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[corsair_lightning]

Okay people. Seeing as VRW series 3 will be completed very, very soon*, I might as well do this...

*Note: As in a couple of moments ago.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF VRW
The first VRW appeared during my first stay here. All sorts of crazy robots were entered into the competition, but the realie Lightning managed to win the first wars, even though the wars died due to a hypo.

The second wars appeared a bit later. The biggest problem was that there were really 2 Second Wars, due to everyone hating me back then. Recently, I merged the two wars, and Joey McConnell's Coinst managed to win against Storm II, if only due to the fact that the tourney was hypoed*.

*Note: The Hypo was not accepted by Leo and Joey and therefore may not be counted as fact.

The third wars was the best yet. Although the number of bots had decreased to 16, the carnage was bolstered due to me actually writing all the fights, not to mention some interesting tactic rants from Samuel Park... :P In a very interesting final, Samuel Park's Whiplash managed to strike, and win despite the fact that Storm II shoved it OOTA due to a damaged door. The judges claimed that Whiplash won, and that's the way it was.

Now, will Whiplash be able to hold on to the not that impressive trophy, and prove to the world that they are the VRW Champions? Only you can find out, by entering!

Rules: I need 12 people to enter 8 robots apiece, for a total of 96 robots.

As for the finer rules:

Flying Robots: Banned
Clusterbots: Up to 5 parts
Passive Weapon Bots: Allowed
Weight:
Normal: up to 100kg
Tracked: up to 110kg
Hoverbot*: 125kg
Shuffler/Miscellaneous: up to 150kg
True Walker: up to 200kg

* Note: Hoverbot = A robot that uses an inflated rubber underbelly to glide across the floor with help from a fan, much like a hovercraft.

Seeds:

1: Whiplash
2: Storm II
3: Apocalypse II
4: Ramminator Evilution
5: System Shock V: Hex
6: Maximum Genocide
7: Brutalis 2.1
8: The 2nd Revenge of Black Death
9: Megabyte
10: CroOKeD
11*: Lightning
12*: Iron Awe 5
13*: Nitro Gene 5.0
14*: WORCK
15*: Lockjaw Epidemic
16*: Shredder Evolution
17*: Cassius II
18*: Terrorhurtz
19*: Beta-Rex
20*: D.V.D: The Sequel

*Note: Seeds 11-20 were chosen due to their performance in the hypoed VRW Series 2.

Spots can be reserved for 1 week, then BOOM!!! They're open again.

[samuel3764]

I said I would enter, and I stand by that.

Next Stop, Jupiter (Replacing Thanatos)

Weight: 100kg
Shape: Warrior SKF, with a Firestorm-style wedge extension on the front.
Colour: Colours of the planet Jupiter, duh.
Dimensions: 100 X 81 X 21 cm
Power: 2 X LEM-130's @ 36v, powered by several NiCad Batteries, shock-proofed with polyurethane rubber.
Wheels: 2 X Aluminium Wheels with Urethane Rubber for superb grip
Armour: 3.5mm Hardox for the wedge, 7mm Ti/V for top and bottom, 5mm hardox for the rim
Speed: Roughly 13 mph
Ground Clearence: Obviously 0mm for the front, and 6mm for anywhere else
Turning Circle: Zero... how many times do I have to tell you guys?!
Weapon: A nasty 27kg spinning rim powered by an LEM-130 Lynch, and spinning at 2000RPM. It should reach this speed in about two seconds. It has 8 X hardox teeth on board. (Four on top, Four on Bottom) The rim can deliver some VERY nasty damage to another opponent. It can slice through titanium, and dent hardox without any problems. The motor mounts are shock-proofed with urethane rubber to avoid damage to itself during its attacks. (Of course shock-proofing the whole thing is out of the question ) The rim can also transfer its energy to the front kinetic flipper, thanks to a clutch. This flipper has a wedge extension which is nearly impossible to get under. The flipper can also throw robots with HUGE force. Can you say, OOTA?!
Srimech: Yes, it can run inverted... BUT the flipper can right the robot if needed.
Strengths: Can cause some EXTREME damage, Powerful Flipper, Heavily Shock-Proofed, A good all-rounder.
Weaknesses: A bit slow

Whiplash

Weight: 100kg
Body Shape: Pentagonal Pyramid with skirts
Dimensions: 100 X 85 X 38
Power: 2 X LEM-130's at 36v powered by several NiCads
Tyres: 4 X Asmaprene Urethane Rubber Tyres
Speed: 15 mph
Armour: 4mm Hardox
Ground Clearence: 0mm with skirts, and 5mm without skirts
Weapon 1: SHEER PUSHING POWER
Weapon 2: At the front there is a 7kg Terrorhurtz-Like BattleAxe (made out of hardox, even the handle) powered by 2 X 2kg CO2 Tanks, 200 PSI, diamond tipped, has over 1500 joules of force when it comes down. It can also attack from both ends. Heavily Shock-Proofed, as well.
Srimech: The axe can easily self-right it (even when it's on its side), and it can also self-right even after the axe has fired, ala Killerhurtz.
Strengths: PSYCHOTIC AXE AND PUSHING POWER
Weaknesses: NONE AT ALL! (Except for Limited Co2)

Walk Don't Run 5

Weight: 110kg.
Body Shape: Cylinder body, with a square spinning rim
Colour: Forest Green Weapon, Gray for top and bottom.
Dimensions: 95 X 95 X 27.
Drive: 2 X LEM-130's @ 36v powered by 6 X NiCad Batteries.
Top Speed: 8 mph
Feet: 4 X Shuffling Pads with Asmaprene urethane rubber, and this prevents WDR from being flung away ala Typhoon.
Armour: 9mm Titanium for the base and top, 4mm Hardox for the ring spinner.
Ground Clearence: 5mm all around.
Weapon: 30kg Square Spinning Rim, spinning at about 1300RPM, powered by a LEM-130, and has 4 X 1kg Hypno-Disc (Series 4 version) style teeth, curved and blunt to tear armour, or shock kill an opponent. As for shock-proofing, there is 8.5mm worth of rubber around the ring, and 7mm of PU foam inside, as well.
Srimech: Invertible.
Strengfths: Deadly Weapon, Heavily Armoured.
Weaknesses: Hates Flippers.

Neo-Mecha

Weight: 100kg
Shape: Ankle Biter (Battlebots 3.0 Version)... with side skirts
Colour: Jet Black for the front and rear, Prussian Blue anywhere else
Dimensions: 100 X 77 X 36
Power: 2 X LEM-130's @ 36v powered by several NiCad's, shock-mounted.
Wheels: 2 X Aluminium Wheels with Asmaprene Urethane covering
Speed: 15 mph
Armour: 3.25mm Hardox
Ground Clearence: 0mm on the sides due to skirts, and on the back. 6mm anywhere else (Including without skirts)
Turning Circle: Aw, come on, you know this is zero.
Weapon: 27kg Front Vertical Spinning Disc made from laser cut titanium, powered by 2 X LEM-130. This also has 2 Hardox teeth curved upwards, and it will spin at 3600RPM. Shock-Mounted as well.
Srimech: At the rear, there is a linear actuated bar, and it can right the robot in 1 second.
Strengths: Powerful Weapon, Decent Pushing Power, Fast and effective srimech
Weaknesses: Hopefully, there is none. XD

Blue Hurricane

Weight: 100kg
Shape: Disc
Dimensions: 88 X 88 X 27
Colour: Royal Blue for the sides, and a nice shade of midnight blue for the top and bottom.
Power: 2 X LEM-130's @ 36v, with a couple of NiCad Batteries.
Wheels: Two Aluminium Wheels with a nice layer of Asmaprene Urethane on it.
Armour: 3.25mm Hardox for top and bottom, and 11mm Grade 5 Titanium for the sides.
Top Speed: 13 mph
Ground Clearence: 5mm Everywhere.
Turning Circle: Zero! Need I say more?!
Weapon: Ok, the weapon is a nasty 32kg spinning rim, which is made out of 11mm Grade 5 Titanium, with 4 X Tungsten-tipped teeth. (2 teeth on bottom, and 2 on top) The teeth are all made out of hardox, and also curved to rip off skirts and panels with ease. It also runs on a single LEM-130 Lynch, and spins at about 2000RPM. This can rip through titanium and dent hardox quite easily. Shock-Proofed to protect itself from attacks.
Srimech: Invertible
Strengths: Can cause a lot of damage
Weaknesses: Not the best pushing power by a long shot

The 2nd Revenge of Black Death

Weight: 100kg
Shape: Very low wedge with a Firestorm style wedge extension on the front
Colour: Black Body, Blue Flipper
Dimensions: 100 X 75 X 27
Power: 2 X Bosch 750's @ 36v powered by a couple of NiCad batteries
Top Speed: 13 mph
Tyres: 2 X Foam-Packed Aluminium Tyres with urethane rubber on it for more grip
Armour: 3.25mm Hardox everywhere
Ground Clearence: Zero on the front, and 3mm on the sides, and 5.8mm on the rear
Weapon: The weapon here is a flipper similar to Envy (forward hinged ), powered by 2 X 2kg Co2 Tanks. The power also matches Envy. It's capable of bringing out 30 to 32 flips and can flip up to 900kg. At the back, there is an 8kg vertical disc that's powered by an S28-400. It has 3 teeth on it to rip and tear out skirts/panels, and spins at 5000 RPM.
Sriemech: Flipper. Side spikes can also stop the robot from getting beached.
Strengths: Pretty Good Flipper, Deadly Disc, Nearly Impossible to Get under from front, Decent Pusher
Weaknesses: Limited CO2, as always.

I will also enter Storm 2 and Envy.

Good luck with this, Mark.

[corsair_lightning]

Thank you, Samuel.

Now there are 11 spots left...

Samuel Park
1: Next Stop, Jupiter
2: Whiplash (1)
3: Walk Don't Run 5
4: Neo-Mecha
5: Blue Hurricane
6: The 2nd Revenge of Black Death (
7: Envy
8: Storm II (2)

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[corsair_lightning]

And just o if anyone wants to see how screwed up and f*cked up this tourney was in its 2 other incarnations, look at these:

VRW SERIES 1 IN HYPO FORM*

*Note: Several robots in the competition were never entered in. This proves how much of an idiot I was back then...

Heat A

BEHEMOTH EVO X AND LIAR 2 won their fight after Liar flipped Crimson Thunder OOTA, and Behemoth pitted Brutalis 1.0.

LOCKJAW AND SYSTEM SHOCK won their fight after System Shock pitted Henry VII, and LockJaw pitted Death Premonition.

BEHEMOTH EVO X won its fight after it pitted LockJaw.

LIAR 2 won its fight after it flipped System Shock OOTA.

BEHEMOTH EVO X won its fight after it flipped Liar 2 OOTA.


Heat B

QUANTUM AND NIDHOGG won their fight after Nidhogg Immobilized Death Threat 0.2, and Quantum annihilated Apocolypse.

COLLATERAL DAMAGE and SUN OF RIPPO won their fight after Starfire destroyed Warlord, but Collateral Damage pitted it.

QUANTUM won its fight after it shredded Collateral Damage.

SUN OF RIPPO won its fight after it immobilized and pitted Nidhogg.

QUANTUM won its fight after it caused Sun of Rippo to throw itself OOTA, like Mauler.


Heat C

PAUL CUOMO, THE ROBOT AND SPLINTER EVO won their fight after Splinter pitted Tanto 2, and Paul Cuomo immobilized Merlin.

SIR SPINALOT AND LIGHTNING won their fight after Lightning flipped Shiny Happy People, who couldn't self-right, and Sir Spinalot immobilized Woody, the Great Pretender.

SIR SPINALOT won its fight after it immobilized Paul Cuomo, the Robot.

LIGHTNING won its fight after it fliped Splinter Evo into the pit.

LIGHTNING won its fight after it pitted Sir Spinalot.


Heat D

FLICK OF THE WRIST AND GRAVITY won their fight after Gravity flipped Boxy OOTA, and FOTW pitted X-Terminator.

RADIOACTIVE AND CASSIUS II won their fight after Cassius pitted Panic Attack, and Radioactive pitted Cunning Plan.

FLICK OF THE WRIST won its fight after it easily flipped Radioactive OOTA.

CASSIUS II won its fight after it shockingly pitted Gravity.

FLICK OF THE WRIST won its fight after it shoved Cassius II into the pit.


Semi-finals

BEHEMOTH EVO X won its fight after it pitted Quantum, after sustaining severe damage.

LIGHTNING won its fight after it pitted Flick of the Wrist.


3rd Place Playoff

QUANTUM won its fight after it severely damaged and pitted Flick of the Wrist.


Grand Final

LIGHTNING won its fight after it pitted Behemoth Evo X, whose scoop was so badly damaged, that they couldn't use it.

As you see, this tourney was badly screwed up. But now, on to the even more crewed-up VRW Series 2!!!

VRW SERIES 2 IN HYPO FORM*

*Note: Some of the robots here were not entered.

Heat A

NITRO-GENE 4.0 and BRUTALIS 2.0 won after they flipped and immobilized Flirty Skirty and Mauler 5150.

MECANNIBAL and NAPALM won after MeCannibal cut Systematic Shocker's track, and Stealth drove into the pit.

NITRO-GENE 4.0 immobilized Napalm.

MECANNIBAL pitted a wrecked Brutalis 2.0.

NITRO-GENE 4.0 flipped MeCannibal OOTA.

Heat B

HENRY VIII and WORCK won after Robot the Bruce was flipped and Abaddon was pitted.

MAJOR TOM and GABRIEL II won after Tri-Tanium's motors stopped working, and Gulp was stuck on the pit by Gabriel II.

HENRY VIII immobilized Gabriel II.

WORCK pitted Major Tom.

WORCK stuck Henry VIII under the angle grinders.

Heat C

ENVY and THE ROCK won after Diotoir caught fire and was immobilized, while Envy pitted Nidhogg before it self-righted.

LOCKJAW AND D.V.D: THE SEQUEL won after Nightstalker was pitted and The Quaestor was accidentally flipped by the floor flipper.

D.V.D: THE SEQUEL immobilized Envy.

LOCKJAW lured The Rock into the pit.

LOCKJAW won after it and D.V.D: The Sequel attacked the house robots. Since D.V.D was pitted first, LockJaw won.

Heat D

147 and COINST won after Wild Thing broke down and Marwolaeth was immobilized by the House Robots.

BAR-RED and BETA-REX won after Twn Twrn broke down and Phoenix Down was pitted.

BETA-REX pitted 147.

COINST pitted Bar-Red.

COINST immobilized Beta-Rex.

Heat E

CUNNING PLAN and BLATANT CLONE won after The One That Won't Go Down 2 stopped moving, and Piece De Resistance disintegrated.

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT and AXIOS won after Brutus Maximus and Darke Destroyer 2 were both immobilized.

AXIOS pitted Cunning Plan.

BLATANT CLONE immobilized Corporal Punishment.

BLATANT CLONE flipped Axios.

Heat F

OUT OF TOUCH and STEALTH won after Cow Pat 2 stopped moving and Shell Shock was flipped.

IRON AWE 5 and TERRORHURTZ won after Granny's Revenge caught fire, and Axe Awe was pitted.

TERRORHURTZ immobilized Out of Touch.

IRON AWE 5 flipped Stealth OOTA.

IRON AWE 5 flipped Terrorhurtz into the pit.

Heat G

BIOHAZARD and LIGHTNING won after Diarrhea 2 was immobilized and Boxy 2 was flipped by Lightning.

CHAOS 2 and CASSIUS II won after Firestorm drove into the pit, and Chaos 2 flipped 3 Stegs 2 Heaven OOTA.

CASSIUS II flipped Biohazard into the pit.

LIGHTNING pitted Chaos 2.

LIGHTNING immobilized Cassius II.

Heat H

VADER and HUMDRUM won after Lord Turdius 2 stopped moving, and The Pie-Crushing Tosser commited suicide down the pit.

SHREDDER and STORM 2 won after Razer's srimech immobilized itself, and Mousetrap was flipped.

STORM 2 flipped Vader.

SHREDDER wrecked Humdrum.

STORM 2 won after Shredder got itself stuck on the pit.

Semi-Finals:

COINST won after Nitro-Gene 4.0 committed suicide down the pit.

LOCKJAW lured WORCK into the pit.

BLATANT CLONE pitted Iron Awe 5.

STORM 2 pitted Lightning.

Eliminators:

COINST shoved Lockjaw down the pit.

STORM 2 pitted Blatant Clone.

Playoff:

LOCKJAW caused Blatant Clone to jam itself into the angle grinders.

Grand Final:

COINST pitted Storm 2.

Now came the non-screwed up 3rd season...

VRW SERIES 3

All robots in here were entered.

Heat 1:

WHIPLASH immobilized Iron Awe 5

MAXIMUM GENOCIDE immobilized Tornado.

WHIPLASH beat Maximum Genocide on a judges' decision.

Heat 2:

SYSTEM SHOCK V: HEX ripped the wheels off of Sewer Snake.

RAMMINATOR EVILUTION pitted Razer.

RAMMINATOR EVILUTION pitted System Shock V: Hex.

Heat 3:

STORM II flipped Typhoon.

BRUTALIS 2.1 flipped and immobilized Megabyte.

STORM II immobilized Brutalis 2.1.

Heat 4:

THE 2ND REVENGE OF BLACK DEATH pitted CroOKeD.

APOCALYPSE II beat Blue Hurricane on a judges' decision.

APOCALYPSE II flipped The 2nd Revenge of Black Death OOTA.

Semi-Finals:

STORM II immobilized Ramminator Evilution.

WHIPLASH pitted Apocalypse II, but not before Apocalypse flipped over one of the house robots!

Play-Off:

APOCALYPSE II pinned Ramminator Evilution on the wall.

Grand Final:

WHIPLASH won on a judges' decision against Storm II, after a malfunction in the arena caused Storm to push Whiplash OOTA. It went to a judges' decision, and Whiplash won.

[kodster]

Uh...how is Coinst Joey's bot? If you look in past threads, Paul posted stats for it. And it's in Paul's section on ZED.

[corsair_lightning]

Good point, but I can't edit it due to edit times and stuff.

Anyway, how does it feel to see the F*cked up tournies you criticized again? :P

[team_orr]

hang on... didnt CrOoKeD lose his only fight ??? so how come im 10th seed

quote:

Heat 4:

THE 2ND REVENGE OF BLACK DEATH pitted CroOKeD.

[corsair_lightning]

Notice: The first 4 seeds are the heat final winners.

The second 4 seeds are the heat final losers.

And seeds 9 and 10 are, who I feel, are the best 2 of the 8 round 1 losing robots.

[team_orr]

right, but then wouldnt that mean that i would have a lower seeding than 20-11? seeing as they were the best (in your view) of VWR hypo...

[corsair_lightning]

Yes, but that list was outdated, and to be honest, the VRW seeds are that way because I did a crappy job with the other ones, and therefore I wanted the robots from the actually finished series to be the top seeds.