The Roaring Donkey mini-tournament

Believe me, if you think that name is bad, you should have seen the ones that were rejected :proud:

Anyway, Im going to be doing a small tournament in order to practice my writing skills, and I need eight people to enter one heavyweight vapour each.
Weight limits are 100kg for wheeled robots, 110 for tracks/screws/shufflers, and 160 for true walkers (...are there even any around these days?) Clusterbots are allowed, up to a reasonable level (nothing more than four parts and no part can be less than 20% of total mass)

Statistics can be in any reasonable format, the more detail the better, but you must either post them here or give me a link. Entering grossly unrealistic or overweight robots will result in your entry being accepted, but mysteriously switched five minutes before your fight with Chevron Productions robot-for-hire known as Dead Weight, so keep things sensible please.

The arena is very similar to the RW series 3 arena, except there are no house robots and therefore no patrol zones.
The format will be a straight knockout one, with a playoff for third and fourth place just before the final.

There is a grand prize on offer for the winner. So please enter for great justice.

(Message edited by joeychevron on March 01, 2008)

Well, Im up for entering. I look very much forward to seeing how this looks, as seeing your fight in the How To Improve... thread, I feel that we could be in for a treat. And Im alos glad that I can try out one of my newer designs.

Here we go (Im post the stats here as I dont have a link)

TRI-TAINIUM

€ WEIGHT: 100kg

€ ARMOUR: 4mm Hardox for the back/scoop. The top and bottom panels are 5mm Titanium and the sloped sides are 6mm Hardox to sheild the wheels.

€ SHAPE: Low invertible box with a front scoop (the scoop has a slight dip in it to help get under other robots better) and sloped sides.

€ MOTORS: 2 x LEM 130€™s at 36V = 18HP

€ LOCOMOTION: 4 Vulkanised Wheels.

€ DIMENSIONS: (L) 60CM (H) 20CM (W) 60CM

€ COLOUR: Unpainted, with the exception of the name on top written in black paint.

€ WEAPONRY: The weaponry consists of 3 x 9kg discs, made out of 1cm of Titanium with 3 Hardox bludgening teeth. The discs are set on the same axle, and amounted deep into the scoop, with the teeth just reaching towards the lip of the scoop, so the uppercut movement of the discs can attack base-panels and the like. The discs are powered by 2 x LEM130s at 36V. Set on a ratio of 5:1, it gives off 3500rpm. The discs, combined together make 27kg, so the force given out is 165kj per hit! Large amounts of Rubber amounted behind the scoop stops the risk of self-destruction.

€ SPEED: 18mph

€ GROUND CLEARANCE: 0MM-1CM. At the front, it is completely 0mm. On the sides/rear, its 1cm.

€ STRENGTH: Weaponry.

€ WEAKNESS: Completely new design.

Oh w00t. :proud:

I think its time to give Macduff the 2nd one more try before I give him another redesign.

Macduff the 2nd

Picture: http://us.share.geocities.com/kodybl...duffThe2nd.bmp

Im pretty sure LEM200 Magmotors dont exist, Kody. :proud:

Regardless, thanks for entering guys, and I may as well go the whole hog and produce an entry sheet:

1: Tri-Tainium (Paul Cuomo)
2: Macduff the 2nd (Kody Kunz)
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
8: there is no 8
9:

Doh, misread that :proud:

Its LEM200 Lynch motors, sorry.

(Message edited by kodster on March 01, 2008)

Is that Magmotor as in the company that makes Magmotors, or Magmotor as in the motor contains magnets?

Edited my post :P

I might have a place for this one you know... Ill try and get a new bot up tonight :)

Back to Rock III please!

http://strickenone.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=thvapours&action=display&thread=58http://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...n=display&thre ad=58

looking smooth Joey

Ill enter Darkestar

http://www.alexjholt.tkwww.alexjholt.tk under the vapourbot resource.

Updated entries list:

1: Tri-Tainium (Paul Cuomo)
2: Macduff the 2nd (Kody Kunz)
3: (Matty space)
4: Back To Rock III (Martijn Benschop)
5: Darkestar (Alex Holt)
6:
7:
8:

can i not enter envy as a realie?

You can, just nudge me in the general direction of where I can get some stats/videos.

cool........

ENVY
forward hinge flipper (like firestorm but better)
weapon....100mm dia 250 stroke ram on 10 bar hith high flow rate.
drive... mag c40 on 24v very realible drive and never let me down yet cos its well built. custom gears with pheumatic tyres approx 16mph
power....24v nicads with roboteq and giro for maximum control.
armour....5mm hardox front sides and rear sides. 5mm hardened ali top and top rear. 5mm hardox scoop on front.

you can see envy in action on the roaming robots website under the events section and go to the barnsley best bits. won the las 2 competitions so well on form. ground clearence is 0 on the front scoop and the rest i not sure. also run on co2 and is good for about 20 good flips. some pics and vids on my photobucket too.... http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/dd301/swanaldo_2007/http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/dd301/swanaldo_2007/

:)

magmotors is the company i think. it is something to do with the magnets they use but dont fully understand it i just know they are good.

Ferpect :)

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except there are no house robots

Boo :lame:

No fun without house robots

Id like to reserve a place for The 6isc please:)

Oh dear...this could be bad...:proud:

THE LIST:
1: Tri-Tainium (Paul Cuomo)
2: Macduff the 2nd (Kody Kunz)
3: (Matty space)
4: Back To Rock III (Martijn Benschop)
5: Darkestar (Alex Holt)
6: Envy (Shane Swan)
7: The 6isc (I assume thats the official spelling?) (Frank Goacher)
8:

One more free place guys, thanks for the entries.

You assume correctly

I only reserved to make sure no-one nicked the spot while I was finishing this off. Ladies and... Actually, there are no ladies here. This section needs estrogen, damnit! Gentleman, I present:

The 6isc

Shape: Too complicated, apparently. See picture in the vapourbot images thread.

Size: 60X110X60 CM (LWH)

Weight: ~100 KGs

Speed: 10 MPH.

Ground clearance: Under the wheel protectors, it€™s 5 mm.

Weapon: 26 KG spinning disc, powered by one LEM 130 Lynch motor and going at 2500 RPM. The disc is shaped with its own teeth rather than needing teeth surgically attached to it, so dentistry is quite impossible. The energy output is 36 KJ€™s which, while modest by vapour €˜bot standards should still be enough to make a mess of things.

Wheels: 6 wheels, but four wheel drive. This has three wheels on either side arranged in a triangular fashion, so it only runs on four at a time. The wheels are 1 CM solid Ti with soft compound rubber wrapped around them to provide shock resistance, and a layer of Vulcalon wrapped around that to provide traction.

Chassis: The main chassis consists of one solitary 1 CM thick 4 mm box section hardox bar. Slotted over that is a secondary axle, inside which are the batteries. There are also two other triangular chassis€™ supporting the wheels. These are made from 4 MM 1 CM box section Ti bars with weight reducing holes.

Armour: The true axle and chassis is a 4 MM hardox bar. The battery axle is 2 mm aluminium. The semi circular wheel protectors and side spikes are 5 mm Hardox. The disc itself is 14 MM of Hardox 500, and the outer axle is 4 mm grade 5 Ti.

Srimech: Totally invertible. Controls won€™t even have to be reversed after flipping, meaning it can just go straight back on the attack.

Drive: 2 S28-400 Magmotors at 24 volts.

Strengths: The newest version of The 6isc does away with as many weaknesses in The Disc 5 as I could find.

Weaknesses: Weak armour in places. Can€™t use axe attacks.

Based on Joeys trial fight Im looking forward to this:)

save a space for me please, i will be able to give you stats by monday

Thanks Martyn - all spots are now filled.

THE ROARING DONKEY TOURNAMENT LIST OF SACRIFICIAL VICTIMS:

1: Tri-Tainium (Paul Cuomo)
2: Macduff the 2nd (Kody Kunz)
3: (Matty space)
4: Back To Rock III (Martijn Benschop)
5: Darkestar (Alex Holt)
6: Envy (Shane Swan)
7: The 6isc (Frank Goacher)
8: (Martyn space)

Draw to be posted when I have all the stats or next week, whichever is sooner.

Looks like quite a good list.

doesnt estrogen have an o at the beginning or am I being blonde again?

I think it does, but I spent two years convinced it had a J in it so dont count on me being accurate.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=oestrogenhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=oestrogen

Both spellings are right.

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save a space for me please, i will be able to give you stats by monday

Monday 28th July? :lame:

Ill take Martyns place with http://vapourbots.crystalnode.net/fo...&t=19Resonance

erm rude, i mean tomorow.

Aaron, you might not take Martyn place, but (given his reputation for stat deadlines) you might take Mattys place :wink:

*raises eyebrows*

ill effing give you stat deadlines.

When will I effing get some stats? (actually, just a name would do for now - worry about stats nearer the time)

erm some of us have lives you know

lol I dont think he was referring to you Martyn. :proud:

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erm some of us have lives you know

LOL! Serious? I would have never guessed :rofl:

Yes, I know we all have lives - anybody outside a coffin has a life :proud: - but surely it doesnt take more than 5 minutes to stick a name down, but not a long one like Quocunque Jeceris Stabit :wink:. But a short one like Disco 5 :mrgreen:

I wrote supercalifragilisticexpialidocious within a minute. :)

Can we bring this thread back into operation? I need to make a quick chance to Tri-Tainium, as Aaron analysed it and said the weapon ration was wrong. Now its 3:1.

Yep, we can, and consider it changed...

I want to try and get this running, so Ill give Martyn and Matty until Monday to get their stats in, or they will be out and Aaron will be in.

Alternatively, if anyone else wishes to enter I could kick both of them out and get the draw up quicker.