The FSTT tournament.

This tournament is in memory of my Grandad Francis Sillery Sr. The rules are simple.
These are the commandments.
1.Im looking for 12 people to enter 6 robots.
2. You MUST have 1 real robot.
3. If youre entering 5 vapours they must each have different weapons.
4. The weight limits are:
A. 100KGs for wheels.
B. 125KGs for tracked robots.
C. 175KGs for shufflers.
D. 250KGs for true walkers.
5. Flying, Passive robos and Clusterbots are allowed
6. Clusterbots have no limits but if 50%s out theyre all out.
7.No real restrictions on stats.
8. Basic FRA Rules apply.

The tournament is structured as Series 6 style heats. The arena is unique. Its a 50 X 50CM Sumo ring. Theres no judges decision. If you want to link stats tell me where they are or give me a link to it. You may reserve entries but if someone has entries before you than youll be kicked out.

First off, I presume you lost your grandfather, so my condolences to you and your family.

But secondly, how are 2 heavies going to stand on a 50cm x 50cm arena?

Clone
Shape: Box
Colour: White. Has shades painted on the front.
Weight: 100kg
Armour: 4mm cardboard
Motors: Custom-made motors giving it 200hp.
Weapons: Its coolness makes its opponents explode.
Srimech: None
Strengths: Its cool!
Weaknesses: Overconfidence.

:proud:

Shiny Happy People
Shape - Box with wedge
Speed - 5 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.
Summary - Its Shiny!
Strength - Its Shiny!
Weaknesses - Its Shiny!

Name - Hundreds of Thousands
Shape - Each is a little wedge
Weight - 99.9kg in total
Armour - Nothing
Motors - Antweight Motors
Weapons - Nothing
Notes - 665 automatic 150g antweights with a wedge
Strength - You try working out when 333 are knocked out
Weaknesses - Easy to destroy

Bot 3 - Flyer

Realies -
Shunt
Road-block
Bodyhammer


(Message edited by DavidS on January 25, 2008)

Flyer
Weight - 50kg
Shape - Box
Weapons - Nothing
Drive - It flies, dont ask me how
Armour - Paper
Strengths - It flies
Weaknesses - Doesnt really do anything else

Name - robot
Dimensions - 50 x 50 cm
Tactics - fill the arena so there wont be any place left for an opponent






Yeah Tim, you should really take another look at your arenas dimensions :proud:

OK. You need to do PTT style stats and plus its 50X50 M sumo ring.

Kody, David and Martijn - thanks for making me laugh with some great stats :)

50m square is pretty enormous for a sumo ring, considerably bigger than an average arena, may I recommend a 10m diamter?

OK Alex 10 M Diameter sumo ring.

quote:

OK. You need to do PTT style stats

Okay.

Clone
Shape: Box
Colour: White. Has shades painted on the front.
Speed: 100mph
Weight: 100kg
Armour: 4mm cardboard
Drive: 2 custom-made motors weighing 10kg, giving it 200hp.
Power: 4 custom-made batteries weighing 2kg each, powering power for up to 10 years, and minimum power 1 year.
Wheels: 4 wheels made up taped up CDs with rubber on the edges.
Ground Clearance: 10mm
Dimensions in CM: 70cm^3
Weapons: Its coolness makes its opponents explode, and if that doesnt work hell just run into you and kill you.
Srimech: None
Strengths: Its cool!
Weaknesses: Overconfidence.

:proud:

Its gotta be realistic. Pretend Im not running it, pretend say AJs running it.

B-but...b-but it IS realistic! The motors are custom-made! The batteries are custom made! With cardboard armour it CAN have dimensions like that for a box!

Come on! :sad: ffffff>(note the sarcasm in the smiley)

(Message edited by kodster on January 27, 2008)

Kody its as realistic as Jason Voorhees joining the EU. I suggest you make it more suitable for sumo ring fighting. Mainly flippers and axes and spinners.

whats up with the different weapon rule Tim?

am I right in thinking a 50 kg vertical bar is different to a 40 kg vertical disc?

Okat, PTT style stats:

Shiny Happy People
Shape: Box with Wedge
Colour: Mirror
Speed: 5mph
Weight: 99kg
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
Drive: 4 wheel drive with 4 Ford windscreen wiper Motors @ 12 volts
Power: Some 12 volt battery packs.
Wheels: 4 wheels
Ground Clearance: 2cm, but zero at the front
Dimensions in CM: 50 x 50 x 20
Weapons: Shiny Wedge
Srimech: None
Strengths: Its shiny!
Weaknesses: Its Shiny!

Name - Hundreds of Thousands
Colour - Unpainted
Shape - Each is a little wedge
Weight - 99.9kg in total
Speed - 20 mph
Armour - Nothing
Motors - Antweight Motors with 2 wheels at the rear, powered by antweight batteries.
Weapons - Nothing
Ground Clearance - 3mm
Notes - 665 automatic 150g antweights with a wedge
Strength - You try working out when 333 are knocked out
Weaknesses - Easy to destroy

Name - The Flying Machine
Shape: Cone with outriggers
Colour: Grey, with invisibility paint, makes it hard to see
Speed: Depends which way its flying, but up-to 20 mph
Weight: 90kg
Armour: 10mm corrugated fiberboard
Drive: Flys
Power: Some weird method in which it can fly and dance in the air to come into attack
Wheels: It has wheels?
Ground Clearance: 0mm to 20000mm
Dimensions in CM: 50cm^3
Weapons: Bottom mounted spinning disc, and some more spinning discs thrown in for good measures
Srimech: It will right itself by flying
Strengths: Can attack from a number of angles
Weaknesses: Cant attack from the ground up though

Realies:
Shunt (with a bit less armour)
Roadblock
Bodyhammer

The different weapon rule is no 2 robots of yours can share the same weapon.

quote:

The different weapon rule is no 2 robots of yours can share the same weapon.

UNFAIR :sad:

*fits tiny flail to rear of shiny happy people*

I dont really care about you Tim but I have to say... you got guts for starting one! I am so convinced that I shall be entering too! :proud:

Name: V-type thing
Shape: Humanoid-like
Colour: Fleshy
Speed: 5mph
Weight: 250kg
Armour: Flesh and fat.
Power: Food.
Motivation: 2 legs
Ground Clearance: 5mm at the tips of the feet, 0mm everywhere else
Dimensions: 60cm x 100cm x 160cm
Weaponry: Flamethrower that only works when it wants to, and it doesnt
Srimech: Can get up like a human does
Strengths: None
Weaknesses: The letter W.

LMAO! Inside jokes FTW! :proud:

tim, when are two weapons the same?

okay, so i could enter 2 front hinged flippers, as they would be diffrent sizes therefore not shared by the 2 robots they would each have their own front hinged flipper.....

Im changing my entry.

Clone
Shape: Wedge
Colour: White with shades painted on the front.
Speed: 50mph
Weight: 100kg
Armour: 5mm titanium
Drive: Custom-made motors providing 50hp each. Weigh 10kg
Power: Custom-made batteries providing enough power for 2 weeks.
Wheels: 4 wheels made up taped up CDs with urethane rubber on the edges.
Ground Clearance: 0mm at front, 5mm everywhere else
Dimensions in CM: (LxWxH) 70x70x50
Weaponry: Just rams you out of sheerr force if the coolness isnt enough to make you explode.
Srimech: None
Strengths: Its cool! It can ram you to death! It doesnt stop for 2 weeks!
Weaknesses: Can be flipped. Overconfidence.

Not changing this entry any further. :)

(Message edited by kodster on January 27, 2008)

You cant enter 2 front-hinged flippers or 2 pushers ect. ect. to make it more unique. Also to stop people from always choosing the same old, same old.

I see Timmy, but how fare were you gonna drag this?

Out of my bots, Sheer Heart Attack, With or Without you and Axe to Fall all use a ramming-wedge, though they are completely different bots

Another Night at the Bar and With or Without you both use a horizontal spinning bar, though they are completely different bots

Back to Rock and Flick of the Wrist both use a rear-hinged lifter, though they are completely different bots

Yeah, you really have to get an idea of how to run a tournament Timmy before you actually start one. :proud:

«Pretend Im not running it, pretend say AJs running it.»

Haha, you could have come up with a better example than me! :proud: Tim, there is so much lack of detail in this tournament that Im not even going to think of entering. If you want to start a tournament, look at how other people have started out... There are so many ways you can bend the rules in this tournament that it is not even funny!

Hey David Sheppard done a version of this and you didnt moan at him. Also (...) the 2 same weapons rule.

(Message edited by big_nipper on January 29, 2008)

I did, and it was called Sumo :lame:

Well, being as Tim is presumably suspended for a while, we have decided to hijack his tournament. Introducing€¦ The Tim Tribute Tournament! The major aim of this tournament is to enter something you wouldn€™t really consider seriously entering into a vapourbot tournament. We€™re looking for craziness, but within the rules.

We are hoping to run this tournament collectively, in the way we all get to enter vapourbots, and we all get to write battles. So I€™m looking for as many people as you like to enter, each with two vapourbots and a draw will be worked out afterwards. You are just limited to 2 vapourbots each.

Weight bonuses are as follows:

Wheeled: 100kgs
Tracked: 115kgs
Shufflers: 125kgs
Walkers: 200kgs
Misc. motivation: 150kgs

So, start getting creative! We need writer volunteers and 2 designs each! Feel free to ask about any other rules you are unsure of before entering. If you want to check the official rules, go to http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/rules.htmhttp://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/rules.htm

Ill sign up as soon as I can think up what the heck to come up with...:P

you forgot to add that everything thatll never work WILL work here :mrgreen:

yeah, count me in, as an entrant and writer

you forgot to add that everything thatll never work WILL work here

Like regenerating ice armour? lol

Name: Blowfish
Weight: 98kg
Size (L/W/H): 100cm x 60x 20 to start with
Speed: 100mph
Ground Clearance: 5mm
Drive: 4x S28-400 1:2 ratio on 260mm wheels
Weapon:10 side airbags inflating on contact
Armour/Chassis: Chassis steel tubing 40x20x2, armour Vauxhall Vectra doorpanels.
Batteries: 2x12v 16A hawkers
Notes: drives inverted.