The Vapourbot Awards 2009

[andrewj]

Bad luck, I'm still here. :wink:

You know what to do, but I will just remind you of some of the rules:

» Please vote in as many categories as you can
» Try to narrow your vote down to one choice per category
» If you can€™t decide between two choices, they will both receive half a point
» Please do not choose more than two choices per category
» You cannot vote for yourself or your own vapourbots
» However, you can vote for Best Battle if your robot was featured in it
» Please either post your votes in this thread or PM them to me
» Voting closes on Wednesday 23rd December 2009 at 11:00am UK time

I think that's all you need to know, so here are the categories:

Most Original Design
Best Design
Most Overrated Vapourbot
Most Underrated Vapourbot
Most Original Designer
Best Designer
Most Overrated Vapourboteer
Most Underrated Vapourboteer
Most Improved Vapourboteer
Sp00n of the Year
Best Sportsman
Best Render
Funniest Moment
Biggest Surprise of the Year
Best House Robot
Best Arena
Best Comedy Bot
Best Clusterbot
Best Interchangeable Robot
Best Rammer
Best Walker
Best Shuffler
Best Tracked
Best Front Hinged Flipper
Best Rear Hinged Flipper
Best Axe
Best Horizontal Spinner
Best Vertical Spinner
Best Saw
Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner
Best Horizontal Crusher
Best Vertical Crusher
Most Effective Weapon
Best RPG
Best Battle
Best New Writer
Best New Tournament
Best Writer
Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots)
Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots)
Best Team
Best New Vapourbot
Best New Vapourboteer
Best Vapourboteer
Best Vapourbot
Vapourboteer Hall of Fame (Frank Goacher, Steven McGregor, Alex Holt, Andrew Jackson, Aaron Knight and Martijn Benschop are already inducted)
Vapourbot Hall of Fame (Wedge Devolution, Son of Ripper and Achilles are already inducted)

I have removed a couple of the categories, because I don't think they are relevant to this year. But if you think something needs to be added or taken away, please say so. I think that's everything, so good luck and get voting.

[joey_picus]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

How am I supposed to vote for the best spoon, I have no clue how wide or concave everyone heads are? Cutlery's not my strong point, either...can we count frying pans as they're sort of spoon shaped and Diotoir had one in the celebrity special?

[kodster]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

Most Original Design
Venus Fly Trap 2. Steve takes the most original design of last year and makes it even more original.

Best Design
PsycloniZer? Yeah that. :P

Most Overrated Vapourbot
Gehenna?

Most Underrated Vapourbot
O.I.D. That's a nasty looking spinner right there yet people don't seem to realize its full potential.

Most Original Designer
Where's Alex? Where's Martijn? Because he made the most original vapourbot this year, it's gotta go to Steve.

Best Designer
Joey

Most Overrated Vapourboteer
Mr. WARGH with your bloody Smirnoff Ijs!

Most Underrated Vapourboteer
Jack

Most Improved Vapourboteer
Jack

Sp00n of the Year
Mark

Best Sportsman
Elliot

Best Render
Erm...wasn't Darkestar rendered this year? If so, that. If not...I dunno. :S

Funniest Moment
There haven't been many I can remember that are strictly on FRA...perhaps Shane making himself that 2009 RR trophy? lol

Biggest Surprise of the Year
Half the vapourboteers suddenly becoming inactive...

Best House Robot
Major Damage

Best Arena
The PTT arena

Best Comedy Bot
Mijnenveger

Best Clusterbot
Uhm...Door Stops

Best Interchangeable Robot
Uhm...NSBFR-X

Best Rammer
Mother of all - I mean Monolith

Best Walker
Which ones have there been? Uhm...Hex Appeal I guess.

Best Shuffler
Whirligig 4.5

Best Tracked
Magnitude...

Best Font Higed Fipper
Mace II

Best Front Hinged Flipper
Gabriel V

Best Rear Hinged Flipper
Too many...Achilles I guess.

Best Axe
Axeon 4.0?

Best Horizontal Spinner
Ij of Ran

Best Vertical Spinner
Nightm...oh. Erm...Sheer Drunk Attack.

Best Saw
BACK TO ROCK DOESN'T DO MUCH WITH HIS SAW! So Spin Dash Unleashed. :P

Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner
ArchAngel...

Best Horizontal Crusher
Under Prussia..I mean Pressure.

Best Vertical Crusher
Holepunch 2.0

Most Effective Weapon
The pit.

Best RPG
If it were really active, I would so vote The Oddestsey II, but I can't. Guess I'll vote for Lian's thing...

Best Battle
Achilles vs. Intriguous, the final battle of PTTR!

Best New Writer
The slew of new writers...well, they haven't been all that and a bag of crisps...Samuel and Elliot haven't exactly been new...voting for Lian again...

Best New Tournament
W.A.R.

Best Writer
Steven McGregor, returning to show all the other writers how to write a REAL tournament!

Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots)
PTTR!

Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots)
RoboBash

Best Team
Team Picus

Best New Vapourbot
Mornington Crescent. On a veteran's squad, but entirely new. Kudos to Steve-O.

Best New Vapourboteer
Jordan Brown

Best Vapourboteer
Steven McGregor

Best Vapourbot
Back to Rock III

Vapourboteer Hall of Fame
JOEY!!!

Vapourbot Hall of Fame
Back to Rock
MDU
The Crashing Bore (if only one goes in then put in Back to Rock )

Thanks

[team_orr]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

...wow, my name came up a lot in that ta kody

Most Original Design: venus fly trap? teh updated version

Best Design: that render kody did in the team bud thread

Most Overrated Vapourbot: honestly donthave a clue, gonna have to copy kody :P Gehenna

Most Underrated Vapourbot: compression

Most Original Designer: gotta be kody...or AJ, no gotta be KODY

Best Designer: erm kody again?

Most Overrated Vapourboteer: pfffff....errm...i honestly dont know :P

Most Underrated Vapourboteer: lewis?

Most Improved Vapourboteer: suprisingly im voting for mark, hes a damn sight better than last time, just work on the lenth of those fights!

Sp00n of the Year: the one i used to eat my cornflakes?

Best Sportsman: joey

Best Render: anything by kody (what program do you use?)

Funniest Moment: lian and marks inability to use msn :P

Biggest Surprise of the Year: marks comeback?

Best House Robot: battleaxe?

Best Arena: PTT FTW!

Best Comedy Bot:

Best Clusterbot: door stopz

Best Interchangeable Robot: tornado?

Best Rammer: tornado?

Best Walker: torn....anarchy :P

Best Shuffler: whirlygig

Best Tracked: magnitude

Best Front Hinged Flipper: jigsaw? :P

Best Rear Hinged Flipper: achilles

Best Axe: axeron

Best Horizontal Spinner: a good vorizontal? NEVER!

Best Vertical Spinner: that one nick made of biblical perportions?

Best Saw: the one in my shed?

Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: umbx

Best Horizontal Crusher: compression?

Best Vertical Crusher: razzler

Most Effective Weapon: razzler

Best RPG: kodys one

Best Battle: Achilles vs. Intriguous

Best New Writer: errr....lian?

Best New Tournament: krazy bots i guess

Best Writer: kody

Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots): CC?

Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots): robobash

Best Team: picus

Best New Vapourbot: jordans translational spinner

Best New Vapourboteer: jordan

Best Vapourboteer: martijn

Best Vapourbot: its all good (back to rock)

Vapourboteer Hall of Fame (Frank Goacher, Steven McGregor, Alex Holt, Andrew Jackson, Aaron Knight and Martijn Benschop are already inducted): kody

Vapourbot Hall of Fame (Wedge Devolution, Son of Ripper and Achilles are already inducted): back to rock

[kodster]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

*looks at Jack's list* lol copypasta :P though I am well surprised at the HoF listing :shock: ta

And the program is Rhino3D, btw. Also, to make the renders look better Rhino has to have the Flamingo plug-in with it, then you can experiment with texture settings and the like.

Edit: I don't think we're allowed to vote for realies... *looks at AJ* are we?

[death robotics]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

thanks fo your votes guys

btw kody its called robot wars vs battlebots

edit: btw jack i didnt know my brother java password to install the new msn, but i have the old on bacck now

[gravity]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

way too much awards.

[majinb]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

great job for doing these again Andy! much needed too, vapourbotering fell to another one of its many periods of inactivity once again, and much to my dislike, I havent been the right person to really help it this time, blame it all to university! I will however take my time to come up with a good vote for every single one of those buggers, so watch out!

gravity, our annual awards have always been like this, many catogeries thats right, but its our little annual party and dont forget there ARE more vapourbots than real bots, they may not all be active all the time, but we have a big shed to chose from, and if someone doesnt want to vote for a certain catogery because he, like you, thinks we're overdoing it a bit, he is excused to do so, cause as Andy said Please vote in as many categories as you can

these awards are a tradition I wouldnt wanna see changed

[corsair_lightning]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

I'll join in on the fun.

Most Original Design: I have to give this to All Bar One. Jordan did a lot of research to make it.
Best Design: Duh. With one of the best win/loss ratios in FanFic, I'll say Intriguous.
Most Overrated Vapourbot: I have to say Die-Reverta-Tops. Not a very effective redesign.
Most Underrated Vapourbot: Probably the Alexandra Sisters Series. It's just bad luck that they don't do as well as Kody wants.
Most Original Designer: Probably Jordan Brown. He puts a lot of classic design into his machines, and even though they haven't fought, they use ideas that nobody's used in quite a while.
Best Designer: Probably Steven McGregor. Though he's only made 2 new robots, all of his machines, including his old ones, have a very high pedigree.
Most Overrated Vapourboteer: I'll say AJ, though watch out for a new Forcepower coming soon...
Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Jack Orr. Though his robots are still a bit rough, he's managed to make a semi-final in my very screwed up VRW4, and I feel he can do more...
Most Improved Vapourboteer: Lian Walsh. With me helping him, his robots have become slightly better then before.
Sp00n of the Year: AJ with his return to drunkenly rambling on the ZED forum.
Best Sportsman: Lian Walsh. He actually accepted half his ROBOBASH!!! 2 entries were crud, and made tactics to prepare for their demise.
Best Render: Kody's render of Macduff the 5th.
Funniest Moment: TJS becomes a worthwhile FanFic writer in ACTILWI(Hey! I only wrote it. It's still funny).
Biggest Surprise of the Year: Around half of the vapourboteers suddenly disappear, but slowly start to come back.
Best House Robot: Samuel Park's King Arthur.
Best Arena: Team Zlayerz' Battlegrounds 2.0.
Best Comedy Bot: Spring-BOK!
Best Clusterbot: If I'm correct, only the Alexandra Sisters fought in 2009, so I'll vote for them.
Best Interchangeable Robot:
Best Rammer: A split vote between Exertion and Do or Die.
Best Walker: Absolution, even though Kody rarely uses it.
Best Shuffler: I think Whirligig 4.5 fought this year...
Best Tracked: Darkestar fought this year.
Best Front Hinged Flipper: Gabriel V.
Best Rear Hinged Flipper: I'll go out on a limb here and say Eternia.
Best Axe: Intriguous.
Best Horizontal Spinner: The only one I can think of: Eye of Ran II.
Best Vertical Spinner: Still Hurting.
Best Saw: Spin Dash Unleashed.
Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: I'll be crazy and say the featherweight MBX. That annoying little thing ripped through practically all of its opponents...
Best Horizontal Crusher: The axlebot Under Pressure.
Best Vertical Crusher: Holepunch 2.0.
Most Effective Weapon: The MDU Series, which destroyed at least half of the robots it faced.
Best RPG: Kody is slow at updating his, and Lian's been updated later, so I'll say Robot Wars vs Battlebots.
Best Battle: Megaroll II vs Raven the 4th. I got destroyed, and it shows what an 800kj spinner can do even to a modern robot.
Best New Writer: Lian's the only new writer besides me, so I'll say Lian Walsh.
Best New Tournament: Does this mean like a new Tourney or a new series of tournies? If a series, I'll say Crazy Bots Series 1(The Remake), and if just a new tourney, I'll say the Crash & Burn MTOD 3.
Best Writer: Probably Steven McGregor, who showed that he still has what it takes.
Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots): PTT: Regeneration.
Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots): ROBOBASH!!! 2.
Best Team: Team DETROIT ROCK CITY aka Team Lunch at Quarter to Eight aka Team ???.
Best New Vapourbot: Series or robot? If series, I'll say Frustum. If vapour, Intriguous.
Best New Vapourboteer: Jordan Brown.
Best Vapourboteer: Break a vote between Kody Kunz and Steven McGregor.
Best Vapourbot: The MDU Series.
Vapourboteer Hall of Fame: Kody Kunz, so his ego will explode :P . Just joking of course, but seriously, Kody needs to be in there.
Vapourbot Hall of Fame: My 3 votes are The MDU Series, The Crashing Bore(was planned to be a real robot but there was no proof it was real), and The Intrigue Series, mainly due to its major success.

[death robotics]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

hey mark i thought you would vote me for sportsmanship for standing up for you
against 18,000 blokes

[corsair_lightning]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

Hey! I did nominate you for Sportmanship.

[death robotics]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

i know buti thought that was what you were gonna vote me for

sorry if you took offence from it

*offers virtual handshake*

[corsair_lightning]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

*Shakes Lian's virtual hand* It's okay. At least your robot went out of control and killed All Bar One...

[andrewj]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

Thanks for the votes so far!

For anyone else interested in voting, you've still got a week left.

[majinb]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

Im gonna vote my entire list later but to keep this going, and because there are several votes I already made up my mind about anyhow, here are some!

Most Original Designer: Steven McGregor, the man was known for classic and solid designs, but when he brought us Traffic Warden and Venus Fly Trap not too long ago he has proven that he can be bloody original as well!

Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Lewis Matthews he is a good, good vapourboteer, end of.

Best Arena: Kody's arena is great fun.

Best Horizontal Spinner: Eye of Ran II, real good robot.

Best RPG: Kody's, with the gears we gather in places with German names, it is weeeeeell written.

Best Writer: Steven McGregor made a fantastic comeback to the writing scene.

Best Minor Tournament: PTT: Regeneration, everything I wanna say about it can be read in the above sentence :P

Best New Vapourboteer: Jack Orr's the man!