The K-TOAD tournament

The Key To Open Any Door Tournament

Right, Im working on a similar line to Here I Go Again, where Im keeping things nice and simple, however like Here I Go Again, the numbers are going up.

What I need is for 16 people to enter 2 vapourbots each, on a first-come first served basis, which will give 32 machines in total. There are seeds of:
1 - Frank
2 - Paul
3 - Martyn
4 - Kody

So if those people enter, can they select one of their 2 machines to be the seed.

I think I have covered everything, 100KG limit for tracks.

Get Cracking

BTW, there will be a prize for the first person to guess the link between the names of my last tournament and this one

Avarice

Relevant link to stats - http://strickenone.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=heavieshttp://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...?board=heavies

EDIT: Darn, cant enter Super Gore Evo thanks to your 100kg track rule. :P Well, my next entry will come in a bit. Finishing it up...

(Message edited by kodster on January 14, 2008)

D-J and Counter for me Dave. D-Js in help with vapour and counters in the Eye of the robot 3.

By the way, the link is that the titles you chose for the tournaments are from lyrics of Whitesnake songs, particularly Here I Go Again and Is This Love. :wink:

Well done Kody :crazy:

Is This Love was the next single after Here I Go Again (according to wikipedia)

And by the power of Google Docs:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pu1JTlT8jNCWbjPZ6w85weQhttp://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?k...NCWbjPZ6w85weQ

If that works

NAME- Death Threat 0.1
SHAPE- Long box with rounded back,
COLOUR- dull grey all over
WEIGHT- about 100kg
DIMENSIONS- L:95cm W:70 cm H:30cm
SPEED- 10mph
TURNING CIRCLE- 0m
GROUND CLEARANCE- Hinged skirts give 0mm all over. 10mm under skirts.
ARMOUR- 8mm titanium
MOVEMENT- Tracks with 2 Bosch Motors with 3 Ni-cad battery packs at 36 Volts 24ah.
WEAPONS- Horizontal crushing claws at front made out of titanium with 4.25 tons of crushing power
SRIMECH- Invertible. Side spikes to stop it resting on its side

NAME: If Cats Had Wheels, We Could Have Cat Races, How Cool Would That Be A.K.A Cat With Wheels
SHAPE: Wedge with sloped sides.
COLOUR: Like a Tabby Cats coat
WEIGHT: Around 100Kg
DIMENSIONS: 100X70x50
SPEED: 18mph.
TURNING CIRCLE: Omm
ARMOUR: 7mm Titanium
GROUND CLEARANCE: Front 0mm skirts at sides give 0mm, 15mm at back and underneath the skirts.
MOVEMENT: 2 wheels with Vulkanon tires and aluminium hubs insider the robot. powered by 2 S28-150 Magmotors with 3 24V 2.4ah NiCads
WEAPONS: Front hinged CO2 flipper, powered by two high pressure rams, running at 250psi.
SCRIMECH: flipper.

Orka MK4 and Die-Ceratops Re-Invertus. Check out C&B2 for stats, Im on page 1.

Hypertension Mk 3 and BIACS-LE

Ill enter Drilla Killa 7 and Tenderizers Revenge 2.

DRILLA KILLA 7
Weight: 99kg
Shape: Low invertable box, painted red, with a Tornado-like low wedge at the front, and an upside down one at the back for when the robot is upside down, and skirts at the sides fixed at the centre so they work whichever way up the robot is
Dimensions: 110 x 40 x 25
Speed: 17mph
Ground Clearance: 0 at front due to wedge; 0 at sides due to skirts, 3mm behind skirts, 25cm at most at back due to inverted wedge
Turning Circle: 2cm
Armour: 5mm Hardox
Wheels: 6, inside robot
Power: 4 Perm 080s motors on 24V powered by 24V @ 12amp batteries
Weapon: Each wedge has a hole in the centre - inside each hole is a diamond tipped drill, spinning at 600 rpm, which comes out of the hole using a motor. It can come out to cause damage when an opponent is on the wedge, or can stay out and cause damage when the robot rams opponents.
Srimech: Invertable; cannot rest on sides due to skirts
Tactics: To get under unskirted opponents, slam them around and bring out the drills to damage their underbellies; to ram skirted opponents with the drills out and try to cause damage
Strengths: Good pushing power
Weaknesses: Drills may not penetrate very thick armour; high ground clearance at back

TENDERIZERS REVENGE 2
Weight: 97kg
Shape: Low invertable box with low wedge at the front and inverted wedge at the back - painted blue with its name painted to look like blood on the skirts
Dimensions: 90 x 90 x 20
Speed: 15mph
Ground Clearance: 0 all around due to low wedge and skirts, 2mm behind side skirts, 20cm behind skirt on inverted wedge. Both wedges have skirts attached to them at their edge. The wedge and side skirts are attached to rotatable cylinders inside the robot (or wedge) so they can be moved up and down. When they are down, they are very low and its hard to get underneath, but the robots speed is reduced to 9mph. The side skirts can go up to a point where they work inverted. The skirts on the wedges move within 90 degrees - when their wedge is inverted, they are in a vertical position to repel flippers, and when their wedge is right way up, they are in a horizontal position, riding along the ground to help get under robots. When the robot is moving around normally, all skirts except the front wedge one are pulled down low but not to maximum lowness so it can move quickly - the skirts go to maximum lowness if a flipper comes anywhere near it.
Armour: Main body has 5mm polycarbonate on top of 5mm titanium, skirts are 4mm titanium, wedges are 5mm hardox
Wheels: 4, inside robot
Power: 4 Perm 080s motors on 24V powered by 24V @ 12amp batteries
Weapon: An electrically powered lifting arm, which runs along half of the top of the robot - its tip is pointed to help hold onto robots, and is at the point where the wedge meets the body, and it does not go down the wedge. It can rotate through 360 degrees so it can be used when the robot is inverted.
Srimech: Invertable - arm will act as srimech, but this will hardly happen as the robot works identically both ways up. Moveable skirts prevent it from resting on its sides.
Tactics: Run into opponents, try to get under them, then get them onto its top and onto the arm. The arm turns them over, or catches them so I can carry them around.
Strengths: Decent pushing power; moveable skirts; difficult to attack by flippers
Weaknesses: May struggle to use arm against some opponents

Flick of the Wrist and Axe to Fall, stats on Kodys board

What the hey?

NAME- Metal Sonic Spin Dash
SHAPE- low skirted box, with fixed front wedge & sloped sides
COLOUR- blue bodywork, with red-and-white striped skirting
WEIGHT- about 100kg
DIMENSIONS- 102cm X 75cm X 20cm
SPEED- 16mph
TURNING CIRCLE- 0m
GROUND CLEARANCE- virtually 0mm at front with spatula, 0mm elsewhere with skirts, 12mm elsewhere without skirts
ARMOUR- 3.75mm Hardox
WHEELS- inside robot, 6WD
POWER- 2 x LEM-130 MagMotors. These will run at 36v and produce approximately 18hp.
WEAPONS- The main weapon here is really the excellent traction, but like all its other incarnations, Spin Dash still maintains its Pussycat-style vertical saw blade, running at 3000rpm. This time, however, the four-clawed spinner sticks halfway out of the front wedge, so that when the wedge/spatula combo bashes underneath an opponent, both the wheels and the underbelly are at the mercy of the saw.
Also features several Mute-style barbs on top to hook onto other robots and let me drag them around the ring
SRIMECH- a rear-hinged arm on top with a basic low-pressure CO2 set-up. Can be used to about 30-40 times and is ONLY used for self-righting in order not to waste the gas supply
NOTES- flies the Scotland flag, has F*** Shadow! written on the underbelly in red
STRENGTHS- excellent traction, fast, manoueverable, tough armour, well-skirted, great at getting under everyone else
WEAKNESSES- so-so turning ability, teething troubles?
PICCY HERE- http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/3603/fifthspindashde6.pnghttp://img77.imageshack.us/img77/360...pindashde6.png

NAME- Turbo Tails (formerly Tails) (HW)
SHAPE- short box with front wedge, sloped sides & rounded rear
COLOUR- yellow with the foxs face looking particularly evil on the front slope
WEIGHT- approx 100kg
DIMENSIONS- 90cm X 75cm X 25cm
SPEED- 16mph
TURNING CIRCLE- 0m
GROUND CLEARANCE- approx 0mm at front (titanium blade), 8mm everywhere else
ARMOUR- 3.5mm monocoque Hardox, with 2mm yellow fur over that.
MOVEMENT- 4 inner wheels
POWER- 2 x C40-500 MagMotors. These will run at 36v and produce approximately 12hp.
WEAPONS- Tails chief weapon is the horizontal spinning blade. Now mounted on top, its a bit heavier than before and has Fluffy-style heads instead of the old hammers. Its powered by 2 x LEM-130s running at 36v and has top speeds of around 2500rpm, so its definately just as deadly as before - if not, more so!
SRIMECH- A front forward-hinged arm, powered by a single, low-pressure CO2 ram. Capable of operating just over 30 times per fight. Not used for the offensive unless desperate. Sloped sides and rounded rear also prevent it getting beached.
NOTES- flies the Scotland flag
STRENGTHS- orrible weapon, touger armour, fast, fairly compact, greater pushing power
WEAKNESSES- not quite as manouverable as before, flammability, wholl take it seriously?
PICCY HERE- http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8014/turbotailsnu8.pnghttp://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8014/turbotailsnu8.png

The May Tracks Has You

Shape: Like Comengetorix. It has a wedge extender to give it 0 mm at the front.

Speed: 20 MPH.

Dimensions(lwh A): 85CM X 45 CM X 24 CM

Armour: 4.5 MM hardox.

GC: 0 mm at the front, 6 mm everywhere else, covered by skirts made of 3 mm Ti.

Weapon 1: Rear hinged flipper, powered by two pneumatic rams at 500 psi.

Weapon 2: Upward facing spikes on the wedge. A robot can go over them, but if it tries to reverse, say goodbye to your tyres. By wedging a robot then reversing suddenly, TMTHY can impale the tyres, then fire the flipper to do loads of damage. Even a robot with stuffed tyres will be limping after that.

Drive: Inner tracks, powered by Lem-130€™s at 24 volts.

Srimech: The flipper.

Strengths: Weapon synergy. Once The May Tracks Has You, there is no escape.

Weaknesses: Axe/flipper combos could take the tracks out.

A Robot With A Really Long Name Simply Because I Like Acronyms (Acronyms for short:proud:)

Shape: A low hexagon.

Speed: 15 MPH.

Dimensions excluding claws(lwh): 55CM X 55 CM X 25 CM

Armour: 4 MM grade 5 Ti with a 2 mm sacrificial polycarb laminate.

GC: 1 CM, covered by side skirts.

Weapon: Jaws of life and horizontal crusher. These use a €œgimble€ junction (credit to James Baker) to prevent all the crushers being stalled if just one encounters resistance, and also means the full crushing force can be applied on all four points at once. The crushers have lots of weight reducing holes in them.

Drive: 2 central wheels powered by two Lem 130€™s at 24 volts, used more for the acceleration than the HP. There are castors at the front and rear to provide stability.

Srimech: Invertibility.

Strengths: Weapon synergy. If your robot has weak-ish top armour, it€™ll have you. If it has weak-ish side armour, it€™ll have you. God help you if they€™re both weak-ish.

Weaknesses: Heavy weapon takes away from armour strength, slow to self right.

May Tracks should really be the seed for this one.

Dante and Baldur for me
http://www.alexjholt.tkwww.alexjholt.tk as per usual.

Gone from house robot to heavyweight fighter...

http://strickenone.proboards99.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=heavies&thread=1200 360591&page=1http://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...heavies&thread =1200360591&page=1

Second entry in, Dave. :)

Im entering my two versions of old robots - Autoism and Nitro-Gene 2.0 (And Im selecting Ntro-Gene to be my seed, seeing as it got second last time :proud:)

AUTOISM

€ WEIGHT: 100kg

€ ARMOUR: 5MM monocque Hardox on front, rear and top. 4MM Aluminium Boron Carbide for the Sides and Base. Weight Reducing holes are drilled into the Monocque Chassis to reduce weight.

€ SHAPE: Box with Pointed (Triangular) Sides and Rear to lower spinner Effectiveness.

€ MOTORS: 2 x LEM 130 AT 46V = 18HP

€ LOCOMOTION: 4 x VULKALON TREADED WHEELS ON TOP AND BOTTOM ALA BIG NIPPER. EACH IS

€ DIMENSIONS: (L) 80CM (W) 80CM (H) 25CM

€ COLOUR: Black for the body, Silver for the crushing weapon. Now, on top, it has the name €˜AUTOISM€™ written in silver.

€ WEAPONRY: The weapon for this is still a Big Nipper style crushing/lifting arm, but instead of claws to lift with, it has a pair of pliars to lift and crush with. The pair of 3.25mm Hardox pliars, work on the same system as the lifter as the pliars are part of the lifter to avoid being torn out by spinners. The weapon lifts and crushes with a force of 9 Tonnes, using a Razer-like mechanism for lifting and crushing! The new crushing weapon means thats if flipped, the robot doesnt need to self-right.

€ SPEED: 23MPH

€ GROUND CLEARANCE: 0MM - 15MM. 4MM Hardox sprung skirts on the sides and rear make it a nightmare to get under.

€ STRENGTH: Power, Speed and Weapons make it a tough machine

€ WEAKNESS: Weak side armour

And secondly Nitro-Gene 2.0, with a change suggested by Kody(Thanks about the LEMs :proud:)

NITRO-GENE 2.0

€ WEIGHT: 100kg

€ ARMOUR: 4mm Hardox for the body. Holes are drilled into the slanted sides to allow for a 6mm Hardox flipper

€ SHAPE: Low invertible box with pointed sides and rear. At the front is a Storm 2 style wedge to aid in getting underneath other robots.

€ MOTORS: 4 x LEM 130s at 46V = 36HP

€ LOCOMOTION: 6 Vulkanised Wheels.

€ DIMENSIONS: (L) 80CM (H) 16CM (W) 60CM

€ COLOUR: Black all over with the flipper coloured red.

€ WEAPONRY: A full pressure Nitrogen powered flipper at 1000psi, using a single 80mm ram at 1000psi. The flipper is mounted in the middle of the robot, and is 20cm wide and runs 30cm up the body. Using a 3cm long Titanium strip underneath the flipper, and a heavy flipping arm, the flipper runs completely along the ground. Running on a reverse ratio, the flipper produces 1500kg of force at the tips, allowing me to launch anyone away.

€ SPEED: 19mph

€ GROUND CLEARANCE: 0MM-2CM. At the front, it is completely 0mm. On the unskirted sides/rear, its 2cm.

€ STRENGTH: Pushing power and weaponry.

€ WEAKNESS: High side/rear ground clearance.

I hope these sort you out just fine, Dave.

(Message edited by paulc on January 15, 2008)

quote:

MOTORS: 4 x LEM 130s at 46V = 36HP

36v, Paul. Not 46v. :P

Blast! Ill correct that later as the time for editing has run out.:proud:

save me a space for when i can acsess my stats.

1 - Avarice (4)
2 - Tira 3
3 - D-J
4 - Counter
5 - Death Threat 0.1
6 - Cat With Wheels
7 - Orka MK4
8 - Die-Ceratops Re-Invertus
9 - Hypertension Mk 3
10 - BIACS-LE
11 - Drilla Killa 7
12 - TENDERIZERS REVENGE 2
13 - Flick of the Wrist
14 - Axe To Fall
15 - Metal Sonic Spin Dash
16 - Turbo Tails
17 -The May Tracks Have You (1)
18 - Acronyms
19 - Dante
20 - Baldur
21 - Autosim
22 - Nitro-Gene 2 (2)
23 - Martyn 1 (3)
24 - Martyn 2

Still 6 spots left

Eternia
Weight: 98 kg
Speed: 18 Km/hour
Lenghth/with/height: 120 cm/65cm/35cm
GC: 5mm on the sides, 10 mm on the back and front so it wont run aground on a toothpick sticking out the floor. the flipperarm is pushed flush to the floor with bungee lifting the frontend.
Drive: 2x3 Graupner speed 900 BB torque @ 24V Geared down 20:1 on 15cm wheels.
Weapon: 100mm bore x100mm (4 tons) stroke ram Gravity style flipper with 2 1/2 bsp burkert inlets and a 3mm hole as outlet. A 2 compartment aluminium buffer of 4 Liters being fed by 2 2kg CO2 bottles. The arm levers it down 3:1 giving 1300kg of force at the tip of the arm.
Chassis: Main frame holding the ram and flipperarm is 40x40x4 mm welded box section, the baseplate is 4mm 7075 aluminum and the armour on the sides and top is 40mm HDPE. The flipperscoop is hardox 450 6 mm, the arm itself 40x40x4 box section.
Batteries: 60 GP3700 NiMh cells, 20S3P, giving 11.1Ah@24V. weight of the pack is 4 kg.
Special Notes: All black, with red markings at the sides.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfywR-kDvUshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfywR-kDvUs

GBOD
(Giant Bell Of Death)
Full body spinner
Weight: 99kg
Speed: 10 km/hour
Diameter: 75cm
Height: 45 cm highest point, outer ring 25 cm
Ground clearance: 10 mm all round
Drive: 2x Bosch GPA 750 on 36V with 15cm wheels
Batteries: 180 cells GP3700 30S6P 22.2Ah @ 36V
Weapon: Full body spinner, outer ring is 6 mm Hardox 450 with 2 Hardox 450 teeth welded in, one if which angled downwards and one straigth out, like Typhoon 2. It spins a maximum of 2000 rpm.
Top is 3.2 mm Hardox with 4 holes cut out to reduce weight.
The disk is powered By a Plettenberg Predator Brushless motor with Jeti Spin 200 ESC at 36V.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzCDxed4blUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzCDxed4blU

Dave, there are 4 spots left...actually 3 now that Leo has entered. :crazy:

Im only human

Andy?
Aaron?
Anybody Else?

How about Anthony he begins with A.

Can I make a name change to Acronyms? As its a second version, I dont want it being confused with the version in FFW. Therefore, it is now:

A Robot With An Even Longer Name Because I Still Believe Acronyms = For The Win... Acronyms FTW for short:proud:

Yes, Timmy, but Anthony has retired so he wont enter even if asked.

Has he? I didnt know that.

Ooh, forgot about this one!

SOR Hex and Wedgas Revenge for me please...

Stats: http://teamcode14.proboards24.com/index.cgi?board=Statshttp://teamcode14.proboards24.com/index.cgi?board=Stats

2 more people to find.

If no-one else enters by say next Saturday at Mid-day (GMT), the remaining places will be filled with Mr. Cardboard box and a Tub of Lard

2 more people? Are there even 2 more people left :uhoh:

I know there is Aaron, but whenever if he has forgiven me for what happened a few years ago is another matter.

As for the 16th person, Im finding it hard to think of somebody

quote:

I know there is Aaron, but whenever if he has forgiven me for what happened a few years ago is another matter.

More likely forgotten in a drunken bender session :proud: NFI what your talking about honestly :proud:

Ill enter:

Resonance - http://vapourbots.crystalnode.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19http://vapourbots.crystalnode.net/fo...topic.php?t=19 - The Crazy Fullbody Drum
Flyte - http://vapourbots.crystalnode.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43http://vapourbots.crystalnode.net/fo...topic.php?t=43 - The 20min knocked together design, finished 5 mins ago...

Cheers Aaron

Just to find 1 more person.

As I doubt there is a 16th person around to fill the last spot, I shall use my mind and create some wonderful machines.

Name - Boxy
Shape - A box with a back rest coming out of the top
Speed - 9 mph
Weapons - Its silly face on the front
Drive - 3 wheel drive, powered by 3 electric wheel-chair motors
Armour - 10mm corrugated fiberboard attached to a wooden chassis
Notes - It has a random office chair in the middle of the machine, dont know how it got there and serves no purpose.

Robot 2

Name - Shiny Happy People
Shape - Box with wedge
Speed - 4 mph
Armour - 10mm corrugated fiberboard attached to a wooden chassis, but with some shiny old Robbie Williams CDs attached to the outside, so it looks like a mirror
Weapon - It has got a shiny wedge
Drive - Some windscreen wiper motors for 4 wheels.

Right :)

All Im waiting for is Martyn to post his robots, then we can begin

The draw has been made using the Random Sequence Generator found on random.org

(Message edited by DavidS on January 23, 2008)

I will be entering Forklift again and Disco Tech 2. You allready have forklifts stats from the last series.

Disco-Tech 2

SHAPE- Invertible box
COLOR- silver
WEIGHT- 100kg
SPEED- 20mph
TURNING CIRCLE- 0mm
GROUND CLEARANCE- 6mm under the discs has 0mm at sides due to skirts that will work when flipped
ARMOUR- 3.6mm hardox
WHEELS- it has 6 inner vulcalon wheels
POWER- Drive: 2 x S28-400 Magmotors @ 36v with a 10:1 Mod 2 spur gear reduction connected to the 6 wheels.
Batteries: 120 x 3000mAh NiCD cells producing 36v @ 9amp
WEAPONS- It has 2 spinning each spinning at 3000rpm. Has a 4.00 second spin up time due to the C40-500 Magmotor on 36v with a 2:1 twin tension cog belt reduction. The flywheels produce 31.5Kj€™s at maximum RPM but is lethal at around 1 second. It has one weapon on the front and one on the back
SRIMECH- Invertible
NOTES- can spin on the spot
STRENGTHS- fast, powerful weapons, good pushing power
WEAKNESSES- easy to flip if discs aren€™t spinning

Excellent.

Draw time

Acronyms vs. Hypertension Mk 3
Baldur vs. Tira 3
Orka MK4 vs. Avarice (4)
Metal Sonic Spin Dash vs. Axe To Fall
Wedgas Revenge vs. GBOD
Flick of the Wrist vs. Forklift 2 (3)
Tenderizers Revenge 2 vs. Resonance
Disco-Tech 2 vs. BIACS-LE
Drilla Killa 7 vs. D-J
Nitro-Gene 2 (2) vs. Die-Ceratops Re-Invertus
Flyte vs. Autosim
Turbo Tails vs. Counter
Shiny Happy People vs. The May Tracks Have You (1)
Eternia vs. Dante
Death Threat 0.1 vs. Boxy
SOR Hex vs. Cat With Wheels

And Volta:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pu1JTlT8jNCWbjPZ6w85weQhttp://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?k...NCWbjPZ6w85weQ

Baldur Gamma vs. Tira III

Damn. :lame:
Well seeing as Tira cant damage Baldur, she will try to flip him around with her nicely powerful disc. Itll be hard for Baldur to get by her front anyway, but keep it pointed at him all the same so he cant get under her and throw her around. I dont like Tiras chances in this battle, but I have to try.

Orka MK4 vs. Avarice (4)

Double damn! Ill get you for this, Dave. :lame:
Orka is very tough to fight, as that scoop is quite low, but hopefully I can get in a few blows with my (newly reinforced :wink:) axe before he gets to penetrate my own scoop, or skirting. Go in circles around him, and if I get under him at all, slam him around, whack him, do whatever damage I can to him.