The Vapourbot Awards 2007

[kodster]

I seem to notice youve copied a few of my votes, Paul.

Edit: Ive thought it over and...

Hall of Fame Induction
Frank Goacher. Has made the most irritating vapourbot of all time (The Disc 5). For having a vapourbot to tick so many people off, I feel he deserves this.

(Message edited by kodster on December 06, 2007)

[kodster]

Oops. Forgot Franks already in there.

Uh...

Um...

I dont really know who else...so Im going to say Martijn deserves this to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Why? Just cause.

[kodster]

Sorry for the triple post, but...I had forgot an award...

Best RPG
Cant vote for myself. Gotta give it to the Wars Incarnate 3: Tag-Team Tantrum. Even though Im no longer in the running.

[matty_haka]

Hahaha, wow! Im leading best design, LOLicopter

[majinb]

Most Original Design

BIACS-LE
I had to put this machine SOMEWHERE, but I won€™t call it €œunderrated€ anymore after winning a heat in C&B. It doesn€™t fit in any of the €œBest of€ category IMO, yet it IS highly original.

Most Original Designer

Alex Holt
Always looking to use that new weapon, that new drive-system, that new ANYTHING! Kudos for that .

Best Design

The Disc 5
So bloody hard to hit successfully, and a very dangerous weapon. There€™s tough competition though.

Best Newcomer Vapourbot

Nitro-Gene
Paul put some effort in that one, guess it€™s only fair for it to win that price!

Best Newcomer Vapourboteer

Paul Cuomo
Just because!

The Steven McGregor Award for Sportsmanship

Steven McGregor
Speaks for itself!

Idiot of the Year

Timmah!
May we never forget about him.

Best Flipper (Front Hinged)

Disco 5
Good wedge, nice skirts and a great rear-flywheel.

Best Flipper (Rear Hinged)

Wedga€™s Revenge
Up there with Wede Devolution easily. I can€™t say which one of them is best, but Wedga€™s Revenge is more original and a nice change from the classic wedge shape.

Best Axebot

Black Panther Queen
MN-1 runner-up, he was. A very powerful axe and a great flipping weapon. Hit-and-run is a real biatch.

Best Spinner (Horizontal)

Salamander III
Nothing really stands out here but Salamander WON 2006€™s biggest major, so he gets my respect.

Best Spinner (Vertical)

The Disc 5
See €œBest Design€ .

Best Sawbot

Metal Sonic Spin Dash
Storm 2 eating your wheels away? I€™m in!

Best Full Body Spinner/Ring Spinner

Psyclonised
That ring€™s massive and it is invertible.

Best Translational Spinner

MDU
Yeah, Cyberdemon technically had a slightly better year but he is NOT up there with MDU IMO.

Best Crusher (Horizontal)

Flank Attack
Maneuverable 2WD-machine with scoop and big pincers. Can slow many bots down.

Best Crusher (Vertical)

Clawdius Decimus Murderous
Great low wedge with powerful weapon and very effective srimech.

Best Clusterbot

Mass Confuzzlement
Ganged up by 4 wedges? OUCH!

Best Interchangeable Robot

NSBFR-X
Nice brick with 5 very versatile weapons.

Best Rammer/Pusher

ForcePower 5.0
Very devoted to ramming !

Best €œOther€ Weapon

Starstorm 2
The 360 degree-aspect is a great advantage over regular flippers, even though it has less chance of an OOTA.

Most Effective Weapon

Psyclonised
Yeah, those hammers are great IMO.

Best Comedy Bot

Toby the T-Ram Engine
Makes me LMAO.

Best Custom House Robots:

Kody€™s Bunch
Just because .

Best Walker

Archangel of the Abyss
The only walker I can think of, and it€™s bloody powerful.

Best Shuffler

M.O.R.D2
He and Whirligig 4.0 are bloody good shufflers. MORD is a nice box with good a scoop and drum, and I like that alot!

Best Tracked

Enter the May Tracks
There aren€™t too many tracked success-stories out there, but Enter the May Tracks came close in C&B 1 .

Best €œOther€ Motivation

Blizzard
Guess why .

Most Underrated Vapourboteer

PASS
I have the feeling that the field is more even nowadays than it was in the past, with less people standing out that much and everyone winning heats left and right.

Most Underrated Vapourbot

The Doomsday Project
Certainly underrated by Steven himself . You should use it more often!

Most Overrated Vapourboteer

PASS
See €œMost Underrated Vapourboteer€ .

Most Overrated Vapourbot

Slammer V
Yeah, just like last year. I believe the main body just has to little going for it in a world where every interchangeable box is LEM-powered at least. He€™s very slippery though.

Best Extreme/Side Event

Team Gore Presents: House Robot Rebellion 2!
A nice house bot rebellion with the best custom housebots available today .

Best Minor Tournament (47)

Right, here we go again€¦
Nice minor and a cool comeback by Dave. O, and I won .

Best Major Tournament (47)

The Crash & Burn Tournament
The only non-hypothetical one other than my own. And it was a GREAT tournament!

Best Battle of the Year

Salamander III VS. Clawdius Decimus Murderous
The thrilling C&B-final!

Biggest Surprise of the Year

Steven back at the writing-table
. Good suggestion Paul!

Best Custom Arena

Kody€™s
Just because .

Best New Writer

Paul Cuome
His battles are very nice really.

Best Overall Writer

Kody Kunz
Well, he was the most ACTIVE one . And his battles are cool.

Best British Vapourboteer

Frank Goacher
Great team where everyone€™s a team-player .

Best €œRest of the World€ Vapourboteer

Aaron Knight
Damn, such a good eye for detail.

Best Overall Team

Team Bored
See €œBest British Vapourboteer€ .

Best Vapourbot of the Year

Shovearound 2
Won both Team Gore Presents: House Robot Rebellion 2! and FFW 4. That€™s good I€™d say .

Best Vapourboteer of the Year

AJ
Did well in most stuff he entered, and on top of that hosted a cool tournament in AJWars: a new era!

Hall of Fame Induction

AJ
Just because .

[andrewj]

Most Original Design: I really liked the design of Mass Confuzzelment, its nothing like anybody has really tried before so that gets my vote for originality. Not just the use of the clusterbot, which isn€™t very common, but also that cheese grater style weapon.

Most Original Designer: An honourable mention goes to Alex but I think Aaron has pulled some more revolutionary things out the bag this year to get my vote. As above, Mass Confuzzelment and also Spyder are very original.

Best Design: As a good all-rounder I quite like Shovearound 2, its got speed, pushing ability, good defence and a proven weapon type.

Best Newcomer Vapourbot: Until a few days ago, I would have gone with the trend of Nitro-Gene which Paul deserves credit for, but Spyder has got my vote for this one. Once again Aaron isn€™t afraid to try something different.

Best Newcomer Vapourboteer: Paul Cuomo, but not just because he is the only one. This guy has come in ready prepared with knowledge of parts and a history of the game, is prepared to listen to advice and is producing some decent designs. He€™s shown he can write tournaments at lightning pace as well.

The Steven McGregor Award for Sportsmanship: Hmmm, for a change I€™m going to award this one to Martijn this year. Always supportive and never stirs up any trouble.

Idiot of the Year: I€™m going to vote for Kody because he broke the rules and voted for himself! :wink:

Best Flipper (Front Hinged): The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is Disco 5.

Best Flipper (Rear Hinged): I€™m going to go for Die-Ceratops Re-Invertus for this one - Wheely Big Cheese on acid!

Best Axebot: As always its tough between Killotine: EVO and Black Panther Queen for this one, but I€™m going for BPQ based on its success this year.

Best Spinner (Horizontal): Fragmentor. Ouch.

Best Spinner (Vertical): I€™ll go for The Disc 5 this time.

Best Sawbot: How has this award stayed in? MSSD of course!

Best Full Body Spinner/Ring Spinner: I€™ll go for Tengu VII here.

Best Translational Spinner: Cyberdemon, there isn€™t much else about.

Best Crusher (Horizontal): Is there anything other than Flank Attack?

Best Crusher (Vertical): Is there anything other than CDM?

Best Clusterbot: The only thing I can think of this year is Mass Confuzzelment.

Best Interchangeable Robot: NSBFR-X (but I want to vote for TIRTASM :P)

Best Rammer/Pusher: I guess Flick of the Wrist comes closest to ForcePower :wink:

Best €œOther€ Weapon: That damn guillotine again!

Most Effective Weapon: Tengu does exactly what it says on the tin. Destroy. Suitable for vegetarians.

Best Comedy Bot: Tails I guess.

Best Custom House Robots: I quite like Kody€™s things.

Best Walker: Spyder! Finally someone has brought in a new walking mechanism that actually works. And even better, it fits these random 150kg weight limits. :P

Best Shuffler: I€™ll choose Whirly for this one.

Best Tracked: Sheer Heart Attack looks pretty cool.

Best €œOther€ Motivation: I guess I have to go with Blizzard for this.

Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Willow Matt Harrison Haka Fowler The Third

Most Underrated Vapourbot: Hmm I don€™t think Disco 5 does as well as it should, it€™s a good flipper/spinner combination.

Most Overrated Vapourboteer: That would be breaking the rules€¦

Most Overrated Vapourbot: That would also be breaking the rules€¦

Best RPG: That crazy thing known as ATTTWI which I was too scared to read!

Best Extreme/Side Event: I can€™t think of any!

Best Minor Tournament (47): Dave€™s Here We Go Again tournament

Best Major Tournament (47): Well what can I say? Excellent battles, the final of which was the best match in a long time. I also won it, which adds to the vote. Mechanical Noise Series 1 - excellent tournament!

Best Battle of the Year: As above, Black Panther Queen vs. Psyclonised was the best battle I have seen in quite a while.

Biggest Surprise of the Year: Some legitimate promising newcomers come along in the form of Paul Cuomo and Samuel Park.

Best Custom Arena: The Wrexagon! Wonderfully designed by the master of Paint!

Best New Writer: Paul Cuomo - may not have the most thrilling and lengthy battles to read but the speed he wrote the Eye of the Robot tournament was quite amazing.

Best Overall Writer: For someone who doesn€™t write in his native tongue, Martijn sure can write some amazing battles.

Most Missed Vapourboteer: There€™s so many€¦ it comes down to either Nick or Tom to me. I€™ll go for Roper because he€™s been inactive here for longer.

Most Missed Vapourbot: Again, there€™s so many great designs that I€™d love to see competing again. I miss SpinVerter but I basically cloned that so I€™ll go for V€™Ger.

Best British Vapourboteer: Tricky€¦ but due to his mass of success this year I€™m going to go for Alex. Originality, creativity and a great winning record along with a little insanity! :wink:

Best €œRest of the World€ Vapourboteer: Well Mr. Knight has pulled some great new concepts out this year, so I€™ll vote for him on that. Nice to see some new designs still flowing in.

Best Overall Team: Team Doomforall, so many fantastic creative and effective designs which do the business in the ring.

Best Vapourbot of the Year: This may surprise some people, but I€™ll be going for Flick of the Wrist here. Great drive train, nice weapon system and came 4th in FFW4 and won the Here We Go Again mini-tournament.

Best Vapourboteer of the Year: It€™s a tough call, but I€™ll go for Alex. As I said before, he€™s been pretty successful this year.

Hall of Fame Induction

There is no way the Hall of Fame can be complete without the guy that revolutionised vapourbot FanFic many years ago with his technical knowledge, experience, success and original designs and a show of sportsmanship. Take a bow Aaron!

Still plenty of time to vote guys, keep em coming!

[kodster]

quote:

Idiot of the Year: I€™m going to vote for Kody because he broke the rules and voted for himself! :wink:

LMAO

[pcbore]

Most Original Design

Id really like to vote the various ideas for a true vertical FBS that myself, Aaron and AJ cooked up one night on MSN. However I wont seeing A) only 5 people or so saw them, and B) I doubt theyd ever be entered in real competition.

Therefore, Im voting for Aaron Knights Spyder.

Most Original Designer

Another vote for Aaron.

Best Design
BIACS-LE.

Best Newcomer Vapourbot
Again, Im going with Spyder.

Best Newcomer Vapourboteer

Paul Cuomo. Hes not perfect, but who is?

The Steven McGregor Award for Sportsmanship

Ill go with Martijn.

Idiot of the Year

A certain Mr. McGregor, who suggested using a plot hole for maintenance purposes

Best Flipper (Front Hinged)

Disco 5

Best Flipper (Rear Hinged)

CRAPBAG. It might be even better if the designer had any knowledge of real robots

Best Axebot

Axeon.

Best Spinner (Horizontal)

Salamander 3

Best Spinner (Vertical)

Turbo Shredder looks like it has potential.

Only Sawbot

MSSD

Best Full Body Spinner/Ring Spinner

Tengu. Dangerous to all, and virtually unbeatable for other horizontal spinners.

Best Translational Spinner

I dont think any translational spinners have had much sucess, but Im going to vote for MDU 4.

Best Crusher (Horizontal)

Flank Attack DT

Best Crusher (Vertical)
Clawdius Decimus Murderous.

Best Clusterbot

Mass Confuzzlement.

Best Interchangeable Robot

Chameleon.

Best Rammer/Pusher

Flick of the Wrist.

Best €œOther€ Weapon

Blizzard.

Most Effective Weapon
Dunno

Best Comedy Bot
Who can match the sheer awesomeness of Kustom? ...But Ill vote for Toby the T-Ram Engine. I dont get on with Kustoms designer.

Best Custom House Robots
Dunno.

Best Walker

ArchAngel of the Abyss.

Best Shuffler

MORD 2.

Best Tracked

Sheer Heart Attack

Best €œBlizzard€ Motivation

Blizzard.

Most Underrated Vapourboteer

Paul Cuomo. I think his basic designs are good, he just suffers from over-designing at the moment.

Most Underrated Vapourbot

BIACS-LE. Its only just starting to get the recognition it deserves.

Most Overrated Vapourboteer

I dont think anyones really overrated any more, but Ill vote Aaron since so many people say You stuck me with Aaron? Thanks a lot *insert tourny writer here* despite the fact I dont think hes won much since his VFT double.

Most Overrated Vapourbot

...I really would like to vote for The Disc here. Can I?

Best Extreme/Side Event

Right, Here We Go Again.

Best Minor Tournament (47)
Have there been any?

Best Major Tournament (47)

Im stuck between MN and C&B.

Best Battle of the Year
Honestly cant narrow it down to one.

Biggest Surprise of the Year
Proper roboteers starting to enter tournies.

Best Custom Arena
Dunno.

Best New Writer
Paul Cuomo.

Best Overall Writer
Martijn.

Best British Vapourboteer
Alex Holt

Best €œRest of the World€ Vapourboteer
Martijn.

Best Overall Team
Team DoomForAll.

Best Vapourbot of the Year
Psyclonised.

Best Vapourboteer of the Year
Martijn.

Hall of Fame Induction

Ill have to give this to Aaron. His attention to detail and MDU robots have set the bar as far as stats and distructive capability go.

Most Missed Vapourboteer
Nick.

Most Missed Vapourbot
I honestly cant narrow this down to one, so many inventive vapours.

[majinb]

sorry, I forgot some catogeries

Best RPG
ATTTWI

Most Missed Vapourboteer
Hector

Most Missed Vapourbot
The Team That Wasnt There

AWESOME clusterbot

[martyn]

The Vapourbot Awards 2007
Most Original Design
Which vapourbot has the most unique design?
BIACS-LE

Most Original Designer
Going to say Aaron

Best Design
The Disc 5, due to it still being one of the hardest robots to fight.

Best Newcomer Vapourbot
Spyder

Best Newcomer Vapourboteer
Since there has only been one, I am going to not vote!

The Steven McGregor Award for Sportsmanship
Martijin, wins it, sorry steve!

Idiot of the Year
Mainly based on the last few weeks, Paul is the stand out here. At any other time it would have been Timmy, but Paul has won himself this award.

Best Flipper (Front Hinged)
humm, does anyone other than me use this?

Best Flipper (Rear Hinged)
Die-Ceratops Re-Invertus, it may not have been as sucsessful as it should but it is deffinitly a great design.

Best Axebot
Black Panther Queen

Best Spinner (Horizontal)
Salamander 3

Best Spinner (Vertical)
Disc 5

Best Sawbot
Humm only one again, MSSD

Best Full Body Spinner/Ring Spinner
Psyclonised

Best Translational Spinner
MDU

Best Crusher (Horizontal)
Flank Attack

Best Crusher (Vertical)
CDM

Best Clusterbot
Mass Confuzzelment

Best Interchangeable Robot
I am gonna say Slammer as I love the design

Best Rammer/Pusher
Force Power

Best €œOther€ Weapon
The Crashing Bore

Most Effective Weapon
dunno

Best Comedy Bot
dunno

Best Custom House Robots:
Kody€™s

Best Walker
Spyder

Best Shuffler
Whirligig

Best Tracked
Sheer Heart Attack

Best €œOther€ Motivation
Blizzard

Most Underrated Vapourboteer
There are a few I would like to say but I am going to say Chris M

Most Underrated Vapourbot
I am unsure

Most Overrated Vapourboteer
it is very even so I dunno.

Most Overrated Vapourbot
hummm I dunno.

Best Extreme/Side Event
dunno

Best Minor Tournament (47)
Right, here we go again€¦

Best Major Tournament (47)
Mechaican Noise and Crash and Burn it is a tie

Best Battle of the Year
wouldn€™t like to say as there have been some great fights this year.

Biggest Surprise of the Year
somone, somehow breathing life into the fanfic area, we seam to have life again.

Best Custom Arena
Kody€™s

Best New Writer
I can only think of one person off the top of my head who is new, and their tournament was not enterable by anyone, and seems a bit inacurate so I don€™t think they are deserving of this award.

Best Overall Writer
Martijin

Best British Vapourboteer
Frank

Best €œRest of the World€ Vapourboteer
Martijin

Best Overall Team
Steve€™s team is very good, and seams to cover all the bases so is probably most deserving of this award.

Best Vapourbot of the Year
hummm, I don€™t want to vote for just one so I won€™t vote

Best Vapourboteer of the Year
Kody has been very good, especialy coming from all the controversy that he started with in vapoutboting, he has redemed him self in the past few years, so I think deserves the award.

Hall of Fame Induction
I am going to say Alex