4 Way: A Display

[G.K.]

So as you may have seen on the General Tournament Discussion Thread, I have big plans. But to prove I still have my hosting mojo, here I am with an absolutely tiny tournament. I've asked a couple of people to provide with me with a Stock HW, and they're going to have a league between them.

   

• Stock HW.
• Matches will take place in the Combat Arena.
• League brackets, 3 fights per match. 3 minute battles.
• Usual ingame glitches are allowed bar restrictions below, and there's no realistic rule.
• No BFE, AAM, Thyrus Glitch, Hax Mode, Zero G.
• All Stock 1.4 components (bar cheatbot2) are legal. All AI Parts are fine.
• No custom components except weightless smartzones for AI purposes are legal.
• Bots must have controlled movement.

1st Place - S_M (7 Wins - 2 Losses)
2nd Place - Craaig (6-3)
3rd Place - RedAce (5-4)
4th Place - Thyrus (0-9)

***

Insomnia, while a powerful and damaging VS, isn't really capable of one hit KOs. This leaves it susceptible to the multibot effect and potential attack from the weak rear. At the same time, while The Handler is fast and wedgy, MK ULTRA is not - which may aid Insomnia in its quest for victory.

Insomnia wins 2-1 with 3 KOs and 1 TKO. MK ULTRA/The Handler get 1 KO.

***

Re-Stockasarus, while a fantastic looking bot, has various troubles - its lack of weapons and its basic lack of invertability against a wedge. If it can exploit Mercury Monkey's turning circle and get underneath it, though, the side hammers make surprisingly good gut-rippers...

Mercury Monkey wins 3-0 with 1 KO and 2 TKOs.

****

While multibots can be a pain to face, there's also a challenge in making them work with each other. In these fights, MK ULTRA does as much damage to The Handler - whose external components are particularly weak- as it does to Mercury Monkey, and the way the damage falls often decides the winner of the fights. While all the fights are generally entertaining, minus some parts of uninteresting pushing, Round 1 is especially worth a watch, with a bunch of twists and turns. You won't know who wins until THE LAST SECOND.

MK ULTRA/The Handler win 2-1 with 2 KO's. Mercury Monkey gets 2 KO's.

***

If Re-Stockasarus didn't enjoy facing Mercury Monkey it certainly won't enjoy facing RedAce's powerful VS. I guess it could knock off the exposed wedge extenders, get underneath it and gutrip it like it nearly did to MM in Round 1 of their battle?

Insomnia wins 3-0 with 3 KOs.

**

If MK ULTRA's tendency to dismantle its teammate made the fights with Mercury Monkey an interesting spectacle, here they serve to slow them down. In these matches it develops an irritating habit of de-wheeling The Handler, rendering it quite useless in some of the fights. Fortunately, this is compensated for by the generally exposed chassis of Re-Stockasarus, while havok explosions also make an appearence.

MK ULTRA/The Handler win 3-0 with 3 KO's. I didn't restart for the Round 2 havok as the match was a foregone conclusion. Although that seems the case in Round 3, The Handler
hadn't got under Re-Stockasarus until the havok and would only then have been able to easily gutrip it.

***
Insomnia is currently leading the standings and Mercury Monkey second. A win for either would be enough to take the championship. This short but sweet match is made exciting by how each round begins - often they collide at such high spead that they leap apart and it's up to
driving to see who will come out on top. Once one robot is under the other, it's going to win, or is it?....

Mercury Monkey wins 3-0 with 3 KO's.

****

A fun, action-filled way to finish this little tournament. This match is characterised by the thing that has characterised this tournament, at least for Craaig - defeated robots still playing a part. Both of the first 2 robots to go out play a part after they do so, and it makes for fun viewing.

Mercury Monkey wins! Boo!

Let's have a bit of fun!

[RedAce]

So we got a stock artbot builder, G.K.'s close friend, a guy who hosted a display tournament for BTTB and a tournament moderator. This is gonna be good.

[Lemonism]

This looks like it should be really fun to watch.
Not sure who will come out on top, but I'm thinking Re-Stockasarus' matches should be especially fun.

[Thyrus]

Looking good :D

[G.K.]

Round 1 is up!

[Thyrus]

That went better than I thought :D

[Squirrel_Monkey]

Hope my wedges are better than I remember.

[G.K.]

Round 2 is up!

[RedAce]

Liking these matches so far. I'm also seeing inspiration from me using Click's match descriptions from BBEANS. But I digress.

Round 1 of Craaig vs S_M was awesome. I didn't expect that kill from MK ultra at all.

[G.K.]

I'm also seeing inspiration from me using Click's match descriptions from BBEANS.

How did you guess?

Round 1 of Craaig vs S_M was awesome. I didn't expect that kill from MK ultra at all.

I was so on edge while filming. Literally, as MK ULTRA had critically hit its teammate just before, I had no clue which way the fight would end, and that's really exciting.

[cephalopod]

Hahah I don't think I could've paired 2 less synergetic robots if I tried :P

[G.K.]

Round 3 is up, along with a bonus rumble of all 4 competitors duking it out!

Congrats to

Mercury Monkey

Thanks to all who sent bots or watched the vids, it's been great to host again. Now let's get the big one going!

[Squirrel_Monkey]

Woop!

[Thyrus]

I was so close to winning

[Naryar]

So S_M is on top, eh ? Interesting.