The Vapourbot Awards 2007

[paulc]

The Vapourbot Awards 2007

Ermm...Martyn.


Im actually NOT the only new vapourboteer, as Craig and Leo and Samuel Park are new, but...

Quote: (From AJ)
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.

And also, youre just taking the P!££ of of E.O.T.R Series 2, because you lost a fight. Everyone loses fights, but you often enter more than one vapourbot into the contest. So basically, you lose one, but youll have sereral more up my sleave. IF everyone complained about losing, this board would be flooded with people moaning about LOSING! :new: Ive had 5 fight this year, and Ive lost all of them, but you cant win all of them.

Have I justifed myself?

PS: +2>VOTE FOR ME AS IDIOT OF THE YEAR!

[matty_haka]

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LMAO... is it just me or was this Chris like 3 years ago. Thank God he sorted himself out, no disrespect to you Chris but yuo were a nightmare XD

[andrewj]

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Err Paul I think he was refering to me...

You see, I am technically new - I am actually AJs brother (BJ ) using his old account. Hes not interested in this anymore. I ran a tournament this year under his account called AJWars: A New Era which I invited people to enter rather than anyone being able to enter. My writing isnt really up to the par of my older brother, who was probably the best writer on the forum! Im new, my tournament could only be entered by those that I invited and my writing was inacurate so he was obviously referring to me! Dont get so worked up about it, he wasnt even talking about you! He told me so himself on MSN! Hes not taking the mic out of EOTR! He is taking it out of AJWars! No need to go off on a rant because Martyn wasnt even talking about you!

On a rather unrelated note, voting will close at midnight GMT. Still time for some last votes everyone as things can still change before the results in the next few days! Just over 7 hours remaining!!!

[majinb]

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but BJ (Brother Jackson?), why would you call your tournament AJWars?

I look forward to meeting CJ

[martyn]

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erm it was AJ wars as BJ wars is just sick and wrong lol

[kodster]

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I wonder if DJ plays Nirvana songs.

[kodster]

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I would like to officially change my vote from Idiot of the Year, and give it to Paul.

[paulc]

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Id like to make mine a joint award - Kody/Timmy.

[matty_haka]

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It never says that the idiot of the year is from the FRA... I therefore vote for Amy Winehouse!

[paulc]

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In that case, Amy Winehouse/Timmy/Kody

[siphai]

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Ive cut it down to ones that I felt I could answer with my limited knowledge but, hey, theyre still votes :P

Best Design: Shovearound 2

The Steven McGregor Award for Sportsmanship: Martijn

Idiot of the Year: Woo this award sure isnt degrading

Best Flipper (Rear Hinged): Die-Ceratops Re-Invertus

Best Axebot: Black Panther Queen

Best Crusher (Vertical): CDM

Best Clusterbot: Going Crunch

Best Rammer/Pusher: ForcePower

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

Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Me

Most Overrated Vapourboteer: Me

Best Battle of the Year: Black Panther Queen vs. Psyclonised

Best Overall Writer: Im going to have to tie this between Kody and Martijn. I enjoy reading both of their results very much

Best Vapourbot of the Year: Im going to have to go with Psyclonised

Best Vapourboteer of the Year: Hmm... Alex

[andrewj]

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And so here we are again, another Christmas and another load of awards to dish out to everyone. Here€™s how things have ended up:

Most Original Design

Plenty of different types of robot this year€¦ we had the weird axlebot thing A Night At The Bar, the always annoying The Disc, the clusterbot cheese grater Mass Confuzzelment and the walking wonder Spyder. But topping them all was that unique invention BIACS-LE.

Most Original Designer

The award will have to be shared by Alex Holt and Aaron Knight this year, with Frank not so far behind in second place.

Best Design

This award is for the best overall designed robot and we had contenders such as MDU, The Disc and Shovearound 2. But in the end the most original design also turned out to be the best design, the winner is BIACS-LE.

Best Newcomer Vapourbot

This award ended up being split between the newcomer robot from the new guy on the block in Paul Cuomo€™s Nitro-Gene and a newcomer bot from veteran Aaron Knight in the form of Spyder.

Best Newcomer Vapourboteer

This ended up being a no-contest as only one person was nominated. From the newcomer that shows flashes of brilliance now and then, welcome aboard Paul Cuomo.

The Steven McGregor Award For Sportsmanship

In a turn up for the books, Steve has to fall to second and watch as his own award is passed onto new resident peacekeeper Martijn Benschop.

Idiot of the Year

In the end I couldn€™t be bothered to change the votes so I€™m just going to split this award literally down the middle and give a half each to Kody Kunz and Paul Cuomo. I don€™t think they would enjoy sharing it with each other€¦

Best Flipper (Front Hinged)

Only one robot voted for, the award goes to Disco 5.

Best Flipper (Rear Hinged)

And interesting crop of results this year as we saw Achilles, Wedga€™s Revenge and newcomer CRAPBAG all gain a vote while former king of the flippers Wedge Devo has to settle for second place. The award this goes to Chris Mason€™s uber-flipper Die Ceratops Re Invertus.

Best Axebot

There were a couple of votes for Killotine: EVO but after its successful run this year the award is going to Alex Holt€™s Black Panther Queen.

Best Spinner (Horizontal)

A couple of votes for Fragmentor and Parrasyte but the winner by some distance is Alex€™s Salamander III.

Best Spinner (Vertical)

This vote ended up as a tie between The Disc 5 and Disco 5.

Best Sawbot

A no contest here, Metal Sonic Spin Dash walks away with all the votes.

Best FBS/Ring Spinner

There was a vote for Tempest Evil-er-ution but this award is split between the spinning rings of Tengu VII and the spinning hammers of Psyclonised.

Best Translational Spinner

It was close, but MDU steals it over Cyberdemon by just a point.

Best Crusher (Horizontal)

By quite a large margin, this vote is going to Flank Attack: DT.

Best Crusher (Vertical)

With an outstanding 8 votes, the winner is Clawdius Decimus Murderous.

Best Clusterbot

Going Crunch came close but this year€™s winner is Mass Confuzzelment.

Best Interchangeable Robot

For the best robot with interchangeable weaponry, this one goes to NSBFR-X.

Best Rammer

A few votes went to MOABIE and Shovearound 2 but the joint winners are ForcePower 5.0 and Flick of the Wrist.

Best Other Weapon

As ever, the mousetrap of doom The Crashing Bore is the winner.

Most Effective Weapon

Interestingly the joint most effective weapon winners are the same as the joint best FBS winners - Psyclonised and Tengu VII.
Best Comedy Bot

Out of the three of Steve€™s bots nominated, the award is shared between Tails and Toby The T-Ram Engine.

Best House Robots

But they have no drive motors! :wink: Ah well, Kody€™s things win.

Best Walker

Spyder narrowly misses out and the winner is Archangel of the Abyss.

Best Shuffler

An even draw between MORD 2 and Whirligig 4.0.

Best Tracked

The winner here is Martijn Benschop€™s Sheer Heart Attack.

Best Other Motivation

Take a guess€¦ Blizzard!

Most Underated Vapourboteer

Many different opinions here, the award is shared between Alex Mac Williams, Martijn, Richard, Willow, Paul and Chris M.

Most Underated Vapourbot

Again lots of different winners, they are Cosmic Thunder 2, IDSFA, The Doomsday Project, Disco 5 and BIACS-LE.

Most Overrated Vapourboteer

Despite being the main Hall of Fame contenders, myself, Alex H and Aaron all have to contend with being overrated.

Most Overated Vapourbot

Slammer V is narrowly beaten by The Disc 5.

Best Extreme/Side Event

I counted Here We Go Again as a mini tournament so the winner is House Robot Rebellion 2.

Best Minor Tournament

Here We Go Again would have won even if I didn€™t add the votes when people voted it for best side event.

Best Major Tournament

Kody€™s Crash and Burn tournament came close but the eventual winner is Martijn€™s Mechanical Noise.

Best Battle

Fittingly the best battle of the year came from the best tournament of the year, and that was the Mechanical Noise final - Psyclonised vs. Black Panther Queen

Biggest Surprise of the Year

There were many surprises this year including the brief return of Matt McDonald, the arrival of new compeititors, the introduction of roboteers to vapourbots and the fact that we have carried on yet another year. But you voted the biggest surprise as Steve McGregor returning to the writing desk.

Best Custom Arena

Close, but Kody€™s Arena just beat €œThe Wrexagon€ to it.

Best New Writer

Even if his battles are not world class, we have finally found a new writer in the form of Paul Cuomo.

Best RPG

That crazy thing known as ATTTWI€¦

Best Overall Writer

Just like the best major tournament, this was between Kody and Martijn, and just like the best major tournament, Martijn is the winner.

Most Missed Vapourboteer

Votes for Nick, Tom and Dan, but the winner is Hector Gilbert.

Most Missed Vapourbot

A tie between The Business Ends, Stratos-Fear, V€™Ger and The Team That Wasn€™t There.

Best British Vapourboteer

This is a three way tie between three of the best in the game - Steve McGregor, Frank Goacher and Alex Holt.

Best Rest of the World Vapourboteer

This award goes to the Dutchman Martijn Benschop.

Best Overall Team

Team Bored and Team Braveheart came close but the winners are Team Doomforall.

Best Vapourbot

Many came close including Clawdius Decimus Murderous, Black Panther Queen, Shovearound 2 and Flick of the Wrist. But the overall winner is that phenomenal bot known as Psyclonised! Cheers guys! :wink:

Best Vapourboteer

The winner, by just half a vote is our flying Dutchman Martijn Benschop. This guy has brought us some inventive and successful designs this year along with one hell of a tournament with some excellent battles. Well done!

Hall of Fame Induction

Yes that€™s right folks, the three joint winners of the Most Overrated Vapourboteer award have been voted by you very people into the Hall of Fame!

First of all - Alex Holt! This guy has an incredible creative mind as shown by his multiple awards and achievements both this year and years past. His team of inventive ideas are both creative and effective and robots such as Tengu and Achilles have found amazing success. Alex never came up with an un-original design and has quietly improved his bots over the years to become one of the most successful vapourboteers around.

Secondly - Aaron Knight! Personally I feel this Hall of Fame would be incomplete without him. Aaron burst onto the scene with invention and creation, eventually using his knowledge of building featherweights to improve the standard of not just his but all of the vapourbots we see today. Like Alex, inventive ideas are always flowing and Aaron isn€™t afraid to try new ideas and new parts. The invention of possibly the best vapourbot ever MDU sparked controversy as technically it was like nothing we had seen before and revolutionised vapourbots forever. Big wins in big majors has made this guy one of the best of the best.

And finally€¦ me? OK, I€™ll give this thing a go. Basically this person came around some 7 or 8 years ago, beginning off by entering some quite comical designs into the earlier tournaments (a chainsaw flipper anyone?). Soon, people began to offer advice and basically set AJ away with a set of decent vapourbots. Following this, he suddenly won the first big major tournament. Becoming big headed, he went about picking arguments and fights with people, until basically everyone couldn€™t stand the guy. But unfortunately for them, he wasn€™t going anywhere! The designs continued, generally crappy, unoriginal, overrated and largely overweight. AJ is also famed for his perfection of starting major tournaments and ending them before they have even got going. To redeem himself he went about offering advice to others, pretending to know what he was on about, and unfortunately people listened to him. Now regarded as a legend of the vapourbots scene he was inducted into the hall of fame with two of the best ever. What on earth have you guys done?!

And on that note, lets round up and see who got how many awards€¦

Nick, Scott and Dave S all managed to pick up 1 award!
Richard and Chris M managed to pick up 2 awards!
Hector and Alex MacW picked up 3 awards!
Martyn, Matty and myself all got 4 awards!
Paul, Aaron and Kody picked up 5 awards each!
Frank and Steve received 6 awards!
Martijn picked up an impressive 8 awards!
Alex picked up an amazing 10 awards!

Please note all calculations are done by my very poor maths so don€™t be surprised if it is inaccurate! A big thank you to everyone that voted in the awards this year and an even bigger thank you to everyone that voted for me, especially for the hall of fame. For another year that should be it! So get designing and I€™ll see you back here next year! Merry Christmas to all!

[matty_haka]

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Wow... Ive never had a single award in this, so to win Most Original Design and Best Design is a huge honour, no jokes

Thanks for everyone who voted. Now Ive just got to try and come up wih something to hold onto my crown with

[davids]

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Yay, I got an award even though I havent really done much this year

[alex_holt]

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Woo, award time! Congratulations everyone who won something! Ten awards, including a hall of fame induction *sniffs* Id like to thank, everybody in some respect, to avoid leaving anyone out, but particular mention goes to Hector for helping me with the early tengu, paying the way for my icnreasing success!