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  • Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

    Okay, after realizing that I had make a lot of mistakes last tourney, and also after realizing that the number of enterable tournies is very low, and after looking over old tournies such as PTT3 and Nick's Byte Size, I have decided to give myself one last try.

    Rules:

    I need 12 people to enter 5 vapourbots and 1 real robot apiece.

    EDIT: If you don't have 5 vapourbots(Pete, Jack and Harry Orr, umm... I think that's all), then I'm willing to cut you some slack and let you use real robots to give you your 6 robot total.

    Flying Robots: Banned
    Clusterbots: Up to 6 parts, but if half are immobilized/destroyed/pitted, then the bot is out.
    Passive Weapon Bots: Allowed
    Interchangeable weapon setups allowed: As many as your robot can use.
    Weight Limits:
    Normal(Wedginator 9.0, Achilles): up to 100kg
    Tracked(System Shock V: Hex, Darkestar): up to 110kg
    Shuffler/Miscellaneous(Anarchy, Walk Don't Run 5): up to 150kg
    True Walker(Absolution, Hex Appeal): up to 200kg

    1: Starfire the 4th (Veteran from VRW 1)
    2: Brutalis 2.1 (7)
    3: Neo-Mecha (Newcomer)
    4: Apocalypse II (3)
    5: Behemoth (Series 1 Grand Finalist)
    6: CrOoKeD eVo (9)
    7: Whiplash (1)
    8: Storm II (2)
    9: Robin the 4th (Newcomer)
    10: Envy (Veteran from VRW 2)
    11: Walk Don't Run 5 (Newcomer)
    12: Beast Boy 4 (Newcomer)
    13: Maximum Genocide (6)
    14: Gravity 5 (Veteran from VRW 1, I think)
    15: Razer (I think Newcomer...)
    16: Hyper Death IC (Newcomer)

    The Weapon Shop:

    The arena is essentially a 20m x 20m platform with pipes above the arena. The walls are 25cm high, and there are 3 of them. The last wall is a polycarbonate panel that retracts downward when a release button is pressed, and exposes the robot to 3 side-by-side conveyor belts with small barbs on them to grab robots. These belts lead to a 3m x 4m pit, and will push your robot into it. Don't worry about your robot though, as the 6ft deep pit is filled with a section of soft Tempur-Pedic mattress foam, so your robot won't get badly damaged. In each of the 4 corners, there is a propane flamethrower exuding flaming gas at a temperature of 500 degrees Fahrenheit. On the 2 walls opposite eachother, there are 2 140cm wide drums, each powered by a custom built 135hp engine mounted outside the arena. Each drum spins at a dangerous 8000rpm, and puts out over 300kjs! The wall opposite the panel contains 2 CPZs: One on the left side of the wall, and one on the right side. Each of the CPZs is a 4m x 5m rectangle, and contains 1 house robot. in between the 2 CPZs, the is a 10m gap, and on the wall is the button to release the polycarbonate panel and expose the conveyor belts. We're not done, however. There are 6 50cm diameter special alloy pipes running above the arena. These pipes are filled with burning thermite, and have been known to leak a bit, so if some drips on your robot, watch out! There's a grill in the middle of the arena that spews out Co2, so if some thermite drips on you, head to the the grill to cool yourself off.

    The stats for the house robots are on my website, so that's all you need to know.

    So anyways, start entering, and if you have any suggestions/criticism, please tell me. This will be the last time I do this unless it succeeds, and I think that's it.

  • #2
    Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

    For some reason those drums don't seem like they will get much bite, I think they're spinning too fast.

    NB: No stats for Project X as of yet, I'll try to work on them later today or at the weekend.

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    • #3
      Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

      Why are the walls so low?

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      • #4
        Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

        I'm really not sure why I made them so low...

        Question: What was the height of the walls of the Robot Wars arena?

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        • #5
          Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

          Okay, after thinking about it, the walls are now 50cm high.

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          • #6
            Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

            I will enter

            Gravity (RW Series 7 version)
            Theseus
            Paralyzation 3
            Mecha's Revenge
            Return of Black Death
            Whiplash

            Theseus

            Weight: 100kg
            Shape: Atomic (Series 7 Version)
            Colour: Unpainted, but the weapon is blue
            Dimensions: 100 X 79 X 36
            Power: 2 X LEM-130's @ 36v powered by several NiCad's
            Wheels: 4 X Aluminium Tyres with Urethane rubber for more grip
            Armour: 4mm Hardox Moncoque everywhere
            GC: 5mm Everywhere Except for the front, which is 0mm
            Speed: 19mph
            Weapon: Mainly relies on pushing power, but there IS an extremely powerful Atomic-like flipper, also made completely of 4mm Hardox, powered by 2 X 2kg CO2 Tanks. It can flip 1000kg with ease and it can also self-right the robot as well.
            Strengths: Powerful Flipper, Great Pusher, Always Reliable
            Weaknesses: Limited to 38 flips
            Notes: Possibly the first time I built a NON-SPINNER?

            Return of Black Death

            Weight: 100kg
            Shape: Very low wedge with a Firestorm style wedge extension on the front
            Colour: Black Body, Blue Flipper
            Dimensions: 100 X 75 X 27
            Power: 2 X LEM-130's @ 36v powered by a couple of NiCad batteries
            Top Speed: 15 mph
            Tyres: 4 X Foam-Packed Aluminium Tyres with urethane rubber on it for more grip
            Armour: 6mm Ti/V alloy everywhere, slightly stronger than hardox.
            Ground Clearence: Zero on the front, and 5mm anywhere else
            Weapon: The weapon here is a forward hinged flipper, powered by 2 X 2kg Co2 Tanks. It's capable of bringing out 30 to 32 flips and can flip up to 1000kg. At the back, there is a 9kg vertical disc that's powered by an S28-400. It has teeth on it to rip and tear out skirts/panels, and spins at 4500RPM.
            Sriemech: Flipper. Side spikes can also stop the robot from getting beached.
            Strengths: Pretty Good Flipper, Deadly Disc, Nearly Impossible to Get under from front, Decent Pusher
            Weaknesses: Limited CO2, as always.

            Mecha's Revenge

            Weight: 100kg
            Shape: Box with side skirts and rear wedge
            Colour: Black with silver horizontal lines on the sides
            Dimensions: 100 X 75 X 36
            Power: 2 X LEM-130's @ 36v powered by several NiCad's
            Wheels: 4 X aluminium wheels with Asmaprene Urethane covering.
            Speed: 15 mph
            Armour: 6mm Ti/V alloy everywhere
            Ground Clearence: 0mm on the sides due to skirts, and on the back. 5mm anywhere else (Including without skirts)
            Weapon: 25kg Front Vertical Spinning Disc made from laser cut titanium, powered by 2 X LEM-130. This also has 4 Hardox teeth curved upwards, and it will spin at 3200RPM.
            Srimech: At the rear, there is a linear actuated bar, and it can right the robot in 1 second.
            Strengths: Deadly Weapon, Decent Pushing Power, Fast and effective srimech
            Weaknesses: Hopefully, there is none. XD
            Notes: Components Shock-Mounted to protect itself from other attacks.

            Whiplash

            Weight: 100kg
            Body Shape: Pentagonal Pyramid with skirts
            Dimensions: 100 X 85 X 38
            Power: 2 X LEM-130's at 36v powered by 4 X Nicads
            Tyres: 4 X Asmaprene Urethane Rubber Tyres
            Speed: 15 mph
            Armour: 4mm Hardox
            Ground Clearence: 0mm with skirts, and 5mm without skirts
            Weapon 1: SHEER PUSHING POWER
            Weapon 2: At the front there is a 7kg Terrorhurtz-Like BattleAxe (made out of hardox, even the handle) powered by 2 X 2kg CO2 Tanks, 200 PSI, diamond tipped, has over 1500 joules of force when it comes down. It can also attack from both ends. Heavily Shock-Proofed, as well.
            Srimech: The axe can easily self-right it (even when it's on its side), and it can also self-right even after the axe has fired, ala Killerhurtz.
            Strengths: PSYCHOTIC AXE AND PUSHING POWER
            Weaknesses: NONE AT ALL! (Except for Limited Co2)
            Additional Notes: The first robot to win me a tournament.

            ALSO: I think the drums spin too fast.

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            • #7
              Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

              Thanks a lot for entering, Sam. Also, the drums now spin at 5000rpm, and still put out about 300kjs.

              Samuel Park
              1: Theseus
              2: Paralyzation 3 (11), taking Walk Don't Run 5's seeding.
              3: Mecha's Revenge (3)
              4: Return of Black Death
              5: Whiplash (7)
              6: Gravity (14)

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              • #8
                Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

                Here are stats for...

                Paralyzation 3

                Weight: 100kg
                Body Shape: Low Box with small wedges on the front top and bottom
                Colour: Desert Yellow with Gold streaks on the side
                Dimensions: 100 X 74 X 20
                Drive: 2 X LEM-130's @ 36v powered by several NiCad Batteries
                Top Speed: 15 mph
                Wheels: 4 inner, Tightly Foam-Packed Wheels with Asmaprene Urethane on them
                Armour: 4mm Hardox Monocoque
                Ground Clearence: 0mm on the front, 5mm anywhere else
                Weapon: 20kg Eggbeater weapon powered by 2 X LEM-130 Lynch's, spinning at 4500RPM, spinning upwards to toss opponents and damage them.
                Srimech: Invertible. Side cones prevent it from getting beached
                Strengths: Lethal Weapon, and a Great Pusher
                Weaknesses: Exposed Tyres although very strong
                Notes: Components Shock-Mounted to recoil from any damage

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                • #9
                  Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

                  Just a small suggestion? Every time you get a new entry perhaps don't include loads of numbers and question marks in the spaces where entries have still be be submitted, because doing:

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                  that six or eight times in one post then again when you have another entry makes your thread pages very long, so much so it could cause RSI in people's scroll fingers!

                  Why not just state the list of entries you've got, then simply state how many spots are remaining in the form of a single number?

                  Your thread though, so it's up to you

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                  • #10
                    Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

                    Okay, Jamie. I'll do it that way.

                    And just as a side question: how about you use some of your old Vapour stats(Dr. Acula, Drumroll S.R, etc.) and enter? I'm just asking, so please don't think of it as a demand.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

                      I could, but to be perfectly honest, I'm not all that interested in vapourboteering. I'm impressed with the designs, components, mechanisms etc that feature in many vapourbots and it would be really quite cool if a few of these were able to be constructed as real robots. The battles as well are generally of a high standard and good writing etc but its just not something I find grips me or is that absorbing for me.

                      I have entered a few tournaments but after them I decided I would prefer to focus on designing, building, fighting and improving my featherweights which can often take up a lot of spare time in itself.

                      I think the three I had were Dr. Acula, Firefly and Drumroll Snr? Well consider this a bit of a vapourbot garage sale.
                      If anyone fancies any of these designs and can find stats for them somewhere (can't remember what tournies they were in ) they're welcome to 'buy' them. Keep the stats, change the stats, improve the stats, feel free to do whatever you like. The only thing I ask would be to change the name for Drumroll Snr. Because if I ever build a kinetic energy-weaponed heavyweight.... :wink:

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                      • #12
                        Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

                        I've no real interest in entering any VRW of any description, I'm willing to grab Firefly as a project though :P

                        To be honest my interest in vapourbots has gone down a touch with me going into real robots in a big way now - Andy's reported that as well - but I'm still willing to enter things, write the occasional fight, and have a stab at making something out of a former competitor...the right way, as opposed to Mark's methods

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                        • #13
                          Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

                          I'll take Drumroll Sr. and Dr. Acula. And I still have 11 spots.

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                          • #14
                            Re: Oh No!!! It's VRW 5!!!

                            Okay, I might as well state this here and now: Instead of doing fights, I will instead find out the winner via using the percentages first used in Nick's Byte Size tournament. It's a more specific and seems like a simpler(good for you all, no more crappy fights) solution to all of the complaints.

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                            • #15
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