opponent (the opponent scores a KO hit that would not have happened at that exact point if - it wasn’t for the havok), a havok or crash that is the result of a KO will not cause a restart
- A bot will be deemed instantly KOd if OOTAd
- If a bot loses all of its wheels or takes damage which would cause its internals to fall out irl or leaves its weapon floating, a 10 second count out will start
- A bot will be counted out if it fails to show controlled movement for 30 seconds (i.e. spikeballing, failure to self-right, crabwalking but not closing the distance on its opponent).  Self-righting attempts from a position which the bot can self-right that are clearly interrupted by the opponent will not count towards the 30 seconds.
- If a fight lasts all the way to the time limit, then a judges decision will take place, splitting 5 points in each of three categories between all remaining bots: damage, aggression, control
- Restarts will now be issued if wedgelocking or other boring nothing is happening stuff takes up 2mins or more of the fight, or if the presence of an opponent causes a robot to KO itself or get KO'd by the opponent while trying to break a pin.

Build rules
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yJ8PnonAH1FY1m5ILG2DdrSzY59IFNmHsSS17F98ZCo/edit?usp=sharing

AI rules
- Providing your own AI is appreciated but not required
- EternalFlame.py and NeptuniaSys.py are banned
- To use engage tactic, rammers must have smartzones for pushing their opponent, like what TopPusher.py has
- If your bot cannot be AId w/ any of the .py files included in the base DSL 2.6 install, you must AI the bot yourself and send me the .py you used.
- If you use a .py not included in the base DSL 2.6 install to AI your bot, you must send me the .py you used.  The exceptions to this are TopPusher2.py and my own custom AIs (LilTurret.py and LilFlipper.py), since I already have them downloaded.

Signups list
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QypigtFUD4w8xXh0DycrkNJcA1Y6eRXqjXFdSTNGQhE/edit?usp=sharing

Signups open 16th march!

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on March 13, 2025, 05:39:03 PM

Signups have been postponed and will now open on the 23rd.

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on March 22, 2025, 07:01:55 PM

signups are now **OPEN!**
- samurai's academy entrants are allowed to already exist before this announcement, as long as they've never entered a tournament before
- birth of the sport entries must be built new after this announcement
- builders of the robots invited to take part in samurai elite will be contacted about the invites shortly and can confirm them unchanged, send updates, replacements (as long as they're close enough in design to de considered a spiritual successor) or withdraw them starting now

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on March 25, 2025, 04:16:24 PM

The spinners and flippers categories for wotw are now full.  Other categories are as follows: axes/hammers 3/4, rammers 0/4, everything else 2/4
Samurai elite are currently 8/12 MW, 10/12 CW and 10/12 HW
Survival of the fittest is currently 1/12
All other events are yet to have an entry accepted.

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on April 02, 2025, 11:05:22 AM

now only one event (double demolition) yet to have any entries accepted!
samurai elite: 8/12 MW, 10/12 CW, 10/12 HW
survival of the fittest: 2/12
samurai's academy: 1/16
bushido boss: 2/8
birth of the sport: 2/16
war of the weapons: 4/4 spinners, 4/4 flippers, 4/4 axes, 1/4 rammers, 4/4 everything else

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on April 20, 2025, 11:24:07 AM

Wednesday will be one month since SSB signups opened, so I would open up second/third entries for certain events that day.  However, I'm going on holiday tomorrow and won't be back til friday, so I'm doing this a week later, on the 30th.  Events this'll Apply to are as follows:
- samurai's academy and birth of the sport for second entries, must be a different bot type from your first
- war of the weapons for third entries, must be a different weapon category from your first two
!f by the 23rd of may signups still aren't full, I will initiate a one week countdown to the closure of signups on that day or when all events are at least half full, whichever is later.  Current accepted entry numbers for events are as follows:
samurai elite: 8/12 MW, 10/12 CW, 10/12 HW
survival of the fittest: 3/12
double demolition, 0/16 robots (0/8 teams)
samurai's academy: 2/16
bushido boss: 3/8
birth of the sport: 4/16
war of the weapons: 4/4 spinners, 4/4 flippers, 4/4 axes, 1/4 rammers, 4/4 everything else

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on May 23, 2025, 07:01:19 AM

Not the announcement I said I'd do today, but I decided a couple of weeks ago that I don't feel like just holding out for a milestone that may or may not be reached before closing SSB signups.  The plan now is that there are two weeks left of signups, which will close on the 6th of june.  Please note that this will not be at midnight as I have an exam that day, so there will be some time on the day for you to get your last entries in before I close signups.
For any events not yet full when I close signups, I will alter the comp format based on the final number of entries, and samurai elite invited robots that are yet to be confirmed will have 2 weeks after that to be confirmed or lose their invite to the next in line.

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on June 03, 2025, 03:28:49 PM

3 days left!  Samurai's academy has risen to 7/16.

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on June 05, 2025, 02:44:00 PM

The time that signups close tomorrow will be either when I'm back at my aunt's after the exam or when I'm back home afterwards.  Any robots that have been sent but not checked on the day will be checked before I close signups, although if your robot is found to be illegal then you've lost your last chance to get in.
bushido boss is now up to 4/8
bots is now up to 6/16

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on June 06, 2025, 12:31:09 PM

Signups are now closed.  Thank you to everyone who entered, due to events not filling I will adjust the formats of the events which I will announce soon.  Robots invited to samurai elite that have not yet been confirmed have until the 20th to be confirmed or they will lose their place in it.

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on June 06, 2025, 02:09:35 PM

so, the events' formats will now be as follows due to not filling up:
survival of the fittest (4 robots): qualifying 1v1s and the first round 3 way rumbles will be skipped, as we go straight to the 4 way rumble that restarts w/ 3 robots and then again w/ 2
double demolition (0 teams, 0 robots): cancelled, what do you want me to do w/ an event that literally has 0 entries?
samurai's academy (8 robots): same format, just shrunk down to 2 round robin heats of 4 w/ the top 2 from each progressing to a single elimination bracket where the first round is heat winners v heat runners up, two robots from the same builder cannot be drawn into the same heat
bushido boss (5 robots): same format, just shrunk down to 4 fights where the winner stays onto the next one until one robot remains, which will advance to battle Rising Sun in the boss battle
birth of the sport (6 robots): round robin heats will now consist of 3 robots and there will be 2, the winners of each battle 1v1 in the final
war of the weapons (4 spinners, 4 flippers, 4 axes, 2 rammers, 4 everything else): same format, except heat d for rammers will now be a single 1v1 fight

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on June 08, 2025, 11:45:36 AM

survival of the fittest splashes: https://imgur.com/a/BLkAUBW
samurai's academy splashes: https://imgur.com/a/ssb-splashes-samurais-academy-ad1QpqS
birth of the sport splashes: https://imgur.com/a/ssb-splashes-birth-of-sport-v59r8Pp
heat draws can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1226DDxzl8ybzJQNP2QeJyhWngayzN6wlmbc7wpmy9iI/edit?usp=sharing

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on June 09, 2025, 03:10:54 PM

bushido boss splashes: https://imgur.com/a/n5smyTe
war of the weapons splashes: https://imgur.com/a/V80FWbd
I will start draws shortly for the order in which robots enter the bushido boss gauntlet and the order of fights within the wotw heats, which can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1226DDxzl8ybzJQNP2QeJyhWngayzN6wlmbc7wpmy9iI/edit?usp=drive_link
as usual, once I've finished all the AI, for robots whose builder sent no AI for, I will offer to send their builders the AI I wrote for them

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on June 22, 2025, 01:38:13 PM

samurai elite splash time!
MW: https://imgur.com/a/17wOCqX
CW: https://imgur.com/a/UptpKlf
HW: https://imgur.com/a/Hm8hLkw
draws for the first round rumbles will be done after I have smth to eat, and will be viewable here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1226DDxzl8ybzJQNP2QeJyhWngayzN6wlmbc7wpmy9iI/edit?usp=drive_link
two robots from the same builder cannot be drawn into the same rumble

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on June 26, 2025, 05:47:14 PM

https://youtu.be/vWkrqLbVocI

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on July 08, 2025, 08:18:09 AM

11 july 2025, 7pm BST, we're going full bushido, starting w/ heat A of MW samurai elite.  Polygon crosses paths again w/ two former opponents in fellow SS ever-present Rapier and returning former champion Keith, while Solar Flare and Littlespark run back their back and forth banger from SS3 but w/ a third robot in the arena in the form of Picky.  Only one of these six can go through to the final.
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Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on July 13, 2025, 06:11:03 AM

https://youtu.be/4lNxzbtkJJQ?si=u7RfXDQxW0eGnx99

on friday we'll do the second half of MW samurai elite in ep2 - Mean Red, Slyvern and Emerations clash in an all SS2 podium rumble, while Voyager and Bone eater return to fight Bullet, one of these robots will fight heat A winner

Keith

in the final at the end
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Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on July 19, 2025, 10:30:55 AM

https://youtu.be/r6ptNhvPwJQ

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on July 19, 2025, 10:40:37 AM

w/ the MW samurai elite out the way, we now turn our attention to the CW samurai elite in ep 3, where Mark, Tagger and Burn Factor open things before Wrong Note and Pinwheel meet again after their showdown in the SS3 final, but w/ Remnants, spiritual successor to SS1 champion Wrecks in the arena too!
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Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on July 26, 2025, 09:33:48 AM

https://youtu.be/HpXou8GlYgc

in ep 4 we'll finish CW samurai elite, where Chophouse, Redline and Schweinehund do battle before Smog and Microburst cross paths again w/ Apogee also there this time, but only one of these can fight last week's winner

Wrong Note

in the final
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Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on August 02, 2025, 09:42:05 AM

https://youtu.be/HI-phPfwAoU

in ep 5 we're moving onto the last of the samurai elite events, the HWs, where Sour Note, Speed Demon and Scrapper do battle before Claymore and Sugar Kicks cross paths again having faced off in ep 1 of SS1, while Wildcat is also in the arena
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Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on August 09, 2025, 10:28:03 AM

https://youtu.be/UeRf0vI-DQ0

ep 6 sees us finish samurai elite as a whole w/ heat B of the HWs, where Ulipse tries to take down two champs at once as it fights Rosethorn and Shock Factor, before an all runners-up rumble of HNT, Yalini and Zmiulan, one of these six will fight heat A winner

Claymore

in the final at the end
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Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on August 15, 2025, 03:55:18 PM

https://youtu.be/vTO-Cg-HJg0

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on August 16, 2025, 10:28:45 AM

who's up for a MW annihilator?  Ep 7 is survival of the fittest, where Ravnican Justice returns after reaching the quarter-finals of SS3 and Dentist Drill becomes the first drillbot in SS!
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Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on August 22, 2025, 04:15:47 PM

https://youtu.be/BqIep8m-cig

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on August 23, 2025, 09:51:30 AM

ep 8 sees the start of a CW new blood; samurai's academy, and up first in heat A we have Main Offender, Broadside, Bad Liar and Egoist stepping into the temple for the first time
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Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on August 30, 2025, 12:09:31 PM

https://youtu.be/7-_n_M0ls8s

two robots have made it through to the grand final of samurai's academy in ep 10, but we've got two more to decide, which we will do in ep 9, where two of Doloris, Metallica, Crying Shame and Slamuel L Jackson will joing

Bad Liar and Broadside

in the final four
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Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on September 06, 2025, 10:08:18 AM

https://youtu.be/K-cq8kYKdLI

Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on September 06, 2025, 10:41:16 AM

SPOILERS FOR EPS 8 AND 9:

in ep 10, we'll crown the champion of samurai's academy, as Bad Liar, Broadside, Metallica and Crying Shame do battle in two semi-finals and then the final, having made it out of their heats
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Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on September 13, 2025, 10:15:09 AM

https://youtu.be/LquKyK7lrio

in the HWs I did a build challenge, and in ep 11 that build challenge culminates in a trip to the 90s w/ birth of the sport, which of these 1994-1997 styled robots will come out on top?
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Title: Re: Sakura Sunrise: Bushido
Post by: Lilleh__ on September 20, 2025, 10:45:59 AM

https://youtu.be/86N0KxBGZxY

ep 12 will be the penultimate event of SSB; a CW gauntlet w/ a house robot waiting to fight the winner - the bushido boss!  Okinawa Sunrise and Wellerman kick things off in round 1, then the winner will fight Tokyo's Wrath in round 2, followed by Tanzanite in r3, then Cowbot hoping to finally get its first SS win after failing to do so in each of the last two seasons in r4, the winner of the gauntlet will then fight Rising Sun in the boss battle!
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