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Robot Arena 2 : Design and Destroy (view source)
Revision as of 09:26, 4 October 2007
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And other modders who use the official forum to link their work.
And other modders who use the official forum to link their work.
=Online Tournaments=
Several websites mentioned in the Communities section also ran tournaments of their own that would be played online betwween two or more users. Lag or [[latency]] in connections frequently posed problems, along with various connection issues that would prevent users from battling each other, but the majority of these negatives did not stop players from simply enjoying the spirit of the sport.
==Official Robot Arena 2 Tournaments - RA2T#1 + RA2T#2==
A tournament was started by Jimxorb on the official Robot Arena 2 message board with approval from staff, making it the first official tournament. There have been 2 Middle Weight tournaments set up by Jimxorb (Who had previous tournament arranging experience from his Bots4Battle days) on the official website, many people entered and the robot that won the first tournament was a robot designed by Jimxorb and Be0t, using a popup spike inside a wedge design capable of 1-3 hit KOs, power that was at the time unheard of, it was called Death Port 2.
For the second and final tournament Lu-Tze made a new arena that Jimxorb designed, it had corner grinders and low walls, to allow pushers and flippers a chance of success against spinners and axe robots. The well-built arena is still the favourite arena of many players even to this day, it also had an image of Be0t's winning robot printed on the floor of the arena (Part of the prize in the original official tournament.) RA2T#2 was won by Be0t again, this time with Death Port 3 who was solely made and designed by Jimxorb this time to fit Be0t's driving style, although the robot was well built and very powerful it was now a common design. No more tournaments after the second one were ever
==AceUplink Onslaught==
AceUplink was the home of arguably some of the most successful tournaments in terms of registration numbers. Because of their links with the official Robot Arena 2 website, AceUplink had their foot in the door early on in the life of the game. The first three tournaments were held to a single weight class, but Tournament Four included tournaments for three weight classes, including the custom "Antweight" class created by member "MiniDJBeirne". The fifth tournament which was redubbed "The Onslaught", the first tournament to use a custom arena; a feature later copied in the community. A second Onslaught tournament was organized, but did not last long as interest in the game started fading. The meticulous organization of AceUplink's rules and brackets would later end up being a centerpiece of future tournaments from many other websites. Site staffer "Omega" later contributed rankings based on the results of all completed tournaments. At the time of AceUplink's closing, Omega was #1 ranked with 43 wins and 17 losses.
*Tournament #1 - Lightweight Combat, Best 2 out of 3
**Winner: Ronin2k3 (8-0 Record)
*Tournament #2 - Middleweight Clawtop, Best 3 out of 5
**Winner: AW (12-1 Record)
*Tournament #3 - Middleweight Combat, Best 3 out of 5
**Winner: TeamMaceCo (13-2 Record)
*Tournament #4 - All Weight Combat, Best 3 out of 5, Round-robin prelim
**Antweight Winner: MiniDJBeirne (12-2 Record, 4 ringouts)
**Lightweight Winner: CARP 104 (12-2 Record, 6 ringouts)
**Middleweight Winner: Omegaforce (12-1 Record, 3 KOs, 9 ringouts)
*Tournament #5 - Onslaught (Custom Arena), Best 3 out of 5
**Lightweight Winner: Omega (12-1 Record, 11 KOs, 1 ringout)
**Middleweight Winner: CARP 104 (12-3 Record, 6 KOs, 3 ringouts)
==Other AceUplink Tournaments==
"AW", an Administrator from AceUplink, was in the middle of trying to create unique arenas to inspire the building of robots that would perform other functions besides fighting. One such arena that was being developed was similar to many [[FIRST Robotics]] events where robots would pick up coloured balls and put them into baskets. In theory, successfully putting a ball in a basket would grant you points in the game and the ball(s) would respawn.
==DSL Mod Tournaments==
The DSL Mod included several strange arenas in its upgrade. One such arena was built off of the AceUplink ball idea; a soccer arena. The idea of the arena was similar. Robots would try and push a single soccer ball into either the Red or Blue goal to score 2000 points. Points for damage were disabled in this arena, and attacking your opponents was discouraged, and subject to disqualification. Unlike the AceUplink arena, the DSL arena was completed with minimal programming bugs. The soccer ball would respawn in the middle of the arena after a goal was scored. Entrants for the first and only soccer tournament were required to follow a strict "No Weapons" policy and instead used various sheet metal plates to design their own kickers or punters for their robots.
==AON & BBEANS==
AON (managed by "Alphasim") and BBEANS (managed by Clickbeetle) are two unique forms of tournaments that the creators claim "eliminates lag". This is accomplished by giving AI code to every robot that is entered and running the fights on the "official" computer. Fights are then taped and displayed online for the contenders to see how their autonomous creations did in combat. Most fights are done in a "best 2 out of 3" format in the event of an accident caused due to the various physics problems in the game. With a lack of online human players in recent months, the majority of tournaments now have shifted to this simpler form of fighting as there is no need to set up convenient times for each player.