User blog:RA2/Robot Wars Rankdown: Series 1

I've decided to take the suggestion of separating this by series. For those who missed the last blog post, this is a game where all the robots of Series 1 get ranked. Players take turns placing robots, starting at the bottom, and finishing at the top.

In each round, the leader will nominate a pool of robots, and then the rest of the players will, in order, choose one to cut. They will write a brief summary on why they're cutting that robot, and they will finish by choosing one robot to save (no need to explain your save decision). The cut robot is ranked at whatever is the lowest vacant position - so the first robot cut ends up in 36th place, then the next in 35th place...etc. The saved robot is safe from elimination, and cannot be nominated next round. After each player has had a turn, the last player nominates a new pool of robots, and the next round begins. This will continue until each player has had a turn being the leader. Then, all participants privately rank the remaining robots (with explanations), and privately send me their ballots. The averages determine final ranking, up to and including number one. Here's a bullet-list of the game flow, in order


 * Player 1: Nominates 8 robots. Does not make a cut or save this round
 * Player 2: Cuts one of the 8 robots, explains why, saves another one of the 8 robots.
 * Player 3: 6 choices remain. Cuts one of the 6 robots, explains why, saves another one of the 6 robots.
 * Player 4: 4 choices remain. Cuts one of the 4 robots, explains why, saves another one of the 4 robots.
 * Player 5: 2 choices remain. Cuts one of the robots, explains why, saves the other.  Nominates 8 new robots, cannot nominate one of the 4 bots saved this round.

Round ends. Everybody shifts down one position, and Player 5 becomes Player 1. After we complete one round per player, the aforementioned private voting occurs.

I'll be pretty open about the criteria you use to make your cuts, just a few guidelines:
 * Try to insulate it to the series in question - we're strictly ranking the Series 1 incarnations of robots
 * No discussing how it was received by the fandom - you can call a robot overrated or underrated, complain about fanboys, etc, as long as that is not your only reason for cutting
 * No troll-moves. Everyone's entitled to their opinions, but if I see a move that's clearly intended to get a rise out of people or an individual, you will be booted.  Slots are very limited, do not take one unless you plan on taking this seriously.
 * No gaming the system. Do not nominate good robots with the intent of getting them immunity via a save.  Again, everyone's entitled to their opinions of what robots are good, but you are to make a list of 8 robots that you genuinely want to see ranked at the bottom - don't try to tell me you sincerely think something like a champion should be cut in Round 1.
 * You must have watched all episodes of the series in question - hard to rank if you don't know all the robots.
 * Most importantly, have fun, and don't take it personally if a robot you like gets cut sooner than you want it to.

Signups
The number of slots is determined by this formula, where x equals the number of robots to choose from, with the result rounded down to the nearest whole number: [sqrt(4x + 1)-1]/2

That comes out to 5, so four openings plus myself. This'll be first come first serve, so to keep things fair, first priority in Series 2 Rankdown will go to people who didn't play this one (There will be 7 openings in that one.) Edit this page and add your name if you'd like to play. You may choose whichever position you like - I've given myself 1 just for ease of getting things started. Thanks, and have fun!

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01:52, February 8, 2018 (UTC)