A Robot Competition (A.R.C.)

[Badnik96]

alright. this is a small-scale tournament which is going to attempt to bring some interest back into what ARC is actually known for. no experimental rules, nothing encouraging insane rule-bending designs, just some good old-fashioned robot combat.

this tournament operates under the ARC standard ruleset which can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ka3 ... 9jawcmf4ai

In addition to this, to appeal to my biases keep things simple, the following restrictions are in play:
-There will be no point bonuses granted for non-wheeled motion.
-Robots are limited to two (2) different configurations, maximum.

Everyone enters one robot. Since it's a one-robot event assigning a weight class to things feels really arbitrary but if you really need one to cling to we can call it heavyweight since that's the big one that matters irl.

This event will use one (1) arena, and it's pretty simple. You've got a flat, unobstructed floor, screws set into the walls, and an oota pocket in each corner.


The format is eight weeks of round robin-style matches followed by single-elimination playoffs. the size of the playoffs will be decided by how many entries we get. If we get less than eight entries overall then we'll just fight everyone vs everyone and see how long that takes.

Judging will be based on a 15-point scale that evenly splits between the three categories of Aggression, Damage and Control. This should be pretty self-explanatory to you lot.

Per tradition, RPs will be due Saturday night/Sunday morning, 12 AM EST. Results will likely be up monday, but expect delays, because we are all adults with lives.

There's a soft RP limit of 400 words. This means you can sneak over that line a little bit if your strategy got too complex, not that you should be ignoring it entirely to write a college thesis on why your opponent should lose. Keep it simple, stupid.

ARC is meant to be fun, and ARC can't function without people willing to write matches. With that in mind, I don't want to see any toxicity over the results. This is a written warning to those that might be sore losers. Obviously this still means you can go "aw darn I lost" if you lose, that's fine, but insulting the writing staff and tearing apart their results will not be tolerated. If you make my staff upset, you will quickly find yourself with no fights at all.

Signups are open NOW and will stay open until May 1st, 2024.

Now go forth, and ARC!

[winternimbus]

---

"Fighting our robots means that your robot will end up either MIA, KIA, or OOTA."

---

IMPERATOR

SPEED - 7| TRACTION - 6| TORQUE - 3| WEAPON - 4| ARMOR - 10 (+2 front wedge)

ARC's second "vertical rammer" to my knowledge--ofc i'm not the first to do so considering that neglected waterbug was a thing, but imperator is based around the yeti design philosophy of "i'm going to ram my face into you until the cows come home, and you can do nothing about it" while improving on the mixed results of harrowdown hill from CBC3. essentially, imperator is a speed vert wearing groucho glasses hoping that the flippers that it's trying to inconspicuously blend into don't notice it's deeply unserious disguise.

front wedge is hinged and shock-mounted in hopes to reduce internal damage from horizontals, and is on a ~5-10 degree limiter downwards (whether it's enough to win the wedge war or not is entirely up to the writers' discretion though) with no upwards motion on the hinges.

---

[Badnik96]

Team Ignition
(robot TBD)

[Botomatic1000]

Yeah, I'm down

Reserve

[attackfrog]

How could I miss this? Reserve.

[Trihunter]

Reserve

Robot goes here

[Hooray For Lexan]

And on the pit table these words appear: I Am Compete, King of Kings. Look on my works ye mighty, and despair.

Aphelion

Speed: 7
Traction: 6
Torque: 2
Weapon: 4
Armor: 11 (+1 front wedge) - Area covered by front wedge highlighted

Spoiler

It's back baby

Front-hinged flipper with the flipper arm extending past the pivot point all the way to the ground. Can interchangeably mount either a plain wedge or small wedgelets. The flipper can toss opponents around 4-5 feet in the air and potentially a really long way forward with a good runup, but can be used in a lower-power mode to self-right without overrotating. See supplemental pictures for range of motion and view of the chassis's rear bevel to prevent high-centering.

[V900]

we're so fvcking back (reserve)

[YSMQTHLQYH]

Hell yeah count me in
I might finish something new to enter, if not then consider this...

V-TEC


Stats:

• Speed: 5
• Traction: 5
• Torque: 2
• Weapon: 10
• Armour: 8

[British-Robotics]

Slipstream

Slipstream is a 2WD front-hinged flipper bot. the back of the robot has a built in wedge stabilizers to stop the robot from riding upright when moving forward. The alternative design of the robot named "The Mohawk" is designed to pin opponents underneath and use the flipper the flip over opponents, the alternative design features built in wedglets to help win the ground game. The mohawk is a breakable material instead of solid material

Speed: 7
Traction: 6
Armour: 10
Torque: 2
Weapon: 5



(Normal Config



(Flipper Arm active above)



(The Mohawk Alternaive Design)



(Back of the robot)

[Tcrrr]

Reserving a spot, going to make something brand new for this competition.

[Wolf51-50]

Skibbldy dee skibbldy do, I shall compete with my robots two

[Venice Queen]

Listen Here, Grandad, this is America. Everyone Here Eats Ass







(Image credit to Sokka's Boomerang)

omni wheeled puncher. wedge or forks. wedge is shock mounted, forks are hinged.

Speed: 10
Traction: 8
Torque: 3
Weapon: 1
Armor: 8 (+2 wedge or forks))

[patrickrowberry]

discord

speed:5
traction:3
torque: 1
weapon:15 (14/1) fbs and flipper
armour:6

[BEES]

Sure fuck it.