General Tournament Discussion

[Resetti's Replicas]

Have you got a decent following from screening exhibition matches?  That would be a good way to test how well the tournament will work.

[Naryar]

building in RA2 with twitch ? absolutely nothing can go wrong ! let's do it !

[Avalanche]

Thats a brilliant idea, but how many people will watch?

[System32]

Didn't I try that and crash instantly?

[Philippa]

After Scrapheap Challenge is finished I'm going to try to make a tournament which is based around Fifteen To One. If you know the premise of the show it will be easier to explain.
Video of an old episode for reference:



Real Fifteen To One has 15 contestants, in Round One they are each asked two questions, if they get one wrong they lose one of their three lives, if they get both wrong they are eliminated from the game.
In Round Two the remaining contestants nominate their opponents to take questions, and to try to eliminate them from the game. If they get a question wrong they lose a life, if they get a question right they then get to nominate who takes the next question. This repeats until all but three contestants lose all their lives.
The remaining three move onto the final, and have their lives refilled to three. In the final each question is worth 10 points, and they are competing to get the most points for themselves. They can either take a question for themselves or nominate another contestand and try to eliminate them. Winner is the last one standing or whoever has the most points after 40 questions.

Robot Fifteen To One will have fifteen robots in each heat/episode. In Round One each robot will battle two robots made by me, to represent the two questions. Lose a fight and you lose a life.
Round Two would be much the same except you fight each other. (Example: Helloface nominates RedAce and their robots fight, RedAce wins, Helloface loses a life, and RedAce now nominates.) Fights happen until three are left.
The final would be similar again, taking a question would be fighting one of mine, nominating would be fighting whoever you nominated.
The Grand Final would have the same premise as a regular heat/episode, but would only contain winners/high scorers/finalists.



I would not be competing, but I will be supplying 20 or so robots for questions, and there would be unlimited entries, I need a LOT of entries. Depending on how many entries I get I will change the qualifying rules for the Grand Final accordingly.
DSL MW, unsure whether to make it DSL-S or IRL.

Edit: I would be using the art style and music from the 2014 remake for the splashes and videos.




Thoughts?

[playzooki]

sounds like a good idea

[RedAce]

I'll be down for this, even if you haven't used me as an example.

I'd be okay with either DSL-S or IRL.

[Philippa]

Discussion thread for Fifteen To One has been submitted.

[RedAce]

Okay, another idea popped in my head, so I guess I'll explain it to see what you think.

Robot Arena X: (Name WIP)

This tournament is supposed to be based off of Mega Man X, one game I absolutely love. The tournament itself will be a Stock MW 16-bot tournament. Here's the catch, I will have 8 Mavericks that will determine who goes to the eliminators, so I technically won't enter. Once you submit your entry, you can send the order of the Mavericks you wish to fight. Kind of like Trios of Terror except you send the entire order in one PM. In order to advance to the Eliminators, you need to survive the longest or beat them in the fastest time. The Mavericks will be one step ahead and will be upgraded between rounds, given an extra 50kg weight bonus on the bot type itself to gradually increase the difficulty. For example, If you choose the 400kg Popup bot first, the Hammer bot will get a boost in offenses or defenses using the 50kg weight bonus and it goes on until you face off against every Maverick. Once the Maverick round is done, the Eliminator rounds will take place and it will be straight forward from there with a double elimination 8-bot bracket to determine the champion.

Any questions?

[Mr. AS]

As long as you don't put Shadow the Hedgehog music over the matches again I'm game

[RedAce]

As long as you don't put Shadow the Hedgehog music over the matches again I'm game

Alright then, deal. I don't know why I used that awful soundtrack anyway. I was thinking of putting the music from MMX into the matches, but what music would you prefer in the matches?

Edit: Changed my mind a bit here. Instead of making one 50kg boost for every round, I was instead thinking that every two rounds, the Mavericks get a 100kg boost to save some time. Should I do this though?

[Natster-104]

Maybe we could have a beyblade-styled tournament, as stated in chatbox

[Mystic2000]

if only that would be possible, i made one with the NAR AI thrusters and a caster acting as the tip a while ago, but the problem is, how to AI that ?

[RedAce]

I have two more ideas in mind, (I promise, I'll stop soon.)

HOLY FLYING LOLLIPOPS: (Name WIP)

Basically, It's a Stock HW tournament that may have 8 or 16 entrants depending on interest. However, the only bot type allowed for it would be Trinity Flyers like that battle between Scrap, Pwn, R0B0, and Sage had about 3 years ago (a.k.a. the greatest thing to ever happen). I'll find a special arena for these bots.

Attack of the Almost Never-Used Axes: (Name WIP)

This tournament would be a basic Stock MW tournament, but the only weapon your bots can use are battle axes. That's about it. I know that helloface is already doing something like this, but the rules will work out a few kinks for it to make stick out.


Those are two ideas I've had, I would like to know If you think they sound fun or just flat out stupid.

[Naryar]

a trinity flyer only tournament yes yes yes yes yes

also Combat Arena should work. Or the DSL Drum of Death if you are sadistic.

Maybe mod the drum of death so the fan blows bots down ?

[Thrackerzod]

I would definitely enter the axe one and probably enter the trinity one.

[helloface]

Debating on whether or not I should host another HW IRL tournament in one of I Like Tacos' arenas, with a side of a sportsman type weight class. Maybe even a beyblade type thing could be funny. I should have the time to finish now that I'm a major league host and I could put more effort into it.

[HurricaneAndrew]

Debating on whether or not I should host another HW IRL tournament in one of I Like Tacos' arenas, with a side of a sportsman type weight class. Maybe even a beyblade type thing could be funny. I should have the time to finish now that I'm a major league host and I could put more effort into it.

You shouldn't host any more tournaments.

[Naryar]

Debating on whether or not I should host another HW IRL tournament in one of I Like Tacos' arenas, with a side of a sportsman type weight class. Maybe even a beyblade type thing could be funny. I should have the time to finish now that I'm a major league host and I could put more effort into it.

You shouldn't host any more tournaments.

Nice quality post, Andrew. Anything more intelligent you want to share ?

[HurricaneAndrew]

Debating on whether or not I should host another HW IRL tournament in one of I Like Tacos' arenas, with a side of a sportsman type weight class. Maybe even a beyblade type thing could be funny. I should have the time to finish now that I'm a major league host and I could put more effort into it.

You shouldn't host any more tournaments.

Nice quality post, Andrew. Anything more intelligent you want to share ?

It was a serious post. He put off his last tournament to the absolute last minute because he had lost interest.