Robo Rally [Awards Ceremony]

[Cybele]

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[diginova]

RESULTS

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If everyone tries to converge on one space, only one is going to make it.
The rest will either get pushed or hurt, or both.
Which robots have locked registers in their future?

Note: 2MB gif below. If it doesn't start animating after 15 or so seconds, click it to open in a new window.

A dance with many steps.

Phase 1

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Sudo_Nym shoots

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xtopherusD

Phase 2

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Cheery Dog shoots ●Drench

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Sudo_Nym shoots

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xtopherusD

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xtopherusD shoots

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Sudo_Nym

Phase 3

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xtopherusD (750) pushes

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Sudo_Nym (250)

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Cheery Dog (500) pushes

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Magua and ●Drench (210)

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Cheery Dog shoots

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Magua

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Sudo_Nym shoots

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StrangerCoug

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StrangerCoug shoots

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Sudo_Nym

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xtopherusD shoots

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Sudo_Nym

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swyellowtail shoots

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xtopherusD

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xtopherusD locks

Register 5

Phase 4

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StrangerCoug (730) pushes

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Sudo_Nym (620)

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xtopherusD (710) pushes

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StrangerCoug

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Sudo_Nym (620) pushes

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xtopherusD

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Magua shoots ●Drench
●Drench shoots

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Magua

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Sudo_Nym shoots

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xtopherusD

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xtopherusD locks

Register 4

Phase 5

●Drench (780) pushes

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Magua (480) and

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Cheery Dog (040)
●Drench shoots

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Magua

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Magua locks

Register 5

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Magua shoots ●Drench
●Drench locks

Register 5

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StrangerCoug shoots ●Drench
●Drench locks

Register 4

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Sudo_Nym shoots

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swyellowtail

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Cheery Dog gets shot

End of turn

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Sudo_Nym

Repairs

1 Damage and

Gains 1 Option

.

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swyellowtail

Repairs

1 Damage and

Gains 1 Option

.

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Cybele

Powers Down

[StrangerCoug]

Apparently, the robots take 18 frames to move.

[diginova]

Apparently, the robots take 18 frames to move.

Yeah. Fireworks calls it 20 when I set the animation, but that includes the starting and ending points as frames. They also move exactly 63 pixels per unit in those 18 frames.

[StrangerCoug]

Fireworks? What kind of program is that?

[diginova]

Macromedia's image editor. Until Adobe killed it, it was the web version of Photoshop. I find it easier for certain things than Photoshop.
(It's also the only program I know of that can open the final images fully. Photoshop chokes somewhere around 150 frames.)

[Magua]

DRENCH, Y U NO MOVE FASTER?

[diginova]

Programs compile in

(expired on 2013-01-11 00:00:00)

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On the negative side, three robots have locked registers, and hope to just survive the turn.
On the positive side, two robots get a nice boost to their usefulness in the Rally with new options.
Eleven turns have been resolved as the competitors inch closer to the flags.

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Sudo_Nym snipes his enemies with precision and his

Fire Control

:
You have targeting control of your robot's main laser. When scoring a point of damage, you may choose to use the damage to lock a register or destroy a particular option.

While

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swyellowtail prefers raw damage with his

Double Barrel Laser

:
Your robot's main laser has been modified to fire two shots. May be used with laser modifications.

Program cards will be sent out shortly.

[StrangerCoug]

I'd gladly take the option, but I think it belongs to Sudo_Nym.

[swyellowtail]

Goddamn. THIS is a fustercluck.

[StrangerCoug]

Hey, Drench, care to help me a little by playing something with a higher priority than 500 in Phase 1? That's all I ask.

[Magua]

Hey. Drench.

If you got a Move 2, we can kill off Cheery Dog.

Lemme know.

[Cheery Dog]

Let me know as well so I can move off, and then you get kill magua with another one.

[Magua]

Not having to spend another turn powered down is what I'm trying to do, but I'd like to take you with me.

Drench is probably just going to get shot to pieces no matter what.

[Drench]

You all need to lower your expectations because jesus christ my cards are literally the worst

[swyellowtail]

Remember turn 10? The one where I went nowhere? And even the turn where I (almost) went in a circle?

Yeah, that. You're not the only one.

[diginova]

RESULTS

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Three robots with locked registers going into the turn.
Will they be able to survive long enough to Power Down?

Note: 2MB gif below. If it doesn't start animating after 15 or so seconds, click it to open in a new window.

By the skin of their teeth.

Phase 1

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xtopherusd runs into a wall
●Drench (740) pushes

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Magua (460) and

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Cheery Dog (220)

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Magua pushes ●Drench
●Drench shoots

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Magua

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Magua locks

Register 4

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Magua shoots ●Drench
●Drench locks

Register 3

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Sudo_Nym shoots

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swyellowtail with

Fire Control

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swyellowtail loses his

Double Barrel Laser

Phase 2

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xtopherusd runs into a wall

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StrangerCoug shoots ●Drench
●Drench locks

Register 2

Phase 3

●Drench runs into a wall

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swyellowtail Moves 1 (2-1) and Turns Right using his

Dual Processor

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StrangerCoug (610) pushes ●Drench and

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Magua

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StrangerCoug shoots ●Drench
●Drench locks

Register 1

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Magua gets shot

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Magua locks

Register 3

Phase 4

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xtopherusd runs into a wall

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Magua gets shot

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Magua locks

Register 2

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swyellowtail

Phase 5

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xtopherusd runs into a wall
Drench

(

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Magua,

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StrangerCoug)

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Magua gets shot

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Magua locks

Register 1

End of turn

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swyellowtail

Repairs

1 Damage.

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Cybele

Powers Up

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Magua

Powers Down

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xtopherusd

Powers Down

[Cheery Dog]

Dammit I should have gone for the up the conveyor option, but I didn't see how I would have been able to do it.

Now I need to get somewhere from there.

[Drench]

~~i am a true master~~

[diginova]

Programs compile in

(expired on 2013-01-12 12:00:00)

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Two robots were able to power down in time and repair before their death. One was less lucky, and his locked registers sent him into a pit.
With one robot just one square away from Flag 2 thanks to his Mechanical Arm, this Rally will begin its final act shortly.
Hopefully nobody is superstitious and Turn 13 turns out lucky for all of you.

●Drench respawns on J6 facing left, hoping for a long and successful life.

Program cards will be sent out shortly.

[Cheery Dog]

Hopefully nobody is superstitious and Turn 13 turns out lucky for all of you.

Considering the cards I just got not likely. The only interesting thing I can do is kill myself, and I'd rather not do that.

[Magua]

Drench, you just needed to tell me you had that Move 2 and we could've killed Cheery Dog. Y U NO WANT TO KILL ROBOTS?

[diginova]

RESULTS

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Some robots seem to be caught up in the fact that it's Turn 13 and do nothing, or worse, sit powered down in a laser.
Others take full advantage of this and seize the opportunity.

Note: 2MB gif below. If it doesn't start animating after 15 or so seconds, click it to open in a new window.

Controlled suffering.

Phase 1

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Magua gets shot

Phase 2

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Sudo_Nym shoots

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swyellowtail with

Fire Control

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swyellowtail locks

Register 1

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Magua gets shot

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StrangerCoug

Phase 3

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Sudo_Nym (820) pushes

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Cybele (140) and

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swyellowtail (100)

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Sudo_Nym shoots

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swyellowtail with

Fire Control

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swyellowtail locks

Register 2

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swyellowtail shoots

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Cybele

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Cybele shoots

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swyellowtail

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Magua gets shot

Phase 4

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Cybele (720) pushes

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swyellowtail (700) and

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Sudo_Nym (600)

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swyellowtail pushes

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Cybele

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Sudo_Nym shoots

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swyellowtail with

Fire Control

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swyellowtail locks

Register 3

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swyellowtail shoots

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Cybele

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Cybele shoots

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swyellowtail

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Magua gets shot

Phase 5

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swyellowtail (740) pushes

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Cybele (270)

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Magua gets shot

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Magua locks

Register 5

End of turn

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Magua

Powers Up

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xtopherusd

Powers Up

[diginova]

Programs compile in

(expired on 2013-01-13 12:00:00)

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Tomorrow we'll be far away,
Tomorrow is the judgement day
Tomorrow we'll discover
What our Programmers have in store!
One more phase
One more turn

One flag more!

~ End of Act II ~

Program cards will be sent out shortly.

[Cheery Dog]

Can you guys let me get flag 1 before you go off and win?