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Title: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on June 16, 2014, 11:12:08 AM

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(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/50463cc bracket-01.png)

(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/72566CCSO.jpg)

Heat 1
https://youtu.be/khIungspzc8

Heat 2
https://youtu.be/TL2gIDVKwqM

Heat 3
https://youtu.be/1zEPHu6IoSs

Final
https://youtu.be/IxnD6_rIj9g

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: KOS on June 16, 2014, 11:18:49 AM

That's a great looking braket, great job. I'll definitely be following this tournament :)

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Thyrus on June 16, 2014, 11:35:33 AM

I got this

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Philippa on June 16, 2014, 11:47:55 AM

Oh wow this thing still exists.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Bubbleman on June 16, 2014, 11:54:40 AM

Gah, when did I miss this? >.<
Looking forward to the splash

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Mecha on June 16, 2014, 12:28:38 PM

Wow, I thought this was dead.
Nice bracket btw.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: COOLRUNNER87 on June 16, 2014, 11:47:33 PM

...it's alive!?

Well, it's time to get wrecked by better competitors. Allons-y!

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Thyrus on June 16, 2014, 11:50:34 PM

the best solution to run RA2 on a Mac is not using a Mac

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Philippa on June 17, 2014, 01:29:57 AM

Quote from: Thyrus on June 16, 2014, 11:50:34 PM

the best solution to run RA2 on a Mac is not using a Mac

Thyrus gets it.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on June 17, 2014, 09:11:45 AM

Yeah not dead.. I would have posted some kind of update post but I dont know where the sign ups thread went :P

Quote from: Thyrus on June 16, 2014, 11:50:34 PM

the best solution to run RA2 on a Mac is not using a Mac

Mac's has all my fun editing stuff though :P once I get the game running smoothly itll all be good :)

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on July 28, 2014, 11:45:30 PM

I am so pumped for this!

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Philippa on July 29, 2014, 08:39:50 AM

Quote from: HurricaneAndrew on July 28, 2014, 11:45:30 PM

I am so pumped for this!

I'm gonna wreck you!

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on August 09, 2016, 09:40:45 AM

Wow I didnt realise this was a 2014 Tournament.. I thought it was just last year  :embarr

My tournament hosting in the last few years has turned to shambles, My apologies to everyone who built bots for this only to see it fall into the archives.

Its been a crazy life the last few years, long story short; Building an Online Business, Building a House, Purchasing a Physical/Local Company and the Passing of a close family member. Combined with the fact I only got RA2 running 100% on Mac 2 months ago.

So this is my attempt to make things right, because if their is 1 thing I dont want.. that is to drag CC's prestige through the mud with an aborted tournament.

Ive dug through all my PM's and my computer archives and finally imported all the robots and taken pics for the splash (which is now in the first post)

Ive also made the skin for the Combat Zone, its fairly simple but tributes CC1's arena skin nicely

(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/19338Screen Shot 2016-08-09 at 9.25.40 PM.png)

Give me a little bit to find my feet with the AI but I hope to have some videos up really soon!

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Squirrel_Monkey on August 09, 2016, 10:54:54 AM

Good to see you back Joe. Do you still have the stuff from See No Evil?

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on August 09, 2016, 11:34:10 AM

Quote from: Squirrel_Monkey on August 09, 2016, 10:54:54 AM

Good to see you back Joe. Do you still have the stuff from See No Evil?

I will look but that its stretching the old memory haha

See no evil is like the beta-hurtz of tournaments after enough tries its bound to successfully start :/ 

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Badger on August 09, 2016, 12:01:18 PM

Good to see this being picked back up, but mother of god those bots all look cancerous lol. You gonna be doing DSL2.2 stuff after this Joe?

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: R01 on August 09, 2016, 12:04:24 PM

Quote from: Badger on August 09, 2016, 12:01:18 PM

Good to see this being picked back up, but mother of god those bots all look cancerous lol. You gonna be doing DSL2.2 stuff after this Joe?

Yeah, it's nice seeing this back. How well would those designs work in DSL 2.2? Think this was a SNS tournament because I can't imagine that this was the DSL main bot type before the update.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: COOLRUNNER87 on August 09, 2016, 12:06:38 PM

Quote from: R01 on August 09, 2016, 12:04:24 PM

Quote from: Badger on August 09, 2016, 12:01:18 PM

Good to see this being picked back up, but mother of god those bots all look cancerous lol. You gonna be doing DSL2.2 stuff after this Joe?

Yeah, it's nice seeing this back. How well would those designs work in DSL 2.2? Think this was a SNS tournament because I can't imagine that this was the DSL main bot type before the update.

It was (well, that and pop-ups).

Also, nice to see you back, Joe.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Badger on August 09, 2016, 12:10:07 PM

Quote from: R01 on August 09, 2016, 12:04:24 PM

Quote from: Badger on August 09, 2016, 12:01:18 PM

Good to see this being picked back up, but mother of god those bots all look cancerous lol. You gonna be doing DSL2.2 stuff after this Joe?

Yeah, it's nice seeing this back. How well would those designs work in DSL 2.2? Think this was a SNS tournament because I can't imagine that this was the DSL main bot type before the update.

Probably not great, the chassis don't have space for the batteries required in 2.2 and flails are very fragile IIRC. And razors and irons suck.


Flail SnS, Popups and Flail rammers dominated 2.1, with the occasional dual perm VS.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: R01 on August 09, 2016, 12:27:26 PM

Quote from: Badger on August 09, 2016, 12:10:07 PM

Quote from: R01 on August 09, 2016, 12:04:24 PM

Quote from: Badger on August 09, 2016, 12:01:18 PM

Good to see this being picked back up, but mother of god those bots all look cancerous lol. You gonna be doing DSL2.2 stuff after this Joe?

Yeah, it's nice seeing this back. How well would those designs work in DSL 2.2? Think this was a SNS tournament because I can't imagine that this was the DSL main bot type before the update.

Probably not great, the chassis don't have space for the batteries required in 2.2 and flails are very fragile IIRC. And razors and irons suck.


Flail SnS, Popups and Flail rammers dominated 2.1, with the occasional dual perm VS.

Right, ant batteries(which for some reason were great in DSL, while stock still had supervolts and nifties used instead of pinks) flails are that fragile now? Was hoping to build some, and yeah heard about the non normal weapon nerfs.

I did know that those bot types would be dominant but didn't mean that everyone would only enter SnS in a normal tournament.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Badger on August 09, 2016, 12:29:29 PM

I mean tiny tiny chassis like this aren't very good for popups or rammers really, but are well suited to SnS and VS and sometimes HS too.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on August 09, 2016, 09:12:47 PM

This tournament was DSL 2.1 SnS only.. hence the tacky pun. :)

Clash Cubes 1 (and to an extent CC2) was dominated by Somebody's (the user) SnS hybrid. This tournament was originally a celebration of the 5 year anniversary of Clash Cubes 1 (which is now 6.5)

Quote from: Badger on August 09, 2016, 12:29:29 PM

I mean tiny tiny chassis like this aren't very good for popups or rammers really, but are well suited to SnS and VS and sometimes HS too.

Funny enough CC3 was won by a front hinge flipper and CC4 was won by a pop-up

Clash cubes concept was always designed to promote external construction given a tiny cube is the only real efficient shape. "Out of the box thinking" if you want some more puns :P 

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: R01 on August 10, 2016, 06:12:49 AM

Quote from: JoeBlo on August 09, 2016, 09:12:47 PM

This tournament was DSL 2.1 SnS only.. hence the tacky pun. :)

Clash Cubes 1 (and to an extent CC2) was dominated by Somebody's (the user) SnS hybrid. This tournament was originally a celebration of the 5 year anniversary of Clash Cubes 1 (which is now 6.5)

Quote from: Badger on August 09, 2016, 12:29:29 PM

I mean tiny tiny chassis like this aren't very good for popups or rammers really, but are well suited to SnS and VS and sometimes HS too.

Funny enough CC3 was won by a front hinge flipper and CC4 was won by a pop-up

Clash cubes concept was always designed to promote external construction given a tiny cube is the only real efficient shape. "Out of the box thinking" if you want some more puns :P

Thought so, also only later realized that Clash Cubes is about having that small cube chassis(thought everyone just did that to save weight for weapons).
Personally I like building stuff like that because it offers a completely different Robot fighting game which goes more into the direction that I would imagine(fight until you break a bot's Control Board or Immobilize them by destroying the Batteries instead of reducing the chassis hp to 0).
Front Hinged Flipper winning? interesting, thought that design wouldn't allow for OOTA's(which is how flippers will win the most time) unless you build it Firestorm like.
The chassis isn't exactly built for a popup but that doesn't mean one can't add the wedge shape.

Also 400th post.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on August 10, 2016, 07:21:44 AM

It actually played to the arena's hazards perfectly.. Ill reupload some old CC matches sometime and everyone can see a little history :)

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Badger on August 10, 2016, 07:25:39 AM

Can anyone dig up the CC3 thread, I wanna see that front hinged flipper

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on August 10, 2016, 07:35:51 AM

The youtube channel they were on went down years ago im pretty sure? but I do have backups of at least all CC3 and CC4 videos.

Anywho we'll jump back on topic here and ill open up a new thread and put some videos up.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Badger on August 10, 2016, 08:45:33 AM

Sweet, thanks. Might be easiest to throw them all in a google drive folder and share the link rather than uploading them all individually.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on August 14, 2016, 11:41:22 AM

Okay a few little updates..

• All robots are AI'd ready to go
• Video Template(s) are also ready
• Slight venue change (I know your not technically meant to but this tournament is already blown past the timeframe rule so..)

Basically the combat zone has a too large floor space and these SnS robots are finding it hard to KO each other.. so to try and add some excitement to the matches ive reverted back to the Clash Cubes Arena (from CCIV) with a quick little makeover

At least now the robots are in close proximity and OOTA KO's are achievable

(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/12866Screen Shot 2016-08-15 at 12.40.47 AM.png)

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Mr. AS on August 14, 2016, 12:19:44 PM

Was the CC4 arena ever released?

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: TBD Devastator on August 14, 2016, 07:05:09 PM

I feel as if I may not have known what the devil I was doing when I built my entry. Oh well, will be neat to see this finally play out.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on August 14, 2016, 07:12:25 PM

Quote from: Mr. AS on August 14, 2016, 12:19:44 PM

Was the CC4 arena ever released?

I dont think so.. It was slated to come out with CCAI 2 but it never came to light..

I plan to bundle up a few bits and pieces ive made soon and come up with some sort of release.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on August 16, 2016, 09:47:46 AM

Brace yourself, Videos are coming..

Heat 1 is now up in the first post

Congratulations to Coolrunner

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on August 16, 2016, 10:01:41 AM

Heat 2 is now up in the first post too

Congratulations akshaylan.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on August 16, 2016, 10:14:11 AM

Annnd 1 more post the round out the day

Heat 3 is now up too

Congrats to Kurt Wylde

which brings us to the end of the heats, Ill give it a bit of a breather for everyone to watch these then ill upload the final in a few days.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Philippa on August 16, 2016, 02:26:31 PM

Meant to do that.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Thyrus on August 16, 2016, 02:51:12 PM

So much work on a bot that is not an IRL bot and then this! ~ is something I would have said years ago :D
Man... my bot sucks  :gawe: <- official JoeBlo emoticon.
Welcome back buddy <3

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on August 16, 2016, 09:21:06 PM

hardly sucks man.. the winning margin was pretty slim especially when flails are involved at one point I thought you were going to get the win.

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: JoeBlo on August 19, 2016, 09:19:10 AM

The Final is now in the first post (and on the youtube channel)

Congratulations to

Coolrunner87... How your robot stayed in the arena will forever be a mystery.

Given the size and heavy delays I wont do a seperate awards thread or anything like that but I want to thank everyone who entered, it wasn't a terribly popular concept but I appreciate those who supported it.

Promise if I do another tournament itll take less then 2 years  :gawe:tm

Roll Credits!

Cheers Fraps..

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: Philippa on August 19, 2016, 11:08:22 AM

I didn't expect to get past Round One, second place isn't bad.

8888 POINTS MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM YEAH

Title: Re: Clash Cubes "Spin-Off"
Post by: COOLRUNNER87 on August 19, 2016, 01:07:18 PM

Sweet Mamma Jamma! I won another thing!

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