FRA Royal Robot Rumble: 30 enter, 1 leaves

Hi everyone

This is not a tournement, this is a one off battle. For those that are familier with the WWE Royal Rumble, this wont need explaining, but for those that are not, let me explain:

You each enter 1 vapourbot robot each, 30 competitors allowed. 2 robots start in the arena, and after 1 and 1/2 minutes, another robot joins in. To win the Royal Rumble, simply eliminate your oppoent, by either immobilising it, Throwing it out of the ring, or throwing it down the pit. There are no House Robots for this. The weight limit will be raised to 120kg for extra batteries, as this fight is a long one. Once all 30 robots have entered the rumble, then the last robot standing is declared the winner. There is currently a real RW Royal Rumble fight in the writing, involving 30 robots from series 6 and 7.

Place your entrants now:
Note: Placement number is not decided on what order you submit a robot: IE: the first robot to be submitted will not be the first in the arena.

The Robot Wars Royal Rumble will be up soon

Save me a place please :) (Ive got to break my curse for this! :proud:)

And dont forget a place for me! :proud:

Can i join?

Ill enter with MORD.

M.O.R.D (MASTER OF ROBOT DESTRUCTION)
Weight: 104kg (normally 98kg, but extra batteries put on)
Shape: Its body is a box tilted at an angle because the front wheels are larger than the rear ones - its like Intraverter from Robotica if youve ever seen that, or Backlash with wheels instead of claws holding it up. On the sides are extra plates giving the wheels some side protection. At the front is the flywheel, and in front of the flywheel is the scoop, operated by rods going into the robot.
Dimensions: 85 x 30 x 15/45 (lowest/highest)
Speed: 20mph
Ground Clearance: 0 at front due to scoop, 200mm behind scoop on either side of flywheel, 50mm under flywheel, 1mm-5mm at sides, 0 at back due to skirt, 1mm behind skirt
Armour: Body and wheel guards are 4mm titanium
Wheels: 4, inside robot, stick out the top so the robot can run inverted. The front wheels have no motors - they are turned by cords attached to the back wheels, like a skid steer system. Because the front wheels are larger than the rear ones to tilt the robot up, they have a high ground clearance at the front, so plates are welded onto the robots sides to protect them and lower the ground clearance.
Power: 24V battery and motors
Weapon: At the front is a titanium scoop which operates through 180 degrees, so it can work when the robot is upside down. Behind the scoop is a 10kg vertical spinning flywheel, spinning at 2000rpm, which comes into play if the scoop is lifted.
Srimech: Invertable; screws tapped into sides keep it from resting there
Tactics: Shove opponents with the scoop, then lift the scoop and attack with the flywheel
Strengths: Fast and manouverable; powerful flywheel
Weaknesses: Hard to control; can be flipped from sides

You interested in entering VFT5 BTW, Dave? Theres one place left.

Me want to enter.

*wonders if 10 kg of co2 and re-charging batteries will be any good :proud:*

Give me TSC (sfm6), 200 kg mode, stats at http://www.geocities.com/mrdave1986http://www.geocities.com/mrdave1986 under team new age.

are you doing 200kg limit for walkers then?

if so ill have angel of the abyss + extra batteries

if not and your allowed clusters and have the 100% out rule ill have ramthrax.

if not that ill have tengu 5.1 but with skirts attached onto the base (so the chell spins over it)

any stats can be found at http://www.geocities.com/alex_j_holt/VRwww.geocities.com/alex_j_holt/VR

Ill give it a shot. Get one final shot at **.

Now, before I start this is not an arguement in any way shape or form...you and Matty have entered more tourneys since you have been retired than you did before :proud:

Well, I need to keep my robots healthy, just in case.

You need to keep your robot healthy, so you enter it in a 30 robot death match. Nice one:)

LOL :proud:

Dont reserve me a spot unless you really need the numbers

Ill enter my brand new robot, Indisctructable. Here are its stats.

Indisctructable
Description: A copy of the early Storm 2
Weight: 98kg
Power: 2 F1 car batteries driving 2 750watt motors through a 6WD transmission giving 18hp and speeds of 20mph
Dimensions: 1.1m long x 0.8m wide x 0.3m high
Weapons: None!! It is built like a tank & is designed not to be damaged as it has the same grade titanium armour as Big Nipper.
Strengths: Fast, maneuverable, adjustable ground clearance, good control and strong titanium armour
Weaknesses: NONE!!

Theres also a pic on my profile of this machine

Mr Brisbourne, your obviously not to clued up on your designs, so Ill give you a little push along, 750watt motors do NOT produce 18HP. 750watts is equal to 1HP. So theoretically, you will only have a robot with 2HP of drive. There are featherweights with bigger drive trains then that. Also, im pretty sure F1 cars dont use large batteries like you would need as they carry onboard starter motors for the engines and they usually use a starter probe to start the engine, this saves lugging around 10kg in batteries. So you might want to look at using NiCD packs.

And dont forget to solve your motor problem.

Thanks for the tip, Aaron, Ill install some new specialist motors and speed controllers. So Im hoping for about 7hp at the least but well see.

Id also like to see just how thick this Titanium armour is before you go claiming its indestructable. Even Storm 2 has taken damage, and some vapour-bots are more dangerous than even Typhoon and Supernova.

See Weapons section to find out armour strength. I dont care how well it does, I want it to put on a good show, Ive fitted the new motors and speed controllers so hopefully it have somewhere between 8hp and 18hp. Test of its power will have to be done in this wicked clash.

OK, here goes nothing

Name of Robot;Orka MK3
Weight;100 kilos (normally 95 kilos)
Power;6x 24v Batteries
Speed;20mph
Body shape;Looks like Panzer MK3
Wheels;6
Armour;5mm titanium
Weapons;Pneumatic flipper at the front that can throw 200 kilos.
Srimech;A dorsal fin atop the body rights it when flipped
GC;3mm
Strengths;Weapons
Weaknessess;Hard to turn

Man, I need more vapourbot-experience
and this is the right way to get it :D
please save me one spot

NAME: psyker
WEIGHTt: 100kg
WEAPONS:none
SHAPE: shaped like storm 2 but with a long spike coming out of the back.
dimensions: 70cm lenght, 55 cm width and 18 cm height
POWER: lynch motors powered by 4 atomic batteries (i read about them in the #3 issue of the new robot wars magazine, also the batteries are very,very small because they are atomic.)
WHEELS: 6 volcanised wheels.
ARMOUR: 17mm titanium all armour around the robot (because of the weight saved by using atomic batteries)
SPEED: 30 mph
HORSIES:proud: : 20bhp. (because of the power of lynch motors+ atomic batteries)
COLOUR: natural colur of titanium
STRENGHS: allmost impossible to immobolise
WEAKNESES:hard to see where the robot is going due to very fast speed!:)
RUNNING TIME: 20 min. (atomic batteries again! :proud: )
GOOD FOR: breaking robot wars records

save me a space

How many you enter, save me a spot

One problem. There arent 30 people who make vapours. If I were you Dave Id make it so 15 people enter 2 machines.

P.s, Martyn agrees and wanted to be mentioned.

Tom: I agree with Aaron, but what ARE these new motors?! :P

Ok People: As Frank suggested, I will have 2 robots per person, but please bear in mind, you can gang up if that is a tactic, but when it comes to who goes out of the two, thats my choice.

Also, Walkers get the extra 20kg for batteries like everyone else (Heavyweight walkers are normally 200kg, so 20kg is added for batteries or gas, depending on your choice)

Spots have been saved, and the stats have been taken down, only 6 robots are in, another 24 left to find.

in that case (if the cluster rules 100% out) ill have angel of the abyss and ramthrax.

stats in the place i said before

Ill enter, save me 2 places please. :proud:

Seeing this is the kind of match where you need to be able to stay away from trouble while inflicting it yourself, I think my best bet would be Team Slippery Bastards. Or, as everyone else knows them, Tempest Evil-oution and The Disc 2.

Name: Tempest: Evil-oution

Shape: Disc shaped

Speed: 15 MPH

Ground clearance: 4 mm all round

Motors: The two wheels are powered by Bosh 750€™s at 24 volts, but the weapon is powered by a B42-500 magmotor at 36 volts. These are powered by battlepack NiCDs.

Wheels: Two. These have only semi-good traction, to prevent it staying near the opponent after striking. Again, they€™re stuffed instead of pumped.

Weapon: Full body spinner, can reach speeds of 2000 RPM. The thing has six hardox teeth, two at the top, two at the bottom, and two in the centre, and each tooth is 15 CM long, and slightly hooked at the end, with a little sliver of diamond at the business end. In case you€™re wondering I did some experiments and I found that€™s the best shape for the bouncing off. This way, no matter which way its running, there will be two teeth near the ground. This is important, because it means no matter how gentle the slope of an oncoming wedge, a tooth will hit it before any serious pushing/flipping can be done. Along with its deliberate bouncing which throws both it and its opponent away, its literally an anti-push robot. The spinning rim of the robot weighs in at 35 KG, and all in all produces nearly 60 KJ€™s when at full speed.

Armour: 5 mm aircraft grade ali for the rim, 1 CM grade 5 ti at the top and bottom.

Srimech: Runs either way up. If the weapon is running, it cant stay on its side.

Extras: Deliberately bounces off of things it hits, so that its just about impossible to push, and also has time to spin up to a damaging speed again. There is rubber tape at all places where two pieces of metal join, and it has rubber shock pads mounted at strategic places on the inside, and the important components are foam mounted, allowing it to absorb its own impacts very well.
There is a 5 mm ali €œshield€ over the wheel mounts. This STOPS AXES FROM HITTING THEM MATTY!!! Under the shield is a counter-weight, allowing the shield to spin around once Tempest is flipped.

Strengths: Damaging weapon, it€™s very reliable, is hard to predict and cannot be shoved around.

Weaknesses: Is also pretty hard to control. Wheels are exposed to axes, but are stuffed so won€™t take too much damage from them.

Name: The Disc 2

Shape: A vertical spinning disc, supported by a framework and two large wheels. The components are all inside the wheels, which are perfectly round so it can€™t rest on its side. The framework is around the disc, and protects it from blows by horizontal spinners. The wheels also have a large spike sticking out from the centre, which prevents robots like Forcepower getting near enough to shove it around.

Speed: 10 MPH.

Weapon: 30 KG spinning disc, powered by a B42-500 magmotor and going at 4000 RPM. According to Aaron this will whack out around 52 Kj€™s per strike.

Armour: The wheels are made of 5 mm aluminium, over 1 CM rubber compound, over 4 MM Ti all around, with 2 CM rubber treads wrapped around and glued in place. The frame is made of 1cm Ti bars.

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

Strengths: Very damaging weaponry, hard to attack as wedges will just go straight under the wheels and be hit by the disc, and axes and crushers will slide around the wheels as opposed to damaging them, plus Behemoth style scoops can€™t get near enough to shove thanks to the spikes.

Weaknesses: Quite hard to control.

Random fact: Will retire just as soon as everyone works out how to get rid of it.

Oh, in that case

Name;Smudge 3.142
Weight;120 kilos
BS;Drillzilla type walker
Movement;8 banks of feet
Speed;30mph
Power;6x 24v Batteries
Armour;8mm thick titanium with a 2mm thick fur covering
Weapons;Interchangable (see below). For this match, I will use set-up 1
Srimech;Can change depending on set-up (see below)
Strengths;Interchangable weaponary
Weaknessess;Take a guess...

Weapon/Srimech set-ups

Set-up 1;(the one I will be using) a massive Gravity style flipper covering most of the robot. It acts as Srimech and guards are added over the banks to stop them being attacked
Set-up 2;A giant Kat 3 style axe. It can still right and the guards are there again
Set-up 3;A set of Kan Opener style pincers. The robot runs inverted here without guards
Set-up 4;3 vertical cutting discs, like Pussycat, spinning at 3000rpm. Again the robot is inverted.

Remember though, I am using set-up 1

[Movement;8 banks of feet]

Banks? Why banks? I thought they were cash machines not used on a robot?! :S

Well, thats what theyre technically called AJ.

Under Drillzilla in RWE, official guide, it says Driving two banks of feet. That is, indeed, the technical term.

Those special motors in Indisctructable are top secret industrial motors added with a custom-built speed controller gives good power. I dont know how much but Im guessing between 8hp & 18hp. Also it has good traction so it will stick to the ground better then Chaos 2.

Top secret industrial motors? Meh. If you want around 18 HP, just say youre using Lem 130s like Storm 2 and get it over with:lame:

Name: Dervish Quatro
Weight: 100kg
Armour: 6mm Aluminium Boron Carbite, with 5mm Lexiguard inside that to protect electronics.
Speed: 18mph
Shape: Invertible cylinder, like Barberous
Weapon 1: Spinning body which spins upwards, so it can flip its opponents.
Strengths: Powerful weaponry and very manouverable
Weaknesses: Poor traction and exposed wheels.
Ground Clearance: 7mm all around
Srimech: Invertible
Notes: The robot is powered by 2 S28-150 MagMotors, giving the robot a top speed of 18mph. The spinning body is made from 6mm Aluminium Boron Carbite, with 5mm Lexiguard inside that. The spinning body has Carbon tipped blades and Grade 5 Titanium blades attached all over it, so it can destroy all matters of armour. The body itself is powered by 2 Etek Motors running at 48v, geared down 5:1. This means the drum spins at approx 4000RPM. This should be enough power to destroy a robot in a matter of seconds.

Name: Wheely Pure Evil (Thanks to Aaron for flipper rams and armour)
Weight: 100kg
Armour: 3mm Aluminium Boron Carbite (slightly heavier than Aluminium, but harder than Tungsten)
Speed: 18mph
Shape: Low invertible wedge
Weapon 1: Top hinged flipper powered by a 120mm pneumatic ram, working at 145psi fixed on top of the robot. At the bottom of the flipper there is a 5mm Grade 5 Titanium wedge extender, designed to get under any ground clearance.
Weapon 2: Top hinged flipper powered by a 120mm pneumatic ram, working at 145psi fixed on the bottom of the robot. At the bottom of the flipper there is a 5mm Grade 5 Titanium wedge extender, designed to get under any ground clearance.
Strengths: Powerful weaponry and tough amrour.
Weaknesses: Exposed wheels on top and limited CO2 on board.
Ground Clearance: 1cm at the back, 0mm on sides due to side skirts and 0mm at front due to flipping plate.
Srimech: Invertible.
Notes: The robot is powered by 2 S28-400 MagMotors running at 24v, which give 18mph top speed. The flippers are made from 4mm Aluminium Boron Carbite, and powered by 120mm pneumatic rams working at 145psi. Each flipper can flip roughly 1150kg each. However, due to the flipper set up, the robot can flip roughly 2300kg! The robot has hinged side skirts, to stop robot getting underneath. The skirts are made from 3mm Aluminium Boron Carbite, and are hinged so they run upside down.

I dont allow shufflebots, Chris

Ill back up MORD with Battle Raptor 3:

BATTLE RAPTOR 3
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Low box, painted orange with black stripes like the raptors in Jurassic Park, with a low scoop at the front, with a hammer and a decorative Velociraptor head attached to either side of the scoop (the heads are on the sides of the hammers)
Dimensions: 85 x 50 x 30
Speed: 17mph
Ground Clearance: 0 at front due to scoop, 0 at sides and back due to skirts, 4mm behind skirts
Armour: 5mm titanium; scoop is 3mm titanium
Wheels: 4, inside robot, poke out the top so the robot can run inverted
Power: 24V battery and motors
Weapon: A CO2 powered flipper/axe. The weapon is positioned at the front of the robot, with a 3mm titanium scoop at the end resting on the floor. Two small Beta-style pointed hammers are fixed to the side of the scoop, extending just above it. The weapon fires quickly like an axe, turning 180 degrees to flip anything at the front and axe anything at the back. It then returns to its original position at a slower speed, because it would deform the flipper otherwise.
Srimech: Weapon acts as srimech. If weapon fails in resting position, robot can run inverted because the hammers on the scoop do not extend to the full height of the robot when it is right side up and therefore do not prop it off the floor. It cannot rest on its sides and rear due to the skirts, which flop down when it is inverted.
Tactics: Flip skirtless opponents and axe skirted opponents.
Strengths: Multi purpose weaponry; invertable; fast
Weaknesses: Cannot use weaponry when inverted; wheels vulnerable to axes

***The body itself is powered by 2 Etek Motors running at 48v, geared down 5:1. This means the drum spins at approx 4000RPM***

Dan, Eteks only do around 3400rpm, so if you gear it 5:1, it would only do 680rpm

OK, ok. Be moody.

Smudge 3.142 now runs on 4 wheels, but has the same properties as before, OK?

That would make your machine 20 kg overweight.

Not according to the rules Matt