SFTW Showdown - Signups

[wakkydude]

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.

Entries:

• wakkydude
• Badger
• DemonOfTomorrow
• Baconus_Yum
• Meganerdbomb
• Baconus_Yum
• Conraaa
• thrackerzod
• Jamied666
• apanx
• Geiece

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[Badger]

Upload the .bot file you're talking bout with the DSA please

[Jammy Dodger]

 1 question. what version of RA2 is this tournament running on also hi

[Mecha]

1 question. what version of RA2 is this tournament running on also hi

Stock

[Jammy Dodger]

OH I just noticed when looking in the rules thanks Mechadino also could I enter?

[Thrackerzod]

OH I just noticed when looking in the rules thanks Mechadino also could I enter?

Signups haven't started yet (note the word "Discussion" in the thread name) but when they do, you can definitely enter!  That is, if you can get a bot in before all the entry slots fill.

[Jammy Dodger]

AH ok

[Baconus_Yum]

Is the armor type allowed to be changed?

Edit: Saying we still keep the paintjob

[F1Krazy]

Is the armor type allowed to be changed?

Edit: Saying we still keep the paintjob

Probably, but this is Stock so I don't see why you'd want to :P

[SKBT]

This is fantastic. I will totally download stock ra2 for this

[wakkydude]

• I think I'm about to facepalm as hard as possible as when I went to BFE the robot to add the DSA... it may have had it the whole time. Ah well, you can find the download at https://gametechmods.com/Robot_Exchange/LW/wakkydude_Spinner%20from%20the%20west%20(T).bot
• The arena might change. It depends on a few circumstances (I might be getting a custom one but I'm not going to 100% hold out forever if that ends up not happening) - but watch this space for news on that.
• Component Freedom should have been banned from the beginning. And now it is. Stock CF is an idea I would like to explore but definitely not for this tournament.

[Thrackerzod]

Gotta say I love this idea.  I'll try to build something.

[Baconus_Yum]

Got a bot.  It is from the north this time.

[Badger]

Calling dibs on "Spinner from the East"

[Dreamcast]

Calling dibs on "Spinner from the East"

Aw, I wanted that. Can I use Spinner from Levante?

[Baconus_Yum]

Calling dibs on "Spinner from the East"

Aw, I wanted that. Can I use Spinner from Levante?

As long as it is not "Spinner From The North"

[Mecha]

I think i'm gonna re-enter casters from the west

[Naryar]

oh yes. i definitely will enter.

this will be the greatest tournament since the last n00b warz.

so basically build up SFTW up to 800 kg, but no modifying the base bot in any way, and we can reskin it a bit as long as the skin is still recognizably SFTW- like ?

Also you should have a rule about names... the name of the bot should be noticeably SFTW-themed. Like Spinner from the X, X from the west, X from the Y. Or stuff like "The Real BBEANS3 Champion", "My Sawblade spins the wrong way", "It's large...?", "3.14-ston did nothing wrong", etc. etc.

[wakkydude]

oh yes. i definitely will enter.

this will be the greatest tournament since the last n00b warz.

so basically build up SFTW up to 800 kg, but no modifying the base bot in any way, and we can reskin it a bit as long as the skin is still recognizably SFTW- like ?

Also you should have a rule about names... the name of the bot should be noticeably SFTW-themed. Like Spinner from the X, X from the west, X from the Y. Or stuff like "The Real BBEANS3 Champion", "My Sawblade spins the wrong way", "It's large...?", "3.14-ston did nothing wrong", etc. etc.

Yeah, your description of the rules is pretty much right. I am allowing you move the control board because it's in a really uncomfortable position that might be hard to build off, and it's really the lest important part of the whole SFTW formula. Batteries have to stay, however, as the use of the Nifty and Pink is noobish enough to be considered a part of the robot's character.

And as a clarification: you can un-wire the original components.

I'm considering the name rule, that sounds quite fun. Also, as this is getting quite a noticeable amount of interest, a tournament size expansion isn't completely off the table.

[Jammy Dodger]

Since there have been more posts I now know the basic concept of the rules, do we have to name the bot like spinner from wales or can we name it anything? Also I'm defo entering so... TIME TO GO FULL GUNS BLAZING