I came up w/ this idea when BB filming was postponed, and last week decided to go ahead w/ it.
The rules I set myself:
- The external appearance must be IRL, internal clipping doesn't matter as the reps in the pack itself have such clipping.
- Reps in the 2019 BB pack will be used, and if the bot isn't in that pack, I will port it over from the 2018 pack. Any yet to appear on the discovery seasons or the reps of in the pack break the external IRL appearance I will build a rep of myself.
- Due to the reps in the pack don't seem to follow a hard weight limit, neither will my reps to even the playing field.
- cheatbot2 use is prevalent in the reps in the pack, so I haven't banned any components outright, but will use non-cb2 parts where I can get a reasonable degree of accuracy both aesthetically and functionally.
- I will only customise components for my reps where needed for aesthetic accuracy.
Match rules:
- 3 minute fights.
- in the event of a JD, the points will be the same as in proper BB; 3 for damage, 2 each for aggression and control. Any form of aggression will count.
- If a bot is KOd by a havok, broken physics cause other weird stuff or the game crashes, the fight will be restarted rounded to the nearest minute. Second time such a thing happens will be a JD.
- The arena used will be the robogames arena reskinned to the battlebox which is in the pack.
Bots which will be represented by a replica, 48 bots which have had their participation in the 2020 season publicly confirmed:
Bite Force
Witch Doctor
Tombstone
Death Roll
Whiplash
Sawblaze
Lockjaw
Hydra
Black Dragon
HUGE
Quantum
Cobalt
Skorpios
Hypershock
Bloodsport
Icewave
RotatoR
DUCK!
Copperhead
Valkyrie
Chomp
Beta
Ghost Raptor
Gigabyte
End Game
WAR Hawk
Mammoth
Deep Six
Shatter!
Petunia
Monsoon
Red Devil
Overhaul
Captain Shrederator
Kraken
Nelly The Ellybot
Sharkoprion
Gamma 9
Fusion
Ripper
Orion
Blade V3
Spitfire
SMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Jager
Gloomweaver
The Krusty Grab
Malice
Ep 1 fight card:
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I'm currently working on the reps of bots that will be in ep 1.
UPDATE 10 SEPTEMBER: I am putting this tournament on hold until further notice. This is due to me struggling for motivation to build the reps that are not already in the pack, and also w/ BB filming being announced for octomer, some bots that were originally planned to take part are no longer competing. This might result in the competition only being w/ bots whose reps are already in the pack and are taking part in this years competition.
Here's the updated plan: fight card format w/ 5 fights per ep, 30 bots, each of which will have 4 fights. All competitors are returning from the 2019 season using the reps already in the pack (except shell spinners bc their reps are too sh**) and publicly confirmed for the 2020 season which starts filming tomorrow (as of me writing this). The list of bots is in the spoiler below.
Skorpios
Tombstone
Sharkoprion
Whiplash
Mammoth
End Game
P1
Bloodsport
Kraken
Sawblaze
Copperhead
Valkyrie
Tantrum
Hydra
Mad Catter
Subzero
Gemini
Extinguisher
Gigabyte
Double Jeopardy
Shatter
Captain Shrederator
Gruff
Chronos
Lockjaw
RotatoR
Ribbot
Uppercut
Hypershock
Witch Doctor
And the updated ep 1 fight card:
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