Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

[kodster]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

GeForce FTW

[knightrous]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

We meet again Mr Jackson

Tactics are simple, attack fast, and often. Try to stay in the center of the arena as a stray flip near the walls could be the end.

Fun

[paulc]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

Both predictions wrong! Damn! Aaron consistantly designs very persistant robots were everything is through through to be as good as possible. AJ goes for an all-rounded approach. I personally prefer the beater idea, as it may keep on turning GeForce over, course some damage.

Ill go for the win to go to Wyfe Beater.

[majinb]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

GRAND FINAL

GeForce 4.0 vs Wyfe Beater

3€¦
2€¦
1€¦
ACTIVATE!

The speedy GeForce leaves his starting square and eagerly wants to get his damn tournament over with. And nobody can really blame him, because this testosterone flipper has shown to be quite effective in this specific arena, where it can throw opponents OOTA without breaking a sweat, or, like Andy put it himself, €œmy tactics haven€™t let me down so far€. Well guess what mr. Jackson, the same thing can be said about Aaron€™s run in this tournament. With one of the few non-flippers in the tournaments Wyfe Beater proved to be very effective in utilising those bloody low walls to its advantage. Said Beater now places itself firmly in the centre of the arena to avoid being thrown out, while at the same time GeForce lines itself up to get Wyfe Beater OOTA ASAP. GeForce comes in powered by those powerful LEMs and Andy€™s driving skills prove good enough to beat that 10 mm GC that can be found at the side of Wyfe Beater!
FLIP!
The first blood is drawn as Wyfe Beater is quite literally SWUNG into the air, but the blood isnt as deep red as Andy wants it to be and Wyfe Beater comes down, with a bang, but quite safely onto its invertible body. GeForce comes in again but Wyfe Beater wont let its opponent sneak up on him a second time. Geforce comes and Wyfe Beater turns. Andy swiftly makes another turn to get away from that deadly beater weapon, and with success. Aaron now has the initiative however and continues his attack on GeForce some more, until€¦
CRASH!
Sloped sides or not, GeForce is knocked up and the skirt is knocked CLEAN OFF! GeForce activates it srimech before more harm can be done, which proves to be very wise as Wyfe Beater comes in again. GeForce turns around, but Wyfe Beater is still attacking. GeForce brings in the flipper, but isnt as lucky as with its first flip€¦
CRASH!
Before GeForce can do any flipping at all the vapour is beaten away by the beater. The slope of the flipper deflects most damage but still one cant deny the pressure GeForce is under. Especially when Wyfe Beater goes into forward mode€¦
CRASH!
Again its the flipper that receives the hit, and again most is deflected, in comes Wyfe Beater, but this time GeForce outmanoeuvres its opponent and comes in€¦
FLIP!
Wyfe Beater now finds itself in the same position it was at the start of this match and anticipates the now incoming GeForce. Flipper meets spinner again€¦
CRASH!
And again the spinner does most damage! The audience sees how the fight has slowly but steadily moved itself closer and closer to the arena wall when Wyfe Beater attacks that flipper yet again!
CRASH!
O
O
T
A
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That final attack didnt invert GeForce, but the powerful flipper IS beaten OOTA by it! Still on its wheels, GeForce eagerly attempts to ram its way through the wall!
CLANG!
But with no use! There€™s no escaping! No matter how hard GeForce has tried for the past 27 seconds€¦
3€¦
2€¦
1€¦

CEASE
GeForce, OOTA he is
WYFE BEATER, UTATYA 1 HE WON!

And that€™s it, UTATYA 1, my first experimental tournament, is over. I was very happy I could get 16 people for it, though in the end the tournament took longer to finish than any 16-robot tournament should. Anyway, I made it my job to finish it and so I did. I very much liked the idea of having €œan arena that favours flippers€ rather than an €œonly flippers allowed€ approach. Only 10 out of the 16 robots entered were actually flippers, 2 of which were front-hinged and even 1 was unhinged. As expected by me there were vertical spinners, 2 to be exact. The biggest surprises came from the 4 remaining entrants, 1 was a FBS that could launch robots, 1 was just a horizontal spinner trying its luck and 2 utilised anti flipper mechanisms to gain advantage in this arena. In the end the final was between the best of the rear-hinged flippers and a vertical spinner, and the vertical spinner won to prove this tournament wasnt just another Flipper Frenzy.

This tournament also was a nice and long pause for MN 2, which will continue ASAP. I might pause MN 2 another time in the future to make room for UTATYA 2 and show off another arena one might take advantage of :wink:

Many congratulations to Aaron Knight for winning this tournament!!!

[kodster]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

Damn you Martijn, you killed off my prediction :P

Oh well, good job Aaron and YOU BETTER WIN NEXT TIME AJ. XD

[alex_holt]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

Congratulations Aaron. I will end thee yet!

And also congrats Martijn, Im looking forward to the next one. Unless Aaron wins that too...

[majinb]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

thanks for those praising comments, Im glad 2 people liked my tournament!

[knightrous]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

Shocked, thought I would have been killed off earlier for the offensive name of the bot, or for the high ground clearance

Pending on the next type of tournament this becomes, Wyfe Beater might be back!

Cheers to all who competed, and Martijn for the great tournament

[paulc]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

Aaron - you did well to win, and for the next Use The Arena To Your Advantage, I can only wish you good-luck

[andrewj]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

Congrats to Aaron for the win

I enjoyed this tournament a lot, Martijn. Its a great idea and I cant wait for the next one. Very nice battles and a good run for GeForce. Nice work!

[knightrous]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

Can the next one start already

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls was the first one, whats the next one?

Use the Arena to your Advantage 2 - Bloody No Walls? Use the Arena to your Advantage 2 - Bloody Spiked Walls? Use the Arena to your Advantage 2 - Bloody Tall Walls? Use the Arena to your Advantage 2 - Bloody No Spinners? Use the Arena to your Advantage 2 - Bloody No More?

[kodster]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

Be bloody patient Aaron

[alex_holt]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

Bloody cold floor! - the whole thing is on ice... what could go wrong?

[knightrous]

Use the Arena to your Advantage 1 - Bloody Low Walls

Bloody No Floor?