Robotic International Wars
Robotic International Wars is a series of tournaments hosted by GroudonRobotWars
It is done in a world cup fashion style. It has division rounds and Playoff rounds. All bots in each division must fight the other three, the 2 with the highest ammount of points will win the division and move onto the playoffs
Currently in the third season.
Season 1 (2011)
Season one was done in DSL LW, and is complete with G.K. winning the tournament. And ty4er winning the Championship Rumble
Competitors
Division 1
dragonsteincole Caped Crusader 2
Division 2
Scrap Daddy Mass Opperesion IV
Division 3
GroudonRobotWars Nightmare Moon
Hard Bot Tornado that kills Anime
Division 4
Wildcard
Sparkey98 Sand in the Potato Salad
martymidget The Beast From Sithney
Award Winners:
Holy @#$% Award: ty4er
Unluckiest Bot: Conraaa and Scrap Daddy (TIE)
Luckiest bot: GroudonRobotWars
Most Feared: MikeNCR
Brawler Award: Goldenfox93 and G.K. (TIE)
Season 2 (2011-2012)
Season 2 has started and is finished, but still awaiting awards, Squirrel_Monkey won the tournament. With martymidget winning the Championship Rumble
Competitors:
Division 1
NFX: Implosion II, GroudonRobotWars: Discord, Nicsan2009: Smell of Defeat and smashysmashy: Happy Tree Frog
Division 2
madbow: Squishy, G.K.: Bloodstone, Masterath: S.M.A.S.H and Badnik96: SparkPlug
Division 3
Urjak: Circle of Thorns IX, powerrave: Slaughter, Naryar: Metal Hail and Squirrel_Monkey: 3V=3IR
Division 4
dragonsteincole: Sir Lance-a-Frog, Virus Bomb: Catastrophe Box, Jonzu95: Virtuoso and ty4er: Death Itself
Division 5
MassimoV: Torn Fiber Head, SKBT: 120, martymidget: Photon Torpedo and Jack Daniels: Chomp
Division 6
MikeNCR: Over Active, Goldenfox93: Broken Ring and Natef: Diend
Awards Winners:
Holy @#$% Award: martymidget(almost committing suicide OOTA)
Unluckiest Bot: Urjak and ty4er TIE
Luckiest Bot: Jonzu95
Most Feared: martymidget and Urjak TIE
Brawler Award: NFX and Virusbomb TIE
Best Match: Championship Rumble
Season 3 (2012)
Season 3 was done in DSL HW. It is currently the most popular season of Robotic International Wars with 27 bots. It has since completed on May 5 2012 with Urjak becoming the new RIW champion. NFX would then win the Championship Rumble.
Competitors:
Division 1
madman3: Future Breed Machine, plazmic inferno: imma firing mah razors!!!, MikeNCR: VDX, Hercules: That Huge Wall 4
Division 2
GroudonRobotWars: Berry Punch, Thyrus: Ramborg, Gropaga: Fliptaur, Squirrel_Monkey: Aeon
Division 3
Gauche Suede: Mr.Psyclone, Naryar: Hope No More 7.1, ty4er: Infinity, Kurt Wylde: Derpy
Division 4
Conraaa: SaraBande, madbow: CrusherBot, Badnik96: Corrupt Cactus 1.35, Somebody: Component Distributor 4
Division 5
RammingSpeed: PseudoScorpion, Jonzu95: Radiation VIII, SKBT: Terminator, Mr. AwesumSauce: smokeweederryday 2
Division 6
Celestial Panda: Flipping Out 2, Urjak: Octopus, MassimoV: Johny Bravo, martymidget: Muon Neutrino
Division 7
NFX: Hairline Fracture, Craaig: Pyrexia, Virus Bomb: Ruination Box
Award Winners:
Holy @#$% Award: Tie between: All OOTAs in Round 2 and Pyrexia(Craaig) defeating Ruination Box(Virus Bomb)
Unluckiest Bot: Muon Neutrino(martymidget)
Luckiest Bot: Ramborg(Thyrus)
Most Feared: Octopus(Urjak)
Brawler Award: Tie between Aeon(Squirrel_Monkey) and Muon Neutrino(martymidget)
Best Match: Urjak vs Jonzu95(Playoffs, Round 1)
Best Rookie of RIW: madman3
Bot that was 20% Cooler: Tie between Hairline Fracture(NFX) and Ramborg(Thyrus)
Season 4 (2012-2013)
It was announced that s4 will be Stock LW, it was also announced it would possibly be starting sometime this July though it was put on a slight delay to start in August. Which is currently in signups but will be heading into the splash and video stage soon.
AI Pack
It was announced that an RIW AI pack will be released after Season 3 is done. It will feature all bots from Season 1, 2 and 3 also including changed, illegal or late bots too.
Release: Holiday 2012
Robotic International Wars InterActive
A website which will record rankings and more set to release this summer on the 2nd anniversary since the beginning of RIW, not much news has since popped up about it in a few months and current status Is unknown.