So, here's the short story - I got into Robot Arena 2 through an offhand comment on Youtube, and started hanging around some of the RA2-related Discords as a result of that - some of you may have noticed my entry 'B80' in Orc's Wars, specifically the World Championship in 3. In doing so though, I noticed that I kept seeing a lot of the same names when it came to tournaments - Bocuma, Eyes On Me, and so on. This got me thinking - why not have a tournament that is wholly new bots out there that haven't really been seen?
Thus Fresh Metal was born. 36 robots not seen anywhere else, battling it out over 6 heats and a grand final
in a reskinned Robot Wars 2016 arena, to see who is the king of the unseen.
Before each heat, a vote will be held to show which entry in the heat is the fan favourite, after which there will be
three 1-on-1 fights to open the heat. The 3 winners of these 1v1s will go through to the second round,
alongside the most popular of the losers. To determine the heat winner, it will then be round robin format to determine the heat winner, with
with ties being decided by rematch.Build Rules:
- DSL-IRL Heavyweights - 800kg weight limit, no nonsensical clipping. If you could cut a hole in it without affecting the bot, however, it's fair game.
- Your bot cannot be an entrant from a previous tournament, or an upgraded version of an entry in a previous tournament.
- Component Freedom and DSC IRL packs are allowed and encouraged, as is BFE for chassis height, extender colours and pixel chassis. OBJ bots are also allowed, provided they aren't too heavy on faces.
- Reskinned components are okay, but only reskins. No wholesale custom parts.
- Clusterbots are banned. Tried to make them work, but they break the Grand Final too much - sorry!
- Swiss Army Bots are allowed 3 configurations. The chassis and internals unrelated to the weapon (batteries, drive system, armour etc.) should remain the same across configurations.
- Flat Motors, Hworf Blades and the Overkill Motor are valid parts from cheatbot2. No others, however.
- You are limited to 1 Beta Burst/Motor, or 2 VDMA Bursts of the same kind. No mixing and matching.
- No Typhoon teeth or Mechavore/Microvore/Minion/Miniminion discs. We have so many other parts, let's see them!
- No servos unless you can do your own AI and send it with the bot. ADDENDUM: I'm an idiot and forgot about Actuators. These fall under this rule.
- No 'meltybrain' bots.
- No bots using EternalFlame.py or logic.
- Steel 10mm armour is banned.
- No spamming or excessively stacking stuff. This rule applies to both extenders and weapons, and 'excessive' weapon stacking is considered more than 1 tooth per attachment point on the weapon. No doomstacks of teeth!
- If the loadtime for your bot is too long or it crashes too much during testing, I reserve the right to reject it.
- If you have a self-righting mechanism that clips through the floor too many times in a given fight, you will be ruled as immobilised.
These rules might look familiar - they're a modified version of the Orc's Wars ruleset, since that's what I have the most experience building towards, plus it's what got me into RA2 in such a big way in the first place.
Well, that's me about run out of things to say - here's hoping you guys like the idea and enough of you want to enter, heh. You're also more than welcome to leave your thoughts on what I've got here so far as well, since, well, new tournament host and all.
EDIT: Format layout below.
General battle rules:
- Reskinned Robot Wars 2016 arena
- 1v1 battles, 3 minutes or until KO. 3 attempts at recording. Crashes or major havoks on the 3rd attempt will force a judges' decision.
Heat Format:
- 36 bots spread over 6 heats
- Before a heat, a poll is held to determine the most popular bots in that heat
- Heats open with 3 1v1 battles, of which the winners advance, as well as the most popular of the losers from the previous poll.
- The 4 in the second part of the heat perform Round Robin to determine the winner.
- In the event of a tie at the end of the round robin, the tiebreaker is a rematch.
Grand Final Differences:
- Instead of a popular vote deciding the 4th spot in the Grand Final, a Last Chance Rumble will instead occur.
- The 4 remaining entries will not enter Round Robin, but 1v1s to decide the Ultimate Showdown and the 3rd Place Playoff.
- The 3rd Place Playoff will be a regular 1v1 battle.
- The Ultimate Showdown is a 1v1 battle with no time limit. KO or Havok Decision are the only ways the fight will end.
How To Submit?You can either PM me here, or on Discord (BSRaven#0126) with the bot file, the type of bot, and an optional 'team logo'.
Entries:
- Black Hazard (Drum Spinner) - BSRaven
- Zayzo (Horizontal Spinner) - Hoppin
- Nature's Defender (Arm Flipper) - Billy
- Caution (Horizontal Spinner) - Guldenflame
- Pressure (Panel Flipper) - Kix
- Quantum Star (Arm Flipper) - MrBK
- Bigfin (Overhead Spinner) - Pierco
- Warning (Horizontal Spinner) - Primeval
- Galva III (Britflipper) - Sickle Robotics
- Launch Evo (Front-Hinge Flipper) - Sagaris
- Deadman's Party (Eggbeater) - Pokebro
- 8 Wheels O' Terror (8WD Rammer) - Code Red
- Twilight Rune (Vertical Spinner) - IdiotBrickDoctor
- Aggressive Retsuko (Sawbot) - NickyDustyOwl
- Claymore (Front-Hinge Flipper) - TheRoboteer
- Green Mile High Club (Flipper) - GIRTHQUAKE
- Duo (Double Clamp) - TheOrcCorp
- Tired Iron (Hammer/Flipper swissbot) - Scrapyard24c
- Fenrir (Biter Clamp) - Superbomb
- Beckso (Eggbeater) - NeonCalypso
- HofMaf2 (Angled spinner) - Nabíječka
- ODB (Drum spinner) - Olister92
- Burg (Bar spinner) - 8bean
- 360 (Vertical spinner) - alloftheman
- Chomping Frog (Biter) - NightRaven
- Banisher (Axe/Lifter/Grabber/Flamer all-in-one) - Merrick
- Cataclysm (Mad Rotating Axe Contraption) - TheDominusIgnis
- Overheat (Dual Vertical Spinner) - SmallsmallRose
- Ahri (4-bar Flipper) - Sevalent
- Blackout (Hammer) - Hoppin (wait, what?)
- Cosecha II (Drum Spinner) - TheRoboteer (Hang on, WHAT?)
- Cold Steel (Vertical Spinner) - SamElliott64
- Spinister (Bar Spinner) - Sickle Robotics
- Scavenger (Big Sodding Plow) - Pierco
- Permafrost 800 (Modular Spinner) - Strudel
- Gamma (Vertical Spinner) - MrBK
Too Slow To Fix:
- MCL-34 (Axebot) - Badger (Magical floating Burst motor. I want to see this thing perform damnit.)
- Disprezzata 8 (Vertical spinner) - Kaiser (Nice try sneaking that clipped gas canister into your flamethrower, but I saw that.)
- King Chrome (Hammer) - LartoBarto (That clipping STILL isn't okay.)
- Evil Frog (Drum) - Wambo (Typhoon teeth AND those batteries clip into each other.)
- Franken (Axe/Grinder) - AndyEyeCandy (I wanted to accept it. I really did. But the motors clipping out the back, and the wonky battery placements... sigh.)
- Voodoo (Drum Spinner) - Code Red (Clipping batteries, drum also whacks drive motors whilst spinning)
- Drago (Articulated Saw) - MrBK (Your saws are held on with hope and duct tape.)
Outright Rejected:
- The Blanc (Dual-ended Hammer) - Bildschirm (Overly long load time, creator withdrew instead of modifying)
- Nibbler 4 - Olister92 (Rule 2 violation)
- Big Star (Rammer) - Smallsmallrose (Linear Actuators. Creator chose to replace rather than 'repair'.)
- Purple Heart (Drum) - Sevalent (Many, many crashes. Builder chose to withdraw entry instead.)
Hall of Shame:
Hoppin - Jumped in right off the bat when signups started... With Typhoon Teeth.
Pokebro - Tried to enter Eyes On Me.
Blue - Accepted!
Brown - Testing
Red - Problems Found
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