The Battle Arcade: Signups Closed

[Silverfish]

Alright, I wanna try hosting a tourney. Here are the rules:

Rules:

Stock-Standard HW
3-Minute Matches
SnS banned
No external glitches (AAM,BFE,etc.)
HAX mode is banned
Cheatbot components banned (just to specify, this does NOT include AI components)
Just to specify, clusterbots ALLOWED
One havok restart per match, afterwards a havok forfeit will occur every portion of the match (A restart will be caused if it is obvious that the havok caused a loss)
Sergepatcher is banned except for Ro7 Break
Arena will be randomly selected from the following list (Just to specify, I mean using Trov's random arena selector, with a restart for 2 of the same arena in a row):

All of the stock deathmatch arenas
Kenzorg IGC
RA2T#2 Arena
Ring Arena
Robotica Fight to the Finish Arena
BBEANS Arena V2
Epic Arena
Ant Late Night Rumble
Twiiisted Arena (BTTB skin)
Electric Arena 2
RA Reborn Arena 1.5
Containment Cube
SCAI Combat Arena
RAW 2 Arena (Request: 090901)
North Sea Oil Rig (Request: 090901)
The Cage (Request: 090901)
AON 2 Arena (Request: Geice)
Battlebox 2.0 (Request: 090901)
Clash Cubes 3 Arena (Request: 090901)
The Pyramid (Request: 090901)
ELBITE Arena (Request: RedAce)
Robot Wars Arena (Request: 090901) (Sorry, but I had to use Lu-Tze's)
Compactor Arena (Request: 090901)
Black Hole Space Arena (Request: 090901)
Flextop Arena (Request: Thrackerzod)

Main tourney will be best of 3 with hazards ON, while the final (and 3rd place match) will be best of 5 with hazards off.
There will also be a Bo1 rumble for the 4 bots with the most kills (again, in a random arena)
16 spots, obviously
Unlimited minor adjustments while this is still in signups (afterwards, no adjusting, obviously), but you can only perform ONE major upgrade.
I will enter this if there is space, with this thing:

Signups:
1. RedAce
2. 090901
3. Thrackerzod
4. Geice
5. DeadGenocide
6. WenXiangLee
7. Badger
8. Silverfish
9. Mechadino
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
Red: Something's gone wrong
Black: Received
Blue: Received and accepted
Green: AI'd and good to go
Deadline is noon (CEST), September 10th, 2016.

[cephalopod]

send entries to creepalot AND me when signups go up.

Why? How are you planning on splitting this?
Also whose AIing?

[The Red Blur]

Id join it. If I knew who was AIing.

[RedAce]

creepalot and i are thinking of doing a tourney. nuff said

No, not 'nuff said.  Might wanna explain what's happening here?  Who's doing what?  How do you want to do this with multiple hosts?

[Silverfish]

XD plz excuse me for being a complete idiot. Creepalot will be aiing(due to the fact that i don't have access to the software for it), with my help, hopefully explaining the split (i will be filming). sorry XD.

[yugitom]

XD plz excuse me for being a complete idiot. Creepalot will be aiing(due to the fact that i don't have access to the software for it), with my help, hopefully explaining the split (i will be filming). sorry XD.

So you have the software for recording the matches... but you don't have Notepad in order to AI?

[Silverfish]

you can ai with notepad? i thought it couldn't write py files... oh well, i'll still have creepalot ai.

(as you can tell, my knowledge of files in RA2 is not 100% complete)

[Squirrel_Monkey]

you can ai with notepad? i thought it couldn't write py files... oh well, i'll still have creepalot ai.

(as you can tell, my knowledge of files in RA2 is not 100% complete)

It's easier to AI in something like Notepad++ which is free anyway.

[Silverfish]

on my main computer(which is down at the moment), i just use python's official GUI(also free). Either way, should i go to a poll or is there something that needs to be changed? (i highly suspect the latter, but i don't know what)

[cephalopod]

AIing is literally just changing text lines in bindings.py which you can open with notepad or notepad++

[Silverfish]

i know how to ai, i just thought notepad couldn't edit .py files XD.

[cephalopod]

Fair enough.
If the split is as you've described, you (in documentation) will be the host of the tournament and the host point that comes for successfully hosting will go to you.

[Silverfish]

ok. it should be as i've laid it. should i start a poll or not, do you think? or is there something i've missed?

[yugitom]

You can make a poll right from the get go. Making a poll does not prevent you from changing the rules. In fact, people change the rules to get more yes votes during a poll. It's only if this gets to signups that you won't be able to change the rules.

[Silverfish]

alright, poll added. suggestions for arenas would be appreciated, as well as pointing out things i may have missed.

[Thrackerzod]

Sounds cool.  Good luck!

[Reier]

we need a kenzorg tourney

[Silverfish]

thanks, man! i always though that arena needed more attention(srsly tho).

[Silverfish]

Okay, I decided that I want to revisit this old thing.
The ruleset has been completely rewritten, and I will be the only host. I have also restarted the poll.


Please, feel free to suggest things I could do to make this better.
Thanks!

[Hi5er]

Stock tourney, you'll have a bot from me :)

Gimmicks always help make a tourney standout, but nothing wrong with a standard tourney as well... Just make it run smoothly and get the matches completed sharpish and everyone will be happy :)