BBEANS

Tournament created by the BeetleBros. It is one of the most successful AI tournaments.

Winners:

BBEANS1: Flaming Whizzer (Polinator) (Stock Middleweight)

BBEANS2: Smashbox 2 (MikeNCR) (DSL Heavyweight)

BBEANS3: Child's Play IV (ACAMS) (Stock Lightweight)

BBEANS4: Hazardous Contraption (Naryar) (DSL Middleweight)

BBEANS5: Has not started (Stock Heavyweight)

BBEANS1

Took Place: July-September 2006

-Link to the Entered Competitors: [1] -Link to the Official BBEANS1 Brackets: [2] [3]

Alot of the bots in BBEANS 1 use building techniques that now are absolutely unacceptable. Although some bots (such as Event Horizon 2, Flaming Whizzer, and others were good and used many current techniques, like space management, DSA and snapper loading) Kind of reminiscent of the first series of Robot Wars. Many of these bots seem to have been built by new members, because Starcore's third AI pack, with many well-built and still competitive bots, came out before BBEANS 1 took place.

Someone with more knowledge, please fill

BBEANS2

Took Place: January-February 2007

-Link to the Entered Competitors: [4] -Link to the Official BBEANS2 Brackets and Videos: [5]

Someone with more knowledge, please fill.

BBEANS3

Took Place: June-September 07

-Link to the Entered Competitors: [6] -Link to the Official BBEANS3 Brackets and Videos:[7]

Summary: This tournament's front runner's emerged after two or three rounds were completed. As expected, Child's Play IV (ACAMS) led the pack in terms of Wins, KOs, and TKOs, closely followed by a surprise in LeVeL (InfiniteInertia). Also, Eco Jr. (Sorrow) and Shreddar (Somestrangeguy) rounded out the top four of the unbeaten.

Crowd favorites such as Brown Wreckluse 2 (Clickbeetle), Pillar of Fire (Firebeetle), 3.14-ston (Luigica), Bio Quad (Sage), Box of Grime (Dexterhunter), and Rigadoon (Barbie) seemed as if they all fell into trouble. Brown Wreckluse 2 (Clickbeetle), Pillar of Fire (Firebeetle), Bio Quad (Sage), and Rigadoon (Barbie) all managed to make strong runs in the losers bracket.

In the quarterfinals, the four undefeated bots squared off. Child's Play continued to move along, shutting out Eco Jr with 2 KOs and 1 TKO. Shreddar upended LeVeL, managing 2 KOs while LeVeL earned a single TKO. The winner's bracket final, semifinal of the tournament would be Shreddar (Somestrangeguy) facing off against the undefeated Child's Play IV (ACAMS). Child's Play would survive an early scare, defeating Shreddar with a KO and a TKO, while Shreddar earned himself a KO.

LeVeL defeated some strong bots in Volatile Partisan (Phlox) and Eco Jr. (Sorrow) to advance to the Loser's Bracket final for a rematch against Shreddar (Somestrangeguy). The results from last time were reversed, with LeVeL (InfiniteInertia) advancing to the final from the loser's bracket with 2 KOs and a KO against him.

In the final, it went down to the last face off between the two bots. However, Child's Play IV (ACAMS) won the BBEANS3 title with a final TKO. The top two bots finished as follows:

Childs Play IV (ACAMS) 7 KOs, 9 TKOs, 7-0 record.

Le\/eL (InfiniteInertia) 14 KOs, 5 TKOs, 7-2 record.

The rumble between Brown Wreckluse 2 (Clickbeetle), Rigadoon (Barbie), Interceptor (Harcsa), and Shreddar (Somestrangeguy) was won by Rigadoon (Barbie) due to a blow to the wheel of Brown Wreckluse 2 (Clickbeetle).

Also notable to this tournament, the best robot built never to win an actual battle, Spinner from the West

Congratulations to ACAMS!

BBEANS4

Took Place: August-October 2008

(DSL Middleweight)

-Link to the Entered Competitors: [8] -Link to the Official BBEANS4 Brackets and Videos:[9]

BBEANS4 is finished! Hazardous Contraption is the champion.

R0B0SH4RK's Popup is the runner up and Naryar's Neglected Waterbug clone is the winner.

Also notable, to this tournament, the extreme originality of three of the contestants, basically three Mako clones. One of them, Diarrhea of a Madman, is the legitimate son of Mako, built by Jules himself.

Those Who Competed:

No Leaf Clover (Meganerdbomb)

Slasher (BotReactor)

No Name #12 (zipdragon64)

T-4 (Silver)

Thumper (JoeCB1991)

Gohem (TorrFac)

T I T A N (Gigafrost)

Psyco Sweeper (Urjak)

Rage III (Seastalker)

ByeyE (duh102)

Undercutter (Sammy)

Hostility II (DragonFire)

Ripterra (Somebody)

Smoker (Somestrangeguy)

FIRST ROUND FINALE! (man manu)

Mace 2 (mjrobots)

Interventionism 2.0 (H@zm47)

ThunderStruck! (ianh05)

NOS-BOT (andrewm0304)

Red Tide VI (Firebeetle)

Go Barbie, Go! (Barbie)

BrasOuvert (philetbabe)

Layziee (Pyscolone)

Ham-mer Sandwich 2 (Sage)

Smitemare 8 (Sorrow)

BBEANS 4 Winners!

Red, Red, Green? (Phlox) Is the Rumble Winner!

Iron Spaghetti (Scrap Daddy) Is the Best Rookie!

Haymaker (InfiniteInertia) Is the Bot That Really Should Have Done Better But Didn't Due To Bad Luck!

System Flailure (Clickbeetle) Is the Coolest Bot!

Diarrhea of a Madman (Jules) Is the Most Fearsome Opponent!

Enfilad3 (R0B0SH4RK) Is the Runner-Up

Hazardous Contraption (Naryar) Is the champion!

Congratulations to Naryar and all of the competitors!