User blog:RA2/Extreme Warriors 2 & Nickelodeon Rankdown

Welcome to the Series 6 and Extreme 2 rankdown! Since everyone who's expressed interest is pretty familiar with this, I'm truncating the explanation, but if anyone has any questions, please let me know. I plan to start this on Monday night Jun 17, which might be Tuesday for the British folk.

List of all robots
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mGxgkPRq18OKCOq1gA9leZ_IF3C9csAiWiJuasaR-pA/edit?usp=sharing

The Doom Dial
To make things more interesting, I’m introducing the Doom Dial, your choice of a special power. Each player may press the Doom Dial once to access one of the following effects:


 * Pit: Negate the most recent cut and remove the robot in question from the pool. The robot gets immunity for one full cycle (ie cannot be nominated until after the player you interrupted finishes his/her next turn).  It’s on you to play this in time to catch the robot you want, if it’s not the most recent, it can’t be Pitted.


 * Rogue House Robot: on your turn, you may cut a robot that’s not in the pool. You will not nominate on the round you use this. You may not cut any robot that has immunity.  This cut cannot be negated by the Pit.


 * Fog Of War: On your turn, instead of cutting/nominating, replace the entire pool with a new set. You may not pick any robot that has immunity.  In subsequent rounds, you can cut robots that you brought in with Fog of War.

The Doom Dial will be available in all rounds except the first and last. You are not obligated to use the Doom Dial. To reiterate, you each get one button press, NOT one of each power.

Instructions
In order to even out the cutting power, I've decided to establish a pool before Round 1. This means in Round 1, there will immediately be a pool available. When you sign up, you'll be voting robots in by making a list of the 10 worst - 10 being the very wort, 1 being the least-worst. Please format your signup like I do, order matters because the robot at #10 will count as 10 votes, the robot at #8 will count as 10 votes... etc. The robots† who collect the most votes will comprise the initial pool. No need to explain your vote-ins though you are free to explain if you wish.

The robots that get "voted in" to the initial pool can be cut by anyone.


 * †Pool size will be equal to the number of players if we get 6 or more, or 2*the number of players if we have 5 or less.

My signup
If you wish to sign up, please write out a bottom 10 like I have. No need to explain.


 * 10. Phantasm. 56kg's overweight is much more than a simple oversight.  They were left with a robot that would struggle to beat even the Piecemaker, so I'm giving them 10 votes into the pool


 * 9. Techno Trousers. I like their innovation, but they lost drive without provocation, and the weapon shafts could bend under a small gust of wind.


 * 8. Thor's Hammer. Hammer looked to be just a bit of sheet metal, and like Piecemaker, way too light to contend


 * 7. Hoot. Completely rubbish spinner


 * 6. Humdrum. See above


 * 5. Wowot. Their one off appearance was just them getting decimated, and while I loved the creativity, I don't see them beating the decent Extreme Warriors bots


 * 4. Joker. The losingest robot in all of classic Robot Wars, and it's no accident, those flails just did nothing.


 * 3. Run Away. Too fragile for its own good.


 * 2. The Piecemaker. Not designed to fight heavyweights I'll grant, but looked pretty pedestrian for its own class with its Colson wheels and ineffective saws


 * 1. Paul Bunyan. A weapon so poor that they favoured the spike over it.  The least offensive of the bots here so I only give it one vote.

Players
We can take a maximum of 7 people. Please specify if you want a number, otherwise I'll assign one randomly.


 * 1. RA2


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