The Vapourbot Awards 2009

**corsair_lightning** · 30th November 2009, 20:30

Hey! I did nominate you for Sportmanship.

**death robotics** · 30th November 2009, 20:31

i know buti thought that was what you were gonna vote me for

sorry if you took offence from it

*offers virtual handshake*

**corsair_lightning** · 30th November 2009, 20:36

*Shakes Lian's virtual hand* It's okay. At least your robot went out of control and killed All Bar One...

**andrewj** · 16th December 2009, 13:31

Thanks for the votes so far!

For anyone else interested in voting, you've still got a week left.

**majinb** · 16th December 2009, 22:41

Im gonna vote my entire list later but to keep this going, and because there are several votes I already made up my mind about anyhow, here are some!

Most Original Designer: Steven McGregor, the man was known for classic and solid designs, but when he brought us Traffic Warden and Venus Fly Trap not too long ago he has proven that he can be bloody original as well!

Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Lewis Matthews he is a good, good vapourboteer, end of.

Best Arena: Kody's arena is great fun.

Best Horizontal Spinner: Eye of Ran II, real good robot.

Best RPG: Kody's, with the gears we gather in places with German names, it is weeeeeell written.

Best Writer: Steven McGregor made a fantastic comeback to the writing scene.

Best Minor Tournament: PTT: Regeneration, everything I wanna say about it can be read in the above sentence :P

Best New Vapourboteer: Jack Orr's the man!

**steven_mcg** · 17th December 2009, 16:46

We really need to cut down on the number of awards next year.

MOST ORIGINAL DESIGN: Assegei
BEST DESIGN: Eye of Ran II
MOST OVERRATED VAPOURBOT: PsycloniZer
MOST UNDERRATED VAPOURBOT: Quaestor III
MOST ORIGINAL DESIGNER: Alex Holt
BEST DESIGNER: Joey McConnell
MOST OVERRATED VAPOURBOTEER: Steven McGregor
MOST UNDERRATED VAPOURBOTEER: Matthew Fowler
MOST IMPROVED VAPOURBOT: Mark Elam
SP00N OF THE YEAR: Thierry Henry
BEST SPORTSMAN: Martijn Benschop
BEST RENDER: The Kody Kunz collection
FUNNIEST MOMENT: Elam V Kunz: Live on Sky Sports 1!
BIGGEST SURPRISE OF THE YEAR: Chris Mason's departure

BEST HOUSE ROBOT: Count Bleck by Kody Kunz
BEST ARENA: The Battlegrounds by Kody Kunz
BEST COMEDYBOT: Spring-BOK!
BEST CLUSTERBOT: Door Stops
BEST INTERCHANGEABLE ROBOT: Macduff the 5th
BEST RAMMER: System Shock
BEST WALKER: Hex Appeal
BEST SHUFFLER: M.O.R.D. 2
BEST TRACKED ROBOT: Monsoon Season
BEST FRONT-HINGED FLIPPER: Gehenna
BEST REAR-HINGED FLIPPER: Apocalypse
BEST AXE: Intriguous
BEST HORIZONTAL SPINNER: Eye of Ran II
BEST VERTICAL SPINNER: Tira V
BEST SAW: Back to Rock III
BEST FULL-BODY SPINNER: Propane Nightmare
BEST HORIZONTAL CRUSHER: Under Pressure
BEST VERTICAL CRUSHER: N Cubed
MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON: Tira V

BEST R.P.G: Team Zlayer: Identity Theft
BEST BATTLE: Monsoon Season VS Mornington Crescent VS Whiplash from AJWars: Era Ache, if it's allowed.
BEST NEW WRITER: Lewis Matthews
BEST NEW TOURNAMENT: A Special Robot Wars Fan Fiction Anniversary
BEST WRITER: Kody Kunz
BEST MINOR TOURNAMENT: The Mechanical Maelstrom spinoffs. Annihilation, if you need just one.
BEST MAJOR TOURNAMENT: Crash and Burn Tournament 4

BEST TEAM: Team Picus (Joey McConnell)
BEST NEW VAPOURBOT: O.I.D.
BEST NEW VAPOURBOTEER: Tracy Farber
BEST VAPOURBOTEER OF 2009: Kody Kunz
BEST VAPOURBOT OF 2009: Intriguous
VAPOURBOTEER HALL OF FAME: Hector Gilbert
VAPOURBOT HALL OF FAME: The Crashing Bore, SpinVerter and Mass Disctruction Ultimate

Apologies if any nominees are eligable for whatever reason. Had a helluva time trying to decide who deserved what after a year of such varying levels of activity.

Good luck to all at any rate.

**joey_picus** · 20th December 2009, 01:20

Most Original Design: BIACS-IS Of EVIL-OUTION...well, it couldn't be anything else really :P
Best Design: Propane Nightmare, if only Dan had entered more with it
Most Overrated Vapourbot: Die-Reverta-Tops...I think Chris will find his 'unique' feature is what most civilized cultures call a 'wheel'

Most Underrated Vapourbot: Any of Lewis' creations, mainly because he's been quietly working at them without anyone noticing or appreciating them...if I have to choose one it'd be Equinox as I think it could go a long way in a good tournament, very well thought out and Complete Control-esque.
Most Original Designer: Whichever nomenclatory permutation Matthew Will 'Matty' Harrison Fowler is using this week
Best Designer: Andrew Jackson :P he'll be absolutely shocked but his designs don't cross the boundaries of weight like most people, and consistently perform well
Most Overrated Vapourboteer: Aaron Knight, if he's still around anymore, you can't really do much once you've created MDU :P
Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Lewis, again, for reasons listed above
Most Improved Vapourboteer: Jack Orr, he's consolidated his knowledge rather well
Idiot Of The Year: Mark Elam, by a long way. Runners up have to be the rest of us for allowing ourselves to believe he'd changed instead of getting worse...
Best Sportsman: Marti!

Best Render: Marti's Sandslash render that only a few people on ARC saw I suppose :P
Funniest Moment: bogheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehn
Biggest Surprise of the Year: The fact that a well developed Robot Wars Wiki exists?!
Best Arena: Steve's PTT arena is probably the winner here :P having had the chance to battle in it it's surprisingly good and there's not a lot that can't be used to your advantage.
Best Comedy Bot: NSBFR-X's presence in the awards after so much time not competing is certainly comical
Best Clusterbot: Double Killa II?
Best Interchangeable Robot: System Shock V: Hex
Best Rammer: Flick Of The Wrist
Best Walker: Archangel Of The Abyss
Best Shuffler: Apparently Whirligig 4.5 is the only one around? Right, I'm designing one for 2010 :P
Best Tracked: Darkestar
Best Front Hinged Flipper: Gehenna
Best Rear Hinged Flipper: Seung Mina VI
Best Axe: Axeon 4.0
Best Horizontal Spinner: Illusion Of Dread
Best Vertical Spinner: Darkestar
Best Saw: Back To Rock III, I can't remember any others at this moment in time :P
Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: Propane Nightmare sharing with Mornington Crescent
Best Horizontal Crusher: Under Pressure
Best Vertical Crusher: Killobite Sigma
Best 'other' Weapon: Cobalt
Most Effective Weapon: Propane Nightmare was worryingly good
Best RPG: Mechanical Maelstrom: Devastation
Best Battle: The entire first Mechanical Maelstrom annihilator, it's difficult to express how awesome it was to see something like N^3, that I'd spent lots of time researching and looking into strange technologies for, actually work and win

Best Writer: Steven McGregor, still...SIMPLY THE BEST! DOO DO, DOO, DOO!
Best Minor Tournament: Split between PTT: Regeneration and AJWars: Era Ache
Best Major Tournament: ...the only one seems to be RoboBash Series 2 so I'll go with that :P

Best Team: Team Varying Every Day, they haven't changed because in my opinion they don't really need to :P
Best New Vapourbot: Half of this goes to all Bar One, half to Equinox
Best New Vapourboteer: Again split, half to Jordan Brown and half to Alex Howard (whom you may know as Navaha)
Best Vapourboteer: Andrew Jackson
Best Vapourbot: Darkestar

Vapourboteer Hall Of Fame: I had difficulty making this decision to be honest, due to the somewhat fractious relations I've had with this person at times, and also from the rather more selfish point of view that voting for him would deny me a however undeserved chance at getting in :P but at the end of the day, for all that may have happened he is still one of the best designers, best renderers, best writers, and best people around in vapourbots and it can't be ignored that he was among those who saved vapourbots back in 2006...ladies, gentlemen, boys, girls, rats, I give you KODY KUNZ! You deserve it mate

Vapourbot Hall Of Fame: The Crashing Bore - Frank Goacher
Sheer Heart Attack - Martijn Benschop
Mass Disctruction Ultimate - Aaron Knight

Hope those do