The Vapourbot Awards 2009

Bad luck, I'm still here. :wink:

You know what to do, but I will just remind you of some of the rules:

» Please vote in as many categories as you can
» Try to narrow your vote down to one choice per category
» If you can€™t decide between two choices, they will both receive half a point
» Please do not choose more than two choices per category
» You cannot vote for yourself or your own vapourbots
» However, you can vote for Best Battle if your robot was featured in it
» Please either post your votes in this thread or PM them to me
» Voting closes on Wednesday 23rd December 2009 at 11:00am UK time

I think that's all you need to know, so here are the categories:

Most Original Design
Best Design
Most Overrated Vapourbot
Most Underrated Vapourbot
Most Original Designer
Best Designer
Most Overrated Vapourboteer
Most Underrated Vapourboteer
Most Improved Vapourboteer
Sp00n of the Year
Best Sportsman
Best Render
Funniest Moment
Biggest Surprise of the Year
Best House Robot
Best Arena
Best Comedy Bot
Best Clusterbot
Best Interchangeable Robot
Best Rammer
Best Walker
Best Shuffler
Best Tracked
Best Front Hinged Flipper
Best Rear Hinged Flipper
Best Axe
Best Horizontal Spinner
Best Vertical Spinner
Best Saw
Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner
Best Horizontal Crusher
Best Vertical Crusher
Most Effective Weapon
Best RPG
Best Battle
Best New Writer
Best New Tournament
Best Writer
Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots)
Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots)
Best Team
Best New Vapourbot
Best New Vapourboteer
Best Vapourboteer
Best Vapourbot
Vapourboteer Hall of Fame (Frank Goacher, Steven McGregor, Alex Holt, Andrew Jackson, Aaron Knight and Martijn Benschop are already inducted)
Vapourbot Hall of Fame (Wedge Devolution, Son of Ripper and Achilles are already inducted)

I have removed a couple of the categories, because I don't think they are relevant to this year. But if you think something needs to be added or taken away, please say so. I think that's everything, so good luck and get voting. :)

How am I supposed to vote for the best spoon, I have no clue how wide or concave everyone heads are? Cutlery's not my strong point, either...can we count frying pans as they're sort of spoon shaped and Diotoir had one in the celebrity special?

Most Original Design
Venus Fly Trap 2. Steve takes the most original design of last year and makes it even more original. :proud:

Best Design
PsycloniZer? Yeah that. :P

Most Overrated Vapourbot
Gehenna?

Most Underrated Vapourbot
O.I.D. That's a nasty looking spinner right there yet people don't seem to realize its full potential.

Most Original Designer
Where's Alex? Where's Martijn? Because he made the most original vapourbot this year, it's gotta go to Steve.

Best Designer
Joey

Most Overrated Vapourboteer
Mr. WARGH with your bloody Smirnoff Ijs!

Most Underrated Vapourboteer
Jack

Most Improved Vapourboteer
Jack :proud:

Sp00n of the Year
Mark

Best Sportsman
Elliot

Best Render
Erm...wasn't Darkestar rendered this year? If so, that. If not...I dunno. :S

Funniest Moment
There haven't been many I can remember that are strictly on FRA...perhaps Shane making himself that 2009 RR trophy? lol

Biggest Surprise of the Year
Half the vapourboteers suddenly becoming inactive...

Best House Robot
Major Damage :lame:

Best Arena
The PTT arena :proud:

Best Comedy Bot
Mijnenveger :mrgreen:

Best Clusterbot
Uhm...Door Stops

Best Interchangeable Robot
Uhm...NSBFR-X

Best Rammer
Mother of all - I mean Monolith

Best Walker
Which ones have there been? Uhm...Hex Appeal I guess.

Best Shuffler
Whirligig 4.5

Best Tracked
Magnitude...

Best Font Higed Fipper
Mace II

Best Front Hinged Flipper
Gabriel V

Best Rear Hinged Flipper
Too many...Achilles I guess.

Best Axe
Axeon 4.0?

Best Horizontal Spinner
Ij of Ran

Best Vertical Spinner
Nightm...oh. Erm...Sheer Drunk Attack.

Best Saw
BACK TO ROCK DOESN'T DO MUCH WITH HIS SAW! So Spin Dash Unleashed. :P

Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner
ArchAngel...

Best Horizontal Crusher
Under Prussia..I mean Pressure.

Best Vertical Crusher
Holepunch 2.0

Most Effective Weapon
The pit. :proud:

Best RPG
If it were really active, I would so vote The Oddestsey II, but I can't. Guess I'll vote for Lian's thing...

Best Battle
Achilles vs. Intriguous, the final battle of PTTR! :proud:

Best New Writer
The slew of new writers...well, they haven't been all that and a bag of crisps...Samuel and Elliot haven't exactly been new...voting for Lian again...

Best New Tournament
W.A.R. :proud:

Best Writer
Steven McGregor, returning to show all the other writers how to write a REAL tournament!

Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots)
PTTR!

Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots)
RoboBash

Best Team
Team Picus

Best New Vapourbot
Mornington Crescent. On a veteran's squad, but entirely new. Kudos to Steve-O. :proud:

Best New Vapourboteer
Jordan Brown

Best Vapourboteer
Steven McGregor

Best Vapourbot
Back to Rock III

Vapourboteer Hall of Fame
JOEY!!!

Vapourbot Hall of Fame
Back to Rock
MDU
The Crashing Bore (if only one goes in then put in Back to Rock :))

Thanks :)

...wow, my name came up a lot in that ta kody :)

Most Original Design: venus fly trap? teh updated version

Best Design: that render kody did in the team bud thread :)

Most Overrated Vapourbot: honestly donthave a clue, gonna have to copy kody :P Gehenna

Most Underrated Vapourbot: compression

Most Original Designer: gotta be kody...or AJ, no gotta be KODY :)

Best Designer: erm kody again?

Most Overrated Vapourboteer: pfffff....errm...i honestly dont know :P

Most Underrated Vapourboteer: lewis?

Most Improved Vapourboteer: suprisingly im voting for mark, hes a damn sight better than last time, just work on the lenth of those fights!

Sp00n of the Year: the one i used to eat my cornflakes?

Best Sportsman: joey

Best Render: anything by kody (what program do you use?)

Funniest Moment: lian and marks inability to use msn :P

Biggest Surprise of the Year: marks comeback?

Best House Robot: battleaxe? :roll:

Best Arena: PTT FTW! :mrgreen:

Best Comedy Bot: :rofl:

Best Clusterbot: door stopz :arrow:

Best Interchangeable Robot: tornado?

Best Rammer: tornado? :crazy:

Best Walker: torn....anarchy :P

Best Shuffler: whirlygig

Best Tracked: magnitude

Best Front Hinged Flipper: jigsaw? :P

Best Rear Hinged Flipper: achilles

Best Axe: axeron

Best Horizontal Spinner: :rofl: a good vorizontal? NEVER! :mrgreen:

Best Vertical Spinner: that one nick made of biblical perportions?

Best Saw: the one in my shed?

Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: umbx

Best Horizontal Crusher: compression?

Best Vertical Crusher: razzler :mrgreen:

Most Effective Weapon: razzler :rofl:

Best RPG: kodys one

Best Battle: Achilles vs. Intriguous

Best New Writer: errr....lian?

Best New Tournament: krazy bots i guess :uhoh:

Best Writer: kody

Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots): CC? :rofl:

Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots): robobash

Best Team: picus :!:

Best New Vapourbot: jordans translational spinner

Best New Vapourboteer: jordan

Best Vapourboteer: martijn

Best Vapourbot: its all good 8) (back to rock)

Vapourboteer Hall of Fame (Frank Goacher, Steven McGregor, Alex Holt, Andrew Jackson, Aaron Knight and Martijn Benschop are already inducted): kody

Vapourbot Hall of Fame (Wedge Devolution, Son of Ripper and Achilles are already inducted): back to rock

*looks at Jack's list* lol copypasta :P though I am well surprised at the HoF listing :shock: ta

And the program is Rhino3D, btw. Also, to make the renders look better Rhino has to have the Flamingo plug-in with it, then you can experiment with texture settings and the like. :)

Edit: I don't think we're allowed to vote for realies... *looks at AJ* are we? :?

thanks fo your votes guys :)

btw kody its called robot wars vs battlebots

edit: btw jack i didnt know my brother java password to install the new msn, but i have the old on bacck now :mrgreen:

way too much awards.

great job for doing these again Andy! much needed too, vapourbotering fell to another one of its many periods of inactivity once again, and much to my dislike, I havent been the right person to really help it this time, blame it all to university! I will however take my time to come up with a good vote for every single one of those buggers, so watch out!

gravity, our annual awards have always been like this, many catogeries thats right, but its our little annual party and dont forget there ARE more vapourbots than real bots, they may not all be active all the time, but we have a big shed to chose from, and if someone doesnt want to vote for a certain catogery because he, like you, thinks we're overdoing it a bit, he is excused to do so, cause as Andy said Please vote in as many categories as you can

these awards are a tradition I wouldnt wanna see changed :D

I'll join in on the fun.

Most Original Design: I have to give this to All Bar One. Jordan did a lot of research to make it.
Best Design: Duh. With one of the best win/loss ratios in FanFic, I'll say Intriguous.
Most Overrated Vapourbot: I have to say Die-Reverta-Tops. Not a very effective redesign.
Most Underrated Vapourbot: Probably the Alexandra Sisters Series. It's just bad luck that they don't do as well as Kody wants.
Most Original Designer: Probably Jordan Brown. He puts a lot of classic design into his machines, and even though they haven't fought, they use ideas that nobody's used in quite a while.
Best Designer: Probably Steven McGregor. Though he's only made 2 new robots, all of his machines, including his old ones, have a very high pedigree.
Most Overrated Vapourboteer: I'll say AJ, though watch out for a new Forcepower coming soon...
Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Jack Orr. Though his robots are still a bit rough, he's managed to make a semi-final in my very screwed up VRW4, and I feel he can do more...
Most Improved Vapourboteer: Lian Walsh. With me helping him, his robots have become slightly better then before.
Sp00n of the Year: AJ with his return to drunkenly rambling on the ZED forum.
Best Sportsman: Lian Walsh. He actually accepted half his ROBOBASH!!! 2 entries were crud, and made tactics to prepare for their demise.
Best Render: Kody's render of Macduff the 5th.
Funniest Moment: TJS becomes a worthwhile FanFic writer in ACTILWI(Hey! I only wrote it. It's still funny).
Biggest Surprise of the Year: Around half of the vapourboteers suddenly disappear, but slowly start to come back.
Best House Robot: Samuel Park's King Arthur.
Best Arena: Team Zlayerz' Battlegrounds 2.0.
Best Comedy Bot: Spring-BOK!
Best Clusterbot: If I'm correct, only the Alexandra Sisters fought in 2009, so I'll vote for them.
Best Interchangeable Robot:
Best Rammer: A split vote between Exertion and Do or Die.
Best Walker: Absolution, even though Kody rarely uses it.
Best Shuffler: I think Whirligig 4.5 fought this year...
Best Tracked: Darkestar fought this year.
Best Front Hinged Flipper: Gabriel V.
Best Rear Hinged Flipper: I'll go out on a limb here and say Eternia.
Best Axe: Intriguous.
Best Horizontal Spinner: The only one I can think of: Eye of Ran II.
Best Vertical Spinner: Still Hurting.
Best Saw: Spin Dash Unleashed.
Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: I'll be crazy and say the featherweight MBX. That annoying little thing ripped through practically all of its opponents...
Best Horizontal Crusher: The axlebot Under Pressure.
Best Vertical Crusher: Holepunch 2.0.
Most Effective Weapon: The MDU Series, which destroyed at least half of the robots it faced.
Best RPG: Kody is slow at updating his, and Lian's been updated later, so I'll say Robot Wars vs Battlebots.
Best Battle: Megaroll II vs Raven the 4th. I got destroyed, and it shows what an 800kj spinner can do even to a modern robot.
Best New Writer: Lian's the only new writer besides me, so I'll say Lian Walsh.
Best New Tournament: Does this mean like a new Tourney or a new series of tournies? If a series, I'll say Crazy Bots Series 1(The Remake), and if just a new tourney, I'll say the Crash & Burn MTOD 3.
Best Writer: Probably Steven McGregor, who showed that he still has what it takes.
Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots): PTT: Regeneration.
Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots): ROBOBASH!!! 2.
Best Team: Team DETROIT ROCK CITY aka Team Lunch at Quarter to Eight aka Team ???.
Best New Vapourbot: Series or robot? If series, I'll say Frustum. If vapour, Intriguous.
Best New Vapourboteer: Jordan Brown.
Best Vapourboteer: Break a vote between Kody Kunz and Steven McGregor.
Best Vapourbot: The MDU Series.
Vapourboteer Hall of Fame: Kody Kunz, so his ego will explode :P . Just joking of course, but seriously, Kody needs to be in there.
Vapourbot Hall of Fame: My 3 votes are The MDU Series, The Crashing Bore(was planned to be a real robot but there was no proof it was real), and The Intrigue Series, mainly due to its major success.

hey mark i thought you would vote me for sportsmanship for standing up for you
against 18,000 blokes :rofl:

Hey! I did nominate you for Sportmanship.

i know buti thought that was what you were gonna vote me for

sorry if you took offence from it

*offers virtual handshake*

*Shakes Lian's virtual hand* It's okay. At least your robot went out of control and killed All Bar One...

Thanks for the votes so far! :)

For anyone else interested in voting, you've still got a week left.

Im gonna vote my entire list later but to keep this going, and because there are several votes I already made up my mind about anyhow, here are some!

Most Original Designer: Steven McGregor, the man was known for classic and solid designs, but when he brought us Traffic Warden and Venus Fly Trap not too long ago he has proven that he can be bloody original as well!

Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Lewis Matthews he is a good, good vapourboteer, end of.

Best Arena: Kody's arena is great fun.

Best Horizontal Spinner: Eye of Ran II, real good robot.

Best RPG: Kody's, with the gears we gather in places with German names, it is weeeeeell written.

Best Writer: Steven McGregor made a fantastic comeback to the writing scene.

Best Minor Tournament: PTT: Regeneration, everything I wanna say about it can be read in the above sentence :P

Best New Vapourboteer: Jack Orr's the man!

We really need to cut down on the number of awards next year. :lame:

MOST ORIGINAL DESIGN: Assegei
BEST DESIGN: Eye of Ran II
MOST OVERRATED VAPOURBOT: PsycloniZer
MOST UNDERRATED VAPOURBOT: Quaestor III
MOST ORIGINAL DESIGNER: Alex Holt
BEST DESIGNER: Joey McConnell
MOST OVERRATED VAPOURBOTEER: Steven McGregor
MOST UNDERRATED VAPOURBOTEER: Matthew Fowler
MOST IMPROVED VAPOURBOT: Mark Elam
SP00N OF THE YEAR: Thierry Henry
BEST SPORTSMAN: Martijn Benschop
BEST RENDER: The Kody Kunz collection
FUNNIEST MOMENT: Elam V Kunz: Live on Sky Sports 1!
BIGGEST SURPRISE OF THE YEAR: Chris Mason's departure

BEST HOUSE ROBOT: Count Bleck by Kody Kunz
BEST ARENA: The Battlegrounds by Kody Kunz
BEST COMEDYBOT: Spring-BOK!
BEST CLUSTERBOT: Door Stops
BEST INTERCHANGEABLE ROBOT: Macduff the 5th
BEST RAMMER: System Shock
BEST WALKER: Hex Appeal
BEST SHUFFLER: M.O.R.D. 2
BEST TRACKED ROBOT: Monsoon Season
BEST FRONT-HINGED FLIPPER: Gehenna
BEST REAR-HINGED FLIPPER: Apocalypse
BEST AXE: Intriguous
BEST HORIZONTAL SPINNER: Eye of Ran II
BEST VERTICAL SPINNER: Tira V
BEST SAW: Back to Rock III
BEST FULL-BODY SPINNER: Propane Nightmare
BEST HORIZONTAL CRUSHER: Under Pressure
BEST VERTICAL CRUSHER: N Cubed
MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON: Tira V

BEST R.P.G: Team Zlayer: Identity Theft
BEST BATTLE: Monsoon Season VS Mornington Crescent VS Whiplash from AJWars: Era Ache, if it's allowed.
BEST NEW WRITER: Lewis Matthews
BEST NEW TOURNAMENT: A Special Robot Wars Fan Fiction Anniversary
BEST WRITER: Kody Kunz
BEST MINOR TOURNAMENT: The Mechanical Maelstrom spinoffs. Annihilation, if you need just one.
BEST MAJOR TOURNAMENT: Crash and Burn Tournament 4

BEST TEAM: Team Picus (Joey McConnell)
BEST NEW VAPOURBOT: O.I.D.
BEST NEW VAPOURBOTEER: Tracy Farber
BEST VAPOURBOTEER OF 2009: Kody Kunz
BEST VAPOURBOT OF 2009: Intriguous
VAPOURBOTEER HALL OF FAME: Hector Gilbert
VAPOURBOT HALL OF FAME: The Crashing Bore, SpinVerter and Mass Disctruction Ultimate

Apologies if any nominees are eligable for whatever reason. Had a helluva time trying to decide who deserved what after a year of such varying levels of activity. :?

Good luck to all at any rate. :D

Most Original Design: BIACS-IS Of EVIL-OUTION...well, it couldn't be anything else really :P
Best Design: Propane Nightmare, if only Dan had entered more with it
Most Overrated Vapourbot: Die-Reverta-Tops...I think Chris will find his 'unique' feature is what most civilized cultures call a 'wheel' :proud:
Most Underrated Vapourbot: Any of Lewis' creations, mainly because he's been quietly working at them without anyone noticing or appreciating them...if I have to choose one it'd be Equinox as I think it could go a long way in a good tournament, very well thought out and Complete Control-esque.
Most Original Designer: Whichever nomenclatory permutation Matthew Will 'Matty' Harrison Fowler is using this week
Best Designer: Andrew Jackson :P he'll be absolutely shocked but his designs don't cross the boundaries of weight like most people, and consistently perform well
Most Overrated Vapourboteer: Aaron Knight, if he's still around anymore, you can't really do much once you've created MDU :P
Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Lewis, again, for reasons listed above
Most Improved Vapourboteer: Jack Orr, he's consolidated his knowledge rather well
Idiot Of The Year: Mark Elam, by a long way. Runners up have to be the rest of us for allowing ourselves to believe he'd changed instead of getting worse...
Best Sportsman: Marti!

Best Render: Marti's Sandslash render that only a few people on ARC saw I suppose :P
Funniest Moment: bogheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehn
Biggest Surprise of the Year: The fact that a well developed Robot Wars Wiki exists?!
Best Arena: Steve's PTT arena is probably the winner here :P having had the chance to battle in it it's surprisingly good and there's not a lot that can't be used to your advantage.
Best Comedy Bot: NSBFR-X's presence in the awards after so much time not competing is certainly comical
Best Clusterbot: Double Killa II?
Best Interchangeable Robot: System Shock V: Hex
Best Rammer: Flick Of The Wrist
Best Walker: Archangel Of The Abyss
Best Shuffler: Apparently Whirligig 4.5 is the only one around? Right, I'm designing one for 2010 :P
Best Tracked: Darkestar
Best Front Hinged Flipper: Gehenna
Best Rear Hinged Flipper: Seung Mina VI
Best Axe: Axeon 4.0
Best Horizontal Spinner: Illusion Of Dread
Best Vertical Spinner: Darkestar
Best Saw: Back To Rock III, I can't remember any others at this moment in time :P
Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: Propane Nightmare sharing with Mornington Crescent
Best Horizontal Crusher: Under Pressure
Best Vertical Crusher: Killobite Sigma
Best 'other' Weapon: Cobalt
Most Effective Weapon: Propane Nightmare was worryingly good
Best RPG: Mechanical Maelstrom: Devastation
Best Battle: The entire first Mechanical Maelstrom annihilator, it's difficult to express how awesome it was to see something like N^3, that I'd spent lots of time researching and looking into strange technologies for, actually work and win :)
Best Writer: Steven McGregor, still...SIMPLY THE BEST! DOO DO, DOO, DOO!
Best Minor Tournament: Split between PTT: Regeneration and AJWars: Era Ache
Best Major Tournament: ...the only one seems to be RoboBash Series 2 so I'll go with that :P

Best Team: Team Varying Every Day, they haven't changed because in my opinion they don't really need to :P
Best New Vapourbot: Half of this goes to all Bar One, half to Equinox
Best New Vapourboteer: Again split, half to Jordan Brown and half to Alex Howard (whom you may know as Navaha)
Best Vapourboteer: Andrew Jackson
Best Vapourbot: Darkestar

Vapourboteer Hall Of Fame: I had difficulty making this decision to be honest, due to the somewhat fractious relations I've had with this person at times, and also from the rather more selfish point of view that voting for him would deny me a however undeserved chance at getting in :P but at the end of the day, for all that may have happened he is still one of the best designers, best renderers, best writers, and best people around in vapourbots and it can't be ignored that he was among those who saved vapourbots back in 2006...ladies, gentlemen, boys, girls, rats, I give you KODY KUNZ! You deserve it mate :)

Vapourbot Hall Of Fame: The Crashing Bore - Frank Goacher
Sheer Heart Attack - Martijn Benschop
Mass Disctruction Ultimate - Aaron Knight

Hope those do :)

Quote:

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Originally Posted by joeychevron

Most Overrated Vapourboteer: Aaron Knight, if he's still around anymore, you can't really do much once you've created MDU :P

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Oh yes you can, you can start trying to build the real thing 8)
**Pic to be inserted when I get home**

For the previous post (since I can't edit that post :lame: )
http://crystalnode.net/images/mbx/MBX3.PNG

...that's not quite MDU though is it :P you're two letters out.

Well, it's a good render, but you're kind of missing the Disctruction and the Ultimate...

Getting back on topic...I'd like to change some votes before closing time...

Best House Robot
Surlygig

Most Effective Weapon
...Assegai?

Best RPG
Mechanical Maelstrom: Devastation. I forgot about this and how great it is...

Yeah, less categories gets my vote too :proud:
But anyways for now...

Most Original Design ~ Assegai
Best Design ~ Nidhogg Cubed
Most Overrated Vapourbot ~ Leprosy Infection
Most Underrated Vapourbot ~ Axe to Fall
Most Original Designer ~ Matty
Best Designer ~ Martijn
Most Underrated Vapourboteer ~ Jack
Most Improved Vapourboteer ~ Jack
Sp00n of the Year ~ Mark
Best Sportsman ~ Steven
Best Render ~ Anything of Kody's really, Wedginator 9.0 if I have to pick one
Most Effective Weapon ~ Under Pressure
Best Writer ~ Kody
Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots) ~ C&b: MToD3
Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots) ~ RoboBash 2
Best Team ~ Braveheart

Thanks everyone! Here are my votes:

Most Original Design: BIACS-Is Of Evil-ution - As Kody might say, it€™s beautiful and strange.
Best Design: Achilles - A simple concept but it€™s so difficult to beat.
Most Overrated Vapourbot: Extreme Gyration - I think I saw it last more than one hit somewhere. :wink:
Most Underrated Vapourbot: Eye of Ran II - Brilliant design and it has so much potential.
Most Original Designer: Steven McGregor - He€™s making a real effort to introduce new ideas into his team.
Best Designer: Joey McConnell - A lot of research has gone into some of Joey€™s designs.
Most Overrated Vapourboteer: :)
Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Lewis Matthews - Great designer and great battle writer.
Most Improved Vapourboteer: Jack Orr - For the huge improvement in battle writing quality.
Sp00n of the Year: Mark Elam - He is Mark Elam... :proud:
Best Sportsman: Martijn Benschop - If only all people made as much sense as this guy.
Best Render: Macduff the 5th
Funniest Moment: Joey McConnell€™s Brand Values - He€™s still available on a free transfer.
Biggest Surprise of the Year: The decline of FanFic after such a great year in 2008.
Best House Robot: Damocles - I€™m surprised this idea hasn€™t been used in a competitor yet...
Best Arena: The Battlegrounds 2.0
Best Comedy Bot: Spring-BOK!
Best Clusterbot: Door Stops
Best Interchangeable Robot: Macduff the 5th
Best Rammer: System Shock 5.1
Best Walker: Archangel of the Abyss
Best Shuffler: Whirligig 4.5
Best Tracked: Darkestar
Best Front Hinged Flipper: Gabriel V
Best Rear Hinged Flipper: Achilles
Best Axe: Intriguous
Best Horizontal Spinner: Eye of Ran II
Best Vertical Spinner: Tira VI
Best Saw: Back to Rock III
Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: Propane Nightmare
Best Horizontal Crusher: Under Pressure
Best Vertical Crusher: N³
Most Effective Weapon: Shopping Mall
Best RPG: Team Zlayerz RPG: Identity Theft
Best Battle: Gehenna vs. Propane Nightmare
Best New Writer: Lian Walsh - You€™ve made a good start, just work on the length and detail a bit more. :)
Best New Tournament: Crazy Bots - For the above reason.
Best Writer: Steven McGregor - One of the best writers ever returned to show us all how it€™s done.
Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots): PTT - Regeneration - A very well written tournament with so many great vapourbots competing.
Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots): RoboBash - Not many major tournaments have been completed on this forum, so Sam should be proud.
Best Team: Team Zlayerz - So many different but effective vapourbots.
Best New Vapourbot: Mornington Crescent - Quite a unique design, and it€™s already doing well.
Best New Vapourboteer: Jordan Brown - Even though he hasn€™t had much chance to compete yet, his designs show originality and potential.
Best Vapourboteer: Steven McGregor - Steve has made quite a few new and original vapourbots in the past year or so, such as Venus Fly Trap, Traffic Warden and Mornington Crescent. These, along with the older members of his team are still tough to beat. Earlier in the year, he wrote one of the best tournaments we have seen for quite a while with the return of PTT. It was a tough tournament to judge, but he pulled it off brilliantly.
Best Vapourbot: Intriguous - Not only is it a nice design, but it reached the finals of both, in my opinion, the two best tournaments of the year.
Vapourboteer Hall of Fame: There are so many reasons why this person should be in the Hall of Fame. His vapourbots are fairly unique, well designed and always perform well. He is one of the best vapourbot battle writers there has ever been. I might not be typing this now if he hadn€™t kept this section alive back in 2006. If I€™m in the Hall of Fame, then this guy certainly should be, it€™s Kody Kunz.
Vapourbot Hall of Fame: The Crashing Bore - One of the original vapourbots and the design is still competitive. SpinVerter - Not around any more, but a classic influential vapourbot. Mass Disctruction Ultimate - The most successful vapourbot ever.

Still a couple of days left to vote. :)

*coughs* VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

my second wave of votes comes now, these are the votes I wasnt sure on straight away, but they were strill pretty easy for me

Most Improved Vapourboteer: I find that Jack Orr, who also was my best new vapourboteer, imrpoved really well over his stint here

Best Render: I love Kody's Intrigous (spelling? xD)... I may have his name wrong, the one with the wheels popping out on top, that one!

Funniest Moment: The brand values thing for Joey... can you tell Andy and I pretty much made that one together? xD

Best Clusterbot: Door Stops is good

Best Interchangeable Robot: Macduff the 5th

Best Front Hinged Flipper: Ive been thorn between Wedginator's current version and Gabriel's ever since the voting for this started... split a vote between them!

Best Axe: The current Axeon

Best Saw: Spin Dash Unleashed

Best Vertical Crusher: N³

Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots): I'll be flabbergasted if PTTR doesnt win this... PTTR

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Originally Posted by joeychevron

...that's not quite MDU though is it :P you're two letters out.

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It's based on MDU3, it's currently just codenamed MBX3.
If I get around to finishing it in 2010, it will probably run under the name MDU or SpunOut.

/thread hijack

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Vapourbot Hall of Fame: The Crashing Bore - One of the original vapourbots and the design is still competitive. SpinVerter - Not around any more, but a classic influential vapourbot.

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I agree, SpinVerter should definitely go into the hall of fame. Was a pretty decent bot for it's time, certainly gave me a challenge.

My final votes, note that for each vapour I name Im talking about the current version, even if I don€™t specify that

Most Original Design: Assegai
Best Design: N^3
Most Overrated Vapourbot: I honoustly, HONOUSTLY don€™t know
Most Underrated Vapourbot: you know what I like Joey€™s suggestion of Equinox

Best Designer: I€™ll say Steven
Most Overrated Vapourboteer: much like most overrated bot€¦ I cant tell


Sp00n of the Year: Thierry Henry! (man I hope he wins this now he€™s got 2 votes :D)
Best Sportsman: €¦ Thierry Henry? Naaaaaah, Joey!


Biggest Surprise of the Year: I found Chris€™ departure surprising really
Best House Robot: Rorschach

Best Comedy Bot: Im tagging along with Spring-BOK! Because he€™s a very original creation and itd work surprisingly well for a comedy bot

Best Rammer: System Shock
Best Walker: Archangel
Best Shuffler: Whirligig
Best Tracked: Darkestar

Best Rear Hinged Flipper: Has to be Achilles

Best Vertical Spinner: Tira

Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: Propane Nightmare
Best Horizontal Crusher: Super Gore

Most Effective Weapon: Eye of Ran!

Best Battle: PTTR final between Kody and Alex!
Best New Writer: Jack Orr
Best New Tournament: W.A.R.

Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots): RoboBash 2!
Best Team: ermz€¦ I quite like Joey€™s atm
Best New Vapourbot: Equinox

Best Vapourboteer: Joey
Best Vapourbot: N^3
Vapourboteer Hall of Fame: lets put Kody there if only because his huge surges of activity the last few years meant so much for the game as a whole€¦ and these surges weren€™t just mindless head-over-heels rushes into the game, they also brought a good share of quality
Vapourbot Hall of Fame SpinVerter, The Robot That Wasn€™t There (the 5 part cluster, not 100%sure on the name) and MDU

The 5 part cluster's name was The Team That Wasn't There.

Thank you for your time, everyone. Voting is now closed. I'll reveal the winners at some point tomorrow.

looking forward to it (i tried to count them up but failed epicly)

EDIT: jeez that was my 700th post :proud: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :uhoh:

Merry Christmas, guys :)

Here are the winners! :)

Most Original Design: We have a two-way tie between Venus Fly Trap II and Assegai.
Best Design: The winner is N³.
Most Overrated Vapourbot: A tie between Gehenna and Die-Reverta-Tops.
Most Underrated Vapourbot: The winner is Equinox.
Most Original Designer: Mr. Steven McGregor.
Best Designer: Mr. Joey McConnell.
Most Overrated Vapourboteer: Me of course! :proud:
Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Lewis Matthews.
Most Improved Vapourboteer: Jack Orr.
Sp00n of the Year: For the second year in a row, Mark Elam! :lame:
Best Sportsman: Martijn Benschop.
Best Render: Macduff the 5th by Kody Kunz.
Funniest Moment: Joey McConnell€™s Brand Values... the transfer market is nearly open.
Biggest Surprise of the Year: Fanfic goes into hibernation.
Best House Robot: We have a five-way tie here! The winners are King Arthur, Count Bleck, Surlygig, Damocles and Rorschach.
Best Arena: Home of the Crash & Burn Tournaments, The Battlegrounds 2.0.
Best Comedy Bot: Spring-BOK!
Best Clusterbot: Door Stops.
Best Interchangeable Robot: Macduff the 5th is the winner.
Best Rammer: System Shock 5.1.
Best Walker: The spinning Archangel of the Abyss.
Best Shuffler: Whirligig 4.5.
Best Tracked: Darkestar.
Best Front Hinged Flipper: Gabriel V.
Best Rear Hinged Flipper: Achilles.
Best Axe: Axeon 4.0.
Best Horizontal Spinner: Eye of Ran II.
Best Vertical Spinner: Tira VI.
Best Saw: A two-way tie between Spin Dash Unleashed and Back to Rock III.
Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: Bring it on home, Propane Nightmare.
Best Horizontal Crusher: Do do do, der der do do... Under Pressure.
Best Vertical Crusher: The well-researched N³.
Most Effective Weapon: It€™s a five-way tie between Tira VI, Propane Nightmare, Assegai, Under Pressure and Eye of Ran II.
Best RPG: The Team Zlayerz RPG: Identity Theft.
Best Battle: The final of PTT - Regeneration, it€™s Achilles vs. Intriguous.
Best New Writer: The winner is Lian Walsh.
Best New Tournament: Lian€™s tournament, Crazy Bots.
Best Writer: The master returned better than ever, it€™s Steven McGregor.
Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots): The all-star contest that was PTT - Regeneration.
Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots): A completed major tournament! It€™s RoboBash.
Best Team: Joey McConnell€™s creations, Team Picus.
Best New Vapourbot: The translational spinner All Bar One.
Best New Vapourboteer: Welcome, Jordan Brown.
Best Vapourboteer: A great designer, a great writer and a great guy... Steve McGregor.
Best Vapourbot: It€™s a tie between Back to Rock III and Intriguous.
Vapourboteer Hall of Fame: One of the best ever finally gets the recognition he deserves. A fantastic designer and battle writer, it€™s Kody Kunz.
Vapourbot Hall of Fame: Winner of three major tournaments when battling at its peak and was eventually even banned from some competitions. It€™s the most successful vapourbot ever, Mass Disctruction Ultimate.

This is how many awards everyone got:

Kody Kunz (11 awards)
Steven McGregor (9 awards)
Joey McConnell (7 awards)
Martijn Benschop (5 awards)
Alex Holt (3 awards)
Andrew Jackson (3 awards)
Sam Park (2 awards)
Dan Stickler (2 awards)
Matt Fowler (2 awards)
Lewis Matthews (2 awards)
Lian Walsh (2 awards)
Jordan Brown (2 awards)
Chris Mason (2 awards)
Jack Orr (1 award)
Liam Eliot (1 award)
Aaron Knight (1 award)
Frank Goacher (1 award)
Mark Elam (1 award)

Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to everyone that voted! Merry Christmas! :)

...wow.

...you people really have gone mental. :rofl:

Let's see. I got 11 awards, one being Vapourboteer Hall of Fame which *sniff* means a lot to me...can't believe you guys would think that highly of me...makes me a bit ashamed to have abandoned ZED as I did. :( Plus, Intriguous is voted as Best Vapourbot alongside good ol' Back to Rock III, who deserves it just as much, great all-rounder, well done Marti. :)

Couldn't have done it without any of you, seriously. Also, well done to all who have gotten their awards (with the obvious exception), and thanks to Andy for being a great host. My only nitpick is that...I have none. :proud:

Now let's make 2010 even better! :)

Wow, Frank and I don't even have to compete to get awards :o
Is this like the pension or something! Free awards just because we are old :lol:
Might have to actually enter something next year to justify any future awards hahaha :mrgreen:

in everyone's defense Aaron, your award is a hall of fame one, a lifetime achievment award so to speak for the great things you did in the past ;)

congrats everyone! welcome in the hall of fame Kody! its getting crowded here

Wow, thanks everyone...seven awards is a hell of a lot, it puts me ahead of people far superior to myself in terms of their ability to design, compete, and win fights, so many many thanks to everyone and anyone who voted for me ^_^ it's appreciated far more than you realise, especially getting Best Design and Best Team which I had never even considered myself in the running for...you either like my designs and contributions a lot, or you're completely insane. (with one or two of you I know the latter to be the case, but it surely can't happen en masse? :P)

Congratulations to everyone else who won, and a Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Solstice, Winterval, 25th of December, birthday (for Jamie at least, I know he reads this section :P), New Year and Eid to everyone. Let's hope 2010 doesn't get any worse :)

wow thanks for my awards
time for me to start building that trophy cabinet :mrgreen:
i really thought i could dethrown kody on best rpg but was beaten by 3 votes
but thats what you get when go up against a legend :mrgreen:
have a happy new year guys :mrgreen:

wow, im the most improved? that...that is really nice :D i dont have a speach ready... lol,

thanks to everyone who voted for me, and everybody who made this as good as it is, bravo AJ! :mrgreen: (i sound so stupid :P) well done to kody for getting so many awards, and to everybody else for being nice people :roll:

Well, thought I'd do what Joey did last year and give this a royal bump.

Awards from '03 to '08
Steven McGregor: 53
Alex Holt: 39
Frank Goacher: 31
Kody Kunz: 26
Andrew Jackson: 26
Aaron Knight: 24
Martijn Benschop: 21
Joey McConnell: 10
Richard Southworth: 9
Paul Cuomo: 8
Tom Roper: 7
Matty Fowler: 7
Nick Schuch: 6
Martyn Forsyth: 5
Hector Gilbert: 5
David Sheppard: 5
Alexander MacWilliams: 4
Christopher Mason: 4
David Weston: 3
Chris Cooper: 3
Anthony Politzi: 3
Danny Bailey: 2
Timothy James Sillery: 2
Scott Anderson: 2
Daniel Stickler: 1
Liam Eliot: 1
Evan Dechief: 1
Chezza: 1
Lewis Matthews: 1
Matt Robinson: 1
Mark Elam: 1
Mr. Thiwon: 1

Awards in '09
Kody Kunz: 11
Steven McGregor: 9
Joey McConnell: 7
Martijn Benschop: 5
Alex Holt: 3
Andrew Jackson: 3
Samuel Park: 2
Daniel Stickler: 2
Matty Fowler: 2
Lewis Matthews: 2
Lian Walsh: 2
Jordan Brown: 2
Christopher Mason: 2
Jack Orr: 1
Liam Eliot: 1
Aaron Knight: 1
Frank Goacher: 1
Mark Elam: 1

GRAND TOTAL

Steven McGregor: 62
Alex Holt: 42
Kody Kunz: 37
Frank Goacher: 32
Andrew Jackson: 29
Martijn Benschop: 26
Aaron Knight: 25
Joey McConnell: 19
Matty Fowler: 9
Richard Southworth: 9
Paul Cuomo: 8
Tom Roper: 7
Christopher Mason: 6
Nick Schuch: 6
Martyn Forsyth: 5
Hector Gilbert: 5
David Sheppard: 5
Alexander MacWilliams: 4
Daniel Stickler: 3
Lewis Matthews: 3
David Weston: 3
Chris Cooper: 3
Anthony Politzi: 3
Samuel Park: 2
Jordan Brown: 2
Liam Eliot: 2
Danny Bailey: 2
Scott Anderson: 2
Lian Walsh: 2
Timothy James Sillery: 2
Mark Elam: 2
Jack Orr: 1
Evan Dechief: 1
Chezza: 1
Matt Robinson: 1
Mr. Thiwon: 1

Well now you're the 9th best vapourboteer Matty. :proud: And crikey, 62 awards...how do you do it Stevo :proud:

wow Kody at this rate you will have taken over Steve by 2022 :proud: