The Vapourbot Awards 2009

[eene]

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Merry Christmas, guys

[andrewj]

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Here are the winners!

Most Original Design: We have a two-way tie between Venus Fly Trap II and Assegai.
Best Design: The winner is N³.
Most Overrated Vapourbot: A tie between Gehenna and Die-Reverta-Tops.
Most Underrated Vapourbot: The winner is Equinox.
Most Original Designer: Mr. Steven McGregor.
Best Designer: Mr. Joey McConnell.
Most Overrated Vapourboteer: Me of course!
Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Lewis Matthews.
Most Improved Vapourboteer: Jack Orr.
Sp00n of the Year: For the second year in a row, Mark Elam!
Best Sportsman: Martijn Benschop.
Best Render: Macduff the 5th by Kody Kunz.
Funniest Moment: Joey McConnell€™s Brand Values... the transfer market is nearly open.
Biggest Surprise of the Year: Fanfic goes into hibernation.
Best House Robot: We have a five-way tie here! The winners are King Arthur, Count Bleck, Surlygig, Damocles and Rorschach.
Best Arena: Home of the Crash & Burn Tournaments, The Battlegrounds 2.0.
Best Comedy Bot: Spring-BOK!
Best Clusterbot: Door Stops.
Best Interchangeable Robot: Macduff the 5th is the winner.
Best Rammer: System Shock 5.1.
Best Walker: The spinning Archangel of the Abyss.
Best Shuffler: Whirligig 4.5.
Best Tracked: Darkestar.
Best Front Hinged Flipper: Gabriel V.
Best Rear Hinged Flipper: Achilles.
Best Axe: Axeon 4.0.
Best Horizontal Spinner: Eye of Ran II.
Best Vertical Spinner: Tira VI.
Best Saw: A two-way tie between Spin Dash Unleashed and Back to Rock III.
Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: Bring it on home, Propane Nightmare.
Best Horizontal Crusher: Do do do, der der do do... Under Pressure.
Best Vertical Crusher: The well-researched N³.
Most Effective Weapon: It€™s a five-way tie between Tira VI, Propane Nightmare, Assegai, Under Pressure and Eye of Ran II.
Best RPG: The Team Zlayerz RPG: Identity Theft.
Best Battle: The final of PTT - Regeneration, it€™s Achilles vs. Intriguous.
Best New Writer: The winner is Lian Walsh.
Best New Tournament: Lian€™s tournament, Crazy Bots.
Best Writer: The master returned better than ever, it€™s Steven McGregor.
Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots): The all-star contest that was PTT - Regeneration.
Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots): A completed major tournament! It€™s RoboBash.
Best Team: Joey McConnell€™s creations, Team Picus.
Best New Vapourbot: The translational spinner All Bar One.
Best New Vapourboteer: Welcome, Jordan Brown.
Best Vapourboteer: A great designer, a great writer and a great guy... Steve McGregor.
Best Vapourbot: It€™s a tie between Back to Rock III and Intriguous.
Vapourboteer Hall of Fame: One of the best ever finally gets the recognition he deserves. A fantastic designer and battle writer, it€™s Kody Kunz.
Vapourbot Hall of Fame: Winner of three major tournaments when battling at its peak and was eventually even banned from some competitions. It€™s the most successful vapourbot ever, Mass Disctruction Ultimate.

This is how many awards everyone got:

Kody Kunz (11 awards)
Steven McGregor (9 awards)
Joey McConnell (7 awards)
Martijn Benschop (5 awards)
Alex Holt (3 awards)
Andrew Jackson (3 awards)
Sam Park (2 awards)
Dan Stickler (2 awards)
Matt Fowler (2 awards)
Lewis Matthews (2 awards)
Lian Walsh (2 awards)
Jordan Brown (2 awards)
Chris Mason (2 awards)
Jack Orr (1 award)
Liam Eliot (1 award)
Aaron Knight (1 award)
Frank Goacher (1 award)
Mark Elam (1 award)

Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to everyone that voted! Merry Christmas!

[kodster]

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...wow.

...you people really have gone mental.

Let's see. I got 11 awards, one being Vapourboteer Hall of Fame which *sniff* means a lot to me...can't believe you guys would think that highly of me...makes me a bit ashamed to have abandoned ZED as I did. Plus, Intriguous is voted as Best Vapourbot alongside good ol' Back to Rock III, who deserves it just as much, great all-rounder, well done Marti.

Couldn't have done it without any of you, seriously. Also, well done to all who have gotten their awards (with the obvious exception), and thanks to Andy for being a great host. My only nitpick is that...I have none.

Now let's make 2010 even better!

[knightrous]

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Wow, Frank and I don't even have to compete to get awards
Is this like the pension or something! Free awards just because we are old
Might have to actually enter something next year to justify any future awards hahaha

[majinb]

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in everyone's defense Aaron, your award is a hall of fame one, a lifetime achievment award so to speak for the great things you did in the past

congrats everyone! welcome in the hall of fame Kody! its getting crowded here

[joey_picus]

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Wow, thanks everyone...seven awards is a hell of a lot, it puts me ahead of people far superior to myself in terms of their ability to design, compete, and win fights, so many many thanks to everyone and anyone who voted for me ^_^ it's appreciated far more than you realise, especially getting Best Design and Best Team which I had never even considered myself in the running for...you either like my designs and contributions a lot, or you're completely insane. (with one or two of you I know the latter to be the case, but it surely can't happen en masse? :P)

Congratulations to everyone else who won, and a Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Solstice, Winterval, 25th of December, birthday (for Jamie at least, I know he reads this section :P), New Year and Eid to everyone. Let's hope 2010 doesn't get any worse

[death robotics]

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wow thanks for my awards
time for me to start building that trophy cabinet
i really thought i could dethrown kody on best rpg but was beaten by 3 votes
but thats what you get when go up against a legend
have a happy new year guys

[team_orr]

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wow, im the most improved? that...that is really nice i dont have a speach ready... lol,

thanks to everyone who voted for me, and everybody who made this as good as it is, bravo AJ! (i sound so stupid :P) well done to kody for getting so many awards, and to everybody else for being nice people

[kodster]

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Well, thought I'd do what Joey did last year and give this a royal bump.

Awards from '03 to '08
Steven McGregor: 53
Alex Holt: 39
Frank Goacher: 31
Kody Kunz: 26
Andrew Jackson: 26
Aaron Knight: 24
Martijn Benschop: 21
Joey McConnell: 10
Richard Southworth: 9
Paul Cuomo: 8
Tom Roper: 7
Matty Fowler: 7
Nick Schuch: 6
Martyn Forsyth: 5
Hector Gilbert: 5
David Sheppard: 5
Alexander MacWilliams: 4
Christopher Mason: 4
David Weston: 3
Chris Cooper: 3
Anthony Politzi: 3
Danny Bailey: 2
Timothy James Sillery: 2
Scott Anderson: 2
Daniel Stickler: 1
Liam Eliot: 1
Evan Dechief: 1
Chezza: 1
Lewis Matthews: 1
Matt Robinson: 1
Mark Elam: 1
Mr. Thiwon: 1

Awards in '09
Kody Kunz: 11
Steven McGregor: 9
Joey McConnell: 7
Martijn Benschop: 5
Alex Holt: 3
Andrew Jackson: 3
Samuel Park: 2
Daniel Stickler: 2
Matty Fowler: 2
Lewis Matthews: 2
Lian Walsh: 2
Jordan Brown: 2
Christopher Mason: 2
Jack Orr: 1
Liam Eliot: 1
Aaron Knight: 1
Frank Goacher: 1
Mark Elam: 1

GRAND TOTAL

Steven McGregor: 62
Alex Holt: 42
Kody Kunz: 37
Frank Goacher: 32
Andrew Jackson: 29
Martijn Benschop: 26
Aaron Knight: 25
Joey McConnell: 19
Matty Fowler: 9
Richard Southworth: 9
Paul Cuomo: 8
Tom Roper: 7
Christopher Mason: 6
Nick Schuch: 6
Martyn Forsyth: 5
Hector Gilbert: 5
David Sheppard: 5
Alexander MacWilliams: 4
Daniel Stickler: 3
Lewis Matthews: 3
David Weston: 3
Chris Cooper: 3
Anthony Politzi: 3
Samuel Park: 2
Jordan Brown: 2
Liam Eliot: 2
Danny Bailey: 2
Scott Anderson: 2
Lian Walsh: 2
Timothy James Sillery: 2
Mark Elam: 2
Jack Orr: 1
Evan Dechief: 1
Chezza: 1
Matt Robinson: 1
Mr. Thiwon: 1

Well now you're the 9th best vapourboteer Matty. And crikey, 62 awards...how do you do it Stevo

[majinb]

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wow Kody at this rate you will have taken over Steve by 2022

[alex_holt]

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Curses! I am away for a while and Steve doubles the gap between me and being number 1.....

I suppose this means I actually need to start organising things so I get round to coming on here again...

But congratulations all!

[leorcc]

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I'm just going to ban the lot of you so I win automatically next year.

[kodster]

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MOST IMPROVED VAPOURBOT: Mark Elam

I literally just noticed this XDXDXD

Oh man I am literally lol'ing right now XDXDXD

[steven_mcg]

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And it only took you three months!

Hey, an iota of improvement in stat-making is improvement nonetheless. That and I was seriously struggling with noms last year. I put Thierry Henry as Sp00n of the Year for crying out loud.

[kodster]

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It's not because he's not improved. It's because you named him as a Vapourbot, not a Vapourboteer. XDXDXD