Eye Of The Robot - Annihilator 2

I know Im doing E.O.T.R.5, but Im struggling to get back into the stride of writing, so Im doing this a warm-up to get back into the way of writing fights.
Here goes...

+1>EYE +1>OF +1>THE +1>ROBOT - ANNIHILATOR 2

The E.O.T.R tournament is having a bit of a rest, but due to the recent hypothetical I€™ve been doing, I€™m doing a minor competition to keep me on task and keep me busy.

Annihilators are RW events that have gone on for YEARS! Everyone is capable of producing an Annihilator, so I€™m going to have another go at producing an Annihilator. Lat time around, Cyrillium Mach 2, Requiem, Spiny, Leprosy Infection and No Objections lost out to master of RW Musical Chairs, Brutalis 2.0! Maybe Liam Eliot will keep the crown, or others will take it away, with the new set-out.

Now for the arena:

The Arena

The €˜WreckTaGon€™ is a hexagon shaped arena with three starting squares, coloured gold, green and blue. Originally, it had very little in the way of hazards, and still does, but these are very deadly - we still have the flipping spikes, and we also have the impaling spikes, set in sets of 5 in each corner of the arena, each made of Hardox and designed to cause serious damage. The pit release button for this arena is located on the bottom right side of the arena, with the actual pit being a mere 1meter away from it. The arena is indestructible, with the floor being made of 50mm Hardox, with 3mm of polished Stainless Steel over the top of that, making the floor impossible to damage and VERY SLIPPERY! The walls are also made of 50mm Hardox, and are 45cm high, giving everyone the ability to flip someone OOTA! The arena (from a birds-eye view) is 5metres down and 7metres wide.


The Entry-Rules

€ I need 9 people to enter 2 robots (They MUST be vapourbots, unless you€™re a real Roboteer, then you can enter two of your realies)
€ Wheeled robots must weigh a maximum 100kg
€ Shuffling robots weigh a maximum of 110kg
€ Walkers weigh a maximum 135kg
€ When you enter, give me your hometown (if outside of the UK, tell me the country as well), and a link for your robot stats, so I can find them!

The Judging System

Basically, Ive invented my own system - has 6 catogories, in which I mark out of 10. I then times that score in each section by how much the section is worth:

Dominance = ? x 6
Damage = ? x 5
Aggression = ? x 4
Stategy = ? x 3
Control = ? x 2
Style = ? x 1

List Of Entries

1- ???
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b. ???
2- ???
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b. ???
3- ???
a. ???
b. ???
4- ???
a. ???
b. ???
5- ???
a. ???
b. ???
6- ???
a. ???
b. ???
7- ???
a. ???
b. ???
8- ???
a. ???
b. ???
9- ???
a. ???
b. ???

Get entering :wink:

Why not do the Challenge Belt and All-Stars if your having toruble with EOTR 5?

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Im not entering.

Neither am I.

Ill enter...IF and ONLY if, you tell us whats your problem with the All Stars and Challenge Belt?

please make up your mind on what to do with your writing carreer Paul, you have started 7 different tournaments here by now, 9 if youd also count the ones we couldnt enter and 11 if youd also count the ones you had to re-open, only 1 of them was ever finished properly, this is getting plain silly now

(Message edited by MajinB on July 25, 2008)

The arena (from a birds-eye view) is 5metres down and 7metres wide

The Robochallenge FEATHERWEIGHT arena is 4 metres by 5 metres. A heavy arena measuring 5m x 7m isnt going to allow for much manoeuverability, thereby severly hampering the battle quality, especially for an annihilator. You couldnt even swing a dead Pussycat in that

To give a bit of perspective, Jonnos RR arena is 12m x 10m in its largest configuration, and the Robots Live arena is a similar size but just a bit smaller I believe

why would u cover a hardox floor with stainless?

I echo Chris here Paul, I know it sounds strange, but it seems like you enjoy opening a tournament and getting entries, but no writing and finishing the tournament?

Ill put together a new Vapourbot Paul and enter it with one of my realies if you can promise to finish this one and do it properly

Your Really enthusiastic Paul, I think your a little to ambitious, this tournie is too complex make a straight knockout for 16 robots will give u less work, Do it over weeks, like a tv show that way youll have more time to write the write ups and plan it better

have a think and if you can make totally sure u finish this tournie then ill back you

I totally agree here with you Craig. My ambition of going heres an Annihilator with 18 robots, narrow it down to 6, and then have 1 winner, or 24 All-Stars, get it down to 8, then get 1 to win is very unique, and I think I was probably the first vapourboteer to say 4 way battles, one survivor like they do at RobotsLive.

Im doing this to get back into the mood of writing battles, having been out for quite a long time (3 months or there about), Ive forgotten what I used to do. Maybe this is too ambitious, but I plan on not screwing up more tournies from here on.

By the way, the arena is now 15 metres by 17 meters.

(Message edited by paulc on July 25, 2008)

The question asked Paul was why not use the two minors youve already opened to get back into writing? If you can answer that I will enter this

Set yourself a plan Paul, do 1 or 2, heats a week and get draw up a plan of how you want it to run.

Im going to have a think about a new vapourbot so save me a place in ur annihilator

Craig, why are you encouraging him to write the annihilator? He hasnt even finished the other minors. :P

Paul, several people brought up a very simple point...

You have TWO minor tournaments open where people are EAGERLY waiting for some actual battles, myself among them. You will VERY much dissapoint those people when you think you could kill those tournaments off and start a new one.

Those 2 tournaments are minors, just like this one. Those 2 tournaments are a nice point to bring your writing career back to life, SO WHY ON EARTH DO YOU START YET ANOTHER ONE?!

I rest my case...

OK, Ill ask you this...

+2>WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE ALL-STARS AND CHALLENGE BELT?