Crash & Burn: Hypothesis - sign-ups, No, not a hypothetical. Read it properly

This is an experiment tournament, solely for ARC.

DA RULEZ

1. I need 1 bot from 4 people. They can be from any weight class here on ARC, but I will treat them as if they are in the same weight class. I'd prefer Heavyweights, though.

2. This will be based primarily off existing ARC league layouts. 3 weeks of league matches, then the final match for the two who have the best records. No play-off match.

3. All fights will be written solely by me, and will be posted on the weekend, probably Sunday. They will be judged on these categories, should matches go to a JD, and are the Crash & Burn Tournament's official scorecard:

Strategy = /5 (how well your tactics work out)
Style = /10 (who's fighting the flashier)
Control = /15 (dominance; who's been in control in the fight)
Aggression = /20 (which bot has been all over the other)
Damage = /25 (self-explanatory; who's caused the most damage)

4. It is strongly recommended that you give a decent stat description for your robot.

5. RPs are mandatory. Both FRA and ARC have had their fair share of people not giving tactics/forfeiting, and it's honestly quite sickening. So don't bothering signing up if you can't RP. If you are going to be absent for a match, ask someone to RP for you please.

6. BOT RULES

a) Most ARC main robot rules do apply, such as armour bonuses, power hammers, all that. I've recently read up on it several times, and I'm sure I have it memorized. Just in case, though, here's the ARC: Carnage stat system I'm borrowing:

So there you go.

No flying robots.

c) Shufflers/cams, such as Son of Whyachi, get 24 points to work with. True walkers get 26, and 2-part clusterbots get 16 each.

d) If you want to enter a multi-bot, it must only be comprised of 2 parts; makes it easier to deal with. (Sorry Palette 3. )

e) An interchangeable robot can only have 3 set-ups available. They cannot be too similar in that they are almost the same (unless I approve it)

f) Please please please PLEEEEEASE try and make your robots reasonably realistic. I don't know how many times people have tried to enter impossible robots in tournaments...

7. A little poking fun around never hurt anybody, but any really unnecessary fighting among you guys and I'll have to step in. Please don't.

8. The arena being used will be the main Crash & Burn Battlegrounds arena, but there'll be no house robots for this (unless you want me to put one in). If this tournament goes well, I'll have a new arena for the next one, upon request. Yes, one with a hammer(s), probably.

9. Send a copy of the .3dm or Rhino-compatible file you used to create the robot, and any texture files you used with it, to k_o_d_y_k@hotmail.com . If you don't have a Rhino file, I'll render it as best I can, as I'm trying to do fight screenshots.

10. It is intentionally a small tournament, so have fun with it!

Now, let's see if this generates some interest...

Sounds cool. I'll be up for entering. I'd probably prefer to have most of the fights take place after Carnage, though (probably will anyways since it ends in a month or so) so we'd have more to do between the "hiatus" of the ARC tourneys.

I'm for entering in as well. Reserve a spot?

Oh that's cool, Chris. I wasn't planning on having it start right away, just opening sign-ups for now. I still have stuff at FRA I've got to write anyway.

And sure Josh, you're in too.

2 more to go.

In like sin.

im out (of the closet) and in (this tournament)

interesting... I was thinking of doing something like this with Mechanical Maelstrom after Carnage finished.

sadly sopts are filled, so no me in this one

Cool, all spots are filled.

Sorry Lewis, maybe you can get in the next one.

the battle of the mod squad?

Kody, with the FRA's stance on tactics and the writer's liberty on improvising them when the roboteer didnt give them, which is why I dont give them 50% of the time, it does surprise me you label this as sickening .

Nothing against a tournament with mandatory tactics though and this should be fun, a pity I came in too late .

there's a joke here. the challenge is finding it.

Kody, with the FRA's stance on tactics and the writer's liberty on improvising them when the roboteer didnt give them, which is why I dont give them 50% of the time, it does surprise me you label this as sickening .

Nothing against a tournament with mandatory tactics though and this should be fun, a pity I came in too late .

It's quite difficult to imagine what the roboteer would do, without tactics. Although it may seem easy within the result (like in Die-Reverta-Tops vs. Envy during MToD 3, for example), it's actually rather hard. That's why I don't really like it when I don't get tactics.

Though I do prefer a well thought-out tactic/RP over simply "Eh, destroy him." The only time I'll put those poor excuses for tactics in my own fights is if I'm feeling incredibly lazy, lol

Mandatory RPs? Count me out

Kody, with the FRA's stance on tactics and the writer's liberty on improvising them when the roboteer didnt give them, which is why I dont give them 50% of the time, it does surprise me you label this as sickening .

Nothing against a tournament with mandatory tactics though and this should be fun, a pity I came in too late .

It's quite difficult to imagine what the roboteer would do, without tactics. Although it may seem easy within the result (like in Die-Reverta-Tops vs. Envy during MToD 3, for example), it's actually rather hard. That's why I don't really like it when I don't get tactics.

Though I do prefer a well thought-out tactic/RP over simply "Eh, destroy him." The only time I'll put those poor excuses for tactics in my own fights is if I'm feeling incredibly lazy, lol

Well I personally never have much troubles writing a battle of which I dont have tactics, but I can see that being different for other people. I didnt realize that it worked that way for you, and accusing people of sickening you for neglecting to do something that is 100% optional over at the FRA came totally out of the blue to me .

FRA is different, lol