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« on: July 15, 2015, 07:52:50 AM »
Yeah Nary's forgotten that skins have been replicated from the orignals :P
He even had Crush in BTTB 1 (& 4) and mostly left it with a plastic texture :P
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« on: July 15, 2015, 07:43:23 AM »
That was an unintended consequense. I was just after the basic pun :P
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« on: July 15, 2015, 07:01:12 AM »
Also, what do you mean VALVe's outside casters get knocked of easily?
he probably meant the snappers
Yeah, I saw that when editing, it's fixed for the next vid :P
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« on: July 15, 2015, 06:33:50 AM »
It's got AGOD problems. pause loading makes it useable.
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« on: July 15, 2015, 06:25:45 AM »
Brackets are up, and the R1 byebot video too! Also I've filmed most of R1 now. I will progress with the tourney tomorrow regardless of the final 2 submissions.
Scrap 
I know, but I sent another PM yesterday and he was online since and hasn't responded. I've got to think of the tourney and keep going. If Scrap or SKBT sends before completion I'll put them in some grudge matches/the AI pack.
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« on: July 15, 2015, 05:55:09 AM »
ChIRONese Whispers :P
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« on: July 14, 2015, 10:15:36 PM »
Crush? (Somebody) - I don't remember RAD spinners on Crush. Could be used pretty well here.
G. K. said "including a mace hammer" which I abused the hell out of because I've never built a hammer bot before, and it was an even worse hammer bot than it is as a screwy hybrid
What about your BTTB 3 bot? :P Also I've filmed most of R1 now. I will progress with the tourney tomorrow regardless of the final 2 submissions.
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« on: July 14, 2015, 07:56:41 PM »
This is very true.
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« on: July 14, 2015, 07:00:16 PM »
My thoughts:
Atomic Wedgie (RedAce) - Well armoured, damaging weapon - generally very well built. The big problem imo is 2WD.
Bloody Massacre (Mystic2000) - My favourite bot by miles, it's ridiculous. And it can't stay on its feet. BUT - the battleaxes kill you swiftly if they get hits in.
Clown Breath (Badnik96) - While it does have plastic it's also got such ridiculous sweeping ability that almsot nothing ever gets to it. My bet to win tbh.
Crush? (Somebody) - It's decent if it manages to trap bots but the chassis leaves it really exposed.
Cube Crusher (Thrackerzod) - It's got a lot of weapons, with funky DDT setup too. If it gets under a bot they are dead.
Cutting Cold (G.K.) - People can say Irons are bad on popups but this still does the job very well. Also I've lucked out on the wedge front.
egapmaR (ty4er) - It's essentially Bumble Bee (Remember that time I entered Bumble Bee in a BOTM Sage? Foolish 15-yo me :P). Will hurt things that can't shove it out, but a lot of stuff can.
Extra Mouldy Cheese :D (Naryar) - this was a last minute entry and it shows :P
Heeellie Razer (Geice) - Lovely rebuild, absolutely lovely. Suffers from the single wedge but really damaging if it gets under you.
I EVOLVED (Reier) - Reier absolutely nailed the paintjob. Decent bot too, though I have to pause load.
Magnificent Mandrill (The Ounce) - Could have done with some airtanks, Ounce :P
Mechanized Warfare (Virus Bomb) - Absolutely lovely bot. Powerful, well defended, stable and good looking.
Shaver BX or whatever it is (Kill343gs) - The second stock Shaver BX rebuild I absolutely love (Yes I now the other was mine). This will dismember you if you let it.
Sidewinder Supreme (MassimoV) - Probably the most deadly popup weapon wise and well armoured too. Dunno how it manages both of those while being 50kg underweight.
Spinny Dinny (Sage) - Surprisingly effective and beautiful bot. The if the flails didn't have such low HP this would be a real favourite of mine to win.
Swamp Ogre (Bubbleman) - Another one where wedges are really important. Should do alright.
TEH CLAW OF DOOM!!!!! (090901) - Will kill you if it's underneath you. Strong side hammer and well armoured.
Tempest of Nematodes (Martymidget) - I have no idea why Marty chose swords - the normals really screw tis DP over, but it's stylish and wedges are decent. It just might take some time to kill you :P
This Way Please (Squirrel_Monkey) - Generally really good popup. Hella ugly though SM :P
Tribute to Tribute to Tribute to Mayhem (Mr. AS) - All around good bot. Love the choice of name.
Ultra Murder Pain Bot (Wacky Bob) - The bracket wedges have a habit of keeping opposing bots away from the smartzone and it doesn't drive particularly straight. Deadly if it can hit you though and brilliant name.
VALVe (Pwnator) - <3 <3 <3 The weapons at that angle are less effective than they could be, unfortunately.
Hammer Fisted (Byebot) - Nice and rip-up able.
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« on: July 14, 2015, 04:37:27 PM »
DP: If anyone wants a list of the robots for predictions, find one below: Atomic Wedgie (RedAce) -
Bloody Massacre (Mystic2000) -
Clown Breath (Badnik96) -
Crush? (Somebody) -
Cube Crusher (Thrackerzod) -
Cutting Cold (G.K.) -
egapmaR (ty4er) -
Extra Mouldy Cheese :D (Naryar) -
Heeellie Razer (Geice) -
I EVOLVED (Reier) -
Magnificent Mandrill (The Ounce) -
Mechanized Warfare (Virus Bomb) -
Shaver BX or whatever it is (Kill343gs) -
Sidewinder Supreme (MassimoV) -
Spinny Dinny (Sage) -
Swamp Ogre (Bubbleman) -
TEH CLAW OF DOOM!!!!! (090901) -
Tempest of Nematodes (Martymidget) -
This Way Please (Squirrel_Monkey) -
Tribute to Tribute to Tribute to Mayhem (Mr. AS) -
Ultra Murder Pain Bot (Wacky Bob) -
VALVe (Pwnator) -
Hammer Fisted (Byebot) -
I'll post up such an analysis at some point.
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« on: July 14, 2015, 04:35:59 PM »
It's here! Welcome to BTTB V everybody!  Here's a list of what everybody had to rebuild.Hammer Fisted didn't have the best of luck as a multibot in BTTB 3, facing off agaisnt 2 drums, though not aided by the fact that it only had 2WD RAD drive (the other wheels are on axles). It's a great byebot - all 10 bots with a bye to round 2 get to strut their funky stuff. All the actual entrants win. egapmaR, as you would expect, is good at taking parts off its opponent - but here it faces a 4WD bot with two different 'uplifitng' weapon systems - a VS and a flipper. Can it cause enough damage in time to a bot whose exenders and weapon motors are big targets for a crawler before it gets pushed out? At least 1 round goes the way you wouldn't expect. TtTtTtM wins 3-0 with 3 TKO's. Both of these bots are very damaging and will definitely win if they get underneath their oppnent. It's a shame Stock so often comes down to a batle of wedges - though here these bots have very similar wedges and bounce off each other. Whoever reacts quicker from this bounce may well prevail. Sidewinder Supreme wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. I am intrigued by Cube Crusher's weapon system. Thrackerzod put a large rack of razors on 1 DDT, and a much smaller one on another in front of it. This allows the big one to sort of trap the opponent bot and rack up points, while the small one keeps hitting it in the hope of chassis damage. Against a lesser bot like EMC, you'd think all it needs to do is get under the bouncy VS, and victory is in the bag. However, it doesn't always get under its opponent... Cube Crusher wins 3-0 with 2 KO's and 1 TKO. Two well matched bots go head to head here. The matchup, as shown by round 2, has the potential to be very tedious - Swamp Ogre is just the right shape to have its casters block Shaver BX's weapons and then the bots are just locked together. Fortunately the other rounds are much quicker and one bot emerges the stronger. Swamp Ogre wins 2-1 with 2 KO's. Shaver BX gets 1 WBP. In some ways Geice's bot, with its exposed chassis, is the best popup that my favourite BTTB V entrant could face. In other ways, it's just as bad as any other given that the hammer is so unstable and can easily be got under, exposing the soft underbelly... Also, fun fact - this is Mystic2000 against the rebuild of his own bot. Heeellie Razer wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. Dominant. Clown Breath is absolutely devastating with its huge sweep, but it's up against one of the bots most suited to beating it here. Ounce's big wall of spikes is a nice thing for badnik to break his weapons on, and it's fast enough to charge in and deweapon it from the off too, though this doesn't happen very often. This match also features everybody's favourite thing - havok explosions, and a KO by the arena wall. The fun moments, esp in Round 1, make up for a long Round 2. Clown Breath wins 3-0 with 1 KO, 1 TKO and 1 WBP. MM gets the most ridiculous KO ever in the havok restarted battle in Round 1, and then gets KO'd by the arena wall.
Also, I can't help but wonder what would have happened if Ounce had remembered that pistons need air tanks... While firing flippers and spinning a VS concurrently is a good tactic against a crawler, Mr AS. would kill me if I made his bot act so badly against basically anything else. I've AI'd it with SwitchWep.py, which keeps the flippers from firing until all the VS weapons have been knocked off. Probably should have done that for NFX's TtTtM... Meanwhile, due to the rotation of the HPZ's, Tempest of Nematodes has some driving issues. This match is essentially decided by intial wedge war but is still an ok watch. TtTtTtM wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. I think this is the first time I've ever faced one of my IRL friends in a BTTB tournament, despite there being 10 bots from our posse in the last 4 tournaments, and it's a bit of a letdown. Two rounds are just decided by a wedge war (and one bot is clearly wedgier) and the other has the bots spinning round for most of the match. Cutting Cold wins 3-0 with 2 KO's and a WBP. I'm not let down as a participant, but I am as a host and as a rival :P This match, while ultimately won convinvingly, makes a nice change for a popup-popup match in that it doesn't just depend on who outwedges the other straight away. The winner has to deal with more than just getting underneath its opponent. While it doesn't play a huge role, I can't help but think MassimoV should have used some of his spare 50KG on upgrading his srimech to something better than Snapper II's... VALVe wins with 2 KO's and 1 TKO. Like Geice with Heeellie Razer, Thrackerzod made an effort to replicate the original bot's chassis with Cube Crusher and I give him huge props for that. Wacky Bob continues to confuse me with the bracket wedges - all they seem to do is block the smartzone - though do remember his brief was unarmoued popup. The fight itself is pretty good - there's some back and forth action in every round, again nothing is decided by inital outwedging, and there's a havok restart in a popup-popup battle...? Ultra Murder Pain Bot wins 2-1 with 1 KO and 1 TKO. Cube Crusher gets 1 KO. Ugh. Despite having had these two entrants the longest, I tested them against each other relatively little, so I had a rude awakening filming this fight. In 2 matches the bots spend most of it spinning in circles - Bubbleman's casters are, like last round, well placed to prevent any damage at all, and RedAce's pistons are slightly too short. This said, the 3rd battle is more fun and shows of the potential of the winning bot. The starts of the matches, the bit where I accidentally press F12 and the one match to buck the trend save this fight from being 1 star. Atomic Wedgie wins 3-0 with 2 WBP's and 1 KO. Having to pause load for Reier makes Clown Breath spin infield at the start like a frictionless thing on ice, which worringly makes it look like it's going to spin faster than it already does. Fortunately, there's enough time before it reaches I Evolved for it to return to its usual max speed. All 3 of the matches follow the same pattern - the bots wearing each other down until a KO at around the 1 minute mark. Clown Breath wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. This was long but fun. 090901 was really worried about fighting Sage here but the bots prove to be well matched. Other than the havok explosions which hilariously weigh in, Spinny Dinny's weapons prove to be surprisingly effective, while Teh Claw has pushing power on its side... Spinny Dinny wins 2-1 with 2 KO's. Teh Claw gets 1 havok forefit. While there were minor havoks in the other matches I didn't consider them major fight-affecting ones. Also for some reason the 'Havok Restart' and 'Havok Forefit' signs come a bit late, but WMM was playing up with me all day. As I'd spent most of my manual testing of Geice's bot pressing the srimech button instead of the fire button and wondering why it was so weak, I was in for somewhat of a surprise when Heeellie Razer ABSOLUTELY DOMINATED Bloody Massacre. Crush?, however, as you'd expect from a previous BTTB champion and #1 seed, is a better built and more stable hammer than BM - one actually capable of getting hits on Heeellie's chassis. The question is, can it hit the big exposed chassis enough before its own is exploited by Geice? No. It can't. Heeellie Razer wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. Dominant. Again, egapmaR shows off its ability to chew up opponents but it is up against a) a hammer, who could potentially damage the vulnerable top, and b) a 4WD bot who can push. Can it KO the #1 seed before it is beaten? Crush? wins 2-1 with 2 TKO's. egapmaR gets 1 KO. Usually, a HS/VS matchup is bad news for the VS. In Virus Bomb's favour, however, is the fact that Reier's bot is also wedged - so it can in theory slide underneath, avoid the flurry of maces, and hit the exposed underside. However, the more of I Evolved's wedge apparatus Mechanized Warfare takes off, the more of a traditional HS its opponent becomes... Mechanized Warfare wins 2-1 with 2 KO's. I Evolved gets 1 last second KO of its own. Daft little match. Swamp Ogre has already taken down one GloMod, so the big question is can it make it 2/2 with Naryar? In this match its casters won't be of any use - if EMC gets under it then it's in trouble. And that's what this match becomes. A wedge war. But also a wedge war between two bots that can't self right... D: Extra Mouldy Cheese wins 2-1 with 1 KO and 1 TKO. Swamp Ogre gets 1 KO. Already! A 5 star match! Kill343gs and Thrackerzod produce perhaps the best match I've ever seen in a BTTB. Every round is full of twists and turns, as each of the really-well matched bots appears to be on top for a while. Initial wedge war means nothing, parts fly, and there's plenty of back and forth action. At the end of this I really wished that I didn't have to eliminate either bot - can't I just eliminate S_M instead? - and you can bet they'll have a grudge match at the end of the tournament. Cube Crusher wins 2-1 with 2 KO's. Shaver BX also gets 1 KO. The battle of the superlative-alliterative bots. As a wedgeless hammer/rammer, Magnificent Mandrill wouldn't really want to be facing any popup, but here at least there's the possibility of MassimoV's bot's razors breaking on the ramming rack. This fight's a little slower than the others in this round, though it is the first fight I've ever seen where wedge extender-protecting blades play a significant role. Sidewinder Supreme wins 3-0 with 1 KO, 1 TKO and a WBP. This match may be my favourite match I've ever recorded. And I've had some gems in my 5 previous tournaments. We've got a popup that can't properly drive vs a battleaxe hammer that can't stay on its wheels. Both bots have terrible weapons, but together they just produce stupidity. The match isn't fantastic. But it's fun. Tempest of Nematodes wins 2-1 with 1 KO and 1 TKO. Bloody Massacre gets a WBP. 090901 was relieved to see Somebody take down ty4er's crawler but I can't help but think that he might almost have preferred to face egapmaR. Crush? is a very wide bot, which a) means that Teh Claw cannot hit it as effectively, and also b) that the tribar spinners can potentially damage important parts of the side hammer. The most significant factor of this match, however, is the fact that the bots bounce away from each other when they meet right at the start of each bout, and sometimes they end up in a disadvantageous position, or even upside down... Crush? wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. 'Wedge Bounce' allows Crush underneath Teh Claw in Round 1, allowing the spinners to rip off lots of Teh Claw's external armour, wedges and weapons. By the time the mace hammer manages to get decent hits in on the chassis, the whole left side of Teh Claw is gone too and the spinner joins in to quickly KO the bot. The wedge bounce in Round 2 is worse - with Teh Claw tipping forwards onto its back, allowing the mace hammer to KO it within 7 seconds. It also ends up on its back in Round 3, though Crush? doesn't kill it straight away, dismantaling it a la Round 1 before striking the killer hammer blow. An impressive display from Somebody's bot, albiet one heavily aided by the luck of the wedge bounce. Naryar sucessfully took down Bubbleman's VS in the last round, which might give him confidence in his second all-VS matchup against Virus Bomb, who survived a scare against Reier to progress. Both bots have similar wedges, so there's a bit of the bouncing like in 090909 vs Somebody. A quick fight. Mechanized Warfare wins 3-0 with 2 KO's and 1 TKO. In R1 Mechanized Warfare gets under its opponent and it's just a matter of time before Nary is OotA. There's a ridiculous havok at the start of Round 2 but both bots end up back on their feet so I left it as was. Mechanized Warfare goes on to get under its opponent and rip it up, and the same happens in R3, minus the havok. Another quick match. I'm really growing to like Cube Crusher - its weapon setup really is nifty, and here it is small enough to sneak between Sidewinder Supreme's wedges. MassimoV, though, reached the last 6 of BTTB 4 with a popup, so you can bet he won't go down without a fight... Cube Crusher wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. In Round 1, Cube Crusher sneaks between Sidewinder Supreme's wedges and hits it down to the red health warning very quickly, before taking a little bit of time to deliver the final blow. Rounds 2 and 3 are similar - it doesn't deal so much damage so quickly but also KO's Sidewinder in a faster time than Round 1. I was chatting to S_M on Facebook about This Way Please's performances so far, and he proclaimed that as he'd lost to my bot - a wedge, he would also be outwedged by Marty, should Tempest of Nematodes beat Bloody Massacre. It did, but S_M's wrong. Well, half wrong, for when the bots drive towards each other, our good friend wedge lock results. While SM has created a boring match specialist, Marty's bot's issues also show up - it can't drive quite straight, and it has ineffectual weapons. This Way Please wins 2-1 with 2 KO's. Tempest of Nematodes also gets 1 TKO. We're in wedge lock for over half a minute before This Way Please finally drives on top of Tempest of Nematodes. Marty's bot then throws it about the arena in a satisfying manner before tossing it OotA, though it nearly falls OotA itself in the process. In Round 2 This Way Please gets under Tempest and KO's it in 8 seconds. It's wedge lock again at the beginning of R3, and then This Way Please drives over Tempest again, so it looks like Round 1 is repeating itself. However, after 2 hits, This Way Please falls off Tempest's front, gets under it instead, and eventually KO's it after taking off various components. The wedge war can be decieving - it's not won by the same bot every time in this matchup, though the winner then tends to be obvious. We also get to see my Switchwep.py AI working for Mr. AS' bot, which if nothing else is gratifying for me. I haven't completely lost it, however my bot performs against TtTtTtM. :P TtTtTtM wins 2-1 with 2 KO's. Cutting Cold gets 1 TKO. Bah. At least I outwedged him in R2... Both Pwn and Wacky Bob came out on top in the wedge wars against other popups in the previous round, but they both can't prevail this time around - despite there still not being a clearly more wedgey bot. And Ulta Murder Pain Bot's bracket wedges still confuse me. VALVe wins 2-1 with 2 KO's. Ultra Murder Pain Bot gets 1 TKO. VALVe just plain outwedges UMPB in Round 1, and after wedge lock, is able to rip off a wedge and then KO it in Round 2. Wacky Bob wins the wedge war in Round 3, tearing off wheels and snappers before slamming VALVe onto the wall, where it self-rights OOTA. This was quick and one-sided. You would be forgiven for watching this fight and thinking the winner is invincible, though do note the weapon breakage at the start of Round 3 - I certainly didn't expect that from the other bot. Clown Breath wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. Each time it smashes up Atomic Wedgie's right hand side before KO'ing it. Poor old RedAce. Between this and some of the stuff in LB R1, we've begun to have some awesome fights. This battle, between an oddly weaponed HS and a powerful but exposed glass cannon of a popup, generally leaves you unsure of where it will go next. Look out for Round 1 especially - you might get the winner wrong on a first viewing. Spinny Dinny wins 2-1 with 2 KO's. Heeellie Razer gets 1 KO. Within 10 seconds of R1 starting both bots have flashing health warnings. Spinny Dinny's next hit seds Heeellie to the red light warning, but it somehow manages to sneak underneath the HS and KO it without taking a hit itself. In Round 2 Geice never gets a chance to hit the underbelly of Spinyn Dinny until it's too late, a much easier battle for Sage. Round 3 is much the same - there's a big ol' havok at the end but it comes after the KO. This is a great match. Specifically, Round 2 was great to record and is great to watch back, with both bots having spells on top. However, when bots come into a match where one isn't obviously better than the other, the little things start to become significant. Those bracket wedges which I keep mentioning on Ultra Murder Pain Bot finally have an effect, and we also see the synergy between Crush?'s weapon systems. Crush? wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. In Round 1 UMBP bounces off Crush? and lands upside down, allowing the hammer/spinner to tear up its chassis. In Round 2, it's Crush? who ends up upside down, and UMPB tears off the left wedge and tribar. However, the bracket wedges get in the way a bit, and Somebody is able to claw a way back into the match, tearing off quite a bit of Wacky Bob's exterior. However, UNPB is underneath Crush? while all of this happens and is dealing damage of its own, resulting in both bots on health warning lights before Crush? gets in the killer hammer blow. Round 3 is easier. Nobody bounces, leaving Crush? free to hammer away against the armourless wedge, and the spinners join in to help KO it. A dominant performance by one bot here in a match which is mostly characterised by the bots stuck spinning around each other - the second match where Cutting Cold has done that D:. Cutting Cold better win, or I'll be an unhappy host... Mechanized Warfare wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. Cutting Cold gets underneath Mechanized Warfare at the start of R1 but doesn't stay there, with the VS first ripping off the wedges and then KO'ing it quickly. In R2 I get underneath again, and looking to be winning, albiet slowly, before Mechanized Warfare falls off and the bots go into a big ol' spin around each other. After a minute or so of this, the VS finds its way under Cutting Cold and the KO follows swiftly. Round 3 starts like Round 1, but we go into a short bit of spinning again after Virus Bomb ripps off my wheels, though the KO still falls within the 40-second mark. Geice vs Thrackerzod. Two newbies who have impressed with popups that have stayed the most true to the original bots of all the competitors. Two popups that have been involved of two of the best matches so far, against Stock legends. It all promises to be a fantastic battle... But blink and you'll miss it. The whole match is over after just 22 seconds of fighting. Cube Crusher wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. The dominant becomes the dominated... Cube Crusher outwedges Heeellie in Round 1 and sends it flying through the sky. Once Geice's bot lands there's a couple of hits before Cube Crusher has the KO, and it all happens within 7 seconds. Heeellie has less hangtime in Round 2, being KO'd in 7 seconds again, and Cube Crusher also manages to take some of the wheels off. Round 3 is a comparative marathon at 8 seconds - it's basically Round 1 without Geice staying on top of Cube Crusher after he lands. Another short match. All this one comes down to really is wedges - whoever gets under the other will have a field day, as RedAce has a vulnerable underside and there's lots of parts on S_M's bot for Atomic Wedgie to chew up. This Way Please Wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. A combination of wedge lock and wedge bounce turns Atomic Wedgie upside down in R1, then it's an easy KO for This Way Please. In Round 2 the bots spin around each other for a bit before TWP finds its way underneath and the KO comes quickly. In Round 3 TWP gets under its opponent easier, but Atomic Wedgie keeps coming to rest high up on the blades, meaning the popup's razors keep missing it. TWP then knocks off a piston and both havok OotA. The restarted match is like a compilation of previous rounds - RedAce's bot ends up upside down at the start, a knocked off piston causes a havok (but not a match affecting one), and TWP KO's its opponent. Clown Breath is the only to have made it this far without losing a single fight, and it is proving to be very tough to beat. Sage's Spinny Dinny, however, is no slouch either, with 2 match victories under its belt, including defeating the impressive Geice last round. A longer match, as you might expect from two spinners, but full of components falling off and never dull. Clown Breath wins with 2 KO's and 1 TKO. In Round 1 the two bots gradually deweapon each other, but Clown Breath's weapons are much superior, so it reduces Spinny Dinny to a chassis and KO's it after 30 seconds. Round 2 is similar, but the unbalanced Spinny Dinny starts bouncing about and eventually leaps OotA. Round 3 is similar to Round 1, and though Spinny Dinny manages to take off a RAD and do Clown Breath some damage, it can't change the final result. Mr. AS's deadly gutripper has only lost one battle thus far, but it faces an equally competent opponent in Pwnator's VALVe, who has only lost 1 dead rubber fight of its own. This matchup itself is short and sweet - our second match that has just 22 seconds of action - it comes entirely down to wedges. VALVe wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. It just has the better wedge, easily getting under TtTtTtM and KO'ing it in 7 and 8 seconds respectively in Rounds 1 and 2. Round 3 is 7 seconds as well, but VALVe also manages to take off both of its opponent's VS weapon motors. Another match where a competitor faces his rebuilt bot as S_M takes on Thrackerzod's excellent interpretation of BlockBuster. The bots are incredibly well matched, so well matched that their wedges are practically equal. This results in that irritating wedge-bounce phenomenon, and the ramifications of that decide who wins. This Way Please wins 2-1 with 2 KO's. Cube Crusher also gets 1 KO. Thrackerzod gets luck with the wedge bounce in R1 and KO's TWP. No such luck in Rounds 2 or 3, though, as S_M's bot wins the wedge war and quickly KO's the rebuild of his bot. Farewell, Cube Crusher, you've been great. Somehow, Somebody's last minute entry has made it to the last 8, despite near-universal consensus that it was a poor entry before we started out. Against Virus Bomb's expertly constructed VS that has taken down as many different types of bots as it has (including 2 of 5 highest ranked competitors - Naryar and myself), a VS that fits in between its wide wedges, you'd think that this would be the end of the line for the #1 seed, especially considering its defeat at the hands of the equally-small Wheeellie Razer. But if there's one thing I've learned from Crush's run up the Losers' Bracket, it's never say never... This is another excellent match - and the contrast between R3 and the previous 2 is great. Crush? wins 2-1 with 2 KO's. Mechanized Warfare also gets 1 TKO. Seriously? This is a proper razor guy run from Crush? here. In R1 wedge bounce leaves Mechanized Warfare upside down, so Crush? is able to get under it and take off its wedges, though it loses its hammer in the process. From there though its 2 HS tribars are able to destroy MW from the side. MW easily gets under Crush in Round 2 and throws it OotA. Round 3 starts like Round 1 did but Mechanized Warfare manages to get under Crush and take off its hammer. A lot of the rest of the fight is static with MW half under and half not under Crush?, with the latter even starting to be counted out twice, until it is able to rip off MW's left side with its spinner and KO it from there. Crush?'s razor guy run is one of my favourite underdog perfomances since the runs of Bubbleman (Crush's original builder) and Guitars in Clash Cubes IV (Though I've not been about for a lot of the time since that tournament, to be fair). It's beaten side hammer, popup, VS, the byebot, and essentially Sage already by beating ty4er's crawler. With this run of momentum, who can say anyone can stand in #1 seed Somebody's way? Spinny Dinny, however, has proved ferocious itself, with #3 seed Sage's bot losing only to Badnik and generally performing very well. Of course, though, a famous weakness of tribar HS is the top, and Crush? is a hammer, and also, havok has chosen now for its latest appearence... Crush? wins 2-1 with 2 KO's. Spinny Dinny also gets 1 KO. This run just keeps on going. In R1 Crush tears off loads of axles at once and is thrown OotA by havok. In the restarted match, Spinny Dinny ends up upside down and is a sitting duck for Crush's hammer. There's a also a havok but I didn't consider it a major one. In R2 Spinny Dinny takes off the hammer, and from there, after narrowly avoiding being thrown out of the arena, takes off Crush's armour, wedges and razors, leaving it exposed, before going in for the KO. R3 sees Crush take Spinny Dinny to the red flashing health warning, when there's another havok. Though at first Spinny Dinny appears to be on top afterward, Crush fights back and wins, hence my considering it to not be a major one. If I had I would have had to have disqualified Sage anyway. Crush marches on!
This is the best S_M has done in a BTTB since BTTB 2 - coincedentally the first time he's been able to build a decent bot since then :P. It's also the best Mr. AS has ever done in a BTTB, which is less hard as he's a rookie. In fact, he's the only rookie left in the last 6 - and the other 5 have entered 24 bots between them over the 5 tournaments (Badnik pulled out of BTTB 1, else we'd have had a perfect 25). Enough of this padding, fascinating as it is, and onto the match. Again the bots are very evenly balanced, with my new best friend wedge bounce (which if it isn't a piece of GTM terminology it should be) coming into play once again as both bots have such level wedges. The loser will be prepared to be annoyed with how the bounce pans out in one of the rounds... TtTtTtM wins 2-1 with 2 KO's. This Way Please also gets 1 KO. It all starts so well for S_M, sliding under TtTtTtM and KO'ing it in R1. The reverse happens in R2, an easy KO for Mr. AS. In Round 3, after wedge bounce and the bots spinning around each other for a bit, TtTtTtM again finds itself under TWP and the KO soon follows. It's the Winners' Bracket final! Pwnator's VALVe goes into it having only faced wedges up to this point, while Badnik's Clown Breath, the still-undefeated SnS/HS, has only faced 1 wedge, and that was RedAce's 2WD poker. VALVe, a heavily caster-armoured, low profile 4WD popup, will be an entirely different proposition, surely as one of the bots with the best chance of surpassing Clown Breath's powerful sweep. Clown Breath wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. Damn. Badnik's won 15 fights and not lost any. #Dominant. In each round, it beats up VALVe's left side, also seemingly able to hit the top of Pwnator's bot, over the casters. In Round 1, though, VALVe manages to take off half of Clown Breath, the most damage anyone's done to it. This means that if Pwn wins the Losers' Bracket he won't feel like he's got no chance in the rematch. At what point do we stop calling Crush?'s performance a razor guy run and call it what it really is? A great perfomance by a great bot. It's now beaten Sage, Virus Bomb, 090901 - these guys are amongst the best stock builders. Somebody can look back on its performance with pride, no matter what the result - and he might have to settle for doing that, as TtTtTtM has been a ferocious competitor in its own right, with good wedges and excellent gutripping. Whoever wins this will deserve their place in the LB final. Crush? wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. In R1 TtTtTtM gets under Crush and starts ripping it up, but there's a lot of jostling, eventually resulting in Crush? getting underneath, and its spinners do the rest. In R2 it gets under straight away and the spinners only need 13 seconds to KO Mr. AS. R3 is like R2 but one second less, and TtTtTtM doesn't take off any of Crush?'s maces. Somebody is guaranteed at least 3rd! This is incredible. Just when I thought Somebody might have bitten off more than he can chew agaisnt the heavily fancied TtTtTtM, he pulls it out of the bag AGAIN. When we first saw it we laughed. We called it crap, we said it wouldn't do well. Somebody himself called it 'bad, so bad'. Nobody's saying that now. Whatever happens against Pwnator in this LB final, Somebody will be very proud of his creation. Pwn, despite having only lost 4 fight in this whole tournament, 3 of them in the same match, cannot feel complacent. He needs wedges the right width and the right angle. He needs to guard his top and sides. And he'll need some luck. At the same time though, his bot is excellent, and has put out practically everything it has faced without breaking a sweat. This promises to be a great fight. VALVe wins 2-1 with 1 KO and 1 TKO. Crush? also gets 1 KO. Wow. When Crush won its match, and then tore off Pwn's wedges the following fight, I was convinced it was going to the final. Incredible performance by Somebody's bot. Well done to Pwn too :3 Following a fantastic tournament full of surprises, we have reached the Grand Final, with our two very worthy finalists, Pwnator and Badnik96. VALVE's only fight losses came agaisnt Clown Breath and Crush?, the other members of the top 3, and a single dead rubber R3 against Wacky Bob. Clown Breath, meanwhile, hasn't been beaten once. But that's not to say Badnik should crack open the champagne before he watches the fight - if you remember in round 1 of the WB final, VALVe took half of Clown Breath off, and it's capable of doing that again. Pwn's been in Badnik's position in the BBEANS 6 final, in the Wheely Tag final and maybe some more, where he's sat pretty and faced a rude awakening in the first match. What's to say it can't happen again, with Pwn playing the other role? This is a great final to round up the tourney, and it's the hardest fight Clown Breath has faced. VALVe wins the first match 2-1 with 2 KO's including an excellent OHKO in Round 3. Clown Breath gets 1 KO. In the second match, Clown Breath wins 3-0 with 3 KO's. Badnik96 is the BTTB V champ! Please let the next [BTTB] be DSL again, maybe I can win next time.
Here are the competitors, and some 'fun facts': Somebody - All three rebuilds of Crush have made it to the rumble - it's a good omen. In fact, if I think about BTTB 2, where Somebody won with a Bubbleman rebuild, every Bubbleman rebuild has reached either the rumble, the Losers Bracket Final, or won the tournament. He'll be in demand for BTTB VI - not that I know when that will be. Thrackerzod - Both the rebuild of S_M's bot and S_M himself have reached the rumble, which only ever happened once before, way back in BTTB 1 when Stagfish was in the rumble alongside Doomkiller's rebuild of his bot. S_M - S_M is the only rumble participant who won all his matches by KO. Mr. AS got 3 TKO's, Somebody 2, and Thrackerzod 1. Mr. AS - TtTtTtM is the only bot to make the Rumble that didn't drop to Round 1 of the Losers Bracket, proving itself in the Winners' Bracket and also beating S_M in the Losers'. The resulting match is decent and not too long or laggy either, as some of my previous BTTB rumbles have been. Crush? wins with 2 KO's. Cube Crusher also gets 1 KO. Thrackerzod KO'd S_M's bot straight away, there's a bit of to'ing and fro'ing between the bots, before Crush? finishes off both other bots in quick succession. A 3 way fight between the champions of BTTB 1, BTTB 3 and BTTB V - Badnik's in an Ounce popup sandwich. None of these bots were really ever comprehensively defeated, in fact, I don't think any of them have ever fought in the Losers Bracket version of the Twiiisted Arena before. This promises to be great. However, we warm up for the main event with a 3 way fight between the runners up of BTTB 1, BTTB 3 and BTTB V - Somebody, Vertigo and Pwnator. 2 popups and a VS that won through primarily on its wedginess. Go Up Here 2 is the only of these 6 bots to have competed in the Bonus Matches and it lost - does that mean it is obsolete? VALVe wins the Runner-Up Rumble. The bots converge and fight, with COFI quickly wearing Pwnator's bot down to the red warning light, but GUH 2 intervenes at this point to KO COFI, leaving it exposed to the crippled VALVe to move in and KO it. In the Champions' Rumble, after some erratic driving, Nuclear Fallout OHKO's both Grade-4 Whiplash and Clown Breath. That driving's odd though - I'll have to fix it before I release an updated Stock BTTB AI. Ok, I went a bit over the top by filming this one but you know how it is. I was there, the bots were there, I'd left FRAPS on... It was inevitable really. Anyhow, the three Stock BTTB Rumble winners (Sage's Altitwude, Nary's Rapiid Pit Bull & THE BTTB V RUMBLE WINNER) face off in a short but fun match. Altitwude wins with 2 KO's. Now there have been 2 Stock>Stock BTTB's (The original and this one), I could do these matches - who rebuilt the same bot more effectively? There are 8 traditional matchups, 3 of these fights also featuring originals that were used as promo bots. 2 fights are slightly different - different bots of Badnik's were rebuilt in the 2 tournaments, while both 090901 and Pwnator missed out on the opportunity to have one of these fights as the builder of their bot pulled out of a BTTB - so I've put JD's Press This Easy Button To Die against Marty's Tempest of Nematodes. As these bots where used in the promo, we have 2 fights where 3 versions of the same bot come to blows. The BlockBuster match shows just how closely Thrackerzod replicated S_M's original bot, and is a fun and quick popup affair. The EoBSS match is a bit more of a dirge, which is probably my fault for showcasing EoBSS 5 1/2 years ago. Neither EoBSS or EoBSS X are particularly good, while I Evolved suddenly becomes a havok bomb. The action at the beginning's alright though. Meanwhile, Bloody Massacre continues to be the funniest Stock BTTB bot ever with its hijinks against Mr. AS' original - though the funniest BTTB bot ever has to be 090901's BTTB 4 bot that just flew OOTA. Cube Crusher, EoBSS X and Bloody Murder win with 2 KO's, 1 TKO and a WBP, and a TKO respectively. Cube Crusher's just an excellent bot. EoBSS X had the weapon weight advantage with 35 maces. And of course Bloody Massacre lost to the original bot... While it is long the Shaver BX fight is a good one, as one bot is systematically whittled down to just the chassis. Both of the other matches are over before you know it, the OOTA corners coming into play. It is fun to note the differences in interpretation of the design brief of the two bots, especially between TtTtTtM and TtTtM, the latter of which is using new switchwep.py AI for the FIRST TIME EVER. Shaver BX or whatever it is wins with a KO and both Atomic Wedgie and TtTtTtM win with TKO's. #BTTBVDominance This video features two bots from Somebody, who reached the BTTB 1 final with GUH 2 and came 3rd in this tournament with Crush?. The battle against S_M is short and sweet, as both popups are deadly and wedgy. Longer is the match between Crush's Big Daddy and Crush?, which is a typical Crush? fight - full of action. A great match between the two rebuilds of Bubbleman's bot. Meanwhile, Bubbleman himself takes on GF93's BTTB 1 bot in the BADNIK BOT BASH (TM). I was interested to see Arcade HW enjoy some success in RedAce's BTTB Revamped, because it's underweight, underweaponed and exposed, but Swap Ogre seems well equipped to deal with it. This Way Please and Crush's Big Daddy win with KO's, and Swamp Ogre wins with a TKO. Lol, hard luck Somebody. At least you've had success in the main competitions. I think S_M's KO of GUH 2 is the quickest BTTB result ever. And a win for Bubbles, which is nice. He's entered 4 of the 5 BTTB tournaments now and he didn't win a match until BTTB V. As well as the extra 090901/Pwnator rebuild match from Rebuild Rumble, this video also contains two other matches, a match between the BTTB V bots Reier and I built - significant because we were rebuilding each other, and a rematch between Cube Crusher and Shaver BX, who produced a 5-star match way back in Round 1 of the Losers Bracket. PTEBTD vs ToN is not too exciting but not too long either. The Cube Crusher/Shaver BX match doesn't hit the heights of the previous vid, though it would have been hard to, but it's still a decent match with parts flying everywhere. Cutting Cold vs I Evovled, meanwhile, is alright, but there's little more to say other than Reier probably regrets giving his bot wedges. Cutting Cold, Shaver BX and PTEBTD win with KO's. K343 will be annoyed his bot didn't do that in more than one round against Thrackerzod, while Marty can be justifiably annoyed at wedge bounce. Reier spent most of his bye round outwedged by the byebot, so he asked for a second chance to tear Hammer Fisted a new one - and this match is short and sweet. Then, Sage and Mr. AS face off in what would have been the LB semi-final if Spinnyy Dinnyy had beaten Crush? - and this fight is decent too, as both bots are very well constructed. Lastly the tourney's 2 pokers face each other - both were unlucky to go out when they did in my opinion, but here the matchup results in very little happening. I EVOLVED and Spinnyy Dinnyy win with KO's, while Atomic Wedgie wins with a TKO. I EVOLVED rips the byebot apart, while Spinnyy Dinnyy just outweapons TtTtTtM and takes off quite a lot of it. RedAce, meanwhile, beaches Ounce, first on top of Atmoc Wedgie, and then on the arena wall, where it is counted out at about 45 seconds. I wanted to give the guys who lost in LB R1 another stab at glory, so here's a mini-tournament for them. 2 3-way heats, with the 2 winners duking it out in a final. The random draw gave me I Evovled vs Bloody Massacre vs egapmaR, and Shaver BX vs Swamp Ogre vs Magnificent Mandrill. Matches inside! I Evolved wins its heat, KO'ing Bloody Massacre and TKO'ing egapmaR. Shaver BX wins its heat, getting revenge for WB R1 by KO'ing Swamp Ogre, after the VS TKO'd Magnificent Mandrill. The final starts off exciting but drags, with Shaver BX winning by points. In 090901's first requested battle, he and Kill produce a fight I really enjoyed, mostly because the bots kept jockying between being on top as more of their weapons and components were removed. Long, but good, and it shows the quality of both bots too. Fight 2, between Ounce's rammer/poker and Mystic2000's hammer, shows that bots, when well matched up, whatever quality they are, can produce good matches - I guess that's the whole premise of n00b warz - and Bloody Massacre is still hilarious - it spends most of the fight dooing wheelies. Clown Breath has already fought the byebot before, but it was in the Twiiisted Arena, not the Small Arena, and the former's large size is perhaps the principal reason that Badnik's done so well. In fact, it gets a tribar stuck outside the arena, so perhaps Hammer Fisted can claim its first win? TEH CLAW, Bloody Massacre and Clown Breath win with KO's. TEH CLAW and Shaver BX have a lot of back and forth, loads of weapons everywhere. Eventually TEH CLAW de-wheels its opponent and KO's it with 14 seconds left. Bloody Massacre is perfectly built to take on Magnificent Mandrill - its copious amounts of front armour can block Ounce's weapons, while its battleaxes can hit lots of exposed top. In a performance interspersed by lots of wheelies, it pretty comprehensively dismantles Ounce before it KO's it. Meanwhile, Clown Breath's arm that is stuck outside the chassis breaks off, and it proceeds to sweep up Hammer Fisted quite fast. The first fight, requested by Thrackerzod due to the similarity of the bots' names, pits 2 of my favourite BTTB V entrants together. The fight, while good, is a little underwhelming, given that the bots had had lots of really excellent fights in the main bracket. Then, Somebody's hammer/spinner hybrid from BTTB 3 that went out straight away faces Somebody's hammer/spinner hybrid from BTTB V in a match requested by, you'll never guess.... Somebody. While it is safe to say the rebuild of Bubbleman's bot has been much more succcessful than the rebuild of Picnic Attack's, the (decent) fight is by no means one-sided. There were no more requests so I had to think of something to fill up the video, and, inspired by , I created the NARYAR CRAWLER CHALLENGE. Can his BTTB V VS, that went out in LB round 2, defeat all 3 Stock BTTB crawlers - FOTEPX's Talespin Twins from BTTB 3 + egapmaR - before it loses its weapons? Cube Crusher beats Crush? with a KO. The popup was able to de-wheel its opponent early, and from there it was a matter of time. Crush? beats 0_o_0 with a KO. The BTTB 3 bot does remove Crush?'s hammer at the start, but Crush fights back, eventually ripping enough of 0_o_0's armour away to KO it. Extra Mouldy Cheese :D wins 3-0 with 1 KO and 2 TKO's. Pleased to see a crawler getting KO'd. Everybody, get predicting! I'm very excited to get this going! :)
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« on: July 14, 2015, 04:31:48 PM »
Right. Splash is coming up. Will still accept bots from Scrap and SKBT till the videos come.
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« on: July 14, 2015, 09:24:17 AM »
I'd edit that post if I were you Rob, that's quite strong language :P
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« on: July 14, 2015, 09:18:11 AM »
He told me in a PM the other day that his bot is built, hence why I'm hesitant to just say that time is up.
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« on: July 14, 2015, 09:17:09 AM »
Is there any chance someone can swap out being a captain with me? I don't want to hold you all up but I'm really busy today with BTTB and might not be able to make chassis
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« on: July 14, 2015, 08:51:57 AM »
And ty4er is in.
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« on: July 14, 2015, 08:51:12 AM »
yayayayay
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« on: July 14, 2015, 07:52:03 AM »
As you load the Ironforge game :P
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« on: July 14, 2015, 07:44:38 AM »
SM told me in person so I guess that counts as a PM. :P Moving to completed.
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« on: July 14, 2015, 07:43:31 AM »
Sign me up captain.
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