SFTW Showdown - Signups

[Jammy Dodger]

Also can we add batteries? 

[yugitom]

I now know the basic concept of the rules

can we add batteries? 

Did you actually read the rules?

• You can add anything

Also, please don't double post.

[Naryar]

huh, we can actually change the control board ? I assume that too was a part of the bot's character...

but okay

[Jammy Dodger]

I've finished my bot The spinner from WALES! wakkydude do you have yahoo mail? if so I'll be able to send it to you :)

[wakkydude]

I've finished my bot The spinner from WALES! wakkydude do you have yahoo mail? if so I'll be able to send it to you :)

When I open the signups you will be able to send entries to me via the forum's PM feature. This tournament is still in the discussion phase - I have to finalize all of the rules, then run a poll, and only when that poll is complete and more than half of the amount of people I need would enter the tournament, it moves to the Multi-Entry signups phase and only THEN can you submit.

One more thing - given the quite large interest this has gathered, I'm going to bump this up to 16 entrants. I plan on entering myself but can't confirm that until I've got my entry complete, as per the rules.

[Baconus_Yum]

Are we allowed to change the armor?

[wakkydude]

Are we allowed to change the armor?

In Stock, the armor used on the robot, DSA (Double Strength Aluminum, enabled by not selecting an armor type), is both the strongest and nearly the lightest in the entire game. I mean, you can, but you don't want to.

[Baconus_Yum]

Are we allowed to change the armor?

In Stock, the armor used on the robot, DSA (Double Strength Aluminum, enabled by not selecting an armor type), is both the strongest and nearly the lightest in the entire game. I mean, you can, but you don't want to.

Starts to redesign

[wakkydude]

A couple of things. First of all, some of you have probably seen this already, but for everyone else: thanks to the wonderful work of Mr AS we have a meme-tastic arena that, given its nature, this tournament demands:



I should be using this for the tournament, and I'll leave the upload of it to his discretion, I'm not particularly fussed.

Anyway, I'm otherwise really quite close to opening this tournament for entries! What could possibly go wrong?

[Jammy Dodger]

IT'S IT'S... BEAUTIFUL

[Mr. AS]

Here's a download link so that you can test your potential entries: https://gametechmods.com/uploads/files/3892SFTW_Arena.rar

The sawblade spins when hazards are on, and has spawn points for players 3 and 4 in case of multibots.

[wakkydude]

Alright. With a few more updates to the OP on the subject of the arena, my entry, the size limit, and the name rule, I think I'm ready for the poll and I think I've got the whole poll thing set up properly.

Because there's a number of people who are clearly brand new to the tournament thing around here, let me explain this step to them so I don't get Yahoo mailed any robots yet: this tournament needs to receive eight "yes" votes (that's half the size of the tournament) before it can go into signups. I am unlikely to move into signups immediately if this gets greenlit overnight or something, but it'll be very soon after I get what's needed. Voting yes isn't absolutely, permanently forcing you into enter later down the line but it's common sense that you're going to make the best attempt you can to enter if you're interested enough to vote.

[wakkydude]

The poll is done! Thanks for the support! I'm likely to actually get this ready for signups at the start of next week, as I've got a few more things to get done this week and don't want to get inundated with entries to review at the same time.

[yugitom]

When it comes to worn-out memes, nobody serves them better. As this is my very first tournament, I’m in a prime position to get started with a bang by using the meme only I have the true ability to exploit in this fashion – let’s dig SFTW out of its grave and make it truly great again. First of all, I must point out that this is my first tournament to be hosted so if there's rules I'm missing or times where I am blatantly going against community consensus, let me know.

Stock unrealistic

Heavyweight up to 800.0kg

16 entries, single elimination

1 entry per person, although slow entries near the end of the signup period may see this rise to 2

Best of 3 battles

I will be able to AI but this is the first time I’m ever actually going to be doing it for a tournament like this – if your robot does something unbelievably stupid and unusual that a newbie like me simply cannot comprehend I reserve the right to ask you to do it yourself, and of course you’ll make things easier by sending the bindings anyway ( )

Byes filled by the original SFTW

Robots must be built off the original spinner from the west downloadable at https://gametechmods.com/Robot_Exchange/LW/wakkydude_Spinner%20from%20the%20west%20(T).bot, this means:

• The chassis must be kept the same
• All the original components (except the control board which I'll allow you to move) must be kept in place
• None of the original components actually have to be used usefully or be powered, but they must all still remain there
• You can add anything, of course, and use any kind of weapon you want
• Armor changes are allowed but reasons you'd want to do so are unknown to me, at least
• Effectively you can build anything as long as the original SFTW parts remain
• While obviously, your skin can be done externally, it has to be built on top of the original armour plating that we know all too well and must include some of that original skin underneath. I will be checking.
• Your robot's name has to be linked, in some way, to SFTW. It doesn't necessarily need to be in the same format, any assorted jokes that are related to it will be fine, but keep a clearly visible link there. I'm going to be fairly lenient on this rule as long as it's in the right spirit

Standard in-game glitch rules. Stacking, eFFe, loading allowed, you name it

No outside modifications at all, including BFE, Thyrus, and text editing.

No use of component freedom in any form.

Skinned components are okay but please actually send them to me in the correct format

No crawlers, this is a jank-free zone

Clusterbots are allowed but both must add up to the 800kg limit. If you can actually successfully pull this off and win a fight with it considering that the base robot is over 200kg, I will be impressed. You’ll win your own award.

Fighting will be on Mr AS' new SFTW Arena:

Havoks that KO a robot or otherwise are responsible for ending a fight will be restarted, but if a robot gets three round-ending havoks across the best of 3, it forfeits the fight

Battles are 3 minutes with timeout matches being decided on points

You will be able to upgrade your robot as many times as you want up to 24 hours after I announce I have accepted the last robot.

I will be entering with this.

You will have one month from the start of signups to get entries in, and you can’t enter until I have accepted your robot.

Okay, people. Tell me what I've missed or gotten blatantly wrong. Once everything's in check I will run the poll and remember, there's only 8 slots!

This is now a signups topic and the rules quoted may not change. You've got 3 months, enjoy :)

[wakkydude]

We're live! For new people, submit .bot files via PM, preferably using the bot exchange.

[wrhysj]

I've finished my bot The spinner from WALES! wakkydude do you have yahoo mail? if so I'll be able to send it to you :)

If it's from wales i can make red and white stripes and a samurai sword on my bot and i'll have a good chance of beating it (rugby reference btw)

[wakkydude]

Badger accepted and ready

[wakkydude]

DemonOfTomorrow and Baconus_Yum accepted

[Mecha]

let's hope this one doesn't fill up in a day also

[wakkydude]

Hey guys! Three people have entered so far. I should've maybe seen something like this coming but the 16 votes blinded my perception of how these things actually usually go. If I can get at least 8, that'll be just fine. I am likely to allow second entries if things don't speed up quite a bit in the next week (I'm not expecting a tournament fill but getting 8/16 done by that point would be great)