The Vapourbot Awards 2009

[steven_mcg]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

We really need to cut down on the number of awards next year.

MOST ORIGINAL DESIGN: Assegei
BEST DESIGN: Eye of Ran II
MOST OVERRATED VAPOURBOT: PsycloniZer
MOST UNDERRATED VAPOURBOT: Quaestor III
MOST ORIGINAL DESIGNER: Alex Holt
BEST DESIGNER: Joey McConnell
MOST OVERRATED VAPOURBOTEER: Steven McGregor
MOST UNDERRATED VAPOURBOTEER: Matthew Fowler
MOST IMPROVED VAPOURBOT: Mark Elam
SP00N OF THE YEAR: Thierry Henry
BEST SPORTSMAN: Martijn Benschop
BEST RENDER: The Kody Kunz collection
FUNNIEST MOMENT: Elam V Kunz: Live on Sky Sports 1!
BIGGEST SURPRISE OF THE YEAR: Chris Mason's departure

BEST HOUSE ROBOT: Count Bleck by Kody Kunz
BEST ARENA: The Battlegrounds by Kody Kunz
BEST COMEDYBOT: Spring-BOK!
BEST CLUSTERBOT: Door Stops
BEST INTERCHANGEABLE ROBOT: Macduff the 5th
BEST RAMMER: System Shock
BEST WALKER: Hex Appeal
BEST SHUFFLER: M.O.R.D. 2
BEST TRACKED ROBOT: Monsoon Season
BEST FRONT-HINGED FLIPPER: Gehenna
BEST REAR-HINGED FLIPPER: Apocalypse
BEST AXE: Intriguous
BEST HORIZONTAL SPINNER: Eye of Ran II
BEST VERTICAL SPINNER: Tira V
BEST SAW: Back to Rock III
BEST FULL-BODY SPINNER: Propane Nightmare
BEST HORIZONTAL CRUSHER: Under Pressure
BEST VERTICAL CRUSHER: N Cubed
MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON: Tira V

BEST R.P.G: Team Zlayer: Identity Theft
BEST BATTLE: Monsoon Season VS Mornington Crescent VS Whiplash from AJWars: Era Ache, if it's allowed.
BEST NEW WRITER: Lewis Matthews
BEST NEW TOURNAMENT: A Special Robot Wars Fan Fiction Anniversary
BEST WRITER: Kody Kunz
BEST MINOR TOURNAMENT: The Mechanical Maelstrom spinoffs. Annihilation, if you need just one.
BEST MAJOR TOURNAMENT: Crash and Burn Tournament 4

BEST TEAM: Team Picus (Joey McConnell)
BEST NEW VAPOURBOT: O.I.D.
BEST NEW VAPOURBOTEER: Tracy Farber
BEST VAPOURBOTEER OF 2009: Kody Kunz
BEST VAPOURBOT OF 2009: Intriguous
VAPOURBOTEER HALL OF FAME: Hector Gilbert
VAPOURBOT HALL OF FAME: The Crashing Bore, SpinVerter and Mass Disctruction Ultimate

Apologies if any nominees are eligable for whatever reason. Had a helluva time trying to decide who deserved what after a year of such varying levels of activity.

Good luck to all at any rate.

[joey_picus]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

Most Original Design: BIACS-IS Of EVIL-OUTION...well, it couldn't be anything else really :P
Best Design: Propane Nightmare, if only Dan had entered more with it
Most Overrated Vapourbot: Die-Reverta-Tops...I think Chris will find his 'unique' feature is what most civilized cultures call a 'wheel'
Most Underrated Vapourbot: Any of Lewis' creations, mainly because he's been quietly working at them without anyone noticing or appreciating them...if I have to choose one it'd be Equinox as I think it could go a long way in a good tournament, very well thought out and Complete Control-esque.
Most Original Designer: Whichever nomenclatory permutation Matthew Will 'Matty' Harrison Fowler is using this week
Best Designer: Andrew Jackson :P he'll be absolutely shocked but his designs don't cross the boundaries of weight like most people, and consistently perform well
Most Overrated Vapourboteer: Aaron Knight, if he's still around anymore, you can't really do much once you've created MDU :P
Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Lewis, again, for reasons listed above
Most Improved Vapourboteer: Jack Orr, he's consolidated his knowledge rather well
Idiot Of The Year: Mark Elam, by a long way. Runners up have to be the rest of us for allowing ourselves to believe he'd changed instead of getting worse...
Best Sportsman: Marti!

Best Render: Marti's Sandslash render that only a few people on ARC saw I suppose :P
Funniest Moment: bogheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehn
Biggest Surprise of the Year: The fact that a well developed Robot Wars Wiki exists?!
Best Arena: Steve's PTT arena is probably the winner here :P having had the chance to battle in it it's surprisingly good and there's not a lot that can't be used to your advantage.
Best Comedy Bot: NSBFR-X's presence in the awards after so much time not competing is certainly comical
Best Clusterbot: Double Killa II?
Best Interchangeable Robot: System Shock V: Hex
Best Rammer: Flick Of The Wrist
Best Walker: Archangel Of The Abyss
Best Shuffler: Apparently Whirligig 4.5 is the only one around? Right, I'm designing one for 2010 :P
Best Tracked: Darkestar
Best Front Hinged Flipper: Gehenna
Best Rear Hinged Flipper: Seung Mina VI
Best Axe: Axeon 4.0
Best Horizontal Spinner: Illusion Of Dread
Best Vertical Spinner: Darkestar
Best Saw: Back To Rock III, I can't remember any others at this moment in time :P
Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: Propane Nightmare sharing with Mornington Crescent
Best Horizontal Crusher: Under Pressure
Best Vertical Crusher: Killobite Sigma
Best 'other' Weapon: Cobalt
Most Effective Weapon: Propane Nightmare was worryingly good
Best RPG: Mechanical Maelstrom: Devastation
Best Battle: The entire first Mechanical Maelstrom annihilator, it's difficult to express how awesome it was to see something like N^3, that I'd spent lots of time researching and looking into strange technologies for, actually work and win
Best Writer: Steven McGregor, still...SIMPLY THE BEST! DOO DO, DOO, DOO!
Best Minor Tournament: Split between PTT: Regeneration and AJWars: Era Ache
Best Major Tournament: ...the only one seems to be RoboBash Series 2 so I'll go with that :P

Best Team: Team Varying Every Day, they haven't changed because in my opinion they don't really need to :P
Best New Vapourbot: Half of this goes to all Bar One, half to Equinox
Best New Vapourboteer: Again split, half to Jordan Brown and half to Alex Howard (whom you may know as Navaha)
Best Vapourboteer: Andrew Jackson
Best Vapourbot: Darkestar

Vapourboteer Hall Of Fame: I had difficulty making this decision to be honest, due to the somewhat fractious relations I've had with this person at times, and also from the rather more selfish point of view that voting for him would deny me a however undeserved chance at getting in :P but at the end of the day, for all that may have happened he is still one of the best designers, best renderers, best writers, and best people around in vapourbots and it can't be ignored that he was among those who saved vapourbots back in 2006...ladies, gentlemen, boys, girls, rats, I give you KODY KUNZ! You deserve it mate

Vapourbot Hall Of Fame: The Crashing Bore - Frank Goacher
Sheer Heart Attack - Martijn Benschop
Mass Disctruction Ultimate - Aaron Knight

Hope those do

[knightrous]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

Most Overrated Vapourboteer: Aaron Knight, if he's still around anymore, you can't really do much once you've created MDU :P

Oh yes you can, you can start trying to build the real thing
**Pic to be inserted when I get home**

[knightrous]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

For the previous post (since I can't edit that post )

[joey_picus]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

...that's not quite MDU though is it :P you're two letters out.

[corsair_lightning]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

Well, it's a good render, but you're kind of missing the Disctruction and the Ultimate...

[kodster]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

Getting back on topic...I'd like to change some votes before closing time...

Best House Robot
Surlygig

Most Effective Weapon
...Assegai?

Best RPG
Mechanical Maelstrom: Devastation. I forgot about this and how great it is...

[Guest]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

Yeah, less categories gets my vote too
But anyways for now...

Most Original Design ~ Assegai
Best Design ~ Nidhogg Cubed
Most Overrated Vapourbot ~ Leprosy Infection
Most Underrated Vapourbot ~ Axe to Fall
Most Original Designer ~ Matty
Best Designer ~ Martijn
Most Underrated Vapourboteer ~ Jack
Most Improved Vapourboteer ~ Jack
Sp00n of the Year ~ Mark
Best Sportsman ~ Steven
Best Render ~ Anything of Kody's really, Wedginator 9.0 if I have to pick one
Most Effective Weapon ~ Under Pressure
Best Writer ~ Kody
Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots) ~ C&b: MToD3
Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots) ~ RoboBash 2
Best Team ~ Braveheart

[andrewj]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

Thanks everyone! Here are my votes:

Most Original Design: BIACS-Is Of Evil-ution - As Kody might say, it€™s beautiful and strange.
Best Design: Achilles - A simple concept but it€™s so difficult to beat.
Most Overrated Vapourbot: Extreme Gyration - I think I saw it last more than one hit somewhere. :wink:
Most Underrated Vapourbot: Eye of Ran II - Brilliant design and it has so much potential.
Most Original Designer: Steven McGregor - He€™s making a real effort to introduce new ideas into his team.
Best Designer: Joey McConnell - A lot of research has gone into some of Joey€™s designs.
Most Overrated Vapourboteer:
Most Underrated Vapourboteer: Lewis Matthews - Great designer and great battle writer.
Most Improved Vapourboteer: Jack Orr - For the huge improvement in battle writing quality.
Sp00n of the Year: Mark Elam - He is Mark Elam...
Best Sportsman: Martijn Benschop - If only all people made as much sense as this guy.
Best Render: Macduff the 5th
Funniest Moment: Joey McConnell€™s Brand Values - He€™s still available on a free transfer.
Biggest Surprise of the Year: The decline of FanFic after such a great year in 2008.
Best House Robot: Damocles - I€™m surprised this idea hasn€™t been used in a competitor yet...
Best Arena: The Battlegrounds 2.0
Best Comedy Bot: Spring-BOK!
Best Clusterbot: Door Stops
Best Interchangeable Robot: Macduff the 5th
Best Rammer: System Shock 5.1
Best Walker: 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: Intriguous
Best Horizontal Spinner: Eye of Ran II
Best Vertical Spinner: Tira VI
Best Saw: Back to Rock III
Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: Propane Nightmare
Best Horizontal Crusher: Under Pressure
Best Vertical Crusher: N³
Most Effective Weapon: Shopping Mall
Best RPG: Team Zlayerz RPG: Identity Theft
Best Battle: Gehenna vs. Propane Nightmare
Best New Writer: Lian Walsh - You€™ve made a good start, just work on the length and detail a bit more.
Best New Tournament: Crazy Bots - For the above reason.
Best Writer: Steven McGregor - One of the best writers ever returned to show us all how it€™s done.
Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots): PTT - Regeneration - A very well written tournament with so many great vapourbots competing.
Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots): RoboBash - Not many major tournaments have been completed on this forum, so Sam should be proud.
Best Team: Team Zlayerz - So many different but effective vapourbots.
Best New Vapourbot: Mornington Crescent - Quite a unique design, and it€™s already doing well.
Best New Vapourboteer: Jordan Brown - Even though he hasn€™t had much chance to compete yet, his designs show originality and potential.
Best Vapourboteer: Steven McGregor - Steve has made quite a few new and original vapourbots in the past year or so, such as Venus Fly Trap, Traffic Warden and Mornington Crescent. These, along with the older members of his team are still tough to beat. Earlier in the year, he wrote one of the best tournaments we have seen for quite a while with the return of PTT. It was a tough tournament to judge, but he pulled it off brilliantly.
Best Vapourbot: Intriguous - Not only is it a nice design, but it reached the finals of both, in my opinion, the two best tournaments of the year.
Vapourboteer Hall of Fame: There are so many reasons why this person should be in the Hall of Fame. His vapourbots are fairly unique, well designed and always perform well. He is one of the best vapourbot battle writers there has ever been. I might not be typing this now if he hadn€™t kept this section alive back in 2006. If I€™m in the Hall of Fame, then this guy certainly should be, it€™s Kody Kunz.
Vapourbot Hall of Fame: The Crashing Bore - One of the original vapourbots and the design is still competitive. SpinVerter - Not around any more, but a classic influential vapourbot. Mass Disctruction Ultimate - The most successful vapourbot ever.

Still a couple of days left to vote.

[majinb]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

*coughs* VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

my second wave of votes comes now, these are the votes I wasnt sure on straight away, but they were strill pretty easy for me

Most Improved Vapourboteer: I find that Jack Orr, who also was my best new vapourboteer, imrpoved really well over his stint here

Best Render: I love Kody's Intrigous (spelling? xD)... I may have his name wrong, the one with the wheels popping out on top, that one!

Funniest Moment: The brand values thing for Joey... can you tell Andy and I pretty much made that one together? xD

Best Clusterbot: Door Stops is good

Best Interchangeable Robot: Macduff the 5th

Best Front Hinged Flipper: Ive been thorn between Wedginator's current version and Gabriel's ever since the voting for this started... split a vote between them!

Best Axe: The current Axeon

Best Saw: Spin Dash Unleashed

Best Vertical Crusher: N³

Best Minor Tournament (< 48 robots): I'll be flabbergasted if PTTR doesnt win this... PTTR

[knightrous]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

...that's not quite MDU though is it :P you're two letters out.

It's based on MDU3, it's currently just codenamed MBX3.
If I get around to finishing it in 2010, it will probably run under the name MDU or SpunOut.

/thread hijack

Vapourbot Hall of Fame: The Crashing Bore - One of the original vapourbots and the design is still competitive. SpinVerter - Not around any more, but a classic influential vapourbot.

I agree, SpinVerter should definitely go into the hall of fame. Was a pretty decent bot for it's time, certainly gave me a challenge.

[majinb]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

My final votes, note that for each vapour I name Im talking about the current version, even if I don€™t specify that

Most Original Design: Assegai
Best Design: N^3
Most Overrated Vapourbot: I honoustly, HONOUSTLY don€™t know
Most Underrated Vapourbot: you know what I like Joey€™s suggestion of Equinox

Best Designer: I€™ll say Steven
Most Overrated Vapourboteer: much like most overrated bot€¦ I cant tell


Sp00n of the Year: Thierry Henry! (man I hope he wins this now he€™s got 2 votes )
Best Sportsman: €¦ Thierry Henry? Naaaaaah, Joey!


Biggest Surprise of the Year: I found Chris€™ departure surprising really
Best House Robot: Rorschach

Best Comedy Bot: Im tagging along with Spring-BOK! Because he€™s a very original creation and itd work surprisingly well for a comedy bot

Best Rammer: System Shock
Best Walker: Archangel
Best Shuffler: Whirligig
Best Tracked: Darkestar

Best Rear Hinged Flipper: Has to be Achilles

Best Vertical Spinner: Tira

Best Full Body Spinner / Ring Spinner / Translational Spinner: Propane Nightmare
Best Horizontal Crusher: Super Gore

Most Effective Weapon: Eye of Ran!

Best Battle: PTTR final between Kody and Alex!
Best New Writer: Jack Orr
Best New Tournament: W.A.R.

Best Major Tournament (> 48 robots): RoboBash 2!
Best Team: ermz€¦ I quite like Joey€™s atm
Best New Vapourbot: Equinox

Best Vapourboteer: Joey
Best Vapourbot: N^3
Vapourboteer Hall of Fame: lets put Kody there if only because his huge surges of activity the last few years meant so much for the game as a whole€¦ and these surges weren€™t just mindless head-over-heels rushes into the game, they also brought a good share of quality
Vapourbot Hall of Fame SpinVerter, The Robot That Wasn€™t There (the 5 part cluster, not 100%sure on the name) and MDU

[corsair_lightning]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

The 5 part cluster's name was The Team That Wasn't There.

[andrewj]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

Thank you for your time, everyone. Voting is now closed. I'll reveal the winners at some point tomorrow.

[team_orr]

Re: The Vapourbot Awards 2009

looking forward to it (i tried to count them up but failed epicly)

EDIT: jeez that was my 700th post