VRW Extreme

Since the tournament isnt going well, I decided to cancel it and try an Extreme series to begin with.

Weight:

100kg: wheeled
110kg: tracked
150kg: shuffler
200kg: true walker

There are 2 arenas:

Batttlebox Arena
Robot Wars Arena

There are no House Robots.

There are several events:

New Blood: 12 spots
Vengeance: 12 spots
All Stars: 16 spots
Mayhem: 36 spots
Annihilator: winners from Mayhem
Featherweight Battles: 18 spots
Middleweight Battles: 8 spots
Spinner Smash-Up: 4 spots
Axe Attack: 4 spots
Crusher Crunch-Up: 4 spots
World Championship: 16 spots
Tag Team Terror: 8 spots for teams
Flipper Frenzy: 4 spots

I would like it if every spot gets filled.

One thing I wish to say.....

+2>PLEASE ENTER!

And one last thing....

+2>USE SERIOUS BOTS!

(Message edited by corsair_lightning on April 08, 2008)

You might be a bit optimistic with the amount of spots open in some events...also, could you clarify how many robots were allowed to enter, and what the rules on clusterbots are?

You can enter as many as you want, but you must at least enter 3 robots.

Clusterbot rules are the same: 50% of a clusterbot must be dead for it to be out.

You can enter 1 bot in more then 1 competition.

Now for descriptions:

NEW BLOOD: This is an event made for new or highly failing robots. Winner gets 8th seed, Runner-up gets 16th seed, and 3rd place gets 20th seed.

VENGEANCE: Grudge matches. If you feel like you have lost unfairly to some other robot, or are preturbed at it beating you badly, then feel free to face it again here.

ALL STARS: The best of the best. Only elite robots with a winning record of at least 7 match wins can enter. Winner gets to be 1st seed, while runner up gets to be 2nd seed.

MAYHEM: Ive decided to trim it down to 18 spots, but the carnage isnt going to be any less fierce. 3-robot fights. Winner heads to an annihilator.

ANNIHILATOR: The winners from the Mayhem matches come here to face off. Winner gets to be 3rd seed, while runner-up gets to be 4th seed.

FEATHERWEIGHT BATTLES: Nice face-offs between the tiny terrors of the robot world.

MIDDLEWEIGHT BATTLES: Beautiful combat between Middleweight robots.

SPINNER SMASH-UP: The most ferocious spinners from around the world fight. Winner gets 15th seed.

AXE ATTACK: The ultimate in axes go after each other to see who will stand victorious. Winner gets the 17th seed.

CRUSHER CRUNCH-UP: The most powerful, but very slow robots of all time face each other in mortal combat. Winner gets the 18th seed.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: Robots from around the world compete to see who is the most dominant of them all. Winner gets 5th seed.

TAG TEAM TERROR: Teams of 2 fight it out the gruesome way. Winners get 6th and 7th seeds, respectively.

FLIPPER FRENZY: Up, up and away! The most powerful flippers in robot history will face each other. Winner gets 9th seed.

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(Message edited by paulc on April 08, 2008)

1 in each of these:

Axe Attack
Spinner Smash-Up
Crusher Crunch-up
Flipper Frenzy
New Blood
Middleweight Battles

You may enter 2 bots for these:

Tag Team Terror
World Championship
Mayhem
All Stars

You may enter 3 bots in these:

Featherweight Battles

Ive Decided to add a Challenge Belt to this one.

If Martijn enters, Flick of the Wrist will be the holder to begin with.

You can have up to 3 robots in this competition.

MARK, Flick of the Wrist is the holder of LIAMs Challange Belt tourney

weve been over this time and time and time again!

Good luck getting this going.

Follow Andys advise and start small with say a 4-way knockout

The first episode will have these things:

Guess Ill have to add realies.

Mayhem: Razer vs ??? vs ???
Axe Attack: Hydra vs ??? vs ??? vs ???
All Stars: Wheely Big Cheese vs Biohazard, and ??? vs ???
Vengeance: Razer vs Pussycat


Note: ??? = entry

...Mark, did you not listen to any of our advice? Dont do lineups before you get entries, and lower your expectations if you want to get your tournaments anywhere near full. This sort of competition would be difficult enough for seasoned writers to do, let alone somebody with your experience and reputation.

MARK!MARTIJN IS RIGHT!
YOU CANT JUST DECIDE TO DO A FOLLOW UP TO MY TOURNAMENT!!
AND JUST BEACUSE YOUR OTHER TURNAMENT WAS CRAP, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK ANYONE WILL ENTER THIS??

I would like to enter the new blood with this new blood:

Name - Serious
Shape - Invertible box with wedges both end like this \---\
Colour - Blue with a serious looking face on front and rear
Armour - 5mm steel
Drive - 2, 12 volt electric lifting motors, purchased from an old vehicle lift, powering 6 wheels.
Weapon - none
sri-mech - none
Notes - Is serious at being serious
Strengths - Is serious at winning
Weaknesses - not the worlds best drive.

Ill enter the new blood with an even more serious robot:
Name- More Serious than Daves serious
Shape: Wedge
Colour: Grey
Armour: 6mm steel (take that Dave)
Drive: 2 x S28-400 magmotors running at 24v
Weapon: None
Srimech: Invertible
Notes: Seriously more seriously serious than Daves seriously serious robot seriously called Serious.Seriously, Im serious.
Strengths: Seriously serious about being serious serious.Serious.
Weaknesses: Seriously

That seriously serious enough for you Mark? :proud:

(Message edited by Robot_Warrior on April 08, 2008)

why so serious

Seriously?
Read the first post- Doesnt Mark say he wants serious robots, I say we give em to him!

Name: Surely You Cant Be Serious?
Weight: 87kgs
Dimensions: 85 x 85 x 20 cms
Shape: Wedge with rounded back
Colour: White with red stripes
Drive: 2 LEM130 motors running at 36v from 3 NiCad packs at 36v driving two aluminium and vulkalon wheels
Armour: 5mm aluminium with fiberglass rear
Weapons: Front 4-bar electric lifting arm running from one 24v linear actuator, front axe running from a geared down drill motor like on Trident, and rear 300rpm circular saw driven from a 2 stroke strimmer engine
Srimech: Lifter
Notes: It is serious, just dont call it Shirley.
Strengths: Extremely serious, can out-serious any other seriousness known or to be invented - seriously
Weaknesses: Too serious for its own good

Serious?

Ok, Im gonna enter A Serious Bot

Name: A Serious Bot
Weight: A serious 100 kg
Dimensions: A serious 84 x 84 x 18 cms
Shape: A highly serious cilinder
Colour: Seriously red
Drive: 2 Seriously powerful motors powering 2 seriously grippy wheels
Armour: A serious 3 mm of highly serious Hardox
Weapons: A seriously powerful spinning ring powered by an even more serious LEM, on the ring are 2 seriously sharp teeth
Srimech: Invertible, Im not kidding, Im bloody serious in fact
Notes: Serious business
Strengths: A serious contender I think
Weaknesses: No fun

Seriously? :mrgreen:

Cam I ask Mark - why do you think no-one bothers to enter your competitions? Its becuase youve got on everybodys nerves and f***** up real bad on your first tourny - that word with stars on is the only word that can be properly used in this situation, as you didnt write them well, entered other robots without permission and wrote your own competition as a follow-up to Liams Challenge Belt, a tornument which I rather enjoyed.

That and your fights are DIABOLICAL! Try to stretch them out a bit, something like 230-400 words are good for fights that go on a bit, 100-230 words for shorter ones and 100- words are for REALLY short fights. The advantage of longer battles is that you can fit so much more detail in, and that is what I found out that people were after - theres no point in writing a big long fight like Kody and Martjn and Matty and AJ and Richard do (or in Richards case did :sad:), because detail is what is really important. What happens also helps makes your fights good, but you need to get a balance between detail and events to write good fights.

What I would do is not open another tournument until youve practiced writing battles and made your reputation better. OK?

Use the How To Improve... thread to send in battles and take advice to make them better.

I agree Mark should not open another tourny for a while, but he does have what he asked for- Serious entries:mrgreen:!

And if you drae do another reference to one of my tournaments Mark...Well, Id rather not say...
On a brighter note, glad you enjoyed it Paul!

Simply, I will add robots from the Virtual Robot Wars thread, the VRW Renewed thread, and the various robot combat competitions.

Mayhem: Razer vs Extreme Cheese vs Chaos 2

Axe Attack: Hydra vs Woodpecker vs Mortis Infranor vs Axe Awe

All Stars: WBC vs Biohazard, and Behemoth Evo X vs Merlin

Vengeance: Razer vs Pussycat


Any Predictions?

Withdraw Extreme Cheese. NOW.

Mayhem: Razer vs Cassius 2 vs Chaos 2

i predict.......silence and tumbleweed

I agree with Shane.

Mortis Infranor

was that even ever made?

Remove my robot from this tournament now.

what are the options for actually copyrighting a vapourbot?

I wouldnt say theres copyright, more etiquette. You dont enter other peoples designs into tournaments, even your own.

etiquette didnt work :lame:

This git knows no boundaries...he must be stopped.

quote:

Mortis Infranor

was that even ever made?

I dont believe it was.

Can i enter CRAP BAG into the mayhem? the details are on my flickr account, i cant remember the link right now if theres space i;ll get the link

I know what Ill do...

CRAPPY LITTLE LOSER BOT

Weight: 100kg
Shape: Box
Dimensions: 89 X 88.4 X 99
Powered by: 2 X LEM-130 on 4 X NiCad Battlepacks
Wheels: 4 vulkanized wheels
TC: Guess.
GC: 4mm All Around
Weapons: None, its crappy and its a loser.
Srimech: None
Strengths: None
Weaknesses: Its crappy and a loser.

If you DARE take one of my bots and put them in this Mark then your Robot SMASH!! campaign will suffer...

Liam, My Robot SMASH!! campaign is suffering.

Not one of my robots have made it past round 1.

Then maybe you should have made some more vapours, or chosen realies that cope with vapours better... Or it could be that the draw is just unlucky for you.
And when I said I would make it suffer I was more thinking:
Mark presses the pit release and drives in!
But Ill only do something like that if you steal my robots.