The Vapourbot Awards 2009

[corsair_lightning]

Well, it's a good render, but you're kind of missing the Disctruction and the Ultimate...

[kodster]

Getting back on topic...I'd like to change some votes before closing time...

Best House Robot
Surlygig

Most Effective Weapon
...Assegai?

Best RPG
Mechanical Maelstrom: Devastation. I forgot about this and how great it is...

[andrewj]

Thanks everyone! Here are my votes:

Most Original Design: BIACS-Is Of Evil-ution - As Kody might say, it€™s beautiful and strange.
Best Design: Achilles - A simple concept but it€™s so difficult to beat.
Most Overrated Vapourbot: Extreme Gyration - I think I saw it last more than one hit somewhere. :wink:
Most Underrated Vapourbot: Eye of Ran II - Brilliant design and it has so much potential.
Most Original Designer: Steven McGregor - He€™s making a real effort to introduce new ideas into his team.
Best Designer: Joey McConnell - A lot of research has gone into some of Joey€™s designs.
Most Overrated Vapourboteer:
Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Lewis Matthews - Great designer and great battle writer.
Most Improved Vapourboteer: Jack Orr - For the huge improvement in battle writing quality.
Sp00n of the Year: Mark Elam - He is Mark Elam...
Best Sportsman: Martijn Benschop - If only all people made as much sense as this guy.
Best Render: Macduff the 5th
Funniest Moment: Joey McConnell€™s Brand Values - He€™s still available on a free transfer.
Biggest Surprise of the Year: The decline of FanFic after such a great year in 2008.
Best House Robot: Damocles - I€™m surprised this idea hasn€™t been used in a competitor yet...
Best Arena: The Battlegrounds 2.0
Best Comedy Bot: Spring-BOK!
Best Clusterbot: Door Stops
Best Interchangeable Robot: Macduff the 5th
Best Rammer: System Shock 5.1
Best Walker: Archangel of the Abyss
Best Shuffler: Whirligig 4.5
Best Tracked: Darkestar
Best Front Hinged Flipper: Gabriel V
Best Rear Hinged Flipper: Achilles
Best Axe: Intriguous
Best Horizontal Spinner: Eye of Ran II
Best Vertical Spinner: Tira VI
Best Saw: Back to Rock III
Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: Propane Nightmare
Best Horizontal Crusher: Under Pressure
Best Vertical Crusher: N³
Most Effective Weapon: Shopping Mall
Best RPG: Team Zlayerz RPG: Identity Theft
Best Battle: Gehenna vs. Propane Nightmare
Best New Writer: Lian Walsh - You€™ve made a good start, just work on the length and detail a bit more.
Best New Tournament: Crazy Bots - For the above reason.
Best Writer: Steven McGregor - One of the best writers ever returned to show us all how it€™s done.
Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots): PTT - Regeneration - A very well written tournament with so many great vapourbots competing.
Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots): RoboBash - Not many major tournaments have been completed on this forum, so Sam should be proud.
Best Team: Team Zlayerz - So many different but effective vapourbots.
Best New Vapourbot: Mornington Crescent - Quite a unique design, and it€™s already doing well.
Best New Vapourboteer: Jordan Brown - Even though he hasn€™t had much chance to compete yet, his designs show originality and potential.
Best Vapourboteer: Steven McGregor - Steve has made quite a few new and original vapourbots in the past year or so, such as Venus Fly Trap, Traffic Warden and Mornington Crescent. These, along with the older members of his team are still tough to beat. Earlier in the year, he wrote one of the best tournaments we have seen for quite a while with the return of PTT. It was a tough tournament to judge, but he pulled it off brilliantly.
Best Vapourbot: Intriguous - Not only is it a nice design, but it reached the finals of both, in my opinion, the two best tournaments of the year.
Vapourboteer Hall of Fame: There are so many reasons why this person should be in the Hall of Fame. His vapourbots are fairly unique, well designed and always perform well. He is one of the best vapourbot battle writers there has ever been. I might not be typing this now if he hadn€™t kept this section alive back in 2006. If I€™m in the Hall of Fame, then this guy certainly should be, it€™s Kody Kunz.
Vapourbot Hall of Fame: The Crashing Bore - One of the original vapourbots and the design is still competitive. SpinVerter - Not around any more, but a classic influential vapourbot. Mass Disctruction Ultimate - The most successful vapourbot ever.

Still a couple of days left to vote.

[majinb]

*coughs* VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

my second wave of votes comes now, these are the votes I wasnt sure on straight away, but they were strill pretty easy for me

Most Improved Vapourboteer: I find that Jack Orr, who also was my best new vapourboteer, imrpoved really well over his stint here

Best Render: I love Kody's Intrigous (spelling? xD)... I may have his name wrong, the one with the wheels popping out on top, that one!

Funniest Moment: The brand values thing for Joey... can you tell Andy and I pretty much made that one together? xD

Best Clusterbot: Door Stops is good

Best Interchangeable Robot: Macduff the 5th

Best Front Hinged Flipper: Ive been thorn between Wedginator's current version and Gabriel's ever since the voting for this started... split a vote between them!

Best Axe: The current Axeon

Best Saw: Spin Dash Unleashed

Best Vertical Crusher: N³

Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots): I'll be flabbergasted if PTTR doesnt win this... PTTR

[knightrous]

...that's not quite MDU though is it :P you're two letters out.

It's based on MDU3, it's currently just codenamed MBX3.
If I get around to finishing it in 2010, it will probably run under the name MDU or SpunOut.

/thread hijack

Vapourbot Hall of Fame: The Crashing Bore - One of the original vapourbots and the design is still competitive. SpinVerter - Not around any more, but a classic influential vapourbot.

I agree, SpinVerter should definitely go into the hall of fame. Was a pretty decent bot for it's time, certainly gave me a challenge.

[majinb]

My final votes, note that for each vapour I name Im talking about the current version, even if I don€™t specify that

Most Original Design: Assegai
Best Design: N^3
Most Overrated Vapourbot: I honoustly, HONOUSTLY don€™t know
Most Underrated Vapourbot: you know what I like Joey€™s suggestion of Equinox

Best Designer: I€™ll say Steven
Most Overrated Vapourboteer: much like most overrated bot€¦ I cant tell


Sp00n of the Year: Thierry Henry! (man I hope he wins this now he€™s got 2 votes )
Best Sportsman: €¦ Thierry Henry? Naaaaaah, Joey!


Biggest Surprise of the Year: I found Chris€™ departure surprising really
Best House Robot: Rorschach

Best Comedy Bot: Im tagging along with Spring-BOK! Because he€™s a very original creation and itd work surprisingly well for a comedy bot

Best Rammer: System Shock
Best Walker: Archangel
Best Shuffler: Whirligig
Best Tracked: Darkestar

Best Rear Hinged Flipper: Has to be Achilles

Best Vertical Spinner: Tira

Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: Propane Nightmare
Best Horizontal Crusher: Super Gore

Most Effective Weapon: Eye of Ran!

Best Battle: PTTR final between Kody and Alex!
Best New Writer: Jack Orr
Best New Tournament: W.A.R.

Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots): RoboBash 2!
Best Team: ermz€¦ I quite like Joey€™s atm
Best New Vapourbot: Equinox

Best Vapourboteer: Joey
Best Vapourbot: N^3
Vapourboteer Hall of Fame: lets put Kody there if only because his huge surges of activity the last few years meant so much for the game as a whole€¦ and these surges weren€™t just mindless head-over-heels rushes into the game, they also brought a good share of quality
Vapourbot Hall of Fame SpinVerter, The Robot That Wasn€™t There (the 5 part cluster, not 100%sure on the name) and MDU

[corsair_lightning]

The 5 part cluster's name was The Team That Wasn't There.

[andrewj]

Thank you for your time, everyone. Voting is now closed. I'll reveal the winners at some point tomorrow.

[team_orr]

looking forward to it (i tried to count them up but failed epicly)

EDIT: jeez that was my 700th post