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« on: August 01, 2015, 09:04:35 PM »
Best Design - Tribute to Tribute to Tribute to Mayhem (God that's a mouthful) Just for the fact it's a
A what? I'm on tenterhooks here! :P
-also try typing it a billion times :P
Lol. I fixed it, so are you happy now dammit? :P
So happy you'll never know. Thanks for voting for me too :)
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« on: August 01, 2015, 08:38:38 PM »
It throws a bit, but I probably should look into ways of making it do it more. I had a really productive RA2 day today, I've built like 10 bots. But as I've spammed the forums enough with all the BTTB stuff I'll just post my DSL things. Firstly, I redid the back and skin of my IRL SHW, and did a funny with the name. Up to the w/l.  Made what was meant to be an IRL MW but ended up being a HW, a bot I call Steel Shark:  And then there's this bot. I was inspired by my very first BOTM entry, back in January 2010, that I found today, and also Tentomushi. It's coincedental that Somnium posted something that isn't totally dissimilar today in his Stock Showcase.  The idea is that I drive over the top of other bots like a Flying Guillotine, then use the servo pistons to bring the weapons down on the opponent. Other than the fact that it simply isn't very efficient, there are 3 major problems with it. 1 - The legs are not tall enough. 2 - The servo pistons cannot physically lift the bot back up once it comes down. I've tried actuators and burst pistons but both are worse - the actuators' axles just glitch out so I can't use it, and the burst pistons are too powerful - the bot just flies away like that thing Stagfish entered into Clash of the Titans 3 - And even if the other things weren't problems, this is.  Still, it's always nice to build something new.
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« on: August 01, 2015, 08:18:49 PM »
lol, I had too much fun making that. So, so stupid, so, so bad. And at the same time, it wasn't planned. Just kinda... happened while recording the arena intros. Most of it was improvised as I was recording it as well, I didn't write any of it down beforehand, except the last bit about razors, because I fluffed it up the first time.
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« on: August 01, 2015, 08:11:23 PM »
Best Design - Tribute to Tribute to Tribute to Mayhem (God that's a mouthful) Just for the fact it's a
A what? I'm on tenterhooks here! :P
-also try typing it a billion times :P
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« on: August 01, 2015, 07:52:23 PM »
Is upheaval not in already O_O
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« on: August 01, 2015, 07:31:36 PM »
That's the tourney finished, and it's been a bunch of fun! Congrats to the champ (And rumble winners), commiserations to the runner-up. I also want to say 2 big thank you's. Firstly to RedAce, whose BTTB Revamped display tourney is what a) brought me back to GTM and RA2, and b) inspired me to run this. Secondly, to all the entrants for their sumbissions, you've made the tourney what it was, a pleasure to host and hopefully fun to watch. It's been a great mix of entrants - 11 of you have entered 4 or more BTTB's and there was a good number of rookies too. Thanks everyone. tl;dr I think my words are more important than they actually are. Also the Awards thread is up here, and the updated AI Pack here.
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« on: August 01, 2015, 07:31:03 PM »
Hey everyone, welcome to the awards thread for BTTB V.  SBVOnce again, congrats to I know I said I wouldn't be calculating rankings that combined this tournament and the previous 4, with BTTB V being considered a reboot. However, I have decided to use match records instead of fight wins/losses, which will allow me to weigh both this tourney and the previous 4 equally to produce the following: The Sage/Stagfish wildcard in BTTB 1 is counted in this but the byebot rounds in BTTB V are not. In the table I have included the fight win/loss score, which was the official score for ranking up to this point but bear in mind that not every fight filmed in BTTB 1-4 consisted of 3 matches. Though it was best of 3, if a bot won 2-0, I would stop, while every fight except the byebot fights in BTTB V had 3 matches. I have also calculated, unoffically, what the rankings would have looked like if they were all compiled together in the old format. Some of the differences are startling. - Somebody is startingly out in front in terms of both fight and match wins, leading Badnik by 14 fights and Badnik/Nary/Pwn by 8 matches respectively. Jesus, 8 matches... that's a whole tourney's worth or more...
- Sage, Nary, S_M, Pwn and I have the most match losses with 10 each, as a result of entering all 5 tourneys and not winning any like Somebody and Ounce did. I have the least match wins though :-(, and for that I blame Complement or Complicate.
- Pwnator has the most individual fight losses, narrowly beating out Nary and Somebody. This is indicative of them often losing fights in matches they won. In a similar vein, my fight wins are comparable to Pwn, Sage and Nary, despite having several less match wins - my bots (Or my DSL ones at least) have been good at grabbing consolation victories in matches I've lost. The new system rewards the likes of Pwn and penalizes the likes of me and Thrackerzod, compared to the old one.
- Under the old system Thrackerzod would have had the best score for a rookie in any BTTB ever. That's very impressive.
- 2 bots have got perfect 6-0 records, Grade-4 Whiplash in BTTB 3 and Altifood in BTTB 4. In fact, looking back at my old spreadsheet, apparently Ounce's bot didn't lose a single fight. Not even Clown Breath could manage that.
- Bubbleman has lifted himself off the bottom of the table with his first ever wins in BTTB. He'd suffered 12 fight losses over BTTB 1, 2 & 4 without a win to his name before. Pleased for him.
- GRW is now ranked last, other than the 4 entrants who pulled out of their only BTTB, but won a fight, yet the next 5 up didn't muster a single win between them.
- Sparkey and Clickbeetle are tied. :P
- The biggest positional difference between the 2 lists is Geice, who is 14 places lower in the official ranks than the classic rank system. I keep forgetting his record was only 2-2.
Also, I have released a new BTTB AI updated for BTTB V. Check out the thread if you're interested in that. Now onto the awards! The following awards are up for grabs: Favourite Match - A match you thought was high quality, fun or that you enjoyed. Best Design - A robot you consider to be constructed the best, for whatever reason you choose. Favourite Bot - Your favourite bot. BTRSHDBBDDTBL (Bot That Really Should Have Done Better But Didn't Due To Bad Luck) - Does what it says on the tin really. Best Rebuild - The robot you consider most in the spirit of the original bot. All the pictures of the originals are here.You can vote for anything except yourself in bot categories (But you can vote for a match you were in), and you can't vote for the bonus matches either. Anyone can vote, including non-participants. Favourite Match - Shaver BX (Kill343gs) vs Cube Crusher (Thrackerzod) (Losers Bracket Round 1) - Loads of good matches, other notables being Spinny Dinny vs Heeellie Razer, Mechanized Warfare vs I EVOLVED and anything involving Crush?, but this one really set the tournament going for me. Back and forth, and full of surprises.
Best Design - I was desperate to vote for about 5 bots here but my vote will go to Mechanized Warfare (Virus Bomb). Fast, armoured, decent wedges, good looking, and armed with a very very powerful weapon, just a fantastically constructed bot by VB. Very unlucky to face such wide tribar spinners in its 2nd defeat.
Favourite Bot - Crush? (Somebody) - For a last minute entry Somebody really sucessfully managed to create a design with synergetic weapon systems, capable of defeating a range of bot types in excellent matches, in order to finish 3rd, whilst at the same time looking completely unsuitable to fighting basically anything other than the byebot. All of its matches were fantastic to film, and it really became my favourite as the tournament went on, displacing several others. The surprise of the tourney.
BTRSHDBBDDTBL - Lots of candidates here but my vote goes to Teh Claw of Doom!!!!! (090901) - A really good side hammer that was really unlucky in its matchups - Sage (which it still beat in 1 of the rounds) and the surprise bot of the tournament. Would undoubtedly have faired better against quite a few other bots.
Best Rebuild - Heeellie Razer (Geice) - Close call between this and Cube Crusher but in the end I think Geice deserves this award. He really stuck to Mystic2000's original vision despite the awkward chassis shape, and created a devastating bot out of it. Those first 2 matches against Mystic and Somebody (who he Crush-ed... were absolutely dominant, and its showing against Sage was good too,
Awards will run for a week.
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« on: August 01, 2015, 07:30:44 PM »
Announcing the new and improved Stock BTTB AI. I've tried to do a better job with this one, my previous packs have essentially been bot dumps. This is a proper AI pack. BTTB Stock AIFeaturing: - 13 new, themed AI teams comprising: - All 17 bots from Back to the Beginnings (Plus the original version of Doomkiller's The Black Knight). - All 31 bots from BTTB 3. - All 22 bots from BTTB V. - The 4 promo bots used in the promos for Stock BTTB tournaments. - Updated AI code for a variety of bots, mostly fixing my bodgy AI work from 4-5 years ago. - Both versions of the Twiiisted Arena as used in the tournament series, updated with new python files, previews and CUSTOM INTRODUCTIONS. These superscede any old versions of the arena available for d/l up to this point. - Some funky new UI stuff - I learned .gib editing and everything. - Madiaba's smartzones. - A couple of easter eggs, if you can find them. UI is provided in 4 resolution sizes - 1280x1024x32, 1024x768x32 (default), 800x600x32 & 640x480x32. If there is sufficient interest I will create UI modifications for other resolutions. Please post questions or suggestions for changes in this thread. Also let me know if it works :P (Though I've tested it on multiple clean Stock 1.4's, so it should be fine.)
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« on: August 01, 2015, 07:15:55 PM »
inb4 Bite Force gets in
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« on: August 01, 2015, 06:38:37 PM »
The Grand Final, Rumble, and Champions' Rumble are up! Make sure you watch the Final before the Champions' Rumble (Or before you read the associated text) else it'll spoil the result.
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« on: August 01, 2015, 04:33:14 PM »
^This
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« on: August 01, 2015, 03:47:46 PM »
Yeah, nice bot, though the splash was a bit of a turnoff. was sure you'd built 3 tho...
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« on: August 01, 2015, 02:58:40 PM »
I did consider blue
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« on: August 01, 2015, 02:41:48 PM »
Never got anywhere near top 2 of a BOTM before :)  Just a 'lil bit of fun eh
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« on: August 01, 2015, 02:40:49 PM »
I knew it!
Cool bot btw, it was my choice.
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« on: August 01, 2015, 11:06:56 AM »
The biggest issue with it is that it isn't the fastest at dealing damage so fights usually take awhile.
I think that, at least to some extent, is par for the course for wammers, tbh.
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« on: August 01, 2015, 09:51:16 AM »
How does it fare against the major bot types? If we know what it struggless with we can suggest how to improve.
Looks absolutely brilliant, I must say.
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« on: August 01, 2015, 07:15:07 AM »
This is cool.
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« on: July 31, 2015, 06:29:25 PM »
I have uploaded the last set of extra fights, the Rebuild Rumble series (+2 other single fights - me vs Reier because we rebuilt each other, and Thrackerzod vs Kill because I promised them a rematch after LB Round 1)
Grand Final and Rumbles tomorrow!
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