TRC Presents: Robot Rebellion 4.1

Texas Robot Combat is back for our first big event of 2024! We're running three brackets across two arenas, at the same time! Spectators are free!

Important information: This event takes place in the REV Robotics shop. The shop is currently under construction so you will need to bring your own pit tables, chairs, and water/snacks. Remember that we are guests in the space, so please respect the shop and the facility.  The REV venue is awesome and we had a great time last time around.

Pit space is limited. We have a limited number of pit tables. Please bring your own table if you are able to. Teams that don't bring their own tables will be assigned a half of a table per 2 robots registered. Please don't crowd the pits. Only have the required personell to repair robots in the pits to keep them open for others. 

Signups are limited to one robot per driver per weight class.

ALL SIGNUPS MUST BE DONE BEFORE THE EVENT. We are expecting the event to fill up, so register fast!  

 

Date: May 11th, 2024

 

Location:

REV Robotics HQ

2941 Commodore Dr Suite 110, 

Carrollton, TX 75007

Entrance is through the rightmost doorway in the front of the building.

 

Schedule:

8:30 - Doors open and check in starts

8:45 - safety starts

10:30 - Check in closes, you MUST be in the building by now if you plan on competing

10:45 - Drivers meeting, brackets will be finalized at this point

11:00 - Fights begin with round 1

13:00 - Round 2 fights begin, all classes

14:45 - Round 3 fights begin, all classes

16:30 - Brackets are finalized and start.

19:00 estimated wrap up time

 

Classes:

• 3lb full combat beetleweights
• 1lb full combat antweights
• 1lb Plastic antweights

Registration fees:

• Beetleweight: $30
• Antweight: $20
• Plastic antweight: $20

 

Arena:
Ants will be run in the 6x6x2 arena. Beetles and plastic ants will run in the 8x8x4 big box. We may choose to run antweight final fights in the 8x8x4 arena depending on schedule. 

The arena is a 6x6x2 with wooden floors and 2 corner pits. The pits are approximately 12in x 12in and have a lip around them to help prevent accidental pittings. Similar to the last event, we have a cover for the pits. Robots without spinning weapons can choose to uncover the pit closest to their starting square if they want the ablility to pit out their opponent. The pit covers are not fixed in place, and robots sitting on the covers can sometimes cause them to rotate, dropping the robot into the pit. 

The 8x8 arena has polycarbonate kickplates that are approximatley 6" tall. There is a 3" gap between the kickplates and the walls, and this will count as an out of the arena area. Bots stuck in this zone will be counted out. 

 

Rules:

We will follow the basic sparc ruleset. Full ruleset can be found here: https://shorturl.at/gtEI6

General Rules:

• No heat, fire, smoke, entanglement, or other weapons that do not fit the spirit of the rules.
• No weight bonuses for shufflers or other novel motion bots
• Bots will have 20 minutes between fights for repairs. This 20 minutes is per bot not per competitor, so if you bring multiple bots you might use up repair time while fighting with the others. We will give one 10 minute extension to each bot. 
• 1 unstick per bot. We cannot promise that you won’t get stuck on the arena so be careful with your forks
• If your battery is exposed or outside your robot the fight will be ended immediately in a technical knock out (TKO)

Plastic antweight specific rules:

• Approved materials are 3D printed ASA, PET, PETG, ABS, ASA, PLA, and PLA+. This means that sheet ABS or cnc machined parts are not legal. TPU and other flexible filament parts are illegal to be used as part of your chassis, armor, or weapons. If you have questions about a specific material’s legality then please contact the EO.

• Plastic antweight winning robots will be added to a TRC hall of fame. Due to the experimental nature of the plastic antweight class we will ask that these hall of fame bots do not return. We welcome their builders to develop new types of robots for the next TRC event! We hope to be able to print replicas of these hall of fame robots to display at all future events. Right now this only includes the robot Underbite. 

Format:

• Modified swiss
  • 3 rounds of swiss, then all bots with 2 wins go into a single elimination bracket
  • This gives more people more fights and lets us be more flexible in the schedule. 
• 2 minute matches
• Judging criteria will be 5-6-6 for aggression, control, and damage (Standard SPARC Criteria)

 

Brackets:

Brackets will be shuffled after the final list of participants have checked in. All brackets can be found at the link below:

https://challonge.com/events/RobotRebellion41

 

Safety:

• Safety is the #1 priority for our events. 
• All competitors will be required to wear eye protection in the pits and near the arenas. 
• Batteries will be charged on a communal battery charging station and must be in a LIPO bag when charging. 
• There will be a designated power tools area for drills, dremels, and soldering irons. Please remember to use proper PPE when using tools.