General Tournament Discussion

[ianh05]

Brand new tournament idea:

Robo-Checkers - 2 teams, 1 board with the goal to defeat all the opposing teams bots. Bot's are placed on a checkers board and teams take turns moving bots, once 2 bots make contact they battle and the losing bot is removed from the board this process continues until one team eliminates all opposing bots.

This tournament is a lot different in format because instead of a random draw to decide match-ups the players can strategize to try and get the best match-ups possible. Each team assigns a team leader to submit the moves each turn and the tournament starts when each team has submitted their starting positions to the tournament host.

[Venko]

I had a similar idea but even further, more like a RPG game with a fights inside RA2.

[Mystic2000]

I have a torney idea: Defense Line

tag team tourney but each of the two teams fighting has a role
 The arena is a tabbletop arena with a red line at one end near the edge
the red must cross the line, the blue team must stop them kinda like tower defense

[ianh05]

You'd probably need a new arena for that. Also I had another simple new idea:

Red vs Blue - 2 randomly generated teams, each member creates a different weight class for either stock or DSL  For this tournament you could feature every single weight class put forward including fleaweights (100kgs or less), featherweights (175.1-200kgs), cruiserweights (400-600kgs) and ultra-heavyweights (1200-3000kgs).

Just imagine 2 teams made up of the following...

Stock:

Fleaweight (FLW)
AW
BW
Featherweight (FW)
LW
MW
Cruiserweight (CW)
HW
SHW
UHW

DSL:

Fleaweight (FLW)
AW
BW
Featherweight (FW)
LW
MW
Cruiserweight (CW)
HW
SHW
UHW

so it would be best of 20 and up to around 40 entries unless a special decider is needed which would consist of a new unofficial weight class (249.1-300kgs or 601-700kgs for example). 40 entries might not be hard to achieve seeing as it combines both stock and DSL.

[ianh05]

I was thinking, someone could go through this topic and collect all the tournament idea's that haven't been used yet and create a list in the OP with links to each one. There are many great tournament idea's that haven't been used yet and I want more variety than just different weight classes being used.

People need to think more outside the box and I believe this list will help bring us more fun and unique tournaments. I have Robo-Checkers and Red vs Blue in the pipeline for tournaments I plan to host.

Here's another idea while I'm here that I'm not sure has been discussed yet:

Faction wars - Teams made up of different members, each team builds one bot type (HS, VS, Rammer etc.) for different weight classes. So you would get stuff like team HS vs team Popup etc.

[Conraaa]

You'd probably need a new arena for that. Also I had another simple new idea:

Red vs Blue - 2 randomly generated teams, each member creates a different weight class for both stock and DSL. For this tournament you could feature every single weight class put forward including fleaweights (100kgs or less), featherweights (175.1-200kgs), cruiserweights (400-600kgs) and ultra-heavyweights (1200-3000kgs).

Just imagine 2 teams made up of the following...

Stock:

Fleaweight (FLW)
AW
BW
Featherweight (FW)
LW
MW
Cruiserweight (CW)
HW
SHW
UHW

DSL:

Fleaweight (FLW)
AW
BW
Featherweight (FW)
LW
MW
Cruiserweight (CW)
HW
SHW
UHW

so it would be best of 20 and up to around 40 entries unless a special decider is needed which would consist of a new unofficial weight class (249.1-300kgs or 601-700kgs for example). 40 entries might not be hard to achieve seeing as it combines both stock and DSL.

I'd personally ditch fleaweights as there's not much you can do with them. (You've already created everything possible in about 20 bots) Plus it'd bring it down to 9 classes, meaning that there couldn't be a tie.

[ianh05]

I'd personally ditch fleaweights as there's not much you can do with them. (You've already created everything possible in about 20 bots) Plus it'd bring it down to 9 classes, meaning that there couldn't be a tie.

Actually it'd always have a chance of being a tie because you'd be dealing in multiples of 2. perhaps 1 point per round in each match up would be required or we could ditch stock FLW and just make it DSL.

[Mystic2000]

Someone should do a Ironbot style tourney

[helloface]

I know I'm a little late, but robot checkers sounds really cool.

[playzooki]

What about a SHW  DSL tourney with no realistic rule.

[helloface]

What about a SHW  DSL tourney with no realistic rule.

To quote Dr. Evil:
HOW 'BOUT NO?

[playzooki]

but it would be fun...

[HurricaneAndrew]

I don't see anything wrong with the idea.

[playzooki]

What about a SHW  DSL tourney with no realistic rule.

To quote Dr. Evil:
HOW 'BOUT NO?

I am Dr.Evil

[Badnik96]

Yeah I'd be game for that.

[R1885]

I like it.

[Mystic2000]

The SHW DSL Unrealistic is not a bad idea

DSL Ironbot Anyone?

[playzooki]

Yep

I could host the DSL SHW tourney, but i can only post pictures ATM

[Mystic2000]

I have done a topic about it just to have to wait it gets approved

[ianh05]