General Tournament Discussion

[yugitom]

I am deadset on it being a yearly tournament. Some people may actually want to learn or attempt to build in the given metagame for the year if they know they won't have another chance for another 12 months. Also, it may increase turnout and overall participation from stock-only and DSL-only people when their metagame finally does come around because they know they cannot afford to miss out on their specific metagame.

[Hi5er]

Latest Idea:

Creative Clash.

Stock HW tourney.

SnS, Pop-ups and HS banned.

HS Hybrids allowed, but some form of nerf, i.e. no more than 2 ZTek motors could be used for the spinning weapon.

Would there be any interest?

[R01]

Latest Idea:

Creative Clash.

Stock HW tourney.

SnS, Pop-ups and HS banned.

HS Hybrids allowed, but some form of nerf, i.e. no more than 2 ZTek motors could be used for the spinning weapon.

Would there be any interest?

I'm up for any stock tournament, but would need a bit of time to design a new bot, also what arena?

[Hi5er]

I'm up for any stock tournament, but would need a bit of time to design a new bot, also what arena?

I would too for sure, I go on holiday on the 21st August so I would either need to try and fit this in before, or finalise the details now and get it moving when I'm back.

As we're limiting weapons somewhat, maybe an arena that allowed for flippers to have some hope of winning by using an arena with low walls... Any suggestions?

Maybe Robot Wars arena with hazards disabled?

Are there any other similar ones to this? I seem to recall one of the BBEANS tournament stages was similar to this, or at least it is in my head.

[R01]

I'm up for any stock tournament, but would need a bit of time to design a new bot, also what arena?

I would too for sure, I go on holiday on the 21st August so I would either need to try and fit this in before, or finalise the details now and get it moving when I'm back.

As we're limiting weapons somewhat, maybe an arena that allowed for flippers to have some hope of winning by using an arena with low walls... Any suggestions?

Maybe Robot Wars arena with hazards disabled?

Are there any other similar ones to this? I seem to recall one of the BBEANS tournament stages was similar to this, or at least it is in my head.

Yeah, thought about the flippers, what about the ring arena?

[Hi5er]

Yeah, thought about the flippers, what about the ring arena?

Haven't used that one before. Guessing it's a ring shape with short walls?

[Badger]

Yeah, thought about the flippers, what about the ring arena?

Haven't used that one before. Guessing it's a ring shape with short walls?

^Match in the ring arena

[botomatic1000]

I love that white one it has a nice racing theme.

[Badger]

I love that white one it has a nice racing theme.

Ye, i modelled the paintjob after the 2006 toyota F1 car

[botomatic1000]

F1 is rather boring in my opinion rally is far better and everyone knows Lancia are the rally kings!

but anyways its getting rather off topic I may build another DSL bot one day lol.

[Badger]

I used to watch rally, but it got pretty boring when Loeb was winning literally everything

[botomatic1000]

yeah stick to group B and 80s-90s European rallycross. It is always McLaren or Mercedes winning F1 lol.

[09090901]

Latest Idea:

Creative Clash.

Stock HW tourney.

SnS, Pop-ups and HS banned.

HS Hybrids allowed, but some form of nerf, i.e. no more than 2 ZTek motors could be used for the spinning weapon.

Would there be any interest?

IMO, I would just limit the amount weapons HS can have on their tribars, popups could be OK as long they have to be hybrids, and SNS just can't use meltybrain.

One idea I had was to have a tournament that has a group of about three who would judge each entry, and then decide how generic or original it is. Then a majority vote would decide if the bot would be accepted or denied based on how original/generic it is.

There probably would be a little bit of bias in the vote, but as long as your run-of-the-mill 36hs and 5-6 ramplate popups aren't accepted I don't think it will be that bad.

[DeadGenocide]

some should make a stock tournament where Cheatbot2 components are allowed

[Joelu Of Eagleland]

some should make a stock tournament where Cheatbot2 components are allowed

Wouldn't it be better if they were mandatory? Like, people have to use those weapons? Because I totally see someone choosing not to use the Cheatbot components and then going in with your average "imma break the game" popup or HS.

Regardless, I'd be interested in a tournament using Cheatbot2 components.

[090901]

Wouldn't it be better if they were mandatory? Like, people have to use those weapons? Because I totally see someone choosing not to use the Cheatbot components and then going in with your average "imma break the game" popup or HS.

Regardless, I'd be interested in a tournament using Cheatbot2 components.

good luck hitting a hovercraft with a popup, there is no rake in cheatbot2

[DeadGenocide]

Remember there are cannons and magnets in cheatbot2 so hovercrafts can be defeated from a bot on the ground.

but to be honest I'd say have every cheatbot2 component except for hovercraft because I think that could be a whole different tournament for hovercrafts :P

[R01]

Remember there are cannons and magnets in cheatbot2 so hovercrafts can be defeated from a bot on the ground.

but to be honest I'd say have every cheatbot2 component except for hovercraft because I think that could be a whole different tournament for hovercrafts :P

Do Magnets actually work? They never did for me and the Cannon wouldn't do damage after a few shots for some odd reasons.

Wouldn't it be better if they were mandatory? Like, people have to use those weapons? Because I totally see someone choosing not to use the Cheatbot components and then going in with your average "imma break the game" popup or HS.

Regardless, I'd be interested in a tournament using Cheatbot2 components.

good luck hitting a hovercraft with a popup, there is no rake in cheatbot2

>needing cheatbot 2 to make a rake

[DeadGenocide]

Remember there are cannons and magnets in cheatbot2 so hovercrafts can be defeated from a bot on the ground.

but to be honest I'd say have every cheatbot2 component except for hovercraft because I think that could be a whole different tournament for hovercrafts :P

Do Magnets actually work? They never did for me and the Cannon wouldn't do damage after a few shots for some odd reasons.

ever heard of a thing called servo motors they help aiming a lot.

[R01]

Remember there are cannons and magnets in cheatbot2 so hovercrafts can be defeated from a bot on the ground.

but to be honest I'd say have every cheatbot2 component except for hovercraft because I think that could be a whole different tournament for hovercrafts :P

Do Magnets actually work? They never did for me and the Cannon wouldn't do damage after a few shots for some odd reasons.

ever heard of a thing called servo motors they help aiming a lot.

Are you talking about the Cannon or Magnets here? Both have been on servos and like I said the cannon damage wouldn't register after a few shots, magnets would never actually pull or push something even against a LW.