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[Jakewilliamson]

I'm in, I'm tossing in 15 HWs.

EDIT: Im actually tossing 20 mws.

[playzooki]

I'm in, I'm tossing in 15 HWs.

good luck with that 

[cephalopod]

Yeah, I really hope you mean MWs...

[Philippa]

Good to hear you are enthusiastic, but the other two are right, that better be a typo.

[Mr. AS]

Cool tourney dude definitely gonna enter 15 AWs

I might actually enter

[El Chickenado]

entering 300 uhw's. excited to sit down and build stuff literally forever.

[Merrick]

entering 300 uhw's. excited to sit down and build stuff literally forever.

Cool tourney dude definitely gonna enter 15 AWs

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I don't get why people are being sarky over this tournament.

[Philippa]

So far I've got 34 question robots ready, some are pretty good, some not so much, the arena is about to be skinned, the music so far is good, and the new UI backdrops are just about done.

Just sending Creeg the PM now, so hopefully this thread will be in signups by tomorrow.

send me
much robot

[Merrick]

send me much robot

I currently have about 20 ready to send. Working on more.

[Shield]

I have a confirmed 3 MW's to send in

[RedAce]

Oh I'll be sending many robots to you. They might not all be in the same PM, but probably a good chunk of them.

[cephalopod]

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RULES
Game - DSL 2.1
Weight - Middleweight
Realistic Rule - IRL Realism
Unlimited entries per person. Total number of entries will be a minimum of 75. (See Battle And Format Rules.)
Only in game glitches are allowed -  eFFe Glitching, Axle Loading and Snapper Loading.
If you can't AI I will try my best to AI for you, just don't complain about it if your robot doesn't win.
You can't enter until I have received and accepted your robot.

BUILDING RULES
Middleweight class robots only. 249.0kg - 399.0kg
Only in game glitches are allowed -  eFFe Glitching, Axle Loading and Snapper Loading.
No external editing at all - BFE, AAM and so on. However, I will allow you to edit the height of your robot, as long as it is still IRL.
Must have at least 2 wheels for controlled movement.
Tracked robots are eligible, the weight cushion is - The weight of the tracks do not count towards the weight of the robot.
No scuttlers, crawlers or walkers.
Multibots are eligible, each part must not weigh more than 200kg.
No unrealistic weapon sizes and quantities.
You can upgrade your robot or send a new one as often as you like until signups end.
Judge Bursts and MOE motors are the only non-wheel Cheatbot2 components allowed. All wheels allowed except Storm II wheels.
One Judge Burst per bot.

BATTLE AND FORMAT RULES
Music, artwork, results tables, etc, will be stolen from based upon the 2014 revival series with Sandi Toksvig, but will be edited a little.
1 minute fights. There will be a lot of them.
Fifteen To One Arena (Official Robot Arena 2 Tournament Arena with a lame skin.)
Hazards on.
If a robot havoks then I will restart the match. I will keep restarting until there is a havok-free match. Fights with havoks will not be shown.
The way I run the tournament will depend on how many entries I get. I will need the entries to be a minimum of 75 and then progress up in blocks of 15. (75, 90, 105, 120, etc.)
Robots will be split up into the appropriate number of heats consisting of 15 robots in each.

Round One
 - Each competing robot is given a number from 1 to 15.
 - Each competing robot will start with 3 lives.
 - Each robot will face a robot made by me, they will face the same robot.
 - If they lose to my robot, then they lose a life. Win and they keep their lives.
 - Repeat this two times, meaning each robot will be guaranteed two fights.
 - If a robot loses both of it's two fights then it is eliminated from the tournament.
 - Robots which lost one or none of their fights go on to Round Two.

Round Two
 - The surviving robot with the lowest number will then choose (nominate in Fifteen To One terms) another robot to fight against.
 - The robot which loses the fight will lose a life.
 - The robot which wins will then nominate the next robot to fight against.
 - Once a robot loses all three of it's lives it is then eliminated from the tournament.
 - This cycle repeats until all but three robots are eliminated.

Heat Final

All three finalists would advance to the Grand Final, making a Heat Final a bit pointless, so there would be a 3 Way Rumble added onto the end of the Round Two video. The outcome of this battle wouldn't mean anything.

- There will be a maximum of 40 fights.
 - The three finalists have their lives refilled to three.
 - The lives they had remaining are turned into points. (1 point per life.)
 - I will start with the robot I think has performed the best overall during the first and second rounds.
 - That robot will either take a question (fight one of mine) or nominate (fight) another person.
 - Winning a question will earn you 10 points and you have next pick of question or nominate.
 - Losing a question will mean you lose a life.
 - Winning a nomination battle will earn you no points, but you have next pick of question or nominate.
 - Losing a nomination if you were the challenger will not lose you a life.
 - Losing a nomination if you were the receiver will lose you a life.
 - If you lose all three lives you are eliminated, and your score at that point will be put on the leaderboard.
 - Questions and nominations will continue, if there is only one robot left then it will face questions until it loses all its lives or all 40 fights are completed.
 - If all 40 fights are completed, each remaining life will be converted into 10 points and added to the total, and then will be put on the leaderboard.
 - Once all heats are done the 15 with the highest scores will go into the Grand Final.

Questions and nominations would happen like in 90 - 210, but the robot with the highest score at the end or last remaining robot will go on to the Grand Final.

Questions and nominations would happen like in 90 - 210, but the robot with the highest score at the end or last remaining robot will have their score put on the leaderboard. Once all heats are done the 15 heat winners with the highest scores will go into the Grand Final.

Grand Final
This will work the same as a heat but will contain heat finalists/high scorers/winners depending on the number of entrants. The robot that wins the final round will be declared the Fifteen To One Grand Champion.

ENTRANTS
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6.
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70.
71.
72.
73.
74.
75.
(Will be extended as necessary.)

AI'd and accepted.
Accepted.
You need to change your robot.

MY ENTRY AND SPLASH LAYOUT
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Picture of the robot goes in the digital bit in the top left.
The number in the bright blue segment will change depending on what number the robot is in the heat.
I will not be entering as a competitor but I will be building a lot of robots to be used in Round One and the Final of the heats and Grand Final.

*Breathe.*



ANY THOUGHTS?

This is now a signups topic and the rules above may not change.
You have 1 year.

[Philippa]

So far I've got 34 question robots ready, some are pretty good, some not so much, the arena is about to be skinned, the music so far is good, and the new UI backdrops are just about done.

42 question robots, which is the perfect amount, the arena is skinned, the music is finished, and the new UI backdrops are pretty good.
I'm now turning my attention to the receiving, accepting, and AI-ing of your robots now.

S.H.I.E.L.D's eight bots received.

For future reference, all of you please send your robots to me in a .zip, it's so much easier to download and move stuff that way.

[Philippa]

S.H.I.E.L.D. - 5 accepted, 3 rejected.

[Shield]

S.H.I.E.L.D. - 5 accepted, 3 rejected.

You can ditch system, I'll replace varjacks disc with the noncheatbot variant.

And also, to be fair, swing king's wheels wouldn't really do damage, but eh, you can ditch that too

[cephalopod]

I'll replace varjacks disc with the noncheatbot variant.

Lol were you that desperate for combat efficiency that you used some outlawed cheatbot disc? lol

[AlexGRFan97]

What's the deadline for entrants?

[Philippa]

What's the deadline for entrants?

There's no deadline.

[Philippa]

RedAce - 11 accepted, 1 rejected.

Mazakari - 19 accepted, 5 rejected.

[Shield]

I'll replace varjacks disc with the noncheatbot variant.

Lol were you that desperate for combat efficiency that you used some outlawed cheatbot disc? lol

it was only found in cheatbot2 

any other disc wouldn't have fit, plus i built this before the tournament was ever in discussion, didn't think any IRL tourney would've used a different ruleset from the Battlebots ones, so i guess that's not making it either