Craaig

Craaig

Rank	Advanced User
Political Stance	ex-member of the Two Gods of Shit, Normie
Grudge / Ally Status
Allies With	Gets on with most people, but especially JoeBlo, Thyrus, martymidget, Gazea2 and Skiitzzox220.
Grudges With	Annoyances (eg TeamXtreemer)
Fear Rating	10/100
Respect Rating	41/100
Trivia
Apparently has a fetish for Mudkips.

Craaig joined the forums in March 2009, and describes himself as a 'generally happy guy', although some just take him as 'random'. His real name is Craig, for those who didn't guess. Likes to think of himself as a mild-tempered, generally good community member, helping out wherever possible.

Ranked 6th in the Rust In Pieces standings, a series of tournaments that he runs himself, won the BTRSHDBBDDTBL awards in BBEANS6 and RA2TC, was the Grand Champion of IRL Tourney and runner up of Our Replicas Are Different.

When Craaig signed up, he was quite a n00b and co-made the 25x Post of Shit with Hydro. He even given the Spamweight Post Rank for several weeks, and became one of the Two Gods of Shit although these n00bish habits are well in the past.

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Tournament Running

Craaig run a DSL MW tournament, Rust In Pieces, mainly due to the lack of DSL tournaments taking place at the time. It had 22 competitors, and was won by Pwnator's Paper Cut 3.

He also hosted the Not Overly Epic Showdown, Sparkey vs Avalanche, to find out who would win. In the end, Avalanche won all 3 matches.

The follow-up to Rust In Pieces, Rust In Pieces 2, was a DSL SHW tournament with 16 competitors. yoda9726's Gluttony won the main bracket, while Naryar's Shiva won the Loser's Bracket.

Craaig also run RIMP - mainly made of various grudge matches and challenges for all RIP1 and RIP2 bots, much like a 'Robot Wars Extreme' style tournament. The phrase RIMP was turned into a GTM Meme by yoda9726, closely followed by Naryar and is fairly common over many of Craaig's topics.

More recently, Craaig run Pokemon: The League Of Getehem, a DSL HW tournament for Pokemon replicas, won by Naryar's Aerodactyl replica.

He is currently running RIP3, the 3rd in the Rust In Pieces series, a DSL MW/LW Cluster tournament with 21 entries.

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Notable Tournament Entries

-RA2: Brawl of the Builders - First ever tournament - lost fight to R0B0SH4RK - bot came 13th in that round.

-Clash Cubes 2 - Shinigami - Lost Round 1 to MikeNCR, Lost Loser's Bracket Round 2 to R0B0SH4RK. Spawned a series of robots.

-Replica Wars - Bigger Brother - thrown OotA by GF93's Cassius 2 in Round 2 - Notoriously bad replica

-Wheely Tag Tournament (teamed with JoeBlo - Team Awesomesauce) - The Orange Is A Tasty Fruit - Team came 3rd overall. Spawned a series of robots, mainly shortened to the name 'Orange'.

-Rust In Pieces 2 - Immunization - Beat in Round 2 by Urjak's Vertical Influence, then lost in the Loser's Bracket Final to Naryar's Shiva. 2nd most 'Fearsome' bot.

-BBEANS 6 - Blood Orange - Beat WhamettNuht's The Telephone Effect in Round 1. Beaten in Round 2, and didn't fare well in Loser's Bracket - BTRSHDBBDDTBL award winner.

-Total Annihilation - Fever - 2nd. Lost in a very close match to NFX's Valid Query 2. Voted 'Most Feared Bot'.

-IRL Tourney - Queen Calypso - Grand Champion

-RA2TC - Blood Orange 3 - BTRSHDBBDDTBL award winner

-Our Replicas Are Different - The Cake Is A Fake - Runner Up

-Blades of Fury^2 - PHENOMENAL CAT - Not really notable, just an amusing cat replica that managed to win Round 1 of the Loser's Bracket.

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Bot Building

He tends not to showcase all too much any more, often only building for tournaments. He seems to have a tendency for making 'odd' or 'insane' bots for tournaments, because most people 'take stuff too seriously'.

Stock: Craaig doesn't tend to build in stock at all any more, but once showcased a Complex FS, the first Craaig (and many others) had seen.

DSL: Skilled builder. Builds mainly Vertical Spinners, and tends to build series of robots instead of individual machines, currently mainly working with the 'Orange' design, which has spawned successful robots such as Blood Orange (BBEANS6), Immunization (RIP2) and Fever (TA).

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