BTTB V - Awards

[G.K.]

Hey everyone, welcome to the awards thread for BTTB V.



SBV

Once again, congrats to

Badnik96

I know I said I wouldn't be calculating rankings that combined this tournament and the previous 4, with BTTB V being considered a reboot. However, I have decided to use match records instead of fight wins/losses, which will allow me to weigh both this tourney and the previous 4 equally to produce the following:

The Sage/Stagfish wildcard in BTTB 1 is counted in this but the byebot rounds in BTTB V are not. In the table I have included the fight win/loss score, which was the official score for ranking up to this point but bear in mind that not every fight filmed in BTTB 1-4 consisted of 3 matches. Though it was best of 3, if a bot won 2-0, I would stop, while every fight except the byebot fights in BTTB V had 3 matches.

I have also calculated, unoffically, what the rankings would have looked like if they were all compiled together in the old format. Some of the differences are startling.

• Somebody is startingly out in front in terms of both fight and match wins, leading Badnik by 14 fights and Badnik/Nary/Pwn by 8 matches respectively. Jesus, 8 matches... that's a whole tourney's worth or more...
• Sage, Nary, S_M, Pwn and I have the most match losses with 10 each, as a result of entering all 5 tourneys and not winning any like Somebody and Ounce did. I have the least match wins though :-(, and for that I blame Complement or Complicate.
• Pwnator has the most individual fight losses, narrowly beating out Nary and Somebody. This is indicative of them often losing fights in matches they won. In a similar vein, my fight wins are comparable to Pwn, Sage and Nary, despite having several less match wins - my bots (Or my DSL ones at least) have been good at grabbing consolation victories in matches I've lost. The new system rewards the likes of Pwn and penalizes the likes of me and Thrackerzod, compared to the old one.
• Under the old system Thrackerzod would have had the best score for a rookie in any BTTB ever. That's very impressive.
• 2 bots have got perfect 6-0 records, Grade-4 Whiplash in BTTB 3 and Altifood in BTTB 4. In fact, looking back at my old spreadsheet, apparently Ounce's bot didn't lose a single fight. Not even Clown Breath could manage that.
• Bubbleman has lifted himself off the bottom of the table with his first ever wins in BTTB. He'd suffered 12 fight losses over BTTB 1, 2 & 4 without a win to his name before. Pleased for him.
• GRW is now ranked last, other than the 4 entrants who pulled out of their only BTTB, but won a fight, yet the next 5 up didn't muster a single win between them.
• Sparkey and Clickbeetle are tied. :P
• The biggest positional difference between the 2 lists is Geice, who is 14 places lower in the official ranks than the classic rank system. I keep forgetting his record was only 2-2.

Also, I have released a new BTTB AI updated for BTTB V. Check out the thread if you're interested in that.

Now onto the awards! The following awards are up for grabs:

Favourite Match - A match you thought was high quality, fun or that you enjoyed.
Best Design - A robot you consider to be constructed the best, for whatever reason you choose.
Favourite Bot - Your favourite bot.
BTRSHDBBDDTBL (Bot That Really Should Have Done Better But Didn't Due To Bad Luck) - Does what it says on the tin really.
Best Rebuild - The robot you consider most in the spirit of the original bot. All the pictures of the originals are here.

You can vote for anything except yourself in bot categories (But you can vote for a match you were in), and you can't vote for the bonus matches either. Anyone can vote, including non-participants.

Favourite Match - Shaver BX (Kill343gs) vs Cube Crusher (Thrackerzod) (Losers Bracket Round 1) - Loads of good matches, other notables being Spinny Dinny vs Heeellie Razer, Mechanized Warfare vs I EVOLVED and anything involving Crush?, but this one really set the tournament going for me. Back and forth, and full of surprises.

Best Design - I was desperate to vote for about 5 bots here but my vote will go to Mechanized Warfare (Virus Bomb). Fast, armoured, decent wedges, good looking, and armed with a very very powerful weapon, just a fantastically constructed bot by VB. Very unlucky to face such wide tribar spinners in its 2nd defeat.

Favourite Bot - Crush? (Somebody) - For a last minute entry Somebody really sucessfully managed to create a design with synergetic weapon systems, capable of defeating a range of bot types in excellent matches, in order to finish 3rd, whilst at the same time looking completely unsuitable to fighting basically anything other than the byebot. All of its matches were fantastic to film, and it really became my favourite as the tournament went on, displacing several others. The surprise of the tourney.

BTRSHDBBDDTBL - Lots of candidates here but my vote goes to Teh Claw of Doom!!!!! (090901) - A really good side hammer that was really unlucky in its matchups - Sage (which it still beat in 1 of the rounds) and the surprise bot of the tournament. Would undoubtedly have faired better against quite a few other bots.

Best Rebuild - Heeellie Razer (Geice) - Close call between this and Cube Crusher but in the end I think Geice deserves this award. He really stuck to Mystic2000's original vision despite the awkward chassis shape, and created a devastating bot out of it. Those first 2 matches against Mystic and Somebody (who he Crush-ed... were absolutely dominant, and its showing against Sage was good too,

Awards will run for a week.

[RedAce]

I cannot thank you enough for doing this G.K. I'll be messin' with that AI pack soon.

Favourite Match - Shaver BX (Kill343gs) vs Cube Crusher (Thrackerzod) Pretty much what G.K. said.
Best Design - Tribute to Tribute to Tribute to Mayhem (God that's a mouthful) Just for the fact it's a hybrid that you would never see anywhere else.
Favourite Bot - Crush? dat razor guy run tho.
BTRSHDBBDDTBL - Cutting Cold - While not quite as unlucky, I thought this would go even further.
Best Rebuild - Heeellie Razer - I even said this myself:

Give this man an award for most accurate successor. This is beautiful.

[G.K.]

Best Design - Tribute to Tribute to Tribute to Mayhem (God that's a mouthful) Just for the fact it's a

A what? I'm on tenterhooks here! :P

-also try typing it a billion times :P

[090901]

Favourite Match - Crush? vs Valve
Best Design - Spinny Dinny
Favourite Bot - BLOODY MASSACRE
BTRSHDBBDDTBL (Bot That Really Should Have Done Better But Didn't Due To Bad Luck) - egapmaR because I can't vote for myself 
Best Rebuild - Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelie Razerrrrrrrrr

[Virus Bomb]

Favourite Match - shaver bx vs cube crusher
Best Design - spinny dinny
Favourite Bot - crush? 
BTRSHDBBDDTBL (Bot That Really Should Have Done Better But Didn't Due To Bad Luck) - the claw of doom
Best Rebuild - heeellie razer

[RedAce]

Best Design - Tribute to Tribute to Tribute to Mayhem (God that's a mouthful) Just for the fact it's a

A what? I'm on tenterhooks here! :P

-also try typing it a billion times :P

Lol. I fixed it, so are you happy now dammit? :P

[G.K.]

Best Design - Tribute to Tribute to Tribute to Mayhem (God that's a mouthful) Just for the fact it's a

A what? I'm on tenterhooks here! :P

-also try typing it a billion times :P

Lol. I fixed it, so are you happy now dammit? :P

So happy you'll never know. Thanks for voting for me too :)

[Thrackerzod]

I like that second ranking system, where I'm number 3.  Anyway, here are my votes:

Favorite match: Crush? Vs egapmaR.  Not exactly the most exciting match by itself, but it proved to be the start of Crush?'s reign of terror.

Best design: Spinny Dinny.  It's a competent fighter and good-looking design based on a jokebot I made.

Favorite bot: Crush?. C R U S H B O Y S

Bad luck: Donno who to vote for here, actually.

Best rebuild: Heelie Razer.  I got lucky with Cube Crusher, as the original bot had a chassis that was already fairly well-suited for combat.  Geice could easily have messed with his bot's fairly unwieldy shape, but didn't, and he won matches anyway.  Very impressive.

(Typed on phone, excuse any weird autocorrects please.)

[Somebody]

I'm drunk so I'll be putting in votes later, but I wanted to thank G.K. for this tournament and mention again how impressed and lucky I was with Crush?. I think the idea was solid but I didn't expect it to be this good straight off the original, and it absolutely exceeded my expectations. Thank you so much for hosting this, I had a blast following it.

[Badnik96]

oh hey i won

(ive secretly been watching this since the beginning but decided not to say anything till now just to get on gk's nerves XD)

though tbh i still feel bad about winning via easymode and i probably won't enter clown breath into anything else. honestly i barely tested it and had no clue it would do this well. i have a feeling that had this been in the bbeans arena i'd have gone 0-2

[Mr. AS]

Best Design - Mechanized Warfare
Favourite (sic) Bot - C R U S H ?
BTRSHDBBDDTBL - ValVe should have won, this is booshee
Best Rebuild - Heeeeeellie razer

[09090901]

Favourite Match - Shaver BX vs Cube crusher
Best Design - Spinny Dinny
Favourite Bot - CRUSH?
BTRSHDBBDDTBL (Bot That Really Should Have Done Better But Didn't Due To Bad Luck) - Claw of Doooooooooom
Best Rebuild - Cube Crusher

[Somebody]

oh hey i won

(ive secretly been watching this since the beginning but decided not to say anything till now just to get on gk's nerves XD)

though tbh i still feel bad about winning via easymode and i probably won't enter clown breath into anything else. honestly i barely tested it and had no clue it would do this well. i have a feeling that had this been in the bbeans arena i'd have gone 0-2

SnS/HS are too OP, they, hate us cause they ain't us

[Naryar]

lol a HS won 10/10

[090901]

badniks bot wasnt even that much of a hs considering it had rads 

[G.K.]

I tried to write a custom .py for it like BiDirRam.py so it would attack like an HS. If I'd used it the bot would have sucked so bad - it's got 90kg+ on each RAD, and its plastic armour. Fortunately for Badnik, I couldn't get it to work properly, and he did request FBSPlus.

[G.K.]

Tally of votes so far:

Favourite Match
Cube Crusher vs Shaver BX or whatever it is - 4
Crush? vs egampaR - 1
Crush? vs VALVe - 1

Best Design
Mechanized Warfare - 2
Tribute to Tribute to Tribute to Mayhem - 1
Spinnyy Dinnyy - 4

Favourite Bot
Crush? - 6
Bloody Massacre - 1

BTSHRDBBDDTBL
Teh Claw of Doom - 3
Cutting Cold - 1
egampaR - 1
VALVe - 1

Best Rebuild
Heeellie Razer - 6
Cube Crusher  - 1

Some categories are close, others have bots way out in front. Voting's open for another 4 days, so keep them coming!

[Somebody]

Yaaaaaaaay

[Pwnator]

Best Design - Mechanized Warfare
Favourite Bot - Bloody Massacre
BTRSHDBBDDTBL - Teh Claw of Doom!!!!!
Best Rebuild - Heeellie Razer

[G.K.]

1 more day!