General Tournament Discussion

[Philippa]

Ideas for tournament in the future:

As Yet Untitled Forfeit Format: Meta undecided, weight undecided, etc. Prior to the tournament starting, all the entrants must give me an idea for a building handicap that will randomly be assigned to another member. Examples: "Must use 10 mm Steel chassis armour.", "Must have an odd number of wheels.", "Must not be invertible.", "Must be 25 kg underweight.", "Must use the circular chassis tool.", etc. Forfeits that make it tricky to build but not impossible.

Hometown Throwdown (Name likely to change if I get given better suggestions.): Meta undecided, weight undecided, etc. Prior to the tournament starting, all the entrants must give me an arena that will be their "home" arena, no stupid arenas like the Obstacle Course or Mars Arena though. The tournament will be a straightforward double round robin format, where each competitor fights all its opponents once at home in its chosen arena, and once in everyone else's arenas. Once the round robin section is done, the top however many will move onto a final single elimination bracket in a pre-selected arena.

Feedback?

[Hoppin]

Ideas for tournament in the future:

As Yet Untitled Forfeit Format: Meta undecided, weight undecided, etc. Prior to the tournament starting, all the entrants must give me an idea for a building handicap that will randomly be assigned to another member. Examples: "Must use 10 mm Steel chassis armour.", "Must have an odd number of wheels.", "Must not be invertible.", "Must be 25 kg underweight.", "Must use the circular chassis tool.", etc. Forfeits that make it tricky to build but not impossible.

Hometown Throwdown (Name likely to change if I get given better suggestions.): Meta undecided, weight undecided, etc. Prior to the tournament starting, all the entrants must give me an arena that will be their "home" arena, no stupid arenas like the Obstacle Course or Mars Arena though. The tournament will be a straightforward double round robin format, where each competitor fights all its opponents once at home in its chosen arena, and once in everyone else's arenas. Once the round robin section is done, the top however many will move onto a final single elimination bracket in a pre-selected arena.

Feedback?

I want scrapheap challenge grrr

[[cringey name goes here]]

Which Game?

Operation spinner wipeout

I meant like DSL, Stock, Ironnforge, or else

[pokebro14]

Which Game?

Operation spinner wipeout

I meant like DSL, Stock, Ironnforge, or else

DSL

[[cringey name goes here]]

What are the rules?

[pokebro14]

What are the rules?

Just look at the tournament in multi entry signups

[FaceBagman]

Any tournaments to join as of March 3rd?

Mech Madness (IRL Heavyweight tourney) over in the Personal Tourney section is still taking bots until the 13th. Info's in the thread and you can send bots right to me!

[doot]

Any tournaments to join as of March 3rd?

I hear that that DemonOfTomorrow guy's hosting Series 2 of RoboGames. nudge nudge 

[Jaydee99]

So with not much happening Minibots atm (still making the arena), I've been thinking of a few other ideas:


Brotherly Love
A replica rules version of Father and Son
Basically all entrants have to enter replicas of at least two different weight classes however the robots have to be built from the same team (IE Terrorhurtz and Tanshe, Mute and Micro Mute)
If two different people want to enter the same robot I suggest a head to head on the challenge board to decide who gets to enter the robot they want.


Robot Roulette
Going to sound a bit like Wen here, but this one I think will be a bit weird.
So an IRL tournament where the arena will be random (but there will only be a few arenas that can be chose) and you get two points for a win and zero for a loss. Others who have entered can place bets on who they think will win and get a point if they're correct (oh god this will be a nightmare)


Round Robin War
IRL tournament in a Round Robin style, set in the RW2016 arena. The four robots with the most points will go to a knockout stage, one round of head to heads and then a final.


So... Opinions?

[Philippa]

Any tournaments to join as of March 3rd?

Signups for Scrapheap Challenge 3 and Masters Of Disaster 2 will be going live in a few days, so you should start building in advance of those opening.

Same goes for the rest of you.

[kix]

While i still cant record my tourney with cpu complex dsl bots, i can certainly do Stock!
Now here's a little idea... This would run for few seasons, and 1st season, we would start with most basic stock RA2 stuff
After the season ends, i would add a little bit more powerful stuff and more compact stuff too! Armor would change too... Any thoughts?

[Olister92]

So with not much happening Minibots atm (still making the arena), I've been thinking of a few other ideas:


Brotherly Love
A replica rules version of Father and Son
Basically all entrants have to enter replicas of at least two different weight classes however the robots have to be built from the same team (IE Terrorhurtz and Tanshe, Mute and Micro Mute)
If two different people want to enter the same robot I suggest a head to head on the challenge board to decide who gets to enter the robot they want.


Robot Roulette
Going to sound a bit like Wen here, but this one I think will be a bit weird.
So an IRL tournament where the arena will be random (but there will only be a few arenas that can be chose) and you get two points for a win and zero for a loss. Others who have entered can place bets on who they think will win and get a point if they're correct (oh god this will be a nightmare)


Round Robin War
IRL tournament in a Round Robin style, set in the RW2016 arena. The four robots with the most points will go to a knockout stage, one round of head to heads and then a final.


So... Opinions?

Brotherly Love and Robot Roulette sound like good ideas if a bit complicated in places, Round Robin War seems the best and most simple to me

[[cringey name goes here]]

So with not much happening Minibots atm (still making the arena), I've been thinking of a few other ideas:


Brotherly Love
A replica rules version of Father and Son
Basically all entrants have to enter replicas of at least two different weight classes however the robots have to be built from the same team (IE Terrorhurtz and Tanshe, Mute and Micro Mute)
If two different people want to enter the same robot I suggest a head to head on the challenge board to decide who gets to enter the robot they want.


Robot Roulette
Going to sound a bit like Wen here, but this one I think will be a bit weird.
So an IRL tournament where the arena will be random (but there will only be a few arenas that can be chose) and you get two points for a win and zero for a loss. Others who have entered can place bets on who they think will win and get a point if they're correct (oh god this will be a nightmare)


Round Robin War
IRL tournament in a Round Robin style, set in the RW2016 arena. The four robots with the most points will go to a knockout stage, one round of head to heads and then a final.


So... Opinions?

So what version is Brotherly Love in?
PS: They all sound awesome.

[Jaydee99]

Haha thanks dudes
Probably custom components, but any customs used outside of the meta (let's say DSL2.2 for now) should be uploaded to the tournament thread for everyone to use


Also yeah I think Roulette is pretty complicated but I think it mayyy work with enough planning. And I agree the round robin is easiest too, the replica tournament would follow the Robogames rules where matches are in different weight classes but in a different arena

[freeziez]

what kind of tournaments are people interested in atm

[Dark-Al]

what kind of tournaments are people interested in atm

You can probably tell that by looking at all the tournament boards at the moment, there's a sheer ton of DSL-IRL tournaments that have been happen due to the overall popularity of the meta. You can still do a tournament that doesn't use DSL-IRL as the meta, but just don't except users to be flocking in when sign-ups are open.

[Badger]

Do something in stock please

[kix]

Do something in stock please

stock IRL lol.
I mean. Stock isnt CPU intensive after all

[Dark-Al]

Do something in stock please

Maybe try something new, such as maybe a Stock Cruiserweight tournament or something. There's nothing stopping you from doing so.

[Asbestosstar]

Do something in stock please

stock IRL lol.
I mean. Stock isnt CPU intensive after all

What kind of a CPU do you have?