Wollongong Robot Combat December 3rd

WRC December 2023

This event features a 'Swap and Sell' where competitors are encouraged to bring parts/equipment to trade or sell on the day. A time will be dedicated with no fights for people to mingle and view eachothers wares. Both trading parts and selling for money is fine at each builder's discresion. The intention of this is to allow some to obtain things valuable or useful to them that others have less need for, such as beetleweight parts as that is soon to be part of the WRC roster. Note that one's market stand is their pit table, so don't bring more than you can handle! It is suggested that builders bring cash to exchange for parts if desired. Some important rules:

• No Lithium batteries of capacity greater than 1500mah, the event is not prepared for large lipo fires that can become of big batteries seen in featherweights. This is extended to puffy or damaged packs. If any, only bring good condition cells less than the aforementioned capacity, 1500mah was chosen to permit beetle sized packs but prevent feather ones. 
• No trash dumping, useless or volumous junk is not welcome and will only clutter the space. Consider if the item is actually useful.

Some example items to be exchanged are motors, wheels, battery chargers and leads, ESCs, small toolkits or gearboxes.

As for the fights, loadin begins at 8:00, with doors close at 18:00. Registration cutoff is 10:00 on the day, and planning to run matches 10-5.

If you plan to attend as a spectator, please email the event coordinator

The standard SPARC ruleset will be followed, aside from the requirement that all destructive class entrants must have an active weapon. View the booklet here: http://sparc.tools/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/SPARC_Robot_Construction_Specifications_v1.3.pdf

Weapon locks are required, and if you wish to test robot function on the bench one needs to utilise chocks. 

Each competing robot incurs a $10 registration fee, all proceeds go towards funding the beetleweight arena and other event related expenses.