General Tournament Discussion

[Mr. AS]

Since I've got dsl2 working on this pc now anyone got any ideas for tournaments they'd like to see?

Tournament with spinning weapons outlawed

Well gee, I hope you like popups then.

[TommyProductionsInc]

Since I've got dsl2 working on this pc now anyone got any ideas for tournaments they'd like to see?

A replica tournament!
...
Please?

[RFS]

Since I've got dsl2 working on this pc now anyone got any ideas for tournaments they'd like to see?

Tournament with spinning weapons outlawed

Yes do it my flippers been feeling left out.

then call it
NO SPIN FOR YOU!

Did you really have to go with a botched Seinfeld reference when there was a Bill O'Reilly "No Spin Zone" reference staring you right in the face?

[Natster-104]

I think I've got a good idea for a DSL tournement once I sort out skinning the arenas and getting the recording software

DSL-S heavyweight
And this comes in 3 parts:

ENDURANCE
4 bots battle it out in the electric arena for 3 minutes, anything that gets knocked off (excluding wheels) will stay off for the other trial and the fight

TORQUE, SPEED AND PUSHING POWER
Staged on the clawtop arena, your bot will have to push off other bots to win, this requires speed and pushing power

DAMAGE
Now into the combat arena, where the damage capability will be tested

32 entries, 8 eliminated in each trial, leaving 16 in the arena

Thoughts/any way to improve it?

[cephalopod]

You can only have 16 entrants in your first tournament. And the parts staying off thing is a bit of a put-off for me with VS.

[nicsan2009]

Wanna start something new... I have a few ideas and you guys let me know what you think.

Official Robot Arena 2 League
DSL HW IRL will be ran very similar to the RA2 World cup except with maybe 2 matches against each in the group.

The Great Round Robin
DSL MW (or LW) Standard. It's all in the name. 16 bots each plays against each other once each, and the top 4 at the top of the standings move to the single elimination playoffs. (Maybe top 6 with the first two seeds earning a bye)

Back to the roots
Stock MW simple double elimination. Haven't played stock in a long time so running a stock tourney will definitely be interesting and tons of fun.

All three ideas are subject to change and weight classes, IRL or standard, and stuff like that can for sure change if I feel like there's more of an interest to something else.

[Wacky Bob]

Back to the roots
Stock MW simple double elimination. Haven't played stock in a long time so running a stock tourney will definitely be interesting and tons of fun.

Stock anything is good with me.

[cephalopod]

More stock will go down a treat I think, but maybe not MW with Tusslers being MW.

[KOS]

Gotta love dat stock , as Craaig said though, there have been alot of MW tournaments lately, so maybe not that.

[playzooki]

The Great Round Robin
DSL MW (or LW) Standard. It's all in the name. 16 bots each plays against each other once each, and the top 4 at the top of the standings move to the single elimination playoffs. (Maybe top 6 with the first two seeds earning a bye)

I'd like to see this one.

[nicsan2009]

How about a LW Stock Round Robin.

[cephalopod]

Good luck if you want to do a round robin like that with 16 entries in 3 months - it's 120 matches for a 16-way round robin.

[nicsan2009]

Good luck if you want to do a round robin like that with 16 entries in 3 months - it's 120 matches for a 16-way round robin.

Don't underestimate me 

[cephalopod]

I'm not, that's just a lot of matches.

[nicsan2009]

True, maybe I should wait on that round robin idea until I become a Major League host after this next one.

[TommyProductionsInc]

True, maybe I should wait on that round robin idea until I become a Major League host after this next one.

How about stock IRL.
That would make it interesting, and I'd be able to compete.

[090901]

How about stock IRL.

What is even the point of this.
Why even use stock to build IRL when you have DSL full of so many more parts?

[TommyProductionsInc]

How about stock IRL.

What is even the point of this.
Why even use stock to build IRL when you have DSL full of so many more parts?

To make it more challenging.
Besides, If you try hard enough, you could make a pretty cool IRL bot in stock.
In fact, I'll actually go make one.

[nicsan2009]

I like it but I don't think too many other people would...

[TommyProductionsInc]

I like it but I don't think too many other people would...

It'd probably be more suited for poeple that aren't as good at stock, like me, or the new users that pop up every now and then.