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Off-Topic Discussion / Happy Halloween from Gorepunk Studios

« on: October 31, 2015, 08:47:06 AM »

Got bored, did this. fun way to show off some of my props and et ceteras.

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Ironforge TC Showcases / Ironforge Droids from Dagobah

« on: August 28, 2015, 09:37:54 PM »

Because I had to....

This one was much easier to build than the original Doom Dreidel. Got the balance on the first go round.

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Tournament Archives / Survive Harder SBV (expired)

« on: September 27, 2012, 04:01:37 PM »

Finally got time for this. Sorry it took so long, but my band comes first. These are down and dirty, I fully admit, but they're functional. Who's gonna survive?

Splash

Brackets

Vids (coming soon)

Bot stats:
Top spinner =1
popup =5
VS =4
TRFBD =1
Flipper =3
Rammer = 7
VS/HS Hybrid =1
SNS =1
HS =1
Drum =2
Angled HS =1
Sidehammer =1
Omni-directional Poker =1
Hammer =1
Downward Poker =1
Flail Rammer =1
Pusher =1
Crawler =1
Sheck Spinner =1
Ring Spinner =1
Sit-n-Face Spinner =1

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Tournament Archives / Survival of the Fittest 2: Survive Harder

« on: July 29, 2012, 05:51:20 AM »

It's been two whole years. I think it's time for my first sequel. Survival of the Fittest 2: Survive Harder.

Each entrant will build a team consisting of a Lightweight, a Middleweight, and a Heavyweight. When they send the team, they will specify the order the team should be entered. (LW, then MW, then HW...MW, HW, then LW, whatever). This will be the order they are entered in every rumble they participate.

The matches will be 4 way rumbles. the first bot on each team will face off against each other. When the first bot in a rumble is eliminated, the match is stopped and the eliminated bot is replaced with the next one on that team. The match is then restarted. This continues until there is only one team left. That team is declared the winner of the match and moves on. If the match goes to time, the bot with the lowest point total is the one eliminated. In the highly unlikely event of a tie (be it an equal score or two bots being eliminated at the same time) both bots are eliminated.

1. This will be a DSL tournament
2. No custom components, cheatbot, BFE, Haxmode, AAM or any other cheaty stuff
3. skinned components ARE allowed
4. Standard DSL Realism enforced.
5. Arena will be the Ring Arena
6. Havok restart rule: A bot can have one free havok restart. A second one in a match, and that bot is eliminated. If in the same match a bot from the same team gets yet another havok, that entire team is eliminated (thanks for the suggestion NFX)
7. A Maximum of 6 flails PER TEAM are allowed (2 more from last time)
8. Because I love the things so much, Ring Spinners are allowed.
8a. Ring Spinner builder rules.
a. chassis must be close to the same size and shape as your ring. No tiny square chassis with a extra large disc.
b. only thing the disc is allowed to pass through is motors and wheels. batteries and control board must still be clear.
9. As always, I strongly encourage you to AI your own bots, however, if you can't, I will do it for you.
10. Crawlers are also allowed, but no bumblebots, trinity flyers, nasty pickles, controlled movement is key.
11. Loophole closer: Popups and True popups count as the same bot type for the "all bots must be different types" rule. Same goes for SS and FSS.
12. Due to the amount of bots involved, only 16 entrants allowed, with a wildcard match. last 4 to enter will go through a separate match. the one coming out on top will become entrant number 16.
13. Team themes strongly encouraged, In the very least, I want a team name.
14. In the interest of shortening the vids, the time limit on the heats will be 2 minutes.
15. Nicsan get an automatic entry if he wants it for winning In The Air Tonight.
16. I will enter if there is space for me, if not, it's all you guys.
17. You are allowed ONE update of your team. This can be either minor changes to the entire team (each bot stays the same original bot type, just changing weapons around or adding more armor as an example) OR you may do a major change to ONE bot (becomes a completely new bot). This is mostly to prevent an abundance of placeholders.
18. "Clickbeetle Caught Me Rule": All bots on a team must be different types.

My entry: Team "With a Baseball Bat"

Peanut is a HS, Butters a Ring Spinner, and Jelly? is..I'm calling it a SnFs (sit and face spin). I'm entering them in LW/MW/HW order.

Entrants:

entered and approved
problem
entered, approved and AI'd
reserved spot

1. ty4er
2. skbt
3.marty
4. 090901
5. squirrel_monkey
6. conraaa
7. nicsan
8.urjak
9. MassimoV
10 Ogre
11 Clickbeetle
12 G.K.
13 Pwnator
14 Jack Daniels
15 Mr. Awesomesauce
16.Yoda

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Tournament Archives / In The Air Tonight Awards

« on: July 23, 2012, 11:33:44 PM »

A long path, it was. But completed, this tournament is.

Congratulations

Time for the community voted awards. As always, you cannot vote for yourself.

Air Force One: Best built bot
VTOL: Coolest/favorite Bot
Stealth Bomber: Bot that did better than you expected
Crash Landing: Bot that did worse than you expected
Intense Dogfight: Your favorite match.
HFTW...Not necessarily "HFTW", though: Worst bot.
and........
Phil would be proud: Best Phil Collins Reference

Give you guys about a week to vote.

my votes:

Air Force One: Another Day in Paradise (Nary)
VTOL: Toss up between HoverVore and Where Your Eyes Don't Go....I'm gonna go with hovervore (SKBT)
Stealth Bomber: Destructonator (Nicsan)
Crash Landing: Flying Spaghetti Monster (Squirrel_Monkey)
Intense Dogfight: Click vs Naryar in the Loser's Bracket. filming it I had to keep changing my mind over who was gonna win.
HFTW...Not necessarily "HFTW", though: Well, HFTW, C'mon, it's right there in the name :P
and........
Phil would be proud: Awesome Drumfill (Ogre) for not just being a song title, and the fact that the bot was related to the name (being a drum)

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Discussion / Hypothetical regarding tournaments

« on: October 24, 2011, 02:26:15 PM »

I know this is very unlikely to happen, But if by some bizarre fluke a bye bot were to win a match, would it advance? And if it does, and continues to get fluke after fluke, eventually winning the tournament, Do we declare it the champ or what? I had a really bizarre dream last night...lol

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Tournament Archives / In The Air Tonight SBV

« on: October 24, 2011, 06:19:37 AM »

Allright, here we go...I've only had time tonight to do the splash, brackets. There is a loser's bracket as well.

Splash

Brackets

Loser's Bracket

and....videos (finally)

Round One

Round Two

Round Three

Semifinals

FINALS!!!

Loser's Bracket Round 1

Loser's Bracket Round Two

Loser's Bracket Round Three

Loser's Bracket Round 4

Loser's Bracket Finals

Tournament complete....congrats go to....

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Tournament Archives / In the Air Tonight Signups

« on: September 28, 2011, 06:53:20 PM »

Here we go....Signups will continue for 3 weeks, ending on October 19th, or until we fill the 32 bot bracket, whichever comes first.

Rules

Entrants:
Black indicates bot received
Red indicates bot received with a problem
Purple indicates bot received and approved
Blue Indicates bot is AI'd and ready to go

1.Naryar
2.sQUIRREL_mONKEY
3.Kurt Wylde
4.Jack Daniels
5.Clickbeetle
6.dragonsteincole
7.nicsan2009
8.Conraaa
9.SKBT
10.Ogre
11.Yoda
12.Craaig
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.Dragonfire (Save-me-a-spot card for ORAD)

And here's my (not yet skinned) entry. As always, I will only be entering if we don't get enough entrants to fill the tourney.

Have fun, and lift off

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Tournament Archives / In The Air Tonight

« on: July 27, 2011, 07:36:38 PM »

The poll is done and we have a clear winner. My next tournament is officially to be "In The Air Tonight".

Rules are as follows.

1. 32 bots allowed. In the event 32 entrants are not received within a reasonable amount of time, there will either be byes given to pad the entrants, or there will be a wildcard bracket to determine who gets the last spot in a 16 bot tournament. The determination will be made based on how close we get to 32...
2. DSL Heavyweight
3. Your arena will be the Parking Lot
4. No cheatbot2, ai parts, or custom components allowed, except for.....
5...https://gametechmods.com/uploads/files/123hovercraft.zip << that. brought to you by 123savethewhales, this is the hovercraft engine that is to be used on all bots. The thrusters that come with it ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED
6. No wheels allowed, your mode of locomotion MUST be the hovercraft.
7. All building must be done in the botlab, therefore no BFE, AAM, or any of that other naughty stuff.
8. HAX mode IS allowed, providing rule number 9 is followed, and none of this 'exostacking' stuff
9. Realistic rule enforced.
10. Custom AI is allowed, provided it's not of the cheaty type, ie. no healing, constant damage, etc. etc.
11. Standard double elimination brackets.
12. Also standard havok rules. 1 havok restart per bot per match. On a second, disqualification.
13. No trinity, nasty pickle, whatever, controlled movement is the key here.
14. Multibots are allowed, both must be dispatched to count as a loss.
15. matches are 3 minutes long.
16. having a component move under your hovercraft to gain lift is allowed, however, if your bot is designed to gain a few point lead and then shoot into the sky to avoid any further damage, I'll count it as an OOTA (My discretion, don't worry, i'm fair)
17. I can AI for you, but as always AIing yourself is the preferred method.
18. All bots must have at least one ant battery for realism purposes, even if you don't use an electric motor.
19. Phil Collins references still encouraged.

As usual, comments, concerns, "hey, moron, you forgot this thing" are encouraged.

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Tournament Archives / my next tournament

« on: July 12, 2011, 06:44:22 AM »

So, I've got a bit of a problem. I've got a bunch of ideas for my next tournament, and can't decide which one to go with. That's where you guys come in. I'm going to list my ideas and a brief description, and leave it to your vote. Each of these is intended for DSL (Sorry, stockers)

1. War Was Beginning: Davids vs. Goliaths: Two factions of 8 entrants each face off against each other. The Davids each build a multibot weighing in at a combined weight of 800 kg. The Goliaths each enter 1 standard HW bot. Entrant 1 of the Davids faces off against Entrant 1 of the Goliaths. Next entrant 2 vs. 2 so on and so forth. The survivors are then randomized, and face off in turn against whoevers left on the opposing faction. This goes on until one faction is totally obliterated. The surviving faction is declared the winner.

2. War Was Beginning: Brawn vs Brains: Same set up as Davids vs. Goliaths, except this times the factions are Brains: standard HW bot vs Brawn: an uncontrolled, non-ai'd bot. The Brawn must be ran off of a single switch which will be activated at the start of the match and left running throughout. Brawns are allowed an extra 100 kgs on their bot. Also, special rule, If a Brawn is counted out due to the Brain never hitting it, or the Brain is AI'd in such a way that it intentionally avoids the Brawn, the Brain will be the one eliminated. This is to prevent a situation like Doom Dreidel being incapable of beating Grog, solely because Grog doesn't reach DD before the countdown starts and DD can only mobilize when hit.

3. Bizzaro world: Fairly standard DSL HW tournament, with the exception that the realistic rule is turned off. Stacking, intersecting, Everything you usually expect from Stock building brought over into the world of DSL.

4. Behemoth Battle: Another fairly standard DSL HW tournament, with a chassis restriction. All chassis by themselves must weigh at least 15 kg with Plastic: 1 armor. This is for the people sick of the ultratiny chassis.

5. In the Air Tonight: Hovercraft engines not only allowed, but required. All wheels banned.

Complete and fully detailed rules will be posted when the vote is over in 2 weeks time. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

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Tournament Archives / Our Awards Are Different

« on: June 22, 2011, 11:11:24 PM »

Our Replicas Are Different has come to it's inevitible conclusion. Unfortunately, I can only award three 'prizes'. And they are...

Now for the votes. No voting for self, unless it's for TMII. Your main vote gets 3 points, runner up gets 1

Nice Uber-Decorations, Eugene (NUDE): Awarded to the bot that most closely matches it's real life counterpart.
Hypno Arms Make Sweet, Awesome, Lovely, Assorted Decorations (HAMSALAD): most creative use of parts.
Thanks Alot, Randomizer Program (TARP): The bot you were most hoping to face/Least fearsome opponent
Thanks Alot, Randomizer Program </sarcasm> (TARPS): The bot you were least hoping to face/most fearsome opponent
False Alarm, Really Tricky! (FART): The bot you initially were the most scared of, but turned out to not be so fearsome
Really? A Teddybear? (RAT): Replica you would've never thought to make.
That Match (IS) Intense (TMI): Favorite match
U Make Me Laugh, Always Ultimate Twitterpation(UMMLAUT): Funniest moment.
And of course,
You Only Do Awesome (YODA): The obligatory sequel hook, ORAD 2, yes or no?

For Easy copy/paste
NUDE:
HAMSALAD:
TARP:
TARPS:
FART:
RAT:
TMII:
UMMLAUT:
YODA:

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Discussion / RA2/GTM psychographs.

« on: May 11, 2011, 05:59:13 AM »

I'm arguing with myself whether this should go here or in the Chatterbox, feel free to move it if i made the wrong choice.

I dont know how many of you play Magic: The Gathering, but within that community, there exist three primary playstyles (called psychographs). These are called Timmy, Johnny, and Spike.
Timmy is the type that likes to play with the big, yet inefficient creatures and effects. Timmy likes to go large or go home, basically.

Johnny is the creative type. He likes to use cards that most people pass by, in a new and interesting way. He wants to make you say "I never thought of that".

Then there's Spike, who cares about winning, winning, winning. Efficiency is everything to Spike. He'll wretch at the thought of using a card if there's even a slightly better version he can get his hands on.

Enough of the intro, the question is what are the RA2/GTM psychographs? Where do you fit in the equation, and would we need more, new ones here, or do Magic's 'big three' cover it?

Clickbeetle is the first to come to my mind when I think of a Johnny. Nary is a great Spike candidate. Timmy, well noone comes to mind right off the top of my head.

I think of myself as somewhat of a Johnny. I have a tendency to build topdown designs, the seven deadly sins being a good example. I worry less about efficiency and more about 'this could be fun'. But I do have a bit of Spike as well, I want my bots to be at least semi-combat worthy as well...

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Tournament Archives / Our Replicas Are Different Splash, vids and stuff.

« on: April 18, 2011, 05:28:30 AM »

It's time...

Your Splash

Your Brackets

Videos

GRAND FINALS

The extra,fun additional match

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Tournament Archives / Our Replicas Are Different Signups

« on: April 04, 2011, 04:36:46 PM »

Allright, It's time for signups... The rules are:

1. 16 bots allowed, last 4 entrants will go into a wildcard rumble.
2. DSL SuperHeavyweight in the combat zone arena with hazards off
3. No cheatbot or replica parts
4. No custom components
5. All building done in botlab, so no BFE, AAM, or any of that cheaty stuff, skinning is allowed (nearly required)
6. multibots are allowed, both bots must add up to no more that 1200 kg
7. Multibots must both be beaten to count as a win.
8. 'loose' realistic rule will apply. This is standard realism, with slight allowances of breaking realism for looks only.
9. Don't bother with Narmour, it won't work.
10. matches will be 3 minutes, 1 on 1, best 2 out of 3, with a losers bracket
11. Standard Havok restart rules. You get 1 free, Cause a second one and your bot is DQ'd for that round.
12. I can and will AI for those who can't, but AI'ing your own bot is the preferred method. If I AI it and it's not what you wanted, the imperfection is yours. No Whining.
13. custom .py's allowed, not including the cheaty type (healing damage, constant damage, etc. etc.)
14. You must make a decent effort to make your bot look like it was built out of something else.
15. It doesn't have to be perfect, as long as we can get the idea of what it is supposed to be.
16. Beyond that, most bot types allowed, save for trinity flyers, nasty pickles, or bumblers.
17. In this tourney at least, the old adage of "size doesn't matter" happens to be true. Who cares if the can of dew is as big as the lawnmower?
18. The most important rule, this is for fun...

I have two gauranteed spots for the winner and runner up of Survival of the Fittest, 090901 and Ogre. Other than them, it's first come, first served. I am only going to enter if the signups do not get filled in a timely manner.

Let's have some fun!

*= you've used your one update.
Gauranteed spot, no bot yet.
Bot Received and approved.
Bot Received and AI'd.
Problem with bot.

1. 090901(Sledgehammer and cheesewedge)
2. Ogre (Big Wheel)
3. Clickbeetle (wheel bug)
4. Conraa * (piano)
5. Jack Daniels (corn harvester)
6. Thyrus (Bulldozer)
7. Squirrel Monkey (racecar)
8. Craaig (cake)
9. Dragonfire (bass drum)
10. freeziez (washing machine)
11. xanosz (airplane)
12. MikeNCR (snowblower)
13. Scrap Daddy (chair)
14. kill343gs (Shopping cart)
15. Pwnator (Underground drill)
16. (To be determined by a Wildcard Rumble)

Wildcarders:
1. NFX (Lampshade)
2. Badnik96 (Blender)
3. Somebody (Airplane)*
4. Wolfsbane (Cardboard box)*

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Tournament Archives / Our Replicas are Different

« on: March 03, 2011, 09:16:51 PM »

What's this? Another replica tournament? Well, kinda. The idea behind this one is NOT to make replicas of a 'bot', but to make a 'replica' of...something else. A bot that appears to have been made out of some object, or in the shape of...whatever. Here's a few examples...

Yup, a lawnmower and a can of mountain dew. So, some rules...

1. 16 bots allowed, last 4 entrants will go into a wildcard bracket.
2. DSL SuperHeavyweight in the combat zone arena with hazards off
3. No cheatbot or replica parts
4. No custom components
5. All building done in botlab, so no BFE, AAM, or any of that cheaty stuff, skinning is allowed (nearly required)
6. multibots are allowed, both bots must add up to no more that 1200 kg
7. 'loose' realistic rule will apply. This is standard realism, with slight allowances of breaking realism for looks only.
8. matches will be 3 minutes, 1 on 1, best 2 out of 3, with a losers bracket
9. I can and will AI for those who can't, but AI'ing your own bot is the preferred method.
10. custom .py's allowed, not including the cheaty type (healing damage, constant damage, etc. etc.)
11. You must make a decent effort to make your bot look like it was built out of something else.
12. It doesn't have to be perfect, as long as we can get the idea of what it is supposed to be.
13. Beyond that, most bot types allowed, save for trinity flyers, nasty pickles, or bumblers.
14. In this tourney at least, the old adage of "size doesn't matter" happens to be true. Who cares if the can of dew is as big as the lawnmower?
15. The most important rule, this is for fun...

recently added rules
16. Havok restarts as per usual. you get one free, on a second havok from YOUR bot, you're disqualified
17. Narmour: don't bother. It won't work.
18. Multibots must both be destroyed/immobilized to count as a win.
Promo vid:

questions, comments, anything i've missed, additional ideas? let's hear them.

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Stock Showcases / Droids from Stock

« on: December 21, 2010, 07:06:40 AM »

In the interest of advice and fulfilling what I assume will be the prerequisite for the next BTTB, here's my first entry into a stock showcase.

My entry for BBTB3. Darker Shades of Gray.

2 stacked black batts,
DSA
18 Irons total

Beats about 1/2 of starcore AI, and usually holds it's own against the ones it can't beat.

Go easy on me, haven't built in stock for about a year now.

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Tournament Archives / Survival of the Fittest Awards thread

« on: July 05, 2010, 12:21:45 AM »

It's done! Great job one and all. Here are your champions...

090901's team World War 2 came out on top.
Ogre's team The Ogre's Lair a close second place.
Loser's Bracket champion is Naryar with Call of the Wild.
Second place of the Loser's bracket is S.T.C. with Anonymous.

090901 gets the froonium plow and froonium spike, now legal for him in any future tournament I may run. He also get automatic entry into my next.

Ogre, coming in second, will get his choice of the plow or spike. I'll find out his choice next time I see him.

Now, for the fun part. Let's hear your votes on the following. No voting for yourself unless it's for favorite heat. Voting for champs is allowed.
vote for your favorite and a runner up. Favorite gets 3 points, runner up gets 1
The Categories are...

Best Built Team: Whichever you think was built best
Best team theme: Team theme you like the best
Darwin Award: award to bot who got eliminated in the most spectacularly failure way
Eye of the Tiger: Team that did better than you expected
Extinction due to misadventure: team that should've done better
TFTW: Spinner from the west team. (worst team)
Best Strategic team: Whichever team had the best strategy
Your favorite BOT: obvious
Your Favorite heat: also obvious

And finally, one final category to vote in,

Should there be a future sequel to SOTF?: It won't be for awhile. Won't even be my next tourney. But if you'd like a sequel, let me know.

Voting ends in one week's time. Monday, July 12th.

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Tournament Archives / Survival of the Fittest Brackets/splash/videos/predictions all that.

« on: June 28, 2010, 07:48:38 AM »

here we go. Survival of the Fittest is ready with the brackets and the splash. Thanks to everyone who entered. We had some decent variety in this tourney. Here's some stats, just because I like stats. Out of 13 entrants we had...

5 horizontal spinners
3 Rammers
4 popups
6 Vertical spinners
1 ..wedge
1 Hammer
4 Sit and spins
1 Face spinner
5 shell spinners
1 "Survivor"
1 Kheper type
4 Flippers
1 Angled VS
1 Drum
1 Complex Spinners

And finally for your bye team we have

1 Flame bot
1 Side hammer
and 1 HS

Here's the splash.

And here are your brackets

Videos:

Heat2 videos

Heat 3 video

Heat 4

Loser's Bracket Heat 1

Loser's Bracket Heat 2

Loser's Bracket Finals

FINALS

Good luck to one and all..

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General Support / Strange problems with a tourney entry.

« on: June 23, 2010, 10:35:00 AM »

So, this is the bot that I received, Ignore the text on the pic.

and here's the bot the way he sees it on his end

Any ideas what may be causing the mix up?

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Tournament Archives / Survival of the Fittest Signups.

« on: April 16, 2010, 10:29:11 PM »

Due to my last project being completed, I'm needing a new one to keep myself from going crazy...It's time for

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

FORMAT:

DSL in Nar AI
Each entrant makes a team consisting of a LW, a MW, and a HW.
Matches consist of a rumble, starting out with all LW's of 4 teams. When 1 bot is eliminated, the match is stopped and the eliminated bot is removed, to be replaced by the next bot in the team. The match will then begin anew. This goes on until 3 teams are eliminated, last team standing wins the match.

RULES:

16 entrants only
Each entrant must make their entire team.
arena will be a reskinned RA2 Tournament arena
This will be ran in NarAI v2.2. All components legal in that are legal in the tourney
No BFE, AAM, etc. All building must be done in the bot lab.
No cheatbot2 parts, ai parts, or custom parts allowed.
bots must show controlled movement.
No multibots, since they wouldn't work right anyway.
Realistic rule enforced.
each bot in a team must be different types.
A strict limit of 4 flails PER TEAM.
Standard Havok restart rules.
I reserve the right to edit videos of long matches down. This will consist of cutting out any extended section of bots in a cluster, barely moving.
Entrants AI'ing their own bots is preferred, however, i can AI if need be. But i expect no griping if i don't do it the way you want.

Bracket is such:

Here's your arena:

Prizes will be:

1st place. Froonium Spike and Froonium Snowplow reskins. These components also feature slightly more hit points then their normal counterparts as well as slightly lighter. Once won, they can be
used in any future tournament I may run.
2nd place. Choice of Froonium spike or froonium snowplow.

There will also be a few awards handed out based on community votes, no prize other than bragging rights.
They are as follows.

Best built team: self explanatory
Best team theme: Also self explanatory
Darwin Award: Awarded to the bot that got eliminated in the most spectacularly failure way.
Eye of the Tiger: Bot that survived longer than expected
Extinction due to misadventure: Team that should've done better.
TFTW: Team from the west, i think you all know what that means.

Tourney will begin when all entrants teams are sent in and approved.

Color coded list:
Team waiting to be Received(NOTE: You are not entered until i receive teams, this is just to help me keep organized)
Team Received
Team Approved
Team Ready

CURRENT ENTRANTS:
1.090901
2. G.K.
3. Team Xtreemer
4. Bubbleman
5. S.T.C.
6. Ogre
7. FOTEPX
8. Pwnator
9. freeziez
10. Clickbeetle
11. The Ounce
12. Squirrel Monkey
13. Naryar
14.
15.
16.

Expressed interest, but no bots yet.
1.
2. Badnik
3. R1885
4. Alterer of Reality
6. Gazea2

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