Tactical Technical Machines tourney idea

[hypnodisc7]

Conference 1: Division I: (1, 2, 3, 4), Division II: (5, 6, 7, 8)

Conference 2: Division III: (9, 10, 11, 12), Division IV: (13, 14, 15, 16)

Here is a proposal for a tournament that I may start in the next few months or so.  The tournament format includes a two-conference four-division setup.  This may seem a little out of the ordinary, but I will explain the details.

As I said above there are four divisions in two conferences.  This means two divisions per conference.  Entrants compete in 5 total regular season matches that include round-robin style matches against entrants in the respective entrant’s division (3 matches), matches against one entrant from each of the other divisions in the respective entrant’s conference (1 match; I’ll use a pattern that’s easy to understand; see below), and a match against a team from the other conference (1 match; figured out using a standard 16-team bracket)
 
(schedule reconstuction completed!!!)

Schedules for Teams 1-16

Team 1:

1 vs. 2

1 vs. 3

1 vs. 4

1 vs. 5

1 vs. 16

Team 2:

2 vs. 1

2 vs. 3

2 vs. 4

2 vs. 6

2 vs. 15

Team 3:

3 vs. 1

3 vs. 2

3 vs. 4

3 vs. 7

3 vs. 14

Team 4:

4 vs. 1

4 vs. 2

4 vs. 3

4 vs. 8

4 vs. 13

Team 5:

5 vs. 6

5 vs. 7

5 vs. 8

5 vs. 1

5 vs. 12

Team 6:

6 vs. 5

6 vs. 7

6 vs. 8

6 vs. 2

6 vs. 11

Team 7:

7 vs. 5

7 vs. 6

7 vs. 8

7 vs. 3

7 vs. 10

Team 8:

8 vs. 5

8 vs. 6

8 vs. 7

8 vs. 4

8 vs. 9

Team 9:

9 vs. 10

9 vs. 11

9 vs. 12

9 vs. 13

9 vs. 8

Team 10:

10 vs. 9

10 vs. 11

10 vs. 12

10 vs. 14

10 vs. 7

Team 11:

11 vs. 9

11 vs. 10

11 vs. 12

11 vs. 15

11 vs. 6

Team 12:

12 vs. 9

12 vs. 10

12 vs. 11

12 vs. 16

12 vs. 5

Team 13:

13 vs. 14

13 vs. 15

13 vs. 16

13 vs. 9

13 vs. 4

Team 14:

14 vs. 13

14 vs. 15

14 vs. 16

14 vs. 10

14 vs. 3

Team 15:

15 vs. 13

15 vs. 14

15 vs. 16

15 vs. 11

15 vs. 2

Team 16:

16 vs. 13

16 vs. 14

16 vs. 15

16 vs. 12

16 vs. 1

If there are any questions, comment below

I will be videoing with CamStudio (working on downloading FRAPS but that's still up in the air)

Playoffs will include winners of each division (2 per conference) and 2 wild cards (1 per conference) for a total of

6 bots in the playoffs.

Rules: (subject to change)

Build:
DSL HW
No BFE or AAM
No cheatbot2 or custom components

Realistic (no intersecting parts that would never intersect in real life)

 
Match Structure:
3 minute matches
If your bot Havoks, you will get ONE restart per match.  If the bot Havoks again and causes a change in the outcome of the match, you will be disqualified and the win will be awarded to your opponent.
Ties will be broken using the RA2 points system in all cases.
 
Arena:
It will be either a modded or un-modded DSL Tourney Arena
 
AI:
I can AI, but would prefer if you did it yourself.  But if you positively can't, I will do it for you.

[G.K.]

So does this work like the british soccer league system?

[hypnodisc7]

So does this work like the british soccer league system?

Idk...lemme look it up...and btw it's unintentional if the tourney format is similar
 
EDIT: It seems similar, yes, but I formated this to be based off the NFL in a slight way.

[Badnik96]

hmm... interesting... If it's DSL then awesomesauce (I suck at stock)

[Jack Daniels]

Looks cool.  I doubt Click would mind if you had a tourney during BBEANS.  Heck, if you were posting matches while he was it would give him some resting time between recording because everyone would not be totally relying on his tourney to entertain them.  Just my opinion.

The format looks really nice!

[hypnodisc7]

Poll for stock/DSL ends in two days

get those votes in!!!!  :P

[G.K.]

I didn't see the poll. Stock please!

[Naryar]

I don't get these brackets at all but DSL.

[LiNcK]

I don't get these brackets at all but DSL.

[System32]

Too many DSL tournaments at the moment. Stock for me, I'd like some variation.

[hypnodisc7]

"Stock/DSL" poll has now ended

Results (which some may not be happy with): DSL:15, Stock:8

DSL tourney it is. 

Next poll is for weight class.  What hasn't been done recently that could be initiated in this tourney.  Poll will be up soon.

[JoeBlo]

what kind of Hardware are you packing ? (aka how good is your computer stuff)

might want to consider before opting to start a UHW tournament :P

[hypnodisc7]

yes...quite true :P

I have a Windows 7 Laptop with 350gig hardrive and 4gig of RAM

[Naryar]

We need another SHW tournament ! Would be great !

[hypnodisc7]

Poll ends in 5 days as of....now.

[Somebody]

So what arena would this be in?

Open topped perhaps for teh UHWs?

[JoeBlo]

a flipper like yours will probably smash a robot through the collision mesh anyway :P

[Somebody]

Nope no matter h ow hard I try, the bots will not go through the roof of the combat zone.
:ragetoon:

[Naryar]

I do have my bets that the speed's not high enough.

I also have an idea - the "Escape velocity" of the combat arena might be (FPS*length of the arena) or even less so when the game refreshes at each (1/FPS) second, the bot has actually moved OOTA because of high speed.

I did it with a LW with 2WD F300 Tornado motor drive with rocket wheels (See Beetlebros pack)

[JoeBlo]

see my first page of custom thread... a robot "faster then the speed of collision pickup"

Nope no matter h ow hard I try, the bots will not go through the roof of the combat zone.
:ragetoon:

take on an antweight with your UHW flipper and let me know how you go :P