The Outsiders Cup

[velociraptor]

Looks like Im too late. Oh well.

[steven_mcg]

Curse you and your logic, Craig!

ENTRIES SO FAR:
1) *unknown* (Aaron)
2) *unknown*
3) A Night at the Bar (Martijn)
4) The Matador (BB5)
5) Seung Mina II (Kody)
6) Hydra (RW6)
7) Nitro-Gene (Paul)
Big Nipper (RW7)
9) *unknown vapourbot* (Matty F)
10) 259 (RW6)
11) *unknown vapourbot* (Martyn)
12) Fluffy (RW6)
13) Scaramanga (Alex H)
14) Supernova (RW6)
15) CRAPBAG *stats needed* (Craig)
16) Pinser (RW7)

Thats all the positions filled, but were still got some unconfirmed competitors. Do try and get them sorted quickly please, lads. Id like to get started on this as soon as.

Sorry you just missed the mark, Rich. Hmm...Tell you what. If anyone else is still interested in entering, pick a vapourbot and a realie and well see if we cant get a couple of Reserve Rumble matches set up. :wink:

(Message edited by Steven_McG on December 01, 2007)

[leorcc]

Ill enter wit Eternia since it was never used in the other fanfic tournement.

Name: Eternia
Weight: 98 kg
Speed: 18 Km/hour
Lenghth/with/height: 120 cm/65cm/35cm
GC: 5mm on the sides, 10 mm on the back and front so it wont run aground on a toothpick sticking out the floor. the flipperarm is pushed flush to the floor with bungee lifting the frontend.
Drive: 2x3 Graupner speed 900 BB torque @ 24V Geared down 20:1 on 15cm wheels.
Weapon: 100mm bore x100mm (4 tons) stroke ram Gravity style flipper with 2 1/2 bsp burkert inlets and a 3mm hole as outlet. A 2 compartment aluminium buffer of 4 Liters being fed by 2 2kg CO2 bottles. The arm levers it down 3:1 giving 1300kg of force at the tip of the arm.
Chassis: Main frame holding the ram and flipperarm is 40x40x4 mm welded box section, the baseplate is 4mm 7075 aluminum and the armour on the sides and top is 40mm HDPE. The flipperscoop is hardox 450 6 mm, the arm itself 40x40x4 box section.
Batteries: 60 GP3700 NiMh cells, 20S3P, giving 11.1Ah@24V. weight of the pack is 4 kg.
Special Notes: All black, with red markings at the sides.

As a really i will use Splinter.

(Message edited by leorcc on December 01, 2007)

[matty_haka]

Cape Town, south Africa for mine

[steven_mcg]

Sorry, Leo. Splinters a former Semi-Finalist and therefore unable to compete. Could you pick another realie please?

[dinowarrior]

Ill enter Spring-BOK!, which has yet to feature in anything major. I believe youll find stats in the Crash and Burn tournament.

For my realie, Ill enter Devestator (from S7).

Ill be representing Suffolk.


(Message edited by Dinowarrior on December 01, 2007)

[paulc]

Steve, Ive found CRAPBAGs stats for you. You m ay notice they are done in my style, as Craig was trying to prove anyone could bulid a vapourbot.

Craigs Robot And Proberbly Blaitently A Gash or CRAPBAG

€ WEIGHT: 96KG

€ ARMOUR: 6mm Hardox flipper 4mm hardox else where, fully welded body with boxsection frame

€ SHAPE: Multi-Angeluar wedge, pic on my flickr page ill post a link later

€ MOTORS: 2 S28-400, on 24v limited by roboteq

€ LOCOMOTION: 150mm dia 40mm wide vulk wheels ally hub

€ DIMENSIONS: (L) 750mm (H) 230mm (W) 550mm

€ WEAPONRY: a full pressure flipper 110mm bore ram, 100mm stroke 3 burket input from base, buffered from a half co2 bottle powered by 2x CO2 bottles (same set up as Beast 2 years ago), flipper is made from solide boxsection with 6mm hardox plate mounted on top (welded)

€ SPEED: 15mph

€ GROUND CLEARANCEn the floor at the front around 10-15mm ath the back same as i had on tx-108 and that got under storm 2 with ease

€ STRENGTH: the flipper i guess

€ WEAKNESS: rookie vapour bot dont actually know what im doing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanto818www.flickr.com/photos/tanto818
is where youll find the pictures.

[leorcc]

I cant use my own robot because in a previous life it almost won something? Then Ill use Mantis.

[pcbore]

Its your call Steve, but Id allow Splinter. I mean sure it made one semi-final, but it got torn a new one... several new ones, and never made it that far again.

[velociraptor]

Thanks, Steve! For a Reserve Rumble, will Gemini (S5) and Battle Raptor IV be OK? (Some of its predecessors have done well, but the best BR4 has done is a heat final in PTT5.)

BATTLE RAPTOR 4
Weight: 100kg
Shape: Invertable box with wedge at front, rounded sides and rear, painted orange with black stripes like the raptors in Jurassic Park - since theres no room for an aesthetic raptor head, the paint job on the flipper displays a raptor head
Dimensions: 70 x 55 x 30
Speed: 16mph
Ground Clearance: 0 at front due to low wedge, 0 at sides and rear due to skirts
Armour: 4mm Hardox, with holes drilled in it to reduce weight
Wheels: 4, inside robot, poke out the top so the robot can run inverted, uses skid steering
Power: 4 Perm 080s motors on 24V powered by 24V @ 12amp batteries
Weapons: The robot has an pneumatic Atomic-style flipper, with a flipping plate over the wedge at the front (with a plate sticking out of the front and running along the floor for 5cm for getting under skirts) and two bars attached to it that run down either side of the top of the robot to the flipper hinges 3/4 of the way along. At the centre of the top is a titanium electrically powered axe with a Terrorhurtz-style blade. Both weapons work at the front in this version - the flipper is fairly powerful since it is pneumatically powered (about 25 flips per fight), and while the axe isnt as powerful, it should still make a mark, particularly in vulnerable areas like wheels.
Srimech: Flipper and axe can both serve as a srimech (on their own, not together). If weapons fail in resting position, robot can run inverted. Flipper hinges and axe blade fit inside the robot and dont poke out the top, so they dont prop it up.
Tactics: Try to flip opponents, and if I cant, hammer them.
Strengths: Dual weaponry, invertable, manouverable due to skid steering
Weaknesses: Wheels vulnerable to axes, no weapons to attack from rear