Ryan's Totally Not Complicated Tournament Idea

Spinnerproof presents: every robot¹ from the reboots of both Robot Wars and Battlebots under one Lexan roof to battle it out for the title of Ultimate Champion Or Something.

The main section of the tournament follows a Battlebots style bracket with Ryan and Sam working to assign ‘odds’ for each battle then simulating the results with what will almost certainly be highly contentious results.

Format

• One opening round comprising of 32 1V1 battles and 32 3-way melees to ‘select’ a field of 64, with matches selected by random draw.
• The 64 surviving machines are then placed into a 64 slot bracket, once again by random draw, following this through to its conclusion.

Eligibility - general

• Every robot which fought in a heat of series 8, 9 & 10 of Robot Wars.
• Every robot featured in the main tournament bracket of Battlebots ABC 1&2, plus robots involved in televised/highlighted qualifiers.
• Every robot involved in at least one Discovery Fight Night battle, or a Basement battle on the official Battlebots YouTube.
• Unused reserves are not eligible even if they were involved in exhibitions posted to official YouTube channels (EG Road Rash).
• Competitors in the Robot Wars pilot are also not eligible, nor are competitors which appeared exclusively in Battle of the Stars or International Specials.

Eligibility - fine details

• Robots which have appeared in multiple forms with identical (or versioned) names are only represented once. Examples include Sabretooth, Hypershock, Biteforce, Foxic
  • A decision as to which variant will represent them will be made on their first appearance and stuck to thereafter, with the aim of selecting their most effective variant. If all versions are roughly equal, the most recent will be selected. Meta is NOT a consideration. For example:
    • Sabretooth - Series 9 (best performing, most reliable)
    • Hypershock - ABC2 (it worked, rake)
    • Biteforce - Discovery (both versions were Champions, so the most recent is selected even though the original would thrive against big a horizontal)
    • Foxic - Series 9 (both were equally ineffective)
• Essentially identical robots which have competed under different names - either across competitions or in the same competition - will be entered separately.
  • Eg: Invader and Gigabyte, Pulsar and Magnetar.

Procedure - general

1. A discussion takes place to ascertain the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two machines when matched against each other, and the impact of possible strategies teams may employ.
2. From the discussion, a set of ‘odds’ (1:5, 2:4, 3:3, 4:2, 5:1) for the match are agreed upon.
3. A die is rolled to determine a winner, based upon the odds.
4. In a match which is agreed as being 4:2, numbers 1, 2, 3 or 4 would be a win for Robot A, 5 or 6 a win for Robot B.
5. The winner advances through the bracket, the loser is eliminated.

Procedure - fine details

• When discussing a 3-way melee, one robot is eliminated from contention and a roll takes place between the remaining two, taking into account the influence of the third robot.
• For robots which have interchangeable weaponry, a decision must first be made of what weapon setup they will use.
  • Should both robots have multiple weapon setups, decisions should be made from the point of view of each team not knowing what setup their opponents will select.
  • Similar consideration should also be given to robots known to have specific armour configurations to counter specific weapon types.
• Robots which failed to work as intended in their televised appearances should be assumed to be working at a level roughly equal to what we can prove to be their ‘best’, based upon their televised appearances and any battles at live events.
  • EG: Iron Awe 6’s flipper has worked in live events, so would be assumed to work, whereas Foxic has never really performed better than it did on Robot Wars.
  • General patterns of reliability are, however, accounted for as a secondary consideration worth no more than 1 ‘point’ in the odds.
• Discussions will be predicated upon a battle taking place in the first named robot’s ‘home’ arena under their ‘home’ battle rules.
  • Entanglement is not allowed in either arena/ruleset, and flames are allowed in both. All arena hazards are present and active active, including House Robots and Fog of War in the Robot Wars arena.

The Robots

Robot Wars (74 robots)

1. Behemoth
2. Bonk
3. Carbide
4. Kill-E-Krank-E
5. Nuts
6. Razer
7. Terrorhurtz
8. The General
9. Chimera
10. DisCOnstructer
11. Draven
12. Foxic
13. M.R. Speed Squared
14. Shockwave
15. Thor
16. Tough as Nails
17. Big Nipper
18. Dantomkia
19. Glitterbomb
20. King B Remix
21. Or Te
22. Overdozer
23. Supernova
24. TR2
25. Apollo
26. Eruption
27. Kan-Opener
28. PP3D
29. Sabretooth
30. Storm 2
31. Sweeney Todd
32. Terror Turtle
33. Beast
34. Chompalot
35. Crazy Coupe 88
36. Gabriel
37. Infernal Contraption
38. Ironside 3
39. Thermidor 2
40. Aftershock
41. Crank-E
42. Jellyfish
43. RAPID
44. TMHWK
45. Cherub
46. Cobra
47. Hobgoblin
48. Push to Exit
49. Concussion
50. Expulsion
51. Heavy Metal
52. Tauron
53. Apex
54. Crushtacean
55. Frostbite
56. High-5
57. Pulsar
58. Wyrm
59. Coyote
60. Crackers N Smash
61. Meggamouse
62. Ms Nightshade
63. Rusty
64. Trolley Rage
65. Apocalypse
66. Donald Thump
67. The Swarm
68. Bucky the Robot
69. Track-Tion
70. Vulture
71. Androne 4000
72. Iron-Awe 6
73. The Kegs
74. Magnetar

Battlebots (86 robots)

1. Bite Force
2. Bronco
3. Captain Shredderator
4. Chomp
5. Complete Control
6. Counter Revolution
7. Ghost Raptor
8. Hypershock
9. ICEWave
10. Jock-Jaw
11. Mohawk
12. Nightmare
13. Overdrive
14. Overhaul
15. Plan X
16. Radioactive
17. Razorback
18. Stinger TKB
19. Sweet Revenge
20. Tombstone
21. Warhead
22. Warrior Clan
23. Witch Doctor
24. Wrecks
25. Bombshell
26. Minotaur
27. Yeti
28. Beta
29. Poison Arrow
30. Brutus
31. Mega Tento
32. Red Devil
33. Blacksmith
34. ChromeFly
35. Cobalt
36. Escape Velocity
37. Lucky
38. The Ringmaster
39. Son of Wyachi
40. Black Ice
41. Bucktooth Burl
42. Death Roll
43. The Disk O’ Inferno
44. Moebius
45. Obwalden Overlord
46. Photon Storm
47. Rotator
48. Sawblaze
49. Splatter
50. SubZero
51. Ultimo Destructo
52. Ultraviolent
53. Bad Kitty
54. Basilisk
55. Creepy Crawlies
56. Gemini
57. Invader
58. Lycan
59. Skorpios
60. Axe Backwards
61. Bale Spear
62. Battle Royale With Cheese
63. Devilled Egg
64. Double Dutch
65. Double Jeopardy
66. DUCK!
67. End Game
68. Free Shipping
69. Gamma 9
70. Gigabyte
71. HUGE
72. Hypothermia
73. Kraken
74. Mecha Rampage
75. Monsoon
76. Parallax
77. Petunia
78. Predator
79. Reality
80. Sharkoprion
81. Tantrum
82. The Four Horsemen
83. Valkyrie
84. Vanquish
85. WAR Hawk
86. Whiplash