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ARC Provincial Forefront Trials
Tournament!
Are you ready to take your virtual roboteering to a new frontier of exciting online combat? Then enter the ARC Provincial Forefront Trials! This tournament will test your skills in a way that no other has before, or ever will again(?)ARC Provincial Forefront Trials
Tournament!
Your Entry
Respond to this thread with the lineup of robots that will represent your team! You may enter up to five robots, all of which must be in the really heavyweight class. (Robots not designed for this class will be automatically scaled up using advanced AI technologies until they qualify.) Provide 3D models and/or images of your designs, a detailed and thorough description of their function and design, and the answer to the question "if this robot were to gain sentience, how many kangaroos could it take in a fight?"
Please also provide stats for each robot, as described in the classic ARC ruleset. To encourage new and innovative designs, each robot will have 40 stat points to spend.
Each team will be given 2000 FrogDollars™ to use on repairs of their robots, which will retain any damage they receive in fights. Once you run out of FrogDollars™, you will need to either field damaged robots or set up a GoFrogMe page to raise funds.
The Arena
Battles will take place in my own Parking Lot Arena. To promote realism, tournament organizers will use sponsorship funds to construct a real-life version of this arena in my local Target's parking lot*.
*Target sponsorship not yet confirmed.
The Tournament
The format of the tournament will be a triple-elimination bracket. You'll be assigned an opponent each week and asked to choose which of your robots you will send against them. They, of course, will pick the one that somehow counters your entire team. At a designated time, both of you will be placed into either a Discord voice chat or specially-created tournament text channel and told to read out your prepared strategies and then argue with each other about who wins. The argument will be considered to be over either when one participant admits defeat or leaves the channel, or when any third-party observers start to get bored and boo loudly enough to drown out conversation. At the conclusion of the fight, a designated tournament writer will write up an account of the fight for posterity, assigning bonus points for any sick burns.
The Fabulous Prize
The winner of this tournament will receive not only the eternal admiration of their peers, but a life-size collection of 3D-printed models of their winning robots. Due to shipping constraints, they'll be placed in the same parking lot as the arena and you can pick them up whenever you feel like it. (It's a pretty busy Target, so I'd recommend getting there early in the day.)
The Consolation Prize
While this tournament can only have one true winner, all participants can be assured of a lifelong sense of accomplishment, wellbeing, and a odd, recurring sense that if they had only changed that one thing about their design, they totally could have won the whole thing.
