The Vapourbot Awards: X

Ten years ago today we were invited to move from the old Robot Wars discussion boards to our new home right here on the FRA forum. To mark this anniversary, I thought that we should celebrate by having a special edition of The Vapourbot Awards. Rather than voting for your favourites from the past year, this time you are invited to choose who you think has been the best from the past decade of destruction.

For each category below, please select your top three:

Your #1 choice will receive 5 points.
Your #2 choice will receive 3 points.
Your #3 choice will receive 1 point.


  • Please try to vote in as many categories as you can.
  • Please do not vote for yourself, your vapourbots or any tournaments that you wrote battles for.
  • Please note that for these awards you are voting for a series of vapourbots rather than individual versions. For example, voting for "Firestorm III" or "Firestorm IV" would both be considered a vote for the "Firestorm" family of robots. Please do not vote for a series of vapourbots more than once per category.
  • Listed below are the previous winners of each category. This is for guidance only - you may vote for something that is not listed if you prefer.
  • Voting is open to anyone, whether you have been involved for the whole ten years or just ten minutes.


Voting closes on Friday 28th February at 23:00 GMT.


Most Original Design: Assegai / BIACS-LE / Blizzard / The Plothole / Venus Fly Trap II

Best Design: Acid Burn / Automatic Schmuck / BIACS-LE / Gabriel V / Infusion / N³ / SOR / Tengu VII / The Crashing Bore / The Disc / V'Ger / Wedge Devolution

Most Original Designer: Aaron Knight / Alex Holt / Joey McConnell / Steven McGregor / Zarte Siempre

Best Designer: Andrew Jackson / Joey McConnell / Kody Kunz

Best Sportsman: Joey McConnell / Martijn Benschop / Steven McGregor

Best Clusterbot: Door Stops / Double Killa / Going Crunch / Mass Confuzzlement / The Alexandra Sisters: Judgement

Best Interchangeable Vapourbot: Macduff the 5th / NSBFR-X / Slammer VI / WX 6.0

Best Rammer: Flick of the Wrist / ForcePower 5.0 / System Shock 5.1

Best Walker: Absolution 2.0 / ArchAngel of the Abyss / Hex Appeal / Walk Away

Best Shuffler: Metallic Doom / MORD 2 / Whirligig 4.5

Best Tracked: Darkestar / Macduff the 5th / Magnitude / Sheer Heart Attack 2

Best Front-Hinged Flipper: Disco 5 / Gabriel V / Gehenna / Tails

Best Rear-Hinged Flipper: Achilles / Die-Ceratops Re-Invertus / Stratos Fear / The Servant's Assistant / Wedga Triton / Wedge Devolution

Best Axe: Axeon 4.0 / Black Panther / Intriguer / Killotine: EVO / Mobile Failure 2.5

Best Horizontal Spinner: Aneurysm / Automatic Schmuck / Eye of Ran II / Fragmentor / Parasite / Salamander III

Best Vertical Spinner: 9.9 On The Richter Scale / Delirium Tremors / Disco 5 / Exotherm / The Disc / Tira VI

Best Full Body Spinner: Mass Disctruction Ultimate / Propane Nightmare / PsycloniZer / S.O.T.A.R. / Tengu VII

Best Horizontal Crusher: Flank Attack DT / GigaByte / Super Gore Revo / Under Pressure

Best Vertical Crusher: Clawdius Decimus Murderous / N³

Best Uncategorised Weapon: Assegai / Cobalt / The Crashing Bore 2 / Venus Fly Trap II

Best Writer: Kody Kunz / Lewis Matthews / Martijn Benschop / Steven McGregor

Best Minor Tournament: AJWars: Christmas Rumble / Here We Go Again / House Robot Rebellion 2 / Mechanical Maelstrom: Annihilation / PTT – Regeneration / The Genesis Tournament / The Vapourbot Grand Prix 2010 / VFT: The Comeback

Best Major Tournament: Mechanical Maelstrom Series 3.0 / Mechanical Noise Series 1 / RoboBash! / RoboBash! Series 2 / The Crash & Burn Tournament / The Crash & Burn Tournament 3 / The Pussycat Tribute Tournament 4 / Velociraptor's FanFic Tournament 6

Best Team: Team Bored / Team Destructive Technologies / Team DoomForAll / Team Picus / Team Varying Every Day / Team Zlayerz

Best Vapourboteer: Aaron Knight / Andrew Jackson / Frank Goacher / Joey McConnell / Kody Kunz / Martijn Benschop / Steven McGregor

Best Vapourbot: Back to Rock III / Clawdius Decimus Murderous / Gehenna / Intriguous / Mass Disctruction Ultimate / Mobile Failure 2.5 / PsycloniZer / Tails / Wedge Devolution