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[andrewj]

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Paul, what the hell is wrong with you?

Just finish off the whole damn tournament already. I shall not be posting tactics, so if you do not have the capabilities of writing my fights without them, withdraw my robots from the competition.

I would add my contributions and have a rant, but the message is simply not getting through is it?

It wont happen again - yeah, damn right it wont, because nobody will be entering any future tournaments from you. Or at least, I definately wont be.

You. Do. Not. Need. Tactics. To. Write. A. Battle!!! Certainly not at 5 oclock in the morning!!! Maybe if you got some damn sleep for once you might be a little less idle and impatient.

Now have a nice day!

-2>DESTROY THE N00BS!!! DESTROY THE N00BS!!! DESTROY THE N00BS!!!

[paulc]

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It wont happen again - yeah, damn right it wont, because nobody will be entering any future tournaments from you. Or at least, I definately wont be.

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If thats the way youre going to act - GOOD! I thought you were above all this insulting business, now youre down-grading yourself to the levels of Tim James Sillery! And if youre going to destroy the NOOBS, then good luck - because youll need it!

[majinb]

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Truth be told, Ill gladly enter future tourneys from you IF theyre smaller than say 24 robots.

On a sidenote, Im glad to see 4 of my robots made it to the semies, but I was suprised to see all of them are in the same Semi-Final (Semi-Final 2).

SEMI-FINAL 1
Killotine: EVO (3) vs. YACATR

Tough fight, but I can see YACATR ending up in the pit.

Wedignator 6.0 (2) vs. Fire And Ice

Damnit, I theresay this one is tougher than Killotine vs YACATR. Wedginator pitted or Fire and Ice OOTA, both are possible.

Ramthrax 2 (6) vs. Sithis

Ramthrax I think will win on raw power.

Psyclonised (9) vs. Die-Ceratops ReInvertus (23)

Psyclonised can keep Die-Ceratops at a safe distance and win.

SEMI-FINAL 2
Kali (1) vs. Back To Rock (27)

Paul, I entered Back to Rock 3 in this tournament .
Back to Rock 3 has roughly the same power as Kali, though its slower and therefor more controlled and has more torque. I can get under him no problem, lift him off the ground and saw through the tires. When hes off the ground I can control him at pit him. Also note that hell have more troubly getting under me due to my skirts.

Storm 2 (4) vs. Cat With Wheels

He has 2 wheels powered by Mags, so I win in the power department. Get to his rear and pit him is what Id say.

Tengu VII ( vs. Sheer Heart Attack 2 (30)

We meet again Alex. Sheer Heart Attack 1 owned some horizontal spinners in C&B2, and Sheer Heart Attack 2 is even more powerful. Ill start this fight with my rear wedges facing Tengu, and rush in to stall the weapon. Turn around and do damage with the drum. The horizontal spinner ring wont save him from my vertical drum mind you. Pit Tengu when I get the chance, though the pit isnt my primairy goal, my primairy goal is to stall the fbs and damage it.

Big Nipper (12) vs. Intrigue

Lift and pit

[andrewj]

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You thought I was above this insulting business? Well I thought that you had learnt from your previous mistakes and was never going to cancel a future tournament. Just four days ago you said, Im NOT doing a hypothetical! Too say I was not impressed would be an understatement. However, looking back at my earlier comments I was very harsh and apologise for that.

But that still doesnt explain what you have done. OK, Ill be first to admit that I have done similar in the past, but I just found this very strange. I cannot find any logic to your actions. Was the reason for cancelling the heats because people did not post tactics? This is not ARC. Tactics are not necessary.

Lets take a timeline through events shall we?

18/3/08 1:55am - Line-ups are posted
21/3/08 5:06am - You ask for tactics, or rather, you claim you need them

Yes Paul, you would have gladly got tactics from me and most likely the other parties involved. Just wait. Also, why do you need them? You do not have to have tactics before writing a battle. It€™s your tournament, write battles when you like. Also, why does not receiving tactics for two battles affect the fate of every single other heat in the competition? You could have just cancelled the first round battles, or hell, just that heat. Even then, that is ridiculous. But cancelling every heat? Argh!

21/3/08 5:51 - You give us a deadline for tactics at 12:00, fine

However, if some of us miss this deadline, why does it mean the rest of the heats are cancelled?

21/3/08 6:51 - The hypothetical results are posted

For one, why did you cut the deadline off 6 hours earlier than you said? Next, why did you only give us one hours notice between the deadline and the results? Most annoying of all, the people you were presumably dying to get tactics from are all from Europe. 3 of those 4 were in the UK. At 5:00 in the morning, it is almost a 100% certainty that we will all be asleep. Me and Martijn have already confirmed this.

Not only did you give us no time. You came up with a strange solution. What would anyone else do? Wait a while? Write the battles anyway? I think so. But you not only did not take these choices, you cancelled the first round battles, the second round and heat final. No, wait€¦ you cancelled every single heat. It€™s just€¦ weird.

You have given us one hour, while we were asleep, to post unnecessary tactics? Good lord. Remind me to set my alarm clock for 5:00am in the future so that I can check up on the forum just in case. Wow, why didn€™t I do this before? I thoroughly deserve the punishment of having every heat cancelled. I€™ll never do it again! :blush:

[majinb]

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some facts...

Heat A, round 1, Terrorhurtz got through to face Gabriel in round 2

Samuel Park, who entered Terrorhurtz, never send in his tactics, the battle took place anyhow

Heat A, round 2, Kali beat Seung Mina to face Gabriel in the heat final

Alex never gave Kalis tactics, the heat final took place and Kali even won!

Heat B, round 2, Killotine owned Black Death to face Atomic in the heat final

No tactics from Steve, but he did fight (and win) in the heats final

et cetera, et cetera



now are we REALLY to believe you threw ALL the heats out of the window ENTIRELY, ONLY because some failed to give their tactics for the FIRST round of the FIFTH heat?

heres what I see...

January 2008: you opened EOTR 3
February 2008: you lacked the patience/got too pressurized to finish EOTR 3 and resorted to hypotheticals
February 2008: you decided you still liked doing majors and opened EOTR 4, while promising everyone that it wont happen again
March 2008: you lost your patience again and resorted to hypotheticals to narrow the tournament down to 16 robots, something you CAN handle... now this is just unfair Paul

getting fed up with a major 2 times in 2 months is not a good habbit for a major writer Paul, and the fact that you have to narrow a major down to 16 robots to finish it makes me wonder why you started a 96-robot tournament alltogether, it only brings dissapointment

resort to smaller tournaments Paul, itll make stuff alot easier for everyone

[davids]

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There is only a handful of tournaments completed, and when you think it took me 10 or so months to complete the 96 robot FAR9 (not including all the various other-weights), and included in that time was 2 months worth of GCSEs to revise and do.

Big tournaments take time.

[kodster]

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Im not bothering with tactics. And Im also not entering another tournament of yours. Sorry Paul, but youve broken my trust.

[kodster]

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Well? Are you going to admit youre wrong or not?

[kodster]

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Guess not. Well then I have truly lost all respect for you.

[paulc]

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Sorry, I just havent commented in a while - Ive been buzy all day, and havent checked up as often as I usually do.

And by the way, Kody - youre ALL right (I mean ALL as in Martijn and AJ) in saying that I let myself and them down. It was a bit creul and nasty and a bit hasty, and a seriously bad idea to do another list of results instead of the actual fights.

And I was wrong.

[kodster]

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All right, Im glad you admitted that. I take back what I just said about losing all respect for you, though I still have lost a lot. That doesnt mean that I will enter E.O.T.R. 5, however, unless you SERIOUSLY, and I mean SERIOUSLY, make a turn around, because my thoughts of entering it are non-existant at this point, as are most people on this forum.

[paulc]

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When you say turn-around, what do you mean by that?

[kodster]

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When I say turn-around I mean turn over a new leaf, and keep it turned. Truly, that means no more hypotheticals, for stupid/borderline-stupid reasons, and no more moaning about pointless stuff like no tactics. Tactics are nice, but THEYRE NOT NECESSARY. Remember that.

[joey_picus]

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Great, I go away for a few days, and all hades breaks loose...

I agree with the above. Tactics arent really necessary for fights, at times theyre actually irrelevant because its obvious what something needs to do to beat something else. Im not quite as appalled as other people, not being an overly patient person myself, as well as being new. I can understand how frustrating it must be, but do try to avoid spoiling everything because of that frustration in future.

And at this rate, I may rename Fire And Ice That Robot Of Joeys Which Only Ever Fights In Hypos For Whatever Reason. Must Be Cursed Or Something

[kodster]

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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeell...I suppose I can give some tactics and predictions now that youve seen the error of your ways for now, Paul.

Semi-Final 1
Killotine: EVO (3) vs. Yet Another Cut Above The Rest

There is hardly any surface area for Killotine to attack, and to get those wheels he has to approach the disc...AJ through.

Wedignator 6.0 (2) vs. Fire And Ice

Flip it over once, and DO NOT FLIP IT OVER AGAIN. Then RAM IT! Try to get it down the pit, but ram it around if its being a pest.

Ramthrax 2 (6) vs. Sithis

Ramthrax.

Psyclonised (9) vs. Die-Ceratops ReInvertus (23)

Oh wow. One flip and Psyclonised could be a goner...but Ill edge with AJ again here to rip out the wheel protectors and then the wheels themselves.

Semi-Final 2
Kali (1) vs. Back To Rock (27)

The champ to die.

Storm 2 (4) vs. Cat With Wheels

Danny, you better avenge Killobite. Ill pick Cat With Wheels to hold Storm II off from getting to the finals for the first time.

Tengu VII ( vs. Sheer Heart Attack 2 (30)

For the love of god, how cool is this: a quote from a certain flying Dutchman. If SHA2 can get to Tengus spinning ring while its stopped and toss it over, the battle will go to Martijn, but I think Tengu can land a few lethal blows to that drum before that happens. Alex Holt will move on.

Big Nipper (12) vs. Intrigue

Axe the pest to hell!