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« on: December 01, 2018, 10:37:50 PM »
I have received FightingBotInformal's entrant. It is accepted.
Two Spots Remain!
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« on: December 01, 2018, 10:00:53 PM »
I'm just gonna quickly sum my thoughts from each of my matches here: W1:
Round 1: I basically practiced Sentinel the morning I hear this tournament was just getting in signups. Once I heard the tournament was starting once I got home from work, I was the nervous driver here, and I tried to drive Sentinel as best as I could against Ronin. I was trying my hardest to escape Ronin as much as possible because I knew he could possibly push me in. I was just laughing when I knew I actually won a battle with Sentinel at all.
Round 2: Now here's what I expected when driving Sentinel. Me accidentally flying on my back, and just hopelessly trying to self-right. Good job game devs for making a flipper not able to self-right.
Round 3: I felt I was doomed again when I got flipped again the same way, but Plerco was a bro and actually came close enough to make me self-right. Big thanks to him, even if it eventually cost him, especially when I finally figured out how to drive opponents around with Sentinel.
W2:
Round 1: Holy crap. This was absolutely my favorite battle from the entire tournament. I was so worried when my flips on Sentinel were getting weaker, and I was desperately trying to get under Coal Miner to get it on it's side. The one weak spot. It got real tough and I was so lucky to NARROWLY hang on by a thread when I pitted Coal Miner. That was a hell of a match.
Round 2: Going from my best performance to my worst performance in the tournament. I guess that's what you get for trying to aggressively drive a car towards something. At least Sentinel running on it's back was funny to watch.
Round 3: Looking back, this whole round could be summed up as, "Going from good, to bad, and then to ugly". While I was way more cautious trying to avoid the flippers like the plague and trying to push Coal Miner around and failing to capitalize because my driving may have been too cautious. Things really went downhill when wheels started to go off one-by-one. My front flipper was damaged, so I had no hope of trying to do anything whatsoever, so I just had to watch in despair as toaster just gutted Sentinel like the handicapped child it was. At least I survived till the end, so that's alright I guess.
L2:
Round 1: It was a new day at the time which this was recorded (today), but that didn't stop me from having absolutely no idea how to even still drive this hunk of junk around. I was glad I got to fight every bot in the bracket at least once, so already I had an accomplishment. I was lucky I could take advantage of Raptor's high ground clearance to push it around, and when I blocked the axe with the wedge, I got pushy and aggressive. Taking it to finish Raptor off.
Round 2: I actually forgot how I survived that flip from the skin of my teeth when I hopped on that flipper there. Especially when I got Raptor stuck in a position where I could safely pit it.
FINAL:
Round 1: Going in, I was playing everything as safely as I could. Especially since I know Coal Miner's power of ripping my wheels off. So I had to take advantage when Coal Miner wasn't directly facing me with its spinner, so I managed to wait around when Coal Miner wasn't near me... and just watch Coal Miner just drive down the pit.
Round 2: How the hell do I even keep surviving that damn pit anyway?! I keep driving near it and somehow not losing to it. Anyway, more Coal Miner driving itself down again, so I was just a little concerned now, but at the same time, very excited that I even made it this far. I almost felt like I was gonna choke from nervousness under the pressure.
FINAL (Set 2):
Round 1: I had my game plan of playing safely as possible, but apparently, it seemed toaster was having some driving issues. We did a couple tests to make sure (I kinda learned the hard way for one of those) to make sure toaster was driving alright. I wasn't exactly sure on the issue, but when he saw his bot getting stuck on the pit without movement, I was a bit concerned. But at least we both knew we could bot drive reliably.
Round 2: This was it, I thought. For all the marbles. I had to play aggressive when I had my opportunity to flip, and it seemed to work when I finally got Coal Miner to stay on it's side. I was doing slight movements just to make sure I wouldn't get counted out, and my god I cannot believe I had done it that day. Although If I recall correctly looking at it now, this was a match placed differently? I know it was all in the same day, but I swear it wasn't quite the last match. Either way, the result kinda ended up the same.
Good games to Plerco, evil toaster, and 8bean. And thanks to Reier for hosting my first online RA2 tournament. I had so much fun driving around in this, and I cannot wait for the next one, if I can make it that is.
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« on: December 01, 2018, 09:01:05 PM »
I have received Code Red Robotic's second entrant. It is accepted.
Six Spots Remain!
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« on: December 01, 2018, 08:21:29 PM »
I have received Squirrel_Monkey's entrant. It is accepted.
Three spots remain!
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« on: December 01, 2018, 08:20:10 PM »
I have received Sickle Robotic's second entrant. It is accepted.
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« on: December 01, 2018, 02:50:20 PM »
I have recieved Wen's second entrant. It is accepted.
Four spots remain!
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« on: December 01, 2018, 02:47:24 PM »
I have received Plerco's and pokebro14's second entrants. Plerco's is accepted, but pokebro's has some problems that have been addressed.
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« on: December 01, 2018, 06:19:59 AM »
Well, as promised. I will now allow secondary signups. So if you've already sent me a bot, you now can send another. This does mean I will have to talk over with a tourney mod to work a small detail on seeding, but it might work out, who knows?
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« on: December 01, 2018, 06:09:07 AM »
I have received Badnik96's entrant. It is accepted.
You now have a week left with five spots open if you still want to enter!
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« on: November 26, 2018, 06:56:39 PM »
I swear I've run a tournament like this like about four years ago. Getting a feeling of Déjà vu now.
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« on: November 26, 2018, 11:48:10 AM »
Might as well post a deadline now.
DEADLINE: December 8th, 2018, 12:00 AM EST
Since I got at least half the entrants required, I feel a little comfortable doing this now. Signups will now close when they either reach the deadline, or I receive the maximum amount of bots. Whichever comes first. So if you do want to enter, now would be a good time.
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« on: November 26, 2018, 11:43:31 AM »
Haven't gotten many new entrants in a while, so now I'm a little concerned. I might just allow secondary bots soon. Most likely this Friday unless they all suddenly fill up shortly.
This does make the Seeding thing awkward, but. I might just find some easy solution that was omitted in the rules.
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« on: November 22, 2018, 12:54:01 PM »
Happy (American) Thanksgiving GTM. Here's a bot: A Stock MW Hammer. Not many details to go over but I am rather satisfied of how well it turned out. Really good at trapping and if it gets ahold, then the results just speak for themselves. The only thing this isn't so good at is self righting which hasn't quite been a problem as it doesn't flip itself over as much as some of my older hammers. Yeah, it's got the skin from Bandersnatch, as evident by the obviously, poorly cropped image I took from the old bot (I'll have to redo the skin eventually).
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« on: November 18, 2018, 09:21:51 AM »
I have received Sickel Robotics second entry. It is accepted.
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« on: November 17, 2018, 06:10:22 AM »
I have received Sickle Robotic's entrant. It is accepted.
And with that, spots are now halfway full!
Edit: Oh yeah I have received Redalert's second entrant. Forgot to check it since I never got it in a PM, so oops. Regardless it is accepted.
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« on: November 16, 2018, 12:10:23 AM »
Okay now for an idea I had in my idea for maybe a week. Not bad, as it seems to pin down and war of attrition Maelstrom and Spin Doctor and seems to wreck both of those fine, but any kind of Mace HS boils down to luck. Popups or anything else that can get under and gut-rip is kinda a crap-shoot as the caster armor occasionally protects it, but it seems to be okay the other times. More or less a concept that I hope it would work, but it seems to, but kinda not as good as I hoped.
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« on: November 13, 2018, 12:16:01 PM »
As promised, any entrant can send up to two bots. Now this does put a monkey wrench in some of the mini-games, but I might be able to work something out.
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« on: November 13, 2018, 12:14:06 PM »
I have received Double00rhys2's entrant. It is accepted.
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« on: November 12, 2018, 10:30:24 PM »
I have received 8bean's entrant. It is accepted.
By the way, after talking with a tourney mod, they said if it would be alright if I effectively gave a minimum before I suddenly announce a deadline. Although it sounds a little weird looking back, but due to the inactivity of the signups period, I wasn't exactly confident afterwards. But even then, to keep to my word, secondary signups will be announced sometime tomorrow, or maybe a little later, depending on how my time management skills are.
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« on: November 12, 2018, 12:16:41 PM »
I sent mine today, also I'm still alive everyone
Received yours and Sickle Robotics fixed entrant (I received an illegal one this morning but didn't mention it until now). Both are accepted. And with that, we got less than 1/3 of spots open now!
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