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[joey_picus]

Believe me, if you think that name is bad, you should have seen the ones that were rejected

Anyway, Im going to be doing a small tournament in order to practice my writing skills, and I need eight people to enter one heavyweight vapour each.
Weight limits are 100kg for wheeled robots, 110 for tracks/screws/shufflers, and 160 for true walkers (...are there even any around these days?) Clusterbots are allowed, up to a reasonable level (nothing more than four parts and no part can be less than 20% of total mass)

Statistics can be in any reasonable format, the more detail the better, but you must either post them here or give me a link. Entering grossly unrealistic or overweight robots will result in your entry being accepted, but mysteriously switched five minutes before your fight with Chevron Productions robot-for-hire known as Dead Weight, so keep things sensible please.

The arena is very similar to the RW series 3 arena, except there are no house robots and therefore no patrol zones.
The format will be a straight knockout one, with a playoff for third and fourth place just before the final.

There is a grand prize on offer for the winner. So please enter for great justice.

(Message edited by joeychevron on March 01, 200

[paulc]

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Well, Im up for entering. I look very much forward to seeing how this looks, as seeing your fight in the How To Improve... thread, I feel that we could be in for a treat. And Im alos glad that I can try out one of my newer designs.

Here we go (Im post the stats here as I dont have a link)

TRI-TAINIUM

€ WEIGHT: 100kg

€ ARMOUR: 4mm Hardox for the back/scoop. The top and bottom panels are 5mm Titanium and the sloped sides are 6mm Hardox to sheild the wheels.

€ SHAPE: Low invertible box with a front scoop (the scoop has a slight dip in it to help get under other robots better) and sloped sides.

€ MOTORS: 2 x LEM 130€™s at 36V = 18HP

€ LOCOMOTION: 4 Vulkanised Wheels.

€ DIMENSIONS: (L) 60CM (H) 20CM (W) 60CM

€ COLOUR: Unpainted, with the exception of the name on top written in black paint.

€ WEAPONRY: The weaponry consists of 3 x 9kg discs, made out of 1cm of Titanium with 3 Hardox bludgening teeth. The discs are set on the same axle, and amounted deep into the scoop, with the teeth just reaching towards the lip of the scoop, so the uppercut movement of the discs can attack base-panels and the like. The discs are powered by 2 x LEM130s at 36V. Set on a ratio of 5:1, it gives off 3500rpm. The discs, combined together make 27kg, so the force given out is 165kj per hit! Large amounts of Rubber amounted behind the scoop stops the risk of self-destruction.

€ SPEED: 18mph

€ GROUND CLEARANCE: 0MM-1CM. At the front, it is completely 0mm. On the sides/rear, its 1cm.

€ STRENGTH: Weaponry.

€ WEAKNESS: Completely new design.

[kodster]

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Oh w00t.

I think its time to give Macduff the 2nd one more try before I give him another redesign.

Macduff the 2nd

Picture: http://us.share.geocities.com/kodybl...duffThe2nd.bmp

[joey_picus]

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Im pretty sure LEM200 Magmotors dont exist, Kody.

Regardless, thanks for entering guys, and I may as well go the whole hog and produce an entry sheet:

1: Tri-Tainium (Paul Cuomo)
2: Macduff the 2nd (Kody Kunz)
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
8: there is no 8
9:

[kodster]

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Doh, misread that

Its LEM200 Lynch motors, sorry.

(Message edited by kodster on March 01, 200

[joey_picus]

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Is that Magmotor as in the company that makes Magmotors, or Magmotor as in the motor contains magnets?

[kodster]

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Edited my post :P

[matty_haka]

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I might have a place for this one you know... Ill try and get a new bot up tonight

[majinb]

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Back to Rock III please!

http://strickenone.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=thvapours&action=display&thread=58http://strickenone.proboards99.com/i...n=display&thre ad=58

looking smooth Joey

[alex_holt]

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Ill enter Darkestar

http://www.alexjholt.tkwww.alexjholt.tk under the vapourbot resource.

[joey_picus]

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Updated entries list:

1: Tri-Tainium (Paul Cuomo)
2: Macduff the 2nd (Kody Kunz)
3: (Matty space)
4: Back To Rock III (Martijn Benschop)
5: Darkestar (Alex Holt)
6:
7:
8:

[swanaldo]

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can i not enter envy as a realie?

[joey_picus]

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You can, just nudge me in the general direction of where I can get some stats/videos.

[swanaldo]

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cool........

ENVY
forward hinge flipper (like firestorm but better)
weapon....100mm dia 250 stroke ram on 10 bar hith high flow rate.
drive... mag c40 on 24v very realible drive and never let me down yet cos its well built. custom gears with pheumatic tyres approx 16mph
power....24v nicads with roboteq and giro for maximum control.
armour....5mm hardox front sides and rear sides. 5mm hardened ali top and top rear. 5mm hardox scoop on front.

you can see envy in action on the roaming robots website under the events section and go to the barnsley best bits. won the las 2 competitions so well on form. ground clearence is 0 on the front scoop and the rest i not sure. also run on co2 and is good for about 20 good flips. some pics and vids on my photobucket too.... http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/dd301/swanaldo_2007/http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/dd301/swanaldo_2007/

[swanaldo]

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magmotors is the company i think. it is something to do with the magnets they use but dont fully understand it i just know they are good.