Olypia Tournament & Joust

Now with Beetleweights!

The event will be in the school's Commons, please park on the Carlyon side of campus. The North St entrance will be locked.

• 0830     Registration & Pits Open
• 0900     Safety/Driver Meeting
• 0930    First Match

The two arenas will run independently with their own staff and annoncer on opposite sides of the commons.

Event Details:

• Arenas
  • Ant Weight & Plastic Ants will be using the 5'x7' WAR arena with a pit
  • Beetleweights will be using the WAR 8'x8' arena
• The $10 suggested team registration fee will directly support OlyRobots: Combat Division, the school's Combat Robot team. You can also bring in a new electronic toy for our team's next adapt-a-thon event. (see details below)
• Our event will be following the SPARC ruleset, which can be found here: https://sparc.tools/ 
  • We will be testing the following rule in the antweight class: Each driver will have one chance to unpit their robot in the first minute. Once in the pit the countdown will begin, if it ends before 1:10 on match timer, both robots will be returned to their starting squares and match will be resumed.
• Teams will be allowed to register 1 robot in each class to start with, you may register more robots, but they will be waitlisted.
• Top robot in each class will be presented with a 3" pewter medallion
• Our 3D Design & Fabrication class and Maker's Guild are developing a new jousting game, it'll be great
• We will have pizza lunch and concessions available Pizza lunch is $5 cash for two slices of pizza and a drink.

Live Streaming:

We are planning on live streaming both arenas

Adapt-a-thon:

OlyRobots along with North Thurston High School Robotics Teams host yearly Adapt-a-thons where families and service providers bring in toys to be switch adapted so they can more easily be used by kids with disabilities. Toy donations will be adapted and given to a family or to a school district Occupational Therapist.

In Partnership with Western Allied Robotics