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Tournament Archives / BBEANS4 Rules and Registration
« on: July 30, 2008, 06:14:19 AM »Quote from: Clickbeetle;10199
Now that the 2.1 patch is finished, it's time for the event you've all been waiting for...
Bot Battle for Eminent AutoNomous Supremacy #4
Rules
First, make sure to read the BBEANS general rules, updated 6/28/08.
BBEANS4-specific Rules
Weight Class: Middleweight
Components: DSL 2.1
Arena: BBEANS Tournament Arena
Special Rules: Realistic. Most of you are familiar with this. For those who aren't, all bots must be reasonably realistic, basically meaning that you can't have any intersecting components that couldn't intersect in real life. A blade going through an armor plate is fine, because you could cut a slot in the armor in real life. A blade going through a wheel isn't fine. For some good examples, look at the stock DSL AI and the entries for BBEANS2 (click here). All these bots comply with the Realistic Rule.
Tournament Format: Double elimination. Best 2 out of 3 matches wins. 3 minute matches. 32 entry slots. If I get much more than 32 entries, though, I might boost the bracket to 64 slots like I did for BBEANS3.
Entering
Registration is now closed.
Changing Your Entry
This part is a little different from past BBEANS. If you want to change your entry to a totally different bot, you have until I AI your entry to do so. I will wait at least one week to AI bots, so you have at least that long to change it, possibly longer. If you made your own AI, then you still only get one week to change your entry.
If you only want to update your bot, then you can do that as many times as you like. As long as it is the same design and can use the same AI as the previous bot, you can update it.
Prizes
The Champion will receive the following weapon!
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Yeah, it's a sword, and it looks cool, but what are you going to do with it? Use it in the next BBEANS, that's what! This prize, and others like it, are legal for use in BBEANS tournaments! They're fairly balanced, so you don't need to worry about having an unfair advantage. But who doesn't like shiny novelty components to show off their skill?
You can also use the bare sword blade, minus crossguard and pommel, if you wish. Sometimes the plain blade fits better than the whole sword.
Other prizes are TBA. I'm thinking there will be at least four more, all BBEANS-legal. I'm afraid the laser rifle still isn't legal, though. That counts as part of Firebeetle's Component Pack. Sorry.
The Champion gets the Champion's Sword in addition to one other prize of their choice. The Runner-up, the Rumble winner, and each winner of each additional award gets one prize of their choice, excluding the Champion's Sword.
You can give the prize components to other people if you want, but only the people who win them are allowed to use them in BBEANS. So I can't use the prize components, even though I have all of them. Just to be fair.
I think that covers everything. Any questions, post them here.
Competitors registered ( 32 )[/u]
JoeCB1991
Sorrow
Dragonfire
ianh05
zipdragon64
R0B0SH4RK
infiniteinertia
Naryar
H@zm47
Somebody
Clickbeetle
Firebeetle
duh102
sage
Scrap Daddy
somestrangeguy
Gigafrost
TorrFac
Philetbabe
Meganerdbomb
Pyscolone
Barbie
mjrobots
Phlox
Botreactor
Urjak
Silver
Jules
andrewm0304
Sammy
man manu
Seastalker
i sent clickbeetle an email with my entry so why am i not here?