The Official Vapourboteer Awards 2005

[andrewj]

OK, Ill change that on the next update.

[majinb]

Here€™s the rest of my votes
Also, I€™d like to say something to every vapourboteer out there that hasn€™t vote yet; get voting!

Most Original Design
The Red Knight

Most Original Designer
Alex Holt

Best Design
The Disc

Best Engineered
SpinVerter 3

Best Newcomer (Vapourboteer)
Split a vote between Tony and Alex MacW, both have thrown some quality into the big pond of vapourbots

Best Sportsman
Steve McGregor

Idiot Of The Year
Tim


Most Underrated Vapourboteer
Dave Weston

Most Underrated Vapourbot
BIACS-LE

Best Newcomer (Vapourbot)
Shovearound 2

Best Comedy Bot
Toby the T-Ram Engine

Best Custom House Robot
The PTT Family

Best Walker
Archangel of the Abyss

Best Shuffler
MORD

Best Other Motivation
Blizzard

Best Extreme/Side Event
VFT Side Events


Best Tournament (48-)
AJWars: Christmas Rumble

Best Tournament (48+)
Velociraptor€™s FanFic Tournament 6

Best Battle
MORD vs. Wedga Revo - NSBFL

Best Custom Arena
PTT Arena


Best Newcomer Writer
Tony

Best Writer
Steve McGregor

Best British Vapourboteer
Andrew Jackson


Best Continental Vapourboteer
Aaron Knight

Best Team
Team Bored

Best Vapourbot
The Disc

Best Vapourboteer
Andrew Jackson

[andrewj]

Most Original Design

I€™ll go for Infusion here, that boosting thing is very original.

Most Original Designer

I€™m going to split a vote between Aaron and Alex, for constantly coming up with new ideas that nobody else has tried.

Best Design

Tengu here for the design of that damage ring between its own damaging rings.

Best Engineered

No questions, Automatic Schmuck. For the simple fact it has something like a 10-0 win ratio.

Best Newcomer (Vapourboteer)

I don€™t think Martijn is technically a newcomer, so I€™ll split a vote between Siphai and Tony.

Best Sportsman

Splitting a vote between Steve and Martijn, but Alex H deserves a mention too.

Idiot of the Year

There€™s no way Kody can get away empty handed. And just for simple extreme annoyance the other half of the vote goes for Tim.

Best Flipper (Front Hinged)

Shame that there is no true front hinged flippers€¦ I€™ll go for Disco 5.

Best Flipper (Rear Hinged)

Nothing beats Wedge Devo in this category.

Best Axebot

Black Panther Queen, seems to be doing well at the moment.

Best Spinner (Horizontal)

Although it€™s not technically a horizontal spinner, I€™ll go for Automatic Schmuck.

Best Spinner (Vertical)

Not many of these around€¦ I€™ll go for The Disc.

Best Sawbot

Metal Sonic Spin Dash looks very promising.

Best FBS/Ring Spinner

Erm€¦ Tengooo.

Best Translational Spinner

MDU3, just about the only one that€™s not mine.

Best Crusher (Horizontal)

No Close Shave 3€¦ the only active horizontal crusher that€™s not mine.

Best Crusher (Vertical)

Clawdius Decimus Murderous, of course.

Best Clusterbot

Going Crunch seems to have done well this year.

Best Interchangeable Robot

TIRTASM!

Best Rammer/Pusher

The Ultimate Wedge€¦ awesome!

Best Other Weapon

I€™ll go for The Crashing Bore and its guillotine and drill combo.

Most Effective Weapon

Automatic Schmuck, again, something special is needed to have the record it has.

Most Underrated Vapourboteer

I€™ll go for Dave Weston, good designs but never seems to go that far.

Most Underrated Vapourbot

Chris€™s Die Ceratops Re-Invertus is a good bot. Seems to be doing better now.

Best Newcomer (Vapourbot)

I can see a future for Back 2 Rock II.

Best Comedy Bot

Toby The T€¦*rofl*

Best Custom House Bot

Team Coldheart!

Best Walker

Can only think of Walk Away.

Best Shuffler

Whirligig 4.0, shufflebot that even fits in the roller weight limit.

Best Other Motivation

Starfire.

Best Extreme/Side Event

The VFT6 side events were awesome!

Best Minor Tournament

Errrr€¦ Spanish Inquisition QT

Best Major Tournament

I€™ll go for VFT6, what an amazing series. But PTT4, NSBFL7, NSTT etc. were all great too.

Best Battle

Behemoth vs. Take Me Out

Best Custom Arena

The NSBFL arena€™s are fun to fight in.

Best Newcomer Writer

Martijn, no question.

Best Writer

Martijn. Finally someone that realises you don€™t need to write essays to make a good fight. And for someone who doesn€™t speak English as their first choice language, it€™s quite amazing. Goed gedaan! :wink:

Best British Vapourboteer

I€™ll go for good old Steve McG here.

Best Continental Vapourboteer

The master of vapourboteering, Mr. Aaron Knight.

Best Team

TDT, Aaron€™s brought some even more spectacular bots in this year.

Best Vapourbot

This is a very tough one. But because of its recent VFT win I€™ll go for Wedge Devolution.

Best Vapourboteer

Aaron Knight

2000th post!

[majinb]

quote:

Best Writer

Martijn. Finally someone that realises you don€™t need to write essays to make a good fight. And for someone who doesn€™t speak English as their first choice language, it€™s quite amazing. Goed gedaan!

whoa! thank u Andy

[knightrous]

Most Original Design

Ummm, Box, Wedge, umm.... Pass

Most Original Designer

Stevo, comedy bots that win, thats original!

Best Design

I honestly cant place this award to a single person.

Best Engineered

Kinda reflect on what Frank said, but people who put usefull tech specs in there stats have mostlikely engineered most of there design properly. Automatic Schmuck! I know Tom put in some serious hours making it all fit in the weight limit, Ive got one of the original CAD files here somewhere

Best Newcomer (Vapourboteer)

Martijn...Without a doubt.

Best Sportsman

Dave Weston Doesnt win all his battles, but gives it his all

Idiot of the Year

I HATE SPAMMERS! Tim.

Best Flipper (Front Hinged)

Disco 5. Only one I can think of :S

Best Flipper (Rear Hinged)

Geforce.... Here comes the BOOM!

Best Axebot

I cant remember any axe bots... wierd!

Best Spinner (Horizontal)

SOR 5.0? The one that AJ had the LEM powered bar horizontal and all Hardoxd That was decent.

Best Spinner (Vertical)

Vertical Limits...

Best Sawbot

Metal Sonic Spin Dash is puurdy nifty

Best FBS/Ring Spinner

The MDU Clones....

Best Translational Spinner

Cyclonebot? *I cant vote for myself!*

Best Crusher (Horizontal)

Im not sure... Who runs a dual Viviol pump setup with variable two speed pump ratio and high speed valves? Oh, no one...

Best Crusher (Vertical)

Clawdius Decimus Murderous

Best Clusterbot

The Botles

Best Interchangeable Robot

Who even builds these things

Best Rammer/Pusher

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Best Other Weapon

Credit goes to the guy who tried to use the viabration weapon, but shame it wasnt very weight effect. I think Martyn came up with the idea (Yes/No?)

Most Effective Weapon

Automatic Schmuck is good, but I think Ze Newies flipper was far more effective. Its like Biohazard, but a bit more killer with the 400kg pneumatics behind it.

Most Underrated Vapourboteer

Dave Weston or Chris Mason

Most Underrated Vapourbot

Is there an award for most overrated, I have a few bots I could instantly throw into that list

Best Newcomer (Vapourbot)

B2R2 seems logical

Best Comedy Bot

Metal Sonic is cool.

Best Custom House Bot

There are custom house robots?!?!?! Blasphemy!

Best Walker

Having been one of the first people to use the walker design and the first person to get them banned(Loosing the 200kg Limit is basically banned!) I have yet to find a walker since my era that I would even class as a walker.

Best Shuffler

Whirligig 4.0, Its a Shuffler??? OMG!

Best Other Motivation

Thing Matty Haka came upwith like a pc ball mouse.

Best Extreme/Side Event

I cant remember...

Best Minor Tournament

AJWars

Best Major Tournament

VFT / PTT. Ive won both of these, so of course they get my votes

Best Battle

MDU VS CrankShafted

Best Custom Arena

I dont take much interest in the arena.

Best Newcomer Writer

Martijn!

Best Writer

Martijn. insert

Best British Vapourboteer

Steve McG / Andrew James Jackson

Best Continental Vapourboteer

Lord Tom Roper. Never won much(He always lost in the grand finals to another person ), but was my greatest competition where ever I went.

Best Team

Stevo, humour, stupidity and comedy!

Best Vapourbot

Wedge 1

Best Vapourboteer

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[andrewj]

Thanks for the votes everyone! You still have 12 days to get any remaining votes in, so plenty of time yet. Votes close on 23rd December and will be revealed within 48 hours of closing.

Ill leave the category table for now so there is a bit of suspense to who has won... :P Meanwhile, Ive only had about 5 nominations for the Lifetime Acheivement Award. So if you havent voted, have a think and send me your nomination.

[dogbot4000]

best Idiot: Anthony
Best axe: heir to black panther
best flipper(front hinged): Disco 5
Best flipper(back hinged): wedge devo
sportsman: David Westman.

[matt_macdonald]

Dave Westman? I thought it was Dave Weston.

[dinowarrior]

Which only goes to prove how much he deserves the Idiot of The Year award.