Team BriteSpark Proudly Presents....

+1>FRA Big Brother!

Thats right, its that dreaded (or loved, in my case :proud:) time of year again when Big Brother contaminates the televisions of the UK. And now its hit the FRA!

In this version of Big Brother, I am not going to be looking for vapourboteers to be the contestants, but your creations! Thats right: vapourbots are entering the Big Brother house!

I am going to be looking for a wide number of vapourbots to take part in this tourney, which should finish by September. The signups will take the form of the Big Brother auditions, something I have first hand experience of.

Rules for the audition process

You can enter as many robots as you can into the audition process, but take note that only 1 of your vapours will be considered for the Big Brother house. The more vapours you enter, the more likely you will be represented in the house.

Each vapourbot must sell themselves to the bigwigs of Big Brother (me :proud:) within 200 words. Any more than 200 words and you will be disqualified from the audition process. Note: thats 200 per vapour! There is no need to enter full-blown stats, they are not needed for this tournament. :)}

The audition process will finish at 4:00pm UK time on Thursday 12th June. Any auditions made after this time will be ignored.

Successful applicants will be PMed by myself in due course. It is important that you do not tell anyone which of your vapours (if any) will be going into the Big Brother house.

Swearing, deliberate bullying and generally being a n00b will not be tolerated.

Big Brothers decision is final.

All thats left for you lot to do is to audition!

Oh dear...this can only end in extreme disinterest, tears and lots of disappointment - Im in :proud:

Gimme a while to come up with decent arguments...

Im in as well, but youll have to give me some time to come up with decent arguments. I may eavesdrop on someone else, and get ideas from them.

Do they have to be current vapours? Are there any limits on what we can or cant enter?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Ill need a LONG time for this... :proud:

I was going to ask something similar - do they have to be robots in our current lineup, or can we design vapours specifically for the contest?

I can only think of four

Seung Mina IV
Tira IV
Macduff the 3rd
Kracko

Auditions later. :proud:

You can enter as many vapours as you wish, old vapours, current vapours or new vapours.

Good luck. :)

Right...heres two...

Interceptor
Containment Area (newbie)

Auditions up once I work out how to actually do them...

Ill enter, auditions and robots later.

Im SO in :proud:

Ok you asked for it, now ask yourself, was it worth it? lol

Skadi (formerly Heart of)

By far the coolest robot ever conceived, this robot has just been chilling away from battle for a few years, but now the time is nigh to step in from the cold. Unfortunately despite her shimmering exterior she is a little liable to come to pieces under stress, fortunately, unlike any other robot she has the means to get it back together again! Incidentally the robot is a full body spinner walker with a tank of water to fuel some regenerating ice armour, and a super chilled inside to cause it to come together, making her one cool customer. There are bound to be spills with Skadi in the house (if the tank gets damaged anyway) . She may have a cold exterior, but inside she€™s positively frosty, this Ice Queen is someone you don€™t want to mess with. As you may have gathered, she also loves puns.

Thank you for your audition. Big Brother may get back to you.

Just so you know, I have vowed to destroy ANYTHING to do with Big Brother. My bomb is set and ready for the shopw to begin...

Me too, I cant stand Big Brother. People become famous by waling around in biknis and sitting there, and then release auto-biographies, then make fitness-videos and...ARGHHH! :angry:

Suit yourself...I quite like watching television shows self-destruct personally :proud:

I dont like Big Brother either...Im just entering because, seeing as its robot-based and Daniel is writing it, it may be more interesting.

I despise it too, but I couldnt pass up such an oppertunity for puns.... Besides, who didnt want to see heart of skadi back? lol

SITHIS:

So€¦ It seems that fool Danny is trying to use my power to bring triumph to himself again.

Pfft, very well, let€™s take a look at this contract.

Wait, what? Big Brother? What the me is this? Like me am I going to sit around in a big house all day with a group of insidid robots. I am Sithis! Sithis, the void! Sithis, the Evil from which all evil is born! Sithis, he who is described in metaphors by black-cloaked assassins who suffer a brutal death later on in the plotline! Big Brother? There is no Bigger Brother than me! I am Sithis! The Dread father of all that is loathsome! Foul heretic! Repent, now, and I may see fit to leave you alive when my armies of darkness wipe the stain of humanity of the face of the earth! I! AM! SITHIS!

€¦. Wait, HOW much prize money?

Ok, I€™m in. When will you let me know I€™ve passed?


Other auditions when I decide who the hell else Im entering

Interceptor:

Right, how do I accomplish this...be calm, be myself, but dont look too arrogant. Is the camera on? Yes? Oh, balls. Aaanywayyyy...Im Interceptor, I have a flipper, side spikes, and a disc, and to make rom for all of this I was created with *taps armour* a thin exoskeleton with carbon fiber panels. Basically, I was born weak, and Ive had to suffer throughout my childhood...crushers holding me over the fence at breaktime, being called Pretty Boy!, lunch money going missing, that sort of thing. But Ive risen above it, Ive had confidence in myself and Ive learned to turn my weapons on anyone who tries to talk me down.
And Ive done that. Quite a bit. Admittedly, if I had a better drive Id be able to actually hit them with the weapons...still, I think Im quite interesting, I can hold a conversation for a while and I know how to do strange things with compressed gas, so yes, I think Id be a good housemate.

(if this is over 200 words, just ignore anything past the 200 mark, as I honestly cant be bothered to check)

Containment Area: Scrapped due to me not having any good ideas as to what a robot called Containmnet Area should be like.

I bring you the Infamous: Weapon ZED

I. am. Weapon ZED. I don€™t even know what my weapon is really. But it€™s better than yours. My armour? Whatever yours is but twice as thick and reinforced! No one cares what I actually am just because I have an awesome name. You have to say it in a certain way though, not like €˜oh Hi Weapon ZED! Jolly nice day today€™, no, it has to be said, gruff and gnarled (spoken as if you are speaking with a voice box mnade of sandpaper) and under your breath like you don€™t dare say it too loud in case I rip your insides out and use them to garnish a cake. A death cake! I am also generally just better than you, stronger, faster, and generally more deadly. I also have spikes. Lots of spikes. Because the yare awesome, and they are all designed so they come off in your wounds and mess up your insides. Then they explode! (note last comment is not actually true) My hobbies include, bashing, slashing, gashing, smashing, trashing, lashing and anything else which is tough and rhymes with ashing.

CAT WITH WHEELS:
Meow...

LETHAL EXECUTION.
Hi. So, we filming now? Good. Right, so my name is Lethal Execution, and, not to be to cocky, Im the perfect housemate. Ya see, not only am I a Black Bolt in Tae-Kwon-Bot, not that i like to dwell on it, yknow, I mean, Im not trying to make you feel inferior, but I could kill you in a few seconds. Anyway, like I said, Im really well trained. So, the challenges are gonna be easy. Secondly, I have real good social skills. Im going to get on great with all the other housemates. Thirdly, lets be honest here, all the chicks out there are gonna love me. I mean, just look at my well-built chassis. I guarantee your viewers will go up momentously amongst young females.

So, yknow, yeah. Am I in?

I am Archangel of the Abyss III, or €˜The Dread Lord Archangel€™ to my friends. You may call me €˜The Most Exalted Scourge of the Nine Hells€™. I inherited my position from my €˜father, and he from his right back to the original Angel of the Abyss. He was quite forward thinking for his time but a bit mild by modern standards. I am a noble walker - where most were gifted with tiny stumpy wheels I have glorious perfectly balanced legs due to months of training at my private school (read garage). I use my family weapons, two rings of great power: the lighter blades for knowing aside peasants, the other heavier for smiting those who oppose my insurmountable might. Now do be a good peon and get out my sight. And fetch me some expensive oil on the way out.

a fictional robot Big Brother huh?

I am the Vision, a robot programmed by non other than the metal monstrosity called Ultron in order to lure Ultron€™s creator, Hank Pym, and his teammates The Avengers into a deathtrap. My body is patterned after the 40s Human Torch€™ android (yeah, a 1940s android, I€™m that low tech) body and my brain patterns after the late (well, he was death then, he just got better) Wonder Man.

However, during my mission I was moved by The Avengers€™ plight and betrayed my programming and helped The Avengers to defeat Ultron.

I served with The Avengers for a number of years and even married the hex-casting heroine called the Scarlet Witch (never understood that one, I€™m a freaking robot for Pete€™s sake).

After a small miscalculation from my side, the U.S. government got pooped off and they decided to rob me from my human side. Suffice to say this didn€™t exactly help my marriage. Little did I suspect that few years later my then ex-wife would go mad and kill me with her reality altering powers she never had in the first place.

Yeah, I€™m dead, so what?

My powers include complete control over my density and infrared/microwave beams from my forehead.

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Radioactive: Hey, can I talk now? Right? Okay, yeah. My names Radioactive...as you can see, Im not your average robot, Im more of a lightweight than a heavyweight. You might be asking whay I want to do this; well, not to sound too formal or anything, I want to raise awareness of lightweights in the Big Brother house - I want to dispel a lot of the myths and show that we can take anything they can. I might not have any obvious weaponry, but Ive got *knocks on front* thick Titanium armour, with a 2014 chassis, light but strong, and with plywood under that - take that, heavy boys!
And you know what else? *green light briefly shines from robot, accompanied by humming* I can do that. You want to find out what that actually is?

Well, then pick me. Cause, yknow, otherwise Ill never show you. *laughs*

Last Minute Entry: (that literally is the name of the robot) Uh, hi. Im a robot. Well, actually Im a modified Reliant Robin that works under remote control, so the term robot might be...

...

...ah, screw it. Need I really say more? :proud:

How the hell does a robot without appendages manage to knock on its front?

Thats for you to find out :P

ENTRANT 1: Hello everyone. Well, how else was I meant to advertise myself? Shove off? I am ORKA MK4, the team captain of Team Dinowarrior. As team captain, Ive been able to show my skills many a time, so I think Ill make a good house-mate. I mean, anyone who can control such a band of unruly housemates has got to be something. Ive got 6-wheel drive, a lifting scoop, a little claw and a piston ram. And Im black and white. Go figure.

ENTRANT 2: GDay, mates! LEPROSY INFECTION is the name. Yes, I have an Australian accent. Anyway, you probably know me as Mr destructive, Mr underated, Mr lets-gang-up-on-him. Well, I wanted to be like that here, but that Mason fellow insisted that, instead of my drum, I wear my T-Plough instead. Still, I dont intend to let the adjustment of my main weapon get me down. So, if you dont like bright lime green...I suggest you put up with it, or shove off, or Ill rip you limb from limb...once I get my drum back on.

ENTRANT 3: Hey there, this is Y4 speaking. You know, I really shouldnt be doing this. I am, after all, modelled on a Battlebot champion, the only robot ever to beat the legendary Hazard. And yet, Im never used for battle these days. Im used for silly little random tournaments like this. I guess I shouldnt be too unhappy. I mean, it gives Team Dinowarrior a lot of publicity. Anyway, Im everything T-Minus is...a powerful flipper, two wheeled, invertible. Just pick me and make me happy.

ENTRANT 4: Hey everybody, Im CRASH BANDI-BOT 3 and welcome to my world. One full of wumpa fruit and pancakes. Im an eraser shaped robot, with a flipper and a spike, and I have plenty of attitude. Fun attitude, of course. Im a fun loving fellow, and I love nothing more than goofing off whilst everyone else on Team Dinowarrior is trying to look professional. Pick me, and Ill guarantee you a laugh a minute.

ENTRANT 5: Good afternoon, my dear Sir. My name is Sir Robert Oliver Benjamin the 3rd, but you can call me SPRING-BOK! Thats Spring-BOK! with a capital B, O and K. And dont forget the exclaimation mark. Anyway, you know me as the comedy robot of Team Dinowarrior, always being set fire to. My friends say Im posh. I think Im somewhere mid-way between the line. I mean, Im covered in orange fur and I like playing football. It doesnt matter what you think of me as, just enjoy my company. If you need comforting, Ill let you hug me. Just turn off your blade.

ENTRANT 6: Chris wants KARAUSHER to represent Team Dinowarrior in Big Brother! Karausher brand new robot! Karausher has large smashing arm and independant forklifts. You pronounce Karaushers name as in Karate and Crusher. Big Brother! Pick Karausher, or Big Brother get BASHED!!

ENTRANT 7: Who am I? Im...not too sure myself. They call me SHADOW. They say I am basically the Growler remote controlled toy painted black and with extra additions...thicker armour to make me a heavyweight. I dont know myself. All I know...is that Im the ultimate robot. I WILL win Big Brother, and I WILL find out exactly why I was made. I WILL discover my destiny.

ENTRANT 8: Hi! I wanted to....Down Here!! Im only little. Im WRANGULATOR, the featherweight of Team Dinowarrior. Im sort of like Eye Of Newt from Series 3s pinball tournament, but deadlier. I think Id make a great housemate, because Im playful and I have plenty of heart, despite my size. Remember, size doesnt matter...I may be small, but Im tough nonetheless.

*wobbles into room in typical uncontrolled axlebot motion*

huh, auditions? *hiccup*

*falls down drunk*

Ladies and gentlemen; Another Night at the Bar!:proud:

3 hours left to audition, people! Get them auditions in!!

I think I ought to audition one of my actually good and serious vapours here :P

Eye Of Ran: Hey, Im the Eye Of Ran. Id like to be on the show for one reason only; the prize. I will backstab, cheat, lie, and generally be an [Kane-acceptable-substitution for the word that goes Arnold Roasts Seven Eggs] if it means I get the prize. Im thick skinned - 8mm polycarb and a top Hardox sheet with subframe, actually - and I give as good as I get in an argument. Im not completely argumentative though, Im not, like, going to yell at someone about the chips ( :proud: ) or start fights for the sake of it, but Im not someone to be crossed. I have a sharp tongue, protecting the front two thirds of my body, and I can be extremely cutting with it if I please...muahahaha...

*sound of engine starting, then sound of camera smashing*

May as well get a few entires in:

Greetings, I am GS-FR which stands for generic science fiction robot. I am built exactly like a man in a robot suit would be and move somewhat like a man in a deep sea diving suit. I have lots of panels and lights which dont seem to do anything, and claws for hands. I can also fire bright red lasers from my eyes which are infact just lightbulbs because for them to be actual eyes would be far too high tech. In actual fact the only sense I possess is a substandard sense of hearing and a rudimentary sense of touch which tells me if I am touching something or if I am not. Im generally just a bad enough design that my creators disowned me.

damnit, Kodys gonna be too late :P

damn, Kodys gonna be too late :P

Death Threat.

Uh... Hi there. Im Death Threat 0.2, but you can call me Dee-Tee. I, er, dont really like my name. I mean, people assume Im all mean and stuff. But Im really not! I just want to make friends. And to hug people. I like hugging. But people dont like me hugging them. They often run away, and then Im sad. I think Ill be a good contestant on your show because I really like people! And people like it when you like them. Although not so much when you hug them.

...

Do you want a hug?

Auditions should be officially closed...

but because of the lowish turnout, FRA Big Brother cannot take place. Therefore I am left with 2 choices:

1) to cancel this. :sad:
2) to leave the auditions open for a bit longer in order to get enough people entering.

I would really like to do this tourney, as I have lots of twists and turns in store. Therefore, the new audition deadline will be the 26th June at 7:30pm.

If you have not already auditioned some of your robots, please do. Without you lot, the FRA board is nothing! :proud:

Sorry, me matey, I have been taken by a disease called lazyitis. Its wearing off, so I will get stuff in. :)

+2>ONE WEEK LEFT!!

This looks like its not going to take off. Sorry to everyone who entered. :sad: Fear not though, I have a new tournament waiting in the wings. :)

for the record Dan, what was the minimum amount of people needed in the first place?:proud:

(and how many were in already?)