JoeBlo

JoeBlo

JoeBlo is a member of the robot arena community who joined early 2009, a preferred stock builder but has recently shown favor towards DSL robots. JoeBlo regularly monitors and updates the "Current Tournaments" list on the gametechmods forums and as a result was given the Rank of Moderator in the Tournaments section. JoeBlo has recently started work on a new conversion mod for RA2 called "RA2: Backlash", JoeBlo's tournaments and mods can be found on his website www.robotarena.info

Achievements

• 4x Bot Of The Month Winner June, August, October, November 2009
• RODE Tribute Tournament Winner
• Robot Skinning Tournament 4 Winner
• Robot Design Tournament 3 Winner
• System32's Design A New Bot Type Challenge Winner (Internal Spinner Design)
• Doomed Bots Most Original Design (First Interchangeable Weapon Robot, Iron Outlaw)
• CombatAnts Best Built Robot (Shuffle Robot, Centrifugal Force)
• Wheely Tag Tournament 3rd Place Overall, Teamed with Craaig, Winner of Funniest Tournament Moment(s)

• GTM 2009 Forum Awards Most Crafty, Friendliest, Funniest, Joint Most Optimistic, Most likely to STAY on topic, Most Honest and Best Ideas.

Tournament Running Involvement

• Clash Cubes - JoeBlo first created the DSL Heavyweight tournament called Clash Cubes in April. The tournament was innovative in the fact that the main restriction was that fact all of the entrants' chassis had to be cube shaped. The tournament was a little slow starting out but after it was completed interest towards JoeBlo's tournaments was improved greatly.

• Clash Cubes 2 - JoeBlo ran a follow-up to Clash Cubes which was one of the few Super Heavyweight tournaments in existence. The sheer announcement of it spawned a lot of showcased SHW's. Several people wanted to join after entries were closed, resulting in 6 robots fighting a wild card for the last place of the 24 available for the tournament.

• Clash Cubes 3 - The third, MW version to complete the trilogy was the biggest yet. Almost every active member of the community built a robot for the torunament, JoeBlo in the end recieving 40 entries and for the first time entering himself. He and Madiaba had worked on a new arena with moving walls. The tournament is currently in progress.

• 1 vs 2 - Russian Roulette's tournament that would see Middleweights and Heavyweights from each competitor with the winner of each bracket facing off in a 1 vs 2 situation. JoeBlo was announced as the main programmer for this tournament meaning he would be AI'ing any entry's that need it and creating teams to place the robots on.

• RODE Tribute Tournament - JoeBlo assisted in filming videos for MetalikVyper's tournament The RODE Tribute Tournament due to a few robots that were refusing to work periodically on various Robot Arena versions.

• King Of Karnage - a new tournament JoeBlo is currently running, a difference from most tournaments is that it is a jousting tournament using the Legendary Lu-Tze Jousting Arena.

• Doomed Bots - A tournament run by Doomkiller, JoeBlo has made the brackets, arena and prizes for the tourney. JoeBlo is also currently helping with the filming by doing the loser bracket for Doomkiller

• Epic Showdown - A small series of grudge matches between Pwnator & Ounce versing Naryar (with him submitting two robots). The concept was sparked by Ounce posting his Juggler defeating one of Naryars followed by the post by Pwnator "I hope both of our bots can beat Nary's", then Naryar boldly accepted the challenge which he then lost, winning one fight and losing three.

Modifications Involvement

• CCAI - JoeBlo created the Clash Cubes AI pack which was not be like a traditional AI pack but rather a pack for people to see how there bots would have fared against others they didnt face or test new creations for future Clash Cubes events,

• RA2: Backlash - is a standalone RA2 version that amps up the damage, speed and power of motors, drive, weapons, etc and reduces the HP and fracture of everything, thus making it really destructive. the Game is targeted at spinner robots and as a result are the only legal bot type, at the current stage JoeBlo has constructed 9 new arenas, 31 new components and a completely new UI including Music and new sound effects for this mod.

Notable Robots

CFTW - Cube from the West is a Lightweight joke robot that was built for various uses in Clash Cubes, the look and name is a parody from the "legendary" Spinner from the West. Basically a small cube with 2 Shiny Hubs and a chewblade just like the real SFTW. Recently JoeBlo entered it in a match with Life Robot Arena2's Super Heavyweight robot COID which in a humorous outcome won. CFTW was well received by the community.

Hypno Blender - A robot that was entered in the first round of Brawl of the Builders. noted for being a robot that could man handle others with wedges while not having any of its own, despite beating Sage first round the robot was withdrawn because of a havoking related fault when it lost an external Z-Tek thus dropping out round 1 which meant Sage progressed.

Death By Angles - otherwise known as the "Controversial Number 2" an Antweight robot that won bot of the month for June 2009 by a rather large voting landslide however was one of the most controversial to win as the robot utilized YU AI Hammers which the rules stated AI parts were legal but there was no specifics to what couldn't be used so JoeBlo was handed the win Splash

Natural High - A stock middleweight Pop-Up entered in RODE, was underestimated due to having static wedges but managed to win the first round rumble (which included 2 snapper wedged bots), the match was determined to be Void as the match was found to be filmed in DSL. However Natural High was victorious in the rematch and progressed to the RODE final which Natural High then won.

The Iron Outlaws - A swarm of Robots that act as a middleweight, basically the robots are all identical except for the weapon system on the end of an internal DDT, JoeBlo can then specify which will compete in a match essentially having a robot with interchangeable weaponry. while it has yet to be seen how effective it it will be, it is noted as it is the first of its kind to enter an AI tournament.

Gyratory Reborn - an expansion on the work by Firebeetle on Gyratory Revolt, the robot is basically a giant spinning top that is powered by servos, under servo power it will constantly accelerate like the original Gyratory Revolt however JoeBlo also discovered that under no servo power the bot would still accelerate but at the pace of a perm. Gyratory Reborn is currently entered along side JoeBlo's other bot Gyratory Minion in 1 vs 2.

Synergy - another of JoeBlo's break through Servo Boosting bots this time a spinning disc powered by a servo creates a glitch that causes all the servos Synergy used for drive to accelerate like an E-Tek making it a killer SnS without the need for batteries.

Grudge/Ally Status

• Grudges With: none
• Allies With: Madiaba, Doomkiller, H@zm47, Craaig, Thyrus, Ounce, Pwnator,123savethewhales & Naryar
• Supports: Nearly everyone on the forums
• Fear Rating: 28/100
• Respect Rating: 55/100
• Rank: Forum Member
• Political Stance on Forum: Peacekeeper to the extreme, Interventionist, Innovationalist
• Trivia: JoeBlo won a total of 7 voting based tournaments within the first year of being a member.
• Catchphrase: Awesomesauce, :P