Author Topic: All Round Bot Builder Championship (Sign-ups Closed!) (Read 17901 times)

ianh05 · « **on:** February 16, 2013, 04:21:42 AM »

I'm thinking about planning to start the new tournament for the 10th anniversary of the game, it's basically the same as the one I didn't get to finish due to losing all the stuff on the computer I was using back then. Here are the rules:

*Stock.
*AW, BW, LW, MW and HW.
*Multi-bots (2 clusters maximum per multi-bot) are allowed.
*Hybrids are allowed as long as you haven't used any of the hybrid's weapon setups on another bot.
*Multi-bots can use different weapon setups as long as you haven't used them on any other bot.
*No Nasty Pickles, Bumble bots, Trinity Flyers, Crawlers or any other cheap robots.
*Robots must show controlled movement and have at least 2 wheel drive.
*Standard in-game glitches (such as axle loading) allowed.
*No AAM, Hax mode, Trov glitch, BFE or any other nonsense.
*No new uberstack glitch.
*No Cheatbot2.
*AI parts are allowed but...
*No 140cm extender.
*No trying to find loopholes, you should know what "Stock" means.
*Best 3 out of 5 rounds using all 5 entries (1 bot per round starting with AW and HW going last).
*Double Elimination.
*I will restart matches due to match-altering glitches only.
*Robots that cause 2 glitches will be eliminated and given the loss.
*All matches will take place in the (possibly re-skinned) combat arena.
*All matches will be 3 minutes in length.
*I can AI all basic bots, anything odd will require you to AI it yourself.
*32 entries max.

*Every weight class on your team must use a different BASIC robot type from this list (no flail SnS and normal SnS on the same team):

1. Rammer
2. Hammer
3. Popup
4. Horizontal spinner
5. Vertical spinner
6. Face spinner
7. Poker
8. Flipper
9. SnSer
10. Side hammer
11. Juggler
12. Drum

AW variations, these are allowed in addition to the above basic types for AW's only to provide some more variation:

*Axle HS
*Axle VS
*Axle FS
*Axle Drill
*Axle Popup
*Flail/inertia bots.

NOTE: This tournament will have it's AI pack released as "GTM AI" that we can build upon with teams from other members, as sort of the official AI pack for the community.

Entries:

I will be entering with this team:

1:Ianh05
2:Venko
3:090901
4:Lightning S.
5:Mazakari
6:Mr. AwesumSauce
7:Virus Bomb
8:Kurt Wylde
9:Fracture
10:GameKing3
11:Squirrel_Monkey
12:Pwnator
13:R1885
14:Rob Collins
15:Wolfsbane
16:Mystic2000
17:Scrap Daddy
18:kill343gs
19:Surprise entry (Clickbeetle)
20:RPJK
21:Jonzu95

Green = Team received and accepted.
Red = Team received but update needed.
Normal text colour = No entry yet but have stated interest to enter.

Countdown for updates:
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Mr. AS · « **Reply #1 on:** February 18, 2013, 05:09:06 PM »

jeebus, 5 bots from 32 people, thats going to be alot of matches. i'd probably send something (assuming this is stock), but idk how many other people will

MassimoV · « **Reply #2 on:** February 18, 2013, 05:11:13 PM »

Gosh, I can't build stock! Oh well...

ianh05 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 19, 2013, 02:29:04 AM »

Quote from: Mr. AwesumSauce on February 18, 2013, 05:09:06 PM

jeebus, 5 bots from 32 people, thats going to be alot of matches. i'd probably send something (assuming this is stock), but idk how many other people will

Instead of 3 rounds per bot this is 1 round per bot so it won't be too bad, the bad thing is AI'ing 180 bots lol. That being said I doubt I'll get 32 entries.

ianh05 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 21, 2013, 11:11:52 AM »

Seems like around 16 people are interested so far.

boombabyboom · « **Reply #5 on:** February 21, 2013, 11:20:42 AM »

i will do this just i will fail

infiniteinertia · « **Reply #6 on:** February 21, 2013, 11:29:53 AM »

What about hybrid bots...? Heavy HSes distinguished from Lite HSes...? Tribar vs. Disk VSes...? Wammers...? Robots with chained motors....? These are all very different classifications.

ianh05 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 21, 2013, 11:36:36 AM »

Forgot to write that up:

*Hybrids are allowed as long as you haven't used any of the hybrid's weapon setups on another bot. (This basically cuts out people using the same type of weapon for all their bots.)
*Multi-bots can use different weapon setups as long as you haven't used them on any other bot.

infiniteinertia · « **Reply #8 on:** February 21, 2013, 11:40:22 AM »

Okay well then this is stupid if you have 5 different weight classes and can't even reuse one weapon type on a hybrid bot. Way too complex of a format and not enough bases covered. You are aiming for a variety of submissions from people, but with the way this is set up everything will look quite the same.

ianh05 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 21, 2013, 11:50:15 AM »

Quote from: infiniteinertia on February 21, 2013, 11:29:53 AM

What about hybrid bots...? Heavy HSes distinguished from Lite HSes...? Tribar vs. Disk VSes...? Wammers...? Robots with chained motors....? These are all very different classifications.

By "basic" I don't mean you have to build that basic type in it's "pure" form, you can make any HS, VS, FS, rammer/wammer etc. that you want.

Quote from: infiniteinertia on February 21, 2013, 11:40:22 AM

Okay well then this is stupid if you have 5 different weight classes and can't even reuse one weapon type on a hybrid bot. Way too complex of a format and not enough bases covered. You are aiming for a variety of submissions from people, but with the way this is set up everything will look quite the same.

I think there's enough variation there, I just don't want teams to have more then 1 of the same bot type. The point of this is to see who makes the best of a variety of different bots and weights.

I doubt we will see many of the same bots because people have to select which weight they have each type, I'm still trying to figure out my team setup before I start building.

madman3 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 21, 2013, 12:49:05 PM »

Isn't much of an all round building contest when it doesn't feature DSL. Still, seems fun, but I suck at stock and don't have the time to make 5 decent bots in it

infiniteinertia · « **Reply #11 on:** February 21, 2013, 12:51:20 PM »

OK we'll see when I send you my submissions

ianh05 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2013, 02:38:52 PM »

Quote from: madman3 on February 21, 2013, 12:49:05 PM

Isn't much of an all round building contest when it doesn't feature DSL. Still, seems fun, but I suck at stock and don't have the time to make 5 decent bots in it

Perhaps someone else can host that one sometime, I don't play DSL as much as stock.