N00B WARZ V *Signups are closed! Bugger off.*

[Conraaa]

Disclaimer: Reier said I could do it.


Building Rules:
-Stock MW-ish (450 kg, you had no idea what a weightclass was back then)
-No BFE/AAM/Hax
-All in game glitches allowed.
-All robots must show controlled movement.
-No Cheap Norris style robots (Venko get out of my head you still haunt my dreams)
-No clusterbots.
-I can AI, but I reserve the right to ask you to AI if needed. All robots must be ai'd to drive towards to enemy robot.
-No cheatbot2 parts allowed.
-Smartzones will not count towards weight, please don't use them as ballast.

Additional Rules:
-Your robot must be something awful you made when you first started playing the game, ideally before you joined the forums.
-If you don't have the original around anymore, then you are welcome to make a replica of the old bot. Please make this replica as close to the old bot as possible, if it spammed pinks, or had backwards normals, then please recreate that.
-Robots that are too good will be rejected. Remember, you didn't know anything, you thought a bracket wedge would get under things. If it has any regard for DSA, or it spams weapons, then it will probably get rejected.
-It's supposed to be a bit of fun, remember that.

Tournament Format:
-32 Entrants
-First round is a 4 way rumble, with the top two robots from each bout advancing to a randomly drawn single elimination bracket, Bo1.
-The 16 robots that lose in the first round will be thrown into a randomly drawn single elimination Bo1 reverse bracket, where the loser advances, in order to find the worst robot.
-Each robot gets one free havok restart, after that any more havoks will result in disqualification.
-The arenas used will be the Metal Skull arena for the initial rumbles, The Octagon for the next rounds and finally Epic Showdown for the grand final.

You really thought this wasn't the first thing I made in RA2?

Edit:

rule of thumb for NW4 (which was HWs) is if it could consistently beat emergency it was too good. just apply that to MW when you decide which one to send in. maybe boxer or something.

BY THE WAY EVERYONE WHO IS MAKING A NEW ROBOT FOR THIS:  in previous n00b warz it was illegal to submit bots that were not either the actual bot file of your old bot or an (attempted) exact replica you made of said bot. people that sent in just "lol random n00by bot i just made!!!" were rejected.
obviously conraaConraaa can do what he wants but those were the goals I had when i made the others. if this is your intention also conraaConraaa i'd make it explicitly clear to everyone to avoid confusion.

For reference, these were the entries for previous n00b warz - it does not contain the ones I rejected for being too good, you can extrapolate those based on the quality of these.

N00b Warz 1 Splash
N00b Warz 4 splash

@conraaConraaa i'm telling you this from experience that many many people do not get the point of this tournament and try to send in things with the intention to slaughter the opposition. it can get very tiring to reject submissions and it's definitely subjective, and i know that everyone was on a different level when they made said bot. I tried my best and I know some of the submissions I accepted were better than others, but keep in mind its all in the name of fun. nobody cares if you win n00b warz or if you get annihilated in the first 3 seconds.

have fun, go easy on conraaConraaa and just send in like the crappiest bot you have.

Remember that the whole point is you're supposed to send robots in from when you were young and n00by. So we can look back and laugh. If you're trying to push the envelope and send in something with the sole intention of winning then that really isn't cricket.

UPSIGNS:

1) Conraaa-Malc 1.5 'The Lonliest Middleweight In Great Britain'
2) Sircreepalot2-Clampbot 'Bracket wedges are good, i'll show them!'
3) Kurt-NOOB WARS ROBOT!!!Apuntes 'Winners don't do horizontal spinners.'
4) Deadgenocide-P.I.E.R.C.E 'He said he wanted C.R.U.S.H but he won't notice the difference anyway'
5) Redace-Daredevil '/r/cablegore'
6) Thyrus-walking tal 'I think I can I think I can I think I can'
7) Yugitom-3041104-'Buggered if airlines start charging passengers by size'
8) Reier-something else 'Mr Punctuation'
9) Boyasianboy-SHadoW KillErrr 'If you didn't want to be havok dq'd you wouldn't have worn such provocative pistons.'
10) Badnik96-Hammerhead Shark 'At least people remembered the left shark.'
11) Thrackerzod-Pink Pansy-'The One True Skeleton Robot Builder. He Is Truly An Original.'
12) Silverfish-BROKEN BOT TOO STRONK '2edgy4paint'
13) Tashic-Crashing my game
14) Geice-H@zard 'Brilliant attention to detail. Looks exactly like the original'
15) Squirrel_Monkey-'With 6 months left to find Madeline McCann, they're really breaking out the big guns.'
16) Mr AS-Blender 'Vorsprung Derp Technik'
17) Echolocation-Pingler The VII 'Ehh it's alright.'
18) Lloop D Lloop-prumzt 'Are you sure this was one of your first bots?'
19) Elementos-W.Y.L .I 'Just wants a hug'
20) Playzooki-killkillill
21) Lightning S.-Toxic Cut 'Breaks the realistic rule'
22) Mazakari-Little Red Box 'Made the panama papers'
23) ClickBait-Deathwatch III 'Even your newb robots sort of look nice'
24) Mtagius-Space Odessey ''
25) Scrapyard24c-Fear Tractor-100 kg overweight even with plastic
26) Virus Bomb-Ginsu 'I will get you yet, Jay Leno!'
27) Mechadino-Thunder Bolt 'HPZ and DDT wedges? You might get under something with those!'
28) Xanosx-Disc Axe 'Goes onto an aeroplane wearing a fake havok vest'
29) COOLRUNNER87-Clothes Off! XL 'Too good'
30) The Red Blur-Flaming JCB (Digger) 'Last seen clearing off the jungle in Calais'

Black: Received
Blue: Accepted
Green: Sentient.
Red: Error!
Pink: Modified to fit the rules

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[Badnik96]

OH BOY HERE WE GO

[Philippa]

Sign me up.

[Thrackerzod]

Alright!  Unfortunately, I don't still have any of my old bots (as far as I'm aware).  Would it be acceptable if I got my roommate (who's never played RA2 before) to make something?

[Thyrus]

looking for the stock dl now... thanks for stealing my time conraaaaaaaa

[Silverfish]

I am so in.

FINALLY, A STOCK TOURNAMENT!

[Tashic]

I'm going to make the very first robot I made (after I finally got how to anything in the game)!

[playzooki]

Yes

[RedAce]

What if I can't exactly remember what I built from my very first time?  Can I just make some generic n00b bot as opposed to my first one?

Either way, interested.  I'll enter.

[Reier]

wow conra what a ripoff


will send something of course

[Naryar]

will not miss that :D

time for derp tournaments

[Reier]

someone grab SD so he can send in one of his bots from before he discovered the wiring tab

[Thyrus]

done! but IDK if it is too good :O

[Mr. AS]

Can I make a MW version of my very first robot? I don't have, nor do I remember building any n00b warz-suitable MWs, and I really don't want to sit out of NW5 after screwing up my entry into NW4. The first MW in my showcase is this bot, and it has DSA + razors.

For comparison, this is what my actual first bot looked like:

I can probably get 4WD and a FS into a MW.

[Kossokei]

huh.

I'm wondering if I should remake my very first bot, enter my first stock tournament bot or rebuild my first showcased bot...

those are in chronological order with probably half a year between each one, on that note

[Mecha]

oh boi this will be good 
sign me up

[Silverfish]

also, what is cheap norris?

[Kossokei]

also, what is cheap norris?

it's a VS variation bot type-y sorta thing that Venko made that had it's stabilizers in such a way that you could easily hit it and it'd just spikeball everywhere

it was clever until the controlled movement rule showed up

I doubt a cheap norris will have been someone's first built bot.

[Clickbeetle]

What if I can't exactly remember what I built from my very first time?  Can I just make some generic n00b bot as opposed to my first one?

It doesn't have to be your very first bot, just one of your early ones.

I've got plenty of those lying around; might submit something.  Unfortunately I might be at a 50 kg disadvantage because I knew what a weight class was right from the start and made sure to stay under the limit...

[Conraaa]

Alright!  Unfortunately, I don't still have any of my old bots (as far as I'm aware).  Would it be acceptable if I got my roommate (who's never played RA2 before) to make something?

This is an acceptable compromise.

What if I can't exactly remember what I built from my very first time?  Can I just make some generic n00b bot as opposed to my first one?

Either way, interested.  I'll enter.

It doesn't have to be your first robot, just one of your early creations that is suitable terrible.

If you can't find any of them, however, then channel your inner noob. Look at past n00b splashes like this or this for inspiration. Become one with the scrublord.

The beautiful, beautiful robot you posted in your showcase is fine, though.