RoboGames - THE OFFICIAL SBV (COMPLETED)

[kaiser]

Thanks again for all of this hard work you're doing to run this tournament. Since we're between televised events, this is probably helping to keep me sane.

[playzooki]

sucks that the cool hammerbot lost by getting pinned, and that the cool dinosaurbot lost to the no effort chassis wedge flipper

that's what you get for entering an IRL tournament.

[Shield]

RedBull gives you wings

[BDBlu]

So the strongest bot lose to the extender bot.  If we're going IRL, there is no way RB would move on from that carnage.

[dragonsteincole]

So the strongest bot lose to the extender bot.  If we're going IRL, there is no way RB would move on from that carnage.

If this were IRL, a bot that lost control after the first hit and spent 90% of it's time flailing around would never have been allowed to fight, so it's a moot point.

[Mystic2000]

Wow, Splicer 2 is so tryhard

Took people long enough to comment on it, sorry to make something aimed for battle in a fighting tournament, serious talk here, if all you're after is eyecandy and you're going to complain about battle-oriented builds in tournaments, enter a DSL IRL BOTM or lurk around showcases.

[Mr. AS]

Basing the entire JD off of (((control))) has gotta be the most bong thing ever

[jdg37]

Wow, Splicer 2 is so tryhard

Took people long enough to comment on it, sorry to make something aimed for battle in a fighting tournament, serious talk here, if all you're after is eyecandy and you're going to complain about battle-oriented builds in tournaments, enter a DSL IRL BOTM or lurk around showcases.

Yes! It bested my quickly thrown together bot far too easily! Poor Blood Lotus didn't even have time to Mauler dance.

[Herpaderp64]

ok so i haven't been on for a while so i've been catching up and let me say i cannot believe canine won that fight as i thought i was gonna get creamed by that ring spinner especially when i saw part of my wedge come off that was the "oh no" moment.

I thought Headpats Only! would win it on damage however looks like that wedge was actually stopping canines weapon from reaching Headpats Only! and due to it being ripped off in a way Headpats actually defeated itself by taking away the one part that was stopping canine from being able to harm it.

i personally think That was a good fight, yes there was not much carnage involved however seeing the wheels of both robots spinning furiously to gain grip to push the other for me was great and tbh when canine pushed Headpats into the corner it remined me of a boxing match.

I think it was the fact that canine was too quick for Headpats to get up to speed that allowed canine to win and i think if canine had been slower Headpats would have ripped it apart so GG or in this case Good fight, Im just glad to know that canine wasn't a waste of time and actually won its first fight.

Edit: seeing people go on about tryhards in a fighting tournament no offense to any but it is a fighting tournament hence why even after people in my showcase said canine's wheels were protected enough by the chassis i stuck armor plates on anyways as in tournaments you never know whats going to happen.

Im going to be honest here, if these bots were player controlled then splicer 2 would be a lot weaker than it is now as its wheels are completely exposed and normally thats the first thing i'd go for as once the wheel is destroyed since this is an irl tournament its basically game over however the ai is not clever enough for things like tactics unfortunately.

[Jammy Dodger]

ok so i haven't been on for a while so i've been catching up and let me say i cannot believe canine won that fight as i thought i was gonna get creamed by that ring spinner especially when i saw part of my wedge come off that was the "oh no" moment.

I thought Headpats Only! would win it on damage however looks like that wedge was actually stopping canines weapon from reaching Headpats Only! and due to it being ripped off in a way Headpats actually defeated itself by taking away the one part that was stopping canine from being able to harm it.

i personally think That was a good fight, yes there was not much carnage involved however seeing the wheels of both robots spinning furiously to gain grip to push the other for me was great and tbh when canine pushed Headpats into the corner it remined me of a boxing match.

I think it was the fact that canine was too quick for Headpats to get up to speed that allowed canine to win and i think if canine had been slower Headpats would have ripped it apart so GG or in this case Good fight, Im just glad to know that canine wasn't a waste of time and actually won its first fight.

Edit: seeing people go on about tryhards in a fighting tournament no offense to any but it is a fighting tournament hence why even after people in my showcase said canine's wheels were protected enough by the chassis i stuck armor plates on anyways as in tournaments you never know whats going to happen.

Im going to be honest here, if these bots were player controlled then splicer 2 would be a lot weaker than it is now as its wheels are completely exposed and normally thats the first thing i'd go for as once the wheel is destroyed since this is an irl tournament its basically game over however the ai is not clever enough for things like tactics unfortunately.

put your stuff in a spoiler :P

[Badnik96]

If this were IRL, a bot that lost control after the first hit and spent 90% of it's time flailing around would never have been allowed to fight, so it's a moot point.

that's... not true at all. If a robot can show controlled movement and failsafes properly 9 times out of ten they'll allow it to fight. Otherwise DDT and other lower-weight spinners would never fight.

case in point

[Herpaderp64]

ok so i haven't been on for a while so i've been catching up and let me say i cannot believe canine won that fight as i thought i was gonna get creamed by that ring spinner especially when i saw part of my wedge come off that was the "oh no" moment.

I thought Headpats Only! would win it on damage however looks like that wedge was actually stopping canines weapon from reaching Headpats Only! and due to it being ripped off in a way Headpats actually defeated itself by taking away the one part that was stopping canine from being able to harm it.

i personally think That was a good fight, yes there was not much carnage involved however seeing the wheels of both robots spinning furiously to gain grip to push the other for me was great and tbh when canine pushed Headpats into the corner it remined me of a boxing match.

I think it was the fact that canine was too quick for Headpats to get up to speed that allowed canine to win and i think if canine had been slower Headpats would have ripped it apart so GG or in this case Good fight, Im just glad to know that canine wasn't a waste of time and actually won its first fight.

Edit: seeing people go on about tryhards in a fighting tournament no offense to any but it is a fighting tournament hence why even after people in my showcase said canine's wheels were protected enough by the chassis i stuck armor plates on anyways as in tournaments you never know whats going to happen.

Im going to be honest here, if these bots were player controlled then splicer 2 would be a lot weaker than it is now as its wheels are completely exposed and normally thats the first thing i'd go for as once the wheel is destroyed since this is an irl tournament its basically game over however the ai is not clever enough for things like tactics unfortunately.

put your stuff in a spoiler :P

was wondering why everyone recently started using spoilers....will do 

[doot]

We kick things back into gear again with the First Round of the Losers Bracket!


Jugde's Decisions:

The Tamil Kings VS Crocognaws: Despite Croco managing to eliminate Chera, it was the lack of control of the croc, combined with the destructive power of Chola that allowed the Tamil Kings to barely clinch a victory.

Extra notes:

Honestly, I'm not the happiest with this episode. While a few of the fights were right belters, the mass amounts of havok almost forced me to pull the plug on one of the robots entirely. Hell, even in the best take I had, there was still havok on Chad's end, so I don't know if I should restart or go on as is.

Next ep will be HW Loser Bracket 2!

[Philippa]

I miss Ice Pick, that drone was the bomb.

[NeonCalypso]

Seems like S.O.C finally redeemed itself

[jdg37]

Headpats Only vs Radio/Video is now my favorite fight of the whole tourney so far

[Herpaderp64]

Cream and vanilla ice vs oceana: Funny how cream and vanilla ice went out the exact same way as they did before, the one getting immobilized inside the ring while the other was completely thrown out, also i really like the look of bots like oceana with the poly carbonate showing all the parts inside.

Rofl copter vs hollowed soul: Rofl copter in my opinion had a very unfortunate loss as it completely demolished red bull to the point that irl red bull might have had to forfeit but was too unstable in that fight according to rules and life (robot wars mauler rejection anyone?) however it seems life avenged this tragic loss of memes by allowing rofl copter to throw hollowed soul completely oota sorry hollowed soul but its double thumbs up from me 

censorbot and mass accelerator: Ok so censorbot (sorry names too long) and mass accelerator was essentially for the most part a pushing match or a piggyback ride however i was surprised by the durability of MA's teeth since most of the fight consisted of censorbot while being pushed shoving spikes straight into MA's face.

Schools out completely vs fighter MK4: was a very quick fight and ended with the guts being ripped from fighter MK 4 i'd give more of a comment however to be honest that was more or less it.

Headpats only! vs radio/video Ok so I was hoping to see Headpats do better so its nice to see it demolish some clusterbots however I think its problem is it spins up too slowly which allowed canine and radio/video (at first) to close in and stop it from spinning up and becoming a threat in which case I recommend a more powerful motor like the perm 200 or 6 mag twmr gearbox.

Permafrost and snowflake vs chad: was.....dissapointing as i was hoping that they'd hit eachother then get knocked back form the force of the impact but instead chad basically just minced permafrost and snowflake just floated there (does snowflake even have a purpose? not mocking in any way its actually a genuine question)

The tamil kings vs crocognaws: at first i thought the tamil kings would decimate crocognaws however it turned out very differently than i thought it would with chera being knocked out i thought at that point croc would win however chola decimated crocs wheel which i believe was the reason the tamil kings barely scraped through.

all in all it was a pretty enjoyable losers bracket allowing some robots like Headpats to show what they are capable of

[dragonsteincole]

Radio/Video with that serious gyro dancing. Few surprises but personally I thought Crocognaws had done enough to win.

[BDBlu]

Rofl copter vs hollowed soul: Rofl copter in my opinion had a very unfortunate loss as it completely demolished red bull to the point that irl red bull might have had to forfeit but was too unstable in that fight according to rules and life

Appreciate the kind words, and know that you're not the only one saying that.  Even IRL, ROFLcopter is actually controllable with proper timing of weapon switching (or failsafe).  It's the ai that kept the weapon on which caused the wobble and keeping the wheels off the ground.  But it did get the win so I'm fine with that.  On to the next victim!  Err... fight!

[Herpaderp64]

Rofl copter vs hollowed soul: Rofl copter in my opinion had a very unfortunate loss as it completely demolished red bull to the point that irl red bull might have had to forfeit but was too unstable in that fight according to rules and life

Appreciate the kind words, and know that you're not the only one saying that.  Even IRL, ROFLcopter is actually controllable with proper timing of weapon switching (or failsafe).  It's the ai that kept the weapon on which caused the wobble and keeping the wheels off the ground.  But it did get the win so I'm fine with that.  On to the next victim!  Err... fight!

yeah this is why we need a proper MP server since robots that are stable when player controlled can be much less stable in the ai's control and vice versa, i mean one of my bots whiplash 3 (the original one is competing in the SHW bracket) is a lot more stable when the ai uses it where as when i use it the weapon tends to over blance the bot every time i hit somone or turn too quickly so technically the ai is cheating