The Official Vapourboteer Awards 2005

[razerdave]

I dont like to get involved in fights, but dont turn this into another slanging thread like others, please ?

[pcbore]

This is why I oppose a best idiot award.

[siphai]

There Dave goes, being a good sport again... egh.

[andrewj]

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED

All votes will be counted up and Ill reveal the winners this evening.

[andrewj]

Most Original Design

In first with its screwdrive is Blizzard with The Red Knight just behind in second.

Most Original Designer

The clear winner is Mr Alex Holt!

Best Design

Big split between SOR, Automatic Schmuck, Wedge Devo, The Disc and Tengu.

Best Engineered

With its great record the winner is Automatic Schmuck.

Best Newcommer Vapourboteer

The clear winner is Alex MacWilliams, Martijn quite a way behind in second.

Best Stevesman

The name is in the title€¦ Steven McGregor.

Idiot of the Year

Timothy James Sillery, take a bow.

Best Flipper Front Hinged

The spinner/flipper combo Disco 5.

Best Flipper Rear Hinged

The king of wedge flipper€¦ Wedge Devolution.

Best Axebot

Black Panther Queen ends Killotine: EVO€™s reign.

Best Horizontal Spinner

By quite a long way, the winner is Automatic Schmuck.

Best Vertical Spinner

The master of discs€¦ The Disc.

Best Sawbot

Metal Sonic Spin Dash wins over Spin Dash IV€¦ meh.

Best Full Body Spinner/Ring Spinner

Tengu€¦Pingu€¦Tengooo€¦ whatever€¦


Best Translational Spinner

No competition€¦ MDU.

Best Crusher Horizontal

The TAN clone€¦ GigaByte.

Best Crusher Vertical

The Razer clone€¦ Clawdius Decimus Murderous.

Best Clusterbot

After its recent success, the winner is Going Crunch.

Best Interchangeable Robot

Narrowly, WX6.0 wins.

Best Pusher

Am I the only one that does overkill rammers anymore? ForcePower wins!

Best Pusher

The Crashing Bore with its unique mousetrap weapon wins.

Most Effective Weapon

It€™s a tie between horizontal and vertical spinners€¦ Automatic Schmuck and The Disc.

Most Underrated Vapourboteer

By quite a big margin, the winner is Dave Weston.

Most Underated Vapourbot

Again by quite a lot, its Dieceratops Re Invertus.

Best Newcomer Vapourbot

Martijn€™s Back 2 Rock II.

Best Comedybot

Toby The T-Ram Engine finally gives Steve the award he€™s been looking for.

Best Custom House Robots

The PTT House Robots€¦ Team Cold Heart are the winners.

Best Walker

Walk Away walked away with it.

Best Shuffler

A tie between MORD and Whirligig.

Best Other Motivation

Blizzard breezed this category.

Best Extreme/Side Event

The VFT side events win it with NSBFL-X just behind.

Best Minor

AJWars: Christmas Rumble!

Best Major

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament 6!

Best Battle

MORD vs. Wedge Revo - The NSBFL Final wins it.

Best Custom Arena

PTT arena, with NSBFL arenas in a close second place.

Best Newcomer Writer

By a massive 10 votes, is Martijn Benschop.

The final winners will be announced tomorrow€¦

[andrewj]

Best Writer

Mr Steven McGregor, with Richard not so far behind in second.

Best British Vapourboteer

Again, Steve wins the best UK vapourboteer.

Best Continental Vapourboteer

By quite a bit, Aaron Knight wins.

Best Team

We€™ve voted Alex€™s Team Doomforall with its genius creations the best.

Best Vapourbot

It was pretty close, but Wedge Devolution is the best vapourbot of 2005 with Achilles in second place.

Best Vapourboteer

He€™s done it again€¦ congratulations to Aaron!

Outstanding Contribution Award

Yes€¦ a combination of colour, crazyness, original ideas, comedy and a writing talent (not mentioning an intergalactic supervillain and various other qualities) the second person to enter the vapourbot hall of fame is€¦ Steve McGregor!

Congratulations to the winners and commiserations to the losers! I€™d just like to say a huge thank you to everyone that has voted for me and/or my vapourbots, and for that matter voting in these awards at all. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all€¦ now lets make next year even better!

[steven_mcg]

...th-th-thirteen aw-w-w-w-wards? Oo

Jesus Christ, dont you people have any TASTE?!

Well, what can I say, but the most infinate of Thank you!s to everyone who was insane enough to cast their votes in my favour! Ive never regretted my time on these forums and no matter how much time our crazy little pasttime has left, I doubt Ill ever forget the larfs weve shared.

...right, mush over with...

*slaps on top hat*

MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! Foolish nerds! These awards will be perfect for powering my new Doomsday Tram! Thank you for initiating your own demise! AAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!

*sets cane to Helicoptor Mode and takes off into the evening sky*

Crappy Christmas to all and to all, a rude night!

[majinb]

hmz, best new writer and best new vapourbot, I think Im a pretty damn satisfied man

it was a nice year of vapourbotering actually, sure hope next year will be as cool, but seeing how many peeps we still have here, Im sure we can pull it off

thanks for those votes lads!

and before I forget, a very merry Christmas to you all

(Message edited by MajinB on December 25, 2005)

[alex_holt]

Oh my!

Most Original Design: Blizzard
Most Original Designer: Alex Holt!
Best Design: Tengu (shared)
Best Axebot: Black Panther Queen
Best Full Body Spinner/Ring Spinner: Tengu
Best Other Motivation: Blizzard
Best Team: Team Doomforall

Seven awards, wuhoo! Thanks to all who voted for me!