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Nominate what you think are the top ten greatest moments in vapourbot history. They can be battles, quizzes, events, and even situations the entire Fanfic section needed to think about...
Point chart
1st = 10 points
2nd = 9
3rd = 8
4th = 7
5th = 6
6th = 5
7th = 4
8th = 3
9th = 2
10th = 1
This is meant to be long term, so you can think for a long while. Dont want it going past December though. :P
Start thinkin! :proud:
I already have a list of mine,. and they are mostly all battles. Ahem...
10. Son of Ripper vs. Spin Dash in Velociprators Fanfic Tournament 1
Year of Event: 2002
This was pretty much the battle that resulted in a lot of things, namely veteran Andrew Jacksons vapourboteer career, and Richard Southworths successive VF touraments, which gained popularity over the years and got many people more interested in the game. The VFT series was, in my opinion, one of the two best fanfic tournament series on the Robot Wars and FRA Forums, and this battle led to that.
9. Arrival and departure of Timothy James Sillery
Year of Event: 2005-2008
Ah, you knew it was coming. This young whippersnapper arrived in 2005 and began to annoy the hell out of everybody. Twice he left, and twice came back, before finally getting the official boot. Its one of the Greatest Moments IMO, because hes finally gone! Woohoo! :proud:
8. The Wars Incarnate
Year of Event: 2004-present
This series was started by none other than our own forum psychopath, Alex Holt. :proud: It had completely random fights between the most weirdest things. Not only did everybody get a kick out of it, but some similar concepts appeared: The Slapstick League, my own ATTTWI, and Joey McConnells TTTTTT (which featured vapourbots :proud:). I think Mr. Holt deserves a modest applause for achieving this. :)
7. Newcomers Ahoy!
Year of Event: 2007-2008
In September 2007, a newbie came to us in the form of Paul Cuomo. A little uneducated in the vapourbot rules, but he sure shaped up double-quick! Barely two months later we got another newcomer, Samuel Park, and then a month later, another, Chezza, and after that, Danny Bailey, a newbie that had registered before but not shown his face. More recent arrivals were Joey McConnell and Liam Eliot two very promising faces. Of all the newcomers here, I think since they have been here they have contributed a lot, and heres hoping they continue to, because it is very promising for the future of Fanfic. :)
6. Black Panther Queen vs Cosmic Thunder 2 vs Yet Another Cut Above The Rest in Mechanical Noise - Series 1
Year of Event: 2006
Not only was this battle extremely well written, but it left little doubt that Martijn Benschop had just as good writing talent as anybody in the Fanfic Section, and thus, as Richard Southworth above, earned him the title of respected writer :proud:. Also it completely dispelled the myth about foreign writers unable to writes battles well. Id give a hearty round of applause to our flying Dutchman. :)
5. Drilla Killa Renaissance vs Kronic vs Hexadecimator vs Archangel Of The Abyss, and Thermidor 2 vs Heart Of Fire vs Hellbrand vs Yet Another Cut Above The Rest in the Fowler Fic War 3.1
Year of Event: 2006
This shows just how well an old-time veteran can really write a battle. Not one, but TWO extremely long and extremely well written battles, all in a day. Mr. Matthew Fowlers talents at the keyboard were certainly noticed by a few, and Aaron Knight himself said Best Fanfic Battle for 2006! at the first fight. Also this was at a time where Fanfic was about to die out completely, and he kept trying to keep it alive, so this deserves to be one of the Greatest Moments.
4. Gabriel vs. Quaestor vs. 147 vs. Fire And Ice vs. Nidhogg in the How Could I Improve thread...
Year of Event: 2008
Already a budding newcomer, Joey McConnell surprised me in especial by pulling one heck of a battle out of his head. It was his first battle, and although it did feature his own vapourbots, the writing was clean, crisp, and did not contain a single mistake. It left no doubt in my mind this was a serious new playa to our game. Joey, that was honestly fantastic, I digress.
3. The beginning of vapourbots
Year of Event: 2002
How could this not be in here? :P Frank Goacher, David Weston, and Richard Southworth banded together to create the game we love so much. SOME of us think of it more as a sport and prefer it that way, and some just go with the flow. But in essence, Frank, Dave, and Richard are unofficially the creators of vapourbots and they should be honoured.
2. Mass Disctruction Ultimates three consecutive major tournament victories
Year of Event: 2003-2004
Mass Disctruction Ultimate. The name strikes fear into all of its opponents. Aaron Knight is its creator, and it plowed through VFT3, VFT4, and PTT3, and is to date the only vapourbot to have earned three majors, let alone three straight majors. A 200kg walking cylinder it was, and nobody wanted to get near it. Its clash with Crankshafted in PTT3 was most special, because they sent each other flying across the arena...and MDU managed to hang on!
1. Steven McGregors Pussycat Tribute Tournaments
Year of Event: 2002-2006
This deserves top spot. Why? These set of tournaments are pretty much the main reason why everybody had so much fun on the RW and FRA Fanfic sections. The battles are entertaining to read, and Steve knew all his stuff: side events, house robots, own arena, own judges score, you name it. Richards VFT was quite fun too, but it didnt have the same kick that Steves PTT did. The tournament was named after deceased member of Team Pussycat, David Gribble.
Unfortunately, due to lack in interest in writing, and overloading University work, Steven McGregor decided to hang up the towel and quit writing majors, turning the PTT5 into a hypothetical in February 2006. We do not blame him in the slightest, and the torch had to be passed on someday. Good luck Steve.
Ive voted. :proud:
(Message edited by kodster on May 19, 2008)
I strongly disagree with your number 9, the arrival of Tim sucked!
Ahem, I really liked this idea and am still working on my own list. I dont wanna see this die.
THANK YOU MARTIJN. I was going to bump this soon anyway. :proud:
i think the arrival of mark elam and the departure was amusing. it has me laughing for weeks.
Not sure if this counts as a vapourbot history moment, but when Shane started using the forum on a regular basis it began with postings from him in every single section. For those who knew Shane, or even just knew that he was an actual roboteer it was slightly amusing. What was hilarious about it was how it annoyed the living hell out of Kody.
Accusations of noob and spammer flew around about a little kid called Shane Swan who didnt know anything about robots and was just a pain in the asp :)
Everyone went along with it in good humour, calling Shane a noob, newb, newbie etc except for Kody who still wasnt aware of Shanes status and got continuously hacked off whenever Shane posted random guff. Understandings were made soon enough though and theyve now become good friends :)
So yeah for me that was an extremely funny time for me in terms of stuff happening on this forum.
(not flaming you for that Kody, it was just highly amusing from an onlooker point of view :proud:
Kody: I wouldnt put myself as one of the creators of Vapourbots, yes I was in the first tournements but not as a writer, that came in NBSFL 2. If I was to give credit for starting vapours it would go to Frank.
Kind of upset I didnt get a vote for my 30 robot match :sad: I still need more people for that BTW, and I WILL write it!
Well, actually, to be honest, I only counted 29.
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Kind of upset I didnt get a vote for my 30 robot match
well, weve only had 1 voter so far ;)
I think credit for creating vapourbots belongs to everone who entered the original NSBFL:)
I can still remember my first matches on the NBSFL, with Dantomkia, and Cluster Bomb
Frank: remember Smile Machine ?
Chris: Dont nit pick :P
I remember Smile Machine. Why do you ask?
Just asking, I think it was the bot you fought in NBSFL 2 final with Crushing bore wasnt it ?
Bumped...I forgot about this. :sad:
Please contribute guys! :sad:
The greatest moment in vapourbot history must be when I joined.
Ill get me coat. :)
God damnit, how many times do I have to keep bumping this? :P
10th: The arrival & departure of Timothy James Sillery
9th: The making of the Zlaying Every Day forum
8th: Clawdius Decimus Murderous VS Salamander 3
7th: Black Panther Queen VS PsycloniZed
6th: The arrival of Newcomers
5th: Joeys 1st written battle
4th: The arrival and departure of Mark Elam
3rd: The Beginning of vapourbots
2nd: PTT tourneys
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1st: Mass Disctruction Ultimates 3 consecutive victories
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Samuel, I think youre missing the point of this. I dont think you put much thought into these choices, most are copied from me... :P
Please try and revise them, and put some thought into why you chose them. It would also be nice if you told us why you chose them as well, like I did. :P
Aw come on, the point of this is that there WILL be some moments several people shall name, so I dont see much of a problem if your list and Sams list show similarities Kody. I presume you did some reading into the moments that happened when you werent around Sam? Some extra expxlaining wouldnt hurt though but apart from that its a nice list...
Hmmm.... I supposed I should do this... except Im going to be lazy about explaining my reasons.
10. The First Fight: The Disc vs Slammer There have been plenty since, and I cant remember when it was, in what tournament, or what happened beyond the disc winning, but it marked the start of THE grudge-match, no two bots have likely fought more and its been great fun from that first fight to the most recent.
9. The New-wave An influx of new competitors in the last two years means that vapourbots are probably as successful as they have ever been.
8. Martijns Debut Although there have been plenty of great new vapourbotteers in the second age (see below), there is only one (in my oppinion at least) who has managed to get to the point where I forget there was a point where he wasnt competing. Congratulations Martijn.
7. The RW Forum Exodus May have seemed like a shame at the time, but without that move we would never be where we are today.
6. Steves Debut Not only the writer of the PTT, but also a great all round guy and an undeniably formidable opponent in the arena. Where would we be today if it wasnt for everyones favourite Villainous Professor?
5. The PTT Was always The tournament for me, it often seemed like everything else was just a side show.
4. The Second Age of Vapourbots - After everything had seemed to die, it raised phoenix-like from the grave with a little help from Kody and a few others.
3. MDUs Debut - MDU best represents the first shifts towards greater depth of stats and at least moderately greater realism. Plus it dominated vapourbots like no bot had before and no bot has since.
2. Vapourbots Get Their Own Section Originally they just lived in the general section of the RW forum, but the movement to their own section of that site marked a new development in the history of vapourbots.
1. The Beginning and the Debut of Frank - the start of it all
at what point did this second age of vapourbots start in your opinion Alex? after the RW/FRA switch I guess?
o, and thanx :proud:
(Message edited by MajinB on October 21, 2008)
Alex, Im going to be in severe danger of taking over Joeys title of saddest git on the forum here:
The Disc and Slammer first fought in From 72 to 1 on the old RW forum, which I remember mostly due to the fact I got two robots into the grand final :proud:
-2>but still failed to win
Martijn: I thought I kind of implied it, but after the forum got ressurected after we had that pretty much dead year (the year before last I think?)
You could do it by forum location, but I was thinking of age in a kind of length of continuous life sense. There are a couple of other ways of doing it I can think, but this one appeals more to my sense of melodrama.
Frank: I remember that, infact I think they ended up fighting twice because I won a losers melee or something, but I had a vague feeling theyd fought before that?
Plus I wouldnt worry. No one can even come near Joeys title of saddest git. :proud:
I thank you most wholeheartedly for that compliment. :)
It would have been hard for Slammer and The Disc to fight before that, seeing as that was The Discs debut tourney :)
Really? I had it down in my head that the disc was older than slammer. Apparently not though...
I would say the 2 robots which have met the most times would be the Son of Ripper series against the Spin Dash series.