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Discussion / Chinese RACOON Tournament (Video Links Included)
« on: May 19, 2019, 04:06:23 AM »
This thread includes:
RACOON Tournament1, splash, videos
RACOON Tournament2, splash, videos
RACOON Tournament3, splash, videos

This thread will include in the future:
RACOON Tournament 4
RACOON Version of DSL2.2 (called DSL2.25e1 currently)
RACOON Ruleset

So I thought I might as well make a separate thread about this.

You guys asked for videos, and you get them (sort of). Unfortunately despite me living outside of the GFW, my internet is just too slow for big uploads. Luckily 张, the man behind those splashes stepped up and uploaded some videos to a Chinese weeb site called Bilibili.

Tips: click the video to play, click the nuclear icon on the bottom right corner of the video to go fullscreen, and use the list on the right to choose which fight to watch.

The time was Sep 2018. This is where it all started (sort of). The Chinese community had existed for quite some time at this point but there was never a tournament. Robot development was slow and member count was also not that great. I joined around this time mainly to find a driving simulator before the Robowars Australia event at the end of September. Some community members one day had an idea of hosting an AI tournament, and we had the first RACOON tournament.


First tournament: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av52951834
https://challonge.com/RACCON2018NDOrgnl
Replica division: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av52955208
https://challonge.com/RACCON2018NDRplc

The name RACOON was a cheesy forced acronym stands for Robot Arena 2 Combat Competition Of Original Non-cheatbot2. Before the first tournament most of the robots never saw any other player robots and were only required to win against stock AI with the only exceptions being Hyperforce, 4X4flipper, and K2. The first tournament also had an IRL-ish replica tournament, but it was cancelled due to technical issues. Robot development basically exploded after this with the release of the AI bots from the first tournament.



Second tournament exhibition matches: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av52957127
Second tournament group stage (1): https://www.bilibili.com/video/av52966203
https://challonge.com/RACCONNYE18
Second Tournament group stage (2) & elimination stage: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av52967320
https://challonge.com/RACCON201819NEFinal

The pre-season exhibition matches were held right before the second tournament. You can already sort of see what was to come in terms of vertical spinners in the form of NKVD (built by Xseal), the prototype of many large diameter vertical spinners that would come later. The second tournament was also when swiss army bots really took off, and I got a taste of it in RePretender (my bot, a clone of Hyperforce, which is a replica of Bite Force) vs ein fleischwolf. I was lead to believe that I was fighting a vertical spinner, while my opponent actually had an overhead SOW-style bar and I got my face ripped off. Modular bots added a lot of unpredictability to the tournament in that you never know what you are fighting next (even more fun when you have a modular bot of your own). This later lead to some modular robots having modules that are general purpose to counter an unknown threat. The second tournament was also the only tournament to see the use of multibots. They were then banned in later tournaments due to the fact that the preferred arena would spawn the two multibots on opposite sides of the arena, which is unrealistic and unfair to the single bot. In terms of ground clearance, a lot of new robots saw the success of Hyperforce and jumped onto the hinged wedgelets train (similar to the 2019 season of Battlebots, funny eh?), but very few have come close to contending with Hyperforce2 in terms of ground clearance. Speaking of HF2, it was actually voted into the eliminator stage as a wild card after losing its group stage (god I wish I hadn't voted for it).





Third Tournament Heavyweight Division Group Stage: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av53288682
Third Tournament Heavyweight Elimination (Final) Stage, and Exhibition Matches: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av53289312
Third Tournament Sportsman Division: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av53291914

The third event was the first time sportsman robot saw action. You guys have been asking what the sportsman division is all about and the best way to figure out would be to watch actual builds battle each other. Ruleset is still in the works but is mostly in line with real life regulations (mainly wedges and spinners). Due to the limited time, each builder only had access to three slots. Each slot can be a new machine or a module/alternative form of an existing machine. This slot rule was in place for the 2nd tournament as well but three slots presented builders with a much greater challenge to balance the number of machines and the amount of module each individual machine could have. Some builders opted to enter three different machines, some only one. I personally entered two machines into the heavyweight division, with one of them being an experimental general-purpose non-modular vertical spinner (MainBattleVerticalDisc) and the other being a more traditional vertical spinner with two modules optimized to fight vertical and horizontal spinners respectively.

The tournament format was a two-stage round robin with five groups of five robots. Winners of each group advanced to the winner's round robin.

After the advent of large diameter vertical spinners in the second season, we saw a great number of similar robots being introduced for the third event. Despite the short preparation time between the two events many different variants of the large verticals were made. Nuke3 had wedgelets for ground clearance while having a large vertical spinner. There are also a series of large verticals that focused on having the largest footprint possible (with large chassis and long extender bits sticking out) to compensate for the massive amount of gyroscopic effect. Horizontal spinners also received some love in the form of hinged spinners. Previously on AK12 and AN94 we saw chunks of chassis connected to the center module by hinges for some shock mounting effect. This new generation of hinged spinners took it to the next level be isolating the spinner motor and spinner from the rest of the robot.


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