RA2 Trials 5 - Signups

[S.T.C.]

Tournament Rules:

1. Two bots start off in the King of the Hill match (1:00 minute match) in the Hilltop Arena . The goal here is to get more points than your opponent.

2. So the 2nd trial is gonna be a survival trial. On the Combat Arena, 1 entry will fight against 2 trialbots and attempt to survive as long as possible against them. The amount of time you survived will be summed up to the KoTH points and the winner will advance (if you survive 1 minute and 15 seconds, then 115 points will be added to your original score). If you destroyed both Trialbots, then 200 will be your score for this trial.

Trialbots:

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3. Then the heat will end up with 2 bots, those 2 will fight it out in the RING ARENA and here's how it works; two bots start on the arena and they will fight it out for 3 minutes and the bot that gets destroyed, immobilized, or thrown OOTA will be eliminated and the winner will go to the finals.

4. All four finalists will face off in the KoTH and the bot with the lowest points will be eliminated. If a 2-way tie for last happens then both bots are eliminated and we head to the fight to the finish, if a 3-way tie for last or 4-way tie happens then the trial will start over. If three bots remain, they will face again in the KoTH, but the trialbot will join the others as a distraction. If there's a 2-way tie or 3-way tie for last, the trial will restart. The final two will head off to the Ring Arena...well I think we already get how that works.

I'm bringing back the losers bracket. This time, the bot that loses the KoTH on the semi-finals goes to the losers bracket semi-final and the bot that loses on the second trial in the semi finals goes to the second trial in the losers bracket semi-final.

More Rules:

1. Ironforge Heavyweight (both IRL and Standard)
2. Realistic Rules Apply
3. No cheatbot2 or custom components.
4. No SnSs (won't do good in the KoTH part anyways).
5. No crawlers.
6. Please AI your own bots, if you can't then I will AI the bots.
7.NO WHINING ABOUT THE BOT AI BEING SCREWY UNLESS THERE IS BELIEVABLE EVIDENCE AND NOT SOMETHING STUPID.
8. Multibots are NOT allowed (due to the fact that if there's a tie).
9. No havok prone bots.
10. No AAM or BFE.

My Entry

Feel free to let me know if I'm missing anything, or if I got something wrong.

Entries:
1. S.T.C.
2. NeighImACarrot
3. Martymidget
4. ty4er
5. G.K.
6. Mr. AS
7. Thrackerzod
8. RedAce
9. Squirrel_Monkey
10. MassimoV
11. Avalanche
12. Helloface199
13. Meganerdbomb
14. Reier
15. 090901
16. Badnik96

Received
Accepted
Problem

DEADLINE:
July 25th.

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[RedAce]

Sure I'll enter. Few things to say:


1. For the Sumo tournament, you could use Serge's Ring Arena or any other tournament with a good enough height for the walls, try to make the trial bot as heavy as possible, or ban flippers entirely.
2. Will interchangeable weapons be allowed?
3. This will be an DSL-S and IRL tournament at the same time. Is that right?


Edit: You changed it to Ironforge? Nevermind then.

[S.T.C.]

1. The thing with the ring arena is that there's walls, and the objective is to remove the trialbot from the arena as fast as possible. I could ban flippers entirely, but I'm unsure of adding weapon restrictions again.
2. Considering it.
3. Yes, its both.

[Jakewilliamson]

Im entering this, will get a bot ready for this.

[S.T.C.]

Recently modified the first post to say that this is an Ironforge HW tournament. I also slightly changed how the losers bracket works so the first 2 bots to lose in the main finals go to the losers bracket.

Like I said, still need trial ideas. It could be something completely new or something that makes the sumo trial a bit more fair.

Anither thing I'd like to add, which I've mentioned before a couple of times, if anyone is good at arena modding, the fight to the finish arena still needs walls that come down after a minute. It'd be nice if I could have a working FTTF arena for this tournament so if anyone knows how to do this and is willing to then let me know lol.

[KOS]

you know i'm entering this :)

[Badger]

Sounds awesome.

[090901]

What you could do is have 4 robots in each heat, with 2 pairs on robots in 3 different challenges, the winners (aka whoever won 2 challenges) would then fight each other in the Fight to The Finish arena to win the heat.
Challenges:
#1
King of the hill, but I think an increased time period to 2 minutes would work better, maybe use the other King of the hill arena since I think it would work better (aka less stupid things)
#2
Sumo, Ring arena with no walls would work good.
#3
1 v 1 battle in the combat arena, sounds pretty gud, then you don't have to worry about flippers that much I guess.

[S.T.C.]

What you could do is have 4 robots in each heat, with 2 pairs on robots in 3 different challenges, the winners (aka whoever won 2 challenges) would then fight each other in the Fight to The Finish arena to win the heat.
Challenges:
#1
King of the hill, but I think an increased time period to 2 minutes would work better, maybe use the other King of the hill arena since I think it would work better (aka less stupid things)
#2
Sumo, Ring arena with no walls would work good.
#3
1 v 1 battle in the combat arena, sounds pretty gud, then you don't have to worry about flippers that much I guess.

OK, removing the Robotica similarities aside, I could use something among the lines of the COMBAT ZOOONE to remove an advantage on flippers later on so they won't be OP.

[thesnowingsteak]

1 v 1 battle in the combat arena, sounds pretty gud, then you don't have to worry about flippers that much I guess.

OK, removing the Robotica similarities aside, I could use something among the lines of the COMBAT ZOOONE to remove an advantage on flippers later on so they won't be OP.

Dude you just reworded the last sentence of the person you were quoting.

[S.T.C.]

In other words, I was agreeing.

[S.T.C.]

DP

Just pointing out this is still here, might be making some rule changes soon. Also, if I do use the ring arena for the sumo, I'm probably gonna need someone to remove the walls. I might also restrict flippers if I decide this goes through. Any thoughts?

[helloface]

ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?

[El Chickenado]

what weight class is it

[S.T.C.]

Its Ironforge Heavyweight.

[S.T.C.]

DP

Bringing this back up to see if there's still any interest.

[KOS]

Still interested :)

[RedAce]

Changed my mind a bit, I guess I'll give it a try.

[S.T.C.]

Still need an ieea for a 2nd trial tho, any ideas?

[FOTEPX]

Y'know, I've never entered RA2 Trials, and it's always been one of THOSE competitions - I like to call 'em the GTM All-Star series. Battlebots, BBEANS and RA2 Trials were always the big 3 for competitions on this site, so yeah, count me in.