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Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on March 29, 2009, 03:20:34 PM
Robo Zone...

basic Rules:

-all robots must be Stock (no cheat parts, hidden AI parts are allowed).
-all robots must be lightweight. (you can use 2 bots (cluster bots) that add up to a weight of 249 or less).
-NO outside editing or cheating of any kind, just build your robot in the robot lab.
-your robot must show controlled movement, that means be able to drive forward and backwards and turn left and right in a controlled manner.
-there is no realistic rule, stacking is allowed.
-you can only enter one robot (unless its a cluster bot of course, then you need both).

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scoring system:
your robots will have the chance to pick up an amount of points equal to the number of entries minus 1, per challenge. (10 entries = max 9 points)

2 on 1 scoring:
1.the robot to beat the 2 house bots the fastest will score the most amount of points.
2.if time runs out in the match the robot with the highest amount of points will get more points then anyone else who has this occur and robots who get beat by the house bots.
3.the robot to get beat by the house robots in the fastest time will score 0 points.

Beat the Box scoring:
1.the robot to beat the box in the fastest time will score the most points.
2.the robots who fail to beat the box will be given points based on their score.

Tilt scoring:
1.the robot who beats the house bot in the fastest time will score the most points.
2.if you both go off the same time its still counted as a lose even if it says the house bot was eliminated first, you must be on the platform when the house bot has completely left the platform for it to be counted as a win.
3.the robot to get beaten in the fastest time will score no points.
4.cluster bots count as 1 robot in this challenge and when one bot is knocked off the tabletop and one stays on it still counts as a lose.

Survival Scoring:
1.The robot who can beat the house bot in the fastest time will get the most points.
2.the robot who gets beaten by the house bot in the fastest time will score no points.
3.all other robots will be given points based on the time they lasted.

same time?:

if your robot gets the same time as someone elses you will both get the same amount of points and the next place receives the same amount of points as they would if there wasn't a draw, for example in a 5 bot tournament it would look like this:

1st - 4 points
2nd - 3 points
2nd - 3 points
4th - 1 point
5th - 0 points

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so who are these house bots you have been hearing about? let me introduce team Robo Zone!

(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/88950team%20robo%20zone.JPG)

Tick:
info: A powerful BW HS capable of knocking out your robot if it gets a good chance.
Challenge: 2 on 1.

Tock:
info: A BW with plenty of weapons and a wedge, although not as strong as Tick it could cause more problems for your bot.
Challenge: 2 on 1.

Box:
info: defense all over this robot means it will take more then one hit to KO this robot.
Challenge: Beat the box.

Dozer:
info: a strong rammer with good protection and decent wedges... it will be very tough to beat.
Challenge: Tilt.

Torture Chamber:
info: made to inflict pain on your robot and beat it as fast as possible.. weight = 799.9, that's a huge advantage!
Challenge: Survival.

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Registration:

registration for your entry is now open, please send your robot to me by PM or email it to me at: ianjh_(yoda)07@hotmail.com  (remove the brackets and yoda).

you have until the 6th of april to register a robot. i plan on having around 10 robots in the tournament to start.

If your robot is a hammer/popup or any other type of robot that uses smart zones you must attach the smart zone yourself! and you may AI your own robot if you know how cause my ai skills aren't as great as others.

i would prefer you ai your own robot.

---Registration closes in a few hours----


Registered robots:
1.Glenku- antichrist v.1
2.Ianh05- Razor wind
3.Jack Daniels - Jackpot Deux
4.Somebody - Robotogeddon
5.PhiletBabe - Solar07
6.Scrap Daddy - UndeaD
7.Man Manu - Sadie's closet
8.Venko - Anti-pacman
9.
10.


I will upload vids on Youtube due to the file size of the rounds (don't want to take up too much webspace). you can close the other topic about this tournament.

this tournament shouldn't take as long as the tag team tourney to finish, i think it will be speedy.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: System32 on March 29, 2009, 04:00:37 PM
Hmm.....
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Naryar on March 29, 2009, 04:22:46 PM
Quote from: System32;32234
Hmm.....

Exactly what i was thinking.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on March 29, 2009, 04:25:51 PM
what? did i miss something? :/
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: philetbabe on March 30, 2009, 04:31:11 AM
nice idea but end date as 6 april looks very short.

With coming soon vacation, i should not enter but if the end date is end of april.

with so many contests that never ends, can you give us your scheduled task :
date of closed entry : 6 april
date of start of first match : ?
date of end : ?
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Venko on March 30, 2009, 02:19:43 PM
Quote from: System32;32234
Hmm.....


Quote from: Naryar;32237
Exactly what i was thinking.


Ianh ignore the trolls that lives here... Good idea for a tournament.

Quote from: philetbabe;32270
nice idea but end date as 6 april looks very short.

With coming soon vacation, i should not enter but if the end date is end of april.

with so many contests that never ends, can you give us your scheduled task :
date of closed entry : 6 april
date of start of first match : ?
date of end : ?


Agreed!

I WILL ENTER! My bot is almost ready, i must do only some final tests, paint it and AI it...
Do you at least know how and where to put the AI bindinsg after players send them to you?...
Extending the submition period will help you to get more entrants. Keep this in mind...
Good luck man. Peace out...
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on March 30, 2009, 02:46:08 PM
yeah i know, i just need to copy the AI code you send me into bindings.

if i remember correctly most my tournaments had registration open for only a week or 2, maybe even less. i just thought a week would be long enough to get another 8 lws in.

philetbabe:
date of closed entry : 6 april
date of start of first match : when i have all the bots ai'd and robot splash pics done.
date of end : i believe i can complete the tournament pretty speedily.

with every tournament i hold i learn something along the way, and i have a couple of good time saving ideas that i didn't have before.

i might even post my tournament hosting tips for newbie tourney hosts and possibly have it as a sticky..

pity i haven't heard from mad, i had a good idea for what could be used as the prize for the winner. i guess bragging rights will have to do for this :P
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: RedSawn on March 30, 2009, 03:21:46 PM
Currently trying to think of a good design. Entry most likely.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Reier on March 30, 2009, 03:23:40 PM
I'll give it a go, ian. ;]
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: System32 on March 30, 2009, 03:49:27 PM
Quote from: venko;32295
Ianh ignore the trolls that lives here... Good idea for a tournament.


You're not Madiba.

The "Hmm...." was me thinking about entering, and which bot to use.

I'm still thinking about it.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Urjak on March 30, 2009, 04:16:54 PM
Quote from: System32;32302
You're not Madiba.


I don't think anyone is Madiba.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Reier on March 30, 2009, 04:19:55 PM
HAHA! Just what I was thinking.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: System32 on March 30, 2009, 04:24:40 PM
Quote from: Urjak;32303
I don't think anyone is Madiba.


Madiba Used to colour his posts black when we had two skins, making things hard to read, that's what I meant.


...Like you can read a babbling Bulgarian anyway....
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Reier on March 30, 2009, 04:26:15 PM
*Halo over head*
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Jack Daniels on March 30, 2009, 04:57:19 PM
Bot sent... be ready to be amused if it is accepted into the event.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Madiaba on March 30, 2009, 05:08:40 PM
You guys are...... errr... not very realistic.
 
Ian, what was it I missed? If it's the arena idea, then that will take some work. This is special design; a different kind of arena. Just talked with Trov yesterday, and Sage will help (thankfully) and Spyguy will pitch in, I'm sure. It'll get done.
Also:
-Still finishing GUMBA.
-Working on 'Evade' code
-had just finished up BOTM(secret though)
-Oh yea, real work...
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Urjak on March 30, 2009, 05:16:11 PM
Quote from: System32;32305
Madiba Used to colour his posts black when we had two skins, making things hard to read, that's what I meant.


...Like you can read a babbling Bulgarian anyway....


Well, ummm....... yeah.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on March 30, 2009, 11:48:37 PM
no worries if you can't get it done by the time the tourney is over mad. we have 2 options.. 1 is to give the prize to the winner when the arena is made or save the prize for the next tourney (i have been thinking about making this a regular tournament).

one of the new time saver ideas i had for this tourney is to do with the splashes, see i use to make one splash for each robot well this time I'm going to have a template where i can just copy the robot pic onto then put in the info for each bot (working on the splash template as i speak).

the arena should maybe be called "Robo Zone Arena"?
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Naryar on March 31, 2009, 03:04:21 AM
Quote from: venko;32295
Ianh ignore the trolls that lives here... Good idea for a tournament.

Venko i swear it wasn't trolling. I was actually thinking what bot would perform the best. (just like S32... before he actually started trolling)

Yes it's a good idea, and yes i'm going to enter. I have several ideas.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on March 31, 2009, 12:33:28 PM
update.. still 7 spots open, about 5 more people are working on entries.

there is a number of strategies for this tournament, you could build a bot that will excel in one challenge and hope for the best in other challenges or a bot who will go well in all challenges but has less chance of winning one.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Somebody on March 31, 2009, 02:37:58 PM
I'm going to be sending something.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: R1885 on March 31, 2009, 05:23:40 PM
I might get something in.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Scrap Daddy on March 31, 2009, 07:24:45 PM
I dunno but I think you should change the casters on the defense bot to ramplates. Im going to enter a pop-up and castors don't fall off.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on March 31, 2009, 07:55:33 PM
you should be able to hit the front of the bot when the pop-up fires, I'm also pretty sure you can still hit the bottom because the casters aren't that close together.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on April 01, 2009, 07:30:16 PM
still only 3 entries are in, if you can send your entry soon it will allow me to start the tournament start faster because i will have less robots to make a splash for and AI.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Somebody on April 01, 2009, 08:37:49 PM
Robotogeddon will be sent momentarily.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on April 01, 2009, 11:08:25 PM
so far we have a mostly horizontal spinners, hopefully we get some more variety :)

only 6 spots left! also waiting for somebody to send AI code.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Naryar on April 02, 2009, 06:42:21 AM
Might enter a multibot.

Quote from: ianh05;32670
so far we have mostly horizontal spinners, hopefully we get some more variety :)

Might be because a LW HS is a pretty good contestant for the sort of challenges you have right here.

Quote from: Somebody;32663
Robotogeddon will be sent momentarily.

That's one heck of an original name...
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on April 02, 2009, 07:52:12 AM
a multibot would mean 2 antweights so they would have a tough time in 2 on 1 against 2 beetleweights. all the horizontal spinners that are entered are different at least.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Naryar on April 02, 2009, 08:02:41 AM
Well, i just experimented with 2 AI-ed antweight rammers and noticed that... so no multibot from me then.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Venko on April 02, 2009, 11:33:09 AM
I will send my bot allready AIed. I will send it max to 1-2 days. It's ready, just doing some final touches...
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Reier on April 02, 2009, 11:39:08 AM
Working on mine, expect it soon.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on April 03, 2009, 06:08:01 AM
only 5 slots open now, and 3-4 days left to register depending on your timezone :P i will close registration when i wake up on the 7th.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Somebody on April 04, 2009, 06:26:44 AM
AI will probably be in later today maybe.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Reier on April 04, 2009, 09:24:24 AM
I'll get mine in by the 7th NP. (It keeps havoking! >=|)
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Somebody on April 04, 2009, 01:55:09 PM
My AI line is sent.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on April 04, 2009, 02:16:11 PM
just 4 slots open now, i have all 6 entries i have so far AI'd and the splash pics for them done up.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: man manu on April 05, 2009, 06:00:02 AM
I've sent my entry to you Ian.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on April 05, 2009, 02:10:06 PM
only 2 spots now, entries close about this time tomorrow.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on April 06, 2009, 02:13:56 AM
if i don't get 2 more entries we can stay with 8, be better with 10 but i don't mind.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Naryar on April 06, 2009, 03:17:55 AM
I'm currently building a SnS for this.

EDIT: I might still enter an AW multibot rammer, because Tick still has a very exposed chassis.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on April 06, 2009, 12:43:00 PM
registration closes in about 2(Edited) hours.

only 1 spot open!!
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: Naryar on April 06, 2009, 03:15:06 PM
Entry sent.

We'll see how i fare.
Title: Robo Zone rules and registration.
Post by: ianh05 on April 06, 2009, 03:18:01 PM
awesome :) Entries are now closed. expect a new thread with the cool stuff soon!