Combat Robot Hall of Fame - Nominations open

Its August. Its an odd-numbered year. That means...

Nominations for membership in the Combat Robot Hall of Fame are open!

All combat robots -- active or retired -- in any weight class -- are eligible. Builders may vote for as many robots as they like, but only one ballot per builder please. Robots are judged on the percentage of ballots on which they appear.

Consider the criteria for membership:

* Dominating success in combat
* Pioneering or perfecting influential designs
* Having great fan or entertainment appeal, or
* Otherwise making a lasting impact on the sport.

Go take a look at the hall (http://members.toast.net/joerger/hall_of_fame.htmlhttp://members.toast.net/joerger/hall_of_fame.html) to view current members and the honorable mention list. Robots on the honorable mention list may be promoted to full membership via the biennial vote, and new robots may go direct to full membership or onto the honorable mention list.

Think over your nominations, pull them together, and send them in to the ballot-only email address: speedcall@excite.com by midnight PDT on August 15th.

Results will be posted here and at the Hall of Fame.

Big Nipper. Just from pure enginering point of view. And tenacity.

Gravity. Most of the high powered flippers use weapon power systems simular or even blatant copies.

For feathers, Lambsy, taking the Gravity system a step further, and giving birth to the current generation of feather flippers that rival the old heavies in pure power.

I agree with the vote for Nipper for best engineered robot.

For feathers you have to look to the Scorpian team for as John would say pushing the boundaries. And making somthing that people said couldnt be done i.e. Scorpian Pure Evil.

mario

yes gravity as my dad even admits to copying him

so many others prob got the idea from him 2

Terrorhurtz - Still not a single robot thats acheived the power and reliabity of this robot. Great crowd pleaser, great to watch, well engineered and wins!

Big Nippers a great peice of engineering.

Tiberious - I dont suppose youve seen a robot with over 5 tonnes of crush at the tip? also very well built.

Feathers - All of team big nippers robots are very well engineered and push the boundaries of each weapon they have. Still no spinner as reliable as little spinner, no axe as reliable as little hitter, and no flipper as reliable and good looking as little Flipper.

Id certainly agree with all of the above. Big Nipper is a particular favourite of mine- superb design and build. Panic Attack taken to another level? Unless I skipped passed it theres no mention of Cassius, which although never dominant in combat certainly meets the other three criteria big time, at least in the UK. Two other UK robots that at least deserve a mention are Storm 2 and Kan-Opener. Although Storm is a highly derivative design- effectively a combination of Biohazard and Tornado- and despite some checkbook robotics grumbling, the engineering and design quality of the machine are excellent, the compact size allowing enormously strong armour. Drivetrain power and traction set new standards in the UK. Like Big Nipper, Storm 2 looks more like an American robot. Kan-Opener remains one of the best driven, most dangerous and hard to beat robots on the UK live circuit. The basic design outline has remained largely unchanged, but like TerrorHurtz it has been constantly refined and improved over the years.

* Dominating success in combat

Biohazard

* Pioneering or perfecting influential designs

Cassius

* Having great fan or entertainment appeal

Razer

* Otherwise making a lasting impact on the sport

Gravity 3.

I can also mention Shrederator, Mauler, Blendo, Mechadon, Chaos 2, Tornado, TerrorHz, Kan-opener, Big Nipper etc. etc. But when looking at the criteria i would go for these.

(Message edited by leorcc on August 06, 2007)

Well I am going to be dead biased and nominate Typhoon 2 :)

my reasons?

- The first successful UK full bodied spinner
- Powered by a petrol engine (later a petrol/electric hybrid)
- First to destroy the robot wars arena causing a cease to a fight (mainly due to some poor driving on my part but it still did it :))
- A whole heap of engineering went into it. More than I could describe here.

Ok, so Im NOT a builder, but if I could vote, these would be my bots for the list:-

Doinating success in combat:- Storm 2.

Pionering or perfecting influential designs:- Cassius.

Haveing great fan or entertainment appeal:- Plunderbird.

Otherwise making a lasting impact on the sport:- Lambsy.

Dominating success in combat- Typhoon
Pioneering or perfecting influential designs- Turbulance
Having great fan or entertainment appeal- Terror Hertz
Otherwise making a lasting impact on the sport- Chaos 2

Also like to mention, Wheely Big Cheese, Bio Hazard, Knightmare form the states, Cassius, Storm 2, Tornado, Atomic, Gravity, TAN (I could go on listing for hours!!!:talker:)

James D+ T.D.- Team BallistiX

Last call for votes for the Combat Robot Hall of Fame. Voting closes at Midnight (Pacific Standard Time) on Wednesday August 15th.

Discussing here on the forum is great, but your votes only count if you email them in.

Having great fan or entertainment appeal: Diotoir, perhaps? Or are they still around? :sad:

Firestorm

-perfecting the forward hinge flipper
-very consistent success in Robot Wars UK (although never won outright)
-it flipped Mr Psycho, and much fan appeal.

The 2007 vote is complete. The ballots ranged widely with votes cast for 45 different individual robots from the United States, Canada, and Europe. Votes from Europe and North America were counted seperately to avoid diluting the voting pool.

There are two new full members to the Hall for 2007:

* Sewer Snake (US) -- the historically #1 ranked heavyweight is promoted from Honorable Mention status.
* Cassius (UK) -- the prototypical Robot Wars flipper moves directly into the Hall.

Several other robots from the Honorable Mention roll received significant support toward full membership, but only Sewer Snake made the transition.

Five robots have been added to the Honorable Mention roll for 2007:

* Big Nipper (UK)
* CycloneBot (US)
* Gravity (Holland)
* Storm 2 (UK)
* TerrorHurtz (UK)

Brief robographies for all robots and pictures/weblinks for full members have been added to the Hall: http://members.toast.net/joerger/hall_of_fame.htmlhttp://members.toast.net/joerger/hall_of_fame.html

mark lambs eh?

I just had a look. And as far my knowledge goes, Nor WJ ,nor me ever claimed Gravity having 8 ton of flip. I always state 4 tons, with 5 tons as maximum.

Thank you Mark for giving us the chance to cast our vote. It is a cool initiative.

I just had a look. And as far my knowledge goes,
Nor WJ ,nor me ever claimed Gravity having 8 ton
of flip. I always state 4 tons, with 5 tons as
maximum.

Noted and corrected. That 8 ton number is circulating around the net, and I was unable to find an official source of info for Gravity.

Please correct me on any other issues relating to the Hall of Fame as well.

- Mark J.

While Im still awake....:)
Big Nippers Mark Lamb is actually Mark Lumb

Big Nippers Mark Lamb is actually Mark Lumb

Thank you -- corrected.

Youre very welcome and (again) many thanks for giving us the chance to vote

Actually its Mark Peter Lumb but the robot really belongs to its creator which is Graeme

Graeme Dawson? Graeme Anthony Dawson? Graeme Anthony Dawson/Lumb

Thanks Glyn I stand corrected although after all this time I still need you to draw me a diagram for the latter :)

Megabyte:angry:

Gary Cairns, what a selective memory you have! WBC damaged the OUTER arena wall by throwing AxeAwe at it. They stopped the show while the wall was checked. This happened when Typhoon was still a toy robot, before it grew up.

Whoops! Roger wasnt aware of that one. Guess I will have to try harder if they ever bring the show back :)

Its true, Ive seen the polycarb sheet hanging in the pits area after it happened.

Jacksons Wallop who fought us in series 7 was pushed by big nipper into the wall also damaged the arena with his spinning bar, not sure exactly what happened but one of the polycarb sheets dropped down with the bar stuck in it, maybe it broke the mounting holding it on, but they did not stop the fight. I also remember beating Typhoon in the qualifiers :), well before we broke down :sad:.