The OddBots Championship

[alex_holt]

Hello! Welcome to my utterly unexpected return to vapourbot writing!

This is a very quick, very small tournament of six entrants. The format is three 1v1 first round fights and a three way final. The arena will be a fairly plain square with 2 pits and 4 fire grills.

However, there is a bit of a twist! For when creating your robot, you are only allowed to have features from ONE of the following three categories. For instance, if you wanted a wheeled robot, you wouldn't be allowed to use any of the armours or weapons listed. This is mainly aimed at having a tournament with some exotic entires.

Category A: Weapons- Any variation on flywheels or fullbody spinners
- Wedge shaped robots
- Axes
- Flippers
- Crushers: Either vertical or horizontal
- Lifting forks or similar
- Spikes including ramming spikes

Category B: ArmourAny of the following in the form of solid armour or an external chassis:
-Polycarbonate, Polyethylene, Polypropylene
-Kevlar
-Any metals or alloys including the following:
Copper, Iron, Tungsten, Vanadium, Tantalum, Titanium, Chromium, Nickel

**For the sake of this category armour includes all forms of full body weapons such as full body spinners, wheely big cheese style flippers and TAN style crushers etc**

Category C: TransportTracks
Wheels

Competition will start when I have all six entries ready, one entry per person, 100kg for all entriesregardless of transport. Look forward to seeing what people come up with!

[majinb]

Re: The OddBots Championship

reserved!

[kodster]

Re: The OddBots Championship

Reserve!!!

[tweedermeister]

Re: The OddBots Championship

I'll enter

[team_orr]

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Reserve a spot for me too SVP

[joey_picus]

Re: The OddBots Championship

*reserves a spot while he thinks of something*

Good to see you back Alex, I think I may have some fun with this one ^^

[alex_holt]

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Quick footnote: Aluminium was supposed to be on the armour list, so consider it added

[Guest]

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*hurriedly reserves*

[parassyte]

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So hang on, you cannot use any metal at all if you have an active weapon, or just the metals listed? It's unclear.

*pondering a magnesium/osmium walker*

[tweedermeister]

Re: The OddBots Championship

So hang on, you cannot use any metal at all if you have an active weapon, or just the metals listed? It's unclear.

its under the armour section

[majinb]

Re: The OddBots Championship

So hang on, you cannot use any metal at all if you have an active weapon, or just the metals listed? It's unclear.

*pondering a magnesium/osmium walker*

the metals listed

and for that matter you can have an active weapon if you have steel armour, just not the active weapons listed

[alex_holt]

Re: The OddBots Championship

What Martijn said.

To give some examples of what would be allowed:

If you pick the weapons category, you'd be allowed to have any of the weapons listed there, but not any of the armours or transportation listed.

Example: A wooden armoured walker with a flywheel.

If you pick the armour category, you'd be allowed any of the armours listed, but not any of the transport or weapons.

Example: A hardox armoured hovercraft with a hammer.

If you pick the transport category, you can have wheels or tracks, but not any of the listed armours or weapons.

Example: A platinum armoured wheeled robot with a drill weapon.

[kodster]

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Still working on my entry. Just to let people know, I have chosen the transport category.

[joey_picus]

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I have chosen the weapons category - my entry will be a bit delayed though, unfortunately (in short: university) ^^;

[alex_holt]

Re: The OddBots Championship

As people are taking their time a bit just as a bit of impetuts to get this going, I'm going to say that unclaimed reservations run out from Monday. Which at the current rate of entering should still give everyone a good opportunity to enter, but might hopefully result in one or two entries appearing.

Also, one minor thing, if possible, in your stats, just declare which category you are going for, just to help me a tad.

Thanks!