Vapourbot Grand Championships 2006

[alex_holt]

Vapourbot Grand Championships 2006

or maybe Team Hello, doesnt your whole squad sound happier for that:

Flaming Hello
Hello Machine
Flipping Hello
etc

[dogbot4000]

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Oh soz Ill just whack with the axe.

[majinb]

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quote:

Martijn, youve got Etek motors, a hydraulic lifting system, and 6 mm Ti armour... Somehow I dont think theres enough spare weight to make a blade capable of damaging much of antyhing

Hey, dont extract urine on my awesome lightweight sawblade

[alex_holt]

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Heat B.
Hefty Kick in the Balls (2) vs. The Great Cornholio

Our second seed now enters the arena in our second heat.

Hefty Kick in the Balls has its blade up to speed within moments, even as the saw blade whirrs into life, breaking the stillness of the arena. Scott€™s machine charges forwards, its blade throbbing with stored energy, and then impacts into the side of the Great Cornholio, even as the left lifting arm tries to flick up, saving Cornholio from being tossed across the arena like a rag-doll, instead, suffering the indignity of being dismembered along its right side as the Beavis-like are is torn completely free of its housing, actuators dangling lifelessly from them, along with a small stretch of wires, it smashes down after a scarily pronounced delay during which Cornholio has fled somewhat from the action to attempt to be able to begin again, albeit minus a limb. Fortunately for Anthony the faster robot makes its getaway for the time being, while the devastating Hefty Kick lumbers after it, the disc again throbbing with vast might. Unfortunately although the faster, Scott€™s machine has very good control, and compared to the somewhat erratic driving of Cornholio, it appears masterful.
Cornholio darts forward again, but this time the agile Hefty Kick twists on the spot, and instead of running the saw-blade into the exposed side of Hefty it runs up the left side of the wedge, and the blades collide in a powerful crash.
Shards and sparks fill the air in a single moment, followed by a second, larger crunch of a noise and a jet of golden sparks jets across the arena as the huge disc of Hefty shatters the saw and then impacts the right corner of Cornholio€™s front, slamming into the hardox and launching Anthony€™s machine skywards, where it lands upside down. It rises, somewhat shakily, on a single arm, dropping back down onto its wheels. However, it€™s speed seems to be drastically reduced, and then Hefty catches it once more, and the wheels slams into it again, sending the battered Cornholio sailing into the impregnable walls with a heavy thud. The arm rises once more, but smoke, now billowing black from the innards of Cornholio states more than this gesture can, so few find it surprising that the arm only levers the machine up so far before stopping entirely. The wheel€™s aren€™t moving and the machine sits dead upon its back, smouldering.

Hefty Kick in the Balls Advances to the Heat Final!

[alex_holt]

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Infusion vs. Geforce 4.0

Infusion begins to spin up, the power building steadily within the greath writhing hardox outer ring of the machine, however, Geforce darts in before Aaron€™s abomination can reach its most devastating, and hurls the machine topsy-turvy, the nitrogen powered pneumatics heaving, the machine flies gracelessly, landing right side up with a heavy thud as blade strikes floor. Aaron however is not easily perturbed and before Mr Jackson can retaliate sufficiently the humming of the colossal spinning shell has permeated the whole arena: the noise so loud it could be tearing the air itself. Then it advances towards Geforce: slower than the wedge initially, then as it nears it, even as Andy tries to avoid it, a sudden boost for half a second hurls it headlong into Andy€™s machine, impacting it with the majority of its force. The monocoque stands, a nasty nick in it a testament to the armour€™s Herculean endurance. Unfortunately the chassis it was mounted upon was no so fortunate, the whole panel has been knocked an inch inside the robot, the whole chassis shearing with the force of the blow. A horrendous scratching noise now accompanies the movement of the machine as wheels scrap against battered inwards. However, over distances Geforce still has the edge, and its rockets free of its pursuer. Infusion again is up to power, its shape a blur as it dances towards its prey, and suddenly again the clutch kicks in, this time for even less and the whole force of the vast machine darts forward and hits into the side of Andy€™s machine. Splintering the hardox chassis, however, this is not what finishes Andy€™s machine, instead the vast force knocks Andy€™s machine skidding across a quarter of the length of the arena, where for an instant it teeters perilously upon the brink of the pit-side, and then just as it seems it might have made it, drops like a stone into the oblivion of the pit.

The Judges call cease: Infusion Advances to the Heat Final!

[alex_holt]

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And thus we reach the heat final: two super-spinners face each other to determine which will get the second semi-final place?

Hefty Kick in the Balls vs. Infusion

Both machines dart forward even as the activate claxon echoes across the arena, Hefty kick is up to speed in an instant and the blade connects with the outer ring of Infusion and a gigantic blast of sound ensues as both machines are rocketed across the arena in different directions. A slice taken out of the outer hardox ring of Infusion and a horizontal scar running the length of the front right hand side of Hefty.
But this pause in combat has benefited Aaron, as it has left it with time to reach full speed, a sudden kinetic boost on his parts blasts infusion forward into the side of the Scott€™s machine, slamming it at full throttle into the wall with a massive clash. Aaron€™s bull-rush tactic working supremely, however a seconds laxness and Hefty escapes, but even as it tries to wheel round the blade of Infusion knocks it away, taking a slice out of the massive front plate of Hefty. Both machines retreat for an instant, while their spinners gun up to speed. Hefty reached maximum velocity the quicker and dives, in, but again a vast plume of orange sparks erupts from the impact as both blades force their might through one another. This time however, there is no visible damage upon Hefty, and a tooth buckled upon Infusion. The two bring their weapons up to speed once more, but just before the two collide Aaron boost€™s again and the vast hardox juggernaut slams full on into Hefty kick, knocking it backwards, and it skids across the arena, drifting to a halt near the impenetrable wall before it regains purchase upon the smooth arena floor. Scott twists quickly, but instead of towards a second boost it veers to the side and the whole of Infusion€™s massive blast are transferred into the immovable wall, and thus back into Infusion, which pings away like an air-hockey puck across the slippery arena floor.
Hefty is ready, and charges into the stunned Infusion, finally catching it still and turns it up onto its side against the wall with a blast of vertical spinning might. Scott backs Hefty away so he can clearly see what€™s going on, and a peculiar roll of Infusion€™s along the side of the wall as its spinner rolls it along for a meter or so and then, unceremoniously drops it back upon its wheels with a slight cracking noise or metal colliding.
Infusion already has a little power, and it is enough, it arcs furiously and then blasts into Hefty once more, knocking it backwards with a powerful thrust. However even as Hefty skids uncontrollably across the arena, Aaron whirrs up again, and even as Scott€™s frantic braking manages to bring Hefty Kick in the Balls under control a second titanic charge carries both machines sailing towards the edge of the pit, over the brink, and through the air for several meters before crashing down to their doom in some kind of suicidal long jump.

However Infusion pushed Hefty in, and thus Hefty fell first, therefore infusion is our next semi finalist!

[alex_holt]

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So Currently out Semi Finallist board stands as follows:

Tempest Evil-er-oution (1)
Infusion
-
-
-
-
-
-

Next time around:

Heat C.
Metal Sonic Spin Dash (3) vs. Ripe
Ringwraith vs. The Windmill

I cant seem to post more than 1 round in a row without it takign years to load, thus the round by round thing...

[alex_holt]

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OK so I didn€™t get it done in two weeks, but I still don€™t intend to faff around with this thing: today brings us to heat C and all that this must entail.

Heat C.


Metal Sonic Spin Dash (3) vs. Ripe

First as said however, I wouldn€™t question stats, however, I would make assumptions that would fix them, and thus, the assumptions of ripe are as follows:

*Dimensions: As no shape or unit is given here I am presuming, by looking at this that the most feasible unit here is feet, thus Ripe is a wedge with a 3ft x 4ft base, 1 ft high. Somewhat large.

** Weight: it has to be 100, its huge, its got 4 heavy motors for drive
and bulky wooden armour. This makes me assume that the weapon power is severely sacrificed, thus both are powered by small actuators which could conceivably nudge something vaguely upwards and scratch thin paintwork respectively. The wood is going to be somewhat thin too.

*** Wheels: I presume that four motors means 4 wheels - however due to the weight problem they are tiny castors.

**** Speed: I really cannot see how 12v is meant to run these motos, correct me if I€™m wrong, but because it says 14mph I must abide, however, your acceleration will be somewhere in the region of a minute.

***** As we have a flipper I€™ll presume front GC is 0mm, the rest will be 20mm.

To be honest as much as I could carry on doing this I really don€™t feel it necessary. So let battle commence.

The vast lumbering bulk of Ripe stirs to life, deep rumblings within its vast innards the only sign of the shifting of this vast juggernaut of a machine. It begins rolling forward, almost like the first movements of a huge steam train, and with probably similar levels of manoeuvrability.
In his high box, Steve peers down somewhat incredulously, however, he must admits that its sheer size may prove his opponents biggest defence - its vast shape difficult to actually push or turn over. However, he has plenty of time to decide as with the slightest movement he dodges the pitiful charge of Ripe, which tries to brake, but ineffectively rolls into the wall at a snails pace before being able to stop. It then reverses at him. Steve is so stunned at this that he actually forgets for an instant to reverse his machine, the whole robot nudging against MSSD trying to push it, but its pitiful acceleration and shopping trolley like wheels give it no traction whatsoever. Steve is somewhat embarrassed, for a third seed, he feels that he€™s just been given this first round. He whirs the blade up and rams into the robot, where a panels explodes in a shower of wood shavings and splinters. However with such a massive panel removed it is possible to see how dwarfed the simple electronics are by the chassis, and the whole mechanics are infuriatingly near the middle. Steve dives in repetitively, as the feeble machine pokes him with its axe, almost catching upon the paint once, but Metal Sonic Spin Dash manages to avoid this without any skill. Eventually Steve just gets bored, easily getting behind the machine and shoving it headlong into the pit, its huge size proving somewhat frustrating as the wood scrapes against the floor once while it is gradually pushed off. A few moments later the sound of a huge imploding piece of wood can be heard from the bottom of the pit.

Metal Sonic Spin Dash makes it through to round two, narrowly avoiding a slight paint scratch.

[alex_holt]

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Ringwraith vs. The Windmill

Hmm€¦it seems that Tim isn€™t the only one in the heat with vague stats, OK, assumption of windmill:

€ Circular shape, wheel pods, invertible and €˜like nothing you€™ve seen before€™ don€™t precisely help me picture how this thing is going to fight. I€™m therefore assuming this machine is an invertible very short cylinder, four wheel pods sticking out at 90 degrees to each other and a large horizontal circular saw at the front. I really can€™t see how this fits together otherwise.

Also one assumption of Ringwraith

* I am guessing your just stating with the weapon that it has pussycat like shape at points along the weapon rather than just being an extruded version of that shape, as that would be somewhat impractical and ineffectual, thus I€™m writing it to the design of the former.

Both machines whir their weapons up to speed, the roaring of either weapon deafening to the audience. However it is wring wraith that accelerates first, and impacts heavily in the left flank of the Windmill, catching against the front right wheel pod and throwing the whole machine upwards slightly. Windmill wheels away, its wheel pods giving it surprising levels of manoeuvrability. The blade spins up, before darting in against its opponent, dicing a deep slash into the wheels which paralyse the movements of Ringwraith for an instant, however it spins across its own axis, its weapon throbbing with might, and then collides, obliterating the skirt from one of the wheel pods before maiming the wheel itself. A humble clicking hinting at life within the motors, however the frame itself is jarred. The robot is seemingly incapacitated for the most part, however, it still has enough power in the wheels to spin the robot frantically around on the spot, the still whirring saw making approach extremely hazardous.

Ringwraith knows however that there are only two ways out of this - through victory or failure, there is no judges decision, and Richard sends his machine careening forward into its foe, splintering the deadly disc of its foe, as it explodes in a brilliant shower of sunlight yellow sparks and metal shards, the force of the push continuing, and Ringwraith pushes its foe headlong into the pit.

Ringwraith advances to the heat final.

[alex_holt]

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Heat Final:

Metal Sonic Spin Dash vs. Ringwraith

Steve and Richard square off, both machines spinning their weapons, and then, as if both want to jump the gun in some unofficial form of honour they both dive in. Ringwraith the faster, almost impacts first, however, it narrowly misses as the more manoeuvrable MSSD coils to one side, and then brings its blade into the wheel of its adversary, splintering the rubber and lexiguard that make up the wheel, and almost instantaneously the two wheeled robot is immobilised, Barely able to move on its single remaining wheels, the grinding across the arena floor pierces the tears at the ears frightfully. But the incapacitation signals the end of Ringwraith€™s short tussle, as MSSD proceeds to assault the remains of it until it is finally still.

Metal Sonic Spin Dash advances to the semi finals!

[alex_holt]

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I apologize for what may likely seem like my irritability on the part of this, but I believe this is better encouragement for people to be more careful when writing their stats than saying they won€™t be in, if they are not in they have no reason to bother with stats, thus it doesn€™t matter if they don€™t do them, this way people will see reason to write better stats.

Tempest Evil-er-oution (1)
Infusion
Metal Sonic Spin Dash (3)
-
-
-
-
-


Head D.
Flipping Hades (4) vs. Panicking
Acid Burn vs. Flank Attack 2

[dogbot4000]

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just to let you know the second ones gonna have fur.

[swiss_tony]

Vapourbot Grand Championships 2006

If theres anything wrong with Walk Idiot Walk, sorry, I wont be able to correct it. My computer is now unusable when AVG deleted a file needed to run windows. It might be fixed, it might not be, and if it is fixed, it might not be for a long time.
Just a warning in ahead of time. And Im on another computer which I wont be near much.
I was going to ask someone on MSN to post this, but MSN Web is being stupid and wont let me sign in.

[andrewj]

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Well done Alex, nice to see someone is making a stand on poor stats. And great battles too.

And thanks for that useful peice of information Timothy.

[siphai]

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Wait wait wait.

What the heck?

Circular shape, wheel pods, invertible and €˜like nothing you€™ve seen before€™ don€™t precisely help me picture how this thing is going to fight. I€™m therefore assuming this machine is an invertible very short cylinder, four wheel pods sticking out at 90 degrees to each other and a large horizontal circular saw at the front. I really can€™t see how this fits together otherwise.

Theres a freaking CAD on the page.

http://farr.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=targeted&action=display&thread=112 5588619http://farr.proboards21.com/index.cg...y&thread=11255 88619

And if, apparently since you seem to be, too dumb to check the ENTIRE page, heres the freaking picture.

http://img289.imageshack.us/img289/7430/thewindmill8hk.jpghttp://img289.imageshack.us/img289/7...indmill8hk.jpg

Look, right there!

Jesus, way to be a lazy piece of crap.