Ragnabot 4 RIP in Pieces award
Once again we must keep tack of the biggest losses in each round of a Ragnabot tournament. Ragnabot 4 has the added spanner in the works with the RNG method of determining a winner meaning even a massively agree upon outclassed robot always has a chance to go through, as this is no longer the popular vote that decides a battle winner. Therefore we could have plenty of early losses not purely relying on an unfortunate draw.
I will keep track of two things here. The RIP in Pieces award will run as normal, collecting a list of nominated "big" robots to have gone out early. We will then have a list of the 10%ers, for robots going through with 10% or fewer points scored in that battle, so the biggest upsets. By the end we can mathematically anno…
Ragnabot 4 Preparation
Ragnabot 4 is on the way, and we have quite a few decisions to make regarding format and entry lists. Use this blog's comments to ask or answer questions, to debate the viability of certain robots and formats or make any other suggestions to make Ragnabot 4 worthy of being a thing.
- 1 Format
- 2 Robot list
- 3 Binned robots
- 4 Multiple Versions
- 5 US Wars robots
Ragnabot 3 took place with 24 heats of 32 robots, with 34 qualifier battles (should have been 36). This included all robots from Featherweight upwards, while Rantnabot was held sperately with the Antweights.
Ragnabot 4 will be run slightly differently. RNG will be involved in some way (changes to the current system are still TBD), which is already a strong change from previous versions of the format.…
The top 50 Robot Wars episodes of all time
Ranking Blogs have always been a mainstay of the wiki, and a great place for discussion. Everyone has opinions, and no matter how much you can explain something or put numbers to justify, in the end it's all subjective. Basically the best way to determine an official order is to get in there first and write about it before anyone else. The comments section are, however, always fantastic areas of discussion, contribution and extra information that may have been missed.
I bring this all up because this list I am embarking on has been through a bunch of names as I planned it. Initially, this was to be a Tier List of episodes in a series. This was a good idea, but would have had a lot to talk about. Following this, I focused on just the top few…
Wiki Canon host style guide
Wiki Canon is a massive project in the Arena Forums, where everything from one tournament links to the next one. As it is all one consistent canon with new history and storylines being written, it needs to be held in the same way throughout, and the host needs to take responsibility for nailing down the narrative once decided.
With the experience of Wiki Canons 1-3, and seeing how a lot of what I have been doing is either subtle or not obvious, i will write it all down here as a guide for future hosts of Wiki Canon tournaments.
- 1 RNG Style
- 1.1 How to do the RNG range method
- 2 Formatting a Heat
- 3 Format and style
- 4 Other
The Range Method of RNG is currently the best method we have. It is short for the host to put together and easy to display to voters …
Wiki Canon Statistics
Wiki Canon promises to be one of the biggest projects in Robot Wars Wiki Arena Forums history. The aim is to create our own timeline and history. As such, new robots will be heat winners and champions, different seeds will crash out at various times and other tidbits of trivium will be created. Here I plan to keep track of all the major stats and any minor pieces as well which are noted in the comments.
- 1 Grand Champions
- 1.1 Grand Finalists
- 1.2 Heat Winners
- 1.2.1 Heat Finalists
- 1.3 Side-Competition winners
- 1.4 Seeds
- 1.5 Completed the Gauntlet
- 1.5.1 Award winners
- 1.6 >10% chance RNG
- 1.7 Robots Thrown out of the Arena
- Robot The Bruce - Series 1 (3rd)
- Leighbot - Series 1 (4th)
- Plunderbird 1 - Series 1 (2nd)
- Mortis - Series 1 (1st)
- Roadblock - Series 2 (1st)
- All Torque - S…