Yeah, it'd be awsome if you guys would start showcases. 
Okay. I went through some local hard drives I have connected to my computer and found backups from years ago of my "My Pictures" folders, wherein there was a nice collection of robots originally posted from 2003 - 2005, stock and DSL alike.
I'm going to go into detail about some of my personal favorites, but each directory below is chock full of whatever I was able to recover from various installments of My Pictures and the sub-directories inside of them.
(Side Quest: Count the number of Team AceUplink decals on the robots for extra fun.)
Antweights (under 175)http://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_ant
Blue Blue is an antweight toting two Redbird motors for drive. It was entered in one of the AceUplink ant contests.
Can Opener's weapon was modeled after an actual can opener.
Circuit Breaker was one of my best antweight robots. Its saw blade really put a damper on its battery power but it was able to tear up opponents left and right.
When it came to
None Shall Pass, none did pass. NSP's weapon was two spiked clubs tilted in a way that allowed it to act as both a wedge and a ram.
Ramdozer didn't have a weapon but was damn near impenetrable with his heavy steel armor.
Sidenotes:
2 Wheelin' was an experiment in trying to put the Mud Tires onto an ant.
Crazy UFO Hat Bikini was named after a picture on Something Awful.
Lemmin Juice 3 was another AU ant entry.
Peanut Botta was named after the RA2 multiplayer "placeholder" robot.
Some Disassembly Required was built twice with two completely different designs.
The Ring was another AU contest entry.
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Lightweightshttp://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_lw
Deceptitron was a design that looked like a rammer, but had a hidden pneumatic spike that launched out for a surprise attack.
Power Box. I don't know, you tell me.
Sidenotes:
Digital Sentinence was a replica of TDS' 30 pound robot.
Green Machine was featured in a 3rd party AI pack.
Underdawg has a "pop wedge" design.
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Middleweightshttp://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_mw
Obligatory furry robot
Amy Rose.
Butt Cheex. More legendary than me.
Digital Dragon 2 was my last AU tournament entry. It's invertible and Forward is always forward regardless of its orientation.
Rift Blade: Samurai Warrior brandished three samurai swords on an HP ZTek motor. Once it got spinning there was no stopping it.
Sidenotes:
CrapBot 2000 was my very first robot.
Harmony Bunny was named after a character in the Powerpuff Girls.
Mexican Pizza was my second-ever robot.
Wimpy is a replica of the RA1 robot of the same name.
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Heavyweightshttp://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_hw
The only thing
American Dream is missing in this picture is a bikini model waxing it.
Apocalypse NOW! was kinda named after that movie, but was also the third robot I ever made.
Billboard was a curious robot that could literally throw an opponent into the roof of the Combat Zone. It was prone to tipping over though. On the reverse side of the sign there's a dragon saying "RAWR!"
Bot X was my attempt at a FrenZy style robot, its hammer could swing back and forth and land in some crushing blows.
Crash Boom Bang was one of my favorite robots that made use of Some Kinda Zombie's hyper reversible angle motor. When its sledgehammers got spinning it was impossible to stop and the pain was dealt out big time.
Darkside is a semi-truck inspired by the Twisted Metal Black version of this vehicle.
Evil Con Carne was the perfection of the FrenZy design.
Flip You Off. Get it?
Time has been very kind to
Head Splitter 3. Last time I played using this robot it was capable of taking down tough Starcore AI.
Purple Haze made use of the AU BB AI spikes, the ones that dealt like a million points of damage out per hit. It's over-powered but was built to take on my other robot Minion usually piloted by one of my friends in heated head to head battles.
Rock N Roller, named after a Vectorman boss. The very first multibot in RA2.
See N Say Of Pain was a show-bot, but it caught on with the community and soon there was more than one of these floating around out there.
You've just been
THUMPERIZED.
Transformer was capable of expanding its drive system for close combat or for maneuverability.
Wazzzup! was a robot that had enough AU decals on it that it was used in the official AU robot showcase banner. I was banned during this time, though.
Wooden Warrior (seen here in version number six) wasn't actually made of wood, but it was a nice texture and an even better fighter. It's one of my absolute personal favorites and makes an RFS AI appearance in the "RFS" team.
Sidenotes:
Administrator of Pain isn't a TDS joke but it was an attempt at making chain flails.
Armorgedden has two pistons inside of its wedge to throw opponents on their backs, this weaponry was explored again in the RFS AI robot Telekinesis.
Balls of Steel was my first "series" robot, it was built and rebuilt over 10 times.
Blood Dumpster is a nod to Space Ghost Coast to Coast, it was the name of Zorak's proposed horror flick.
Carl's Robot featured by ATHF Carl soundboard part, it would spout out one-liners such as "GET OUTTA MY FRIKKIN POOL" and other quotables from ATHF season 1.
Coffee Grinder's plan was to toss opponents into the air and catch them in the grinder.
Fire Wheel had 4 flamethrowers mounted on a spinning disc, it threw fire out in all directions.
Undercover Undercutter made an appearance in another 3rd party AI pack.
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Super Heavyweights (over 800)http://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_shw
666 swings 12 saw blades around like nobody's business.
Minion was modeled not after the robot of BattleBots fame, but after the demonic tank from the Twisted Metal game series. It's seen here with a TM3 paint job and a spike array matching the Minion tanker truck from TM Black.
The X-Terminator has about a million weapons. Seriously.
Sidenotes:
25C Crane Machine was an experiment in trying to pick up an opponent, it didn't work.
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DSLhttp://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_dsl
Bad News has the appearance of an angry Dorito and the steering of a highly sedated rhino. Slow as all
and difficult to turn but still capable of pushing over a train and ruining your day.
Circular Motions was capable of slowly disassembling its opponents by grinding it apart piece by piece.
Destructo Thingy has the biggest disc with giant blades on it. Just for the
of it.
K.R.O.C. (Killer Robot on Crack, but also KROC as in Crocodile) could rotate its weapon 360 degrees and strike from any angle.
TORM was a robot that fared well against most designs and was included in the RFS DSL AI pack.
Unnecessarily Irrellevant had a double layered blade that made for clean smooth cuts and a pretty much unstoppable weapon.
Sidenotes:
Blast Cannister and
Credit Card Shredding Machine were two DSL antweights that threw themselves out of control with every full force blow.
Food For Thought was originally made as a DSL tourney entry.
Mal De Ojo was an RFSHQ tourney entry.
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Replicashttp://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_replica
This was a real antweight robot I made. This replica is in the "RFS" team on the RFS AI Pack.
Sidenotes:
Complete Control was made a couple of days after I bought RA2.
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