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Title: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: yugitom on June 11, 2014, 01:13:00 PM
After my first tournament, I said that I would think about some more tournament ideas and try and keep them original. Bare in mind that I haven't been here long, so if some of these ideas have already been used, don't hold it against me. Here are the ideas I have come up with so far:

New Blood Tournament - Based off the Robot Wars Extreme 2 Series, people who have only just joined the forum or are a lightweight or less can join. I think this may be a good idea because it gives new builders a good place to start off but not many people may join because it's aimed towards newcomers.

Teacher and Student - Similar to the New Blood Tournament, lightweights and below are randomly teamed up with other members of the forum. Another good way to break the new guys in.

All Stars Tournament - I'm going to need to be quite lucky to make this one work but, the only people who can join this tournament are people who have been assigned a class specifically (such as Refbot, Advanced User or simply a respected member of the community, etc.) and they have to use a bot that resembles or is a robot that they have used before in a tournament.

England vs Rest of the World - Based off the Soccer (football) Aid matches, this concept is as simple as it sounds. An equal amount of participants from England and anywhere else in one tournament. The tournament will work as any normal tournament would but this is adding a twist on things a little.

Annihilator - 4 4-way matches. These matches will stop when one robot is eliminated and then that bot will be removed, the match will start again with 3 bots and so on and so forth until a winner is declared. 4-way final annihilator at the end to determine the champion.

These are my tournament ideas for now and I may add/remove some in the future. Tell me what you think about them by giving me your opinion on them.

*Update* By the way (considering I forgot to add an end date), this poll will be down near the end of the month because I want to start my new tournament at/before the start of July.
*Update 2* Considering I always want to know what to do next, as soon as I start Father and Son 2 and I'm completely finished with No Holds Barred, I will add more ideas to this list.
*Update 3* Added some new ideas. Also, don't take any of these ideas for yourself (unless granted permission) and weight classes and versions of RA2 will be unspecified until a tournament is chosen. Then I'll ask what people want it to be.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: El Chickenado on June 16, 2014, 02:57:33 PM
father and son 2 for me
but no holds barred is gonna win
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: Mecha on June 16, 2014, 03:02:43 PM
No Holds Barred for me.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: Wacky Bob on June 16, 2014, 03:07:03 PM
It depends. Which ones are stock?
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: Mr. AS on June 16, 2014, 03:09:52 PM
Can I make custom components for No Holds Barred?
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: KOS on June 16, 2014, 03:10:48 PM
If any are stock, count me in. If not, then it's only No Holds Barred for me ; )
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: Natster-104 on June 16, 2014, 03:11:29 PM
No Holds Barred will be no fun with all of cheatbot2, people will just spam judge gavels, but apart from that, they all sound fun to me

But I'd have to go with F&S2, just because it was an awesome tournament which I missed out on
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: helloface on June 16, 2014, 03:18:39 PM
A tournament with basically no rule?
That's sounds fun as heck, I'm in.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: El Chickenado on June 16, 2014, 03:31:08 PM
i think new blood would be better if the noobs(for lack of a better word) were teamed with experienced builders
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: yugitom on June 16, 2014, 04:07:59 PM
If any are stock, count me in. If not, then it's only No Holds Barred for me ; )
It depends. Which ones are stock?
They are all DSL. No Holds Barred would be not so interesting if it wasn't DSL and F&S 1 was DSL to begin with, so I'll keep it that way. However, as you could probably guess, No Holds Barred has the unrealistic rule and doesn't have to resemble an IRL robot.
i think new blood would be better if the noobs(for lack of a better word) were teamed with experienced builders
It's a coincidence you said that because I was thinking about a 'Teacher and Student' tournament. I may or may not add it to the poll but it seems like the F&S 2 and No Holds Barred tournaments are battling it out, so I may not add anything to the list atm.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: yugitom on June 16, 2014, 04:10:18 PM
Can I make custom components for No Holds Barred?
I would have to mull that over. But, for now, I say it's fine. I just don't want matches to be too short due to overpowered components.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: helloface on June 16, 2014, 04:13:43 PM
Can I make custom components for No Holds Barred?
I would have to mull that over. But, for now, I say it's fine. I just don't want matches to be too short due to overpowered components.
Don't forget you could also BFE the bots to be near-invincible.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: yugitom on June 16, 2014, 04:17:17 PM
Can I make custom components for No Holds Barred?
I would have to mull that over. But, for now, I say it's fine. I just don't want matches to be too short due to overpowered components.
Don't forget you could also BFE the bots to be near-invincible.
That is true. I will go over the small amount of rules for this tournament properly if it wins the poll.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: El Chickenado on June 16, 2014, 04:19:25 PM
it seems like no holds barred would be a bit hard to get going well
i already cast my vote to f&s 2!
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: Natster-104 on June 19, 2014, 11:48:03 AM
I'm already busting something up for f&s 2, annoyed I missed the last one
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: Shield on June 20, 2014, 04:34:12 AM
can we all please choose no holds barred we need more uhw tourneys
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: yugitom on June 20, 2014, 10:25:34 AM
can we all please choose no holds barred we need more uhw tourneys
I think I'm gonna end up doing both tournaments, one of them one week after the other or something because they both seem to be quite popular. If the gap between the votes stays the same, I think I will start NHB first, as it makes a change from F&S and then try to get F&S 2 up and running ASAP after that. I want to be original, so I won't recycle the same idea right after the first one, thus is why I am leaving F&S 2 until last.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: El Chickenado on June 20, 2014, 10:52:48 AM
can we all please choose no holds barred we need more uhw tourneys
I think I'm gonna end up doing both tournaments, one of them one week after the other or something because they both seem to be quite popular. If the gap between the votes stays the same, I think I will start NHB first, as it makes a change from F&S and then try to get F&S 2 up and running ASAP after that. I want to be original, so I won't recycle the same idea right after the first one, thus is why I am leaving F&S 2 until last.
^ do this
DO THIS
PLEASE DO THIS
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: Shield on June 20, 2014, 10:57:37 AM
yeessss

deathstalker gets to prove it's worth
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: yugitom on June 20, 2014, 03:00:59 PM
can we all please choose no holds barred we need more uhw tourneys
I think I'm gonna end up doing both tournaments, one of them one week after the other or something because they both seem to be quite popular. If the gap between the votes stays the same, I think I will start NHB first, as it makes a change from F&S and then try to get F&S 2 up and running ASAP after that. I want to be original, so I won't recycle the same idea right after the first one, thus is why I am leaving F&S 2 until last.
^ do this
DO THIS
PLEASE DO THIS
I will and I'll start it sometime tomorrow. So, for everyone that wants to take part in the No Holds Barred, here's your heads up.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: Shield on June 20, 2014, 07:51:56 PM
I am ready
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: Jakewilliamson on June 21, 2014, 07:44:09 AM
Lets see how many beta hammers I can put on my UHW.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: martymidget on June 21, 2014, 07:46:30 AM
Lets see how many beta hammers I can put on my UHW.

please don't allow this ^
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: yugitom on June 21, 2014, 07:49:32 AM
Lets see how many beta hammers I can put on my UHW.

please don't allow this ^
Yeah, try not to be too bland, Jakewilliamson. If someone has made an UHW that is more original that a bunch of beta hammers then he will be accepted in favour of yours. This is meant to be a FUN tournament by the way.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: Natster-104 on June 21, 2014, 07:51:40 AM
Lets see how many beta hammers I can put on my UHW.

please don't allow this ^
Yeah, try not to be too bland, Jakewilliamson. If someone has made an UHW that is more original that a bunch of beta hammers then he will be accepted in favour of yours. This is meant to be a FUN tournament by the way.

I just wanted to ask, is it one entry per person?
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: yugitom on June 21, 2014, 07:53:27 AM
I just wanted to ask, is it one entry per person?
Yeah, it is. I'm going to keep it to 16 entrants and 1 bot per entrant for now.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: yugitom on June 22, 2014, 02:34:21 PM
Just making sure everyone that voted for NHB knows that they can vote for it properly now as the thread is now up.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: yugitom on June 27, 2014, 12:31:59 PM
New ideas added to the poll if you want to have a gander. F&S 2 and NHB taken off because they are my next tournaments anyway.
Title: Re: My Tournament Ideas
Post by: El Chickenado on July 04, 2014, 07:52:20 PM
would an all stars tournament even work
if its just veterans you wont get enough entries
in any of the three building styles