Forum:Audited Extreme Warriors 1 - Discussion

Well, it looks like everyone is ready for a new tournament. This isn't the first international competition I've held, but it's been an idea that's been fresh on my mind and something I have legit wanting to do. But there is a LOT to discuss here, so I think we'd best get cracking.

Judges
So, first and foremost, we're going to need to sort out some judges. Obviously people who have watched the first season of Extreme Warriors is handy, but thankfully it is on YouTube if anyone is interested. If you are interested, please do say so. I'll need at least three to commit, so if anyone wants to join, or if any of the current three want to step down, do so here.

Format
So, first and foremost, we need to sort out the format for the series. I think it's no surprise that not many people like the approach the actual series took to the US championship and people would legit rather know how a proper heat would have looked. As far as I can see, there are three options to carry this out.


 * 1) A Series 4/New Blood style format. There are two three-way melees, with two robots going through in each round.
 * 2) A Series 10 style format, again with two melees, but only one goes straight through and the remaining four fight in a Redemption Round.
 * 3) A Series 5 semi-final style format. Instead of melees, there are three head-to-head battles, followed by a losers' melee.

If anyone has any thoughts, please do propose them down here.

Loanerbot inclusion
The second thing I want to discuss is whether or not people want to include optional loanerbots. I'm not talking about the likes of Joker or Tiger Cat, who were given to teams who essentially had no robot to compete with (see below for more detail), I'm more talking about the teams who had robots who we know little about. There are five robots in the original US Championship line-up that we simply don't know anything about because they never got stat tables. Four of these robots, however, were replaced with loanerbots after the season, which we did get some stats about. To clarify.... Only Medusa Oblongata did not get a loanerbot replacement (and to be clear, Coffin-Bot is linked to Skullmania, which we do have stats for). So, what I want to propose is this - do we want to keep these robots as they are because that's how it's meant to go, or should we replace them with loanerbots that we actually have details about?
 * Cyclone got Tut Tut
 * Mad Cow got Rot Box
 * Shuriken got The Green Mouse
 * Spartacus got Spike

Cuts and Inclusions
Continuing on from that, there were twenty-six teams in total competing in Extreme Warriors with at least one robot, which obviously doesn't fit into 24. Lets go through them all, with the appropriate loanerbots if we go down that route.
 * 6 Million Dollar Mouse
 * Bot-Ugly
 * Close Enough
 * Conquering Clown
 * Cyclone/Tut Tut
 * Drillzilla
 * Falcon
 * General Chompsalot
 * Joker
 * Mad Cow/Rot Box
 * Manta
 * Medusa Oblongata
 * Panzer Mk 2
 * Red Virus
 * Rippa Raptor
 * Rosie the Riveter
 * Run Away
 * Shuriken/The Green Mouse
 * Skullmania
 * Sobek
 * Spartacus/Spike
 * The Brute
 * The Revolutionist
 * Tiger Cat
 * Tricerabot
 * Unibite

So, we'd need to cut two robots from this list. Please make your selection below.

Cuts

 * Drillzilla and Medusa Oblongata. I suspect Drillzilla will pretty much be guaranteed for a cut anyway, so there's no point fighting against it. However, if we DO decide to replace the "unknowns" with their loanerbots, that does make it easy to remove the one robot who didn't get one, namely Medusa, and we have our field of 24. CrashBash (talk) 17:48, September 23, 2018 (UTC)