Crash & Burn: Mini-Tournament of Death 3

You know what? I'm just gonna go back to using NiCads...

Minesweeper 1.1
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Tornado (S7)
Colour: Gold on top and bottom, Silver on the sides, with MINESWEEPER written on the sides in red. The scoops are bronze.
Dimensions: 90cm x 85cm x 25cm
Drive: 4x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 6x NiCad Battlepacks. The motors power all 4 wheels via a belt system, and I should get about an average of 18hp from them.
Locomotion: 4 Titanium/Vanadium alloy wheels with Vulkanized rubber tyres.
Armour: 5.5mm Hardox monocoque, underneath that is 1cm of vulkanized rubber to absorb impacts.
Speed: 20mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm at front and back due to scoops, and 5mm at sides.
Turning Circle: 0m
Weapon: 2 Hardox snowplow-like scoops that can move slightly vertically, like Behemoth's, so I get good pushing power, but 0mm ground clearance at front and back.
Srimech: Invertible
Strengths: Super-reliable and fast. Now more powerful.
Weaknesses: No real offensive weapon.

And by the way...

36v/3.3v = 10.90909 packs, rounded to 11.

11 x 3.3v = 36.3v

Well Mr. Joey, as you just said on MSN, their power-to-weight ratio isn't really that good, so it wouldn't be favourable to use them anyway. :P

And good job, Mark, lol. Your bot looks in weight, now, and is relatively realistic. :)

Thanks, Kody.

Well, I think those are the final stats for Minesweeper 1.1. I hope it does well...

And we still need 1 more person...

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Originally Posted by corsair_lightning

And we still need 1 more person...

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I'll be the one to worry about that, so don't trouble yourself over it.

Okay.

Ah yes, the house robots are:

King Leer (replacing Ancalagon)
Exa-Gore-Ic Evo
Damocles
Renegade
Count Bleck (replacing Big Mac)
Hexadecimal (replacing Taki)
Rorschach (replacing Whamlet)
Asterix Anarchius

Stats are here.

My turn:

Name: Flipping Hell
Dimensions: 120cm x 80cm x 40cm
Weight: 100kg
Shape: steep wedge front, elongated wedged tail (not used as a weapon)
Weapon: 50 Bar 2 pivot pneumatic flipper, 100mm bore, 180mm stroke ram powered by CO2, which generates a force to throw a 100kg robot 20ft up and 15ft across. The mechanism is a 4 bar flipper, but the rear arms sit much lower in the robot than those of Storm 2 and Biohazard. I will try and get a picture.
Top speed: 15mph
Transmission: just like Razer€™s
GC: 0 at the front, 2mm down the side, 4mm at the back end
Turning Circle: 0cm
Armour: 6mm aluminium and steel alloy
Strengths: Can win with one weapon shot
Weakness: Limited Gas supply, 2 stage self right
Notes: 4 wheels, the rear two of which are Razer type, so the flipper is always facing its opponent.

The self righter: Look for a video on YouTube of Biohazard fighting Vlad in early RW, and yu will see what I mean by 2 stage self righting, but FH does it considerably quicker.

Right! Line-ups, then. Glad I never revealed the format for the line-ups in the first post, heheh. :proud: Anyway...

Entrants
Gabriel V (Joey)
Minesweeper 1.1 (Mark)
Qwertyuiop (Navaha)
CrOokEd (Jack)
The Final Cut (Andy)
Envy (Shane)
Next Stop Jupiter (Samuel)
Apocalypse II (Liam)
Monsoon Season (Daniel)
Die-Reverta-Tops (Chris)
Under Pressure (Martijn)
Mornington Crescent (Steven)
Nitro-Gene 5.0 (Paul)
Lethal Weapon (Tony)
Symmetry (Leo)
Flipping Hell (Dave)

Crash & Burn: Mini-Tournament of Death 3
Line-ups

Apocalypse II vs. CrOoKeD
Mornington Crescent vs. Flipping Hell
Die-Reverta-Tops vs. Envy
The Final Cut vs. Gabriel V
Lethal Weapon vs. Qwertyuiop
Nitro-Gene 5.0 vs. Monsoon Season
Under Pressure vs. Symmetry
Minesweeper 1.1 vs. Next Stop Jupiter

Tactics, predictions, crashing and burning, you know the drill, folks. :proud:

Apocalypse II vs. CrOoKeD: Apocalypse II to get under CroOKeD's 2mm side and back ground clearance and OOTA it.

Mornington Crescent vs. Flipping Hell: I'm willing to say Mornington Crescent here. In Eye of the Robot... 2, I think, Flipping Hell broke down via shock damage to a drive chain. Same thing to happen here, I think.

Die-Reverta-Tops vs. Envy: Die-Reverta-Tops to OOTA the realie.

The Final Cut vs. Gabriel V: Gabriel V to use those ears to hear AJ's tactics and defeat it. :P

Lethal Weapon vs. Qwertyuiop: I'll go for Anthony to beat the relatively inexperienced Navaha.

Nitro-Gene 5.0 vs. Monsoon Season: Storm season is over, Monsoon... :proud:

Under Pressure vs. Symmetry: Symmetry to suffer the same fate it did in Liam's mini-tourney.

Minesweeper 1.1 vs. Next Stop Jupiter: Well, let's say this will possibly decide whether NSJ has a chance in VRW 4, shall we? :proud: He may have the flipper and the spinning rim, But I have the invertability and the tough armor. I think this time, I'll move to the side, and try to get under the side of the wedge extension, and utilize that 6mm ground clearance to my advantage. He probably won't be able to damage my plows, and he can't out-push me. Ram him around a bit, then press the pit release button and shove him down. If I feel that I can't push him in without suffering major damage/being pitted myself, I'll shove him into one of the house robots. Only after I feel he's been worn down to near-immobilization will I pit him.

The Final Cut vs. Gabriel V

First things first, the removable side and rear skirts will be removed prior to the fight as if they get removed during the fight, they'll count against me as damage :proud:

We're fairly evenly matched imo, I can't do much to it because of the shape but then he can't do much to me because of my angled armour, that and there's not a lot to grab onto. The ears are at risk but I'll try and maneuver to make as little contact between ear and disc as possible, and concentrate on getting beneath it at the sides and flipping it around repeatedly by getting in underneath and flipping again once it's flipped, hopefully before it can react.

If I get a clear opportunity to do so, ram into it with the rear end to stop the disc and carry on to shove it down the pit; otherwise just flip and dominate it till the judges are called in.

...in theory...

Best of luck Andy, should be a good fight :talker: