Velociraptor's Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

[matty_haka]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

*Raises eyebrows*

[Guest]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

X-Terminator (Disc)
Dominator 2
Iron Awe 3
Stinger (S6)
Chip (Series 7)
Megabyte
PulverizeR
Supernova (Series 7)

[steven_mcg]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

BTW Richie, just thought Id tell you that Im thinking on replacing one of my entries (most likely Chameleon) with a brand new machine. (unsure of what itll be like, exactly, but Ill say dis - Doomsday is looming...)

If it isnt up by the time all the other entries are in, then just use my original line-up, K?

[matty_haka]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Why is it that Im convinced that James is someone else. (BTW, its not Mason or Brisbourner before everyone starts that again.) Its just he never says anything but his machines, and he only seems to conveniently appear when a major tournament comes up. I know who I think it is, but Im saying nothing.

[Guest]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

*Gets the Books ready for Doomsday*

This looks to be a wooty tourney once more Richard.

*sets off to do some far 8 fights*

[velociraptor]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Thats alright, Steven.

Now I just need to see if Alex and Tom are going to enter, 6 more robots from Nick and Aaron, and Scotts entries, as well as one more team entering the Football! And you can still enter the Challenge Belt as well.

[parassyte]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

quote:

Is that VGer on your profile, Nick? And I still need six other robots from you.

Fine, be that way.

Biohazard
Overkill
Voltronic
Tazbot
M.O.E.
Nightmare
Crab Meat
Vlad the Impaler II
Surgeon General
Battlerat
FrenZy
Slam Job

I dont know which have already been entered so... please choose any six. I dont care. Theyll be entered under my team, but in no other way be affiliated. Theyre just space-fillers.

And Annoying Box Rush will be done soon.

[dinowarrior]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Well, I know Biohazard and SG have already been taken, and I already picked Overkill.

[velociraptor]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Thanks Nick - sorry if I seemed pushy.

Here are the six Ive chosen:
Voltronic
Tazbot
M.O.E
Nightmare
Vlad the Impaler 2
Battle Rat
As Chris said, Biohazard, Overkill and Surgeon General were already chosen, and I havent seen Crab Meat in action so I dont know how powerful its claw weapon is, (learned its a claw from battlebots.com) so I couldnt write accurately about it.

Here are the other real robots already entered if anyone else wants to know:
Biohazard
Bulldog Breed
Chaos 2
Chip
Dominator 2
Firestorm V
Iron Awe 3
Megabyte
Mr Nasty
Overkill
Pulveriser
Razer
Stinger
Storm 2
Supernova
Surgeon General
Tough As Nails
Tsunami 2
Typhoon 2
Warhead
X Terminator

[Guest]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Just to say, Im updating Black Chalkie Beard at the moment, so I will have the latest stats up soon.

I hope.

[tom_b]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

Ill enter even though I had a bad time last season with my vapourbots. Im gonna enter real robots after the amount of (alledged) success my vapourbots had last series (3 wins & 6 losses [including previous real robot entries Big Nipper & Gravity]. Someone remind me please)

My entries are
Terrorhurtz (RW7, see www.robotcrusade.com for pic & stats)
Hassocks Hog 2 (RW7)
Dantomkia (RW7)
Little Sister (BB4)
Aces & Eight (BB5)
& for a bit of fun this last entry, Bender (BB4)

Events, Ill look through

[tom_b]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

For the following events alongside the knockout competition, Ill enter (if there is available space left)
Football: Little Sister & I need a partner for this. Any takers?
Challenge Belt: Hassocks Hog 2

[Guest]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

you need 2 more entries Tom:

Black Chalkie Beard

Part names - Part 1 will be known as Black, part 2 will be known as Beard

Type - 2-way clusterbot, both parts are the same except for the colour and the linking method.

Team Name - Hampshire Hogs in a New Age

Team - Emma is the driver of part 1, Dave is the driver of part 2, and Steve is the weapons on part 1, and John the 4th member is on the weapons on part 2.

Mass - 100.5 kg. Black is 50.0 kg, and Beard is 50.5 kg.

Dimensions - Height - The chassis is 7 Cms high, the wheels are another half CM to each end to make this an 8cm robot. Length - 40 Cms, width - 30 Cms

Wheels - It uses 4, 80mm diameter sure grip breeze wheels, used on skateboards. There are holes in the top and bottom armour of area 0.0112 cm2; this allows the wheels to turn with ease, and to reduce the chance of an axe/crusher or forks getting between the wheel and the chassis. We replace the wheels after every fight, when we are checking the insides for wear and tear. Weight on wheels - 0.91 kg

Batteries - 20 BMC-3 NiMh 900 mAh batteries. Each is at 3.6 volts, so all together it gives 72 volts. However the motors are running at 48 volts, so we have some battery spare for those long fights. Total weight = 2.66 kg.

Current Workings - 6 of the batteries are kept for the weapon and the electrics on board. This leaves 14 batteries with a charge of 3240 C each, giving 45360 C in total. The motors use 35 amps, giving a time of about 7 minutes running time at full power. This leaves a good amount of charge left for about 10 more minutes at a lower power.

Motors - 4 Astro-Flight Cobalt 60 Robot Planetary Motor each running at 48 volts, and each giving a Maximum Continuous Power of 1200 watts, which in total is 4800 watts, in old terms, a pretty cool 6.4 horsepower. Which in my view is enough for a robot like this. These motors have a diameter of ~ 5.3 cm. Total weight ~ 4.1 Kg

Gearing - As well as the motors gearing, we are using a simple 2:1 shaft to reduce the speed of the motor to a good level. Total weight spend on gearing ~ 2 kg

Weapon - The only weapon is a set of front swords, which are 2mm thick at the rear and are a tad under 0.5mm at the tip. These swords are lifted and dropped by the use of 4 rodded linear actuators. The arm itself can change in length for the battle; can be 10 cm to 50 cm. The arm can be lifted and dropped with ease, so it doesnt matter if Black Beard gets flipped. The good thing about this weapon is that, you can€™t flip the robot by them. If a wedge gets underneath and flips the swords, the swords will lift and fire. Total weight on weapon ~ 6.75 kg. The cool thing about these swords is that as they lay flat or at an angle, depending on which way the robot is facing, they can flip full bodied spinners because of the lack of a wedge. The swords can lift 250 kg up to 60 degree. Therefore we can self-flip the robots over.

Armour/Chassis - Hardox 600. 4mm on top and bottom to stop axes and crushers. The sides of the chassis is 15mm. Total weight spend on armour, taking density to be 8000 kgm-3. There is 5 kg of steel bars used to strengthen up the chassis. The front and bottom plates can be removed for ease of repairs. The top and bottom sit into a groove in the robot, so that they can not be ripped away by a well aimed spinner. The chassis is the side armour, so it cant be ripped away when hit by a spinner. The front armour and rear armour are 20mm Hardox 600. Total weight on armour -
Top & Bottom - 6.96 kg
Sides - 6.72 kg
Back & Front - 6.72 kg
Strength Bars - 5 kg

Speed Controllers - This robot uses a Victor 885 speed controller. We use the power at 30 volts. A mixer is used with a gyro to help with the control. Therefore in theory, Black Beard can turn on the spot and we can stick it where we wish to. Total weight on speed controllers€™ etc ~ 1 kg

Colour - Both robots have the original unpainted look, with the robots polished before the war, meaning by the end of the fight, the polish would have been wasted. To tell which robot is which, Black has a black arrow on both sides (the arrow on the bottom is different to the arrow on top), Beard€™s arrows are painted blue. All 4 arrows have dots in then for no reason; except for we bought the wrong paint. Total weight on paint/polish on each robot - 0.1 kg

Electrics - In total, 570 grams are spend on the wiring, the electrics are fitted into the robot by a local electron, and however we do have a wiring diagram in the tool-box. The wires are designed to restand high currents. Every system has a fail-safe, so that the robot is safe. Total weight - 0.57 kg on each machine

Skirts - 2mm titanium skirts run the length of the sides, designed to fold over when invertible. The hinge is mounted in the dead centre line of the side, and the skirts are a bit longer than the height (4.5 cm) to allow then to rest at an angle. The convex sides should prevent the skirts from resting flat. Total weight = 1.26 kg.

Power-link - A panel in the top and the bottom slides across, opening up a secure location, where you have to turn a pole 90 degree to access the link, by pulling it out sideways. This method is the best for robots, as it can be accessed from the top or bottom. As a power-link doesn€™t come into the weight, no weight is spend. The saved weight goes onto the arm.

Shape - Invertible box, slightly convex sides, and rear to stop landing onto sides/rear.

Velocity - Doing a quick calculation using the linear speed of the wheels give the top speed to be around 12 mph. This is assuming that the coefficient of friction of the arena floor is 1. The acceleration due to friction is pretty fast, compared to most vapourbots. It gets from 0 to 12 mph in a tad under 1.5 metres.

Suspension - To stop being damaged when hit by a spinner or rammer, everything is designed to move in it€™s own free will. The wires are able to do this. In addition, there is an inner sub-frame of the chassis which is built for strength. Total weight spend - 5 kg.

Ground Clearance - 5mm all over without skirts. At the front the swords make it zero, but no scoop to save weight. The swords are mounted at the bottom of the robot, but when flipped the swords rest at an angle to act more like a wedge. Side skirts reduce the risk of flipping, but nothing will stop those powerful flippers.

Turning Circle - Something really low, like 0.1 μM. As this is a tiny displacement, we shall assume it€™s zero.

Linking Method - Due to the new NBSFL rules about clusterbot, Black has a loop and Beard has the actual method, which is like Gemini (a sprung loaded gate). Total weight on both robots - 1 kg

Compactness - These robots are more compact that anything, with all the important areas (batteries, radio control) in easy to access places. Thanks to the removable top and bottom plates, the chassis is spilt up into different areas and is easy to work on, because of the diagrams.

Summary - Annoying little compact clusterbot, designed to be as annoying to other robots as robot-lee possible. Thanks to Steve for the parts name. Perfect handling, meaning all around protection.

Strength - The centre of mass of the robot is in the centre of the robot, meaning perfect handing. Armour, clusterbot, hard to get underneath and flip.

Weaknesses - The torque disadvantage from the small wheels, meaning it€™s going to be out-pushed. Non damaging weapon. Clusterbot rules. Swords aren€™t going to get robots out of the arena.

[tom_b]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

2 more entries for what?

[team_britespark]

Velociraptors Fanfic Tournament - Series 6!

You need a total of 8 robots. You only chose 6.