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[andrewj]

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Tournament start for you Martijn will I

Walk Away vs. Starstorm 2

Starstorm 2 flips itself over the arena wall. Sir Spinalot is the winner.

[tacoman]

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Nice impression, AJ. You could do that for a living.

[paulc]

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Sorry, this isnt designed to improve WORCK, just to make sure its inside reality. The only differences here were the phrasing of certain body-parts, and the debilerate adding of shock proof padding in case Im REALLY flipped.

WORCK

€ WEIGHT: 100kg

€ ARMOUR: 5mm Hardox for the body and flipper. 6mm Hardox for the scoop. There are hindged wedges on the sides and rear of Worck made of 3.25mm Hardox. Behind the armour, all the way around Vulkanised rubber to shock-proof it against spinners.

€ SHAPE: A low wedge shape.

€ MOTORS: 2 x S28-400 MagMotors at 36V = 12HP

€ LOCOMOTION: 4 Vulkanised Wheels.

€ DIMENSIONS: (L) 70CM (H) 15CM (W) 70CM

€ COLOUR: Black for the flipper and barbs, white for the body.

€ WEAPONRY: A forward hindged flipper, running on a single 750psi ram running on CO2. The gas is contained in 2 x 2.5kg bottle, giving me 20 flips per fight, and the gearing on the ram 3:1 means we have 1300kg of flipping force! That should mean on a forward hindged flipper that I can flip almost everything OOTA.

€ SPEED: 13mph

€ GROUND CLEARANCE: The wedges, which join up at the corners of the robot, make the ground clearance effectively zero, but underneath the wedges is 5mm of clearance. The wedges are held on by Titanium hindges

€ STRENGTH: Near impossible to get under.

€ WEAKNESS: Low speeds.

If you ask where all the shock-proofing came from, I lost 5kg on the redesign, so I added in that in case I faced a spinner.

[swiss_tony]

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DONT DOUBLE POST!

Well, to be fair, you cant really hold THAT against him, seeing as how FRA disables edits after 10 minutes.

The rest stands, though.

[majinb]

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first fight(s) up today

[bartmanhomer]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

Thank you! Hey Martinjin, I have a request to make. Can you write a grudge match bewteen my robot against Christopher robot too?

(Message edited by Bartmanhomer on March 18, 200

[majinb]

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Stupid double posts of mine...

(Message edited by MajinB on March 18, 200

[majinb]

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YOURE WELCOME!

No place for grudges in a regular tournament like this, why do you have a grudge against Chris anyway?

(Message edited by MajinB on March 18, 200

[bartmanhomer]

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Hes trying to slience me for being impatient when this tournament starts, that why!

[bartmanhomer]

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Double post. sorry

(Message edited by Bartmanhomer on March 18, 200

[majinb]

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he was right, you were impatient

[kodster]

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Impatience sucks.

[knightrous]

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n00bs suck

[majinb]

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TIME TO KICK THIS THING OFF!!!

A small reminder: This is a part 1 of UTATYA, a series of tournaments where the arena shall be heavily biased towards certain kinds of robots. In this part, the arena walls will be low, bloody low, so€¦ guess what robots will do well here? :wink:

Round of 16
Fight 1

Walk Away vs Starstorm 2

Walk Away: Ring spinner walker thingy. Its biggest forte in this specific arena is its variable ground clearance (0 mm minimum) as well as its weight bonus, which should give evil flippers a harder time getting it anywhere.

Starstorm 2: Full body flipper, you don€™t see that everyday. The whole body moves up, as will its victims. This machine won€™t perform OOTA€™s as well basic wedge-flippers, but with walls as low as this, will that really be a problem?

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ACTIVATE!

Starstorm 2€™s a Formula 1-car when compared to the slow walker he opposes, but what Walk Away lacks in walking velocity it makes up in weapon speed . Frank€™s getting mildly worried when he sees Walk Away€¦ walking away () to buy itself time for its weapon to spin up. Starstorm utilizes its superior speed to attack Walk Way!
CRASH!
Tony was quick enough to retract Walk Away€™s legs in order to make the ground clearance death zero. Frank couldn€™t react in time and took the full wrath of the spinning ring! Luckily Frank€™s vapour is dome-shaped and Hardox-armoured, but that doesn€™t stop Frank from being pretty damn annoyed by this outcome. The full body flipper quickly recovers and drives towards Walk Away again, who has seemingly decided to remain static in order to keep its 0 GC. Starstorm again attempts to penetrate Walk Away€™s underbelly, less reckless and more controlled this time. However, Walk Away defensive mechanism is formidable and Startstorm doesn€™t manage to pull off its plan. Walk Away is pushed rather than anything else, and after a while Starstorm stops it attempt. Tony still doesn€™t there use its legs with Starstorm so close to it. Frank decides to drive circles around Walk Away now to either lure him into action or keep him immobile as long as possible. Matter of fact, Walk Away has been immobile for over 20 seconds!
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Tony starts sweating!
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And Walk Away€™s walking again! Starstorm is VERY quick to respond and rams under!!!
FLIP!
Walk Away€™s thrown up and over, without srimech, without any help!
Lets flash-forward a bit shall we .
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Frank starts whistling €œWalk Away€ by Franz Ferdinand for the sheer purpose of annoying Tony.
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CEASE

Walk Away, stuck on its back he is
Starstorm 2, to the quarter finals he goes

Next: Sir Spinalot vs Wedge Devolution

Start replying all right!

[kodster]

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Knew that was going to happen. Yay for a right prediction.

Good going Martijn and Frank.