Memorial Day Mayhem at RCE

Memorial Day Mayhem @ RC Excitement 

Beetleweight only.

Fee: $40 per bot.  Payment will be by Venmo, @gboxell.  Include Robot Name in payment 

 

***Registration opens April 6 at 6:30 PM***

Venue

RC Excitement 208 Bemis Rd. Fitchburg, Ma 01420  https://www.rcexcitement.com/

The facility has 75 permanently installed 3.5-4 foot wide pit tables with power. The event will be ran with 1 cage.  

RC Excitement requires that all LiPo batteries be charged in a LiPo-safe bag.  If you do not have one, RC Excitement sells them for about $15.

The venue would prefer that you use a pit mat so if you have a pit mat, please use one. A pit mat is a rubber or silicone mat you put down in your pit to protect the table. It is nice to have either way, and they are sold in the store at the front of the building for about $25.

The cages are located on the indoor dirt track. We recommend that you do not wear nice shoes as they will get dirty.

For those with RC cars, the facility will have their outdoor crawler course and 1/8-1/10 scale basher track open for playing. They will also have their indoor crawler course open.  Access to these tracks is included in your registration fee.

Schedule

Friday:

4:00pm: Doors Open 

Competitors may come and use the test boxes or drive in cages on an unpainted floor.

8:00pm: Close

 

Saturday:

7:00am: Doors Open

7:15am: Safety Opens

8:45am: Builders’ Meeting

9:30am: Qualifying Starts

3:00pm: Tournament Starts

6:00pm: Finals

6:30pm: Awards

7:00pm: Clean Up + Teardown

 

Tournament Format

The format will be three qualifer rounds.  With a 36 bot field this will lead to 4-5 bots going 0-3.  Bots that go 0-3 will not make the bracket.  All other bots will be in the brackets. If there are 5 bots that go 0-3 the number one seed will get a first round bye.

Seeding will be done at the start of the tournament based on random draw.  The seeding for the brackets will be based on the starting seeding and the record going into the brackets.  For example, the 3-0 bots will be seeded in the order of the starting seeds for the tournament.  The 2-1's will then be seeded, followed by the 1-2's.

Bot Rules

For the most part, we will follow the NHRL rule set with a few notable exceptions. For anything not explicitly stated here, please default to the NHRL rule set found here, or contact Glenn Boxell.

Weights for veteran robots will be strictly enforced.  First time bots will get a little bit of leeway, Don't get carried away.

Multibot

A multi-bot (multiple independent robot components fighting under a single entrant) may qualify for the 1lb multibot weight bonus (4lb total nominal weight). To qualify, each segment of the multibot entry must fall within 49-51% of the total entry weight. For example, if a multibot entry weighs 3.5lbs combined, each segment must weigh between 1.715 and 1.785lbs. Do NOT bring those pesky NHRL minibots.

Weight Bonuses

We wil be following the NHRL rule set for weight bonus.

Fire Safety

No Flamethrowers will be allowed. Lame, but unfortunately necessary.

LiPo batteries are allowed. If at any point a LiPo battery becomes exposed in a way that presents a potentially dangerous situation , the referee may pause the match immediately and the offending robot loses by KO.

Volunteers:   If anyone is interested in volunteering please contact Glenn Boxell, gboxell@verizon.net

Contact

For any questions please contact Glenn Boxell, gboxell@verizon.net, via Discord or email.