SEMO St. Louis Quad Con Comi- Con

WHOS READY FOR ANOTHER  COMI CON AND ROBOT FIGHT?

COMI CON in St. Charles Missouri (Near ST. Louis)

Quad Con Presents St Charles Comic and Toy Show - Special Presentation by SEMO Combat Robotics

Public viewing  hours: 10-4

Where: Steel Shop Event Center, 49 Lawrence St  St Charles MO 63301

Date: April 13- SUNDAY ONLY

Hours for competitors load in: 7am - 9:30am

All loading doors must be closed at 9:30am

Anyone arriving after 9:30 will have to pay $5 entry at front entrance

Please bring any foldable tables if you have any. 

Plastic Antweight, Antweight, Beetleweight 

We will highly enforce all safety practices and will follow the SPARC Rule set 

Floor in both areana are painted wood floors: as always we will do our best to perfect the seam 

7:30 Doors and pits open.

8:30 regerstation begins. Head to registration first to complete your forms and grab your safty checklist that will have to be completed to get on the brackets. 

08:35 Safety check in opens 

9:30 Check in closes, all builders should be in the building by now

10:00 Drivers meeting. All bots should be through safety. We will finalize brackets to be released after saftey meeting. 

10:15 Fights begin.

Lunch -  when applicable (TBD)

4 pm end time - we have to be out of the building before 7pm

Any one that is willing to help tear down is greatly appreatated as we will  be goiing out for food after!!

 

Rules:

We will follow the basic SPARC ruleset. Full ruleset will be updated soon. 

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)
• multi bots not exceeding the class weight when combined weight is okay, However - no shuffler bonus for any weight class
• Cut off Switch rule is not be enforced during this event. But look for this to be enforced in the future. Follow our Facebook or Discord for more inforamation on this. 

Plastic antweight specific rules:

• Approved materials are 3D printed PET, PETG, ABS, PLA, and PLA+. This means that sheet ABS or cnc machined parts are not legal. If you have questions about a specific material’s legality then please contact the EO.

Format:

• Full Double elimination
• 3 minute matches (2 minutes matches may be decided at the start if we have a abundance of bots)
• Judging criteria will be 5-6-6 for aggression, control, and damage (Standard SPARC Criteria)

  Bracket links will be posted before the event but the matches will not be finalized until 11:30pm on the event date. 

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.

Teams must supply their own tables - venue is limited on tables for the Comi con vendors. 

Chairs are available.

Spectator bleachers available for viewing