Spring Skirmish '25

Hosted by DAM Robotics club and open to the public, Spring Skirmish is Oregon State University's end-of-the-academic-year robot combat competition! Oregon State Combat Robotics (OSCR) is a branch of DAM Robotics club, where members learn the basics of combat robotics through a basic curriculum and hands-on design by developing their own Plastic Antweight robots. Now is the time to test ourselves against others in the Combat Robotics community!

Spring Skirmish '25 will take place on Saturday, June 7th in Oregon State University's Kelley Engineering Center atrium with doors opening at 10:00 am and battles starting at 11:00 am.

Due to construction, parking has become more challenging, but OSU lots should be free over the weekend. Lots near Weniger Hall and Rogers hall are reasonably close by.

This is our second event featuring our is 6 feet x 6 feet wide and 3 feet tall. The floor is steel with steel kickplates. The floor is painted for grip, though there is not added grip compound. In one corner is a 1 foot square modular pit which currently is set to always be open. The default pit configuration will be always open for this event, and new modules are in design. Our pit has a 1 inch tall lip around the outside. This arena is suitable for beetleweight robots and now that we have thoroughly tested it (thanks Noob Tube) weight bonuses are allowed following the newly revised Sparc Rules: https://clubs.oregonstate.edu/combat-robotics/sparc

At this event we will offer:

• Full combat antweight
• Fairyweight
• Beetleweight
• Plastic antweight

This tournament, in all weight classes, will be modified double-elimination style with first bracket match winners moving on and losers moving into the second bracket. Losing in the second bracket will knock a bot out of the competition. The winner of the first bracket and the winner of the second bracket will meet in the finals which will be single elimination.

We will be running the same queue system as Western Allied Robotics events: while a fight is happening, the bots for the next three fights need to be ready. When called, competitors will bring their robot and transmitter to the judges table for staging; if the robot is not ready to stage, a timer starts for twenty minutes, and the next match is called to staging. If after the allotted repair time the robot is still not ready to fight, it forfeits the match.

Finally, club funding is down this year, so if you'd like to help us out with arena maintenance and our continual efforts to make it easy for college students to get into combat robotics, we'd really appreciate a donation of $10 per bot. We thankfully don't have to pay for our own insurance at this event, but the club costs a lot to run so if you're able we'd really appreciate this.

If you have any questions, we can answer them in the competitor discord: https://discord.gg/b4JSzutTa2