Fall Fracas '26

Hosted by DAM Robotics club and open to the public, Fall Fracas '26 is Oregon State University's first robot combat competition of this academic year! DAM Robotics club has a combat robotics team where members learn combat robotics through a basic curriculum and hands-on design by developing their own Plastic Antweight robots. Now is the time for new builders to test their designs against others in the combat robotics community!

Fall Fracas '26 will take place on Saturday, November 14th in Oregon State University's Kelley Engineering Center atrium with doors opening at 9:00 am and fights starting around 10:00 am.

Exact schedule is subject to change, though it will look pretty close to this:

Our arena is 6 feet x 6 feet wide and 3 feet tall. The floor is steel with steel kickplates. The floor is painted for grip, though there is not added grip compound. In one corner is a 1 foot square pit which is always open and has a 1 inch tall lip around it. This arena can safely contain beetleweight robots and weight bonuses are allowed following SPARC Rules v1.6: https://osurobotics.club/teams/combat/sparc/

At this event we will offer:

• Fairyweight
• Plastic antweight
• Full combat antweight
• Beetleweight

This tournament, in all weight classes, will be modified double-elimination style with first bracket match winners moving on and losers moving into the second bracket. Losing in the second bracket will knock a bot out of the competition. The winner of the first bracket and the winner of the second bracket will meet in the finals which will be single elimination. If a weightclass has 5 or less bots we will run a round robin bracket instead.

Finally, club funding is down this year, even more than last year, so to ensure we can continue hosting competitions while also running our club we will have a $10/bot fee. We will be accepting payments on RCE and in-person. We are also grateful for any charitable donations, the club costs a lot to run so if you're able we'd really appreciate this.

If you have any questions, we can answer them in the competitor discord: https://discord.gg/4w64KNZK4U

DAM Robotics Club is sponsored by Repeat Robotics & OnShape & Robodome