The_Angry_Goat

Apr 14 2018, 02:03 PM

Quite simply put it bugs me that no rp I could possibly put up for the robot will be taken seriously. In situations when i have the advantage, I should really win. There’s literally no point to the dream team if you’re just going to treat it as a glorified ff week, and I’m just gonna stop rping for it if that the case

Madman

Apr 14 2018, 10:09 PM

I think it's pretty clear that he gave Chad poor stats on purpose. If you'd read the whole debate on discord before sounding off (I know you're sick, but still) you'd know that the idea with both of our bots was never to cheese it into the playoffs. It was to enter something with a stat spread/approach that was either unique in its division or experimental while still ultimately being mediocre, to basically act as something fun that could still win a few fights here and there against opponents with poor stats/poor RPs, which is exactly what happened. Both Chad and EoN got an FF win and beat an opponent who really messed up on their RP (Alex tries to rush and smother with a 5 speed bot, FFS). This idea of these bots being a glorified bye week definitely wasn't the case in CBC2, where we were encouraged to enter fun and experimental stuff that wasn't TOO tryhard, and I took that as my guiding principle.

This bot doesn't count for my team anyways, so Idon't directly care how it does. It's just the principle that annoys me. If a bot should win a fight based on stats and RPs, it should win a fight.

As for incorporating a bye? Easy. Just enter (Bye Team) as the 28th team on Challonge in each division and count every match against that 'team' as a 45-0 win. Done.

As for the argument about Dream Team being the 'funner' option that people have brought up on discord, I agree that Dream Team is a funner option than a bye, but it's still kinda 'meh'. It would be ore fun if people actually entered legitimate oddball designs and stat spreads that are weird but could potentially work or have that ONE good matchup type, like BOX. vs some deathspinner. It leaves room for something to unexpectedly succeed and spawn a meme, or something to fail brutally in a way that it wasn't predictably, explicitly designed to. That's more interesting to me. It also creates some actual stakes, which tend to make things more exciting, and having a bot that's 80% gonna lose but COULD win keeps anyone reading more engaged than knowing the outcome at the end. Yes, Bleck blows up again. 13 times. Lemme just skip to the credits. If Bleck blows up 12 times and wins once because it dies after 3 hits instead of 1, I'm going to be actually reading its fights to see if it can pull it off that once. Bots with a lot of weaknesses but a single big strength or just an unorthodox approach are also interesting to RP against, because they present a (fairly basic - as it should be) puzzle and not just a situation where you can write, "ram him and win" for an RP.

That Kode Guy

Apr 19 2018, 11:06 AM

All right. Week 6 results and updates are now done.

However, due to the time it took to get them done, and the weather still making me feel like shit for about 6 days now, I'm afraid I'm going to have to postpone the tournament for a week. I'm sorry, I feel like I need a bit of a break.

Week 7 schedule will (hopefully) be up on the weekend, and the RPs will be due a week after. Enjoy your week off, guys!