FRFFT: Series One

Hello, Everyone and welcome to Fighting Robots Fan-Fiction Tournament (FRFFT for short). I do apologize if the name is a bit random, but I liked it

The Rules

I need 8 people to enter two robots of any of the following weight classes. There are only four places in each so you need to hurry

Superheavyweight (100 to 200)
Heavyweight (50 to 100)
Middleweight (25 to 50)
Featherweight (1 to 12)

Kody K, Dave S, Paul C and Liam E have reserved spots. I just need four more people to enter

The arena will be the Robot Wars Series 7 Arena. There wont be any house robots, only Refbot. Everything else will be added

Normal Robot Wars Rules apply. No flying robots. Tracked robots and walking robots are allowed. Clusterbots are allowed, and you can have as many parts as you want. But remember: Half out: ALL out

Thats it for now. So get cracking!:)

I enter two of my top dogs here:

http://strickenone.proboards99.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=tivapours&thread=17 7&page=1http://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...tivapours&thre ad=177&page=1
+1>Nitro-Gene 5.0

http://strickenone.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=tivapours&action=display&thread=30 2http://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...n=display&thre ad=302
+1>Heyght II

I prefer heavyweights to the oher weights :proud:
Good luck everyone else who enters :proud:

Oooh, reserve me a spot until I finish clarifying a few things:

1: What are the weight limits for tracked and walking machines?

2: When you say enter two in any of the following weight classes, does that mean we have to enter two in one weight class, or can we enter eight robots, two in each class?

save me a spot

EDIT: for some odd reason I dont think Liam E is gonna claim his saved spot

(Message edited by MajinB on October 18, 2008)

Heavy 1

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.

Heavy 2

The 6isc

Shape: Like an old fashioned bar-bell. It is two circular wheel pods, connected by an axle in the middle of which sits the disc.

Size: 60X110X60 CM (LWH)

Weight: ~100 KGs

Speed: 10 MPH.

Ground clearance: Under the wheel protectors, it€™s 5 mm.

Weapon: 26 KG spinning disc, powered by one LEM 130 Lynch motor and going at 2500 RPM. The disc is shaped with its own teeth rather than needing teeth surgically attached to it, so dentistry is quite impossible. The energy output is 36 KJ€™s which, while modest by vapour €˜bot standards should still be enough to make a mess of things.

Wheels: 6 wheels, but four wheel drive. This has three wheels on either side arranged in a triangular fashion, so it only runs on four at a time. The wheels are 1 CM solid Ti with soft compound rubber wrapped around them to provide shock resistance, and a layer of Vulcalon wrapped around that to provide traction.

Chassis: The main chassis consists of one solitary 1 CM thick 4 mm box section hardox bar. Slotted over that is a secondary axle, inside which are the batteries. There are also two other triangular chassis€™ supporting the wheels. These are made from 4 MM 1 CM box section Ti bars with weight reducing holes.

Armour: The true axle and chassis is a 4 MM hardox bar. The battery axle is 2 mm aluminium. The semi circular wheel protectors and side spikes are 5 mm Hardox. The disc itself is 14 MM of Hardox 500, and the outer axle is 4 mm grade 5 Ti.

Srimech: Totally invertible. Controls won€™t even have to be reversed after flipping, meaning it can just go straight back on the attack.

Drive: 2 S28-400 Magmotors at 24 volts.

Strengths: The newest version of The 6isc does away with as many weaknesses in The Disc 5 as I could find.

Weaknesses: Weak armour in places. Can€™t use axe attacks.


I currently have no otherweight vapours, so Im not reserving for those brackets. If I can get some done in time Ill enter those.

I would like to enter, please! :proud:. Can I reserve a place? :)

SHW Cranky Croc
SHW Robo-Hedgehog, with 4MM hardox instead of titanium

Stats on ZED

Featherweights
Altitude
Micro Gore Evo

Middleweights
Solstice 2.0
Xianghua II

Heavyweights
Wedgin8or
Shadow Zone Forever

Superheavyweights
Tax Cutter
The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether

Stats be coming soon! :proud:

(Message edited by kodster on October 18, 2008)

Sorry, but I have once again not explained clearly. Allow me to explain clearer

I want TWO robots of any kind (Ie: A middleweight and a heavyweight or maybe a superheavyweight and a featherweight) entered by EIGHT people. There are FOUR robots to be entered in each weight catagory, meaning all of you might not get to be in their favourite weight class

Paul: Pick a heavyweight, and then either pick a featherweight, middleweight or superheavyweight

Kody: Pick two robots from your eight. They cannot be in the same weight class

Frank: Same as Paul, please

Ben: Same as Frank and Paul please

Places so far: Frank, Paul, Daniel, Ben, Kody, Maritjn

I forgot to add in the rules: Real Robots are allowed

Im sorry about all this. I cant explain things well. I have autism. If this goes terribly wrong again, Ill redo the whole thing but read the above CAREFULLY

Thanks for understanding, if you do anyway:)

Ill keep Nitro-Gene 5.0, and Ill enter the featerweight realie, Skink.

Middleweight: T-Minus

Heavyweight: Neo-Mecha

Weight: 100kg
Shape: Ankle Biter (Battlebots 3.0 Version)... with side skirts
Colour: Jet Black for the front and rear, Prussian Blue anywhere else
Dimensions: 100 X 77 X 36
Power: 2 X Bosch 750s @ 24v powered by 5 X NiCads
Wheels: 2 X Aluminium Wheels with Asmaprene Urethane covering
Speed: 15 mph
Armour: 3.25mm Hardox
Ground Clearence: 0mm on the sides due to skirts, and on the back. 6mm anywhere else (Including without skirts)
Turning Circle: Everyone should know that this is zero.
Weapon: 27kg Front Vertical Spinning Disc made from laser cut titanium, powered by 2 X LEM-130. This also has 2 Hardox teeth curved upwards, and it will spin at 3600RPM. Heavily Shock-Proofed as well.
Srimech: At the rear, there is a linear actuated bar, and it can right the robot in 1 second.
Strengths: Powerful Weapon, Decent Pushing Power, Fast and effective srimech
Weaknesses: Hopefully, there is none. XD

tis perfectly okay Elliot; theres quite a few fanfic people who have forms of autism, so we sympathise, understand and all find ways to work around it and live in peace and harmony :)

I shall enter...

The Hurting (very complicated heavyweight :P): http://strickenone.proboards99.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=chevhw&thread=492http://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...chevhw&thread= 492

Drive (considerably less complicated superheavyweight): http://strickenone.proboards99.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=chevow&thread=493http://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...chevow&thread= 493

Hope this goes well for your first tourney. :)

Heavyweight - Fling

Featherweight - Deadly Lampshade

http://strickenone.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=teambvhttp://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...i?board=teambv

:proud:

In that case, Ill keep Shadow Zone Forever (HW) and Xianghua II (MW). :proud:

Stats (again) coming soon. Just finishing up rendering SZF. :)

http://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...5&page=1Shadow

I think everything is sorted now

Superheavyweights

Drive (Joey McC)
(Space)
(Space)
(Space)

Heavyweights (All spaces closed)

Shadow Zone Forever (Kody K)
Fling (Daniel FTB)
The Hurting (Joey McC)
Nitro-Gene 5.0 (Paul C)

Middleweights

T-Minus (Samuel P)
Xianghua II (Kody K)
(Space)
(Space)

Featherweights

Skink (Paul C)
Deadly Lampshade (Daniel FTB)
(Space)
(Space)

Samuel: You can still enter a feather, middle or superheavy. Sorry about Neo-Mecha, but all the spaces in the heavyweights are full

Paul: I need more info on Skink

Current Entrants:

1: Paul C (All entries in)
2: Kody K (All entries in)
3: Samuel P (Needs one more)
4: Daniel FTB (All entries in)
5: Joey McC (All entries in)

If its not too much bother, can you please pick a country for your robot to come from. Real robots have to come from where they do in reality

Thats all for now:proud::)

Ill represent Canada, o course. :)

United Kingdom, please. :proud:

Ill represent England - place of my birth, living, schooling - least I can do is represent it in a FanFic competition :proud:

*reserves 2 spots in the SHW*

I will get my inventing hat out of the cupboard to attempt to invent some lovelish super heavyweights

(Message edited by DavidS on October 18, 2008)

Dave...quote:

They cannot be in the same weight class:P

SHW: Ziggy

Hope thats ok.

Samuel, you cant have more than two robots. :P

Yeah, but all the heavys are taken.

So here are my final entries

Middleweight: T-Minus
SuperHeavyweight: Ziggy

Ah.

Still, you can take a shot at making a MW or SHW vapourbot. :P

Samuel: I need more information about Ziggy. Is it a realie or a vapour, because if its a vapour, I need its stats

Paul: Same with Skink. Ive never seen it before, so you need to describe it to me

Dave: You can enter a SHW, but you have to enter one more robot. It can be a feather or a middle

Superheavyweights

Drive (Joey McC)
Ziggy (Samuel P: More Info Needed on Robot)
??? (Dave S)
(Space)

Current Entries:

Dave S: Needs SHW and MW or FW
Paul C: All entries in
Daniel FTB: All entries in
Samuel P: All entries in
Kody K: All entries in
Joey McC: All entries in

Two more places. Martijn B and Ben R, if you want to enter, hurry

Thats all for now:proud:

Ziggy: Realie, 4 bar 2400psi nitrogen flipper with six wheel drive, unsure about the rest. Aaron will probably come along and fill in the gaps though :proud:

Skink: Featherweight HDPE armoured full pressure flipper - http://www.roamingrobots.co.uk/?pages=robot&id=1074http://www.roamingrobots.co.uk/?pages=robot&id=1074 for details.

Hope that helps

Joey: Thank you for the info about Skink. I need more about Ziggy

Daniel: Deadly Lampshade is just 1kg over the weight limit. Can you try and make it lose weight

I need two more people to enter this, just to remind everyone

Sorry Elliot, I didnt notice that.

Ill make the blades on the spinner 1mm thinner. :)

Hmz, an odd tournament setup ELLIOT and I too missunderstood at first, seeing the HW group is full Ill have to enter 2 realies I see :P

SHW: Toro
FW: ermz... any suggestion please?:proud:

can I plz be allowed to represent The Netherlands? I am the dude driving the bots after all and Im the only Dutch bloke here

Sorry didnt read that part, could I have Hazard for my middleweight.

I will get around to doing a SHW, but in case I disappear off the face of the earth I would have Diesector.

Daniel: Thats OK with me. Deadly Lampshade is now officialy a FW

Superheavyweights (All Spaces Closed)

Toro (Martijn B)
Drive (Joey McC)
Ziggy (Samuel P)
??? (Dave S)

Heavyweights (All Spaces Closed)

Shadow Zone Forever (Kody K)
Fling (Daniel FTB)
The Hurting (Joey McC)
Nitro-Gene 5.0 (Paul C)

Middleweights

T-Minus (Samuel P)
Hazard (Dave S)
Xianghua II (Kody K)
(Space)

Featherweights

Skink (Paul C)
Deadly Lampshade (Daniel FTB)
??? (Martijn B)
(Space)

I need one more person to enter a featherweight and a middleweight

Ben R, Liam E, Chris M? If one of you want to fill up the last space, you do need to hurry

Thats all for now:)

Samuel P: If I dont get more info about Ziggy soon, you might have to replace it

To All: This tournament is not cancelled. It is still going. I just need one more person to enter. To that person, I am really sorry the only places are for an FW and a MW

To All: Once all the robots are entered, I shall pick the draws from a hat or some other thing that resembles one:proud:

If you want to get the last place, you need to hurry

Maybe this video will help, Elliot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaWSBxWBaGchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaWSBxWBaGc

Tis teh Ziggy. :proud:

Most people tend to use http://www.random.org/http://www.random.org/ for draw and lineups, as it makes you feel slightly less stupid than when you realise youve written the names out and made slips for lots of robots that dont actually exist :proud:

I use a hat filled with cards with letters written on them!

Joey: Thanks for that. Ziggy looks great, I was suprised when I saw its weapon:)

Samuel: You can keep Ziggy:proud:

Dave: I need your superheavyweight. Id like to see your one before I put in Disector

Martijn: I need your featherweight

To Everyone Who HASNT Entered: That last place is going fast, and I dont really want to fill in the numbers. I hate doing that

Once Martijn, Dave and our last entrant get their robots in, the fun can begin:proud:

Oi, I posted the vid :proud:

Sorry. I just realized that:proud:

Lets have a laugh with an 2004 era SHW:
Damn You Wee Rammer

http://farr.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=TeamSolarizedStats&action=display& thread=382http://farr.proboards21.com/index.cg...ion=display&th read=382