As it has won the poll (and was also my preference) the tournament will be STOCK HW.
Hey everyone! I've got a new tourney to propose to you all: The RA2 League.As I see it, one of the major factors regarding bot performance in tournaments is matchups. A bad matchup can make a good bot go out in the first round of a tournament. If there's no Losers' Bracket, then you can get as little as one fight to show what you can do. That's why I want to run a league-based competiton, as opposed to a knockout based one. Everyone gets lots of action, and the best performing bots are still rewarded with a higher ranking and finishing position - and they'll have earned it by defeating a wide variety of opponents. Onto the tourney. I'd like it to be STOCK, because I really enjoy filming stock tournaments, but let me know if you'd rather play DSL or Ironforge instead.My league table will have entrants ranked by number of INDIVIDUAL FIGHT VICTORIES. In the event of a tie at the end of the tournament the teams' head-to-head records will determine positon. If no winner is obvious from this (Which will only happen if there are more than 2 teams tied), the team with the most KO's will win. There will be 2 more tiebreaking criteria after this - in order they are TKO's & WBP's. If teams are still somehow equal then there'll be a playoff between them.It's also going to be a TAG TEAM competition. This is to facilitate my 1 extra rule that this tourney might have - a TRANSFER WINDOW. Inspired by the transfer window in the association football system, there'll be a week in the middle of the tournament where I will allow you to trade one of your two bots with one from another team, provided there is consent from both parties, and the rest of the matches wll be fought with the new team linueps. This has potential for some kind of tactical element, but it would not be compulsary to trade. There would also be no limit on the number of times you could swap, so if you needed to do a multi-part swap to get the bot you wanted, that's cool.I am making a new arena for this tournament. It's essentially going to be a square shaped arena of a similar size to the Combat Arena. The starting points will be placed specifically for Tag Teams. The walls will allow OOTA's, but they will still be high ehough so that you won't be able to achieve them with any old bot. I don't think there will be any hazards at this stage but we'll see how making it goes.Bots wise, I'm not sure if it should be HW or MW. I'd prefer HW, but I'd like to leave that open to the community. I've also got a few restrictions to lay down on bot types.There will be prizes! But idk what yet. Definitely guaranteed entry into whatever I do after this, but I'd like to make something too.Please give me feedback on my idea, and answer my main questions:-Stock ok? Would you rather DSL/IF?-HW or MW?-What do you think the transfer window idea? I'm more than willing to take it out if people think it will overcomplicate it. - Stock HW Tag Team- At least one bot on the team must not be a popup.- No crawlers, SnS or Trinity spinners, and all bots must have controlled movement.- No multibots, obviously.- The same bot can be entered twice if it meets the above criteria. - 2 minute battles, 3 per matchup, per round.- Doesn't matter how many entries there are, but preferably we'll have around 16+ to make this a decent length tournament. We'll see how many enter. Ideally we'd get an even number but odd is workable - we will get a match against a byebot team. If it's Stock HW, they'll be my first ever showcased bots, EoBSS and TrippeR- I will enter, my entries will be Armoured Spaceship 1.3 and Vertical Terrors - I'm hoping to rebuild this, but it will always be an inverter/chained VS. - Different people can team up to enter a team if they wish. Again, not compulsary, but each person can only enter once, be it alone or in a pair.- Usual ingame glitches are allowed.- No BFE, AAM, Thyrus Glitch, Hax Mode, Zero G. I will check to see if you've BFE'd super strong armour on and cheaters will be disqualified. Custom chassis shine through BFE is allowed.- No exostacking. Casters are fine.- All Stock 1.4 components (bar cheatbot2) are legal. All AI Parts are fine.- No custom components except smartzones for AI purposes are legal.- If you want to send your own AI in that's cool, otherwise I will AI. No cheaty hax .py's.- Updates will be unlimited during the submission period. When it ends only exceptional circumstances will allow updates.Restart Rules:- Unlimited restarts will be given to bots getting stuck in the arena.- I will also restart for obvious AI errors (And fix them :P), and if a robot is counted out when it is clearly still moving fine.- Bots get one free havok restart per match. Subsequent major havoks will forefit the battle in question.Signups:Byebots - The House Band - TrippeR & Evolve Or Be Spun SomewhereG.K. - Dark Side HW - Armoured Spaceship 1.3 & Vertical Terrors ?Key:Black - Bots SubmittedGreen - Bots AI'dRed - Problem
edit- also kos is back...?
Presenting the RA2 League Arena (If anyone can think of a snazzier name that would be grand)
Anyway, arena looks pretty good, and I like having the starting points to prevent box rushes. Only one suggestion, maybe add a border of a different texture around the edge of the arena? Maybe some scratched up grey or diamond plate metal, or hazard stripes of some sort might work.
Quote from: Lemonism on September 08, 2015, 12:11:52 PMAnyway, arena looks pretty good, and I like having the starting points to prevent box rushes. Only one suggestion, maybe add a border of a different texture around the edge of the arena? Maybe some scratched up grey or diamond plate metal, or hazard stripes of some sort might work.Cheers :)The border is a good idea, I'll have a play about with it.
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