Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

Okay, after realizing that I had make a lot of mistakes last tourney, and also after realizing that the number of enterable tournies is very low, and after looking over old tournies such as PTT3 and Nick's Byte Size, I have decided to give myself one last try.

Rules:

I need 12 people to enter 5 vapourbots and 1 real robot apiece.

EDIT: If you don't have 5 vapourbots(Pete, Jack and Harry Orr, umm... I think that's all), then I'm willing to cut you some slack and let you use real robots to give you your 6 robot total.

Flying Robots: Banned
Clusterbots: Up to 6 parts, but if half are immobilized/destroyed/pitted, then the bot is out.
Passive Weapon Bots: Allowed
Interchangeable weapon setups allowed: As many as your robot can use.
Weight Limits:
Normal(Wedginator 9.0, Achilles): up to 100kg
Tracked(System Shock V: Hex, Darkestar): up to 110kg
Shuffler/Miscellaneous(Anarchy, Walk Don't Run 5): up to 150kg
True Walker(Absolution, Hex Appeal): up to 200kg

1: Starfire the 4th (Veteran from VRW 1)
2: Brutalis 2.1 (7)
3: Neo-Mecha (Newcomer)
4: Apocalypse II (3)
5: Behemoth (Series 1 Grand Finalist)
6: CrOoKeD eVo (9)
7: Whiplash (1)
8: Storm II (2)
9: Robin the 4th (Newcomer)
10: Envy (Veteran from VRW 2)
11: Walk Don't Run 5 (Newcomer)
12: Beast Boy 4 (Newcomer)
13: Maximum Genocide (6)
14: Gravity 5 (Veteran from VRW 1, I think)
15: Razer (I think Newcomer...)
16: Hyper Death IC (Newcomer)

The Weapon Shop:

The arena is essentially a 20m x 20m platform with pipes above the arena. The walls are 25cm high, and there are 3 of them. The last wall is a polycarbonate panel that retracts downward when a release button is pressed, and exposes the robot to 3 side-by-side conveyor belts with small barbs on them to grab robots. These belts lead to a 3m x 4m pit, and will push your robot into it. Don't worry about your robot though, as the 6ft deep pit is filled with a section of soft Tempur-Pedic mattress foam, so your robot won't get badly damaged. In each of the 4 corners, there is a propane flamethrower exuding flaming gas at a temperature of 500 degrees Fahrenheit. On the 2 walls opposite eachother, there are 2 140cm wide drums, each powered by a custom built 135hp engine mounted outside the arena. Each drum spins at a dangerous 8000rpm, and puts out over 300kjs! The wall opposite the panel contains 2 CPZs: One on the left side of the wall, and one on the right side. Each of the CPZs is a 4m x 5m rectangle, and contains 1 house robot. in between the 2 CPZs, the is a 10m gap, and on the wall is the button to release the polycarbonate panel and expose the conveyor belts. We're not done, however. There are 6 50cm diameter special alloy pipes running above the arena. These pipes are filled with burning thermite, and have been known to leak a bit, so if some drips on your robot, watch out! There's a grill in the middle of the arena that spews out Co2, so if some thermite drips on you, head to the the grill to cool yourself off.

The stats for the house robots are on my website, so that's all you need to know.

So anyways, start entering, and if you have any suggestions/criticism, please tell me. This will be the last time I do this unless it succeeds, and I think that's it.

For some reason those drums don't seem like they will get much bite, I think they're spinning too fast.

NB: No stats for Project X as of yet, I'll try to work on them later today or at the weekend.

Why are the walls so low?

I'm really not sure why I made them so low...

Question: What was the height of the walls of the Robot Wars arena?

Okay, after thinking about it, the walls are now 50cm high.

I will enter

Gravity (RW Series 7 version)
Theseus
Paralyzation 3
Mecha's Revenge
Return of Black Death
Whiplash

Theseus

Weight: 100kg
Shape: Atomic (Series 7 Version)
Colour: Unpainted, but the weapon is blue
Dimensions: 100 X 79 X 36
Power: 2 X LEM-130's @ 36v powered by several NiCad's
Wheels: 4 X Aluminium Tyres with Urethane rubber for more grip
Armour: 4mm Hardox Moncoque everywhere
GC: 5mm Everywhere Except for the front, which is 0mm
Speed: 19mph
Weapon: Mainly relies on pushing power, but there IS an extremely powerful Atomic-like flipper, also made completely of 4mm Hardox, powered by 2 X 2kg CO2 Tanks. It can flip 1000kg with ease and it can also self-right the robot as well.
Strengths: Powerful Flipper, Great Pusher, Always Reliable
Weaknesses: Limited to 38 flips
Notes: Possibly the first time I built a NON-SPINNER? :lame:

Return of Black Death

Weight: 100kg
Shape: Very low wedge with a Firestorm style wedge extension on the front
Colour: Black Body, Blue Flipper
Dimensions: 100 X 75 X 27
Power: 2 X LEM-130's @ 36v powered by a couple of NiCad batteries
Top Speed: 15 mph
Tyres: 4 X Foam-Packed Aluminium Tyres with urethane rubber on it for more grip
Armour: 6mm Ti/V alloy everywhere, slightly stronger than hardox.
Ground Clearence: Zero on the front, and 5mm anywhere else
Weapon: The weapon here is a forward hinged flipper, powered by 2 X 2kg Co2 Tanks. It's capable of bringing out 30 to 32 flips and can flip up to 1000kg. At the back, there is a 9kg vertical disc that's powered by an S28-400. It has teeth on it to rip and tear out skirts/panels, and spins at 4500RPM.
Sriemech: Flipper. Side spikes can also stop the robot from getting beached.
Strengths: Pretty Good Flipper, Deadly Disc, Nearly Impossible to Get under from front, Decent Pusher
Weaknesses: Limited CO2, as always.

Mecha's Revenge

Weight: 100kg
Shape: Box with side skirts and rear wedge
Colour: Black with silver horizontal lines on the sides
Dimensions: 100 X 75 X 36
Power: 2 X LEM-130's @ 36v powered by several NiCad's
Wheels: 4 X aluminium wheels with Asmaprene Urethane covering.
Speed: 15 mph
Armour: 6mm Ti/V alloy everywhere
Ground Clearence: 0mm on the sides due to skirts, and on the back. 5mm anywhere else (Including without skirts)
Weapon: 25kg Front Vertical Spinning Disc made from laser cut titanium, powered by 2 X LEM-130. This also has 4 Hardox teeth curved upwards, and it will spin at 3200RPM.
Srimech: At the rear, there is a linear actuated bar, and it can right the robot in 1 second.
Strengths: Deadly Weapon, Decent Pushing Power, Fast and effective srimech
Weaknesses: Hopefully, there is none. XD
Notes: Components Shock-Mounted to protect itself from other attacks.

Whiplash

Weight: 100kg
Body Shape: Pentagonal Pyramid with skirts
Dimensions: 100 X 85 X 38
Power: 2 X LEM-130's at 36v powered by 4 X Nicads
Tyres: 4 X Asmaprene Urethane Rubber Tyres
Speed: 15 mph
Armour: 4mm Hardox
Ground Clearence: 0mm with skirts, and 5mm without skirts
Weapon 1: SHEER PUSHING POWER
Weapon 2: At the front there is a 7kg Terrorhurtz-Like BattleAxe (made out of hardox, even the handle) powered by 2 X 2kg CO2 Tanks, 200 PSI, diamond tipped, has over 1500 joules of force when it comes down. It can also attack from both ends. Heavily Shock-Proofed, as well.
Srimech: The axe can easily self-right it (even when it's on its side), and it can also self-right even after the axe has fired, ala Killerhurtz.
Strengths: PSYCHOTIC AXE AND PUSHING POWER
Weaknesses: NONE AT ALL! (Except for Limited Co2)
Additional Notes: The first robot to win me a tournament.

ALSO: I think the drums spin too fast. :D

Thanks a lot for entering, Sam. Also, the drums now spin at 5000rpm, and still put out about 300kjs.

Samuel Park
1: Theseus
2: Paralyzation 3 (11), taking Walk Don't Run 5's seeding.
3: Mecha's Revenge (3)
4: Return of Black Death
5: Whiplash (7)
6: Gravity (14)

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Here are stats for...

Paralyzation 3

Weight: 100kg
Body Shape: Low Box with small wedges on the front top and bottom
Colour: Desert Yellow with Gold streaks on the side
Dimensions: 100 X 74 X 20
Drive: 2 X LEM-130's @ 36v powered by several NiCad Batteries
Top Speed: 15 mph
Wheels: 4 inner, Tightly Foam-Packed Wheels with Asmaprene Urethane on them
Armour: 4mm Hardox Monocoque
Ground Clearence: 0mm on the front, 5mm anywhere else
Weapon: 20kg Eggbeater weapon powered by 2 X LEM-130 Lynch's, spinning at 4500RPM, spinning upwards to toss opponents and damage them.
Srimech: Invertible. Side cones prevent it from getting beached
Strengths: Lethal Weapon, and a Great Pusher
Weaknesses: Exposed Tyres although very strong
Notes: Components Shock-Mounted to recoil from any damage

Just a small suggestion? Every time you get a new entry perhaps don't include loads of numbers and question marks in the spaces where entries have still be be submitted, because doing:

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that six or eight times in one post then again when you have another entry makes your thread pages very long, so much so it could cause RSI in people's scroll fingers! :)

Why not just state the list of entries you've got, then simply state how many spots are remaining in the form of a single number?

Your thread though, so it's up to you

Okay, Jamie. I'll do it that way.

And just as a side question: how about you use some of your old Vapour stats(Dr. Acula, Drumroll S.R, etc.) and enter? I'm just asking, so please don't think of it as a demand.

I could, but to be perfectly honest, I'm not all that interested in vapourboteering. I'm impressed with the designs, components, mechanisms etc that feature in many vapourbots and it would be really quite cool if a few of these were able to be constructed as real robots. The battles as well are generally of a high standard and good writing etc but its just not something I find grips me or is that absorbing for me.

I have entered a few tournaments but after them I decided I would prefer to focus on designing, building, fighting and improving my featherweights which can often take up a lot of spare time in itself.

I think the three I had were Dr. Acula, Firefly and Drumroll Snr? Well consider this a bit of a vapourbot garage sale. :)
If anyone fancies any of these designs and can find stats for them somewhere (can't remember what tournies they were in :uhoh: ) they're welcome to 'buy' them. Keep the stats, change the stats, improve the stats, feel free to do whatever you like. The only thing I ask would be to change the name for Drumroll Snr. Because if I ever build a kinetic energy-weaponed heavyweight.... :wink:

I've no real interest in entering any VRW of any description, I'm willing to grab Firefly as a project though :P

To be honest my interest in vapourbots has gone down a touch with me going into real robots in a big way now - Andy's reported that as well - but I'm still willing to enter things, write the occasional fight, and have a stab at making something out of a former competitor...the right way, as opposed to Mark's methods :)

I'll take Drumroll Sr. and Dr. Acula. And I still have 11 spots.

Okay, I might as well state this here and now: Instead of doing fights, I will instead find out the winner via using the percentages first used in Nick's Byte Size tournament. It's a more specific and seems like a simpler(good for you all, no more crappy fights) solution to all of the complaints.

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What's with all the :uhoh: s?

I believe they all think that this will end badly with a possibility of an intercontinental shouting match.

If you need someone to make up numbers I'll enter pending on whether I can get some stats up in time.

Time to start work.

It's a belief well grounded in historical precedent I'm afraid :P

There are far better tournaments to enter for your first time Jordan, seriously...

I think that this is the one that requires the least robots so It's less for me to have to design.

With RoboBash 2 you can enter one vapourbot and the rest can be realies.

However, with this one, you can enter realies as long as you do not have 5 vapourbots.

So if you had 1 vapour, then you could enter 5 realies, 2 vapours with 4 realies, etc. But t only works if I'm positive you have less then 5 vapours.

Due to advice from a helpful assistant, I now only need 3 more people to make this a 24-bot minor.

:lol: err il enter CrOoKeD EvO, I.A.N, O.I.D....er must i enter the others? ah well if i have to il enter pick axe of doom and BOXX but id rather enter envy and orrion *orrion being my very own heavy) in their place

jack

Well, you would need 5 vapours and 1 realie...

If you can give me a general description of Orrion, I'll let you enter it as your realie.

Samuel Park
1: Theseus
2: Paralyzation 3 (11)
3: Mecha's Revenge (3)
4: Return of Black Death
5: Whiplash (7)
6: Gravity (14)

Jack Orr
1: CrOoKeD eVo (9)
2: I.A.N
3: O.I.D
4: Pickaxe of Doom
5: Boxx
6: Envy/Orrion

orrion is iron awe 4, we bought it resently, it has a axe and a flipper, both full pressure, its armored in hardox and steel, and if you need a description on how powerfull the weapons are we flipped puck out the arena in or fast fight, but befor that we punctured his tire with our axe, and bent the hub :P

Okay, then. Orrion will be your realie.

ill enter with my new vapours (thanks mark :mrgreen: )

Merry Hampton
Weight: 100kg
Shape: A box on wheels ala Tornado.
Colour: the colour of unpainted titanium
Dimensions: 75cm x 85cm x 25cm
Drive: 4x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 6x NiCad Battlepacks.
Locomotion: 4 foam-filled GoodYear Go-Kart wheels.
Armour: 6.5mm titanium
Speed: 20mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm at front, 5mm elsewhere.
Turning Circle: 0m
Weapon: A 7mm thick hardox scoop, mounted at the front.
Srimech: Invertible.
Strengths: Tornado on steroids.
Weaknesses: Untested.
Bio: im a train enthusiast,(does that make me sad?) so i came up with this design...
Win/Loss Ratio: N/A

The Servant
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Mute (S7)
Colour: Blood Red
Dimensions: 67cm x 96cm x 26cm
Drive: 4x 24v S28-400 Magmotors powered by 5x NiCad Battlepacks
Locomotion: 4 Mute-style wheels.
Armour: 5mm titanium
Speed: 35mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm at front, 5mm elsewhere.
Turning Circle: 0m
Weapon: A full-pressure CO2 flipper(looks a lot like Chaos 2's) powered by a fire extinguisher.
Srimech: Flipper
Strengths: Very fast.
Weaknesses: Untested in battle
Bio: Essentially an updated Mute, Team Blood Mages' Servant is prepared to do some damage.
Win/Loss Ratio: N/A

Dr. Thwack
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Biohazard.
Colour: Malachite green
Dimensions: 80cm x 75cm x 10cm
Drive: 4x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 6x NiCad Battlepacks
Locomotion: El Diablo Grande-style rubber tank tracks.
Armour: 3.5mm of hardox and 1.5mm of titanium on top.
Speed: 20mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm all around thanks to 3mm titanium skirts. 5mm without skirts.
Turning Circle: 0m
Weapon: A 10kg pneumatic hammer, powered by a fire extinguisher. It hits an opponent at 70mph.
Srimech: The hammer.
Strengths: Powerful weapon, nearly unflippable.
Weaknesses: Untested.
Bio: my 2nd ever robot design.
Win/Loss Ratio: N/A

Druid
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Mortis (S4)
Colour: Black at the front, and gold at the back.
Dimensions: 100cm x 80cm x 30cm
Drive: 4x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 6x NiCad Battlepacks
Locomotion: Mortis-style titanium tank tracks.
Armour: 6mm hardox
Speed: 18mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm at front, 5mm elsewhere.
Turning Circle: 0m
Weapon: The weapon is a full-pressure Co2 flipper running off of a fire extinguisher. the flipper is not only the front wedge, but also the top of the robot.
Srimech: Flipper
Strengths: Half-Decent flipper
Weaknesses: Untested
Bio: my 3rd robot design takes the full-body flipper to a new level.
Win/Loss Ratio: N/A

my realies will be

259 and storm 2 :proud:

yay my 100th fanfic post
virtual beers for everyone

You only need 1 realie, and seeing as 259 was less successful then Storm II, I'll leave you with 1 vapour spot left.

Samuel Park
1: Theseus
2: Paralyzation 3 (11)
3: Mecha's Revenge (3)
4: Return of Black Death
5: Whiplash (7)
6: Gravity (14)

Jack Orr
1: CrOoKeD eVo (9)
2: I.A.N
3: O.I.D
4: Pickaxe of Doom
5: Boxx
6: Orrion

Lian Walsh
1: Merry Hampton
2: The Servant
3: Dr. Thwack
4: Druid
5: ???
6: Storm II (8)

wow storm 2 is seeded wooooot

but on a serious note

Smashy Smashy
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Simply, a box with 2 wedges at the front: one on the left, and one on the right. There is 20cm of width in between the 2 wedges for the meat tenderizer to come down, like Wedge of Doom
Colour: Black.
Dimensions:90cm x 70cm x 20cm
Drive: 4x 24v S28-400 Magmotors, powered by 6x NiCad Battlepacks.
Locomotion: 6 externally mounted solid rubber wheels with aluminum boron carbide hubs.
Armour: 5mm titanium, except the front wedge which is 8mm titanium,
Speed: 25mph
Ground Clearance: 0mm at front, and 5mm at sides and back.
Turning Circle: 0m
Weapons: A powerful axe, with a 3kg meat tenderizer for an axehead. The tenderizer's blades are diamond tipped, and it can hit an opponent and do damage when the axe springs back to its rested position, like Terrorhurtz. The axe itself is powered by a 2.2kg 750psi Co2 tank feeding gas to a 90mm bore 400mm stroke ram which pushes the axe forward, giving near 600kgs of force.
Srimech: The axe self-rights the robot. If it gets stuck on its side, repeatedly firing the axe will cause it to land on its back or right way up.
Strengths: Powerful axe. Also very maneuverable.
Weaknesses: Exposed wheels and average armor.
Bio: Once a Team Corsair machine, Always a Team Corsair machine. Just because the big, bad machine using a 3kg tenderizer as an axe isn't Mark's doesn't mean it's any less lethal though...
Win/Loss Ratio: N/A

Samuel Park
1: Theseus
2: Paralyzation 3 (11)
3: Mecha's Revenge (3)
4: Return of Black Death
5: Whiplash (7)
6: Gravity (14)

Jack Orr
1: CrOoKeD eVo (9)
2: I.A.N
3: O.I.D
4: Pickaxe of Doom
5: Boxx
6: Orrion

Lian Walsh
1: Merry Hampton
2: The Servant
3: Dr. Thwack
4: Druid
5: Smashy Smashy
6: Storm II (8)

Come on people, 1 more spot to be filled!!!

Just let me come up with another few vapours and I'll take that last spot

Bumping this.

Jordan, I really need your stats so I can post the draw.

Sorry guys, just got my pc back and am still finding everything.

Currently my mouse is dead so I will find another/put in some fresh batteries then post stats. (It's a pain to do everything using the keyboard)

Personally I wouldn't want to enter this tournament no matter who it was written by, there are simply too many robots entered by too few people. Either robots from the same vapourboteer will frequently be drawn against each other, or unfair battles will be written to avoid that.

This one's supposed to essentially be a filler due to VRW4 being hypoed. Also, I don't think I could get enough people for a 48-bot tourney, so meh...

If you have some way I can get 8 people, then by all means tell me, and I'll add 4 more spots.

EDIT: Oh Liam, I mentioned earlier in this thread:

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Instead of doing fights, I will instead find out the winner via using the percentages first used in Nick's Byte Size tournament. It's a more specific and seems like a simpler(good for you all, no more crappy fights) solution to all of the complaints.

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I think you're missing the point Mark.

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4 people entering 1 robot = nice small tourney, guaranteed no dodgy draws
4 people entering 2 or 3 robots = still good, more chance of dodgy draws
4 people entering 6 robots = not even enough for people to have no more than 1 robot in each heat :lame:

EDIT: What difference does that make? :P

I know, but:

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And as far as I know, aside from possibly getting down on my knees and begging, there is no way I can convince 4 more people to enter 6 robots apiece.