WAR Hobby Expo 2020

Congratulations to the Winners of Western Allied Robotics Hobby Expo 2019!  

Robot Class	1st	2nd	3rd
Sportsman	Storm Rider	Grill Master
Hobbyweights	Claw Viper	Quicksilver	Dark Sabre
Beetleweights	Medow	Dark Pummeler	Allosaurus
Antweights	Dark Siren	Cronenberg	Dark Blade
Plastic Antweights	Shuriken	Pit Bird	Mr. Funny Pants
Fairyweights	Dark Bullit	Dark Scalpel	Chicken

Challonge Brackets

https://challonge.com/Fairyweight_NWHME_2020

https://challonge.com/PlasticAntweights_NWMHE_2020

https://challonge.com/Antweights_NWMHE_2020

https://challonge.com/Beetleweights_NWMHE_2020

https://challonge.com/Hobbyweights_NWMHE_2020

 

One of the best matches of the event!  The fun starts about 50 seconds in...

Videos!

You can find videos of the matches on the YouTube Channel.

Event Listing

This is Western Allied Robotics annual Hobby Expo Event.

The event is free to compete in but the Hobby Expo will charge an admittance fee for everyone.  Parking is free and there will be food trucks on site.

This is a 2 day event with different robot classes running on each day. 

Saturday Jan 25th	Sunday Jan 26th
Antweight	Fairyweight
Beetleweight	Plastic Antweight
Sportsman	Hobbyweight

The rules can be found here... along with the special Plastic Antweight rules and the Sportsman Class rules in section 4.2 of the SPARC ruleset.

Registration notice!

• 1 bot per driver per weightclass: For the initial registration each driver will be allowed 1 bot per weight class in order to insure that there is room for new competitors.  If registration doesn't reach capacity drivers can bring additional bots.  Go ahead and register all of your bots.  I'll put the extra bots on the wait-list and update things as we get closer to the event.
• Forefiting aginst yourself: If a team has two robots that are scheduled to compete the bots must fight each other so you'll need a radio for each robot.  If you don't want them to fight each other then the winner will be decided by a coin toss.  If a bot truely cannot continue due to damage it will be allowed to forefit at the event organizers descretion.
• Waitlist: If registration for a weightclass is full or if you have more than 1 bot-per-driver in a weightclass, you should add yourself to the waitlist.  We typically get a fair amount of churn with registration so there is a good chance you will be moved over to the competition list.  The waitlist is first-come-first-served.

As with all WAR events, we will have our double elimination format with a single elimination final. If a weight class has 5 or fewer robots we will do a round-robin.

Schedule

Saturday Jan 25th
9:00am-10:00am	Safety
10:30am - 5:00pm	Robot fighting!
5:00pm - 6:00pm	Cleanup

 

Sunday Jan 26th
9:00am-10:00am	Safety
10:30am - 2:00pm	Robot fighting!
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Cleanup

Suggested Donation!

We have a suggested donation of $20 per bot to help cover our costs.  WAR events are Free for builders but we do have storage, arena maintenance and other event related expenses.  All of the money we collect goes to the Seattle Robotics Association which is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit.  Please donate if you can but donating is not a requirement to compete. 

If you have any questions please contact us.