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Well, the first one seemed to work well, so lets do another!

For a reference, heres the original:
http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=760&post=67131#POST67131http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/cgi-...st=67131#POST6 7131

Since Im writing yet again, Ill go ahead and be blunt about taking a long time. I may or may not be a little faster with this one. Well see. I dont expect to get crowded out, so just enter and Ill count you. No new entrants after the first page.

4 mass categories, one bot per entrant in each of them. No more, no less.
Lightweights: 25 kg
Middleweights: 50 kg
Heavyweights: 100 kg
Superheavyweights: 150 kg
Walkers and shufflers will get no advantage, because Im lazy.

Heres what the stats should look like:
-Picture, preferably CAD, preferably good.
-Short description of the design. What it does and maybe what its made of. Dont do strengths and weaknesses: ILL BE THE JUDGE OF THAT.
-Ill allow strategies in this one. You cant modify for fights though. This just gets ridiculous when the parts are all free.

The Arena will be a 25x25 metre box with no hazards, house robots, or anything special, except a moat around the edge protected by a 1 meter wall.

The Tournament will be as close to a single-elimination as possible. Depending how many entrants I get, I may or may not bullshit the elimination round (just write the % victory without any description to save time). Seems to be working decently enough in New Blood, so Ill resort to it if you force me to.

The Writing will be the same format as last time. % victory and a reason why. I like to call it proper statistics-based fanfic for the discriminating gentleman.

Right, lets have a go, with some modifications to last time, some just tweaked, others replaced. I may change my mind slightly later.

Lightweight
ttp://http://www.geocities.com/alex_j_holt/BALDUR3.jpgwww.geocities.com/alex_j_holt/BALDUR3.jpg
Little Baldur
A little invertible box with a scoop at the front designed to survive everything. The scoop works both ways up. The weapon pivots on the side also prevent it getting stuck on its side. the armour is most heavily layed on at the front so it can charge into spinners.
Speciality: Armour and wheels

Middleweight
http://www.geocities.com/alex_j_holt/t7.jpghttp://www.geocities.com/alex_j_holt/t7.jpg
Tengu
Doesnt need too much introduction I feel, a top spinner disc with two blades weighing 3.5kg in this instance at about 2cm from the ground. (Ignore the upper blades in the pic, those are a different weapon set up not used here, just add the upper blades to the lower blades) My infamous spinner ring sits just above the blade and is used to dissipate the attacks of horizontal spinners by transfering the enrgy into it so it goes whizzing round and tengu is unharmed. Its made of thick, plasticised rubber and basically just mounted on casters. There are four small internal wheels on a skid steer system, protected from being under cut by a metal foam skirt which gets squashed slightly if tengu is rocked at all. The bar on top pivots on some side and is powered by actuators to self right.
Speciality: Weapon and wheels

Heavyweight
http://www.geocities.com/alex_j_holt/BPQhttp://www.geocities.com/alex_j_holt/BPQ
Black Panther Queen
A pyramid with the tip cut off low down, skirts, and a double headed pnuematic axe and flipper. The flipper is in two halves but attached at the back, so that it doesnt interfere with the axe. There is a slight bias in armour towards the front.
Speciality: Weapon and wheels

Superhevyweighthttp://www.geocities.com/alex_j_holt/redknight.jpghttp://www.geocities.com/alex_j_holt/redknight.jpg
Red Knight
OK - the complex one. The main body is quite titchy, its all about the weapon. The weapon pivots off the centre, and follows an opponents direction using motion sensors - and is essentially a huge hardox plate on castors with a 10kg flywheel set into it for damage. Anyway, it basically means that whenever someoen attacks unless they are very fast theyll hit the plate, and the disc.
Speciality: Attack and Defense

I might enter this tournament, but Ill need to think things out first. I havent used my lightweights/middleweights in a while, and my super-heavyweight has hardly been used at all. Nevertheless, Ill see what I can do.

One of the champs returns to defend the crown! :proud:

Reserve me a space, Ill have some stuff up later today.

yay, save one for me too ^^

Lightweight: Anti-Virus

Hes basically a really fast rammer with a skirt in front to get under robots. Hes really fast, really pushy, and really ANTI. Hes invertible also. Now has side spikes to prevent getting stranded on its side.

Pic: http://www.geocities.com/kodybluz/Anti-Virus.bmphttp://www.geocities.com/kodybluz/Anti-Virus.bmp (same pic as before doesnt have the side skirts; Ill fix that later =P)

Specialty: Speed and pushability

Middleweight: Xianghua

Designed to be a fast and armoured (5mm Ti/V alloy) Storm II with a flipper capable of flipping over her own weight. Also invertible, and though not as effective, will re-invert herself to get back on even footing.

Pic: None as of yet, but Ill get one up soon.

Specialty: Speed and armour.

Heavyweight: The Sickness

A really nasty full-body spinner with a horrifically powerful spinning shell that has hooked blades on the sides to kill wedges, AND edge blades on the top to destroy axes and crushers. Its got a fast spin-up time as well at about 1.6 sec. Its not invertible though.

Pic: http://www.geocities.com/kodybluz/TheSickness.bmphttp://www.geocities.com/kodybluz/TheSickness.bmp

Specialty: Weapon and spin-up time.

Superheavyweight: Red Flag

Er...its a box with a front wedge thats been cut-off towards the middle to make room for the vicious vertical disc, but mainly to catch opponents who try to race by. Its also got weak lifting skirts to further prevent the opponent from getting under and even.

Pic: http://www.geocities.com/kodybluz/RedFlag.bmphttp://www.geocities.com/kodybluz/RedFlag.bmp

Specialty: Weapon and rear lowness.

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There. Ill try and have a CAD or MSPaint pic of Xianghua up during the weekend.

(Message edited by kodster on March 01, 2007)

Here are my machines...

LIGHTWEIGHT: Little Big Bot
This little tiny robot has a lot of hard. Shaped a bit like Biohazard, his main tactics is to pummel his oppodents to death with his nasty axe, which doubles as a srimech, takes about a second to swing down, and can go through most things.
Speciality: Weapons and Wheels.

MIDDLEWEIGHT: Tom
Wedge shaped, Tom has a flipper which can toss FIVE times his own body weight. The whiskers, ears and tail are to prevent him getting stranded on any vulnerable sides, whilst the flipper rights him.
Speciality: Weapon and Armour.

HEAVYWEIGHT: Orka MK4
You probably know what he can do. Behemoth shaped, front lifting scoop of over 100 kilos lift, claw to grab (not crush), dorsal fin srimech and tough armour as well.
Speciality: All round jack of the trades.

SUPER-HEAVYWEIGHT: Octo-Push 3
Or Storm 2 meets Revolutionist meets Squidward Tentacles. Its fast, rams oppodents with the front wedge, or cuts them up with that nasty rear drum. If youve seen Revolutionist in action, and I have, youll KNOW what it can do. It does not stand being flipped though.
Speciality: Weapons, Power and speed.

PICTURES
Little Big Bot (left) and Tom (right): http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3750/smallrobotsql7.pnghttp://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3...lrobotsql7.png

Orka MK4: http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3270/orkamk4ij9.pnghttp://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3270/orkamk4ij9.png

Octo-Push 3: http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/4686/octopush3da2.pnghttp://img187.imageshack.us/img187/4...topush3da2.png

Please tell me if something is needed

The goal is more than 8, at least. Any more is fine, just enough so that we can get in an elimination round.

What Ill do is put everyone in melees (for the whole mass class), and eliminate the 2 or 3 or 4 robots with the lowest %.

Starting at the QFs always seems really cheesy.

Behold Xianghuas pic:

http://www.geocities.com/kodybluz/Xianghua.bmphttp://www.geocities.com/kodybluz/Xianghua.bmp

I just keep getting better and better. :proud:

Anyway thats all of them. :)

Time to blow away Kodys crappy CADs =D

LW -Feedback http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2197/feedback2yk8.jpghttp://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2197/feedback2yk8.jpg
Invertible bot with a huge spinning blade at the front and a wedge at the back.
Speciality - Weapon

MW - Scorpion Bite
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/4273/scorpionbitewedges6qu.jpghttp://img159.imageshack.us/img159/4...ewedges6qu.jpg

Basically unchanged from the last event.
Speciality - Its all in the weapon

HW - Tank
Wedge Version - Deals with anything without a spinner
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/72/newtankvb8.jpghttp://img216.imageshack.us/img216/72/newtankvb8.jpg

Plow Version - Deals with spinners
http://img417.imageshack.us/img417/755/panzertank33kw.jpghttp://img417.imageshack.us/img417/7...ertank33kw.jpg

Specialities - Speed and Armor

SHW - Cosmic Thunder 2
http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/4296/cosmicthunder2open4bn.jpghttp://img380.imageshack.us/img380/4...er2open4bn.jpg

A nice lil flipper. Tbh, I never see flippers in the SHW category anymore =/

Specialities - Armor and Flipping Power