ELBITE SuperTournament: Brackets & Match Videos

[Gigafrost]

This is a more straight forward thread than the previous one.... Instead of the discussion board, this thread will host the actual brackets and Match Videos of your precious robots! And the bots are being AI'd, polished, and prepped up as we speak.

THE RUN DOWN
(Will be displayed in order by which they appear):

1st Session

• ESIS will discontinue... It has no purpose on my website, takes up my website space and my time, and it just annoying to look at. Enough of the flashy stuff for now.
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• Brackets for ELBITE's Tabletop Division will be displayed on May 20th, 2009; predictions are welcome. I will give my predictions of the outcome each match as well.
  
  
• Videos will then start rolling in after (in respect to the time intervals by which they can be created AND after all your bots are AI'd).
  
• IMPORTANT: After all the match videos have been displayed, (which may take WEEKS or even a whole month to complete), the winner of the division will receive a special item called a "division ticket" which will grant them passage in the final death match (against the other winners of the other seperate divisions). This ticket is just a little icon that will be displayed under the winners image showing that they will enter the final fight. More about the ticket will be announced.
  
• The division ends with a few words from Rawflesaurus himself via video (the host of the tournament) and we move on to the next divison.

2nd and third sessions will begin like the first. and begin after the division is complete. However, the time by which the brackets will be shown will vary.

Note: This is the order that the divisions will be started.

-Tabletop Division
-King Of The Hill Division
-DeathMatch Division
-FINAL BATTLE  (Winners of all three divisions will face off!)

Coronation

Once the winner of the final battle has been announced, one more thread will be created to give out the prizes and in honor of all the warriors who won each division but didnt win the grand prize and will all recieve a 2nd place prize (TBA).

The Grand prize winner will recieve the grand prize as well as the badge; They are BOTH very important to the winner in any nostalgia matches (see gametechs wiki for more info). It's a very big deal and a high status symbol to wear such a badge...



Third place winners (The runners up of each division after losing to the winners) will recieve component reskins based of of RA2GE's BETA Release. A collectible item all in all.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please post it into this thread or the discussion thread. I will also update the rules if I missed anything... May the Best Bot win and Good Luck!

[Naryar]

The division ends with a few words from Rawflesaurus himself via video (the host of the tournament)

Win.

[Urjak]

What if one person wins all three divisions? Or just two? Would the final deathmatch just contain two people instead?

[Gigafrost]

Yes Sir. If one person wins all three (which I would highly doubt), they would indeed win the tournament and there would not be a need for a final match.

[Somebody]

The website has no brackets whatsoever. Please update.


Also, this is very good, I can't wait. :biggrin:

[Gigafrost]

Brackets for the KOTH Division are UP! Check it out on the elbite website.

Note: The Red Stars indicate a ByeBot placement. Since I have an odd number of entrants, they were placed accordingly, in the first and third "wave". The yellow icon to the right of the bracket is the division ticket. Let's see who can grab it!

[Naryar]

Ok so R0B0's first opponent might be... ME !!!1!one

[H@zm47]

Or me...

[philetbabe]

winning a match in tabletop depends partly of your luck in game... but some  bots may force this luck.

here are my prediction :
Chizzle - TDL2:  TDL get better wedge, it should win. sure, if Chizzle puts one of its skirt under TDL2 that may changes all.. but with
a help of 'IF', Paris should also  be  put in a bottle...

Razor 3 - li-Ewl : i bet for myself (razor III) : Li ewl will be constrained by its too long skirt

Tabletop - Zapper 3.5 : Most Original Name reward for 'Tabletop'. these two bots get something alien, i do not have the less idea. But perhaps the most interesting match.

Widow maker - Dune buggy : with the help of its 2 burst motor and its wide 'danger zone',widow maker should win.

skirmish - SOF : well, its much like Naryar meets Naryar .. i think Naryars should win. H@zm47 seems very compacts, judging at those drive motors that largely exceed the chassis.
Even if this bot is a 'spawn of' , it is well built ... but i still think Naryar may win.

TChicken  - HRE : HRE should have better ground-grip but may be handicapped with its 45° skirt against a rammer with piston : The chicken
may run a win.

[Naryar]

well, its much like Naryar meets Naryar .. i think Naryars should win.

Which one ? :biggrin:

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Predictions...

Chizzle - TDL2: Well Chizzle basically sucks excepted for the snapper wedge part. While snapper wedges are better than axle ones, Urjak's one of the best builders we have, plus TDL2 has less ground clearance and the wedges are less angled, means more chances to go under the opponent. I'm going for TDL2 mostly becaus of the building skill gap between both and that Chizzle has lower speed and agility, but Chizzle might win simply because of snapper wedges.

Razor 3 - Li-Ewl : Classic hinged wedges beat axle wedges at high speed. However even if L-Ewl is faster than Razor, it can't get enough speed for that to happen, and Li-Ewl's chassis is going to point upwards with a hinge angled that low. I don't get what the smartzone is for, but both bots have roughly the same ground clearance.
I'm slightly in Phil's favor.

TableTop vs Zapper 8.5: Most good sit and spinners have the edge over gut rippers even fast ones, and SnS own in an enclosed arena. However, they are not that good in an arena with walls and i'd let you guess in a tabletop thing without even any walls... Tabletop will most probably get tossed OOTA easily, especially that Zapper is fast.

Widowmaker VS Dune Buggy: I think it's not even worth to mention that. Both bots are equally fast (roughly) but Somebody's is very low to the ground and has great wedges as well as ground clearance, and these are exactly what Dune Buggy misses. Dune Buggy WILL get OOTA quickly.

Skirmish 3 vs SoF: A lot of weight wasted in SoF's heavy plow and steel sheets that would have been much better as stabilizers. For me, there is LESS weight wasted on intermediate armor (i wanted the thing to look cool)... However, both bots are equally fast, probably equally wedged and have equal ground clearance. I have a rather acrobatic self righter that works half of the time, but SoF has no self righter. This is an evenly matched fight IMO.

Titanium Chicken VS HR-E: While highly original HR-E is faster. Plus it has wedges, that TC lacks. If it would be slower, i would say TC is the winner, but HR-E's speed works in his favor - not the ground clearance though...

[Urjak]

Urjak's one of the best builders we have

Score!

Anyway, I think I can beat Chizzle, but those snapper wedges definately worry me, especially since this is a tabletop.

[Gigafrost]

My Predictions on the out come of each bot (TT WISE):

• Widowmaker (Somebody): It is pretty well rounded in terms of having a decent ground clearance to small chassis ratio. I expect it to do well in its matchups. However, I'm not sure as to how fast it is.
  
• Punisher (somestrangeguy): A pistion powered pusher is something that might turn the tables on those who arent wedged decently. It looks like a good push to the flimsy wheels however can knock it over. The bottom protection was a well thought choice.
  
• HR-E (R1885): Nice and Pushy. Good friction on the wheels and decent wedges. It's probably going to do well.
  
• Equal & Opposite (Condor33): On of my favorites. Interesting wedge design. Either way, this powerful flipper is one to watch out for.
  
• BLEVE (Clickbeetle): Clickbeetle is known for his uniquely effective robots. Invertible, axle wedges and the works. Another one to watch out for. Another one of my favorites.
  
• Li-ewl Terrier (Gigafrost): Im going to see how effective this kind of flipper design is going to be, it is built with the side of the extender on the burst attatchment to relieve stress on the motor. At the price of not so good wedges. Note: I noticed that it also deals a decent amount of damage, so to play it safe the aluminum flipper was replaced with a polecarbonate one and the shield on the extender was removed. NO major changes was made.
  
• Arcarsenal (R0B0S4RK): R0B0S4RK comes in with a popup-designed flipper. The bot looks very well built. Chances are, it will go far.
  
• Skirmish 3 (Naryar): Another well built bot. Looks simular to Arcarsenal in terms of function, but like it, the backwards-style popup flipper means that it may take a while to self right.
  
• The Devils Lime 2 (Urjak): Handsome looking robot. Wedges look pretty good. Another potential popup flipper.
  
• Chizzle (Whamettnuht): Creative realistic look, the 'green' angle motors will give it a decent amount of power, but may fall prey to those with better motors.
  
• Wegi (System32): Decent enough... It uses very good angle motors actually, but ftheres a lot of room on that chassis for a good wedge to sink under.
  
• Dune Buggy (ScrapDaddy): This thing is bound to cook up some interesting matches. The only ground clearance it has is a little side panel and its wheels are HUGE! Don't mistake my opinion as hatin' though, it looks like it has a lot of pushing power behind it and is one of the only 4WDriving bots in this division.
  
• Zapper 8.5 (Reier): Nice, compact, little flipper, need I say more?
  
• Razor III (philetbabe): Arms wrapped around the plow is a good idea for a pusher. The extra skirts will also go in its favor.
  
• Spawn of Francium (H@zm47): SoF looks all sorts of pushy in this form. Hopefully it won't get inverted however.
  
• Titanium Chicken (Metalikvyper): Just another one of your average pushers. It should fair quite decently.
  
• Table-Top(Sage): Sage enters a sit and spinner, the additional 2WD will add more torque to its spins, but may not be good enough for fending off speedy flippers.

[R0B0SH4RK]

Why are the Table Top bots in the KOTH brackets?

[Gigafrost]

Hmm... Wow thanks for pointing that out. It is the Tabletop bracket not the KOTH. That's proof from staying up till 3:00 am. It will be changed ASAP. Very good eyes R0B0.

Edit: Fixed.

[Somebody]

I think that all of you are underestimating TableTop. If it is spinning, and a bot makes a run towards it, it could be knocked off to the side and drive off before it gets a chance to stop.

[Reier]

=B
IMO, I'ma gunna dye.

[man manu]

=B
IMO, I'ma gunna dye.

What colour will you dye it?

[Naryar]

=B

What the was that ?

[Reier]

[infiniteinertia]

<3 Reier