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Location: After-tournament party for Fight against House Robots
Everybody is busy celebrating Paul€™s victory, apart from 2 people, 1 of which is sleeping on the floor having a bit too much to drink, and 1 mysterious person wearing a darken cloak, who nobody has noticed as slowly worked their way into the back-stage pits area, where they take a hammer out of the cloak and smash open the lock to the locked door to the secure out-of-bounds production office, being exiting 5 minutes later carrying a large black box containing some very important details and stuff. The mysterious person exits as mysterious as they entered.
Meanwhile at the party, nobody has noticed as Kody tips a bottle of champagne over Paul€™s head as everybody cheers and downs some more pints of various alcoholic drinks.
*The next day*
Clearing up, one of the cleaners notices that the door to the production office has been damaged, and calls the production manager who after a quick scan notices that some very important documents are missing, more importantly that his lovely expensive large black box is missing, but there is a note on the table saying: €œIf you want to see your documents again, don€™t call the police, but call this number 07€¦€ of which the production manager does.
15 minutes later he exits the office looking a nervous wreck, and reads out the demands made by the kidnapper for the safe return of the very important documents, that 1 robot of the highest order will fight it out against 1 of the kidnappers own robots which is off the highest order in a location and date to be determined, however the kidnapper has also made it clear that the robot selected must have been selected after going though a series of tests and battles against other robots. The conditions for these tests and battles will be posted to the arena within the next couple days.
2 days later a large parcel is returned, showing pictures of the documents and some details, of which the production manager passes onto the writer who writes them out into a format which people would know
The next week a notice is printed out and sent to all active Roboteers which sums up the situation.
What is needed
17 people to enter 3 vapourbots each. 51 robots might seem to be an odd number but it is what the kidnapper wanted
Weight limits and the like
Wheeled machines are allowed 100kg, tracked machines are allowed 100kg, shufflers are allowed 100kg and walkers are allowed 100kg to play with.
Passive weapons are allowed, and clusterbots are allowed up-to 4 pieces, in which the 50% rule applies
Format
48 machines will fight it out in a round of knockout to leave 10 machines (48 down to 24 down to 12), 3 machines which are seeded from the original series will be given byes until the 3rd round, and 3 lucky machines will be given
The 3rd round will be made up of 3 groups, each containing 5 robots each, where the 3rd round will be made up of each robot fighting each other robot in the group
The 4th round will be the 3-way play-off ties, where the runner-up of each group will fight each other to determine which will get the 4th spot in the semi-finals
The 5th round will be the winners of the 3 groups, plus the winner of round 4 fighting it out in a best of 3 knockouts, of which more details will be announced later. The winner of round 4 won€™t face the winner of the group they were in (Say the winner of round 4 came from group 2, the winner of group 2 and €œgroup 4€ won€™t fight it out against each other)
The 5th round will be the winners of the semi-finals fighting it out, at a neutral location.
The 6th round will be the fight against the winner and thus demanded as a robot of the highest order against the kidnapper€™s own robot, again in a neutral location.
Seeds
1 - Frankie (For May Tracks Have You for double champion of KT)
2 - Martijn (For Flick of the Wrist for runner-up of KT3)
3 - Paul (For Nitro-Gene, champion of FAHR)
Those 3 can enter the same robots, or can elect a member of their team
Other stuff worth mentioning
The arena for the rounds 1 to round 4 will be a bog-standard Robot Wars style arena, with no hazards, apart from the pit which is open all the time. Plus the walls are slightly higher and stronger.
(And before anybody asks, I do not know at this moment in time which robot the kidnapper will bring to the final fight, nor the details of what was in the documents of which the Production manager wants so much back.
So in recap, 17 people to enter 3 vapourbots each, with a link to where their stats are located. Stats can be in any format, as long as the basics are there I dont really care how detailed you wish to go, but if Im unsure I will ask questions.
Any questions?
Everybody is busy celebrating Paul€™s victory, apart from 2 people, 1 of which is sleeping on the floor having a bit too much to drink, and 1 mysterious person wearing a darken cloak, who nobody has noticed as slowly worked their way into the back-stage pits area, where they take a hammer out of the cloak and smash open the lock to the locked door to the secure out-of-bounds production office, being exiting 5 minutes later carrying a large black box containing some very important details and stuff. The mysterious person exits as mysterious as they entered.
Meanwhile at the party, nobody has noticed as Kody tips a bottle of champagne over Paul€™s head as everybody cheers and downs some more pints of various alcoholic drinks.
*The next day*
Clearing up, one of the cleaners notices that the door to the production office has been damaged, and calls the production manager who after a quick scan notices that some very important documents are missing, more importantly that his lovely expensive large black box is missing, but there is a note on the table saying: €œIf you want to see your documents again, don€™t call the police, but call this number 07€¦€ of which the production manager does.
15 minutes later he exits the office looking a nervous wreck, and reads out the demands made by the kidnapper for the safe return of the very important documents, that 1 robot of the highest order will fight it out against 1 of the kidnappers own robots which is off the highest order in a location and date to be determined, however the kidnapper has also made it clear that the robot selected must have been selected after going though a series of tests and battles against other robots. The conditions for these tests and battles will be posted to the arena within the next couple days.
2 days later a large parcel is returned, showing pictures of the documents and some details, of which the production manager passes onto the writer who writes them out into a format which people would know
The next week a notice is printed out and sent to all active Roboteers which sums up the situation.
What is needed
17 people to enter 3 vapourbots each. 51 robots might seem to be an odd number but it is what the kidnapper wanted
Weight limits and the like
Wheeled machines are allowed 100kg, tracked machines are allowed 100kg, shufflers are allowed 100kg and walkers are allowed 100kg to play with.
Passive weapons are allowed, and clusterbots are allowed up-to 4 pieces, in which the 50% rule applies
Format
48 machines will fight it out in a round of knockout to leave 10 machines (48 down to 24 down to 12), 3 machines which are seeded from the original series will be given byes until the 3rd round, and 3 lucky machines will be given
The 3rd round will be made up of 3 groups, each containing 5 robots each, where the 3rd round will be made up of each robot fighting each other robot in the group
The 4th round will be the 3-way play-off ties, where the runner-up of each group will fight each other to determine which will get the 4th spot in the semi-finals
The 5th round will be the winners of the 3 groups, plus the winner of round 4 fighting it out in a best of 3 knockouts, of which more details will be announced later. The winner of round 4 won€™t face the winner of the group they were in (Say the winner of round 4 came from group 2, the winner of group 2 and €œgroup 4€ won€™t fight it out against each other)
The 5th round will be the winners of the semi-finals fighting it out, at a neutral location.
The 6th round will be the fight against the winner and thus demanded as a robot of the highest order against the kidnapper€™s own robot, again in a neutral location.
Seeds
1 - Frankie (For May Tracks Have You for double champion of KT)
2 - Martijn (For Flick of the Wrist for runner-up of KT3)
3 - Paul (For Nitro-Gene, champion of FAHR)
Those 3 can enter the same robots, or can elect a member of their team
Other stuff worth mentioning
The arena for the rounds 1 to round 4 will be a bog-standard Robot Wars style arena, with no hazards, apart from the pit which is open all the time. Plus the walls are slightly higher and stronger.
(And before anybody asks, I do not know at this moment in time which robot the kidnapper will bring to the final fight, nor the details of what was in the documents of which the Production manager wants so much back.
So in recap, 17 people to enter 3 vapourbots each, with a link to where their stats are located. Stats can be in any format, as long as the basics are there I dont really care how detailed you wish to go, but if Im unsure I will ask questions.
Any questions?
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